Scooter

Taking 30 seconds out of my hell week (yes, folks...it's tech time again!) to wish one of my dearest friends, Jaime a very happy birthday!

~mwah~ Love ya, dear! Hope it's a great one! ::hugs::

They usually do after painting the entire stage floor by myself though, so I'm not all that surprised.

The mister and I actually had an evening to spend together last night. Unfortunately, we're broke so there wasn't really anything to do. Guess we'll have to wait for next Monday night.

I can't believe they killed off Speed on CSI: Miami! He was the only thing on that show that counter-balanced my absolute hatred for David Caruso. Now that he's gone, I just may not watch the show anymore.

Oh, well...that's okay really, 'cause it conflicts with American Chopper :)

Less than two weeks until our first show opens. And there's so much left to do! And we haven't even started WASP yet. ~faceplant~ It's gonna be a long semester.

The good news is, though, I've had all my work restrictions lifted for my thumb. So I can go back to work for the union in my free time! Yay! Extra money :)

I'm sitting here eating really nasty pizza. They changed the pizza type at the food court from thick to thin crust. Yeah...Imo's it ain't, that's for sure!

This puppy thing is gonna kill me, I think. She doesn't like to sleep past seven in the morning. And she doesn't like to go to bed, either. At least we finally figured out why she doesn't like to eat. The puppy food is too hard for her to chew, so we wet it down a little bit last night and she snarfed it. One problem solved.

Now maybe we can get her to eat when it's actually dinner time and that way she won't go to bed without having done her business and wake me up at 6:15 desperate to go out.

Work is...work, I guess. Nothing thrilling at the moment. I'm pretty burnt out on it all at the moment.

And the mister starts his show run tonight. So, for the next sixteen weeks, I get to see him only on Monday nights. Wow, life is gonna get boring. Especially considering the fact that we're real close to broke right now. I had hoped his first check for this show would come in Friday, but it's gonna be next Friday instead.

~faceplants~ I need a vacation...

I got a puppy this weekend!!!

She's a 9 1/2 week-old beagle we named Daisy. She weighs 7.5 lbs and is just the cutest thing on four feet!

I'm giddy. Still. And we've had her for three days! :)

I can't even think of a subject heading for this. Totally fried here, and it's only wednesday.

Can we possibly just call this week over? I'd really appreciate it.

~faceplants~

Guess I'll get lunch now...

Another follow-up appointment for the thumb this afternoon.

Here's hoping I'm at the end of this stupidity.

Want to wish a very Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people...

Happy Birthday, Willa!

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Hope it's fantabulous!

The cast is off!

The thumb, however, is still broken. And I always forget just how nasty it looks until I see the x-rays again. It's now in a thumb spica (spike-uh) which is basically a splint that runs along the top of my thumb and is velcroed in place around the thumb and my wrist.

The good: I have the majority of my hand usable again, not just the fingers.

The bad: Now my wrist is really immobilized, but...

The great: The thing's removable and I'm actually supposed to take it off three or four times a day to work on getting the motion back into the joints.

My hand is gross. Let's just say I'm going to go through a lot of moisturizer in the next couple weeks. And my thumb bends funny now because the break is crooked and therefore the bone is now crooked. But I wasn't about to let them reset it for a second time.

So, two weeks of the spica and then another appointment. We'll see where it goes from there. The ortho said it could take as long as 8-10 weeks for it to heal completely. Whee. I'm so thrilled.

That's all that's left until I go back to the ortho about this thumb. Please, please, PLEASE let them take the damn cast off today!! I'm going to lose my mind.

Haven't been sleeping well the past few nights. Last night was the worst. The fucking phone rang twice during the night! Went to bed around midnight. Took 45 minutes to fall asleep. Phone rang at 2:15. Wrong number. Took another half hour to fall asleep again. Phone rang again at 4:00. Blocked call on the ID that hung up before I could answer. Back to sleep. Alarm went off at 6 'cause the boy had to work at 7. Managed to snag a couple more hours of light sleep before I had to come into work.

Sucks.

Note to self: turn off the damn ringer tonight.

Oh, thank god if it is! I'm ready to claw my eyes out if I have have to spend much more time in this building. Especially since they're retarring the roof and the whole damn building stinks of creosote! Bleah! :-P

Two weeks til classes start. Not sure if I'm thrilled about that or not.

Had lunch with Gary yesterday. Now that was fun! I always miss him over the summers.

I really have nothing to say today. Wow. When did I get so boring?

After three solid days of screwing around with the damn thing, eight attempts at virus scanning, one visit from the new IT person (yeah, that was helpful...I already miss Andrew!), getting the news that no one on campus should start up their computers (mine was already running) because Norton hasn't posted the fix for this particular virus, giving up and going straight to Elaine (she rocks, yo!) at IMC, getting a disk from her and running that so that I could get to Symantec and then, finally downloading the update and running Norton, my computer is back up and running!

Woo-hoo! The only problem is...now I don't have an excuse to not work! :)

Must get lunch soon. Food would be good.

Heard from Lisa at the library...I won baseball tickets from the summer reading club! Yay! Hopefully they're to a game that the dorks will win, unlike last night. I can't believe they lost on a grand slam in the 12th inning.

Six more days. Actually, six days, one hour and ten minutes until I go back to the doctor for this dumb hand. Everybody keep your fingers crossed that they take the cast off. It's really driving me nuts!

Oh, and is anybody else getting comments e-mailed to them from six weeks ago? It's very odd...

Hearing from the Mister about the huge group of people at Saturday's rally waving big signs that said:

"Republicans for John Kerry!"

