Laura Vegas

how was my weekend? a little bit of good … and a little bit of bad.

friday was the concert and it was so much fun. the girls had an absolute blast. sadly we missed the first performer, bianca ryan … spent too long eating i guess and got there a little late. corbin bleu was good … lots of dancing and performing … so very high energy. drake bell i wasn’t so sure of … there was definately a 70’s vibe going on. or was it 80’s? whichever. i have a few songs of his i like … it was just such a big difference in mood after corbin. then we had aly & aj … those girls did an awesome job. great songs, great music. and you wouldn’t believe the noise in that place … a kazillion screaming girls! lol! we had 6 of those girls … and they had so much fun together. although with 4 acts … it was a long concert … i think about 4 hours total.

then my parents took alyssa and sarah with them on saturday morning … they went for an overnight stay in a cabin down at mount hermon. we used to go there as kids all the time … did the high school camps there too. they got back this afternoon … and they were full of stories. they had a great time and are already making plans to go to camp there next year.

so that was the good … and now for the bad.

i tweaked my back on friday afternoon. i’ve always had problems with my back … i’ve thrown my back so many times. i think i was off work for over a week once … that was back when i was in grocery and had sick leave. and usually it’s from doing something really stupid. this time i was simply opening the closet door downstairs to get my flip-flops … was going to get the girls from school. seriously … i turned the handle on the door … and i went down in pain. joe can vouch … he was standing right there. lol! so that was it … that was all i did. and right before the concert too … i was in so much pain that night.

and i havn’t been able to stand up straight since. i can’t bend over. i walk super slow and as if i have something stuck up my tush. my lower back is in some serious pain … it’s throbbing. i lay down … and i can’t get back up. i can’t pick anything up … believe me, i tried (i won’t even tell you how i got the laundry upstairs. lol!). and what makes it worse … this in addition to all the normal pain i have on a daily basis. i shouldn’t say normal … because there is nothing normal about having all over body pain 24/7. but since i’ve had it for over a year now … it’s normal to me. lol! so take my all over body pain … and add in a bad back. that spells trouble.

needless to say … i didn’t get much done this weekend. i decided to just take it easy and not try and push myself in the moments where i thought maybe i could work through the pain. thank god joe cleaned the entire house for me … bathrooms, vacumming, mopping. i did manage to put away some laundry. and i did do a very short grocery shopping trip today for the basics.

i decided the one thing i could do was sit at the computer … although not the best thing for a bad back to be honest. every time i stood up i was even more bent over. i did manage to do a ton of photo editing though. sadly i still had alyssa’s birthday party pictures that i never did edit and order … from last september. lol! so i did all of her pictures. i did all of sarah’s birthday pictures. i also uploaded all of the pictures off of alyssa’s and sarah’s cameras. i’m still working on uploading them all to winkflash to order them for the girls … i’m having a really hard time with it today. i use them for any prints i order (i print most of mine myself though) … but it keeps kicking me out today. i’m doing 2 or 3 pictures at a time … which is taking forever. i think i’ve uploaded about 150 photos just yesterday and today. i want to get them all so that i can place one big order tomorrow … you can get unlimited 4×6’s and still only pay 99 cents shipping.

it’s been 2 days … and honestly i’m not feeling any better. which is going to suck tomorrow when i have little ones knocking on my door. lol! actually i only have ady tomorrow (the girls will be at school) … so i’m hopeing we’ll be ok. as long as she doesn’t need me to pick her up … or carry her … or put her in her booster seat or playpen. lol! we’ll see how it goes … because tuesday i have 3 little ones on my schedule … not sure if i can handle that right now.

i’m so wishing i had a job with sick pay right now. or even a job where when you are sick … you can call in and not feel terrible for doing it. not trying to make my daycare parents feel bad (or maybe i am. lol!) … but i have terrible quilt when i’m sick or taking a vacation day. people rely on me because it’s my job …  and i guess i feel bad when i can’t be there. which really doesn’t make any sense … because most people take sick days and vacations days all the time. i guess that’s why i can’t even remember the last time i took a sick day. lol! anyways … wish me luck tomorrow.

edited to add: and now that i read what i wrote … i’m going to feel even more quilty. lol! don’t want anyone thinking i’m mad or frustrated … but it’s my job and we all need to vent about our jobs now and then. so i’m leaving what i typed … so no one take it personally please?!?! lol!