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| Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 | |
| 11:24 pm | Well, that's one way to get here Hello all! Long time, no post (well, on my end anyhow.) I have lots of life stories I could share, but instead I will post about a package Amazon is sending me. Fortunately, this isn't something that's a gift and that I need before Sunday. Although since I have Amazon Prime & free two-day delivery & ordered it on Tuesday, you would think I would have it by then. But here's the tracking report from UPS: December 21, 2011 07:58:39 PM US Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit December 21, 2011 09:33:00 AM Phoenix AZ US Shipment received by carrier December 22, 2011 08:30:00 AM Phoenix AZ US Departure Scan December 22, 2011 02:22:00 PM Orlando FL US Arrival Scan December 22, 2011 02:46:00 PM Orlando FL US Departure Scan December 22, 2011 03:02:00 PM Orlando FL US Arrival Scan December 22, 2011 08:30:00 PM Orlando FL US Departure Scan December 22, 2011 08:47:00 PM Orlando FL US Arrival Scan December 22, 2011 10:36:00 PM Orlando FL US Departure Scan December 23, 2011 12:33:00 AM Louisville KY US Arrival Scan Arizona to Florida to Kentucky? It seems like the package may make a tour of all the great UPS hubs before someone decides to send it to California (where I imagine it will spend time in Oakland & Sacramento before heading south). |
| Thursday, July 28th, 2011 | |
| 2:19 pm | Gizmo & trip update Gizmo is recovering (after some minor, expensive scares caused primarily by my paranoia.) He had what I guess is an uncommon, but not rare, complication where he had a reaction to the internal sutures & some fluid built up under the incision, making his belly very hard & distended. Naturally, I choose the day his vet's office was closed to get frantic about it, so we went to the all-care facility at 8pm on Wednesday. After doing both an ultrasound & and xray, they decided it was a fluid sac (although there was talk about the intestines appearing to be dropping to the incision) & drained it with the recommendation that the fluids be sent off to be cultured. I agreed & paid 500 dollars for all the work. On Friday the belly was distended & I'd convinced myself that maybe the intestines were coming through the incision, so I took him to his regular vet. Who immediately diagnosed the problem & drained the fluid & explained that once the internal sutures dissolve, the fluids should reabsorb into his body & it was rather like a blister. There was no charge for that visit & he said anytime I felt the belly was getting too distended I could bring him in for the no-charge 10 minute procedure to drain the fluid sac. Fortunately (since Gizmo was really hating the every-other-day trips to the vet), it never got as big & is fact now back to normal. There's even hair growing on the weird looking area of the incision that I was seeing as intestines, so I'm less worried that I'm going to wake up one day & find Gizmo walking around with cat innards poring out of him. I made my reservations for my sub-trip up to Glasgow to see my relatives while in the U.K. And today I actually looked at the reservations & found that I'd managed to make the first flight for Tuesday the 16th when I don't arrive in England until the 19th. Doh! It turned out to be cheaper to just book a one-way for the correct day (the 19th) rather than try to change the original reservation. Hopefully UK equivalent of Homeland Security won't get too suspicious of my having two reservations in one week for London to Heathrow without any return flight in between ;-). Anyhow, I'm going to be in Scotland from the afternoon of the 19th until the 23rd, when I fly back to London for a few days. I've decided that I'll probably spend most of my time in England just exploring London, since I feel like I could do that for weeks without getting bored (although going broke is a definite possibility ;-). But I swear - the next time I do England, I'm visiting at least two or three areas that I've read about but never seen - do a Jane Austen or Shakespeare or Beatles pilgrimmage, or visit random castles & such. With the way Congress is dithering towards default, I'm glad most of my trip has been paid for up front. I probably should look into finding someone who can exchange money this weekend & get a few hundred dollars worth of pounds now. I dread what the exchange rate will be by the time of the actual trip if the nitwits have their way (I think the tea-party idiots are operating under the belief that default wouldn't really hurt anything except Obama's reputation and therefore would be a good thing.) |
| Saturday, July 9th, 2011 | |
