October 4, 2012

I feel like I'm dying...  Oh my god.  It's been so long since I've spent a full day on my feet I had forgotten how much it HURTS.  Even with pain meds and muscle relaxants...  I've taken more today than I've taken in a day since I increased my seizure meds.  I just hope it doesn't knock me out today or tomorrow, because I am dead already, and I have an appointment tomorrow, and I only have tomorrow and early Saturday (if we stay here) to clean, decorate, and find a badminton set...  Not only has this been exhausting and painful, it's also been expensive, why do I always think, oh well, we'll just get snacks & pizza and do it at home, it won't cost much (ha ha ha ha ha).  It inevitably never works out that way.

I had to spend more than necessary too, because I had to buy things I already have... somewhere.  In the lost "birthday box".  Which I had organized so I had most of what I could possibly need for streamers and balloons.  But I decided, everything having gone wrong today that possibly could, that I was not taking any chances of having to run around to any other stores to pick anything up.  As it is, I still have to find that badminton set/racquets/birdies/net that I had no luck finding today...  And buy the cake, and the pizza...  And a fruit and veggie platter.  I don't know if I am even going there, considering how much this all cost--health be damned for one day.  These kids can get their healthy diets at home.

I had hoped, planned, that I'd go to the chiropractor, run in to the dollar store quickly and while I was doing that I may as well get my prescriptions filled since I am 2-3 weeks late doing so, and it wasn't happening otherwise.  Except I get to the pharmacy, to find out that my prescription, that was supposed to be for 3 months with 2 refills, had run into yet another snafu...  Again, I thought getting 3 months would make my life easier since I could then just call into the pharmacy and have it delivered which is hard enough these days (or I wouldn't be 2-3 weeks behind).  But, every time, without fail, some problem or other has cropped up and it never seems to work out the way I hope it will, either.

So it turned out that I had no prescription on file for any Tylenol 3s whatsoever.  Which prompted me to have to run to Dr. Leung's, who wasn't there, and the locum would only take 3 patients every half hour.  So I waited for about an hour there, in all my spare time I spelled out exactly what meds I take and how much I take each month, so she would know what I needed to get the 3 month refill of.  That seems to work out well, and she gave it to me.  Well, I get to the pharmacy only to find out that, unknown to us, the prescription has been written wrong, and, as a result the "3 months" only gives me one month of Tylenol.  Which allowed me to get the meds I needed today (the others I fortunately did have a prescription on file for that I needed), but I do not want to have to go through this again a month from now, so I asked them if they could call her and fix the problem.  They said they would, so hopefully that will work out, and I left, to finally go to the dollar store--way, way, WAY later than I expected to be doing what I thought was going to be my first quick stop.

I had a short list:  balloons, a drink, so I could take my medicine & not perish of dehydration during the time I was out (my water bottle needs to be cleaned as the water sitting in it is positively rancid), plates if I could, by some miracle, find matching plates to the original ones I bought.  And ribbon, the kind I tie the balloons with, and you can curl.  Not much luck, that was the next thing to go wrong, none of that was there except the ribbon, and the drink.  But, over the course of the day (and 3 different dollar stores) I was able to find ribbon in matching colours to the colour scheme (based on the flowers on the original plates I bought).  Except for orange, I found them all, and, I think, good matches to the plates.

Next I took the skytrain to the mall.  I started at the big dollar store there, figuring I would be able to find the balloons I needed there.  No.  But, I did find 2 tablecloths (I bought 2 at Walmart yesterday, but, I didn't have the plates with me to colour-match, so I bought these ones, figuring I could always return the ones to Walmart, and they were the same price.  I bought 2 sets of plates, one in pink, and one in green, to match the table cloths (decided to forego the colourless white I had originally bought), and bought yellow cups, (even though I already had blue, they had cupcakes on them and were a bit little kiddish, but, when I got them, they were the best match I had).  The yellow was not my favourite colour for the cups, but, pink plates with the green table cloth and green plates with the pink, I decided that pink cups and plates, and green cups and plates, was a little much.  And, since the napkins I got are blue (and a perfect colour match to the plates), then, I would have all the colours together (except the orange, of course).

Probably my best find at that particular dollar store, were these lovely butterflies with ribbons cascading down from them, and, all in the colour-scheme--pink, yellow, green, purple (not orange, again).