Random Matters

Happenings to write about but where to begin? It's all random...

I got my computer fixed! It's been messed up for months now and slowly but surely it was getting worse and worse. I can't really afford a new laptop right now, so I took it to the guy who does my mom's computer at work. For $60 he fixed it and made it good as new all in about four hours. He thinks I had a strand of that evil new virus on it... apparently only the newest strand went live on April 1. Others went live in September, November and January.

The 2009/2010 season for Playhouse Square is a-freaking-mazing. Christmas Carole, Chicago, Wicked, Greece, Xanadu, Dirty Dancing... and it goes on! I am hoping to go to most, if not all of the shows. SO excited. Any Cleveland friends wanna go to one or two with me? :o)

The case from the car accident settled... not a lot of money but I'll get the medical bills paid off and a few other things as well and have a small sum left. I can't complain too much since I'm not out anything... I'll have more than I started with.

I made some phone calls today, which is a big thing for me since my anxiety tends to keep me from doing it. I called and got a GYN appointment at the place my co-worker goes that comes highly recommended. It's not until June 23rd though... but it beats never. Worst case I have to go to Planned Parenthood before then if things get really bad with this whole ovary mess. I also called a new doctor that came reccomended to me through a good friend who knows my history with depression/anxiety/ocd/etc. The meet and greet with the doctor is next Monday morning at 9:30.

I need to re-download Rainlendar... I keep looking for it on my desktop to tell me when my bills are due and appointments. Haha.

I start my new schedule at work tomorrow. 8:30-5:30. I'm currently 8:45-5:45... I started at 9-6. Well I'm on the new one tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday and next week it's the 8:45 because someone on our side is on vacation. Whatever though. Anything beats closing and the further you get from closing the better things seem to be.

My eyes are burning and red. I hope that it's just the after care stuff I used for my eyebrows and not pink eye again, haha.

The Uninvited comes out on DVD tomorrow! Yay.

Pain killers and pancakes

Anyone have any idea how long it takes for pain medicine to get through your system? It's been nearly 24 hours and I'm still exhausted and woozy...

Let's begin at the begining.

So Sunday afternoon after a nice day with my mom I head home. That evening I start to not feel well, and try to ignore it. I go to bed and wake up Monday morning (yesterday) feeling worse. I contemplated calling off work, but last week we had a ton of teachers take off for a spring break, and I couldn't remember if this week was the same.

I went into work and spoke to my director about possibly leaving early. At this point I was thinking I had another kidney stone. Around three I was given the okay to head home, I called my mom on the way and we talked about what I thought I should do. Long story short, I end up in the emergency room.

After being triaged and in the waiting room for three hours, (at least I finished a book during that time) I'm finally taken back. They do the usual urine test, blood test... they give me morphine and toridol (for pain), and zophran (for nausea). I'm told that I need a CAT scan of my abdomen but they won't need me to drink contrast since with stones they show up without that.

I go in and out of sleep for a while, get taken back to CAT scan and brought back. I was tired but awake when the doctor came in and informed me that there's good news and bad news. No one ever wants to hear that.

Good news: Not a kindey stone. I have stones in both kidneys, but they aren't moving at this time. (great, does this mean that eventually I'll have to deal with that?)

Bad news: I have a cyst on each ovary. The one on the right (where the worst of the pain was) measures 3.3cm. The one on the left is 2.4cm (which explains why I was feeling left side pain).

The tenative diagnosis from the ER doctor is that I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Easy to treat (no cures though), generally done with hormonal birth control pills. Once I find a GYN that's taking new patients I can get an appointment and go get all this checked out.

Thankfully it was deemed that it was safe for me to go home, so long as if I noticed any signs of infection or other problems that I come right back.

I get home late, and go to check my email. I get this ATT Help Page. I decide bed sounds better and so I head there. I wake up around ten this morning and try again. Same thing. Apparently the payment wasn't ever put through and they disconnected. Dad says that in four hours at the most it should be up... and five and a half hours later it wasn't. This time I call... and they go through the hoopla (at least this time helping me, since when I first called they told me that since I'm not the account holder they can't tell me anything) and we have to re-register the account. Now, here I am. At last. I was bored today.

At least I made some killer pancakes for dinner!

My co-teacher texed me this morning to tell me a co-worker of ours had her baby last night. Jackie wasn't due until June... and her going away/baby shower was planned for this Friday after work since that was going to be her last day. Thankfully mom and baby are doing well. Congrats Jackie and Todd and welcome Baby Bri!

No day but today

So I went to Pittsburgh on Saturday to see RENT. I must say that this show was even better than the Cleveland show in a lot of ways. The best part is that even though it was a matinee, there was time between the shows was a few hours so some of the cast came out to sign autographs. My all time favorite character is Mark Cohen. He is played by Anthony Rapp. Anthony was the first out of the doors to sign. Yay :) He signed my program and we even spoke for a brief moment. Love that man. The man who played Benny and the woman who played Maureen also came out to sign. Sadly, that was all. But I'm so happy I got what I got.

Anthony Rapp signing my program!
*squee*

Onto other fronts.

I am officially down a pants size and that makes me very happy. I need to start going to the gym more often but I just tend to go for a while and then slow down, and then go a ton again. I've been doing good on the diet front and to be honest, I'm glad I got the motivation to do this. I feel damn good overall.

