Best Feeling Ever!

Waking up; looking at watch reading 05:00; thinking might as well get up; then realizing it is SATURDAY!!!!!!!
Lay back down.

Huh.

Ever wonder if your meeting was actually effective and productive and it is just everyone else's meeting that seems like a giant time suck?
Yeah. Me too.

Look, Look!!

I totally did something fancy with photobucket. :) The pictures showing up on the right side of the blog are photos taken when my 2 friends Jenny and Carol were here.
I am feeling quite technologically savvy.
*hugs*
-H.

Up up up.

Now, I know most (all?) of you don't sit at work and pray for the cost of fuel to go up.
But ya'll payin through the nose equals job security here.
So sometimes I wish gas was still up. The Valero refinery in Texas City is shutting its coker unit down for 40 days also the refinery in Aruba is being shut down for maintenance and economic reasons. There will be a shortage. Prices will go up.
Just a heads-up.
*hugs*
-H.

Sorry it has been a while...

...I have been waiting for my back to either finish me off or get better. For a while, I was fairly certain that disk was going to be the end of me. I shall seriously respect the amount of pain people with back problems have--it was *bad*!. The doctor on the island was planning on sending me to another doc to stick a needle in my spine with steroids in it. I had a long talk with my spine that evening. Regardless, it seems to be healing on its own (yay!).

Let's see...working (I use that term loosely) at the Chicago O'Hare office for one afternoon was weird. But in all honesty it was wonderful to see everyone. The pizza was awesome and everyone looked great. Sometimes I really miss my office. But, sometimes I get to go to the beach here...its a tradeoff. :)

On Saturday my husband flew in (yay!!!) so now I am sharing my apartment - (looks around warily) we shall see how that goes :). He has been a big help with the back pain--not letting me move stuff, icing it, etc. It is great to see him, but the sucky part of a long distance thing is that you have to re-learn how to live together every time.

It looks like I will be getting a new neighbor in the main apartment. My landlord rented it out. I also found out that the crazy neighbor--you know, the one in the middle?--yeah, his lease won't be renewed so he will be out of there soon (fingers crossed). He reintroduced himself to me the other day. In his mind (world?) he had never met me before. Also in his mind (world?) I had a roomate. According to him--she was lovely (?!?!?). Well, it's good that my invisible roomate is lovely. It must be her who makes all the mess....hey, I like this plan. :)

Speaking of neighbors, for those of you who don't know back in Chicagoland I had some lovely crackheads as neighbors. Now, crackheads they were, but, they did a lot of random work for us (mowing, gutters, etc.). Here is an email from my husband filling me in on the good/bad news in our 'hood:

"Bad news, good news. I've had to hire oak and jerrys landscaper. It'll cost 72 a month, and they will bill us. Good news, jerry told me that our crackhead neighbors is being foreclosed on b4 I gave john a pile of cash to mow our lawn for the summer. Jerry found the info on a website. The foreclose apers went thru over a month ago. An empty house is better than a crack den
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T"

btw: Oak and jerry are the neighbors attached to us. They do not appear to be insane (besides some harmless (to us) OCD issues) nor have any addiction problems. :)

I used to watch a soap opera in England during high school called Neighbors. I should totally write one based on the antics of my various neighbors. :) :) :)

*Hugs*

Well, this is weird...

I'm currently lying in bed in Bellwood, IL. I flew in on what felt like the longest flight ever (but in fact we got in early). I ate chinese food on the couch, watched tv. It is all normal--but different.
If coming to my house is this trippy--I can't wait to see what monday in the office brings.

Continued frolic

Last frolic before plane

The disk, the crash, the eyepatch and the bright red butt.

So, I have had 2 very close friends in town since last wednesday night. We have had fun bummin around and all sorts of stuff. Here is the long version of the story: The friday before I had washed the beasts in an attempt to save money-boy was that a mistake. Since I spent so much time bent over my lower back had a bit of a twang to it which by last tuesday had turned into a stabbing pain with a dull knife. Finally by wednesday I knew I had to get some help. I found a doctor who told me I had a slipped disk (oww) in my lower back. So, many hundreds of dollars later I had a diagnoses and the start of physical therapy.
Wednesday night my friends arrived, they were helpful with setting up their beds and getting stuff organized. We toured the island and I had physical therapy daily. Then monday came around; the girls were going to take a full day tour of buck island and I was going to work.
Monday morning we were zipping downtown and on a curve my truck started to slide. I slid into a pickup truck. It was horrible. Thankfully everyone is just fine. No injuries at all. But, it sucks. A lot. The adrenaline rush alone was insane. My friends hopped a cab downtown to go on their tour, my leased car was towed off, and the cop gave me a lift to work.
I rented a car after work (where, due to the rush and the stress I accomplished no work at all) and headed downtown to pick up my friends. Jenny's eye was swollen and itchy and Carol had missed one area with sunscreen. Her butt--which was the Brightest red I have ever seen.
So, between the crushed car, swollen eye, back pain and the ass with 2nd degree burns--we all went to bed at 8PM. It was a tough day.
The end.