January 8, 2007
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Load in — flu out
So last week we went on Thursday to load in for the Counting Crows concert at the Mercedes-Benz Championship at Kapalua. We have a friend who owns a local staging company. My hubby helps out as frequently as he can. I helped load out last year at the Mercedes after watching Glen Frey and Joe Walsh. This year they needed help with both. We set up the stage (a large area with 3 separate risers for drums, backup vocals and a bridging area between), 6 scaffolding towers for curtains and small stage in the back for sound controls. It was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. On Saturday morning we got up at 2:30 am to get down there and for load out. Because of the lapse between the concert and load out times we didn’t attend the show this year. Our plan was to rest up on Saturday and then we had tickets for the final round of the Open on Sunday.
We ended up going to dinner and grocery shopping Sat. night. On the way home I was felling yucky. I mentioned I wasn’t feeling good and hubby said I was just tired. I tried to explain how this had nothing to do with tiredness — that I was getting sick, but he wasn’t listening. This is happening a lot lately. He thinks he knows what’s right and true. But, he doesn’t because he DOESN’T listen!! The upside to that for me is that I get to point out his fallacies frequently by engaging in the age-old wifely duties of saying “I told you so” (read in a sing-song voice, especially since I enjoy it so much). At any rate, I woke up in the middle of the night by getting up to get sick. By morning I was running a fever.
I wisely decided to stay home rather than traipsing all over the hills of Kapulua and making myself truly miserable. Hubby went with friends and enjoyed himself. It was best that way since I got to stay at home, wrapped in a blanket (when I wasn’t sweating) and watching sappy movies on TV all day.
Happily, I am much better, well enough to clean and cook (DARN IT).
What did you do this weekend?
Comments (16)
I am glad you feel better. I am over the flu. but Tracy still has it a little and now D is getting it: sicky: Sorry you missed the concert. You did the best thing.
Saturday my granddaughter Joanna got married :celebrate: They had a beautiful wedding. :camera: Sunday I kick back and took it easy :sleepy: Today I went to the YMCA and did my work out :big-smile:
:sleepy: i spent the weekend resting
I’d take a few days off from the cooking and cleaning just to play it safe. Don’t want to wear yourself out after being sick!
Too bad about being sick…my daughter just got over a bout of something…now her little guys are down. Darn it..
This week end? Not much…just laid around, read, surfed the internet and ate.
Glad you are feeling better. And do they play Jackson Browne as the Load out????
This weekend, we worked on getting the house organized…unpacking wedding gifts and redoing CD storage, got all the boxes to the recycling center AND spent some quality time together! All in all, a great weekend!
Great, so you are telling us that it doesn’t get any better with the Hubby? LOL. Mine is going to be 40 this year and acts the same way. Thinks he knows everything and doesn’t listen to ANYTHING. I tell him that all the time. Why do I bother talking when he isn’t listening. UGH. Sorry you got sick and sorry you didn’t get to see the show. You shouldn’t overdo. Being sick and cleaning too soon after isn’t good for you. You should at least wait 3 weeks. :big-smile:
Glad you are feeling better.
The concert stuff sounds like a lot of fun, too bad you got sick
We watched football and played with the kids. Not exciting but cheap.
Glad your feeling bettr :sicky:
Pretty much was lazy, then worked. :not-talking:
glad to hear you are feeling better! Mine doesnt listen either lol! Must be a man thing. we just explored towns and looked at old house and old churchs. Have a good day today
I’m almost afraid to read my subs xangas anymore…It seems everyone is getting sick! ick! So far, we’ve been fortunate, but I’m sorry for you to hear it got ya. Glad your better and having a day on the couch wrapped up does have an upside to it…the downside, all that work that you do that no one did for you….why is that??? Men in general like to fix things, or know exactly whats wrong… not listen…Your hubby account makes me laugh.
Joe Walsh? Wasn’t he a 70′s rocker? Rocky Mountain Way-wasn’t that him? gosh! That takes me back-I loved his music… It sounds like fun setting up and taking down, and were you paid in ‘back stage’ seats? My daughter went to see Counting Crows last summer at a grand opening to an entertainment venue that opened near the NASCAR racetrack not too far from me. She enjoyed it too.
This weekend I stayed close to home (because of my daughter and her limitations from stitches…) but we all went out Sunday to Famous Daves-a famous (somewhat) bar-b-que resturaunt near above mentioned racetrack, in a lodge type setting. Quaint, smoky, and a nice evening out.
I can barely remember today, much less last weekend. Sad what senility does for one, isn’t it? Glad you’re feeling better…
Pfffttt, dont feel too bad….most men dont TRUELY listen…including my dh!
Glad your feeling better, the concert sounds like a lot of fun. Dh watched lots of football this weekend, I sat around wondering how my marriage has survived 14 seasons of football?? :not-talking: :hammer:
Just kidding. :ROTFL: Actually I visisted with my Mom a lot this weekend. Have a great night and a blessed tomorrow.
Glad you’re feeling better!
Trish
Glad you are feeling better! What a way to spend a weekend.
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I was reading your post about reading & I am the same way! I love reading and I tune everything out when I read; my husband hates it because he is always trying to talk to me & I usually don’t even realize he is there! Unfortunately I haven’t had much time for pleasure reading since going back to school, but I try to fit in a lot on my breaks.
Have you ever read the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan? I used to love them but haven’t read them in years. They are good but so long and the story never ends!
Glad you are feeling better, and hey, being able to say “I told you so” is even better!….LOL