Saturday was a long, long day

I woke up yesterday morning and spent a leisurely time having coffee, eating the yummy omelet Craig made us and playing on line, just relaxing and pretending I didn't have anywhere to go.  Denial can provide a lovely escape from reality sometimes.

Eventually I had to face the fact that I had a baby shower to go to though.  *shudder*  Three things Jen hates: women-only events, bridal/baby/gifting type "showers", baby/kid stuff.  Pure hell.  I got ready though, and dragged my ass out there.  It wasn't easy either.  I could've used my back as an excuse because the pain of getting in and out of the car brought me to tears (and lots of swearing). 

Aside from the mom-to-be (H.), I recognized no one when I got there.  I sat at a table alone (as is often my way), and H. asked me to come sit at a half-occupied table, so I did, smiling and nodding to the ladies I was joining ...who all promptly got up and moved to the table I'd just left.  That was awkward, to say the least, and kind of made me feel like crap.  I mean, they said they were expecting some people to join them yet, but still...   And it turns out the people they were expecting were my mom, step-niece and step-grandmother, the same people I was expecting.  So when that group showed up, I got moved back to my original table to sit with the women who moved because I'd been moved.  *rolls eyes*  They were all my my step-grandma's extended family, so my mom knew them, and they really are all decent people and they apologized when they realized...  But still.  *sigh*

I wound up really liking the woman I sat next to though.  The first thing I heard her say was a very unenthusiastic, "Oh goody, it looks like there's going to be *games*."  heh.  Yeah, I liked her.  We also bonded over being child-free by choice.  Her mom says she's not allowed to talk to me because I'm a bad influence and she's still hoping for grandchildren some day.  *L*

Anyhow, it wound up being a fun group to sit with, and there were laughs.  We had lunch, we had cake, we played stupid shower games and the present marathon started. 

Four hours is a long time for a gift shower.  My introvert took some serious hurt that day.  I had one of those drives home where you suddenly realize you're home and you don't remember how you got there.  I came in and put on some comfortable clothes and followed Craig around while he finished up his yardwork.  I couldn't help because of my back, and I wasn't contributing any amusing stories or anything.  My brain was just functioning at a life-support only level, and it never occurred to me that there was anything else to do but quietly follow Craig around the yard.

He took pity on me and offered to take me into town for dinner, and I remembered I wanted a new pair of jeans, so I requested that stop too.  I wound up finding some great clothes on sale.  I got a pair of nice jeans, some cute and comfy capris, two nice t-shirts and a very soft, light-weight knit top for $75.  Good retail therapy.  Then we stopped at a gaming store and picked out some games for our new Wii, found a place to eat dinner, picked up a few groceries and came home.

My back was screaming, so I took a couple Aleve and leaned on a heating pad for a while, and then we busted into Rampage (one of our new Wii games).  We played that until my elbow was starting to hurt, and I requested some bowling to calm down a little before bed.  We bowled three games, and I figured we should try another of the Wii Sport games.  Golf seemed fairly tame, and the heat and Aleve and rest (hours on the sofa tearing down virtual cities) had my back feeling better, so I wanted to try golf.  I loved it!  :)  I love the Wii Sports.  They're strangely calming for me (well, except for boxing).  I can see us playing a lot of that in the future.  We have a date for nine holes on the golf course tonight even.   :)

Thing is, between the social exhaustion and pampering my back, I slept SOUNDLY last night.  It was glorious.  It didn't even hurt to roll over for the first time in weeks.  I woke up this morning feeling fucking fantastic!  My back feels damn near healed.  Could it have been the stretching and twisting while playing golf?  I don't know.  I'll take it, whatever brought it about.

I'm really loving the Wii!  Still can't get it to connect to our wireless though.  :/  Craig's a freaking genius at this kind of stuff though, so I have faith we'll eventually get it online somehow.  He's bringing home a different access point from work tomorrow to see if it's just our LinkSys or if our Wii is defective.  I hope our Wii isn't defective.  I don't want to send it back and be Wiiless again, even temporarily!  If it is just our access point, we're going to get the accessories for plugging the Wii into the ethernet.  He'll get us hooked up somehow, but this is just kind of frustrating.

I'm still feeling a little stupid today, but that's ok.  Nobody expects much out of Sundays anyhow.  I'm also worried about a couple people and a cat.  What thoughts I can muster today are all working to send good energy out to people (and furry kids) I'm concerned about.

I want to play Wii.  I *love* it.  We named it Gort.