| 1:04 pm | Desert holiday, cat-astrophes, and an appalling lack of planning So a lot has happened since I last posted - but not much in the way of planning for my August UK holiday. Thank God for Amanda & Christine - otherwise I would have nothing figured out for August. I'm currently thinking I'll mostly stay in London & take day trips (via train - should look into that, hmmm) to various locales. But even that is as much up in the air as it was in February when I booked my flight over. Oy. Tomorrow all that changes! I am resolved that I will bite the bullet & make decisions & hotel/flight reservations by the end of the weekend. Anyhow, onto stuff that has happened - the last week of June was spent out in Palm Desert with my knitting friends. This used to be a yearly long weekend excursion, but with various moves & changes of personnel in the knitting group, we haven't done it in 8 years. Rachel (the one who moved up north & visits twice a year) has a time share out there & last year she suggested that we plan on using it for a knitting getaway. It was lovely - we stayed inside mostly (when it's 112 in the shade outside, inside airconditioning is very appealing) with excursions out for food & yarn shop forays. We brought a lot of DVDs and got a lot of knitting/movie watching/talking/eating done from Saturday to Thursday. It would have been absolutely wonderful & perfect, except...... Mom (who was taking care of the cats on the weekend before the professional cat sitter took over on Monday) mentioned when I called her on Sunday evening that Gizmo seemed to be ill - he was lethargic & not very interested in food. She said she would go over Monday afternoon & if he wasn't any better, she'd take him to the vet. I emailed the cat-sitter (Christine) to give her a heads up, in case she went by in the afternoon & Mom had taken Gizmo away. On Monday morning, Christine called to say that, after reading my note, she decided to go to my place that morning & Gizmo was looking really bad & very non-responsive & that she was taking him to the vet right away. Later, when the vet called, he reported that Gizmo had a urinary blockage & was comatose & they'd put in an IV, a urinary catheter, and various other things I can't remember anymore. To make a long story a little bit shorter, Gizmo pulled through & I was able to take him home on Friday morning. He's not wonderful yet & I'm going to take him in for surgery on Friday to remove struvite stones from his bladder, which should end any lingering issues. Except. The vet mentioned that cats can be prone to stone formation & one of the contributing factors to the stones formation is stress. He thinks it's possible that my vacation aggravated the issue & was a contributing factor to his illness. Which makes me feel a little stressed myself about the August trip. |
| Monday, June 20th, 2011 | |
| 9:39 am | IHOP is finally earning its "I" On Yahoo! this morning, there was a headline about IHOP expanding internationally & I thought "Oh, good news for my British friends who like to visit IHOP whilst visiting me."... but apparently Britain isn't the first place IHOP thought of for expansion. Oh well, I guess that just means you have to visit me (or Qatar) if you want to get your IHOP on ;-). |
| Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 | |
| 9:24 am | I am back in Southern California, aren't I? I distinctly remember an 11 hour plane ride, so why am I someplace where there is more stereotypically English weather going on than I had the entirety of my vacation in England? Mom came down this morning to go walking on the beach - but instead we drove up to Paneras because the rain was so steady & heavy. I guess I unknowingly lied to Amanda when I said we don't get rain from May to September around here.... In other news, I had a fantastic time in England & I recommend Amanda's parties to one & all. Great people, great food, great location, magnificent hostess & host (and cat). The only un-fun time was customs at LAX, where I spent 80 minutes reminiscing about how efficient & speedy customs was at Heathrow. I think I'll be going through customs in Chicago for my August trip & I'm hoping it's not as horrendous.... I think I read somewhere that LAX has the longest delays at customs of any airport in the U.S. Now I think I'll go nap - not just because the jet lag is hitting hard, but because its the kind of day that begs you to lie down under a warm blanket & sleep the morning away ;-). |
| Friday, April 15th, 2011 | |
| 9:26 am | Maybe Amanda can have her party in Vietnam? While exchanging information with Amanda about my flight & such, it dawned on me I should see what I need to do to make sure my cell phone will work whilst in England. So I went to the Verizon Wireless website & reviewed the webpage about International Roaming. The page trumpeted that there were more 35 countries where my cell phone would work. So for sure England would be on the list right? Wrong. But obviously I should have looked for Great Britain, right? Wrong. Oh wait, I meant United Kingdom, didn't I? No. My phone will work in the Ukraine, but not in the UK. It will work in New Zealand, but not Australia. It will work in Venezuela, but not Brazil. The list of countries where it will work seems rather random - but extremely light on European countries (after all, who would want to go there?) So now I think I'll be looking into either upgrading to a 'global' phone (which will probably be a significant jump in my monthly bill, since they all require a data plan that I currently don't have), or using their 'Global Travel Program' for a loaner global phone. |
| Thursday, April 7th, 2011 | |
