Tuesday, January 31, 2006

late evening

Four Things About Meme

Keely tagged me like a year ago (okay, maybe a week), so here are my “four things” things, even though it pains me to do something with even numbers.

Four jobs I’ve had:
Paralegal
Babysitter at a gym
International res agent at United Airlines
Search Engine Marketer

Four movies I can watch over and over (I’m clearly not into watching movies over and over):
Airplane
Flashdance
Buffy (the series, but pretend it’s the movie)
Dirty Dancing

Four places I’ve lived:
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Pacifica, CA
Like Omigawd, The Valley (er, San Fernando Valley…from the “Valley Girls” song)

Four TV shows I love (there are many more, past & present - I love tv):
The Amazing Race
Veronica Mars
Gilmore Girls
The Daily Show

Four places I’ve vacationed (I don’t get out much):
Hawaii
San Diego
Upstate New York
Atlanta

Four of my favorite dishes:
Sushi - I think all sushi can count as one dish
Pizza
Menudo w/ lots of cilantro
Fresh crab

Four sites I visit daily:
Huffington Post
Google News
The Daily Mumps
Yahoo Fantasy Sports

Four places I would rather be right now:
Hawaii
San Francisco
Toronto
Costa Rica

I’m supposed to tag four people for this, but if you’re reading, consider yourself tagged if you’d like to be.

Monday, January 30, 2006

late at night

January 30th - A Double Miracle Happens

Both miracles are so miraculous that they compete for the best miracle of today.  We’ll start with the more immediate one - the Leafs, they won.  They won a game!  How about that?!  See, told you it was a miracle. 

The second miracle - I do believe that the nerve root block injection is working somewhat.  Just hanging around the house, the pain is noticeably lessened…even when I overdo it and sit at my computer too long.  We went grocery shopping early this evening, which is one of the bigger pain tests for me.  The ambling that grocery shopping requires usually ends up making both legs hurt.  Tonight, it hurt after about ten minutes, but not as much as before - and it didn’t last as long either.  The bad news is that the bladder thing wasn’t helped at all and might be a touch worse.  I hate that most of all.  It’s so stressful.  But, I’ve decided to go ahead and have the second injection, which is scheduled for next Thursday.  Hopefully, since this one helped, maybe the next one will go to work on whatever is affecting my bladder.  I would be soooooo happy.

I have so many book reviews and other tidbits to write about, but my concentration level is at maybe three, on a scale of one to ten.  It’s horrible.  Starting tomorrow, I’m going to force myself to write every day.  Don’t worry, you don’t have to force yourself to read every day.