Dad's Birthday.

So, yesterday was an "I feel pretty terribly sick" kind of day. Except I wasn't sick at all, just tired. I'd worked a night shift (I blogged about that night), and had only been able to sleep about 3 hours before the family came in to wake me up so we could sing happy birthday to dad. We didn't get him a large cake, in fact is was pretty small because he can't eat it, so we sang happy birthday with a small chocolate cake held out toward him with two number four candles on it. For once, I didn't get pictures. I think I was just so out of it that I didn't even think to pull out my phone.

So after the happy birthday singing, we all sat down and decided what we were going to do for the day. Dad said he wanted to see Man of Steel, so we did later that day. At 5pm, we had dinner. I was not happy during this dinner. I tried to be understanding and as calm as I could be without looking completely livid (I barely said a word the entire dinner). What happened that made me so mad? So, as mentioned in the post yesterday, one of Alex's friends had been invited to dad's birthday dinner because she was leaving for basic training on Monday (tomorrow). So for that reason, according to everyone, she was invited to the dinner while Cory wasn't, which to me was pretty hurtful. I thought everyone was just starting to get along. Well, I dropped it after asking why it worked out the way it did and receiving an answer, but when the dinner actually came the girl who was leaving for basic showed up AND another of Alex's girlfriends. I wasn't very happy. I ended up just eating dinner quietly, saying a few words, then excusing myself so I could just go sleep it off in my room. I was pretty upset about it. But I tried my hardest not to say anything and just let it go, keeping in mind that it was dad's birthday, and I slept for ten minutes. I felt a little better after my short nap, but not by much. My head was throbbing (something that had been happening the entire morning/day) and I felt very weak. I was still a little mad about the whole dinner situation as well. But we were leaving to go to a movie, and that means the friends of Alex were leaving us.

Man of Steel is not my favorite movie. It's much too loud. Given, I'm not a movie fan to begin with partly because loud movies like that with all their explosions and weird sounds give me the worst migraines of my life. So, I ended up leaving the movie for about ten minutes at one point because of my throbbing head. I just went and sat in the bathroom until I wasn't as nauseous, then on a bench just outside the theatre where we were seated. That was an hour before the movie was scheduled to end. I had to take my medicine while I was out there, and I don't think that was the smartest idea. I felt dizzy for the rest of the night. When I took my blood pressure at home, it was in the 80s/60s. Not good. So I tried getting up and pacing a little before I finally got too dizzy and just went to bed. I'm still not sure if I actually fell asleep or passed out.

So, it wasn't the best day for me. But I'm happy that I got to spend some of the day with my quirky family and wish a happy birthday to my dad.