oh sweet, merciful Jesus, I want to thank you! I want to tell you how grateful I am that you blessed me with abnormally small feet. Today at the shoe store I found a pair of Diesel shoes that I loved so much I wanted to hump them, unfortunately, no hump is worth $90. On the other hand, in the kid’s section they were on sale for $35.
Oh, beautiful savior, I can not thank you enough.
but it doesn’t end there…you had my back all day! I was foolish enough to buy pants without trying them on and had to exchange them. Easy enough? Sure, but when you are at my side, it becomes a blessed event. The pants went on sale between yesterday and today so in the exchange they refunded the difference allowing me to buy a 3rd pair of pants for more than half off. Hell yeah!
AND AND AND!!! The 12 inch Calphalon Everyday pan normally sells for $150. Somehow, I managed to lose mine and have always wanted to replace it. Amazon got your divine message and sold the pan to me for $25.
Sweet son of god! Thank you for indulging me this week. I hate to ask you for one more favor but if you could see it in your heart to smite all self righteous former smokers who get all uppity, I’d be way appreciative.
Thanks!

the cast came off today!! HOORAY. Without going into gory detail, it seems that the previous surgeon fucked things up. This surgeon had to graft a nerve, re-form a tendon sheath and slaughter a lamb in order too make my hand work. Pretty cool scar though, I look like an emo-chick now!
I’m looking forward to getting back to cooking and crocheting and all those other boring domestic things that get me all hot and bothered.
Also, in ‘Insanely Boring News’!
I got a filling filled and ate mediocre mexican food and….nothing…
Sorry, need a nap

So, after an unconscionably long time avoiding the dentist (I mean a really long time) David got me to go.
I have a stupid phobia about the dentist. Not the dentist itself, that’s whatever. My anxiety flows around the fact that you are trapped in a chair, lying on your back and there’s this strange guy with his hands all over your face. I HATE IT! I really can’t stand it.
My doctor gave me a prescription for ativan (next time I’m taking 2!) and David came in and held my hand. Yeah, I’m like a big baby, I don’t care.
After this considerably long absence from the dentist (I mean a really really really long time) the only problem was one pinhole cavity requiring nothing more than a sealant and some tartar build up! I was seriously expecting the dentist to pull out the Big Book of British Smiles!
“Why must you turn my office into a den of lies??”
Also, there’s no more tedious, gum raping picking with the instruments of doom. Nope. Just three minutes of ultra-sonic scrubbing gets all tje tartar off and another 2 minutes of blasting gets the stains out and polishes them up nice. My dentist rules. He rocks. He’s amazing. He caters to cowards!
Go see Dwight C Demaine! The dentist of your dreams!
In other news…
Marshall decided to pop into town for the week which is fortuitous for me because now I have someone to entertain me non-stop during my time off. I also have someone to drive me around so I don’t use my gimpy hand.
Speaking of gimpy hands, I get the cast off wednesday morning and from there we should be able to see what kind of physical therapy I might need (if any). I cannot wait to get this damned cast off, it itches.
And, of course, I hit Trader Joes today. bought a whole bunch of this and that and then we headed over to the wine shop (in minnesota the liquor can’t be sold in the grocery store). I got 14 bottles of wine and a 6 pack of czech beer for $78. I’m going back to get a mixed case of 2 Buck Chuck (which is now $2.99 instead of $2) $36 for a case of wine. woo.
Will update soon.
Go raibh maith agat,
fraoch ban

It is a fucking pain to type like this. It makes my wrist hurt and it’s slow.
Thank you everyone for the well wishes!
The surgery was way quick, the surgeon was a fucking artist compared to the guy who did it last time. And the anesthesiologist was a roman god! This time there was no giant needle jammed into my armpit, no dead arm, no leeches, no voodoo dolls.
The cast is itchy as hell and irritates me to no end. I need to get it off.
So yeah, it went well. I’m recovering. The dogs are super helpful and David rules. he’s very sweet. (except he talks too much during movies – ah but he’s still sweet)

At 6:45am I head in to get this damned cyst removed. I will be unable to post here for a bit. Wish I had something good to leave for you.
I’ll post as soon as possible.
A big thank you to Alex for the South Park dvd’s! YOU RULE!!!
good night, party people!