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I almost said it was a bad day, but it sort of wavered. Scott and I left a bit before 11, arrived for the party at 11:30. It turns out the hostess had called the guy who was scheduling it and told him not to show up until 12:30 or 1:00 as she wouldn't be ready, but, he had not passed that on to anyone. So those who are normally on time, descended while the poor woman was still rearranging her living room, which would include us.
There was a cat, and two smokers, and then a little lap dog showed up with the family that had two kids (the girl was older and spoke reasonably; preteen or teen? the boy was younger and stomped a lot). Unfortunately, I tally these things because by 1:00 I had a headache, and it got progressively worse throughout the thing despite my measures to damp it down.
There were gifts (unexpected, at least, I had not been led to expect them) and food (which was really quite good; if my head hadn't been pounding, I might have had a second helping - the ham was delicious). The people were nice, as best I could tell given that making conversation got progressively harder to focus on.
And then we fled. The drive home is a blur - I don't get headaches this bad, but I had one. Once we got home, I crawled into bed in the dark; an hour's nap helped a lot and food and cold water and more medicine seems to have done the rest. My head feels sort of hollow, but, no more ache than a pinch.
I would have liked today a lot better without the headache. I would have liked to stay later, talk more, listen more, be more cheerful. Even eat more if I'd felt better. But I'm glad we went. I'm just not glad I got the headache.
And coming back to read my friend's list, I see the mix of the bad holiday stuff and the not-so-bad holiday stuff. For those who had good holidays - yay! For those who didn't...well, I hope things get better.
I don't think I'm going to visit Scott's relatives on Friday. My holiday cheer sort of fizzled this morning and this afternoon didn't help, even though I do wish I could have been less headache-y for it.
There was a cat, and two smokers, and then a little lap dog showed up with the family that had two kids (the girl was older and spoke reasonably; preteen or teen? the boy was younger and stomped a lot). Unfortunately, I tally these things because by 1:00 I had a headache, and it got progressively worse throughout the thing despite my measures to damp it down.
There were gifts (unexpected, at least, I had not been led to expect them) and food (which was really quite good; if my head hadn't been pounding, I might have had a second helping - the ham was delicious). The people were nice, as best I could tell given that making conversation got progressively harder to focus on.
And then we fled. The drive home is a blur - I don't get headaches this bad, but I had one. Once we got home, I crawled into bed in the dark; an hour's nap helped a lot and food and cold water and more medicine seems to have done the rest. My head feels sort of hollow, but, no more ache than a pinch.
I would have liked today a lot better without the headache. I would have liked to stay later, talk more, listen more, be more cheerful. Even eat more if I'd felt better. But I'm glad we went. I'm just not glad I got the headache.
And coming back to read my friend's list, I see the mix of the bad holiday stuff and the not-so-bad holiday stuff. For those who had good holidays - yay! For those who didn't...well, I hope things get better.
I don't think I'm going to visit Scott's relatives on Friday. My holiday cheer sort of fizzled this morning and this afternoon didn't help, even though I do wish I could have been less headache-y for it.
