So. My throat started hurting on Sunday evening. On Tuesday afternoon, I went to the doctor, who prescribed penicillin for the horrible stabbing burning pain in my throat. I started on it right away. I’m on my third day of this medication, and the pain is not getting any better. Impatient? Yes, maybe I am, but I’ve consulted Dr. Google and he says that I should feel better within 2 or 3 days of beginning antibiotics. WELL IT’S BEEN TWO OR THREE DAYS, PENICILLIN! Absolutely no better. Sleeping all the time. No need to even think about finding a diet pill that works because all I can eat is soup and popsicles.
Ugh. Can you tell I’m annoyed? I will try to cut it out soon but I hate feeling this way.

I have been having so much sleep lately. I will nap all day, off and on, and then I will sleep all night. I’m still waking up at 5 am or 5:30, as usual, but, as I said, I’m sleeping all day.

It kind of worked out today, though. Rob was having another bout of insomnia (it happens sometimes – most nights he’s in bed between 11 pm and 1 am, but last night he couldn’t sleep and was up all night) so when I came barreling downstairs at 5 (“I GOTTA PEE, YO!”) he was still up, noodling around. We’ve been trying to get the house super-clean, with nothing on the floor that any dogs we happened to have in the house would find particularly chomp-worthy, and he’d been working at that all night (in between bouts of reading and computery stuff). I took my pills, put on some laundry, and sat down to get my knit on. At around 7 am, we went and showered, and then I peer pressured him into going out to run errands. He was finally at the point where he was tired.

First I dragged him to a local diner for breakfast (nothing on their menu is above $10. And their Wednesday lunch special is corned beef and cabbage for $5.79. This is my kind of place). Then we went to Canadian Tire and bought our tent. Which we found out was on sale – it was supposed to be $150 but it rung up at half that. Score! So we added a new air mattress to our loot, and some spray sealant, because that’s how we roll.

Next on the agenda was me completely blindsiding my husband. I was driving, so when we pulled up in front of the haircut place, he didn’t notice at first. Or maybe he thought I was just parking for my health. But no. No, I dragged him inside. Now, before you get the wrong idea, he has been kicking around the idea of getting a haircut (he gets about six inches hacked off at the beginning of summer every year, and that’s it. He just lets it grow for the rest of the year, and wears it in a ponytail most of the time. And it always takes him weeks of hemming and hawing before he gets up the nerve to go in for his annual trim) for the past two months. So once he had scoped out all the exit signs, and I made it clear to him that he wouldn’t be using any of the exits until he had been in the chair for at least five minutes, off he went with the hairdresser. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but I could see him. He made all kinds of gestures toward his head, then closed his eyes and held on for dear life.

And came out looking like this:

I ABSOLUTELY EFFING LOVE IT. I still keep peeking at him and being all “OOOOOH!”… it’s a big change, but it’s a *good* change, I think.

Nota Bene: The beard will be getting a trim as soon as he wakes up from his “nap”.

1) Say you went on UsedPEI (pretty much the same as craigslist or kijiji or whatever, only local) and found a tent that you thought would be a great tent to have. And it said “NOT SOLD” on it. So you emailed the owner, asking them to contact you about the tent because you’re interested in buying it. How long do you wait to hear back? Because it’s been going on 4 days, and no word, but the ad is still up, with “NOT SOLD” written on it.

2) I have been awake for approximately 3 hours, and am ready to go back to sleep. Would that be wrong? Our sofa is just so comfy, and sleeping on the couch doesn’t count like sleeping in bed counts, right?

3) Speaking of sleeping… we have an old most-of-the-time-deflating air mattress that we’re planning on bringing with us on our trip. When should I inform my husband that I’d like to spend $900+ on a sleep number bed for camping? When he’s sleeping? Or, you know, probably never. But it would be nice (it would also be nice to have one of these for camping, but it’s not really camping if there’s a plasma TV involved, is it?).

4) The biggest question today is “Will the Canada Day fireworks be tonight?” because: RAIN! AGAIN! But maybe not tonight maybe just for the morning! Here’s hoping!

I’m going to sleep now again.