February 20, 2014

Well, I'm not $400 million richer today. To be honest, I'm not surprised. It is the lottery after all. I did win $4 though, so almost. I found out the sad news way before the sun came up today, thanks to my kidney. This morning it was around 3:30AM. The pain only lasted about a half an hour, maybe forty-five minutes, but then there was aching, and I ended up saying screw it and didn't go back to bed. It was already a weird night because after going to bed last night, I woke up feeling like I had slept for hours, but when I looked at the clock, less than an hour had passed. Ridiculous.

Also weird, was the weather today. While I was bouncing and dancing around my room, it was raining outside. Later on there was a bit of sleet and hail. Mid-morning, a whole bunch of big snowflakes that proved to be very distracting to second graders. By the time I left work it was in the 50s and there really wasn't any evidence of the rain, sleet, or snow. Kansas.

Right after getting to work my kidney started aching again so I spent maybe twenty minutes or so standing in the computer lab, leaning against a computer tower with my hand on my kidney. Thankfully it didn't escalate or stay too long. Throughout the day it got a little achy off and on but I survived the day. I continued working on storybooks, helped out in reading groups, and helped kids in the lab. A very typical day.

Chipotle day has been changed back to Thursday but I just wasn't feeling it today. Almost entirely based on my kidney. We still had a family dinner but I instead made Brussels sprouts, a fake hot dog, and finished off the homemade hummus and pitas my sister made me. All together it was too much food. Way too much. I'll probably have the opportunity to run it off in the middle of the night.

Tonight I watched YouTube videos, read things, and played a game of BF4. I played on the no explosives server and I followed the rules tonight and didn't get killed by an admin. I've got to say, it is really nice playing on a small map without the constant explosions. Just the occasionally rhythmic, but often arrhythmic, sound of gunfire.

I tried contacting the new volunteer kid again tonight but much like last week I never heard back from him. I was going to cancel because I didn't trust my kidney enough to make the trip, so I guess it worked out, but it is kind of annoying that I haven't heard from him in two weeks. I didn't actually try to call him to see if his phone still works, or his foster dad to see what is up, so in that respect I have failed. I will work on that.

Now I'm going to once again attempt to sleep through the night. I was feeling pretty good about my chances last night and that was a bust. So I'm going to try not to feel anything about tonight. The common themes are horizontal body position and several hours without drinking water. Two things that are pretty much standard for me so I am hoping those themes aren't related to my middle of the night kidney pain.