Two Months of Pain

So You’ll notice I’ve been slack on the updates. There’s good and bad reasons for this. Shortly after WHTCon, I picked up Ursula’s Crud. That was two weeks of Misery. I mean, cough, nasal crud, soreness, tiredness. Just BLECK. By the time we were over that, it was the week before StellarCon in High Point. That week, I got my shin tattooed. I’d like to say, that shin tattoos are by far the worst pain I’ve had yet getting any mods done. And it takes a LOT longer to heal than any of my arms did. StellarCon was a BLAST. We got to hang out with some great friends (at least, I think they are) - Mur Lafferty, Cmar & Laura, and SusanZ & Tim. And the usual con crowd. Got home, got the kids, and settled into what was supposed to be a normal week - only to be hit with a kidney stone on that Thurday. HOLY SHIT, that’s some pain right there. Ended up having Ursula drive me to the emergency room after dropping the kids off with their mom. They doped me up, checked me out with a CT scan, and sent me home with good painkillers. I spent the next four days basically doped to the gills, that is, until it dropped to my bladder, and the pain stopped. I passed it sometime Wednesday night. So, to make up for the prior weekend, I picked the kids up a day early. We saw Monsters vs. Aliens - a fun flick, but nothing to write home about. Loved B.O.B. - as with so many Dreamworks animated bits, it’s the supporting cast that makes the film. And then this past week, which was uneventful. Saturday we hit the Ren Faire, and I’m sore from all the walking. Well, that and mowing the lawn for the first time this spring earlier today. My legs muscles are ache-y, but it was worth it, and nothing a martini of Gin Fizz can’t fix. After all that, I’m just hoping this week is uneventful.