A Fool In The Rain

With as sick as I've been lately, you would think I'd be taking it somewhat easy on myself. Well...you'd be wrong. The weekend was just insane. Everything was geared toward Gracie's brithday party coming off without a hitch. Shelley and I were worried that we wouldn't get the house in order, and also that the weather was going to be very uncooperative. The end of last week was supposed to see the sun slowly come out and improve things but as we sat downstairs Saturday night things just didn't look good. "How will we fit 30 people and 5 kids IN the house if it rains tomorrow?" I told her not to worry that I would promise her to make the sun come out before the party. What hubris eh? But I wasn't going to have clouds and rain and chilly air ruin my baby's party. So as promised at noon on Sunday the sun came out. The temp went up and we have an absoultey lovely day. [you can follow the Flickr link at the left, or click on the picture to see more of the photos]. I tried to stave off the worst of my cough and pretend like I wasn't running a fever but by the time I went to bed Sunday night I was a mess again. Monday I tried to get out of the house and find some quiet time to work no my Imperial Russia readings. But I had my playoff game so I rushed back home to make dinner, feed Gracie and change for my game. Here's where the weather paid me back for my hubris on Sunday. It started pouring rain about 4:30. I kept checking my team website to see if the league had called the game but every half hour was the same...nothing. So at 8pm I'm gear up and drive out to the field. Sure enough we are a go. And I spend about 2 and a half hours in a steady rain with the wind bringing a chill to my damp jersey. The good news is we won (8-6) so we keep playing another week. The bad news is I feel even MORE under the weather than before. I did manage to get an appointment this afternoon with my doctor, and last night I didn't cough as bad as I had been, but I'm still feeling it. Shelley was given 2 Club VIP seats for the Jays-Yankees game tonight so since we've got our resident babysitters for one last night we're actually going out on a date...so I don't care if I'm in a coma I'm going to damn well spend a nice evening alone with my wife (alone being a relative thing when there are 30,000 people in the stands). I've recently loaded (or am loading) up a few other films I made to my You Tube account so if you'd like you can go to Ron's You Tube and check them out. I've still got a few more I have to upload. Also I promise the next post will be funny and full of snark...because I'll make sure to drink cough medicine beforehand!