My Birthday Present

As I was getting ready to get in the shower on Friday, I got a text from my sweetie saying he wanted to take me out on a date. We texted back and forth a little while, and decided to go to Outback. What we didn't think about was the fact that it was a Friday! When we got to Outback, there was a 45 minute wait to be seated. Because my darling works every Saturday, we really couldn't wait that long to eat, so, we went on down the road to try Texas Steakhouse. He couldn't even get in the door to get an estimate on the wait time. We then decided to take a look at O'Charley's, but didn't even stop there when we saw that they had no parking spots available.

Seeing that it was getting rather late, and we needed to eat and get home so we could go to bed, we decided to head back toward home and stop at a fast food joint, leaving Outback for a non-weekend night. Sitting in the left turn lane, waiting for the red arrow to turn green, our car "dinged", and an idiot light came on indicating overheating. The temperature gauge was almost completely at the top, and was climbing. As we sat there through another light the needle hit the top of the gauge. Once we could turn, we found the next available parking lot, and parked the car. We had 2 options for food close by, Wendy's and SteakandShake. We figured we'd walk over to Wendy's and eat while we waited for the car to cool down. We ate, put some more anit-freeze in the car, and were headed home.

That night my love got sick. Majorly so. I was convinced he had food poisoning from the dinner Friday night. His mom told him to stay away from the baby, which I vetoed. If the baby was going to get sick, he'd get sick anyway, since I wasn't going to stay away from either of them. And, since I figured it was food poisoning, it wouldn't be contagious at all anyway.

Well, I figured wrong. At 1 on Monday morning I woke up sick. I spent Monday lying on the couch or in bed, hardly strong enough to pick up my 7 week old son. Thankfully my darling was well enough to help tremendously with the baby, and today I'm feeling back to normal. I can't complain too much, as it's the first stomach bug I've had for over 7 years!

Now I'm just looking forward to that trip to Outback on some Monday or Tuesday evening!