In the life of one on "rest"

Bed rest chronicles Day 2

Well, it has been two days on rest. I will admit it I do get up to empty the dishwasher, shower, vacuum, tiny bit of cooking but then it is right back to the recliner. I have been told to drink a gallon of water a day and let me just tell you that it is very hard to maintain rest when you have to pee every 15 min.  The puggles don't seem to mind I am on bed rest. I think in their little puggle brains it reassures them that it is indeed ok to sleep 18 out of the 24 hour day and not feel guilty. 

One thing that is very hard to deal with is my attention span is that of a fruit fly and finding ways to keep busy is hard. I try to break up my day how I used to do it at work. I break up the day into hours. Wake up at 8am and from 8-9 eat breakfast, browse FB, check email, watch the today show. 9am-10am maybe some candy crush until it tells me that I have to wait another 15 min before I can make another attempt at completing the level which, if you play, know how torturous that is!  Browse Pinterest to see what is "hip" these days and pin hundreds of recipes I will probably never make. Realize that Pinterest made me hungry and grab a snack on the way back from my third potty break since I woke up. 

At 10am I try to watch Hoda and Kathy Lee but start to realize my brain cells are diminishing from the pointless crap they mention on their show. 11am I watch the view which hurts my brain even more because it is nothing but five women talking at the same time and trying to get their opinions out before the next commercial, so I am prob attempting another shot at Candy Crush.

Noon I start to scavenge for lunch. Sandwich, leftovers, cereal this could be a very hard decision for the day. Lately it has been turkey and cheese on a Kaiser roll with kettle cooked potato chips IN the sandwich and a nice glass of milk. Back to the recliner...look out the window...see that the news has taken over and one can only take so much torture in the world so I scan the channel for some other program that probably has some rich person complaining of the problems in their life. I do believe yesterday I fought the temptation but put on the Kardashians and it was the episode of wanting to cook the placenta and feed it to the family members as a surprise and I quickly learned that my poor children will never have good old fashioned TV sitcoms the way we did growing up and that in itself, is a very sad sad concept to grasp.  

I find that from 1-3pm is the hardest. I have hit my limit of sitting in the recliner and peeing every 15 min so I attempt to crochet my blanket. I can't even tell you how many times I get going and get about 1/4 through it and realize I messed up somewhere and have to start from the beginning!! This is almost as frustrating as candy crush! :)

Mike comes home and I am sure I stare at him like a dog that just seen his owner after being left home in a crate all day. I begin to interrogate him about his day and want to know everything that happened, what was discussed at work, what he did at work, where he ate lunch at work etc... I am dying for conversation. Not that I REALLY care what he does at work, I mean I do, but you get what I am saying. You can tell the poor guy just wants to get changed, sit on the couch, catch up on shows he has missed and prob not talk to anyone until after dinner but I am an attention whore and I now understand why when we walk in the door the puggles will dance around, bring us their toys, sit right in front of us and stare at us uncomfortably until we cave in from guilt and roll around on the floor with them for a few minutes. I GET IT!!

So, folks, this is rest. I will embrace it and enjoy it. I will learn to make it work as long as it means my babies are doing well! Please do not fault me for writing pointless blogs every few days as it will help my boredom and most importantly sanity :)  As for the picture below, I am pretty sure if you saw me right now I would closely resemble this kitty. Hair has air dried into a frizz mess :)

Shannon!