| 3:55 pm | May 14 - a date too full of awesome for its own good I'm thoroughly excited about May 14th. After all, I'll be attending a sure-to-be-smashing soiree in Merry Olde England then. But if I wasn't doing that, I'd probably still be pretty excited about May 14th, because I could be doing any of the following instead: - Going to the Art Deco Society Avalon Ball in Catalina. After all, I had such a great time at the 2010 Ball, I bought tickets for the 2011 one in June (and promptly forgot about the date of it, so those tickets will be going to waste.) - Going down to San Juan Capistrano for the Second Saturday Art Fair. The knitters do this every month (that the weather is good) & have a lovely time watching Pam sell her jewelry as we knit at her booth. - Going to an acoustic guitar concert in Mission Viejo - Attending the Riverside Vintage Home tour. Okay, so, given my experience the last time I went, I would only enjoy this for the first hour or so, as it seems to be scheduled for wretchedly hot weekends - bad times to tour homes built in the early 1900s without air conditioning. - Participating in my neighborhood garage sale. - Flying to Pennsylvania to participate in a customer system relocation. Not really something I'd be excited about doing, but it was something that was suggested today. Lately it seems like any awesome activity proposed to me occurs on May 14th. And I'm not the only one - all the folks in my knitting group have at least three conflicting things they want to do on May 14th. We've all decided it's time to break out the clones. |
| Monday, March 21st, 2011 | |
| 8:34 am | There is a better solution I'm sure I dream, but by and large, I don't remember the dreams I have. When I do remember them, it's usually because they're the ones I'm having just as an alarm goes off & I hit the snooze button in an attempt to go back to sleep and finish the dream. So the rest of the dream is done in that half-sleeping, half-waking state where you're a participant, an observer, and a little bit of a director all at once (or is that just me?). But I have to say, the dreams I have in that state are mostly noteworthy for their mundaneness. This morning for example: I was at some kind of breakfast buffet, waiting for my turn to use the toaster. For some reason the toaster was very slow, but I was just patiently waiting for the the toaster to be free for my use, when my alarm went off. So I hit snooze so I could go back to sleep & finish my dream and get to have some toast. Only the toaster was still super slow & I was just getting to the front of the line when my alarm went off again. So I hit snooze again because I really wanted some toast damnit! As I was drifting back to my dream, some part of me noted that the toast might be more satisfying if I gave up on the dream & actually went down to make some for real. |
| Friday, March 18th, 2011 | |
| 10:55 am | Things you all should know from reading my mind... Apparently I expect y'all to be clairvoyant (and fixated on me), because I only think about making posts and so rarely actually do. Anyhow, without any further ado, here's some random updates from my life. - As of yesterday, I am once again the proud owner of a valid passport. The picture is both better & worse than I remember it being. I think my evaluation of the makeup as being whorish was unduly harsh, but whatever scanner they used for transferring the picture onto the passport made my face extremely shiny & I definitely don't remember all those blue wavy lines running across the original photo. So instead of looking like a whore, I look like someone who dunked her face in a pool of vegetable oil & then ran through a blue cobweb before having the picture taken. Winning? Wait, why am I even questioning that? Of course I'm winning, I'm going to England! - I love Justified. - I finished a knitted coat for Malina - just in time for spring & warm weather. I foolishly made it in her size now, so I imagine that she might have one or two days of use of it before it gets too warm & then she'll outgrow it before it gets cold enough to use it again. Doh! - I successfully gave blood last week! For about five or six years, anytime I tried to give blood, the nurse practitioner would turn me away after testing the iron level & finding it too low. This even after I started taking iron supplements regularly & had my doctor check & tell me that I was not anemic (I was on the low side of normal, but fine otherwise.) But this time my iron was high enough for the Red Cross & they took my blood. Woot! - I need some book recommendations ASAP. The last two books I tried on my Kindle, I've given up on. And I'm about ready to give up on the third. I'm floundering as to what I want to read next. The first book I gave up on was a fantasy ("A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin) that I found to be too grim particularly since it was the first in a series that I figured was just going to get more bleak as it went on. The second was a mystery ("Protector" by Laurel Dewey) that had the advantage of being free & the disadvantage of having an incredibly annoying protagonist. The latest is a WWII novel ("Heidegger's Glasses" by Thaissa Frank) that irritates me for the petty reason that the author apparently is on a campaign to eliminate quotation marks from written literature. |
| Friday, January 21st, 2011 | |
