God Givith the Pee and the Nurses Takeith the Pee Away

Yes this is a catheter, and no it does not feel good. 

Pain. That’s all I knew was that I was hurting. I had done something simple and dumb that’s how all of my injuries happen I did a banana jump off of my couch and broke my foot the last time anything big happen. This time I turned over in bed, and then the fireworks happened I let out a yelp of pain and I saw stars. I could not move for a good five minutes when I did I held tight to my lower right side. And tried to turn myself on my back. Very slowly and very painfully I did and grabbed for my cell phone. Who could I call? I looked it was around 10 pm. Georgia would be off, I called her and asked, if she knew where your appendix was located she looked it up and told me, apparently it’s right were I now had my hands pushing. What to do next? I tried to go back to sleep but it really hurt and it worried me. So I decided to wake up Poppi and the Blonde. Poppi answered the phone and we talked he had me raise my leg and push on my belly, Blonde got on the phone and asked me some other questions, did I have a fever? Did I feel sick? Nope none of the above, but I was shaking because I was so afraid. I told them goodnight and I finally went back to sleep later, trying to fend off cats from jumping on me. Woke up still very sore. It really hurt to get out of bed another sharp pain in my side. Got ready for work. JustAnUglyMonkey called MamaMonkey and she talked to me and asked me if I felt sick any swelling? Nope. So I went to work. Sitting down or laying down hurts and then getting back up is another process; I’m like an old woman. At work it actually does start to hurt more, I go pick up a paper out of the printer ouch, I sit down OW! I get up because walking around feels good or just lying down feels good. I get really concerned because it isn’t stopping. I’m a girl I’ve had cramps before this was no cramp pain. What if I really was having appendix problems? It does feel like at any moment, any wrong move something is going to burst. So I call my doctor and they say that I should go to the ER, that’s where they would send me if I came in anyways. So I called JustAnUglyMonkey to take me so that I wouldn’t be alone.  I’ve decided that when I have a baby I’m going to go it alone with just the doctors and nurses, I can be funny and jokey with the people I don’t know. Just a note I’ll probably be shaving my legs everyday now, and I really need to keep up on my brow waxing and apparently I have nose hair, I look at it everyday but today it must have grown about 5 inches, oh yeah and lose 80 lbs, and get better skin and less smelly feet, and a boob job, but first I think I’ll try to take care of this searing pain in my side if that’s okay. I get in pretty quickly and doc sees me he does a few test has me move my legs around, pushes on my stomach and he’s pretty sure it’s my appendix. He has blood drawn and they put and IV in they also get a urine sample… oh! But I can’t just pee in a cup, the fact that I’m a girl has yet again caught up with me and I had to have a catheter. Another really awful experience, but some really nice nurses, Guess what?!? I have a funny tilted bladder! Hurray for me! I get stuck a few times. JustAnUglyMonkey steps out for this and I am glad it was weird. NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO TOUCH MY URETHRA ANYMORE! Monkey comes back in we watch Fresh Prince on TV, and calm down.  Doc comes back in and tells me my appendix is okay, but I have severely sprained or pulled a muscle. Still very painful! But he wants to load me up on muscle relaxers and painkillers and I should be good as new. But I feel awful about going to the ER and the bill might be awful, so I do feel sheepish about that. Grrr ER’s are good for McDreamy’s and Steamy’s, but not for McOuchIPulledSomething’s.

Sleeping Lee (Dreaming of Soap Operas?)

Sleeping Phil (Dreaming of a slide?)

I keep having really creepy dreams. For one right before I go to sleep I dream that someone is going to come up from under the foot of the bed and grab my feet and pull me under with them. Then I’ve been having this other reoccurring dream about being at a slumber party and we are all in a basement of a house. The bedroom is cheery, the walls are painted pink with white trim there is a ceiling fan with a bright light built in. All of us girls are jumping on the over stuffed bed, singing and dancing with the music turned way up. All of a sudden we knock out this panel in the closet and it reveals a space behind the closet that holds one section of dusty off white lockers one of them is open and a girl screams, “It’s a dead baby?!” I look inside and sure enough there is a mangled baby stuffed into the bottom of the locker. We all scream and run for the door we try to head upstairs but the hall turns into an underground sewer and there are all of these giant flat screens on the left hand side of the wall playing a loop of grotesque nun faces.  There was more to that dream in the beginning, someone hanging, and something about a shower and not being about to find people when I got out, but they are fuzzier than the last part. But all really, really creepy. When I woke up a was in this ball holding on to my blankets tight around me shivering. It took me forever to unwind myself and get the adrenalin to stop locking up my body. CREEPY

On a nice lighter note I did get to make Valentine’s Day cookies!!

The thumbprints were a hit at home and at work!

Would you like the recipes? Sure you would J Here ya go!

Sugar Cookies and Thumbprints (I like to use store bought cherry frosting)

Mom’s Sugar  Cookies

1 stick butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs, plus 1 yolk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla (I also add Almond extract)

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 cup sour cream

3 cups flour, plus extra for desired consistency and rolling

How to make it

1. Cream together butter and sugar.
2. Beat in eggs, sour cream, and vanilla.
3. Mix baking soda, baking powder, and 3 cups flour in seperate bowl. Combine dry ingredient mixture with wet ingredients.
4. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
5. Preheat oven to 425 F. Roll out dough on generously floured surface to 1/4 inch thick.
6. Cut out shapes (circles work best) and bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 8 minutes.
7. Cool on wire rack. When completely cool, frost and decorate as desired.

