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Insomnia Stinks!

My mother has been an insomniac since the age of twelve. I think it has something to do with a fear of death…or maybe it’s a fear of missing out on something. On a good night, she’ll get six hours a night. She’s been known to call me at 12am, which means it’s 3am her time. Her motto is: “I can sleep when I’m dead.” In comparison, I can sleep at a drop of a hat. Planes, trains, automobiles– it doesn’t really matter where I am, I can sleep. My motto is: “I’ll sleep when I’m…zzzzzzzz.”

So you can imagine my surprise last night, when at 4am I was still wide awake. Mind you, it was sorta cool seeing the sun rise, but it didn’t make up for the fact that I was exhausted and frustrated that I couldn’t sleep. Chuck was no help either. He went to bed pretty late, but then he started snoring. I woke him up promptly and told him I couldn’t sleep. He wasn’t impressed and rolled right back to sleep. Eventually, I feel asleep right around 6. Boy was I grumpy!

I was pretty worthless today and vegged out on our couch all day. I did, however, catch some great, classic movies.

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This is such a great movie! I even sucked Chucklebutt into watching it. We giggled and gasped as Lucy and Desi traveled across America in their long, long trailer. My favorite parts are when Lucy tries to cook dinner while Desi is driving — hilarious! My other favorite scene is when Lucy collects all these giant stones from the various places they have visited. It adds an incredible amount of weight and they experience some problems climbing an 8000 elevation road. If you have never seen this movie, I highly recommend it.

Another movie I watched today, while not necessarily stellar, definitely evoked some great memories.

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I was ten years old the first time I saw this movie and instantly became obsessed. (I am ashamed to say I’ve never seen the original all the way through.) Grease 2 is my High School Musical. I’ll admit it was a little painful to watch, but it helped me to empathize with all my students who swoon over Zac Efron and want to be Ashely Tinsdale. I guess every generation has their teeny bopper flick. Mine is Grease 2. I remember my best friend (Emme O’Connell) and I setting our alarms for 2am in the morning so we could catch its last run on HBO. We were so crazy. In college, I introduced all my dorm buddies to the movie and they were not impressed. Sigh. It will always have a special place in my heart. I even got my “cool rider.” 🙂 (Interesting bit of trivia, the twins in this movie are the sisters of Katy Segal (Peg Bundy). Who knew?)

While I watched my movies, I treated myself to my favorite movie theatre candy:

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Nothing says the movies like black licorice. Yum-Me!

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My other favorite candy is Goetze’s Bull’s Eyes (Cow Tails come in a close second). So despite the sugar high, I was still able to take a two hour nap. At least my nap schedule hasn’t been messed with. 🙂

Finally, I wanted to give a shout out to all the poppas in the world. Happy Father’s Day. I miss you Daddy! The following clip is for you:

Deferred Pain, Doctor Appointments and Lazy Days

I had a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday, and the good doc said I am healing quite nicely. She doesn’t want me to lift anything or do any strenuous activity for another four weeks, but aside from that, I’m good to go. Hopefully in another week I’ll be able to drive.

She gave me pictures of my fibroid and it is super nasty looking. I would post it here, but I don’t want to scare any of my blog readers. “Oh let’s go check on Gibby’s Girl. Altered art, fun adventures with Chucklebutt…Good God what is that?!?!?!” It definitely looks like something from the mind of H.R. Giger. Mind you I am a glutton for all things grotesque and have even been know to google parasites, bot flies and wacky medical conditions. Chuck thinks I’m nuts. Anyway, I’ve got the photos of my fibroid and that sucker was 6 inches and almost a pound. My doctor said she had to cut up one side of my uterus and over the top. Yipes! She’s a bit anxious about scar tissue and the possibility of my uterus caving in on itself. As a result, she’s put me on the pill. I was a bit squirrely about the whole estrogen thing, but feel a lot better once I talked with her. They also sent the fibroid to a pathologist and were a bit worried about some cells, but while we were at the office, they called and said everything looked good.

So, as far as my first major surgery, I feel pretty good about the whole process. I’m pretty much off the narcotic altough I’ve been having some super wierd feelings near the incision — almost like a burning sensation. Chuck told me it’s deferred pain. I had never heard of such. He explained he had the same thing when he had his knee surgeries. The nerves are cut and so there is no feeling on the actual incision. The pain is then “deferred” to the surrounding area. Weird eh?

Mom left Monday night and I miss her terribly. And not because she can make this:

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That’s escargot, and Chuck really can’t compete with her cooking. He orders a mean take-out however and can do a load of laundry like nobody’s business. I guess I’ll keep him.

I had a really good time with Mom and she helped me organize my craft room. OMG it was a disaster. I had bags of crap everywhere and it was totally out of control.

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Isn’t she cute? She played with my wigs to keep sane amidst all the mess.

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This pic was taken right before we took her to the airport. Thank you Momma for all your help! Chucklebutt sure does miss your cooking! 😀

To entertain myself, I’ve been catching up on books and movies. Mom turned me onto a really good mystery writer — Lisa Gardner. That’s all I did today was read. Last night I watched “Scarface” for the first time and was surprised that all the Cubans were played by Italians. I read the third book in the “Twilight” series and was not impressed.

I’ll leave everyone with pics from Chuck of our wreaths. We finally finished them and I love how they look!

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Mom’s is on the right and mine is on the left. Again, thank you Amy for an awesome class! I’m thinking that this might be a neat project for my residents to do. It may need some modifying, but I think they would really enjoy it. Right now, I have mine hanging in the kitchen. It makes me smile!

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As I said in the last post, Mom and I both bought bracelets from Christine over at Dollybelle.

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We did not shop at the same time, and when we showed each other our purchases, we saw that we bought essentially the same things. Teehee! Great minds think alike!

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My bracelets are on the right and Mom’s are on the left. Christine’s jewelry is so unique and fun! I can’t wait to wear my new cuffs.

Thank you everyone for all your well wishes! Kim and Jennifer at Mystic Paper, I can’t wait until I’m able to come visit. I’m ready to take a class and shop! To all my residents, thank you for the emails, cards and letters. Chuck is going to drive me in on Wednesday for the Butter Bean Auction. Jan, thank you for all your comments on my blog — I really appreciate it! Mom, we miss you — and not just because you make great escargot! Until next time — Cheerio!