| phil and i have had an exceptionally great day together. i love being married to him and all the joy that comes from sharing my life with him. thank you Lord, for phil. i woke up this morning at 5:30 with immense chest and upper back pain. i got up, walked around, took an aleve, tried laying flat on my back on the floor, adjusted my pillows back laying on the bed, looked in the phone book for a 24 hour urgent medical center around here, tossed and turned, and fought the tears of pain from my eyes. finally at 7:00 i gave in and woke phil up to bring me to the doctor to make sure that it was nothing serious. the dr. checked me all out and even did an EKG to check my heart. he told me it was just a virus in the lining of my ribcage that would go away in time and that i should continue to take aleve, drink lots of fluids, and rest. he also said that if the pain got worse in the next few days, i should go to the ER to make sure i dont have an infection in the lining of my heart or lungs. by that point the aleve had started to work and the pain was much less intense PTL. i felt bad asking phil to bring me to the dr and sit out in the waiting room for an hour to get back those results (basically, nothing is the problem, and there is nothing else you can do, so deal with the pain!) but he was great about it. we came back and ate some cereal while watching without a trace. then we took a good 3 hour nap. it was so nice to sleep painlessly. when we woke up, we decided to finish Christmas shopping after lounging around lazily for a while. what a nice treat to have a relaxing day (minus the episode this morning) with no commitments to have to think about (although phil was supposed to rehearse at church today for the Christmas program which is tomorrow, but he opted not to participate and to stay home and take care of his poor sick wife). so we went out to best buy, woodland mall, guitar center, world market, best buy again (we had forgotten to look at digital cameras the first time and we decided to purchase one!!), golden wok to order some chinese food, meijer, picked up the chinese food, and came home. we ate our yummy dinner and watched another without a trace. then we checked out the digital camera, info and prices on line, and found one for $75 less so we headed back out to best buy (for the third time today) to return our camera. how disappointing, yet exciting, as $75 is a lot of money. phil convinced me that it was ok for us to purchase this camera as he knows i have wanted one for a really long time and he is getting a nice christmas gift that he has wanted for a while so he figured it was something i could get. i decided it could be our gift for each other as it would be something we would both use im sure.  when we got home, i guess we were still in the Christmas mood from shopping, so we decided to exchange another early Christmas gift. we had already exchanged one gift a week and a half ago (he gave me the dvd white christmas and i got him a christmas ornament of a frog holding a heart that says my prince). we took a couple pictures by the tree and then phil gave me my present- a beautiful new fossil watch (that he picked out all by himself)! for those of you that know me well, this was a very momentous occasion for me! i received my old watch for a high school graduation gift from a certain someone not worth mentioning here. it has been decaying or rusting or something for a while and it irritates my skin. needless to say, i had a huge grin on my face as i opened this wonderful gift. phil opened his gift from me and we laughed that the hugo cologne was as much a gift to me as it was for him as i adore this scent on phil. gifts are certainly fun at this time of the year, but again, i reflect on the true reason for the season- the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Thank you Lord, for the birth of this little, Almighty and Powerful baby! now we are just being lazy again. phil is playing his guitar and we are going to watch some more episodes of without a trace. wendy is borrowing the dvds over break, so we have to finish watching the season. i applaud you if you made it all the way through this entry. i realize it is quite lengthy, but i guess that is just the sort of mood that i am in tonight. happy 6 days until Christmas!! 
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Saturday, December 18, 2004
Christmas Shopping
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