William is 'fine'. He's in a lot of pain, you can see it on his face. He doesn't sleep well at all, but lucky for him, he can still play WOW.
His fingers are all still intact. His ring finger on his right hand snapped between the 2 smaller knuckles, tearing the tendon a bit. His middle finger on his right had is mushy around the fingernail. 3 of his fingers are wrapped up tight, the pinky being punished for no reason.
On Friday he meets again with the surgeon to see if the end of his finger will 'live'. If it's not doing well - off it comes! It's less than an inch, would hurt for a long time, would affect certain things he does at work (elevator mechanic), but really wouldn't affect golf. I don't know when he'll be back at work. Right now he's trying to avoid infection.
I realize that you could see it in the photo of me and my sisters (in the Christmas post), but here's a picture that's 1) a little more of a closeup 2) one where I look a little better...he he.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before? Went on a zipline.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I pretty much kept my resolutions, and of course have more for 2010.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No family member or close friend.
4. Did anyone close to you die? Thankfully, no.
5. What countries did you visit? US, Turks and Caicos, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Curacao, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Grenada, St. Martin, and one more, can’t remember... I realize that not all of these are independent nations, but WTH.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? Money, power, supermodel good looks
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory? September 15th was the 10 anniversary of my dad’s death.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Organizing a big golf tourney... that’s pretty sad accomplishment...
9. What was your biggest failure? Not attaining and maintaining my weight loss goals.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Um, I’ll just say no.
11. What was the best thing you bought? William bought a PS3, that’s pretty cool.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Yeah, I don’t get this question.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? HA! I like the word ‘appalled’. I am appalled often at many people’s behavior
14. Where did most of your money go? Mortgage, and into the coffers of the golf course.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Our cruise in March/April, and the beginning of the golf season.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009? The AT&T Lucky Couch radio commercial.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: Happier or sadder? Happier.
Thinner or fatter? About the same.
Richer or poorer? About the same
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Wow, that’s a tough one... It was a really full year... I guess dieting.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Haha, eating!
20. How will you be spending Christmas? Already did... with family and friends.
22. Did you fall in love in 2009? I am in love with William.
23. How many one-night stands? I had an affair with a guy named Mike, and one named Billy.
24. What was your favorite TV program? Hmm... I really like The Real Housewives series, Survivor
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Ha! Um, no.
26. What was the best book you read? Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens. It’s awesome. Read it.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? I still don’t like the sax in 80’s music, and I hate overly synthesized keyboards.
28. What did you want and get? Pretty much everything.
29. What did you want and not get? A smaller ass.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Hmm... I’m not sure; we didn’t see a lot of movies in 09.
31. What did you do on your birthday? I golfed in the league and pretty much had celebrated a ‘birthday week’.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Hm... Millions and millions of dollars.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? Ha! Joggies and a sweat shirt in the winter, tank tops and golf clothes in the summer.
34. What kept you sane? William
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? None really,
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I’m hard to stir.
37. Who did you miss? My father, William’s father, Sarabi.
38. Who was the best new person you met? I became better acquainted with many ladies at Sutton Creek.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009: I learned to say no, and ask for help.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: None really – I listen to sports talk radio...
Had my appointment with our family GP this afternoon. She scratched her head a little and basically, unless the polyp test comes back with a bad reading and that will dominate things a little, I don't have a lot of options. My diverticulitis is severe and over a fairly large area. The usual remedy is surgery to remove some of the colon. I am not keen on that, and so have placed it as a last resort option.
So, what to do? I am going back to the specialist who performed the colonoscopy for any treatment suggestions that he may provide. I am going back on antibiotics long term also. The other action is to really watch my diet and eliminate things such as seeds and nuts (which I do generally anyway) and really concentrate on getting as healthy as possible. I want to avoid surgery as long as possible, especially as persistent and long term diarrhea is a strong possibility.
So, I am on a quest to become super healthy. I am not one for discipline in this area. I am not good on discipline period. I can dish it out, but not great at doing it so to speak. I need some motivation and possibly public humiliation to motivate me, so I have created a blog No more cakes and ale http://nomorecakesandale.blogspot.com/ to journal my pursuit of health and well-being.
I won't bore you with too many details here, but if you want to watch the misery, and we all know misery loves company, then please drop in and check it out. Your support and suggestions will be most welcome - perhaps you might join me in some of the changes. Is that laughter I hear? I promise a bit of history fact and myth as well - it is the history teacher and librarian coming to the fore again.
Don't worry, I am staying on vox too - I just need to live my health for awhile as well! So if this is too much information for you, Flamingo Dancer on vox is here to stay!
Here are two very special places in my world.
(A Poem by Benny Hill)
They said that it could not be done, he said just let me try.
They said, “Other men have tried and failed,” and he answered, “But not I.”
They said, “It is impossible,” he said, “There is no such word.”
He closed his mind, he closed his heart to everything he heard.
He said, “Within the heart of man, there is a tiny seed.
It grows until it blossoms, it’s called the will to succeed.
Its roots are strength, its stem is hope, its petals inspiration,
Its thorns protect its strong green leaves, its grim determination.
“Its stamens are its skills which help to shape each plan,
For there’s nothing in the universe beyond the scope of man.”
They thought that it could not be done, some even said they knew it,
But he faced up to what could not be done, and he couldn’t bloody do it!
Nails on a chalkboard, TV static, the alarm clock... What noise annoys you most?
Knife and fork scraping together - easily the reason why I'm rarely found using cutlery properly.
Closely followed by: polystyrene.
This was the design I used for the shoes I posted below. ...made with sharpie then scanned and tweaked in photoshop
Konbanwa mina-san.
Writing this I am sitting in my apartment, in front of the computer with a cup of coffee. Alone. The only sound I can hear is from the tv (which is on as usual, because I hate it when it's too quiet). No one is asking me what I'm doing or trying to peak over my shoulder to snoop. I can do what I want, take as long time as I wish doing it and later I will be able to go to sleep as late as I want.
It's sooo peaceful.
Don't get me wrong I absolutely love being home with my family, I wouldn't trade the two weeks I was with them for anything...but I am used to being by myself now days, to having my own way of doing things, and it's nice to get back to that.
My parents drove me from Trollhättan to Lund (one of my sisters came with), but they have left hours ago now. Having read hundreds of pages i my psychology book the last week I am taking a (in my opinion) well earned evening off (hence, this post)...
...And moving on. This afternoon, just after my parents and my sister left i started reorganizing my closet. First it was only because I have bought quite a lot of new clothes (I got money from my grandparents on Christmas), but the longer it went on the more I noticed that I have tons of clothes that I never, ever, wear.
And so I started putting them in plastic bags (yeah, bag-s as in plural, two big ones) and I am going to let them be for a month or so...and after that month if I haven't taken any garnments out of them all of it is going to someone who needs it more (if I have taken something out that'll get to stay and the rest will go). The cleaning rendered my closet quite empty...as you can see, but it's a lot more organized and now there is (hopefully) only things in it that I use.
And there is color in it too!
Ha ha, not a lot (if you compare to the closets of a lot of other people), but still a significant improvement for me. See I have always felt the most comfortable wearing black, but even though it's nice looking it's not that fun...
...So I decided that this year I am going to try buy clothes that's in color. Can you see the one with he flowers on it (hanging in the closet)? It's new.
...Ha ha, I'm making progress with myself, little by little.
Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!
