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What a great day

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You know, I just decided I’m having a good day today. So far today things are going pretty well. I can’t say that too often so I’m just going to go with it.

My brother-in-law and nephew came up from Chicago today and are here to help my husband and I do some renovations in the house and so far we’re off to a great start getting things done we’ve wanted to do for many years. I swear our living room, dining room, can be finished in a couple weeks. How many years on this blog have I been saying I was going to start that renovation again? Well, it’s finally happening. Hallelujah.

Then this afternoon I had to go to the hospital to see my hand specialist Dr. and get the results of my MRI and as it turns out the results of my MRI are not bad. It seems that the ligament in my thumb isn’t torn which is good news and we’re not 100% sure what’s happening with my wrist – there still might be something happening with one of the bones. So I will have a special bone scan hopefully in the next week or two and see the doctor again in a few weeks. I might still have a broken bone in there we’re not 100% sure. Either way even though my hand and wrist still hurt quite a bit, it looks like it may be getting a little bit better. I’ve been told I don’t have to wear the splint quite as much, and I’ve been given some exercises I can do to increase mobility and my thumb and wrist and it should also help take some of the swelling down. With any luck my hand might be back to normal within a few weeks. Crossing my fingers on my right hand yay.

let’s see what else is good about today – It’s my brothers birthday, maybe I’ll go celebrate for him? Hey, are you having a good day? Maybe I’ll go buy a lottery ticket. Yeah, that’s what I should do. Then I could invest in some real estate sunset beach and really enjoy myself. Now wouldn’t that be nice?

Okay, time to go and enjoy the rest of this day I hope you’re having a great day too!





Aching all over after a klutzy fall!

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I haven’t been doing much in the last two days. I somehow managed to severely injure myself yet again. It seems that at least once a year I do something really klutzy that takes weeks to heal. Last year it was falling down the stairs. This year … well ..

Early Thursday morning I was wandering into the kitchen for a drink of water and as I returned to the living room I tripped on a huge metal extension ladder that my husband left in the living room the prior evening. Yup … he’d been doing some reno work and he didn’t put the ladder away like he should have. He left it right in the hallway between the living room and the kitchen – kind of unavoidable – and since I was walking around in the semi dark and I was sleepy I must have either forgotten it was there for a moment or caught my foot on it and the next thing I knew I was literally falling on the ladder and under a small table that we have a big turtle tank on … and I’m very lucky the huge turtle tank didn’t land on me as well.

My whole left side is bruised. The worst of it is my left hand and wrist, my left chest and my left lower thigh. Everything that hurt started swelling and bruising immediately so at first I put ice on my worst wounds but as my hand swelled and looked like my thumb was dislocated and I became worried that my hand was actually broken we decided to go to the hospital.

My worst injuries:

swollen and bruised hand

Badly bruised lower thigh

I spent 6 hours or more in the Emergency room getting xrays and waiting around. I was there from a little bit after three in the morning until after 9 am. They weren’t sure if my hand was broken or not. I definitely have a sprained tendon in my thumb and left arm and I need to get more xrays next week to rule out a break in my hand. In the meantime I’m supposed to rest and ice my wounds and take quite a bit of Advil.

I feel like I’ve been in a car accident! I ache every time I move! I don’t think anyone at www.carangel.com would want me though! LOL

I’m hoping that my hand isn’t broken and that if feels better quickly because naturally I’m left handed and as luck would have it I happen to have a lot of writing that I need to do in the next few days and that’s not easy to do when you have to type one or two fingered. LOL Looks like that’s the way it’s going to be for a little while though! Wish me luck!

Our renovations are coming along nicely

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We’re still busy trying to finish our renovations.

I think it’s going to be a while before we have everything done. The living room dining room is partial done. The wall between the upper and lower staircases in the living room is finally done and we have all the electrical wiring installed. We just have to mud it and then paint the wall and the inner staircase wall. I also want to pick out some new switchplates for the living room and dining room. Maybe something a little less plain or a little nicer than the usual bland switchplates sold in hardware stores.

The next part of our reno is doing all of the molding in the living room dining room and finally getting that tin ceiling up. Then it’s on to other areas of the house that need fixing. The list is getting longer but the house will be looking very nice soon.

Lots of things going on today

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I’m having an interesting day … one that I think I’m more than ready to be done with.

My husband finally had a couple of days off in a row so we’re busy doing some much needed renovations on the house. Yes we’re actually doing the renovations – not just talking about getting it done sometime, someday. It’s started. The living room dining room reno will finally be finished – soon. LOL

My poor dog is totally baffled by what’s going on. She’s wondering what all this banging is and why everything smells like spruce wood and saw dust all of a sudden. Not that she minds the smell.

One thing threw me for a bit of a loop today. I finally got the call I’ve been waiting for from the Human Resources department at my workplace. I’ve been waiting to hear from them ever since I had my first appointment with them two weeks ago regarding going back to work. You know, that appointment that ended up with me being interviewed by five people for over an hour! Yikes!

Well, now they want to see me for at least half an hour. I’m not sure what it’s about this time. It could be yet another interview type meeting or maybe they’ve found a place in the hospital for me. I don’t know. All I do know is that it’s nerve wracking each time. I just want to get back to work – get my life back on track again. I’m starting to feel like a yoyo – back and forth, back and forth I go … Hmm but I bet I don’t compare to the best yo yo at yoyoplay. Uh huh.

A while back I thought it would only be a couple of weeks and I’d have my old job back. That was in January or February … here I am after convincing my doctors that I’m healthy enough to go back to work, and convincing the occupational health department at my workplace that I’m healthy enough to return and getting cleared to return to work and I’m still waiting. Hopefully it won’t be much longer.

I want to refinish our basement

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I keep threatening to get the basement cleaned up and refinished and I think that we might be able to finally do that in the next few months. Yes – I’m determined. Again.

I think this has something to do with all that cleaning I did on the weekend.

Now, I’m not talking a complete refinish. I wouldn’t want to do that at this time of year in this climate. However, we already have a bathroom and laundry area in the basement and I’d love to replace the shower, sink and and utility sink as we’ll as redefine that section of the basement.

As for the rest of the basement I’d be happy if we got it cleared out and set it up like a recreation room or den for the winter. We already have a spare pull out sectional couch and a large HDTV down there so that’s a start.

Then come spring or next summer we could truly refinish the basement. I’d love to make it nice and cozy, perhaps put in a gas fireplace so that it would be nice and warm, heated floor and so on. Hmmmm that reminds me I saw some lovely mantel designs the other day, perhaps I’ll spend some time over the winter planning the full renovation and picking out things like a fireplace mantel.

Have you refinished your own basement?

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