I don't understand how anyone can get addicted to pain killers.  I HATE being on pain killers; it's really messing up my blood sugar and my internal thermostat and the dizziness is unbelievable.  At least the pain is finally getting better.  My vicodin says to take every 4-6 hours, as needed, for pain.  Wednesday and Thursday, I was needing another one at three hours, that last hour was agony.  Yesterday, I was needing one at 4 hours.  This morning, at pain-pill time, I was feeling all right and thought I'd go without.  I reconsidered about half an hour later, but that was better than yesterday.  I was due for another pain pill about 45 minutes ago.  I'm just now feeling like I need one, but I'm going to try to tough it out another 15 minutes.
Really, I cannot wait for this to be over.

Last pictures from the last week of faire, and then it's back to mundane crap:

HAD to take a picture with the King when I was in nobles.

Look, it's the assassin showing some compassion after one of his hits!

And these three are just up to trouble.  You can tell.  Look, they've even got a bloody map!