Please Excuse My Dust…
Well, removing the non-working twitter widget from my site has had dire consequences. First the site wasn’t working, now it is working but all my cool stuff is missing. I think now is as good a time as any to change the look around here, so stand by while I try to get ahold of my computer guru and set things right.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (5)The Road To Recovery Has Expensive Toll Booths
Okay, so it turns out I didn’t have a hurt tailbone, I had a cyst right next to it that made it FEEL like I had a hurt tailbone. When the ring of swelling reached 6 inches across and I took to crying between my massive doses of ibuprofen, I let my mom take my insurance-less butt to the doctor. It was a majorly sucky procedure that hurt like hell even with all the narcotics they injected into me, but today I am feeling much better. I can walk! I can sit*! Of course, I’m sure the Percocet has something to do with it, but still… I am much relieved, and looking forward to sleeping on my back again.
The bad news is this will probably happen again unless I have surgery to remove the cyst. Luckily I should have health insurance by then, so no big deal. God, I do not want to see that ER bill. I’d be willing to bet it’s well over $1000. Seriously, why couldn’t my ass wait another week to break? Typical.
Well at least I get to take a few days off work. My sister put a vase full of roses on my night stand and this morning when I woke up I couldn’t see my alarm clock to tell what time it was, and you know what? I didn’t care. It was amazing.
*if you define “sit” as perching on the edge of the sofa with my elbows on my knees
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Coccydynia
Well, I have somehow managed to seriously injure my butt. My tailbone is throbbing, red, and swollen, and it feels a bit like having a golf ball implanted in your crack. The worst thing is, I have ZERO idea how I even did this. And hey, guess what… you need your tailbone to do a surprisingly vast array of daily activities! Such as:
- Sitting
- Walking
- Picking things up off the floor
- Laying on your back
- Driving
- Climbing Stairs
Betcha didn’t know that, did you? The pain is tolerable as long as I have plenty of ibuprofen coursing through my veins, but if it wears off I’m suddenly transformed into the functional equivalent of a 78-year-old who just got a hip replacement. I’m just so baffled! Last time I injured my tailbone it wasn’t nearly this bad and I freaking knew when it happened, so how the hell did this happen without me noticing? My only theory at this point is that I’m a sleepwalker and one night I went to the kitchen, finished off the bottle of Jameson, tripped over the rug and fell on my ass. Seems like sound logic, no?
Well if you’ll excuse me, it’s time to put another package of frozen corn in my underwear.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Site News: More Books!
Hi faithful readers (hahahahaaaa oh that’s a good one!). In case anyone is interested, I’ve added another bookshelf widget that shows the 3 most recent books I’ve read. You can click the words “my library” in the widget to see my rating on these books and a review (if I decide to write one, which, let’s be honest, I usually don’t, but I’m trying to be better about it).
Vacation was wonderful, and the first time I’ve managed to read an entire book in under a week since… God only knows. On Thursday it was just me, a papasan chair, and Harry Potter, and it was fantastic. I need more days like that.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)New Apartment-ness
Ok, I am going to be late for work, but I found this tool on my new apartment’s website that lets you place your furniture in the floor plan and there was no tearing me away. Side note: I had already drawn my furniture on the paper floor plan brochure I got, but apparently I think my sofa is 10 feet by 4 feet because my drawing took up way more space than the virtual sofa.
So, here are some photos of the community, along with my proposed furniture arrangement!
