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it’s hard to be graceful after six martinis

Archive for January, 2007


you don’t need no stinkin’ content

I was tagged by Charlotte!! Actually, this is a bit older than yesterday’s meme - I’m still catching up on all my blog reading.
1. Available/Single? Maybe…do you have a sack of cash or an empty house?
2. Best Friend? Not counting my husband, I have a number of best friends - the south dakota crews, my afghanistan-beeyotch, [...]

meme-y fun

I was tagged by E. at Stories About Wolves to do a meme, and since it’s the first time I’ve been tagged (in this format anyway), I am jumping at the chance.
So……Five things you may not know about me…
1. I like cheese and martinis. Oh, wait. Everyone knows that. Hmm…digging deeper. [...]

weekend update

I got a financial summary from the hospital where I had my surgery (fortunately, I have freaking awesome insurance, and my bill = $0), and although apparently 24 hours in the hospital for surgery is hella expensive, there was one part of the itemized bill that made me very, very proud.
In the slightly less than [...]

words of advice

1. If you’ve recently had abdominal surgery and it hurts like hell to laugh, never ever ever plan a viewing of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and then follow it up with back-to-back episodes of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Because the noise you will make trying not to laugh will scare [...]

on the road…

To Recovery…
So - I am getting better. I am still not thrilled about my temporary diet (very very low fat bland blah blah blah), but it is only temporary.
The pain from the surgery is still there, and I get tired really easily. However, I feel about 150% better than I felt one week [...]

out for awhile

I’m not sure when I’ll be back regularly. I went to the doctor Thursday morning in a lot of pain and ended up having surgery Thursday evening. I am hoping to return to work part-time this Tuesday, but the post-surgery pain and weakness are keeping me from doing much - even typing this [...]

I have survived

Well, I am at work. My goal was to work a full day (which I have not done since last Tuesday). However, the forces of nature are not down with that plan - so only a half day today. It’s very very pretty out - although it took me 1.5 hours to [...]