Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

Just an area for what I’m doing on an everyday basis.

My Toes Looks Like Sausages!!!

I’m here with my feet propped on pillows in bed, lap top, while listening to my first audio book……toes swollen and looking like little Vienna sausages…..icks I have pics, but the camera and download adapter is in the office…lol

My feet are bandaged up and in boots. For the next 2 days I’m only suppose to get up to go potty. My left foot hurts more then the right..I knew that my left was worst then the right so I figured that was it. My doctor just called and confirmed it, said the right took 8 min while the left took about 11….said it was much more scarred up and “grisly” so it is going to heal and be better, but it will take a lot more longer then my right. =( We’ll know more when we go to see him next week.

I like our foot doctor, I just really wish he had been our primary care doctor. He is very helpful and explains things very well and funny. He did have some cautious news. When I got blood work done, my blood sugar was higher then it should be and all I had that day was my wheaties/oat bran mix with bananas with 2% milk. So I’m going to call the lab and have them send the results to my primary doctor. I’ve known that blood sugar issues were a possiblity with my family issue, then there is the family history of heart problems. That is why I’ve tried to exercise and watch my weight….but with my feet I haven’t been able to that and then the steroids he put me on…icks!!!! I’m not a happy camper. I can’t wait to be able to do some sort of calorie burning exercise without crying.

We are putting ice packs on my legs to help with the swelling. It has been very helpful, they just don’t stay cold as long as I would like. They say I should do it for only 15min every hour, but with the swelling I like them longer.

Harold has been so good to helping me. I’m trying not to ask for much very often. It is one thing to help out, but I’m too independent to being waited on….I just don’t have the choice. Harold did get me out of bedroom. =) For dinner he brought me my office chair and rolled me into the office. It was nice.

I’m trying to find the balance of propping my feet up without hurting my knees by angles created by me sitting up at the same time……I’ll figure it out.

I have no idea how I’m going to clean up other then a sponge bath. I am thinking of just sitting on the floor of the shower with my feet out of the shower taped up in plastic bags, cause there is no way I’m going with out cleaning…..I’m a clean freak.

I know I should have gotten some work done, I’ve had my lap top….but screw it, I don’t get chance to chill out day very often.

Sandi called to check on me, so did Melinda…..then ended up talking to dad……I left a message for mom. That was cool.

This is too funny :

Hitting Below the Belt

The wagging finger is a commonly used insult in Australia, often leveled at drivers of monster SUVs or expensive sports cars to suggest their vehicles are compensating for a deficiency elsewhere.

**I love it!!!

Bush won’t rule out full Libby pardon

**This pisses me off!!!!! There is no accountability with this administration. What a liar!

That is all for the day…..move on, move on…………grin

Sandy Nails

The Day Before

It has been slow at work, for lack of a better word.  We are all caught up and have no big projects until next week.  We are trying to get a head, but it is hard to be motivated.  I’m so use to the go-go feel.

I’ve officially stepped down and turned over my keys to the new manager Saturday……boy does it feel weird not to be able to have access to everything when needed.  I’m kind a in limbo.  The reason why I stepped down was to get more time at home to get things done with my online projects.  If it wasn’t for that, I would stay in my position until I quit.  Even though I’m no longer a “manager” I still have some of the “powers” so I can help out and my boss still confers with me.  =)  So that helps to stay useful.  I’ve always been a hands on manager, working a long side my associates, but I’m also so use to delegating a lot and working on “manager” things.  So it is a weird kind of limbo I’m existing in.

I talked to the surgery center today….no jewelry of any kind, make up, loose clothing, and no food, water, mints, meds…not a thing after midnight.  Which sucks in the fact that I’m one that really needs her breakfast in the morning.  =(  On a positive note, I was able to keep my nails and still use my dark eye popping colors….so I got a fill and a pedicure….I went with turquoise and pink.  I was in a greenish type of mood.  =)  I keep missing with my fingers……so use to having my rings.

