We had a lot of rain here the last couple of days, and yesterday morning when I woke up, the back forty was half under water.
I’m not complaining, though, because you know what? Could be SNOW!
(Click on any of those pictures to see a bigger version at Flickr, along with notes about what exactly you’re lookin’ at.)
Remember how the other day I was all peeved about the fact that I wanted the LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile and every 45 times a day I went to the site to check, they had the damn thing “temporarily out of stock”? Well, someone mentioned that they had them (for cheaper than the Virgin Mobile site) at Best Buy. So I went to check it out, and for some reason Best Buy had them listed as available, but they wouldn’t ship them.
Then I thought to myself, “Well DUH, dumbass, howzabout you look around online and see if you can’t find it somewhere ELSE?” Because honestly, that just had not occurred to me, how sad is that?
So I searched, and I found them available at ecrater.com for $50 less than on the Virgin Mobile site. I was all excited, and I placed the order, and then less than an hour later, the seller canceled the order.
I was all “What the fuck?” and I told myself to calm the hell down and just BE PATIENT, because SOME DAY Virgin Mobile will have them back in stock. Then in bed Tuesday night, I was laying there all propped up with my netbook (LOVE MY NETBOOK) on my stomach, catching up on my blog-reading, and I got sidetracked into searching for the LG Optimus V on eBay, and good lord. What a RACKET. I was all excited to find a phone for $50 until I looked closer and saw that they were charging $135 for shipping. I wonder how many people aren’t paying attention and get caught by surprise by the exorbitant shipping and handling fees?
Yesterday, after Susan C. commented that she’d found the phone at ecrater.com and that it said they’d just gotten a shipment on the 8th and she placed the order, I went back and tried placing the order again, and this time it was accepted and started processing.
Which is my way of saying y’all rock for pointing out the obvious to me (since the obvious sadly very often escapes me), and EEEEEEEEEEEE! New phone on the way!
I can’t wait to start downloading ringtones!
I sure am wanting one of those new iPads coming out this Friday, too. Not that I NEED one, but there are often times when I’m laying in bed surfing the internet on my iPod Touch because I’m too lazy to get my ass out of bed and go alllllll the way across the room to get my netbook, and I think “Gee, I wish this iPod Touch had a bigger screen!”
I mean, basically, isn’t that all an iPad is, a bigger iPod Touch?
I could get an iPad and it would replace my iPod Touch and my Kindle, after all. The only thing it wouldn’t replace would be my phone, but give it another year or two. I’m sure by the time the iPad 4 comes out, you’ll be able to make phone calls on it.
I’m not going to run right out and buy the iPad or anything – even though I’m sure Fred would fully agree that what I need is more SHINY STUFF in my life (NOT) – but maybe in a year or so I’ll get me one o’ them.
We’ll see.
Last night, because wearing that goddamn head garment 23.75 hours a day was starting to really get to me, I called my plastic surgeon’s office and talked to his nurse to see when I could stop wearing it and also when I could stop wrapping my arms. She said that I could stop wrapping my arms now (but that I could still occasionally wrap them if I felt the need to, for comfort) and could also stop wearing the head garment, too.
So I took the head garment off last night and I wore Ace bandages on my arms when I slept last night, then took them off when I showered this morning.
Honestly, it feels weird not to be wearing any of that stuff. My arms do feel a little bit swollen, and if it bugs me I’ll wrap them back up later, but for now I’m kind of enjoying the freedom.
I still don’t know about my neck. I really think there’s more sagging skin under there than there oughta be, but Fred keeps repeating “WAIT AND SEE HOW IT DOES OMG STOP OBSESSING” and I’m trying to do that. I SWEAR. But it’s hard not to obsess, y’know?
I am completely off the narcotics, I think I mentioned that earlier this week, and what’s funny is that I’m actually sleeping better now than I did when I was taking them at night to help me sleep. I’m able to sleep for short stretches of time on my sides (but most of the night is still spent on my back), and while it’s happening ever so slowly (still not lifting very much), life is getting back to normal.
THANK GOD.
Here are some links I’ve been meaning to share with y’all for just about forever now.
Human ventriloquist without a dummy. Hilarious, and VERY well done:
Tricks of the Body. Very neat.
You remember Surprised Kitty, of course:
Here’s a send-up of it in the form of Surprised Dog:
The Amazing World Clock is very neat.
Now THAT’s a proposal!
I would like a Pirate Ship Bedroom, please.
::tromptromptromp:: “Oh, hey, look. A leaf!”
“Wait, what the -?”
“I’m – I don’t – what – I SWEAR, my paws almost feel WET. What on earth?”
“What is going ON?”
Poor Elwood. He’s not the brightest bulb, he was SERIOUSLY confused as to why he’d be feeling all WET, there standing in that puddle, and he stood there and pondered for the longest time before he finally trudged OUT of the big puddle and shook his legs and paws dry.
Bless his heart. (That’s Southern Speak for “What an idiot.”)
Sweet snoozing Sugarbutt.
Have I ever told you guys that the vet’s staff adamantly refuses to list him as “Sugarbutt”? True story. They call him “Sugar.” Cracks me up every time.
Previously
2010: “Please tell this strange man to stop SMELLING ME, if you please.”
2009: I felt SO OLD then, but 28 sounds impossibly young to me now.
2008: We had a little weirdness on Friday in the form of a super-mega-mutant egg.
2007: No entry.
2006: Today’s the 10th anniversary of the day Fred and I met.
2005: I met Fred nine years ago today.
2004: Eight years ago today, I entered the IRC Undernet channel #!Fredsplace and met the geek who owned and ran the channel, who would eventually become the love of my life. (Complete with mush!)
2003: Sick Poo.
2002: No entry.
2001: Five years ago today, I was on IRC and I wandered into the Undernet channel #!Fredsplace, and I met the love of my life. (More mush!)
2000: Four years ago today, I wandered into the IRC Undernet channel #!Fredsplace, thus setting into motion a chain of events which would echo down through the years.