Thumbprint Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened

2/3 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon almond extract ( I put in 1 t of lemon extract)           

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam (I used seedless strawberry)

Topping glaze:

1/2 cup confectioners' sugar

3/4 teaspoon almond extract

1 teaspoon milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, cream together butter and white sugar until smooth. Mix in 1/2 teaspoon almond extract. Mix in flour until dough comes together. Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and place on ungreased cookie sheets. Make a small hole in the center of each ball, using your thumb and finger, and fill the hole with preserves.
3. Bake for 14 to 18 minutes in preheated oven, or until lightly browned. Let cool 1 minute on the cookie sheet.
4. In a medium bowl, mix together the confectioners' sugar, 3/4 teaspoon almond extract, and milk until smooth. Drizzle lightly over warm cookies.

Tips:

Put in fridge for about 15 to 20 min after filling.

Make indent with chapstick lid.

Use small measuring spoon to fill, refil with jam after baking for more :)

I also baked mine in a mini muffin pan and for 8 mins

Dreamings and thingings

I’m listening to Pandora radio today, it’s amazing. If you haven’t checked it out do it. It is an online radio that lets you choose and artists radio type that you like, so it will play songs by that artist and artists like that. Currently the Train Radio is on mine. Soooooo good.  A song by Lifehouse is on right now called Broken, pretty good, but the funny thing about Lifehouse is every time I hear them I think of this boy I met at used clothing store. I went there a lot to either sell or buy I forget what we were talking about but he once brought up that people tell him he looked a lot like the lead singer of Lifehouse. And he really did, he was a good-looking guy. I always met to ask him if he sang, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t work there anymore.

I’m reading a book called Juliet by Anne Fortier; it is my advanced copy I’m reviewing for the library. I’m so in love with it. It has so many things that I like romance, danger, mystery, and history. But the think I really like about it is that they story sticks in your mind. I’ve had a lot going on lately and I’ve had to put it down several times went other life duties took priority, but I can easily pick it back up and be taken away again to the world of Juliet.

I’m feeling very whimsical today. I think it was my tea this morning, I’m currently wearing my awesome, amazing yellow Optiums Prime T shirt so I choose a yellow packet of teas out of the cabinet, it was charka tea lol, and it was for more power in the world…It made me so powerful that I pulled the string out of the bag and had to go fish the bag out of my cup with a spoon. (Flexing my sexy muscles, scratch that sexy POWERFUL muscles)

I need to create something I’m feeling creative, I usually bake, but our weight loss has come front and center and JustAnUglyMonkey has banned me from baking like I used to, he would just eat what ever I baked and not real food. L I’m a good baker usually, and I liked to have something new for him to eat every week. No more. But Valentine’s Day is coming up and I’m absolutely making cookies its tradition.

Speaking of weight it’s going good I for got to weigh myself today, but I think I’ve lost about 10 lbs, I walk/jog for an hour a day and watch what I eat, for the most part I don’t drink pop, but I allow myself sips of what Monkey is drinking. I’m trying to work in 2 hours of jogging in but it has only happened a few times, I’m going to really work on doing that is month. I keep watching HEAVY and I think if they can do it I can. But I know that I can do better. I use 2-calorie counters on my ipad to keep track of what I eat too, and I’m always burning more calories than I eat. It’s almost a game to see what if I can be it in calories burned.

Monkey and I talked about babies the other day, trying to decide if we want them right after we get married. And I think the answer is yes, we’ve hung out for ten years together, lived in our house for about a year and well we aren’t getting any younger and I want to be young for my kids, my mom once told me she wished she had me younger so she had more energy, I think she had tons, but I’m going to take her advice so we are going to let God give us little people when he sees fit and we will welcome them! I can’t wait to see what they will look like and what they will act like, who they will grow up to be. To look at them and think I made that from scratch, well God and Monkey helped, but I think but my oven bakes the cookies. But I have to be honest, I’m a little afraid I’ve never had someone really depend on me but the cat, and well she takes pretty good care of herself, I think I will be a good mommy, I just hope I will be.

Last night I had the first wedding scary dream last night, Georgia has been a good maid of honor by having those for me, she calls and tells me all about them, but they all work out in the end! That’s my girl! But this one did involve Georgia’s brother. Yes I had a huge crush on my friend’s older brother, but who didn’t. But I dreamt that I lived in Auburn in my parents house all by myself, at the age that I am, and Monkey and I were engaged, but I had a bunch of people over for some kind of movie party and I curled up with ummm The Tall One (Georgia’s brother) on the couch instead of Monkey. He got made and started making out with a blonde chick it made me mad and I threw my ring at him and ran away with The Tall One. Then I thought I woke up from the dream feeling really mad, but then I was actually sleeping and it was my wedding and Monkey was there and I ran over to him so happy that he was there. Creepy dream…..

I’ll keep you posted if there are more…. Georgia is slacking or else there aren’t anyways of stopping the wedding day dreams….

Peace out dream catchers!