Wow. That was a giant weekend of NOTHING for me. If you consider nothing a blinding, mind numbing, I can’t even function to care for my own child, trip to the minor med (but only at night) migraine nothing.

Wednesday evening I felt my standard “a weather front is coming through” sinus headache coming on so I took some Advil and hit the hay. Thursday I woke up thinking I wasn’t going to make it though the day. This bad boy of a sinus headache, we’ll call him Karl for kicks, had intensified. Derek had a dentist appointment that morning so I told him to give me a call once he was done to see if I needed him to come home.

I guess I should tell you a bit about my sinus headaches. They are intense. I am like a human barometer. I can tell you if it’s going to rain or if a low pressure front will move though the city I am in typically within a 24-48 hour window. My more severe sinus headaches, in my not-at-home working days, required me to take a sick day because I just couldn’t function. Now that I have no sick days as a SAHM I rely on the availability on my super busy husband to take a day off from his job and take care of Squishy Baby.

Now back to Karl. On Thursday afternoon I decided to pop a couple advil and take a nap while the kiddo napped. Karl no-likie. Luckily, Gray decided to take a 5 HOUR nap that day. I know right?! Derek arrived home around 4:30pm and Karl was rockin’ out full force on my brain-hole. I stayed in bed the remainder of the evening. Derek even slept on the couch to make my night a bit easier.

Here’s a peak at what my windows looked like for about 5 days.

Yup, them my good bath towels blockin’ out that ole sunshine.

Friday morning it was ON! Oh, I forgot to mention that all night long this stupid sinus headache was morphing into a full-blown migraine, and kept waking me up every 2 hours or so. Not cool, Karl. When the alarm when off Friday morning Karl was large and in charge. Derek called into work for the day off and began life as a single daddy, and nurse to my pending doom.

For whatever reason I could only sleep on my sides. I couldn’t sit up, walk, see any form of light, even the normal smell of my husband made me want to blow chunks. Gross, I know. That night my in-laws picked up Gray and kept him over night so Derek could take me to the minor med. By this point, taking a swig of water made me do what my husband’s musk almost made me do a few hours before. Ugh! I told Derek I would try going to the doctor, but only at night. Even the light from the screen of his cell phone made Karl put on his clogging shoes and dance a little ditty on my eyeballs AND brain.

After the peps at the minor med put two shots in my tush, three prescriptions in my hands my husband’s hands, and sent me on my not so merry way I was home and back in bed still hating Karl. Needless to say things slowly started getting less painful, but weren’t even remotely tolerable until Monday morning. I was in a black hole for days on end. No phone, no computer, no TV…I mean nothing.

So that’s where I’ve been.

The good news is my boys had a blast together. My sweet hubs to pics and videos of the two of them hanging out so I could see what they were up to while I was having my brain abused. They had a blast with stickers. Of course a fit or two occurred. I mean that’s a given.

They did a little gaming.

They played in the back yard. Gray even did a little yard work. I can’t wait till this “fun game” actually works in our favor.

They went to the zoo Sunday morning since going to church was out of the question for us. The zoo is super close to our house, and we have a annual family pass so it was really easy for Derek to get home to me if I needed him. Church…not so much. Sorry God. Next week.

Dang, that kid is even cuter than a panda.

And as always…Grayson took a ton of self portraits of himself with Derek’s iPhone.

I just have to say, there is no way I could have taken care of that sweet little butterball while enduring the pain I was in. I am so thankful to have this amazing man in my life that is there for me when I fall, or when I just can’t stand at all. I love you, Derek. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking care of not only me everyday, but our little guy too. You totally win the Husband of the Year award.

So when you are married to what you would call a geek, like I am, there are a certain set of rules you must abide by once you have purchased a piece of “new” technology.

Geek Techno Rule #1

• The item may not be removed from it’s packaging until it arrives at your home

Geek Techno Rule #2

• For an optimal unboxing experience the area must be cleaned and organized with plenty of “layout” space

Geek Techno Rule #3

• No less than a 5 mega pixel camera may be used to document the unboxing of said technology

Geek Techno Rule #4

• If using a still camera to document the unboxing one must use digital camera to take a crisp image of each minute step of the unboxing process (digital camera is mandatory so that the images can be blogged about later along with the 50,000 other people who captured their unboxing on camera)

Geek Techno Rule #5

• Along with documenting every step of the unboxing process, detail pictures must also be taken from every angle imaginable to really capture the essence of the unboxing moment

I am wanted to inform you people who are not married to geeks or are geeks themselves for a particular reason.  On Monday June 8th, Apple held their annual developer’s conference called WWDC.  At WWDC Apple announces upgrades and/or enhancements they have made to their current product offering.  They also announce new products and models to the market.  About 5 minutes after the keynote ended on Monday I received a call from Derek saying “The Apple store is back up…want me to go ahead and buy the new 13 inch MacBook Pro?”  I gave him my blessing to make the purchase, and I will be taking pictures of it too in just a few days.  Not to mention, I got a sweet iPod touch out of the deal.  Currently, Apple is running a promotion through September 8th for college students and faculty.  If you teach or go to college you not only get a nice student discount off the price of your purchase of a Mac, but you also get a free 8gb iPod touch (after rebate).  Thank goodness for Derek going back to school. He’s going back to get his Master’s degree in being a super geek MIS.  Yes, I do realize that the iPod touch is not new to the market, but it is new in general.

And now……the unboxing…..

Confession:  I get just as excited about this stuff as he does, but I learned to love it…he was born that way!

To see other’s sharing their joy in unboxing technology visit Unboxing.com.

Since the wedding is over and Derek and I are now beginning our married life together I though I would keep adding posts about things in our life after the wedding.  These new posts will contain everything from the dogs, holidays, special moments, to random happenings in our daily lives.  Cuz I know everyone is dying to hear about how we cleaned the house on Tuesday, and then we watched TV.  I know, I know I can barely contain myself either.

With this new spin on this blog I decided to give it a bit of a face lift too.  Enjoy!