The Weekend

I had a fantastic weekend, and my ataxia didn't affect me all that much.  I didn't fall, not once!  My weekend was pretty busy and my body didn't really get all that tired.  Of course, I took it easy this time as often as I could.  And drank lots of fluids.  I usually take a cat nap during the day, and this past weekend I didn't take even one.  I'm not gonna lie, my body still got tired, but I felt better than previous weekends of being super busy.


My friend came over Friday after I got home from work and we went to Subway for lunch.  Yum!  Then we hungout poolside until dinnertime.  I made sure to take a drink and a snack so the heat wouldn't get the best of me.  We went to the supermarket to buy something to eat for dinner and also rented a movie.  Waiting for Forever.  It was kinda a depressing movie.  Not any action and the storyline just moved really slow, and the ending sucked.  I was like, 'really?  This is it?'


After lunch on Saturday, we got ready and drove to my other friend's house.  I curled my hair, which took about 45 minutes!  All three of us just hungout at her house till dinner.  Then we met another girl for dinner at Cracker Barrel.  It's a southern cooking restaurant.  Like chicken fried steak and meatloaf and stuff.  So for all you northerners, you're missing out on excellent food...lol.  We all went to the discount movies after that to see Something Borrowed.  It was ok, but the storyline could've been better.  Grahams was our last stop for the night.  It's a dance club with 5 rooms: country, hip hop, karaoke, coyote ugly (girls dancing on bar), 80's music.  My friends and I did karaoke to some Spice Girls song.  A song that I really don't know.  The one that goes, 'if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends....'  It was fun but also embarrassing having all those strangers look at you.  I'd do it again, but definitely not by myself...lol.  Since Grahams serves alcohol, I got the "are you alright?" question pretty often.  I'm used to it so it's all good.  I just smile and say yes.  We danced on stage in the hip/hop room.  It was so much fun but my legs got sooooo tired.  Luckily all that dancing was not long before we left. 


Sunday was 'Sunday Funday"!  Two of my friends and their 5 kids and I went to the swimming pool all day long.  There are grills out by the pool so my friend bbq-ed us up some fajitas and hotdogs.  I had a blast, but can you imagine having ataxia and dealing with 5 crazy kids?  Talk about insane.  Chasing after them and whatnot.  Carrying them bc they can't really swim.  I do it all bc I want to, but it gets tiring, and I get tired a lot faster than most people bc of my ataxia I think.  The tiredness starts in my legs and works its way up.  Sometimes it's like my legs have a mind of their own...lmao