Ooh My Little Head

Owww... just a few drinks last night and my head's had a slight, almost-under-the-radar ache all damn day. Gimme a break. All's I had to drink was 1 Crown and Diet Coke, 2 Miller Lites, and 1 Frangelico mit lime!!! Then again, we didn't eat very much. There were 4 of us sharing 2 appetizer platters, so I was mostly just picking at it. Then I was busy dancing for awhile. It was so fun though! We saw this band and they are old timey! I love them! They got mandolin and washtub bass and gong! I'd talked Mr. Wonderful and Leo into joining me last night and natch, there were plenny of our music-loving friends there. At one point on the dance floor the harp player came out and leaned against me as he played. Aw shucks!

Rehearsal tonight. We had rehearsal on Monday night too; was supposed to be Sunday but George's brother came into town and he hadn't seen him in 2 yrs, so we postponed. Having Sunday off was soooo awesome... especially since I was exhausted from working Greek Fest on Saturday. We'd gone out on Fri. night, of course, to Festival Chicano, then to Big Easy after that, so I didn't get much sleep before having to be at Greek Fest at 8am on Sat. I usually don't work the day shift at Greek, but I'd signed up for day this year so I'd be free at night for musical festivities.

Greek Fest was groovy. My adrenaline got pumping once, when there was a possible heart attack victim in the gym (where they have the Greek dancing kid shows) and I was working in the kids' area which is right next to the gym. Me and another deputy RAN INSIDE and this woman was on the floor, leaning against the wall. We lay her down and I unbuttoned her jeans in case we'd have to do CPR--I was thinking I wanted her clothes to be loosened. Fortunately the deputy I was with is also a paramedic, and then a woman ran over, saying she was a nurse. They monitored the pulse in her carotids and I checked her pulse in her wrist; but I was so nervous at 1st I was searching for it with my thumb before I realized what I was doing (you don't check pulses with your thumb as we have a pulse in our thumb!) and quickly switched to my fingers, where I detected a pulse, indeed, thank God. They called an ambulance and we tried to clear the many people in the audience out of the way. Then the Chief showed up and asked me if I'd had lunch yet, to which I said no and he said to go ahead. I trotted off just in time to meet Mr. Wonderful at the gate, so I escorted him inside and we got to have lunch together!

They were shorthanded for the evening shift so I worked an extra hour, then grabbed my free Greek plate and pastry box and headed home. I had just enough time to shower, change, relax a little bit, then Mr. Wonderful picked me up for a nice pizza dinner. We ate totally vegetarian, including the verdura! We decided to skip the last night of Festival Chicano, then we went to see our friends play at the Big Easy. One slow dance and one drink but then I was sooo tired we went back to Stefano's house, where I proceeded to sleep for almost 12 much-needed hrs. After I finally woke up we went for a nice run/walk, and then went to see our other friends play at Central Market. I love Central Market! I got 2 kinds of chicken salad, these huge cranberry/blueberry muffins, and this totally decadent "white chocolate pumpkin bread." Stefano let me pick out ingredients for our dinner that night and I picked fish, veggies, risotto, wine, and some beautiful bread. Stefano grilled everything and I brought over the Greek pastry box for dessert.

I had to take Monday off from Job #1. I'd been so drugged up on Benadryl last week but I had too much important stuff going on and couldn't take any sick time off. And I had so many things to catch up on around the house (the usual: mail piling up, dishwasher needed emptying, laundry, towels folded, etc. etc.) that I figured I was due for a damn break. So Monday was great and I got a lot done before heading to Job #2, then rehearsal. At rehearsal we ran through our set twice but George's bro and their friends headed over while we were in the middle of everything and they had beer and they requested some of their fave songs, and we did them but it was kinda distracting so Leo told them rehearsal tonite and on Sat. will be closed rehearsals. I didn't mind the distractions 100% as I figured it would be good training. I remember in high school this fellow violist who would practice, uninhibited, while the entire room was filing in, tuning up, getting ready, etc. and he said it was good to training to remain focused while a bunch of stuff was going on around you and there were lots of people in the room, also to not get as nervous in auditions, playing for large groups of people, etc.