Hee! I was tickled. Apparently so was the good Senator :)

I remember now why I quit staying up until all hours of the night reading all the time. Ugh. Tina needs more sleep than that.

And it didn't help that I was woken by the phone and that it was the secretary here telling me that one of the local companies that the coworker promised to TD for this summer was trying to reach me to see if they could get their stuff out of the shop.

Because, apparently, the coworker is MIA and these poor folks open in a week and they don't have a set yet. So I get to come in here tomorrow and open up so they can get all their stuff and build a set. The secretary said the biggest shame about this whole thing is the fact that JB wasn't around to hear about this latest stunt. She has as little use for the coworker as I do!

Oh, and someone apparently decided we need another window in the outer wall of the loading dock?! Weh? But there's a guy out there with a jackhammer and concrete saw cutting a big hole in the wall. It's loud and obnoxious, let me tell you.

It's been raining for 14 hours, so I doubt the brother-in-law is going to get the grass cut like he said he would. And I obviously can't do it. So I have a forest in my yard.

Also got e-mail today informing me that Dale Jr's had to cancel his appearance here on the 12th due to his injuries.

That just capped the day. And it's only 12:30.

Got home yesterday to discover I had just under 18 hours before the boy was going to be out of town again for four days. I really can't complain too hard, because nobody found out until yesterday morning, but it's just a wee bit frustrating. Luckily, most of the laundry had been done already and I just had one load left to do. John Kerry, m'man, you're lucky I like you :) Otherwise I'd be very annoyed.

So, here's another weekend of by myself time. Last weekend Dad came down (when Mom was out of town) and helped me put dishes into my new cabinets. This weekend Mom's coming down (when Dad's out of town) to help me paint. We will get this kitchen done if it kills me!

Actually, it's probably a good thing for me to have some alone time. I'm getting really antsy to get this damn cast off and it's making my whole arm stiff and sore and, therefore, making me crabby. With no one else home, I don't have to pretend I'm in a good mood when I'm not :)

The best news is this: JB's out of town for the next week at least. And he left instructions to only call him "if the building's burning down" :) Which means, he won't be around to bug me!!! Yay! Would someone like to tell me exactly how I'm supposed to clean the shop when I can't even hold a damn broom?

Don't know if this has been passed around, but this weekend on TNT, they're showing a movie made about Evel Knievel and George Eads plays the title role.

Evel Knievel movie to air this weekend.

I think they're showing it three times.

Willa!!!!

OMG! Dude, I got the box yesterday! Thank you so much!

The backpack is fabulous and all the other stuff is really cool, too. I love the first aid kit :) It made me giggle. Especially the "Official NASCAR Nextel Cup" lip balm! It's cute!

Thanks again! {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Willa}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

Even if I didn't hate our current president with the insane passion that I do, John Kerry would have gotten my vote for this reason alone: he uses Union labor.

*ding, ding, ding*

One of the local production companies has been handling all of Kerry's political rallies from the word go, and my hubby has just gotten to go to Sioux City to work one of them. He's also probably going to work a two week bus tour in early August for the campaign. Beauty.

That's some nice money :)

Anyone know why LJ is not putting my icon in comments that I post? Did they change things around again and I haven't figured it out? Because the thing shows up on my friends page, so it doesn't appear to be gone...

<---is confused...I know, it doesn't take much :)

ETA: now it appears to have fixed itself...~shrug~ Whatever...

Today begins week #4 in the thumb cast. No, I haven't chopped it off at the wrist yet, but it's been a close thing a few times. I'm thinking the bones are finally starting to knit, because the pain is a whole lot less these days. Though we had a weather front pass through last night and i though I was gonna die! Nate says to get used to it, that it'll happen from now on. He speaks from experience, having broken his own thumb a few years ago.

Were it not for my innate stubbornness and refusal to be a moneymaker for my doctor, I would've had to go through the whole 're-break, re-set' thing again last week. When he told me he wanted to do that again and I asked what the problem was going to be if we just let it heal the way it was, he said, "It'll have a little bit of a backward curve."

That's it?!? Yeah, sure...cause me another two days of ridiculous pain just because your ego and your wallet want the damn thing to be perfect. If you'd wanted it perfect, you shoulda pinned it at the start.

Needless to say, I opted to not have the procedure done. He simply shrugged and said okay, which makes me wonder how necessary the thing really was.

Anyway, three weeks before I go back to the doctor. Hopefully the cast will come off then, but they gave me no indication as to what was going to happen when I go back.

In good and happy news, I have cabinets in my kitchen!!! Uppers and lowers! I can start putting stuff away finally :) We have walls to finish and a little more moulding to put up and then it'll be finished! I'm so thrilled!

Okay, so work is boring and typing hurts, so I'm out!

TOM!

Dude, you rock! :) I picked up my mail today...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

That I found rather amusing :)

Jessica Simpson was in town last night. While she was performing, Nick was at the Cardinals/Reds game at Busch stadium. I laughed.

Apparently, my parents have decided they're going to either Hawaii or Alaska next summer and they want to take me and the mister with them. Whee! We'd just have to decide which we'd rather see, which could be fun, because I think I'd rather go to Hawaii while Joe would much rather see Alaska. Mainly because his great-great-something-grandfather was one of the people responsible for the purchase of it. We'll figure something out. :)

The thumb feels...better today. Which is really a relative term, because it still hurts, just not as badly as it did yesterday or the day before.

I have to do laundry tonight :-P And the mister is at work until after ten, so I get no help. Blah.

Bored here at work. Nothing new about that. Get to type up a warning note to put on a car parked in my dock that I'll have it towed if they park it there again. Ah, the little things in life that make my days :)