Walking Backwards

Blech, this has been a weird week. Wednesday I finally got off of my ass and did some mad cleaning followed by a trip to the grocery store. About half-way though the grocery trip, I started feeling a little off color. By the time I got home, I really just wanted to lay down. I succeeded in putting away all of the cold foods and then, before all of the bags were taken from the car, I was hit with the beginnings of a migrane. Thank god Joe arrived home about ten minutes later. My migranes usually last about five to eight hours, and I think this one rounded out after about seven hours, close to midnight. By some maligned fate, my migranes are those which are accompanied by nausea and vomiting. I can't say what its like to get a horrible and debilitating headache and then have to throw-up on top of that. It just sucked.

The next morning I got to be helping parent at Nicholas' school; my last one. I was totally exhausted from the ordeal the night before and I did not want to chase around ten three year-olds, but it really wasn't that bad. I think that I have finally started getting used to the helping parent routine now that the school year is almost over. Not only that, I now know all of the kids fairly well and am getting a handle on their very different and distinct personalities. It's so amazing seeing them all evolve and become such amazing little people. Strong-willed, but amazing people just the same.

After I got home from that I went back into cleaning and organizing overdrive. You would have thought I would have taken my body's previous cues to be lazy, but I didn't. Good thing I didn't get another migrane, but I was ready to go to sleep at about 7. Instead of resting and relaxing, though, I went to go see Sin City with my brother. I had only read the first graphic novel, so I didn't know all of the story lines, but it was really cool. I was not disappointed. The art direction was incredible; it was just like watching a comic book unfold on the screen. The weird aspect ratios made each scene look like a comic frame. I also saw several movie previews that I'll have to keep in mind for the summer movie season. Not that I'm complaining, but there were an inordinate number of horror movies previewed. I'm a huge horror movie fan, so I'm excited, but only one of the horror movies that was previewed really left me wanting to see it. I was hoping that the recent resurgence of the genre was going to result in some really novel and exciting movies, not just remakes of old horror movies and Americanized versions of contemporary Asian horror. Sigh. Maybe I'm just being too picky.

Now I have to get off of this computer and get ready for our weekend away. We leave tonight and I really need to pack and get our supplies and snacks together. This is the first time we've been to the coast in years and the first time Nicholas has been to the coast at all. Yay for that! We're also going to go by the Texas State Aquarium on our way back to Austin. Keep your fingers crossed our pale selves don't get burned to a crisp.