No, in fact, I can not. I am down about 50% in my hearing right now.
BUT
Rob and I spent several hours at Outpatients’, and the doctor there, aside from saying “eeeeeewwww” when he looked in my ear, also gave me some lovely antibiotics and eardrops.
I’m still sorta nauseous and ouchy, so my time is going to be spent on the sofa, playing some old school super mario brothers. Old school super mario brothers? Rocks.
.. there um, really aren’t any. Well, sorta. DJ is officially on the Island (I got an email! She is staying at the motel on the highway which is like, four minutes from us!) but she’s out, so eventually hopefully sometime this weekend we will be meeting up. Rob and I were supposed to take my niece and cousin to a bunch of amusement parks tomorrow, but now those plans are up in the air because my niece received another invitation and she’s trying to figure out if she can swing both. Oh, the busy schedule of a twelve-year-old.
Aside from blogger meetups and dinosaur-bone-looking, my only real plan for the weekend is to put up the damn curtains in the livingroom picture window. I got a set of rolling bamboo blinds at Wicker Emporium a few weeks ago, for $8 or something ridiculous like that. And a pretty set of curtains off eBay. Yes I love eBay. Not quite the shmancy wood blinds that I would like to have (someday) but they’ll do and at least the moths and birds won’t be able to keep peeking at me.
Oh yeah, they have their beady little eyes on me. I’m irresisitible to them, you know.
In case you’re wondering, thinking “yeah, that can’t have happened”, it is 100% true that I dropped Rob’s cake on the floor. Floor cake! Nummers! Luckily it was just one layer, as I was putting them on the counter to cool, so I ran (er, drove) to the store to get the ingredients to make it over again. And we have like, a nice put-together cake, and then one layer just sort of sitting out. I put the fallen-on-the-floor crumbled cake in the backyard for the birds to eat.
I have a love-hate relationship with the birds. I love them because I love all the creatures (aside from moths and fruitflies) but I would hate if birds came near me and/or my head. Maybe if I feed them they will know that I’m benevolent and they won’t come near me and/or my head.
Other news of the day… at the beginning of summer I had an ear infection in my left ear. It’s funny because when I was a kid I had constant ear infections, and hearing problems, and multiple ear surgeries (one of which was to repair a hole in my left eardrum caused by… ear infections), but then since I was like, fifteen, I haven’t really had any problems. So when this one came along I was kind of surprised at how much it HURT and was gross and everything. Antibiotics and drops and things got rid of it though so that was great. Except now I have the same old ear infection, but in my right ear. And I just realized that in my right ear? I also now have a hole in my eardrum. That is stupid. I am going to go to Outpatients’ tomorrow and tell them that it’s stupid and they should fix it. Not that they can use scotch tape on an eardrum hole or anything, but they can give me more drugs.
I will try to take a photo of the non-floor cake at some point before we eat it. We are also going to watch an outside movie (they show them at the beach near here for free… I think it’s Mona Lisa Smile tonight; not exactly a manly birthday movie but maybe we can like, make out or something. Makeouts are awesome!) and ummm… yeah that’s all. Have a good rest of the day!
I JUST DROPPED ROB’S CAKE ON THE FLOOR EMERGENCY EMERGENCY
… even though Rob doesn’t. I think that comes from too much smacking of his head against the car door frame (seriously, three times this week!). I think he merits fanciness. See, he says once you’re legal, there’s nothing really to celebrate until retirement. I say, I didn’t know him when he became legal; in fact I didn’t know him until we were 26, so I have 26 years’ worth of birthdays and Christmases and such to catch up on– and by the time I’m done with that, it’ll be time to retire, and then we can keep on a-celebratin’.
This morning was terrible! I woke up at 8, and it was so windy and rainy that I thought maybe there was some kind of hurricane going on.
It’s still windy now at a bit past noon, but at least the sun’s out.
I may have mentioned that Rob took today and tomorrow off work (since tomorrow’s his birthday). So. We have a lot of stuff to get done today. Such as… um, I don’t know. Oh! I have to do all the dishes that I’ve been allowing to pile up for the past TWO THOUSAND YEARS. But that’s not fun so let’s not talk about that. What else?
I know I want to try and find some super-long nails to try and fix our sofa… the thing is about 20 years old (okay, 18), handed down from my parents to my brother back to my parents to me, and a couple of weeks ago, one end of the frame just… let go. Rob “fixed” it by propping it up with one of our wedding buckets but that’s probably not the best decorator decision. Although it will make an excellent story on the day that I sit down and the whole thing collapses.
Okay. My garden has been annihilated by all this wind (or at least, all my pea and bean vines are no longer up on poles… just kinda laying down over everything else) so I have to go out and look at those and despair because it means I have to do work! And who wants to do work? NOT ME! But I will do it.
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ALSO: 5 minutes for Mom is giving away a flatscreen TV. Their contest is sponsored by Best Buy.
since I’m obsessed with Big Brother (yeah I know!), I thoroughly enjoyed it.
He does the best Joe impression ever.
This meme has been copied and pasted into a draft here for ages and now I don’t remember where I stole it from. I can’t really think of anything to write about. I assure you, if I could I would jump on it faster than a New York car accident lawyer jumps on an ambulance.
Anyway, if you wanna do it, it’s fairly simple, just answer each question (are these actually questions? they aren’t really questions, are they? There’s no VERB! They’re just a couple of words with question marks!) using one word and one word only.
Wait, I’ve done this meme before, I know I have. Someone needs to come up with a new meme! Soon!
People of the Internet! Come up with better memes! And name them something else aside from meme!