| 1:42 pm | what's with all the Saturday love? As most of you know, I work from home. One of the great things about working from home is that I can arrange for serivce folks to come during the work day without having to take any time off. This week I've talked to two different servicemen (both named Chris) about some repair work I wanted done. The first was to my roof. Actually, Chris already had his crew come out and do a great job replacing the facing under my overhang & three of the beams along the overhang that were suffering from water damage. But Chris wants to come out & check my attic to make sure there isn't any other work that needs to be done. Chris called on Monday to say he'd be out in the neighborhood towards the end of the week and he'd give me a call to arrange the time on Thursday. Then on Thursday he called to say he'd be doing the inspections on Saturday & what time would be good for me. The second Chris was the guy who installed my lovely garage door two years ago. He'd said at the time that it would be best if I had regular maintenance done every couple of years & on Tuesday I noticed the door was making some squeaking noises, so I called him Wednesday to arrange for him to come out. He was booked solid that day, but said he'd call back to arrange a time. He called back to say Saturday morning worked best for him. Here's the thing - my Saturday is pretty busy. I walk on the beach with my mother in the morning (6:30 to 8:00), then I have to get dressed & ready to go to knitting (from 10 to whenever we feel like breaking up - usually 4.) Then I'm going up to Hollywood for dinner with Rian & Henry. There's a small window there from about 8:30 to 9:30 where both Chris's claim they'll be able to do everything they need to do. With all the people in the world who can't be at home mid-week & would love to get repairmen to come out on a Saturday (without having to pay extra, which I won't have to), why am I the one getting all the Saturday appointments? |
| Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 | |
| 1:52 pm | Ha! I win the Christmas race. Well, I win one minor Christmas race... I'm woefully far behind on shopping, making a wish list, planning for my week off, haven't finished decorating the tree, etc. But I managed to get all my Christmas cards (except for those waiting for peeps to tell me their new addresses) in the mail before any arrived. By the skin of my teeth - I put the last batch in the mail on Monday morning & my first two cards arrived Monday afternoon. Now I just have to worry because when I dropped my cards off, there was a postal employee emptying the mailbox & I just handed mine directly to him. He looked at the cards & said he thought they might be too thick & need extra postage. Ack! But I was in a rush (more on that later) & didn't have time to take them in to see if he was right, so I'm just hoping for the best. The reason why I was in a rush was that I was on my way to the credit union to meet up with Carol, their loan consultant,about refinancing my place. I started looking into this back in August, but then I had the Oregon trip to distract me, and I forgot, then I had the New Jersey trip in November, and finally I remembered, fortunately while rates are still substantially lower than what I have now. I called a few places on Friday & got quotes from them & finally decided on my credit union. My, everything seems much more computerized now! Within two hours of my talking to Carol, she'd emailed me a link (with userid and password) to where I could find all the loan documents. She only needed me to print off a couple, sign them, then fax them back to her. Everything else I just had to read online & click an "I acknowledge I've read this" button. Much nicer than last refi (in 2003). I'm starting to believe Carol was being realistic when she said they could close in 30 days. |
| Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 | |
| 9:53 am | The geeks have inherited the earth I'm not sure why, but while on the MSNBC website, I chose to click on a link to this article. And while it was interesting, it was the comparison used in the second paragraph that made me happy. |
| Saturday, August 7th, 2010 | |
| 8:17 am | Update on somethings TV I'm now into the second season of Mad Men from Netflix, while I defy the advice of all friends & watch season 4 as it airs. I still find I admire the show more than I enjoy it, but I am glad I'm watching it. I think it's more enjoyable via DVDs, as I find it more engrossing when I can watch multiple episodes at a time. I'm also into the third season of Dr. Who, which I've loved enough to have bought all four seasons that are available on DVD, as well as completing (I think) my collection of extras. Which brings me to my question of the day: what is the timing on the following special eps (i.e. when in the show's run should I watch each of the following): The Next Doctor Planet of the Dead The End of Time Parts 1&2 And actually, looking at Amazon, it appears I'm missing Water of Mars - should I buy it or just Netflix it - and when should it be watched? In other things TV - I've kept the entire back 9 episodes of Glee on my DVR for summer rewatching, but I have to break down soon & change them to delete automatically so my DVR will have room to record & keep all my summer shows while I'm on vacation in Oregon with Mom next week. I blame cable networks for airing far too many enjoyable shows during the summer & my default position of recording everything off the HD channels so my DVR fills up much more quickly than it would if I recorded regular broadcasts. I'm trying to console myself on my imminent loss of Glee with the reminder that the full season DVDs will be in my hands about three weeks after my return & it will probably take me that long to get caught up on all the shows (Mad Men, Rizzoli & Isles, White Collar, Covert Affairs, Top Chef, Project Runway, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Eureka, etc.) I'll have recorded while gone. In conclusion, I watch way too much TV. |
| Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 | |
| 2:55 pm | I may become a sloth, but it'll be a Doctor Who watching sloth I received a notice about asphalt repair work planned for my neighborhood a couple weeks ago. The repair work was scheduled from the 19th to the 21st, and the notice came with lots of instructions about not parking on Seaside Village streets (lest you be towed if you interfere with repair work) and not using rear yard irrigation during repair as the runoff might damage the repairs. I have someone visiting this week who has lots of appointments during the day, so I suggested on Sunday that she park her car on the side street adjacent to the community so she wouldn't have to worry about the repair work blocking her exit out of the community. I should have told myself that too. Actually, I did think about it at lunch time, since I have dance class tonight. There was no work being done on the streets in front or behind my place, so I figured I could get the car out & park it on the side street until I needed to leave for class. But when I pulled the car out of the garage, I found that while the street I was on wasn't being worked on, the streets on either end were, so I was trapped & couldn't get the car out of the association. I'm not optimistic, but I'm hoping that they'll have things cleared up by 5:30, when I need to leave. I'm not optimistic because yesterday they were working until 8pm. So I may be stuck at home, not getting any dancing exercise at all tonight. But I guess that just means I can catch up on more Doctor Who (up to 2.4 currently after starting my addiction on Wednesday). Speaking of the Doctor, Mom just called to say she had two donations of "Doctor Who" DVDs come into the library that have the name David Tennant on them. I didn't let her finish before I was proclaiming my desire. |
| Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | |
| 10:29 am | This is one of those days where I love living at the beach I was watching the weather forecast this morning, and it was all about heat. Today is supposed to be the start of the first big heatwave of the year, with temperatures hitting 102 (39 Celsius) in the inland portion of the Greater L.A. area. The weatherman then listed the expected highs in various specific areas around L.A. He happened to mention my city - where the high should be 75 (24 Celsius). I know there are some people who just love a good heatwave & don't start to feel comfortable until it hits 85.... but I'm quite happy with the weather I've got :-). |
| Sunday, July 11th, 2010 | |
| 8:51 pm | I did accomplish things this weekend Turns out I managed to make a dent in the pile of movies from Mom (with her help on Saturday, as she came over for Thai food & a couple of movies). I even watched a couple of my 6-month old Netflix movies so I might get started in Mad Men viewing before the new season starts (when does it start, by the way?). Of the movies from Mom, I gave up on one about 20 minutes in (turns out I just wasn't in for the humiliation humor of 40 Year Old Virgin), kept one after watching it (The Sixth Sense - which I had seen before but was surprised how much I still enjoyed - sue me, Hayley Joel Osment tugs my heartstrings six ways to Sunday), and returned the rest after watching and mildly enjoying them with no desire to ever see them again (among them: The Manchurian Candidate (the remake with Denzel Washington), Billy Bathgate, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Tombstone, and Good Fellas). I'm pretty sure there were two more, but I can't remember what they were. I was a little amused on Saturday when I choosing which Netflix movie to watch to realize that all three dealt with homosexuality to some degree. The two I watched were Paragraph 175, a documentary about the Nazis treatment of homosexuals, and Carrington, about a female artist who during WWI fell in love with Lytton Strachey, a noted homosexual. Left to watch is Far From Heaven about a housewife in the 50s who finds her husband is having an affair with another man. I really should do a better job of organizing my Netflix queue so I have a better mix of movies - given my affinity for the Die Hard and Bourne series, I should always have a frenetic action adventure movie near the top of my queue ;-). I also did a fair amount of running up and down the stairs - 3 sets of 10 each day (and a couple of times more than 10). Enough to get my heart rate going - but probably not long enough to do any permanent good - but hopefully I'll work up to that. It tends to annoy Gadget, who looks on in concern from the top floor. Usually by the 8th time up, she was batting at me through the banister because I was freaking her out. Or possibly because she figured at least one of the times going up should involve adding more food to her food bowl. So all in all, a fairly productive week stuck at home (with no pager calls from work - yay!). I got quite a bit of knitting done during the movies. I didn't do much to my email inboxes - but I couldn't expect to accomplish everything, could I? |
