1737 Another 24 hours in Paradise

Saucy Scale:  6 (happy, but in a lot of pain)

I have had  this headache for over 24 hours now.  My sinuses. 

The old cliche of "feeling like your head is in a vice" is an amazingly accurate description…yeah, it hurts like heck.  I’m miserable. 

Of course, it doesn’t help when I wake up in the middle of the night and then can’t get back to sleep.  It started out as a vice-grip headache which brought on nausea and progressed into a crazy night with Mattson waking up & screaming at 4:00 am.  I figured I was up anyway, so he and I snuggled into the sofa together & somehow we both managed to catch some sort of a catnap.

By 6:00 am I was literally crying from the vice-grip induced nausea.  TBU took the boys downstairs so that I could try to get a little rest.

Damn pregnancy and lack of any worthwhile medications!  I’m stuck with plain old REGULAR STRENGTH TYLENOL (aka: worthless little pills).  I finally broke down this morning an purchased a box of plain variety Sudafed, too.

After last night, I’ve gone so far as to break my usual ban of casual medicine use.  I just sent TBU out to get me a box of plain old unisom.  I can take me half a pill and hopefully between my sinus headache medication and sleep meds…maybe I can get a half-way decent sleep tonight.  (wish me luck.)

Oh, by the way…I should’ve known better, but taking 2 of those tylenol on an empty nauseous stomach & then not eating anything…is A REALLY BAD IDEA.  I’ll let you use your own imagination.

In happier news, we did go put down our deposit to hold our homesite & house model.  We need to go back later this week to make a real down payment and sign the paperwork. 

I’m really excited about it.  This house will give us loads of space we don’t have now.  It is a gorgeous houseplan & it is so exciting to have complete creative control over a brand new house!  We opted for a 4 bedroom home & the optional Bonus Room.  Lord knows we’re gonna need avery inch of space! 🙂

The daunting part is that we will have to prep our current home & get it on the market ASAP.  We were hoping to wait until the spring to put it on the market, but that timeline has been pushed up on us a bit.  So to speak.

I don’t really look forward to the packing frenzy which will be taking place around here over the next 2 weeks.  We’ve got a TON of crap to get packed up and sent to a storage unit.  We’ve got to stage the heck out of this house to have it "show" well to potential buyers.

Well, my hubby is back with a movie & some ice cream.  I’m watching the clock until I can take another Tylenol/Sudafed cocktail.  Let’s not forget that 1/2 Unisom chaser at bedtime!

5 Things That Make Me Happy:

1. Moving forward on our beautiful new home 
2. A bedroom for everybody 
3. The boys & I actually got decent naps today! 
4. The rains from Hurricane Gustav were gone today & have left behind some lovely cooler temps…sleeping with the windows open!  
5. movie & ice cream night with my hubby…gotta run!