Filed under: Family
My mom had outpatient surgery last week, and I offered to be the designated driver. After the procedure, while my mom was in recovery, the doctor came out to speak to me – to tell me what he did, what my mom could/could not do, etc. I’m sure what he was telling me was very important, however…his teeth. His perfect, gleaming white chompers grabbed all of my attention. How does one maintain a set of teeth such as that? A stash of whitening strips in the bottom desk drawer? Only eat white foods?
I shouldn’t say that was the ONLY thing that grabbed my attention – I heard loud and clear his statement that he went ahead and cut in half a tendon in her shoulder that had been partially torn and shredded and causing a lot of pain. I kept waiting for him to say “we’ll go back in and repair it later,” or something to that effect. No. Apparently that tendon isn’t that important and will stay cut in half. I keep having these visions of my mom’s arm suddenly falling off and rolling around the floor. But whatever. I have total faith in Dr. Chompers.
Last night I made a huge decision. I’m still working it over in my head. Did I do the right thing? Will this decision come back to haunt me? HAVE I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE???
I decided to let my bangs grow out.
For the first time ever.
My prediction is that in 3 weeks, I’ll be wild eyed, running around my apartment with my cellphone in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other, with my hair-cutter-lady on the phone trying to talk me down.
Filed under: Daily
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to begin to get organized. BEGIN to get organized. No sense in saying “I’m going to be organized.” Might as well as the sun to stop shining.
I’ve think I’ve blogged about this before, but when I was younger, I never had to write anything down. I knew where I was supposed to be, when, how much $ was in my checking account, passwords, phone numbers. On and on and on. I was a data repository.
Now I’m just stressed. It is such a cliche, but seriously, I can’t remember shit. At work, I’m good. I have a great system that involves a month-at-a-glance calendar, an ongoing to-do list, my computer calendar, and an organized office space and hard drive where I know where (almost) everything is. Life is good. At home – ugh! I cannot find a system that works for me. I have appointments, special occasion dates, etc scattered everywhere because I write them down as they come up – at a friend’s house, when my grandmother calls – I haven’t found a portable organizer that works for me because it’s not like my life is like work. At work I’m in a relatively small area for 8 hours. My life…God, some days it feels like I’m everywhere. I’ll create a user name and password for an online site at the VIMs house, then get home and have NO IDEA what the password is or where I wrote it down. It drives me nuts.
So tell me…how do y’all keep yourselves organized at home. What do you do if you unexpectedly meet an old friend at the mall and they invite you to dinner on the 3rd at 6pm?
Filed under: Daily
The only thing more evil than a shot of Grand Marnier at midnight on New Years Eve is the annual family pork and sauerkraut lunch less than 12 hours later.