Another week starts tomorrow... weekends never seem long enough.

I'm sure I have more to say, but at the moment I'm at a loss.

Funniest kids books I've seen in a long time.

All of these are by Michelle Sinclair Colman and Nathalie Dion

Urban Babies Wear Black
Eco Babies Wear Green
Foodie Babies Wear Bibs
Beach Babies Wear Shades
Winter Babies Wear Layers
Country Babies Wear Plaid
Jet Set Babies Wear Wings
Rocker Babies Wear Jeans

At the library on Sunday I found Urban Babies and forgot to check it out. Darn. Tonight I picked up Country Babies. We have a copy of Winter Babies floating around the center somewhere, I think.

I want them all for my classroom. They absolutely crack me up.

A lackluster description of blah.

Ever have a bad day where you feel like hell, and you actually want someone to come up to you and say "You look so sad.. what's wrong?" or "You look unhappy.. here's a hug, a shot and a cookie"? Yeah I had one of those days today and apparently I do those days wrong.
I was told my bad mood was entertaining and that I wasn't in a bad mood because I was still wittingly sarcastic and fun.

Screw that. That makes me even sadder than when I started.

I turned on my favorite current playlist of what I call car music... the stuff I blast and sing to loudly while I drive (well I did back when I had a stereo that was capable of hooking up to my iPod...) Some T-Pain, Britney Spears, VNV Nation... etc etc. Usually it elicits a slight chair dance or even the need to put the iPod on the docking station and dance around my room in my undies to it.
Today? nada. I just turned it off after a few songs. It depressed me even more that I couldn't get happy from that.

I've been sleeping for crap. Fall asleep easily as a general rule and then I wake up many, many times in the night for no reason at all.

It's been dark, gloomy and rainy the last few days. I love that as a general rule but it's making the sleepiness harder to handle.

Why is it that when it comes to online dating sites I get the creepers? Now I remember why I avoided signing up for any sites like that before... Jeebus.

I want to write about nonsense and do it eloquently. I lack the vernacular most times to make even the mundane sound readable and appealing. I feel lackluster in this department that I used to have a cornerstone on in my group of friends.

My body hurts tonight. Yikes.

Just been a long, long day.

However I did get three books in at the library... I'm really excited. Chosen by PC Cast and Kristen Cast, The Lost Hours by Karen White, and House Rules, a memoir by Rachel Sontag. I need to finish Little Lady, Big Apple first though. Sometimes I need mindless chicklit (like Little Lady) or Teen books (like Chosen). Haha.

I had pancakes for dinner. Yeah that's not on the diet plan.

And we begin again...

It's not that I don't want to write, but I just keep putting things off... and I forget. Tra la la.

So a quick update on life, and then hopefully I'll be back to blogging regularly...

I got to see RENT in January when it was in Cleveland. I fell even more in love with the show (as well as Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal). I'm going again this weekend to see it in Pittsburgh. I really am a RENThead through and through.

I have health insurance again finally. Thank goodness for my job. However now I need to use it. I have the name of a great doctor but I have yet to get the guts to call. I saw my old GP but he didn't do much. Put me on Straterra and it didn't do anything for me except make me want to sleep. Yeah, that's not good. I need a doctor who will listen to all my symptoms and issues and take it from there.

After four months (to the day!) of my accidnet, I became the owner of a new-to-me car. 1996 Ford Escort SE. She's red. She's cute. She's all mine. Her name... Marilyn the Go-Kart.

Tonight I'm currently in a funk. Even my current favorite playlist on iTunes isn't doing anything for me :(

Here's to new blogging...

When there's nothing else to do, ramble.

Ever hear the old phrase "How you ring in the new year is how your new year will go", or something to that effect?

It's dumb. Let's think here. Last year I rang it in with Paul 2 and some friends, somewhat jobless, totally broke. Yet nearly 365 days later here I am... a great job, money in the bank and taking control of my finances, and SINGLE. NOTHING would ever change if the above saying is true. It'd like living in an infinite loop. Yikes.

I've been struggling on the reading front lately. I thought maybe taking a break from best-sellers and even the occasional "teen lit" (i.e. Twilight, House of Night) that I read would be good for me to get me into a swing again. I should read something light and airy... fluffy and bad for my brain. What's better than Chick-Lit? Sophie Kinsella's Shop-a-Holic series I devoured several years ago. Even the great Something Borrowed/Something Blue duo by Emily Giffin that I loved. Jemima J by Jane Green was an all time favorite. So I go search. I look on Amazon at the list mainias on this fabulous form of literature. I'm finding nothing. I found two books at the library that my be promising. We'll see. I'm just tired of not reading.

Two major purchases are going to be thrown my way soon... I need a car. Which is going to take forever... because, and this is stellar, the insurance company for this guy... the woman I'm dealing with's files are down. I faxed over my salvage title yesterday... I NEED THAT CHECK. Of course, something else to put a hold on shit. So annoyed. I can't wait until all of this is over. What a pain in the ass.

I'm also going to need a computer. And soon. Crap.

Well, at least I'm better off than I was a year ago in most respects :)

I guess I'm just kind of "in a mood" today. Like that's anything new. Haha.