The Perfect Day

I'm doing a project with myself and part of it asked me to imagine my perfect day. This is what I came up with:
Wake up naturally, with the sunrise. Feel well rested.
Drink a cup of coffee on the porch with Dan and Violet. Watch the birds wake up and visit the feeder.
Go for a run.
Weed the garden, pain free.
Go out to lunch with friends - drink a glass if wine and gossip.
Spend some time crafting and writing. Listen to music, podcasts, a book on tape or the radio.
Make dinner, and not have to worry about dishes.
Curl up on the couch with a good book, a blanket, and Dan.
Go to bed before I become too tired for words and turn into a pumpkin.

Quilting - a new project

I have been at a loss for a good project recently. Since last year we spent quite a bit of money on the house (new bed, new furnace, new floors in the basement), one of the guidelines is that my new project cannot be expensive. I have knitted 2 scarves for Becky's project with yarn I'd purchased a while ago but didn't like the way the project was turning out. The scarves came out nicely, but apparently I haven't taken any pictures of then. I should get on that.

For a project around Christmas, I'd purchased a couple of dat quarter bundles. I did not use them all, so my next project will be quilting! This should be fun. I signed up for a Craftsy course (free!), and last night I made the first 2 quilt squares. Now I covet a self-healing mat, a rotary cutter and a guide.

Here are my first two squares!

Small town feeling

I think I should be distressed at what happened this afternoon, but instead I find myself mildly amused. There are a couple of pharmacies in the same chain that I frequent for my medications, but the one I go to the most is near my favorite grocery store. The pharmacist who typically works on Sundays is the one I tend to see the most, I'm not even sure I've seen him there on other days of the week. However, today he was working when I went in to get my meds filled. The conversation went something like this:
"Hi, I need to refill my no-crazy pills"
"Birthdate?"
"*lists off birthdate*, I'm running to the grocery store, I'll be back in 20 or 30 minutes."
-half an hour later-
I smile at him, he picks up my prescription, I state my address without him asking, he checks me out.

During NO part of this did I actually tell him my name or what medication I wanted refilled. Oh no, my pharmacist knows me by sight.

Good thing that I'm such a believer in better living through chemistry.

The laptop is working!

Sometime over Christmas break the laptop got put on the floor at my parents' house. And it could be that I stepped on it. Or, you know, someone else could have stepped on it. But I'm the only one who will admit to having knowingly put my foot on it. So, it's my fault. But anyways, the next time we turned it on, there was a big white line down the middle of the screen. Everything on the inside still worked, but the screen had only the right and left sides showing.

Good thing we got the warranty. The laptop went on vacation to the spa for a few weeks. Then it took a long nap in the library, which we couldn't walk through due to the sheer quantity of junk that inhabited the floor. But! We cleaned the library last weekend, and found a copy of Office that we could install on it! And now it's a real! live! useful! thing! Can you tell I'm excited? Well, I am.

I read so many blogs, probably over 50 in my Google reader. I keep wanting to be better at posting, but it's so hard for me to find something to say and the energy to write. With the laptop, I can sit on the couch next to my darling husband (who's making me watch Dr Who with him), and spew out whatever's in my brain.

Bullet points:
-I accidentally overdosed myself on my thyroid medicine. Turns out that 50mcg is 10 times less than 0.5mg. But my brain, when I refilled my meds from the clinic stock, didn't take that appropriately into account. So when I got my thyroid rechecked last summer, they cut my dose in half. And then at New Years, took me off of it completely. At which point my thyroid stopped making any hormones again. Jerk. So I'm back on meds, at the CORRECT dose.

-I thought I had a deep vein thrombosis in my calf. I got a d-dimer test which was positive. I got an ultrasound (and an x-ray), which were negative. I'm still on birth control pills, but a little more paranoid about any aches and pains that I have.

-I had a terrible day at work, between a chihuahua in kidney failure and a yorkie having a seizure, I felt like I was working right at the edge of my mental capacity all day. Which, as I was running a few fries short of a happy meal all day, was not very high to begin with. My husband met me at home with a pizza and let me watch Glee and Bones instead of dealing with life when we got home. Then we had strawberries and leftover chocolate mousse for dessert. It was amazing, and I'm feeling a ton better. Fortunately, if I hadn't been, I still would have had girl scout cookies and boston creme ice cream to fall back on. Those are safe for another day.

That more or less emptied my brain. Woohoo.

Overachiever, I am a

It has snowed a lot this winter. I think maybe 4ish feet. It's done a but of melting and raining too. This past week we got an inch every other day. So the driveway and mailbox had to be dealt with, lest our mailman decide once again to stop delivering our mail. I threw out my back before we finished the driveway. I was down at the mailbox giving the husband moral support when a neighbor from down the street brought his little rented front loader over and totally cleared the mailbox as well as breaking up the worst of the snow/ice bank. It was lovely.

So are muscle relaxants, which is about all I can accomplish since then. Damn back, I had things to do!

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highs and lows

Pregnant best friend had her baby boy last week. I was able to make it out to her (a time zone and a plane ride away) in time for my little nephew to be born. Her labor lasted over 33 hours, and seeing my friend in that much pain shut me down while I was trying to be there for her. I couldn't make the pain stop, I couldn't make the doctor hear what she was trying to say, I couldn't force her body to cooperate with the things they were doing to ease her pain and support her body. Nephew was eventually born by c-section, with his cord wrapped around his neck 5 times.

The emotions ran wild in me. I was elated to see this much loved little boy who was long hoped for, much wanted, and who already had fans all over the world. I was so proud of my friend's husband for bring a dad so quickly and easily. He's normally a wishy washy kind of guy, and he was immediately asked to make some big decisions about the baby before m.y friend was out of recovery. He made good choices for his family and I was so proud to see him fill the role he wanted so badly. While we were watching Nephew get his first bath and a proud but tired dad take hundreds (literally) of pictures, I almost started crying again at the thought of my friend alone in recovery. All the maternity recovery rooms were full, so they sent her down to general surgery recovery to be monitored. I was sad because no one was allowed to be with her and we had her baby who she had barely met, and they were tears of relief that the baby was here, and tears of sadness that they were suddenly so far apart.

I think I cried more in the first few days than she did, although now that the post-partum hormones are kicking in, she's totally got me beat. I miss being with my second family, but I'm so happy for them it hurts.

Meanwhile, my own biological clock is beginning early negotiations with my husband for a dog. Mmm, puppies.

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Overwrought

I'm feeling very emotional needy. Things that I thought I was over and done with have been sneaking up on me for the last couple of days. Last night, when mold was found on my guest bathroom toilet seat, I kinda flipped. It was just short of actual tears being shed, but it took a long time to fall asleep after that.

I spent 6 hours yesterday helping a friend move. It was exhausting, and they were still working on it at 10am when we ran over to collect the air mattress we'd lent them (they'd packed their bed already).

There is an impromptu LAN party for Civ 5 at our house today. Troll and husband are hosting, and they are on turn 252 of 500, so they'll be here for quite a while still. Troll is using my desktop computer, but there's not a ton that I can't instead accomplish on the laptop. It's only skills are browsing the internet, but that's really all I'm doing today. I have poked at the library, and have made a reasonable dent, and that is a start.

I am still waiting for best friend to have her baby, she was due 5 days ago, so every day is a little bit exciting :) I think she's ready to get him out of there too, at this point.