So I might have been a little grumpy last night and in the midst of my grumpy-ness, I cut off all of Edda’s hair.
I cut it all off, I mailed it to Locks of Love, and I also tried cutting Edda’s hair into a kind of modern wedge-type high in the back and angled towards the chin cut. I think I did OK, but Jeremy says we should get a professional to fix it this weekend.
This past weekend was beautiful! Jeremy organized a BBQ picnic for his office which meant that he cooked all weekend.
I took the final for my biology class on Wednesday and all of a sudden, I find myself with more time. I used to have 5 hours of class and lab each week and I used to swim twice a week for an hour during the day – both of these I’ve stopped within the last two or three weeks and now I have time to catch my breath. I’ve been working more at work to catch up on some overdue patent stuff, but I’ve also had the chance to try and declutter the house and get some things done that I just haven’t had time to do.
I’ve been trying to fix a floor lamp that used to be in Jeremy’s parents house when Jeremy was a child. It had been sitting in the middle of our bedroom for six months just gathering dust. It is wrought iron with glass panels that surround the light bulb. Of course all the glass panels were long gone – so yesterday I found out there was a stained glass supply shop near the house so I went there during lunch time and picked through a million different beautiful pieces of glass to replace the missing ones from Jeremy’s lamp. I love going to art supply shops and seeing all the beautiful things to see. The photo above shows different colors of glass plates stacked like records in a shelf. It is so inspiring, makes me want to add beauty and color into my life.
Vince and his friends are obsessed about this game called Minecraft. I’m not sure what is at all exciting about this game, it certainly is no Angry Birds. It seems really boring, it has been explained to me as video game Legos. Anyways, Vince invites all his friends over to the house and they take all the existing laptops in the house and then I don’t have one. (At the high water mark, we had three laptops – two of the laptops are now dead, so really we only have one laptop now). I like to keep a personal laptop next to me while I’m at work so when I’m checking personal stuff, I don’t do it on the work computer.
But everyday after school, my laptop gets taken by a little boy to build things in Minecraft-land and then what am I to do when I need to check up on celebrity gossip? It’s just a terrible situation. So Jeremy found an old desktop and we just bought a cheap monitor which is coming tomorrow and I’m so excited that it’s going to be heavy and big and slow so no one will take it from me!!! Muhahahaha!
I just watched Maxi make a nest out of the pile of clean laundry on our bedroom floor. I guess the laundry is not so clean anymore, it all has a bit of eau de Maxi sprinkled all over it now. Oh well. Edda tried on this funny hat at Sunday night dinner last weekend and all I could think of was – crazy, silly EEG equipment.
Edda is doing well – cruising through the last bits of the school year. I’m not sure if I updated on the blog, but turns out the seizure meds were depressing her platelet levels and now that she is off of them – not only have her platelets rebounded, but also, we remain seizure free! (Keeping fingers crossed, knock on wood, etc, etc). Everyone has noticed the return of the old, more awake, non-medicated Edda and so we keep hoping that the seizures stay far far away. Jeremy was so taken by Edda’s return of energy that he said that if the seizures come back (I think it really is only a matter of time), that he would almost prefer the VNS surgery because it has no systemic side effects. Anyways, we just wait and hope and enjoy this seizure free time with her.
Our custom stair lift is coming on Friday. At 70 pounds, I am scared to take Edda downstairs and it really is impossible to ask it of our caregivers, so we bit the bullet and it’s coming on Friday.
Ruby is so mad at me these days. About 3 weeks ago, I had a growth removed from her elbow. The tumore had been there a long time, but suddenly it grew and became strangely hairless and bled a little. So I thought it would be a reasonable thing to remove it. So it was quickly removed and determined to be a benign skin tumor which was a relief – however, after the stitches came out it took Ruby only 5 minutes of “alone time” to reopen the elbow wound. So here I am at 5 pm, with a doggie that has an open wound the size of a quarter. Ugh. So I hightail it to CVS to get a supply of wound care items and come back and do my best to tape Ruby’s elbow back together.
The next day, Ruby gets a second surgery just to close the open wound (which ended up costing as much as the first surgery). This time, I resolve not to let her romp around or even walk very much so she has been housebound for the duration of the 2nd set of stitches. I make her wear the cone of shame and also a T-shirt which covers her elbow. She looked at me both with sadness and resentfulness. Then the vet took out the stiches the 2nd time and decided that one end still looked questionable and put in 4 staples for yet another week!
Poor Ruby is dying to see the outside again. Today I let her out in the front yard to pee and refused to come back inside. Exasperated with our disobeident dog, I told Jeremy that she was his responsbility to bring inside. Jeremy ended up carrying our 60 pound dog across the yard into the house. Ornery dog. Sheez.
We are having a nice relaxing weekend. No big plans – just hanging around the house and figuring out new apps to load onto our smartphones. Jeremy decided today was the day to tackle some electrical work – we have needed some new outlets for years now – somehow we can live with extension cords draped over all parts of the house without noticing too much or caring too much. We did get a quote from our favorite electrician who said that he basically charges $100 an outlet, so not only did we know how much we were saving per outlet, but we also had a person that we could call to save our butts (and know how much he would charge us) in case we shorted out half the house.
This project involved only two trips to Home Depot which I considered not too shabby. We needed an outlet across from the toilet seat in the downstairs half bath to keep Edda’s TV charged and going. The extension cord had gone across behind the toilet and across the back of the sink to the outlet used to power hairdryers and shavers which is a long way to go in a small bathroom. Edda is pretty much timed toilet trained now, if we are concentious enought to put her on the potty every two hours for 10 minutes or so, we rarely have to change a poopy diaper which is AWESOME. (Although I did have to change one today as we were in the bathroom all afternoon and forgot to put her on the potty. Whoops.).
Fix it projects used to be the source of all our marital arguments, but now that we are well into our 4th year of home ownership, we have managed to figure out how to work relatively peacefully with each other. It still is a challenge and sometimes overwhelming as we have vastly different approaches to solving problems – but we both listen to each other now and also we know when it is time to call in a professional.
Jeremy is back from Orlando. He was the only guy on the beach wearing a dark blue suit. I got a text from him which said that he was the worst one in the family to enjoy the beautiful weather and the sand. Of course the kids love the beach and even though I don’t really love the beach, I don’t burn so at least I can spend the time not worrying too much about hurting the next day.
I am trying to teach Maxi to fetch. She is better than Ruby who could never fetch to save her life, but still tends to lose focus after a few tosses and trots off to sniff other interesting things.
I am still sick. 🙁
I am still sick. And I think I should treat myself with a 9pm ice cream cone. But I am trying to resist. Today I took Edda to the dentist. I want to say that when I get stressed and tired, the first thing to go is dental hygiene. It really is a sign for me that things are not going well. I stop flossing my teeth and I stop flossing Edda teeth; somehow I think no one will notice. But plaque buildup and inflamed gums are hard to hide, so I got sternly admonished today at the dentist’s office.