where has my mind gone?!?

if you want to know how to spell pain, it is spelled t-o-n-s-i-l-l-e-c-t-o-m-y. yes, it sucks. it sucks more than words can really explain. it's now been a week since they were burned out of my throat. i have spent a week eating popsicles, pudding, some sketti-os, some mac & cheese, and various soups (and of course jodi's beans which had a very short throat friendly life). i really can't begin to explain how sick i am of those foods.

i need to call bartell and get one of my meds transfered because i will run out of it tonight.

i also made doctor's appointments with the ENT and orthodontist. the nice lady at the ENT's said that feeling this way for a week is really normal, and it just happens that one day you just kinda wake up and feel better. i hope that day is soon because i am going nuts.

the best thing to happen in the last week is that i got a new vacuum. i've had major vacuum envy of anybody that had a dyson animal vacuum. i noticed that they were not marked as an exclusion on the bedbathandbeyond 20% coupons, so i sent adam to get one the day that the coupon expired. it rocks the house. i feel like crap but at least my living room carpet looks clean!

Posted by at 1:27 PM | Permalink

You Are Cookie Monster

Misunderstood as a primal monster, you're a true hedonist with a huge sweet tooth. You are usually feeling: Hungry. Cookies are preferred, but you'll eat anything if cookies aren't around. You are famous for: Your slightly crazy eyes and usual way of speaking How you life your life: In the moment. "Me want COOKIE!"

Posted by at 8:20 PM | Permalink

less than 12 hours until i will have no more tonsils or adenoids. wow. they've been in my body for so long that it is weird to think that they will be gone. hopefully they will take all of my frequent illnesses with them. while i don't like the thought of surgery, i think that the outcome will be worth it. i'm less nervous about the surgery itself than i am about the anesthesia. i've heard that it is not uncommon to have a bad, spewy reaction when coming out of it. i certainly hope that i do not have that problem. i'm all stocked up on gatorade and popsicles, so i should be ready for my return home tomorrow. tick tock tick tock...

Posted by at 10:31 PM | Permalink

after missing a saturday, most of the following friday, and a saturday, i have successfully made it through my friday and saturday shifts. i also attended a store meeting this morning. i've got a 2 hour training scheduled for tuesday. it will be the last time that i will be on the schedule until the first full week of september. work this weekend was both good and bad. friday was bad because i talked to my manager about my lack of reliability/absences due to the damn infections that keep making me sick. saturday was good because i got a really great compliment about one of my customer interactions from the store's general manager. i really hope that this surgery greatly reduces the amount of time that i am sick as it seems to have done with everybody i know. i've got my fingers crossed. overall, it was good. it was nice to be back at work. :)

Posted by at 9:51 PM | Permalink

wow. the last few weeks have been nuts. adam and i went back to IKEA and bought the bed we liked last week. it was delivered on wednesday night. shortly after it was delivered, we had dinner with my sister-in-law, susie. i hadn't seen her since her wedding a year ago, so it was nice to be able to chat. jodi and richard decided they wanted to buy the old ethan allen california king bedframe and mattresses, so those lived in the living room until yesterday when we moved it all to their place.

on the health front, my tonsils decided on one last screw you by giving me tonsillitis one last time before they are sliced out next week. i went from having a normal voice to sounding hoarse in less than 24 hours. after another 12 hours, i had no voice at all. i stayed like that for a few days, and i've been regaining my voice for the last 2 or so days. one part of my back is killing me because i did something to it when moving all of the furniture yesterday. since surgery is less than 2 weeks away i cannot take anything with aspirin or ibuprofen or things like that. sooooo, i'm stuck with suffering and some vicodin. the vicodin helps some, but i really need something anti-inflammatory.

finally, adam turned 29 on tuesday. wow. we went out to bento box so adam could chow on some sushi to celebrate his birthday and finishing a nasty test pass at work. he spent all weekend at work and had been going crazy trying to get stuff finished.

oh yeah. since i worked only one full shift and 2 hours of another shift and the additional money that i have the IRS withhold from each paycheck, i will have a huge $2 paycheck!

Posted by at 8:51 PM | Permalink