I’m so not looking forward to them poking me tomorrow looking for a vein.  Then there is the drugs that they use to knock me out…..oh well, if my feet are hell lot better off…..

I have a ton of work I need to attack.  See you on the other side.

Kitten

Above the Law.

Bush commutes Libby’s prison sentence

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/libby.sentence/index.html
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Yes I know, Bush has the right, but give me a break, once again this administration is not being held accountable for its own actions.

Scooter must have been ready to spill some major beans…

How Do I Feel?: enraged enraged

Ugh… kill me

I feel like total shit. I have been having some stress issues for a while, mostly migraines, but they are happening more often then ever, and there is no sign of relief anytime soon so I just need to just deal with it for another 3 months.

Today I started to get another migraine, so I did my usual and took the “Excedrin migraine” and tried to chill out, but that for some reason this didn’t work at all and it got much worse, so bad for the second time in 2 years I actually vomited from a migraine.

So from about 5 PM to 9:30 PM I was in pure hell, the room was spinning; I was boiling hot but cold at the same time and just wanted to die. I ended up lying on the office floor for about 2.5 hours until I was ready to sit in a chair again. So I sat in my chair and watched the rest of “Heat”… Man I love that movie, and the idea of Pacino and De Niro making another film together and this time BOTH will be on the screen at the same time makes me drool.

It’s 12:58 AM and I am much better but still queasy, but will stay up another hour or so to get past this feeling some more before I try to crash.

Hope everyone else’s Saturday night went better.

How Do I Feel?: sick

Nothing new really to report here.

Just been stressing over life and the upcoming summer and the current news of deaths of people I have met isn’t helping. I go to the local news online where I grew up every so often, but rarely do I click on the obituaries, but for some reason I did today and I see a guy I went to school with was killed Monday in a car wreck, so I personally knew 2 people whose lives ended Monday and 3rd in the past 5 days.

Matt was a cool guy, my age, very laid back, always wore blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a jean jacket, he and I had a lot of laughs together in class and a few times outside of school, we did hang in different crowds but I did like him, he was 4-5“ taller then me which was rare in HS and he was a white guy whose air was naturally curly, so when it grew out, it was totally a fro which in the late ‘80s wasn’t the “cool thing” but he didn’t care, he had a fro, which for a Indiana hick in the late 80’s was pretty daring.

So I have been spending too much time thinking of the past this week, way too much time, and when you think of the past, odds are it will make you think of death, so I have had death on my mind WAY too much as well and I am pretty sure I have other things I need to focus on.

I ran some test on a stupid side project I want to do, so I needed to test the power capabilities of a few items while they was plugged into a power outlet in the car, so last night I run these test, see what I wanted to see, unplugged it from the truck, turn off the truck and come inside. Today, Pauline tries to go to work and finds a completely dead battery. Thankfully we have AAA and they came out to jump it for free, but the kid told me the battery was shot, so I now had to drop off a already hour late Pauline to work and drive to Sears which is in the bad traffic part of town during lunch hour.

Road rage was close to happing, since I got cut off twice once by a woman who was in a left turn lane when she decide she wanted to cut me off and get in front of me, but I was at a red light, so she forced herself into front of me but kept the back of her truck in the left turn lane and I got to sit there watching this fool sit on her ass blocking traffic and chat on a cell as at least 3 cars behind me was honking their horns for the full 2 minutes it took for my light to go green… 4 horns if you count mine.

Turned out the battery test ok, but this is where it gets interesting, I know we had a Diehard battery, Toni knows we had a Diehard battery… the battery in the truck wasn’t a Diehard battery…. Hmmm…… so where in the last 7 years has this battery gone? Anyway, since we both thought we had a Diehard I spent the $109 to get a Diehard. Everything else looked ok, and hopefully when it is time to go pick Pauline up, it will start… in fact, let me go test it. Yep, starts, at least something went right today.

How Do I Feel?: blah blah