Meanderings of a mad woman

Everything went well.  We got there, got to wait a while, talk to billing.  Then they took me back to get out of my clothes and into a dressing gown.  The nurses filled out paperwork and made sure of my sugar levels and other stuff while my doctors came to meet me before hand.  Poor Duncan got to wait back there in a hard uncomfortable chair instead of the nice comfy waiting room out front.  They gave me insulin and wheeled me back about 11:00 at which point I don't remember anything until I semi woke up in the waiting room.  I had a little trouble breathing at that point, possibly my allergies acting up since I've been congested the rest of the day.  And of course, it took quite a while to actually be coherent.  No problems with the surgery, everything went as planned and they did not have to do anything else than the laproscopy.  My blood sugar levels were up over 200 though so it took a couple hours and a couple shots of insulin to get them to let me go home.  The nurse figured I needed to get back home and to my normal meds and the doctor was being persistent that my sugars be below 200. Since I hadn't eaten all day, I figured i had bounced low and my body was trying to compensate.  Since it got better after I got home, I know the nurse and I were right.  They gave me percocet and advised me while I need to rest I also despite the pain need to get up and walk every hour or so, at least every couple hours.  We dropped off the rx and got home.  The guys went and picked it up for me an hour or so later.  Duncan has kept me plied with water and got me bland food.  According to the doctor, I can actually eat normal food tomorrow.  I feel the pain of course but am doing better already.  My white blood count was up when I got there so good thing I got the surgery done.  Who knows what was going on in there?  I've got my phone by me if anyone wants to call.

Well, I'm off to have my gallbladder removed this morning.  For those of you who I don't talk to in person, I have a 2 cm gallstone and since I'm diabetic, the doctors don't want to take chances with waiting.  I'll be having laproscopic surgery so it is outpatient as long as nothing goes wrong.  I've been seriously trying not to think of all the things that could go wrong.  I've never had surgery before, hell, I've never even been in the hospital for anything for myself.  On an off note, I've spent  a lot of time in hospitals for family members starting when I was really young so I hate hospitals.  Keep your fingers crossed nothing goes wrong.  I know I am and my toes too!  I've been trying to downplay how nervous I am but...here I'll say it....I really am worried.  But this is supposed to be routine at a hospital that is a good hospital and with a doctor that says there is a 98% success rate with her patients, so.....I'll attempt to keep the worry at bay.   I'll try to post something after surgery but it might not be for  a couple days.

I figured it out.  I don't have a full week this month at work.  I had to take today off because I'm on a new diabetic medicine and it's making me sick to my stomach, sick enough to not want to have to function.  I think I'm going to watch movies and sleep today.  But I feel bad because I also have a four day weekend off Friday and Monday just cause, although I will probably be running to get paperwork done.  For those who have not heard I will be having gallbladder surgery on May 22 the friday before Memorial day fortunately.  So I have Friday off this week, Monday off next week and the Friday and the following week off for the surgery the week after this.  Fortunately most of this will be covered by the holiday and paid FMLA.  I got to finish my paperwork but it should be good on that end.  The company taking care of it is fast at getting the paperwork processed when it's faxed to them.   Feeling icky today didn't help but at least I have intermittent leave now for any diabetic issues.  I think I'm rambling now.  Talk later.

He came walking up to the door last night, dusty and completely unconcerned that he'd been gone for 5 days.  Perri is a stinker but boy, were we glad to see him.  No sign of where he's been.  Only thing we can think of is that he got picked up or was in someone's car and got transported out of the neighborhood.  It must have taken him this long to get back.  At least he knows where home is.  Now he gets to stay in for a little while.  :)

My cat Perri likes to go outside and has done so for the last few years.  No problems.  He comes home every night or every morning after he's done running around.  He went out Thursday and didn't come home that night.  We haven't seen him since.  No one has called.  He does have tags with his name and our number on them but we haven't heard anything.  I looked around the neighborhood but haven't spotted him.  I miss him.  He's the one I went and picked out from the pound, the one who crawled over my shoulder and flirted with me.  The one who curls on the bed and sleeps with us most nights.  There's a chance he'll still come home.  We lost the other one for two weeks a few years ago and she came home after two weeks.  Keep your fingers crossed. 

