Thursday, July 29, 2004

I Need Sunshine

Where have I been? Right here, hiding in my new house curled up on the couch. I haven't been in the mood to blog and to avoid posting something lame I took a blogging vacation. Am I back? Don't know yet. Work has been very busy and I am flat exhausted when I get home. The weather has been gray, which also makes my mood gray.

I am thrill to say that I had my very first house guest. Friend Shana came to visit and it was just what I needed. When my back went out so did my temper. She allowed me to forget about the pills, the ache and all the other stuff that goes with it. I hope the flood that hit Dallas missed her area of town.

The DNC has provided me some comic relif but has also terrified me at the same time. Do they really believe all that crap? Okay enough  of that.

I have been attempting my faux happiness lately and haven't been totally succeeding at it. Friend Shana and I discussed my refusal to be depressed but when I am hurt or sick and the weather is icky, my force field to repel that depression monster is not to strong. Oh! not to mention the gross poundage that I gained from having to eat every time I had to take medicine these last three weeks.

Must think happy thoughts! Must think happy thoughts! Must think happy thoughts!

Friday, July 23, 2004

Friend Shana Comes to Town

It's Friday and I have made it! I am almost back to my norm, just a little tinge that let's me know my back is still not happy. It's like when you are sick you fall into a void of nothing-ness and making it hard to blog.

Friend Shana is coming to see my new place on Saturday - I am excited. We have been rather busy this year and haven't been able to connect since she moved from OKC to Big D. Of course we do the e-mail thing but it's not the same as the face to face conversations over deserts (our norm was to retreat to Pioneer Pies for bitch sessions).
 
Work is work and there's nothing exciting to announce. The back to school crunch is in full swing - didn't we just say "yeah, school's out"? Where'd the summer go? Only five weeks left and I am feeling the time slipping away. The Boss was on vacation this week, so it was a good week - especially since I had pain killers to make it all the better.

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Back to Blogging

Although I feel like I should have died by now, I still live albeit in great pain but alive none the less. The problem with back pain is that sitting up is just as painful as standing. The only way to reduce the pain is to lay as flat as I can on my tummy. It's kind of hard to blog in that position. Keep your fingers crossed, I will attempt working a full day tomorrow for the first time in two weeks - I will be armed with pain killers, I have high hopes! I am walking better and the pain is manageable now. Thanks to all for your kind words - I expect to be as "normal" as dana gets real soon - these episodes just take time to heal. 

One good thing about my "episode" is that it came at a time when my homeowners insurance called and demanded that all the ivy had to be removed from my house by July 12th. We had most of it off anyway but it just put us on a deadline. I was unable to finish cleaning the flowerbed, so mom and dad did it for me. In the process mom got into some poison ivy or poison oak. She not real happy with me right now. LOL 

Monday, July 12, 2004

Oh My Aching Back

If you can die from a back ache, I am surely going to die. I have a ruptured disk that when pissed really creates a lot of pain. Well, I guess I pissed it off good and proper. Over the 4th of July weekend, I was working in my front planter and that's when my back went out. I have been in horrible pain ever since. There's no amount of pain killers that will deaden the pain. I have to just lay around and hope it gets better soon. The muscle relaxers work on making me stupid but I don't know how much they help my back. This is a condition I have to live with since there is no real fix for it but it's hard.

Today is my first day back at work in a week - I am hoping I will make it all day but pretty much think I will pass out from pain before 4:30 comes. It hurts to sit in one position for long and I can't find a good position at all in this stupid chair of mine.

Friday, July 02, 2004

Wired, Tired and Relieved

My poor parents were probably the first of this fourth of July car wrecks. Thank God they are okay but mom's Cadillac isn't. Some crazy driver came flying up behind them, hit the brakes making them scream for a long time and rammed into the back of a car behind mom and dad causing him to hit my parent's car. Mom's car then hit the car in front of them. The poor driver hit first had to be taken to the hospital and the cause of the wreck was handcuffed and taken to jail (we don't really know why). Oh, of course, he had no insurance. We can send men to moon and yet we can't stop uninsured from driving? Go figure.

One of my absolutely favorite movies is a Street Car Named Desire. Stella! I was sorry to hear Marlon Brando passed today - he was so sexy in his youth.

I have hit that exhausted wall again and really need a good nights sleep. I should be going to bed now but I am little to wired to crawl in bed yet. I have this problem of getting to tired and that makes falling asleep hard - once asleep, I am out it's just getting there that's the problem.

Happy 4th everyone!