My Drug of Choice…

I have wanted to write for days and tonight I made sure I had the time. I have been going to bed early (gasp, but not tonight) and I have been in an f-u-n-k. Some good stuff, some bad, blah blah. You know how it goes. The shortest version I can come up with is:

Monday:  the Man sprained his ankle while working; it looked like a grapefruit, seriously. After arguing with him for an hour I convinced him we needed to go to the ER. A miracle happened – we were in and out in an **HOUR**, x-rays and all. Then we went to Walgreens to drop off his prescriptions and they filled them right then and there. I am telling you I almost passed out. That would NOT have happened in Fort Lauderdale, not ever.

Tuesday: I dropped off my laptop for a repair. I couldn’t take it anymore so I finally gave in and brought it to the shop a mile away. Of course upon getting there I find out they moved shop 20 minutes away. It gets worse when they tell me it will take 4 days to fix it. Ackkk. All my shit is on my laptop and my desktop sucks. But I will live, it needs to get fixed.

Thursday: I go to the doctor for my yearly gyno visit and a check up. This is when my doctor tells me I have cysts on my boobs, (which is why they hurt like HELL) and I need to stop drinking caffeine. People, I live on caffeine – diet soda, sugar free redbulls, coffee. Dear God, kill me, caffeine is my drug of choice.

I went for an ultrasound, they did find a cyst and now I have to go for a mammogram this Wednesday. Which I am dreading. I hate my boobs touched and knowing its going to be smashed into a pancake is giving me an anxiety attack. The doctor gave me anti-inflammatory (thank god, helps with the shoulders and headaches), a muscle relaxer and Xanax for my stress level.

Late Thursday night my parents arrive for a visit. This is good news; I adore my parents and love when they visit.

Friday: I go to pick it up my laptop four days later, only to find out it was dead. They had a big note attached to it saying “Do not plug in, fire hazard!” My life flashes in front of my eyes – my business, the Man’s business, my job… yada yada. I know better, I know to back up my work and yet it wasn’t all backed up. Thankfully they were able to recover *most,* not all of it.

My Mom kept asking them if they were teasing me… no, sure as shit, they weren’t. So from there, I tried to calm down (unsuccessfully) and we went computer shopping. After going to 3 stores we found a good deal and we were smart this time – we bought an external backup drive so this can’t happen again.

I love the computer but getting used to all this new stuff at once is giving me a migraine – it’s all different. The programs (Vista) Word (now word 2007) not to mention getting all my programs that I work with back on it. Oh, I also got a blackberry (prior to knowing my laptop was going to die) so I had that to learn too. I know, pooor me and my new gadgets but really, it was a stressful bitch learning/getting used too all this new stuff while trying to work (which was piled up to the rooftop.)

I don’t remember much aside from these few things that were plenty. Oh wait; a customer bounced a check which caused us to bounce a check, nice freaking mess. We also lost two customers.

We hosted July 4^th, good friends – we drank, ate good food, did fireworks, the kids had fun – all good stuff. The Man was slightly hung over, I thankfully was NOT this time. Whew.

Anyway, enough whining (and that isn’t even all of it)… I am caught up on my paid work (mostly). I have been enjoying a few good books (thank god for Amazon) in between the chaos, that has helped. Tomorrow is Monday and I already have a full week of doctor appointments, mammograms, visitors, errands, judo, lots of work and life in general.

Gotta love it, it could be sooo much worse… So, how are you?