Opposite Day

Plans/goals for today:

1.  Go to DeutschenPfest, eat funnel cakes, assorted fried goodies, ride silly rides, play games at booths, browse art vendors, then return home plumper than we were when we left, but oh so happy.

Actual happenings of today:

1.  Rain.  Tons of it.  Steady, sometimes heavy, lightning & thunder-filled rain, from when we woke up until roughly 5:00pm.

2.  Lunch out at one of the greasiest places we've ever been to. Thought it looked like a nice "down home" place to have a bite, but left having only eaten 1/4 our meals and feeling gross.

3.  An impromptu trip to Chuck E. Cheese, with an imposed $20 limit, to help keep us all from climbing the walls from boredom. Watching rain is only fun for so long, especially for a 6-year old who had his heart set on carnival rides and funnel cakes, because his parents talked about it all week long.

4.  An ear infection, at 5:00pm!  Yes, what jazzes up a day more than trying to find a physician's office open on a Saturday, after 5:00pm?! Throw in waiting over 90 minutes to get a call back from a nurse at Z's normal doctor's office, and you've got yourself loads of fun.

5.  A trip to the only urgent care facility open in the entire city, WITHOUT insurance, mind you.  That, in itself, was terrifying.  Then, a trip to the pharmacy to pay for a prescription without insurance, as well.  See, we took a gamble on waiting for the insurance at Aaron's job to kick in on June 1, and had been doing well so far.  Guess the gamble didn't pay off, & we had an ear infection join our family a mere 13 days away from our insurance start date.  Remind me to tell you sometime about that little black cloud that follows me around ...

6.  Realizing at Walgreen's that it's 8:30pm and we haven't eaten dinner.  Our stomachs all decided to give us the finger at *about* the same time, so we were one cranky crew until we got out of there. Waiting 15 minutes for a prescription to be filled has never seemed so much like an eternity as it did tonight.

Such simple plans we had today.

Three things I'm grateful for:

1.  My worst fears NOT coming true about how much the trip to 

     urgent care would cost us.

2.  That it was only an ear infection, and not a broken _________.

3.  Going to bed in about 10 minutes.

Until next time ...