Ouch ouch ouch! I woke up yesterday morning thinking that it was probably a good idea to go to the “Mommy’s Room” at the hospital where I gave birth to get an oppai (boob) massage because my boob was hurting in that oh so familiar “this isn’t going to resolve itself without professional intervention” type of pain. I’ve been stopped up 5 or 6 times before enough to need a massage, and only once had a fever and been put on meds for it. As luck would have it two of my three Thursday afternoon belly dance students had already canceled the day before, and the third canceled that morning. That put an end to my wondering whether I should get an oppai massage or tough it out and hope that Sara eventually sucked out the pain.
When I called Mommy’s Room shortly after waking up I wasn’t feeling that bad, but by the time I left home my joints were aching and I could tell a fever was coming on.
I had my massage and got some meds and then called Akinori because I was feeling so bad at that point I didn’t know how I was going to make it through the rest of the day with Sara. By the time I got home, which is only a 10 minute drive, Sara was sound asleep and I was seriously contemplating sitting out in the car with her until Akinori got home because I didn’t feel strong enough to carry her into the house. But the chills were getting the best of me and I decided that I needed to pull together the last of my strength, get us in the house, and get under some blankets.
I was glad that Akinori was coming home, but I wasn’t too confident that he would actually be any help in looking after Sara as he mentioned on the phone that he has yet to finish my flyer (more on that later). I thought he would use me as an excuse to leave work early and then go off on his own agenda as he’s been known to do in the past. (grumble grumble) Surprisingly enough though, he actually came back, packed up all of Sara’s stuff and whisked her off to his parent’s house. I got to go back upstairs and have another 2 hours of good sleep! I still felt like crap though when I woke up, and for the rest of the night my head was pounding so hard I wanted to poke my own eyes out. It felt like something was trying to fight it’s way out by pounding through my eyes and then the back of my head alternately. Ouch ouch ouch!
Luckily I woke up this morning feeling much better, though not quite 100% yet. Akinori stayed home until 12:30, though I’m not sure how much help he really was. He did go out and get breakfast while I was sleeping. Sara was napping on the floor when he left too, so he left the living room gate open. I was still sleeping when he got home, but Sara had woken up and crawled off without making a sound, and Akinori found her in the genkan, on the floor, playing with shoes. Good thing she can’t walk yet. He started giving me crap about not watching her, but he knew I was sleeping when he left, and that I’m not feeling well, AND all he had to do was close the gate when he left and there would have been no problem whatsoever. He can be such an ass sometimes.
By the time he left for work I was feeling a lot better. Just a little bit of a headache, but nothing compared to what was going on in my head the night before. I definitely wasn’t feeling up to going anywhere though so Sara and I stayed in all day. Poor girl. She was going out of her head by the time daddy came home at 4:30(!!) Talk about a slacker! I made Akinori take Sara with him to go to the conbini and get us some dinner cause there’s no way I was cooking tonight, and she definitely needed at least a few minutes out of the house.
Akinori then kept saying, “okay after this I’m going to the computer room to work on the flyer until xx o’clock.” And he kept saying it as it got later and later until he finally went. I wanted to bug him about it so badly, but I am so tired of bugging him to do shit. Aaaarrrrggghhh! Why oh why oh why oh why can he never get anything done in a quick and timely manner? I am a fairly good procrastinator, but he is definitely the king, emperor, and grand duke of procrastination. AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
This flyer I keep talking about is a flyer for my belly dance classes. Way back in June, when I first started teaching, I spoke with the owner of a chain of Indian restaurants about dancing at his restaurants. He said that he would be happy to have me dance there, but to give him some flyers first. So I went straight away to Akinori’s friend who cuts my hair because I know he’s a photographer as a hobby and asked him to do my hair and make-up and take some quality photos for me. Akinori said that he would make the flyer on his computer (since he had convinced me to buy Photoshop and Illustrator way back in April and they cost a mint, and I don’t think he’s used them for anything he said he would yet-that’s a rant for another time).
So first Akinori promises to have the flyer done by the time I leave for Chicago at the beginning of September. That didn’t happen because I had a lot of work come in during August that I needed to finish before I left and Akinori needed to watch Sara at night meaning he couldn’t get on the computer until she fell asleep, and he usually fell asleep with her. Fine. He then promised to have the flyer finished by the time I got back from Chicago. For one whole month he had the house to himself to work undisturbed and uninterrupted! Granted there were a lot of things he needed to get done around the house while we were gone, but there’s no reason he couldn’t have gotten them all done, including the flyer. Of course I get back and he hasn’t even started it. So unimpressed!
I get back from Chicago and my BIL is DJing at an event on Halloween and invites me to be the entertainment for the evening. I’m not getting paid for it, but it’s a great chance for me to advertise and gather students and get the word out that I’m available to perform at parties and events, etc. I won’t be performing for free forever and I figure I need to make some compromises to really get this off the ground. I definitely want, no NEED, to be able to distribute flyers at this event! If I want that to happen, the printer needs the copy today, of which there are two hours left. At this very moment Akinori is sitting in front of his computer still working on the flyer. Aaaarrrgghhh!
Elemeno Part 2 