Sorry I haven't been on much...back is killing me again, hurts to sit.
I was feeling fine for about a week, then I went to a couple local beaches over the weekend and completely over exerted myself. Topsail isn't so bad, but Hammocks beach is an island that you have to hike across for a while to get to the beach itself, and that took it's toll on me. My back is SCREAMING.
I had a complete brain fart yesterday and remembered that I have Aflac accident insurance and about blew a gasket. That's money in my pocket I almost forgot about! What's WRONG with me? I told the chiropractor I only had Blue Cross Blue Shield. I'm having Aflac send me a claim form this week so I can get a pretty nice chunck of dough lol.
I put up a photo we took on my main page of one of our piers on Topsail. A lot of photographers come here to take pictures of what they call the "chapel". Does look quite a bit like coming down the church aisle from this angle...
Couldn't have asked for better weather...Finally cooled down to 65-70 that evening with a perfect breeze and perfect sunset. Nothing like getting off work at 12:30-1:00 on a slow mail day to have the whole rest of the day to do nothing but pretend it's the weekend!! My last two days have been like that.
Unfortunately, since I hurt my back, I haven't been able to do any running for the past 2 weeks. It's MISERABLE. I'm so used to being active and trying to lose 5 or so lbs before our cruise in October, and now I can do nothing but lay on the couch like a blob and play video games and watch tv. I don't want to push my luck if I start to feel a little better and completely put myself out of commsion. I want to feel great on my trip, It would totally suck to have a bad back out there.
Our cabinet installers are coming back in the morning to finish the cabinets, so I will add pics tomorrow. Then the countertop people can come back to finish...
Oh, I found a pretty stenciling thing I want to do on the wall over the backsplash, check it out:
The little sample photo is the one I want...the colors are similar to what I want too. I think it'd look nice over the counter, but it wouldn't look nice anywhere else around the room. Gotta think of something else for that...
Gotta go to dentist after chiropractor tomorrow...ugh....I get jabbed all day, what joy.
I got my stimulus check FINALLY, put it in the bank today, WOOHOO!
What else...hmmm...
Took Levi for a walk today, first time he's been outside since I finally broke down and cut on the air conditioner a couple weeks ago. Wasn't sure how he'd take the heat...he kept plopping down on fire an beds and I kept moving his butt somewhere else. He was pretty ill with me and I finally lugged his fat butt back into the house. It's just too hot to deal with his little kitty hissy fits, especially with my back. He's 17 or lbs and its a BIG hill to walk up lol.
I gotta make Richie an appointment to see the doctor...he wont do it (I hate to be stereotypical, but I notice most guys won't take the initiative to see a doc unless forced). He's had a choking problem for a couple years now, and it's getting worse. Last night I couldn't take it anymore, so I found the number for an otolaryngologist (sp?)--ears, nose, throat doc. He can't swallow pork most of the time, no matter how small it is, or how much he chews it, or whatever. He can't swallow pills, and there are a few other foods I believe...I put a tenderloin in the crockpot last night, and it was falling to pieces, you didnt even need to chew it, yet he cant swallow and I think he'll absolutely choke to death. It freaks me out. Its not right. They can do things like make him swallow a fluid that will show how his muscles are working in his throat when he swallows, and they can see it on the screen. Or they can check it with a camera or a wire that will gauge the pressure of his swallowing muscles...there is something wrong, and he NEEDS to find out what it is.
Ho hum...back is hurting...going to go crash on the couch now...HEY, did you Deadliest Catch fans see the previews for the rest of the season, and how he was coughing up blood and couldn't breathe?! I hope he'll be all right! Speaking of tv, I missed Americas Got Talent last night...darn it.
I had a woman yesterday stick 4 dimes on an envelope. Still needed two more pennies so I wrote 42 cents needed on corner of envelope. (I'd pay, but it's wearing me thin, NO ONE seems to know prices went up).
Today, instead of the 4 dimes with 2 pennies added, I have A MOUNTAIN OF PENNIES on the envelope. Is that a slap in the face or what? How else should I take it? I'm hot, it's like 120 degrees in the jeep, I have to count out all the damn pennies without dropping them in the dirt, AARGH.
I left a little note saying "there was no reason to replace dimes with all those pennies, will not be accepted again."
Because DOESNT IT SAY on the orange money envelopes, "do not enclose cash"? Aren't we technically not suppose to deal with that aggravation? (sorry, not having a very angelic day)
Today I get back and tell my cooworker while my PM watched smugly. I get to my desk, and there is the note I left the woman with a note she wrote of her own that said :
"To: The post woman that left me a mean note: You always put my checks in my neighbors box and I dont complain about that. There need to be someone else to carry the mail in the Pine. I'm reporting you"
"NEEDS" lady, not need, and it's The Pines, not the Pine, which she called it twice, she passes the sign every damn day...sorry, she ticks me off.
