Yo, McUne! A Blog Anniversary MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The Banana Pudding put me in mind of the book series by Jan Karon. Ever heard of them, swampy? I’ve been enjoying the audio books read by John McDonald.

gotti, sure sounds like back surgery has come a long way. My poor mother had two disc operations and a spinal fusion–all of which were physically devastating–back in the day. She would have cried tears of gratitude for the techniques of today. I know you are worried about the expense, but your health is worth it.

muppet’s back! Yay! :smiley:

Very bad Don Juannas this morning. Oh, and we’re at 47 degrees Murkin. :frowning:

Tupug

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groooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooan

:dubious:

If that’s not a bad dad joke, I don’t know what is.

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My work is done. :wink:

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I’m back! I haven’t read yet, but I was sure you were all missing me so much that I thought I’d better check in first. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I know my health is worth it, but I just wonder how grumpy the phone company, mortgage and car loan people will be when they find out that they’re not getting paid. The novelty of being a one-income family has worn off.

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I took a Benadryl to help me sleep last night. I’m still groggy. It’s still better than a night of no sleep.

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I hope I didn’t sound like I was up on my high horse. Sorry, if I did. Can you arrange payments with the hospital? If you can spread it out, it might be more doable.

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Nope- no blood test. They wanted to do a blood draw but the lab techs were so frickin’ useless that by the time they had tried five times to stick the syringe in without success, HRH was so distressed (not to mention bloody) that she was screaming and retching. We then got diverted to the Nursery, where a paediatric nurse was going to do it, but she got side-tracked by the arrival of a passel of newborns, so we finally gave up in frustration and disgust and went home.

And I second the slap with raw chitlins! If Brown University actually employs that woman in some capacity, then I don’t have much respect for your Ivy League!

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'Ullo all. I have a case of the blues today. Nice day out. Tried to work in the garden a bit (that usually helps) but it’s too muddy.

Have you ever had to do something that you really, really don’t want to do? (of course you have-duh). I don’t have a choice in doing it, but I do have a choice in how I feel about it, right? Well, that line of logic is not working on me today. I really, really don’t want to continue in my nurse job. I’d give a lot to call and quit today. But I can’t.
Gah–I’m not fit for company today. Toodles.

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I had my lower-left molar pulled this morning; I broke a huge chunk off of it about ten days ago, this was the first appointment I could get. The tooth was a PITA to extract, VERY strong roots, and in spite of four syringes of Novacaine it still hurt. I’m on Oxycodone now, achy and sore and more or less hating life. Oh, and the tooth sort of shattered when the oral surgeon was trying to pull it, cuz it already had a big cavity and was weak. Joy.

So yeah, a fun afternoon of gauze-changing, pill-popping, hurting, and wasting time on the internet for me.

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Whew! I think I’m caught up.

Happy (now very belated) birthday to HRH. And glad she doesn’t have ricketts but yeesh, what idiots you had to deal with!

Good luck with figuring out the back surgery, gotti, but it does sound like it’ll make things better in the long run.

Good luck on the blog, Muppet! If you don’t mind sharing it’s location, I know I’d love to follow. If you don’t want to post to everyone, PM me. (I haven’t posted my blog here 'cause it’s a different username and I don’t want this one and that one linked so I can understand anyone who feels the same!)

Um… I think I wanted to say something to **gt **too, but I don’t remember what. Oh well… if nothing else, hope your throat feels better.

I’ve experienced how smart and persistent Bengals can be, FCM. I’m just glad ours was a little runt of a bengal, not a full-sized one.

Quick summary of my long weekend: Really good visits with Mom and Dad, my godmother, 2 friends from RPI and their wives, a friend from MHC, 4 people that I was in chorus with about 7 years ago, a bunch of people from my old church, and 3 people from my old job. However, it involved driving from Albany (where I flew in and out of) to the suburbs of Boston, which was awful. It rained almost all weekend, there was fog, there was lightening that struck the side of the road right next to my car, there was snow, and there was WIND. And I had an awful little Chevy Aveo that blew all over the frickin road. So really good visit but really bad driving.

Since I got in late Monday night, I took Tuesday off work too. So I made the maple cheesecake that somebody or other (Soul Brother I think) linked to from here ages ago. I didn’t finish until late last night, though, so we won’t get to try it until dinner tonight. And I made spanikopita for dinner last night (boy, I’d like to be a stay-at-home-wife who could just cook all the time and make dinner like that on a weeknight any time I wanted!), which turned out fantastic. No recipe, sorry. Just layers of phyllo with butter on them and filled with spinach, feta, and a little egg. Well, and garlic and onion powder mixed into the filling. That’s it. Easy but it takes a while to put all those layers together. But it was sooooooo good.

Where’s LiLi this week?

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AYYIIEEE!! Ow!

If I’d known ahead of time, and if you were in the area, I’d have pointed you at a former dentist of mine. When he pulled my wisdom teeth, he stared at the x-rays for a while, then used a saw to cut them into chunks, enabling him to curl the pieces out of my gums rather than just ripping up a bunch of flesh. OTOH, the teeth were not ravaged by deep cavities, so it’s quite possible that your unpleasant outcome was as good as anyone could ever hope for without involving general anaesthesia and intensive oral surgery.

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::waves to everyone, then goes surfing::

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Whew - what a day! I got to work early and set about doing my power pointing. Got it all done in reasonable order well before my presentation. I showed up in the conference room, pulled up the slides, only to be told that it wasn’t supposed to be slides - I was supposed to use the actual product. :rolleyes: So I pulled that up, and we went thru it section by section.

