JANUARY 3, 2010 THE LOCKERRIDGE CHRISTMAS 2009... THE HURLING YEAR

JANUARY 3, 2010
THE LOCKERRIDGE
CHRISTMAS 2009
THE HURLING YEAR

I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time! ...

Well hello all of the friends of Lockie, who are not passed out from shock at actually seeing a blog posted from me! wink!
I have had a holiday.. well it was a day and it felt pretty holey.. not the worship kind though. I got that stomach virus that has been ravaging this entire country on Thursday evening.
Yeah you guessed it.. Lockie had water and soda crackers for Christmas dinner and my poor son had a Yankee pot roast in a microwave bag... poor kid.. he had an awful head cold to go along with my problem.. we were not a good looking pair I will have to say.. sigh..

That I was sick was not the worst of it though.. it was when I got sick the first time that really was the beginning to the end of a rotten couple of days.
I had waited until Christmas Eve to do my shopping for dinner on Christmas Day.. I do that every year and swear I will be more efficient next year.. and I never am..
I really need to stop lying to myself about that sort of thing ya know? I am always hopeful though!
Anyway.. I was feeling kind of queasy before I took off to the store.. but thought I just hadn't eaten in a while and would stop and get a snack. I got gas and a couple of chicken strips to help out both mine and the cars energy quotient. Ate one strip and kind of thought.. "That might have been a mistake" but drove on.
I pulled up to the ATM at the bank to get Jamie's gift money, he gets every year, and put the card in the slot.. told the machine I wanted some money.. put in my pin and then it hit me! Barely got the door open in time!
All this time the machine was whirling and making all those funky noises they make.. and then all of a sudden it was silent.. but I still was being really vocal.
After the siege was over, and I had emptied my stomach, to the entertainment of the people in the line at the drive through at McDonald's next door, I reached out to get my card and money.. but there wasn't anything in either slot.. WTF!
I finally got it together enough to read the words on the screen through the haze of tears in my eyes and it told me it had "timed out". I never heard of such a thing before.. but it was no use.. nothing I did made it give me my card or my money.. sigh.. short of jumping up and down on it.. what is a woman to do?
This woman put the car in Drive and after stopping twice on the side of the road.. finally made it home.. to my waste basket and pillow.. it was not your usual "Night Before Christmas" for sure!!
Jamie called me around 8pm to say he was off work and headed to my house after a couple of pit stops.. ( one to get me two bottles of Sprite and a box of crackers).. and would be there soon.
They were predicting snow in a small amount and really fast dropping temps.. so I told him it was still just raining at the house and he said it was there too.
At around 10pm I saw lights coming down the drive way.. they looked kind of blurry but I just figured it was gag reflex tears in my eyes again.. I opened the door and it was a blizzard out there!!! At least 3 inches of snow on the ground and the wind blowing like fury!
My sons eyes were dilated so bad he had to take his contacts out to see inside the house.. lol.. it is funny now.. but he had a hell of trip down the mountain that night for sure!
My puppy, Jackson's first Christmas was a real learning experience for him. Every time I had to hurl, he apparently thought something was trying to hurt me and decided he must attack it.. only the only thing to attack was his dry heaving owner...yes indeed he learned really quickly  ... "NOT A GOOD IDEA!"... was a philosophy to adopt.
Since Jamie didn't get his cash money, he was still happy with the check I wrote him, even though none of the clothes, except for a coat he got fit him... and the web site he bought for me is still not opening up to me to play with.. and instead of turkey and dressing.. he had a microwave pot roast in a sack.. while I really pigged out on a saltine and three sips of Sprite.. I will have to say...  lol... yep.. a real holey holiday for sure!

I have had some good news since then, but since I haven't had much of that to report lately... I am saving it for another blog tomorrow I hope if time gives me a breather to write it. Stay tuned.. it gets better .. well I am hopeful anyway!

lockerridge