Workman's Compensation

Nice! So guess what I did, 10 minutes before my 12 hour shift would have been over...put an air-gun staple clean through my finger. Right index finger to be exact. Here's the redneck part. It's all ugly pussy and purple and talk about swollen, and I've been ordered to not use that hand, but I have bowling tomorrow, and Saturday, and Sunday. And I'm gonna bowl tomorrow, Sat, amd Sun. Why? Because while it fuckin hurts like a mother, I'm no wimp, and I have to pay every week to bowl whether I actually physically bowl or not. How? You don't use your index finger to bowl! You use the thumb, middle, and ring fingers to bowl. And just so you all can get a good larf, I'll try and remember to post my lame ass scores tomorrow after the deed is did. Doc wrote me out for some Vicodin but I'm not going to fill it. No need. How do we know what "good" feels like if we have no "bad" to compare it to? And who says I can't sleep without stupid meds. Cat, you already know I don't like pills, and I know that Jim likes Vicodin, but I'm asking in advance that you not try and convince me to fill the pills. I'm not saying that you will, but just in case there was a, "but, but" in your head after reading my stubborn rejection of pills, please don't.

As for the condo...I'm totally ready to move in NOW I'm going crazy. Maybe by then I will have my giant tv for my bedroom, and my BOSE Surround. Highly unlikely, but a girl can dream, even if they're both really expensive, and sitting at the bottom of my "Hurry Up And Wait" list. I'm going over there on Saturday to take pictures just because I doubt I will have any visitors once I move in, but I still want people to see where I am going to live so they can feel relieved that it isn't a dump. It's quite to the contrary but you will see all of that when I post the pictures. Probably on myspace, but I can give it a shot on here. I'm pretty computer literate and while I've never added pictures to a blog on here before, I'm sure it's easy as pie and I should be able to figure it out. While I'm at it maybe I will take a picture of my "war wound" enormous finger. Lol. Goodnight everyone. Pray for a low amount of pain as I'm choosing to do this less pain killers. Wish me luck!

Paint

I talked to Terri today. I think it would be easier to paint at the condo before I move all of my things in, so that I don't have to move stuff out of the way to paint. I asked her if I could paint this weekend and she is cool with it so I'm going to buy some paint and supplies from Lowes tomorrow. I have decided to paint the bedroom the muave color that I wanted to paint my room here...and I am going to paint the living room a sage green color unless something else catches my eye. The bathroom I think can stay white because the shower curtain I picked out is white with some pastel blue and purple flutterbies on it. The closet doesn't need to have painted walls, and the kitchen is a continuation of the living room so I think that will end up green, too. Did I mention the closet isn't in the bedroom? It's got it's own door and stuff in the hallway! It's huge! I WILL take pictures on Saturday before and after I paint. Gotta remember to bring my ipod and Bose speakers with me so I can crank out the tunes while I work. It's going to be so much fun. I am having breakfast with Leanne on Saturday morning so I am going to ask her if she wants to come and see the condo, if she has time. She's ecstatic for me, too. Painting it will make it mine, make it more real, and more reachable, and make the wait until January, a little more tolerable. I think I might see how she feels about me moving in my chairs early, too, and some of my kitchen stuff. I don't think she will mind too much. She's been amazing about everything so far. Now, if I could only get Tim to give me my fucking review so I can have my next raise, before the January raise is due. Derrrrr, that might make sense. Dummy.

Night everyone, pray for me to get rid of this damn sinus infection. It's kickin my arse. Cat...I totally know now what you meant at the Brule when you said it got so bad your teeth hurt. OUUUCH!

Condo Crazy!

