Is finally here! Yay! Yay for sleeping in a tent on the ground. Boo on bugs, tho. Yay for lizards in Steve's shorts! LOL!
The past two weekends I have been camping and it has been very nice. The weather has been hot and I loves it.
The weekend of the 17th it was beautiful. Of course, I started my period. Dammit. On Friday night we were sitting around and I was drumming a bit. Some young boy came over and asked me to teach him how to play. (He was only like 11). So we played for a while then he thanked me and went back to his camp. I was like flabbergasted. He actually said, "I've taken enough of your time. Thank you for teaching me some songs." The three of us (me, Steve and D) just sat there looking at each other gaping.
Saturday night I wanted to drum but no one was dancing. So I danced. I was trying to get others to dance with me but no one would. And the drummers - despite having some very nice and LARGE drums were limited in their range. You know no good ever comes of ME being the lead drummer. So I had to ask them to play stuff - they wouldn't change rhythms and no one was leading. I should've snatched the big drum away and just started playing. HA!
But it was nice. We got to sit around and talk and I got some embroidery done.
This past weekend I went again. I felt a lot better, too. No Aunt Flo visiting. Saturday I helped out at the water tent - that's always fun. Then went shopping. Bought incense - you know I love the stuff.
Saturday night we could hear the drums coming from across the lake. So we went in search of the "known world party". Finally, after much walking and listening, we found it. Those drummers were putting out the sound, now. And I wanted to drum. Alas, there was no one dancing.
So, again, doing my "civic" duty, I got up and started dancing and this time, others joined me (a lot of people won't dance until someone else gets out there first). I figured "what the hell? Nobody knows me here". HA! I later found out that was untrue.
I even got out my zills (finger cymbals) and played those as I danced. (OK - admittedly I'm pretty unco-ordinated. It was more like I stood in one place and played the zills because I can't MOVE and play the zills at the same time. Not happening.)
Of course after all of this dancing, I had a mighty thirst. And in the Motherland pure grain (or everclear) is readily available (how quickly I had forgotten). It was the ONLY thing available that night - the deadly mixure of pure grain and Hawaiian Punch. My God. Teh Evil.
After two sips I remembered just HOW evil this vile substance was (my '67 Impala actually could RUN on the stuff) and I gave it away. There was much rejoicing in my liver.
So I got to dance and socialize and have a good time. Steve, as he is wont to do - sat back and watched everyone. We ran into some other people we knew and talked to them for a bit. All in all it was very nice.
When I got home on Sunday there was a message from my doctor. I went in on Wednesday because I've been having some issues. Back in November I went in for a complete physical because I thought I was having thyroid problems - I was always tired and cold and just didn't feel "right".
But all those tests came back negative. When I tried to give blood in January, the blood bank refused me because my iron was low. This happened three times and I was feeling more and more run down. I didn't know what the hell was wrong with me. I wasn't "sick" per se - I wasn't running a fever or having a stomach ache or anything. I DID have serious sinus pain - behind my right eye and down into my teeth. But I took stuff for that.
Anyway - I went in again last Wednesday and told the doc what was going on. She prescribed me antibiotics (she said it was probably a sinus infection eventho I wasn't getting discharge) and took some blood to check for anemia.
Amazing - after the first DAY of antibiotics I could feel a HUGE difference. My head finally stopped hurting behind my eye (after about a MONTH of pain). I could BREATHE without having to gobble decongestants or anti-histimines. It was like a miracle!
I feel a LOT better this week. But the doc did say that my iron is low and I need to take a multi-vitamin. I have been taking iron pills but apparently that isn't enough. Bogus.
I hope that getting rid of that infection and starting a multi-vitamin with iron will help. Probably also getting enough sleep will be good, too. Been kinda bad about that lately. Back to being tired but not wanting to sleep. Like a kid I hear things going on and want to get out and play. Ugh.
It's summer - I should be ALLOWED to go out and play!
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