Fun and not so fun

It's been one of those weeks.  

Wednesday was fun.  We went

 to Kennywood for the day.  The day had started of with the weather looking so bad, we were thinking everyone was going to cancel and not go to the park.  When we got there though, it was slightly overcast and the lines were pretty short.  Not too shabby.  As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not a roller coaster person.  In reality I'm not much of a ride person.  Tilt-a-Whirl and the Merry go Round are my kind of rides. My nephew was having fun with the rides though.  This is him riding the lil Phantom with his daddy.  He'd been not too close to the ride and saw it going around the track and let out a big squeal and took off running for it.  Fun, fun.  

Thursday I ended up staying home from work, because every time I got up I was almost falling over I was so dizzy.  I've never, ever been dizzy like that.  I get that little bit of lightheadedness when you stand up to quickly sometimes, but that is about it.  By the end of the day it wasn't too bad.  So Friday morning we went to work.  We were only there for about half an hour before I had my husband come pick me up ad take me to the ER because the dizziness had started again.  Turns out that I had an "inner ear kaflooey."  Yes, that is what the doctor actually said.  I can handle an ear infection.  I was just worried that it could be something much, much more serious, but didn't know what.  

Saturday I ended up being mostly OK.  It was pretty much just the right after you get better you don't feel 100% kind of thing.  The wedding was nice (longer than we expected, but it was OK.)  It was at the UPJ chapel, but was I think a Catholic ceremony.  There was a lot of up, down, up, down, kneeling for good measure.  That was a bit much for me to handle after the ear infection.  Just started getting a little lightheaded.  Then the reception was really nice.  The food was good, this might seem weird, but the corn was realllly good.  I like corn a lot, but usually at weddings (around here anyway) you just get the corn that tastes like it came from a can and nothing was done to it.  This actually tasted fresh and had seasoning on it.  There was assigned seating, we were seated right next to one of the speakers.  That definitely would not have been my choice if seating wasn't assigned.  By the end of the night my ears were bothering me.  Anyway.   The picture here is of my husband (the one on the left with his eyes closed) with some of his college friends.  Except for the guy beside him, he had no idea who that was.  That guy did know the other ones in the picture quite well though.  This wedding was for Isaac's college roommate.  (He only roomed with him one year, but he had an apartment the rest of his years at UPJ so technically didn't room with anyone, just shared an apartment.)

Sunday was a nice rest at home day.  Monday I was back at work.  It is not fun trying to catch up on missing three days of work when your boss only half-heartedly did the things that needed to be done while you were gone.  Ed (aforementioned boss and also my father-in-law) had to my sister-in-law Bronwyn, that he would watch her son Apollo for the day so she could do whatever it was she needed to do.  Which was great, I love my nephew dearly.  The only drawback was, on top of catching up on work, guess who was really watching Apollo?  Yep, you guessed right me.  Ed was just letting him have free reign over the building while he continued to work at his desk.  Keep in mind, my nephew is only 14 months old.  Granted, he was closed off from everything major and was basically only running around in the big lobby, but still.  I ended up putting the little guy down for his nap, he hadn't liked Grandpa's solution.  Then Ed asked if I wanted to go to lunch with them.  I said "no thanks" figuring I'd let him handle that adventure.  

Today was a mostly normal day.  The only bad part about it was we found out that Isaac's uncle has a cancerous lump and has to undergo chemotherapy and then surgery to have the lump removed.  If that seems vague and sketchy, that is because that is pretty much everything that Ed told us.  

Tomorrow will hopefully be a good day.  My mom turns 60 tomorrow.  It seems weird to think that my mom is going to be 60.  Unfortunately I have to work so I can't spend any time with her tomorrow, but I will be sure to give her a call.