<p><em>
            Your result for The Elemental Beauty Test...
            </em></p><h3>Natural Beauty</h3><p>58% Earth, 8% Air, 25% Water, and 8% Fire!</p><p style="text-align:center"><img src="http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/3860295963308804304.jpeg" width="407" height="600" /></p><div><p><em>You scored 58% Earth! Outstanding!</em></p>
<p>The Earth element is a natural beauty.  They tend to keep more toward greens, blacks, and natural colors for their wardrobe and their make-up, if they wear it to begin with.  They tend to be grounded and not caught up in the latest trends.  They are more interested in doing what feels right for them and being in touch with what is around them.</p>
<p>For inner beauty earth elements look for stability and commitment.  They look after others and their family.  They are realistic and tactile, meaning they aren't afraid to touch and be touched.  But they can also be quite stubborn and unmoving when their mind is made up.</p>
<p>Zodiac signs for earth are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. </p>
<p>You also scored:</p>
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<p><em>25% Water:  </em>Water is the etheral beauty.  They like things that drape and shimmer.  The love vintage and heirlooms; things with emotional ties and history.  0% Water may mean that you don't trust or use your intuition.  Equal Water and Air would indicate a person that is a hard worker with a need for security and an attachment to possessions.</p>
<p>8% Air:  Air is the fearless beauty.  They are offbeat and funny.  The mix old fashions with new and love to make new trends.  They aren't afraid to be new or crazy.  0% Air could indicate that you have trouble looking at things objectively.  Persons with equal Earth and Air are usually those who think and use good common sense.</p>
<p><em>8% Fire:  </em>Fire is the alluring beauty.  They like to wear bright colors and show some skin.  They are sexually minded and spicy.  They use a lot of charm to get what they want.  0% Fire can often be seen in someone that pushes and tries to force self-expression.  An equal Fire and Earth person is someone who has the ability to be powerfully creative.  Fire provides the motivation and Earth provides the tangible results.</p></div><p><a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-elemental-beauty-test">
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I have completed my story.  Doing dance jig all night long.  I blew through the final chapter and was at 50,200.  Now I've completed the first draft but the story didn't want more added to it.  Even though I edited the first couple chapters when I started, I did have some completed before the first of November.  Yet, I don't feel guilty.  I completed my story, did 5,000 words today alone, and I did do the 50,000 just not the extra to make up for the bit started before November.  Story is done, is what keeps running through my head.  Now to do the hard part, edit, revise, edit. fix........I'll post it at some point on our yahoo site but I'm having some computer issues so it may be a few days.  Woo-hooo!

I write.......write......write......write.......You see the pattern here I hope.  Since this month is Nanowrimo, I especially have been writing every tiny bit of time I can at work.  There are times I read as well but you know, books, reading, writing.  I see a theme.  :)  

Well, I've decided to write enough to make up for the 4-5,000 extra I started with.  I managed to write 12,000  over the last 5 days and even today, I managed another 2,000 words.  This on a day when I was out running around since 7:00 this morning and didn't start until about 8:00 tonight.  I think if I can keep up this count and have enough plot to carry through the story that I might actually make the 50,000 this year.  So with the extra I already had written which I can no longer remember the exact count of, just that it was less than 5,000,  I have a total of 19,061 words.   I am so excited!  I did not do this well last year.  I'm trying to do extra so I can have some leeway cause my friend Jeanne is coming into town to move another friend Sue up to Washington.  She is going to be here over Thanksgiving so we invited them over for dinner.  I have a feeling I won't get much done that day and I am hoping to have enough extra done to have time to visit with her while she is here.  Woo-hoo!

<p><em>Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...</em></p><h3>Intrapersonal</h3><p>25% Logical,  25% Spatial,  35% Linguistic,  51% Intrapersonal,  8% Interpersonal,  41% Musical,  6% Bodily-Kinesthetic and  41% Naturalistic!</p><p style="text-align:center"><img src="http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/17919296717967627799.gif" width="330" height="435" /></p><div><p>"This area has to do with introspective and self-reflective capacities. Those who are strongest in this intelligence are typically introverts and prefer to work alone. They are usually highly self-aware and capable of understanding their own emotions, goals and motivations. They often have an affinity for thought-based pursuits such as philosophy. They learn best when allowed to concentrate on the subject by themselves. There is often a high level of perfectionism associated with this intelligence.</p>
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<p><em>Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...</em></p><h3>Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.</h3><p>23 Impressionist,  21 Islamic,  -3 Ukiyo-e,  -22 Cubist,  -15 Abstract and  -1 Renaissance!</p><p style="text-align:center"><img src="http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/0x0/0x0/0/10303001213249351831.jpeg" width="494" height="300" /></p><div><p><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:arial, helvetica, verdana;"> Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects.  Impressionist paintings are balanced, use colored shadows, use pure color, broken brushstrokes, thick paint, and scenes from everyday life or nature.</span></p>
<p>People that like Impressionist paintings may not alway be what is deemed socially acceptable.  They tend to move on their own path without always worrying that it may be offensive to others.  They value friendships but because they also value honesty tend to have a few really good friends.  They do not, however, like people that are rude and do not appreciate the ideas of others. They are secure enough in themselves that they can listen to the ideas of other people without it affecting their own final decisions. The world for them is not black and white but more in shades of grey and muted colors.  They like things to be aestically pleasing, not stark and sharp.  There are many ways to view things, and the impresssionist personality views the world from many different aspects.  They enjoy life and try to keep a realistic viewpoint of things, but are not very open to new experiences.  If they are content in their live they will be more than likely pleased to keep things just the way they are.</p></div><p><a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/what-your-taste-in-art-says-about-you-test">Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test</a> at <a href="http://www.helloquizzy.com/"><b style="color:#131313"><span style="color:#ac000c">H</span>ello<span style="color:#ac000c">Q</span>uizzy</b></a></p>

Car is fixed so I have a ride on Monday and so does the redhead.  Expensive but done 

 The car died on the way home.  Thanks to some kind soul, I got pushed into a parking lot, there to wait for my roommate to come out and find out what was wrong with the car.  Thankfully, he was at home and more important, I was close to home, so I didn't have to wait long.  The car overheated, so we filled it with water and limped it home.  Wherein, they took a closer look and it's a cracked radiator. Oh, fun!  Oh, joy!  I have to call around and see if I can   A. Get the car fixed this weekend   and B.  afford to get the car fixed this weekend.  I am so thrilled!   Can you not feel the love from the universe?  AAAAARGH!   Just had to say it once.  Anyway, anyone reading this, wish me luck and I will keep you all posted.  P.S,  Red head will be called to make sure she receives this information.   Tomorrow.  Tonight I'm just tired. 

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I don't know if I did this right