Let us go then, you and I

Well, I'm finally getting my energy back after having the flu all week. I can't believe the negative impact this flu had on my mood. I was down in the dumps, half weepy even, all week. (Imagine PMS on steroids...) My mood lifted a bit Wednesday, but it was back in the dumps Thursday and early Friday. I think by that point, my low mood was partly from the flu itself, partly due to my frustration at still feeling so fatigued, and partly due to my feeling like a pain in neck to all those around me. I was tired of being tired, and tired of having to ask people to do things for me.

My sister lifted my spirits late Friday morning with great phone chat, convincing me not to feel bad about leaning on people when I need to. She also reminded me of a Sesame Street skit where some muppets had to knock on someone's door, needing help for some reason, and while they were waiting for the person to answer, got themselves all worked up with imagined reasons why that person won't want to help. So when the unsuspecting person finally opened the door, they snapped out something in an accusatory tone like "fine, don't help then" and stormed away. I laughed and said good grief, that was me on the phone earlier with Valerie, who was coming to pick M and I up later that afternoon...good thing she loves me!

All week long, I had my fingers and toes crossed that I'd be recovered enough by Friday night to go to the Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers concert. We had gotten tickets a month ago and were all really looking forward to an evening out, dinner and the show. Fortunately, I was up for it, although was still quite tired and my appetite wasn't fully back to normal. (In reality, I would had to have been pretty much on death's door before I would have missed this, but happily, that wasn't the case!)

We went to the Cellar in Bedford for supper and had a fantastic meal. We shared a terrific appetizer - artichoke terrine with toasted rounds of bread. SO yummy!!!! Mind you, I was then too full to finish my entree. I had chicken and sundried tomato on fettucini egg noodles. I ate maybe half of it, although it was quite delicious. Can't recall what the others had, but all the dishes were tasty. And our waitress was great, had a fun sense of humour. For example, we'd all asked for glasses of water but none materialized...so then Valerie asked for a pitcher of water, adding "and glasses" since we hadn't gotten any the first time we'd asked. When the waitress brought the water pitcher, she'd stuck four straws in it as a joke! I thought it was pretty funny. My coffee didn't taste good to me though, which oddly enough seems to be a common thing with this flu. Mark said he found the same thing when he had this flu, and afterward I remembered reading another friend's facebook status about being turned off coffee while she had the flu.

The Buddy Wasisname concert was great, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I had no idea they were such talented musicians, in addition to being very funny. I don't think their humour would translate well if I tried to explain it, or share any of their jokes though, so I won't even try. Suffice to say that if they come your way, you should go see them. I posted a youtube video I found of one of their songs a while ago in this entry. Alas, they didn't play it during the concert, but here are a couple that they did play. (I just found the videos on youtube, I didn't make them.)