Everyday Randomness

Lazy Sunday

Yep, I’m staying in today.  We’ve been running our legs off all weekend, and I decided today I didn’t want to leave the house.  I was at home maybe an hour yesterday, and I wasn’t happy because I’d planned to stay home so I could work on a few craft projects I’ve been trying to finish for months.  Hubby had other plans though, so we stayed out and about all day.

Friday I twisted my ankle.  It wasn’t a bad twist, but it was enough to keep me off my feet for a couple hours.  Saturday morning it was feeling a lot better, but after being on my feet all day it was killing me last night.  I think I need to stay at home today and off my feet.  Besides, I need to keep an extra eye on Bubba.

He went to the vet yesterday, and he’s got full blown bilateral ear infections.  He has chronic eye, skin, and ear problems, so he’s on an enzyme skin and ear treatment for that.  When his anal glands got infected it caused his chronic stuff to go haywire as usual, so now he’s got the ear infections.  He’s getting topical treatments twice a day and antibiotics twice a day.  I feel bad for the poor guy, but at least he’s so doped up he mostly wants to sleep all day.  I’m hoping the meds will help him to start feeling better in a day or two.

I’m going to give him his next dose of meds, then I think I’m going to plop myself on the couch to play some Guitar Hero Aerosmith Edition.  Hubby’s already beat the game on Expert, so I’ve got some catching up to do.

Picture Time!

Ok I ran out as soon as I had enough daylight to snap a few photos. I should have waited a little longer knowing my crappy camera doesn’t like to cooperate. The flash is REALLY horrible, so I had to brighten these up in Paint Shop Pro (the reason they look even crappier). I tried using the night mode, but you’ve got to hold the camera perfectly still, and that’s just not something I can do without a tripod so any of the brighter shots will definitely be blurry.

Yes you may click on these to view them much larger, especially the semi-panoramic shot. I had to make them small enough to use on the blog, but I left them large enough to view pretty much everything when you click on them.

So let’s start off with where the guy entered the ditch. Yes you’ll have to enlarge to read.

He knocked the mailboxes so hard he jerked one out of it’s concrete.

Look at the spot where his tire dug into the grass. You know what’s scary? A few months ago I helped my Grandparent’s dig up a bunch of old bushes that where there and transplant them in the back yard. Can you imagine what would have happened if those bushes were still there?

Now the other side of the ditch is the really steep drop. I’m surprised he didn’t get stuck.

And here’s my semi-panoramic shot. I had to chop it because the first shot didn’t line up. It’s so darn hard to see the little picture you’re supposed to use to line it up on the side of the screen.

Now what’s left to do? The men are outside cleaning up right now.

After This Weekend…

I’m going to seriously be in need of some diet pills. Why? I don’t plan on doing one flippin’ thing this weekend that requires me to exert any sort of energy…other than taking our old mattresses to the trash center across town, but Hubby has to do that.

I plan to sit myself right here in this chair for a good majority of the weekend sorting things out. My computers (yes plural) are all so unorganized I can’t find anything! I had planned to do some digital scrapping today, but after spending hours searching for ONE picture I gave up. Of course the picture ended up being on the one computer that’s got a bad psu, so the only way to get to it is to move that hard drive to Hubby’s pc…because my old computer doesn’t support SATA.

Hubby decided he doesn’t plan on doing much at all this weekend either. He wants to put as much time into the bike this weekend as possible. If he can do that we might possibly have it completely back together by next weekend…that is if all the parts are ordered and received by then. We don’t have many things left to buy, and I can’t wait. Putting gas in the Blazer for his 75 mile commute everyday is killing us!

I’m off to finish sorting email. I have about 500 more scrap kits to sort through from various yahoo scrap kit groups I’m a member of.

Rain Rain Come Again!

I feel so much better today.  I was finally able to talk one on one with the dentist yesterday after waiting 2 hours for him to call me back.  No big deal, he’s busy, and all that.  I’m just glad to finally have some meds in my system.

He gave me a prescription for an antibiotic to hold me over until my appointment on Wednesday.  I told him of course I was having a fair amount of pain with it as well, but I was taking Aleve.  He told me to continue the Aleve since, of course, it’s also an anti-inflammatory.  It does sound like an absessed tooth, which is what I was afraid of, and the fact that there’s also a cavity there means I can hear the bill adding up by the minute.

Oh well, all I can do is wait it out.  Wednesday can’t get here soon enough!

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On another note, we finally got some rain last night, but not much.  It amazes me how little our corner of the county is getting.  Two nights in a row we got stuck in monsoon like rains in town, yet it was dry as a bone when we got home.  Unfortunately we live on the farming side of the county, and not having any rain is killing everything.

Tuesday night when we left my friend’s house it was raining so hard Hubby had to pull over at the only open gas station in town.  We couldn’t even tell that we had headlights, and there was so much water on the roads it was shooting up over the hood of the Blazer.  I tried to take a photo when we stopped because there was a good 2″ of water standing on the roads, and the wind was blowing it in sheets.  The pics didn’t turn out though. 5 miles outside of town everything was dry as a bone.

What we finally did get last night was just enough to wet the pavement.  Rains like that aren’t going to help much.  I was so happy that the weather report was saying 60% chance of rain today with scattered storms all day, but so far everything has gone right around us as usual. As soon as the rain/thunderstorms hit the mountains it’s like they split.  Half goes north and half goes south.  Normally I’m not complaining, but we really need that rain.