I worked miserably on Saturday. It totallly sucked, but I got to go home at 1 so I only worked five hours. On a Saturday, five hours feels like ten, though. I called mom after work because I was hungry and they happened to be in town at Lowe's so we went to Culver's. Dad was acting his usually weird self while mom and I sat there, not feeling so well. Mom's got tummy issues with the squirts. I have a sinus infection that keeps breaking in unconvenient public places, but also keeps coming back. My mother, Stephanie, and myself followed Terri to Whitewater from the bowing alley on Saturday night. I brought Stephanie because she was excited for me (as I am for her, because her and Nathan got the apartment they wanted and move their crap into it, in about two weeks) and I brought my mom because she really wanted to see it, and because my head hurt so bad I didn't think I should have been driving. So, mom drove. It's fantastic. From what she originally told me, when she was half in the bag, was that it was the upper floor. But, she showed us the upper floor loft thing and I wasn't very impressed. Then, she showed us the basement/low level, and said as we were going down the stairs "this is what I think would be perfect for Corinne." It indeed, is quite perfect. If you go down the hallway, to the left is a huge walk-in closet. On the right there is a full bathroom, and straight ahead is a large bedroom with a queen-sized bed in it that I get to keep. Go back down the hallway and you walk into a sitting area/living room that is perfect for a nice big TV (WOOHOO), a couch, and a coffee table. Past that, past the stairs to he first level, there is a small kitchenette/wet bar, with a counter, cabinets, and a space for a full refridgerator. She said her brother works for subzero and she is going to be getting a new sub zero fridge in the next couple of weeks to put down there. I'll just have to get the stuff to put in it, and a pizza oven and microwave of course. Then past the kitchenette, there is a door that opens into a storage area, or what would have been the rest of the basement, which is huge. She said I can put all my crap in there and it really would be perfect! I'm so thrilled! I wish I could make it work before Christmas just because it would be awesome to spend my first Christmas alone, at the condo...with a cute little tree and stuff, and it would be awesome if I weren't moving in, in the winter, but that's just how it's working out. I pay the $300 a month, plus 1/4 of the electric bill. We will take turns paying the water bill, and she said if I want cable and internet, I'll just have to pay anything above what she's already paying. It's the perfect set up for me down there, and I have so many plans for it! I don't think I will paint the bathroom because the shower curtain I bought is white with pastel blue and purple watercolor butterflies on it...and the walls are white so I think it will be fine as it is. As for the livin area, I was thinking a muave or a sage. It would be awesome. Bedroom might stay white just because painting all that is a lot for one person. I'm glad I know what I'm doing though from working at Barker. I had to paint all the time, and I know what kind of paint is good and what is shitty...I know what covers well and what doesn't...and I know how to mix paint, so if I notice a clerk doing something wrong on my paint I get to yell at them and say "you're doing it wrong!" Heehee.

Yesterday I bought the shower curtain, a couple towels, a pizza cutter, and a new set of glasses. If anyone wants to know what they should do for me for Christmas, it would simply be to hand over some gift cards to places like Best Buy, PierOne, Kohl's, or Target. Stuff like that. However, I am not asking, or expecting anything from anyone. Please don't feel obliged, but it you want to help me out, I will be less reluctant for those gifts than I have been for gifts in the past. I'M SO FLIPPIN EXCITED! Mom's gettin me a kitten when I move in. I think that's the part that's going to mean the most to me...having that companion that is my own, and having a companion will help, this being my first time truly on my own. I can't wait! Yay!

Burnt Out/Icky

I got home from work after one of my longest shifts EVER, at about 11:30. I feel like shit. The pressure of my sinus infection is getting to be almost untolerable. I can't sleep because it hurts and is a very unpleasant feeling. It gets so bad at work and then when I sneeze, it hurts so bad I wanna cry. I haven't had a sinus thing this bad so early in the season in a while, since high school probably. In high school I was always sick with sinus issues, allergies, head colds, flu's, strep, bronchitis, you name it. And...I never missed a day of school for it. That was easy though. When you're sick, teachers give you a sort of free pass to take it easy, so all you really have to do is sit there and try not to fall asleep. When you're not in school, and the alternative is going to work, your boss has no sympathy. I absolutely cannot take a sick day because it is month end. And, I really need the overtime money. It sucked working so many hours today and feeling like shit on top of that, but I can only imagine how tomorrow will be. I have to work early tomorrow morning, so when I got home I took the following; one Tylenol PM, three Sudafed, one Allegra D, one Vitamin C, and on Centrum vitamin. Hopefully something will work. Mom, being the med-wiz now that she's all certified to be an MA or whatever, says what I took shouldn't clash with each other and shouldn't keep me awake, and that hopefully one, or a combination of a few, will let me sleep. That would be wonderful. My eyes burn so badly from lack of sleep that I just want to cry. Doesn't anyone care that I'm tired? Why ar we even working tomorrow if we already made our month goal on Thursday? WTF?! And why am I not allowed to say no?! It's not mandatory and Tim will make my life misrable for his time as my boss if I ever say no to a month end Saturday...even though we are supposed to be entitled to one month end off (saturday doesn't count since Friday is technically month end). I don't dare ask for a month end off. And it isn't fair. I hate that I have to schedule the rest of my life around month end EVERY SINGLE FUCKING MONTH. And why should I work 12 hours if my boss only does 8...15 minutes of which he is actually truly working? Ugh. Maybe I'm just crabby because I feel shitty. SOMEBODY GET ME OUTTA HERE!