Author: Keiran

I’m in the middle of a chain reaction

Yesterday I had a very mild reaction to a new fabric softener we used. Luckily, it was just a reaction to the scent, and it only made me a little itchy and slightly difficult to breathe. But I made it the whole day at work then came home and rewashed all my clothes with the trusty old fabric softener. There’s still a tiny bit of the scent, so they might need another washing, but it’s a major improvement.

Had a dentist appt earlier this afternoon. Kevin (dentist) and I were talking about how long it’s been since I’ve been coming to see him, and he was telling Kim (tech) that my dad was one of his top patients when he was going through dental school. That was roughly 17 years ago — Kevin was putting himself through dental school as a limo driver for Jerry Jones back then. Once he opened his own practice, the whole family started going to see him. Currently, I’m the only person still seeing him, since he’s not on mom or Aaron’s insurance any more.

I don’t know why I’m rambling about that. I’m in a rambly mood. I’m still a little loopy from the laughing gas at the dentist. It was almost a disaster when I was trying to make dinner tonight. I thought I grabbed a can of chili and started opening it — only to slosh liquid all over myself. Turned out I grabbed a can of pork & beans. Oops? I had trouble opening the cans, too. Apparently you actually have to open the can opener to fit it over the lip of the can. You can’t just force the can between the two blade bits! Imagine that! Hah. Luckily it’s only my top lip that is still numb … so eating isn’t a disaster, too.

Hmm. It’s time for American Idol. Guess I should go. GO BLAKE!

ETA: My cat, Mali, is sitting in her normal spot behind the monitor. When Blake started singing “This Love” – she peaked out from behind the monitor and stared at the tv. Hee!!

Work all day, work all night

Yesterday, we had a farewell lunch for my boss. During that, we were talking about our building & cost of rent and utilities, since we are going to be consolidating onto lower floors of the building.

One of the funny ideas/suggestions was that we all just live here. They keep the entire building for us, and have us work on floors 1-6, and then 7-10 become “living quarters”. Something about splitting some of the cost of the rent with the employees, and that how then we could get a break on taxes since it would be a “home business” since we live here, etc. Plus, we’d all save a lot of money on gas, rent, etc.

And that segued into an idea for a reality show: “The Tower”. And the premise would be that all corporate employees are forced to live here until we can make the company profitable again. On Saturdays/Sundays, we would have “play days”, and families could come visit, and sometimes they’d turn the top of the parking garage into a place to party, hiring a band to play for us, etc, as “rewards.” And, of course, selling the show to TV would get a nice little cash infusion into the company to help us on our way to profitibality, plus it’d help to fund conversion of the top floors to living quarters, adding showers, etc.

A fight would SO break out within the first week if we all had to live together. hahah.

I guess I’m feeling just a little tired of this

It figures. I mentioned my tendancy towards tendonitis last week, and now it’s driving me crazy once again. To be fair, I was starting to have twinges at the beginning of last week, and writing all that out about work Thursday definitely didn’t help things. That was when the twinges got a little worse.

It’s flared up more now, pain radiating from my shoulder to my fingers. It’s worse in some places (ie all the joints), but it also hurts in the muscles in my arms. I already called this morning and got a doc’s appt for tomorrow. This is a new doc (can’t see the old thanks to insurance changes), so I’m hoping she’s good. She was recommended by another of my docs, and she got good feedback on ratemds.com, so I’m hoping that bodes well.

I swear. I would love a year without pain or other medical crap. Hell, who am I kidding? Even a month would be nice. I’m sick and tired of being sore, sick, and tired.

Randomly: I saw Hot Fuzz on Sunday morning. That was hilarious. Go see it.