Adulting is overrated, let’s party!

Posted on June 12, 2017 by flowerjovia

Hello from Nokomis. We’re thinking about heading home today, and we really should since we’ve been here since Thursday afternoon and my in laws have left to go home for the summer, there really is no reason to stay. The thing is MacGyver isn’t feeling much like adulting this week and I’m weak willed so I’m just following along.

My new keyboard for the laptop came while we were down here. I had it delivered to this house so that I could get it fixed and be ready to work on it this week. It wasn’t the right keyboard. Apparently, I have one of the rare laptop’s where the keyboard pops won’t just pop in from the top.

Of course…

So I’m typing on a wireless keyboard which I have strategically placed beside me while I stare at the laptop and occasionally hit the keyboard of the keys which don’t work. It’s so much fun.

And let’s throw one more thing into the mix to make this super interesting. My eye twitch has turned into a painful eye throb and my eye has become itchy and swollen and on Friday I got double vision. I am convinced it is the migraine prescription so, I threw the topiramate in the trash. I would rather have a migraine than go blind. I’ll be making an appointment with my eye doctor this week but it is already getting better.

It is still raining every day here although Friday was beautiful and we were able to get out on the boat for most of the day. Here are a few scenes from that adventure.

As you can tell, it was a rough day. It got worse, we had to go back home which meant we had to see more of this….

and this,

Oh, but we did see a shipwreck, sort of.

If you look real close you can see it.

I was a little let down that the Skipper and Gilligan were nowhere to be seen!

I did managed to hit up the Legacy Trail for some running every day. I’m not sure of the cumulative miles but it was a shit ton. And guess what? I’m headed out for a few more before we leave because, well, it’s running and you never need a reason to go for a good run, just get out and go!

Have a stellar Monday and don’t work too hard, life’s too short.

Tell me about your weekend.

Ever seen a shipwreck? Did you go peek? We did. There was nothing to see.

And just when I thought it was over……

Posted on May 22, 2017 by flowerjovia

On Saturday I ran 10 miles on the Legacy Trail and ended up with a mid-level migraine that ended up lasting for the entire freakin weekend. It sucked. This is what I get for playing doctor and not taking my thyroid medication for almost three weeks because now the long run migraines are back and I’m sure it will take a few weeks to get rid of them again.

Oh, if it were only this easy….

The bad news is, I might have finally solved the mystery of the eye twitch and it has absolutely nothing to do with the thyroid medication and absolutely everything to do with another medication I was sure I needed and it’s the only thing that got rid of my migraines when everything else failed previously. It turns out that the twitch could actually be caused by the topirimate! The blessed Topirimate!

In case you’re wondering, I’m not going to play around with my medications this time, I’m going to make an appointment this week and talk to my doctor about it, but since the ‘twitch’ started around the same time the doctor increased my dose of topirimate, I’m pretty sure that’s the culprit.

I don’t know why I never considered it before. As it turns out problems with the eyes are a known side effect with topirimate. Go figure. So much for my miracle drug.

I still managed to rally on Saturday and have a little fun. We went out on the boat and had dinner with the in-laws. We also went swimming and I found out that my Fibit Charge HR is definitely water resistant. I’d almost go as far as saying that bitch is damn near waterproof. I mean, I know it’s not, but it certainly seemed like it when I was showing off in the pool.

MacGyver was showing his dad how to execute the perfect swimming stroke. Is that even what you say? I don’t know because I obviously know absolutely nothing about swimming but that didn’t stop me from jumping into the water and showing off my perfectly imperfect breast stroke while forgetting to remove my Fitbit Charge HR. Yeah, I did that.

And then I swam across the pool a few more times. And then, I remembered I had it on.

It still works!

I slept in on Sunday morning and I slept a lot of the day on Sunday too but I could not get rid of the migraine. It just did not want to go away so I finally just gave in and decided to rest. For some reason that’s a hard thing for me to do.

This morning I was rewarded for it because I woke up migraine free and I was able to run again. It wasn’t a lot of fun though. If you follow me on Instagram or facebook you may already know why.

How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Did you know the Fitbit Charge HR was water resistant?

Mothers Day Weekend

Posted on May 16, 2017 by flowerjovia

Woody is part of the family and just goes with the flow. I’m not even kiddin you, it’s hilarious. He just rides in the car like one of the family and he sits on the sofa watching TV like one of the gang.

‘Are you sleeping yet?’
‘No, are you?’

The only thing he hasn’t done yet is go on the boat and it’s only a matter of time. When we go out somewhere and come back home I come in through the door and say hello to the dogs and they’re both barking and whining and Woody is chirping right along with them and when I say ‘Hi Woody’ he sings this little song, it’s adorable.

We have this lamp that has a boat and an Ernest Hemmingway type character on it. MacGyver puts the bird in the boat to ‘train’ him.

Over the weekend I ran on the Legacy trail every day and on both Sunday and Monday morning I saw a hawk. I almost brought it home too.

Hawk

I didn’t. When it discovered a rabbit that had recently been hit by a car and drug it under a tree to save for dinner I knew that the hawk could fend for itself so I let it be.

We had a nice time in Nokomis and I love spending time down there but I have to say that I really missed the kid this year. He called me Thursday night and we talked for quite a while and he texted me on Mother’s Day but I really, really miss him. It’s been about 6 months since I’ve seen him so I think it’s about time for me to schedule a little trip soon.

MacGyver put in a new glass insert into the front door of the Nokomis house for me for Mother’s Day. It’s really, very pretty and I love it.

This is the view from outside.

And this is the view from inside the house.

We spent most of Sunday on the boat and MacGyver smoked a ton of food so that his mom and I wouldn’t have to cook anything for the entire day which was very sweet. We took the dogs out with us and headed toward the island that we went to last weekend. The dogs didn’t like the beach part of the trip very much. The waves were intense and poor Hank got pummeled in the first two minutes and promptly gave up and left the water, Boomer didn’t last much longer either. They both hightailed it back to the boat.

Boomer slept in the back in the shade for most of the ride home. He loves the wind in his hair, diva!

Hank jumps around like a popcorn kernel.

They both preferred the boat ride to the beach or the water on this trip, and Hank would have been happy if we would have caught a fish, but unfortunately the fish weren’t biting. We did see the most interesting thing I’ve seen on the water in quite some time and I made MacGyver stop so that I could get a picture of it.

Best thing seen on the end of a boat dock EVER!

I think they should have turned it into a tardis and then it would have been even cooler.

You could totally turn that into a tardis right?

We hung out with MacGyver’s parents until quite late on Sunday night so we decided to stay until Monday and then on Monday I got up and ran and MacGyver went to work on the boat. We were supposed to leave around 1PM and come home so that I could get some work done that afternoon but did I mention that MacGyver went to work on the boat? Yeah, so instead we left around 2:30ish.

Anywho, we’re home now and things are almost back to quasi normal. As normal as a two dog, one woodpecker, MacGyver and a running girl household can be anyway.

How was your weekend?