Now, do I have any comebacks for this to protect myself from any type of @ss reaming?
WHERE does it say in a book somewhere that I don't have to accept 42 pennies??
(And I didnt misdeliver her checks, it was the new sub >:P )
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Went to doc then stopped by PO to finish some casing, and the clerk told me she was a b?tch when she lived on another route too, so not to worry about her. I guess as long as she doesn't "report" further than the PM I'll be alright.
Haven't been on in a while, mostly because my back screams when I sit for more than 5 minutes....
I went to the beach on Saturday with a friend and a couple children, and I stretched to reach for something while making sandcastles with them and ---YIKES! Felt a jerk in my back that I KNEW would hurt me later. I've hurt my back severely twice in the past and I think it is a flare up of an old problem that I've always had to be careful with. I can stand, I can lay down, but I cannot SIT. So driving on the route nearly killed me for Mon. Tue. and Wed. so Wed. night I called my sub and told her she'd have to work today (Thur.). I went to the chiropractor today that I used to go to (he works miracles) and I'm going to go ahead and take Fri. and Sat. off too. I NEVER use sick leave, so what the hell, I've got plenty of days. At least I don't use them to go play hooky like my PM and her kiss @sses at work that leave work mid day every week to horse around.
I didn't even call the PM to tell her I wouldn't be there, she just yells and hangs up in the past, so whatever. Besides, she makes us call our own subs in if we need them, she won't do it.
I called my friend at noon to see if the PM put up a stink about me not being there but apparently she didn't that she knew of. But she DID say that the PM told everyone in the office that they had to deliver at least HALF of the circulars that came in today (nasty advertisement cluttery smart source circulars) and told MY sub that she didn't have to do hers. Well guess what, that wasn't fair to my sub to lose a day on getting that crap out, now she DOES have to do them over the next day or two, because they CANT sit there til Monday. Watch my PM break the rules and let her. Just watch...
Wednesday morning, the clinic called my WORKPLACE for an appointment reminder and I got pissed because they ALWAYS call my cell. I got angry and said "the last thing I need is Ms Nosy knowing my personal business". Well apparently my kiss @ss sis in law ran and told the PM because I awoke this morning to an instant message on my computer "I really dont care about your personal life"--the only thing she's said to me since THANKSGIVING--(keep in mind we used to be close, very embarrassed to admit to that really)
On my way back from the chiropractor today I missed a call from my best friend. I tried unsuccessfully to call her back several times because her message sounded rather frantic. Finally reached her and she tells me she has to have surgery Tuesday. She's been having crazy hormonal problems, pains, moodswings...she went to the womens clinic for a physical couple weeks ago and they found nothing...past three days she's been in agonizing pain, went to the emergency room, they said nothing was wrong with her and sent her home---THE EXACT THING THEY DID TO MY BROTHER AND SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW THAT HAD LIFE THREATENING ISSUES (the hospital here is AWFUL, SEVERAL lawsuits!!)---she finally went back to womens clinic, they took xrays, found TWO large cysts on her ovary. One is 7 inches and one is 4 inches. How the HELL did they miss that at her physical two weeks ago?!? Ladies, you know how thoroughly they check your ovaries, how the hell did they miss 11 inches of CYST?? And for the life of me I don't know why they are making her wait til TUESDAY...she can't eat, she's vomitting, she's in pain, she is MISERABLE, nearly immobile...no pain meds because listen to this---if it BURSTS she needs to FEEL it, they say. WHY ARE THEY WAITING til Tuesday then??
So I have my poor BFF to worry for right now...we're both laid up on the couch for the weekend I guess. My back is pretty insignifant at this point.
Funny thing, I have to be at the clinic during her surgery there Tuesday for my OWN appointment. Now if they couldn't find something so damn large in her, why the hell am I going? I'll be sure to bring it up as part of the wonderful awkward small talk during the physical "process".
Our countertop guy came yesterday to install countertop, but cabinets were STILL screwed up so he could only get it half done, so now cabinet people AND countertop people ALL have to come back a second time because no one measures right the FIRST two times, and will I EVER get my kitchen, *sigh*...
Well at least I got one counter and the faucets in....green looks good...I'll post pics soon but there's a bit of clutter at the moment.
Ugh, I don't want to go crash back on that boring couch watching tv and stuffing my face, but it's hurting me sitting here. :(
I ate like 8 pancakes w/ peanut butter a bit ago from mere boredom and couch potato self indulgence...this is going to be a dangerous weekend. It's going to be a while before I can go running with this back, I hate not excercising....
