I am such an idiot. This morning while I was getting into the shower without being quite awake I thought I saw a huge spider in the shower with me! Normally, spiders don't freak me out but I don't want one around when I am naked, lol. So I freaked and tried to swat at the darn thing without twisting my knee in the shower. Whack! Whack! The spider skitted away as soon as I looked at it. Turns out? It was just a little eye floater. No wonder I couldn't quite focus on the "spider"!
LOL - that's all I need to do in the week before my surgery. Fall in the shower while trying to kill an imaginary spider that isn't there!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Today I Get My Hair Butchered. Really.
My new hair salon is in the same building as my butcher. Tres convenient if you ask me!
Monday, September 10, 2007
One week from today...
Next Monday, the 17th, I am having knee surgery. I have both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, which really started kicking me in the knees this Spring. I had x-rays a couple of weeks ago and the doctors determined that my left knee was "surgical". I could have got by with steroid injections for a while, but since your knee cartilage doesn't grow back I opted to just go ahead and get a new knee!
I am told that the surgery takes about an hour, with a spinal block instead of general anesthesia. They make a 5 - 6 inch incision in the front of your knee, replace the joint and sew you back up. They put you on some kind of motion machine afterwards that keeps flexing your knee while you lie there for some hours in pain-killer/sedative heaven. The next day you start walking (with support) under the steely eyes of a neo-nazi therapist who tortures you regularly for the next two or three days, then you get to go home and take the motion machine with you for about a week.
I am generally happy to be having the surgery because my darn knee has started to hurt like a summabitch and if I turn suddenly with all my weight on it it sometimes gives out and staggers me, like when I fell down in front of Humpty Dumpty. So yay for a new knee! Then again, turns out I was quite fond of my old knee. So I have some ambivilent feelings too.
I am bummed because this means I will not be driving up to North Bay to meet Lightz and Bravey and Breezy in a couple of weeks, but glad that I did not make reservations (which Tom and I almost did!) to go to Jamaica in October with two other couples. I want to get the surgery over before winter so I won't have to deal with snow & ice and coats & gloves while I am up on canes or crutches or whatever the fuck it is I will need for a while.
I am told that the surgery takes about an hour, with a spinal block instead of general anesthesia. They make a 5 - 6 inch incision in the front of your knee, replace the joint and sew you back up. They put you on some kind of motion machine afterwards that keeps flexing your knee while you lie there for some hours in pain-killer/sedative heaven. The next day you start walking (with support) under the steely eyes of a neo-nazi therapist who tortures you regularly for the next two or three days, then you get to go home and take the motion machine with you for about a week.
I am generally happy to be having the surgery because my darn knee has started to hurt like a summabitch and if I turn suddenly with all my weight on it it sometimes gives out and staggers me, like when I fell down in front of Humpty Dumpty. So yay for a new knee! Then again, turns out I was quite fond of my old knee. So I have some ambivilent feelings too.
I am bummed because this means I will not be driving up to North Bay to meet Lightz and Bravey and Breezy in a couple of weeks, but glad that I did not make reservations (which Tom and I almost did!) to go to Jamaica in October with two other couples. I want to get the surgery over before winter so I won't have to deal with snow & ice and coats & gloves while I am up on canes or crutches or whatever the fuck it is I will need for a while.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
And He's Back
All partied out and suffering from chat fatigue. But he had a good time. A few of his old teammates showed up, and he figured out that one of his classmates is now married to his cousin - because they both said goodbye to the same Uncle George on saturday afternoon! No old girlfriends made an appearance.
They ate at the old school hangout, went to the old swimming hole and drank at some local bars that didn't used to let them in. They also had a tour of the old high school, natch. Tom was very surprised and pleased to see that his State All-Star plaque was still hanging on the wall! So he got pictures of himself posing by it. Pretty amazing! After 40 years things like that tend to get mothballed. Of course, he went to a small school so they have had only a few state all-stars. (I didn't even know he had his own plaque on the wall!) Best yet? Someone had a film from channel 7 of him playing basketball in high school! He promised to send us a copy. That would be such fun - to see baby Tom running up and down the court in his 60s basketball shorts. It must have been one of the more significant (all-star!) games for the TV station to save the footage for a while. I am so looking forward to seeing that!
They ate at the old school hangout, went to the old swimming hole and drank at some local bars that didn't used to let them in. They also had a tour of the old high school, natch. Tom was very surprised and pleased to see that his State All-Star plaque was still hanging on the wall! So he got pictures of himself posing by it. Pretty amazing! After 40 years things like that tend to get mothballed. Of course, he went to a small school so they have had only a few state all-stars. (I didn't even know he had his own plaque on the wall!) Best yet? Someone had a film from channel 7 of him playing basketball in high school! He promised to send us a copy. That would be such fun - to see baby Tom running up and down the court in his 60s basketball shorts. It must have been one of the more significant (all-star!) games for the TV station to save the footage for a while. I am so looking forward to seeing that!
