General update

4. May 2009 by Bex.

Ron’s mom left on Friday; she stayed about a week.  The day after, my ex’s daughter came over for the night.  So we had one night of lounging around in our underwear before we had another guest.  I took her to see Aliens vs Monsters which was pretty cute.  Ten dollars a piece though for admission which is nuts.  This is why I don’t normally go to movies.

Since I’ve been so cooped up in the house, I convinced R and Ron to take the dogs to the park with me.  It’s just a small arboretum and fishing pond/lake.  There’s a huge playground of course but I don’t take the mutts through that part.  It was so nice to get out!  I was surprised that Rowdy was able to make it around the lake.  He was so happy to get out that I decided to take him out again today.  I’m always afraid to walk him too much because of his hips but I think a little exercise is really good for him.

Of course, Sadie took a dip in the lake.  She was nice and rank for the ride home.

My health is ok.  I saw the rheumatologist today and they said to keep up the ‘roids.  Goodie!  (/sarcasm)  Since there doesn’t appear to be any bone damage yet, I don’t need any of the major drugs you see on television commercials.  Thank.  God.  So that’s good news.  Also, I’m still healing from the surgery.  The bruises had all turned a nice sickly yellow but then I wore my jeans for half a day.  Sad to say they were/are too tight.  I ended up bruising myself all over again just from putting compression on the swelling.  Kinda sick actually.  I guess I’ll have to wear my “fat” pants for a while.

(Holy shit, is that ice cream truck just PARKED outside my house?  Ice cream truck music is reaaaaally annoying.)

I’m actually kind of looking forward to work tomorrow.  Weird!  Part of me wants more time to rest and part of me just wants out of the house.  I have done some work from  home and kept up on my work email.  Things are starting to pile up so I really want to get back and start taking care of some research requests.  Maybe I just want to feel useful and keep my job.

Since I’ve had time off, I’ve been trying to take part in more photo theme days on Flickr.   I’m not very creative but I’m having fun trying!  The first was a “robot” theme and the second was “The Big Lebowski.”

Rat vs Robot

“Jesus”

 Happy freakin’ Monday!

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