| Friday, July 9th, 2010 | |
| 7:49 am | Nothing interesting to say but feeling the need to update.... I started handling pager coverage yesterday, so I'm stuck at home again for a week. I plan on making a dent in the pile of DVDs I've got on loan from Mom, doing a lot of knitting, cleaning out my inbox on both my personal & work email, and lots of running up and down the stairs for exercise. But I won't be surprised if, come next Thursday, I find all I've done is play a lot of computer games. In other news, my cats are fed up with me. I've got them both on diets (Gadget doesn't need it as badly as Gizmo, but she is starting to get a belly that Yahoo assures me is a bad thing. Who am I to doubt Yahoo?). The cats stay close to me in the hopes that I've just forgotten and their presence will remind me to fill their food bowls properly. So far I've managed to hold out, but I'm not sure how long I'll last. In TV viewing, I'm contemplating giving up on SYTCD now that my favorite dancer's been lost to injury. I'm looking forward to the return of "White Collar" and I'm going to give "Covert Affairs" a try, because it looks like fun. I'm contemplating giving "Mad Men" an honest try when it starts up again - but is it something I can pick up without having seen the previous seasons (except one or two episodes)? I have a decent handle on the storyline (thanks to TWoP), so I think I should be okay, but there are some shows where I'm rigid about seeing everything in the proper order & I don't know if "Mad Men" should be one of those shows.... |
| Friday, March 19th, 2010 | |
| 9:52 am | Beware of falling cats When I'm working at the computer & Gadget decides she wants to nap, she jumps from the desk to the top of the bookshelf that's part of the desk. To encourage her to not then immediately settle in on the printer that's up there, I put one of those kitty beds up there for her. She happily settles into it whenever she goes up there, and occasionally leans her head out to see if anything interesting is going on in her kingdom. This morning she was up there & I was busy on my computer (okay, I was playing Bejewled Blitz), when all of a sudden, something thumped my head & landed on my keyboard. I had a keyboard full of Gadget & her bed had fallen to the floor. All I can figure is that she rolled over in the bed & managed to push the soft edges down & fall off the bookshelf. I immediately picked her up & cuddled while feeling & looking for any obvious signs of injuries. The most worrisome sign was that she didn't struggle to get away, and when I finally let her down she walked off as if it was all no big deal. She's back up there now, a couple of hours later, and I keep glancing up to make sure she hasn't rolled the bed to the edge, because my head still hurts from where she first landed. |
| Saturday, February 27th, 2010 | |
| 9:08 am | Back home, safe and sound(ish) My stomach is feeling a little queasy right this minute, but I think it's because I ate too much for breakfast after fasting for the surgery & having a very light dinner last night after mom and I got home. Apparently the surgery went pretty well - the fibroid was bigger than expected & the doctor wasn't able to get all of it out. She got most of it & she said there's a couple of very small ones as well that she didn't touch, but hopefully this will solve my problem and by the time anything grows enough to be an issue, I'll be into menopause & won't care anymore ;-). While I was in recovery, the nurse asked me to rate my pain & I gave it a three - which to me isn't that bad - after all it was on a 10-scale & their chart had it in the 'mild discomfort stage.' The nurse gave me percoset, which seemed a little excessive to me, but I certainly had no pain after that. Before the surgery, the doctor wrote a prescription for Vicodin in case I had any pain once I got home. Mom filled it after she dropped me at home, but I didn't even bother with a Motrin last night because I really didn't have much pain at all. Right now I'm thinking that unless things take a bad turn, that I might wait until the next bad case of PMS to try out the Vicodin. Anyhow, thanks for all the good wishes everyone! |
| Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | |
| 10:24 am | Wanted: owner with good throwing arm I'm not the one who wants a new owner, but sometimes I think Gadget wouldn't mind one. But all prospective owners would have to go through a rigorous training camp where they prove their ability to throw cat toys far & accurately. She gets annoyed with me when she brings me a toy & I lamely throw it, hitting the wall instead of sending it through the doorway, and it comes bouncing back at us. Or my throw goes high, the toy hits the ceiling, and drops down 5 feet in front, which isn't nearly far enough to her mind. I've never regretted my lack of softball/baseball experience as much as when Gadget looks up at me after a particularly inept throw with a "WTF?" expression on her face. |