My day started with the unmistakable sound of one of my dogs dry heaving downstairs. It's my fault...I let Gracie get too husky after her ACL surgery and now she is on a diet. She has an anxiety issue as it is, so when she hears her stomach growling for food in the morning, she gets all worked up like she is starving. If she could just read one of the digital clocks on the appliances in the kitchen, she would know that breakfast will be served shortly. This is not the first time this has happened. So I get up and feed all the fur babies and decide it's a good morning for oatmeal. I made a nice organic oatmeal and added a handful of raisins to remind me to chew my food. One of the raisins was the consistency of a rock and I chipped one of my rear teeth (i'm not a dentist, so I don't know it's official tooth name, it's like #5 back there). I chipped a tooth on a raisin, wtf. It's now 9am, I'm defeated and ready to go back to bed.
Today I called my doctor's office for the 3rd time to see what the results of my heart ECG machine were. Yes, you did read that right, I've called 3 times. Today I made the poor office receptionist listen to my life story to make sure she realized how ridiculous it was that I haven't heard from any body. Well, it worked. Shortly after I talked the receptionist's ear off, a nurse called me back and told me I must make an appointment with the cardiologist because there were frequent heart palpitations that showed up on my monitor. It's been 2 weeks since I turned the ECG unit back in to the cardiologist's office....and no one thought it was important to call me and let me know my heart isn't beating properly. It's now about 11am, I am livid and ready to pick a fight.
I had a fruit fly land on my eyeball today as well. I saw it circling my face for a split second, then whammy! it was in my eye. How gross...I had to fish it out of my eye to kill it. It's February 27th, why the hell do I have fruit flies? There is no rotten fruit or garbage sitting in my house. I think I have to blame the weather and my plants on this one. I've had a few fruit flies here and there before...but not Kamikazee fruit flies that are intentionally trying to hurt me. That sucked the fight out of me and now I'm nothing but disgusted.
I decided that I would try to go and get a nice relaxing massage tomorrow...I have a couple of those awesome Groupon's for massages that I bought a while ago. I figure I might as well try to relax and melt away my day, stress can't be good for someone with such a fragile heart (ha! I wonder how long I can play that card for?). So I call the first massage place and I get a recording that goes something like this (read in a very calm, breathy voice out loud)..."thank you for calling the so-n-so massage center, currently no one is available to take your call. Please call back during our work hours which are Monday 10-2:30, Tuesday 8-noon & 3-5, Wednesday 10-4, Thursday 10-2:30 and Friday 8-1. You can schedule a massage Monday through Thursday until 5pm, half day Friday and Saturday. We look forward to hearing from you again." I almost threw my phone out the kitchen window. It was too much information and I wasn't prepared. So I had to get a pen & paper and call the number again. Now my stress level is through the roof trying to keep up with this very relaxed woman cramming 3 minutes of information into a 50 second voice mail. I finally just hung up.. who would have thought trying to schedule a comforting massage could be so damn frustrating. So I called the other massage place, prepared with pen in hand, to see if they could be less stressful. I got another voice mail that belonged to a woman named Theresa who instructed me to leave a message and she would get back to me within 48 hours. 48 hours? Does she only have access to a payphone down the street or something? Is she dangerously close to running out of minutes on her cell phone and has to wait for the next billing cycle to get more time? Now my head is pounding and I'm back to being pissed off at my doctor....it's now about 3pm. I should have gone back to bed after my dental incident this morning.
I am very proud to announce that I got my first semi contradictory comment on a blog posting. It was in response to my posting titled "I'm gonna burst" on the religiously charged politics that are going on in Virginia. I, on one hand, am happy that I am stirring the pot on certain topics and allowing my readers to speak their mind. On the other hand I was a little taken aback on naivety on the comments made by this person. For example, she (and I'm assuming it was a she) thought that the intravaginal ultrasound possibly being forced on women before an abortion was " no more evasive than it was to create this life to begin with". I think, when you are a victim of rape or incest, this is would be a horribly, evasive procedure. Having a strange doctor stick a wand like instrument inside of you that is not medically necessary, could be labeled as a form of rape. BUT I am not here to argue with someone's comments or beliefs...I am someone who can agree to disagree...but before you preach your thoughts, make sure you think them through thoroughly. I would think that most educated women who have had to terminate a pregnancy, agonized over coming to that decision...fully aware of the embryo or fetus that was inside of them. As I said, I am not here to criticize any one who wishes to leave a comment. I just think that our world would be in more of a compassionate state if people thought with more of an open mind when it comes to social issues. Diversity is what our country is built upon. Bias and prejudice is what is keeping us from evolving and tearing us apart as a nation. Love thy neighbor...no matter who or what they are.
Wow...I was really all over the place on that....sorry. I think I need to lighten up...maybe a massage would help...maybe not. I think I will just go upstairs with a glass of wine, a "massage pill" (aka muscle relaxer) and a good book.
Oh wait, before I go....I am up to $32 on ad revenue. Holy crap...look what you've done!!! I was thinking about investing the money as well...any one have any good stock tips? Keep up the good work my faithful followers...one day this fortune will spilleth over to your cup.
G'Night!
Jules
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