Friday, September 07, 2007
Home Alone
Almost. Mr Swami is about to leave for the wilds of Wisconsin and his 40th high school reunion. He should get back sometime late Saturday unless he gets drunk or something. I don't want any somethings.
His graduating class was not very large - maybe 80 people? So who knows how many will actually show up for the event. I am only worried about one. Mr. Swami said that if a certain blue-eyed Miss Cutiepants who he lusted for all through high school (a) shows up, (b) looks good and (c) wants him bad he may have to do her just to appease the adolescent Mr. Swami who lives inside him. I'm kind of hoping that if she does show up it is with her husband and 8 kids. She must have a husband and 8 kids by now - right?
What should I do while Mr Swami is reliving his youth?
His graduating class was not very large - maybe 80 people? So who knows how many will actually show up for the event. I am only worried about one. Mr. Swami said that if a certain blue-eyed Miss Cutiepants who he lusted for all through high school (a) shows up, (b) looks good and (c) wants him bad he may have to do her just to appease the adolescent Mr. Swami who lives inside him. I'm kind of hoping that if she does show up it is with her husband and 8 kids. She must have a husband and 8 kids by now - right?
What should I do while Mr Swami is reliving his youth?
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Happy Bosch Day!
Today I get my new dishwasher! *hops*
It's an all-black Bosch, with a tall tub and an adjustable height upper rack. Super quiet! I'm in love with an appliance, lol. When we did some work on our kitchen in '98 and '99 we kept the old dishwasher hoping to get maybe 5 more years out of her. And she lasted another 8 or 9 - but now it is time to pull the plug and send the noisy, malfunctioning old thing to Appliance Heaven.
Warners Stellian guys will be here between 11:45 and 2:45. *hops*
Do you love your dishwasher? Hate it? Have servants for that sort of thing?
It's an all-black Bosch, with a tall tub and an adjustable height upper rack. Super quiet! I'm in love with an appliance, lol. When we did some work on our kitchen in '98 and '99 we kept the old dishwasher hoping to get maybe 5 more years out of her. And she lasted another 8 or 9 - but now it is time to pull the plug and send the noisy, malfunctioning old thing to Appliance Heaven.
Warners Stellian guys will be here between 11:45 and 2:45. *hops*
Do you love your dishwasher? Hate it? Have servants for that sort of thing?
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Things To Do Today
1. Make a bunch of medical appointments
2. Make appointment to get hair cut. I'm going to a new place called Hair Afflair. Why do haircutting salons always have such hard to remember exactly names? (I am going to this place based solely on the fact that it looks "nice" through the window. I am sick of Aveda & may favorite person there left (again) - so I am going somewhere new.) (And? I'm going to go short.)
3. Renew a prescription (ed. - done).
4. Buy a bunch of glow sticks online. Get sidetracked and order assorted useless Halloween stuff online. This happens everytime so I know I will be buying this random stuff soon. I'm a sucker for the macabre.
5. Return DVD Disturbia. I finally saw it!
6. Go to Barnes & Noble and use my coupon before it expires.
7. Do some workity-work PDF carp.
8. Collect my prize from Bravie. Oh - wait. I didn't win.
9. Go to JoAnne Fabrics and just wander around until my knee hurts. (Is this a local store? It has a similar inventory to Michaels but fewer lame kits of stuff, more general variety, and lots of fabrics. I don't sew anymore but if I did this is where I would go. They have every craft item I want. And it is in the same mall as B&N so I must go there just for the efficiency factor.
10. Write a nice note to Monsty. She nice, the Monstah.
2. Make appointment to get hair cut. I'm going to a new place called Hair Afflair. Why do haircutting salons always have such hard to remember exactly names? (I am going to this place based solely on the fact that it looks "nice" through the window. I am sick of Aveda & may favorite person there left (again) - so I am going somewhere new.) (And? I'm going to go short.)
3. Renew a prescription (ed. - done).
4. Buy a bunch of glow sticks online. Get sidetracked and order assorted useless Halloween stuff online. This happens everytime so I know I will be buying this random stuff soon. I'm a sucker for the macabre.
5. Return DVD Disturbia. I finally saw it!
6. Go to Barnes & Noble and use my coupon before it expires.
7. Do some workity-work PDF carp.
8. Collect my prize from Bravie. Oh - wait. I didn't win.
9. Go to JoAnne Fabrics and just wander around until my knee hurts. (Is this a local store? It has a similar inventory to Michaels but fewer lame kits of stuff, more general variety, and lots of fabrics. I don't sew anymore but if I did this is where I would go. They have every craft item I want. And it is in the same mall as B&N so I must go there just for the efficiency factor.
10. Write a nice note to Monsty. She nice, the Monstah.
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