Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Owww, damn!

All this shit with Sandy and I threw my back out this morning. WTF???

Its been coming for a few days now. I felt it. Got out the shower and went to reach for something on a shelf and it was a wrap. I literally couldnt move for 10 minutes. I felt like an idiot. I couldnt stand straight up, I couldnt take a step in either direction, I could barely breathe, the pain was so bad. I actually stood there and cried, trying to catch my breath. I havent thrown my back out in a couple of years - at least not like this - so I had forgotten how painful it was. Because its been so long, I had no meds, so I was resigned to ibuprofen and a heating pad, and it took me another ten minutes to even get into my bed. No bullshit.

The upside is I have the best kids ever. They waited on me hand and foot all day, making tea and soup and getting this and that, turning on the heat, turning off the heat, whatever I needed them to do. I was in good hands.

Luckily I dont have to go to work tomorrow, so I have another day to try to nurse it. I think I will be okay after that. I have a heap of shit I need to do this weekend so pray for some swift healing on my behalf and I will holla at yall on the flip side.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Appreciating obstacles

My son taught my daughter to draw today.

We taught him how to play skip-bo.

Neither of those things would have happened if we hadnt lost power and as anyone can see by watching the news coverage, things could have been a whole lot worse.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

I even got a text last night AND today from somebody I had I pretty much sent to hell in my mind, checking to see if we were okay. I guess I was supposed to be touched that he thought about our safety. Maybe I was. A little.

But he can still kiss my ass. #howboutthat

Hurricane Update

Sandy didnt hit us much at all where I live. We got a lot of wind but the rain was pretty "rainy day" standard. Clearly we were lucky and other areas were hit much harder because we lost power due to flooding of some of our power company's central offices and substations. We were down since 8:15 last night and just came back up at 6pm. I spent all day trying not to use my phone unless it was absolutely necessary, having to charge it twice with my laptop. The lights coming on was like the Bulls winning game 7 back in the 90s! I aint never been so happy to see lights in my LIFE!

The building I work in is flooded, so no work tomorrow and the kids dont have school, so hooray for that too. This has been one of the most stressful days I've had in a while. All I wanna do is pour me a nice stiff drink and play words with friends on my phone until the break of dawn LOL

Good Lord!

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hurricane Sandy

Me and the midgets are okay. There were no evacuations where we live and my hope is that there wont be.

Transportation has been shut down so schools are closed and my office is as well. The biggest concern around here is whether the power will hold up. I hope it does cause chances are, my satellite TV wont and if I cant at least get online, Im liable to lose my mind LOL.

Thank you for the texts and emails of concern - I will keep you posted.

Need something to do?

Somebody asked to read something I wrote so I came in here looking for the excerpt I had posted from one of the books I was working on last year. I didnt remember when I posted it, but I remembered entitling it "Game" so I put that in the blog search. It pulled that post up along with about 20 other ones that had that word in it and since I wasnt doing anything else, I decided to read through them.

An hour later, I have spit coffee, choked myself into a coughing fit and laughed uncontrollably for minutes at a time.

So if you're bored, try that. Enter game in the blog search field and read through those and have a chuckle. Hey, enter some other word and see what that pulls up. Actually, I might just do that too.

P.S. Finally figured out that spacing thing! :)

Sunday, October 7, 2012

What?

1 week, 3 dates, same guy. Each one better than the last. Whose life is this? LOL





Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Life's Simple Pleasures

I walked Broadway tonight with a dark chocolate man, about 6'3 with dimples and the body constructed of unicorn tears LOL.... and it was AMAZING. You see that shit in the movies and you be like.... I wanna do that. We've been friends at least 15 years... probably closer to 20... tonight's meet-up was really just two old friends reconnecting but dammit, I got my walk down Broadway, AND.... he wants to do it again. Im ALL about it.