The main issues were with some of my wording, which I expected. There were a couple of other things about the images and maps I needed to modify. The meeting ended at noon. I went back to my desk with my notes, grabbed my lunch, and by 2:30-ish, I’d made all the changes and sent the link to all the meeting participants. Go me.

My branch head and my team leads all said I done good. I didn’t think it was that big a deal, but I’ll take it. My boss IM’d me afterwards and said he’d certify my time card this week since I actually earned my pay. I replied: “HAH! Fooled you! I bought the presentation on EBay!” :smiley: I love my boss.

Ran by WalMart on the way home to get critter grub and some jeans for my sweetie and assorted stuff. Then I took my fambly out for Bad Chinese because I didn’t feel like cooking. So now we’re home. I’m gonna toss our unders in the washer. Then knit.

Hugs to you sickies. I kinda skimmed what you all wrote - I get heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. But I’m sympathetic.

Still waitin’ for Firday. <sigh>

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Well… I’ve got the surgery scheduled for next Wednesday. In theory, exactly one week from now, I should be feeling wonderful.

Interestingly, it’s not going to be done at a hospital, but instead, I’ll be going to a “surgery center” - a place that does nothing but outpatient surgery, so they don’t have the overhead of wards full of beds, CT and MRI scanners, cafeterias, and legions of 24/7 staffing. Theoretically, this makes it cheaper. Don’t know if that’s true or not yet.

I do know that I’m supposed to pay them that day. Apparently not having an army of billing people also makes them cheaper. But, I Just. Want. To. Know. What. It’s. Going. To. Cost.

Again though, the nice people at the doctor’s office are amazingly nice. I owe her a box of cookies or something for all of the time she’s spent on the phone with me, and how she has never seemed the slightest bit rushed or trying to get rid of me.

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if anyone is intersted - here are some photos from Competition Weekend

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Evening, everybody. I have read all and comprehended nothing. In my defense, though, I saw my pain doc yesterday and we’ve switched my medicine regimen, from just short-term stuff to taking a long-acting pill twice a day and adding short-acting on top of it if I need it. Not only have I not needed the short-acting stuff today, but I have been insanely groggy and totally spacey. From just one long-term pill. :rolleyes: I certainly hope this doesn’t continue, I was too woozy to even try driving today, didn’t want to kill everyone out there on the road! Anyway, we shall see. But if this means I can take a lot less meds and still keep my bad foot under control, I’m all for it.

I just bought Papa Tigs a ticket for one of tomorrow’s two Frozen Four (college hockey) semifinals tomorrow, which is at the Verizon Center in DC. as a very slightly belated anniversary gift (our anniversary was last Friday, lucky 13). Apparently three of the four teams in this year’s Frozen Four are thoroughly unexpected, so there’s a lot of tickets available at very good prices. What he doesn’t know is that if the team he’s going to see wins, I’m going to buy him a box seat for the Saturday finals. Don’t anybody tell him, now! He’s a really, really hard guy to get gifts for, so I am thrilled that I can not only get him a gift I know he wants, but it’s to his favorite college sporting event (him being an old hockey player – he even started college on a hockey scholarship, then destroyed his ankle after one semester).

Anyway, so about all I’ve done today is, in terms of gainful employment, one short super-rush job, and then other than that not very damn much. Started a lace scarf for one of my nieces as a graduation present (two sisters graduating, one from college, one from law school, in May), did two rows, screwed it up, ripped it out. So I’m back to finishing a boring sock since there’s far less chance I’ll screw that up. And that’s about all I’m mentally capable of today. Well, except zoning out a lot. And acting really spacey.

Hugs, yays, boos, etc. as appropriate! Oh, I did retain one thing – wet raw chitlins sound perfect for slapping purposes. Ewwww, but perfect.

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Aww, hugs to Moonie and hoping that you’re feeling some better, although I must confess that I had to just skim your post–it sounded evilly painful. :frowning: And Gotti, I’m keeping you in my healing thought patterns (lol yes, such a thing exists for me :)), esp. next Wednesday.

Taxi, I wish you’d come & cook for me! LOL Especially that spanakopita, it sounds wickedly delicious. :slight_smile: Please let us know how your cheesecake turned out. I remember SoulBrother’s recipe sounding ultra rich.

FCM, that Taz is indeed the devil! And he must have et up the rest of the critter food, eh, since you had to get some more this evening. :wink: Glad to hear that your presentation turned out well. :slight_smile:

Yes, one day closer to FIRDAY…

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Thanks for the good wishes for my throat… It’s not feeling worse, but also not better. Stayed home from book club because of it. I’m thinking I won’t be going to my brother’s on Sunday, either.

Sorry the work stuff is so sucky, rigs. Any chance of additional library work? I haven’t posted in your thread yet, but the trip to Iceland sounds like lots of fun.

Good wishes on the surgery, gotti. Surgery centers are pretty common. The part that amuses me is that a whole lot of them are owned by hospitals. (I think the one where rigs works is, for instance.)

Glad to have you back, taxi. I was wondering when you’d be back. Sounds like you had a fun time. I think LiLi is taking the week off from the internet (it’s the last week of Lent). She mentioned in her blog that she was thinking about it.

I’ll be following your blog, too, Muppet.

Tooth stuff sounds icky, Moonie. Hope everything’s better real soon.

I’m knitting and watching stuff on hulu and on German TV (not at the same time :p). And sipping hot chocolate because I’m tired of tea.

There was more, but I’ve forgotten what…

Hugs…

GT

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If you haven’t checked out the video in this thread, you should. It’s really fun.