Went back to work yesterday and promptly came home after 2 hours. Still sick.
I spent the time at home being constructive. I cleaned out my ‘crap’ closet, organized my filing and cleared off the dining room table (aka the flat filing cabinet). I also put the christmas decorations away!
Having the dining room table cleared inspired me to get some photos printed so I hauled out the printer and ended up covering the dining room table in photos. I printed more photos than I have frames for, but that just means I will have to get creative with my photos.
I haven’t mentioned lately how much I LOVE my photo printer, but I do! and I love how easily iPhoto plays with the printer. It’s positively dreamy!
Back to work…
I am discovering that my job entails way way more detail than I realized. The system I have laid out seems so inherently logical but that’s because I made it. Poor Anna is trying to figure it all out and she only works 2 days a week. I’ll write something up for her before I go.
It also didn’t help that I was feeling very impatient today. The pms and the being sick and all that, it doesn’t make for good training.
Tonight David and I went out for tamales and then over to the Riverview cafe where we saw Al Franken carting his giant skull across the street to the MSPIFF opening festivities. He really does have a big skull! Anyway, we sat and listened to the open mic players for a bit then drove around town comparing houses.
And now, after the tamales and chai and driving, my belly is back to rolling a bit. Crap.
Rock on party people!
String theory
David and I have been trying the different mexican places on Lake st. Last night David brought me a burrito con barbacoa sin cebollas! It was damned tasty, if a bit salty.
Later, we headed over to the lake for a walk. I need to remember to bring my camera. We pondered the ducks, the flowering trees, the bird and fish bones.
I curled up and read Lovecraft and considered how television and media are making us cynical. I’d never read Lovecraft before, I’m reading a collection of short stories and they’re good, but not nearly as scary as I’d hoped.
Later I did dream I was trapped on an island and people we could not see were hunting us, so I guess they do work.
Or maybe it wasn’t the book, maybe it was the burrito! At 2 am I woke up with a terrible rolling and pain in the belly. blergh. I have a theory that when you eat something truly evil it is evil on multiple dimensions and can send out quantum threads and strings and grab previous meals and pull them out of the digested dimensions.
At 2am I lost (in reverse order of being eaten) the evil burrito, french fries and chicken fingers, a large americano, ice cream with chocolate and cookies, lambchop asparagus and cherry cobbler, the #5 mcdonald’s breakfast, another americano, a handful of chips, swedish pancakes and coffee, and a cheeseburger and fries.
Everything I ate this weekend ripped from the cosmos and run in reverse through my system.
I truly wanted to die.
Instead I slept late and did the one thing that really brings me comfort. I got out my mom’s china teapot, made up copious amounts of Earl Grey Tea, put on my velvet fat pants and my goofy white tiger cub t-shirt and curled up on the sofa with the dogs.
I’m cranky and I don’t feel good. Leave me alone.
And a good rising to you sir
Happy Happy with the Easter and all!
Since my dad had to fly his poptycopters saving lives today (he flies MediVac helicopters) we did Easter at his place last Sunday which meant I got to spend Easter at my mom’s today.
Absolutely perfect perfect day for a drive. We bundled the jerkasses into the car and started off. First order of business was to get coffee, THEN it was off to the high holy easter sunday breakfast picked up from the McDonalds drive thru! Sausage egg mcmuffins, hash browns, orange juice! McDeath!
Easter dinner at my mom’s was lovely seared lambchops, asparagus, bread, tzatziki and cherry cobbler.
After simple holy day chillin’ with my mom and the dogs we headed down to David’s sister’s place to spend some time with his family since his mom is in town for a week or so.
The dogs had a great big crazy day. Got to go to my mom’s, they tried to eat her cats (not that they would have succeeded, her cats are mean!) then at Julie’s Ghengis ran his little ass off in the back yard. Maddie tried to beat up Mia, the sweetest little rottweiler in the world. Mia, being so sweet, just rolled on her back for Maddie. Ghengis even snuck under the fence into the neighbor’s yard and I had to lure him back with cookies.
Now they are major passed out and I’m exhausted.
Happy easter, party people!
another short recap
Sorry, these have to be short, stupid wrist
* My sister actually has a freaky scary infection in a nerve in her gum. She’s freaked out, the doctor is freaked out, I’m freaked out. Please send good thoughts her way, it is much worse than I realized.
* Am I morally obligated to not use my hand much at home so I can get the most out of it at work? On one hand (snork) it is just work and I do have vacation and sick time if I need it. On the other, non-bump affected hand, they are paying me and so i should give them what they paid for. I don’t know. I had to leave an hour early yesterday because my hand hurt, later in the evening I made flat bread which made it hurt worse and in the process I thought maybe I should not have made the flat bread because it wasn’t fair to compromise my work hours. Opinions?
* I discovered that $13 is a LOT of money for a dozen condoms. Walgreens will never see another condom related dollar from (unless I am too lazy to go to Target)
* Speaking of Target, I desperately need to go there and buy an electric can opener. I feel like a number one atard because I cannot operate the can opener anymore.
* The weather is LOVELY. LOVELY LOVELY LOVELY. The sun is bright, the dogs are happy, everything feels hopeful.
* Wearing a padded wrist brace in warm weather is a bad and stinky idea. bad and stinky.
Be good to yourselves, party people.
The Grind Down
This is the quickie “my hand fucking hurts” post
1) Easter at my dad’s last night because he will be working on Easter Proper.
2) Easter Proper at my mom’s. Lamb! YUM.
3) My sister had to cancel “Fried Chicken Night”. I weep. She has some sort of infection in her gums or something. I giggle.
4) Saturday David went kayaking and Ghengis and I took a nice long hike in Moose Lake State Park while we waiting to meet him at the pick up point. Pictures will be posted in Ephemera when I feel like it.
5) Have condoms always been so expensive or have I just never noticed? A box of 12 was over $13. Is this normal? They weren’t crazy or anything, just trojans of some sort or another. On the other hand, I guess I don;t mind, I think bargain basement condoms are a bad idea
6) Ghengis is starting a band, Funktomic Bomb and the Mushroom Crowd. Maddie will be on keyboards, he still needs a drummer.
7) Surgery, May 16, 2 weeks off with narcotics. YEAH!