Issues

It’s Monday and I’m bummed to be at work so I might as well complain today.  :-) 

Remember my hair dresser that dyed the peach fuzz on my face back in September?  Well for some reason I went back to her two more times.  This last time I complained that my hair was losing the dye that she was putting in after only a week or two so she decided that she would put a darker shade of dye into my hair so that when it faded it would be more of the color that I wanted.  I’m not sure why I went along with this, but since hair stylists are the experts I generally agree with what they suggest.

POOR, POOR choice on my end.  I ended up with almost black hair- but not on the roots.  It looked AWFUL.  One of my coworkers actually said, “Oh…you paid someone to do that?”  (In the nicest way possible.)  Not trusting in the first stylist to fix the mess, I made an appointment at a new salon (awful hair on my birthday made me sad).  The new stylist had no idea what the heck the first stylist was trying to do and suggested heavy highlights of a lighter color and then toning the hair.  Then in our next appointment she could get me back to the color that I want to be.  So I don't love my current hair, but it is at least better then the two-toned mess that was my hair only a week ago.  I should have listened to my instinct and not gone back to the stylist after her errors the first time….GRRRRR.

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For those of you that have been reading a while, remember how I was supposed to get braces and have my jaw broken and I was worried about timing with pregnancy?  First off, let me just LAUGH.  I could have had the braces put on last July, the surgery sometime late summer this year and possibly had the braces off by now.  But I thought that we still had a chance in getting pregnant once the fibroids were out of my body/once we tried the IUIs so I held off treatment.  Well, now we are here in IL and I thought that because my teeth started to move back together once I took out my night guard I would be all set.  But of course no….my new dentist and orthodontist both recommend braces once again and I won’t know if I need surgery until 9 months into treatment.

OF COURSE this rears its head when we are just about to start IVF.  *sigh*  For right now we have put off the braces but we are mainly just waiting until we can get some cash together….

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Finally, Saturday morning started off on a good note- CP was almost finished rolling the first coat of paint on the dining room ceiling when he had a back spasm.  I told him to sit down the couch for a few minutes, gave him some Tylenol and started to prime one of the built in cabinets.  After a while we could tell that his back wasn’t getting any better so I headed to Walgreens to get a heating pad and some Doan’s back pain medicine.  When that didn’t help, I asked CP what he was going to do about his flight to Columbia the next morning.  He couldn’t walk without holding on to a table, countertop, or me and couldn’t straighten out his body.  So I finally convinced him to head to urgent care.

This was my first time at urgent care and I have to say that it is an EXCELLENT idea.  Lower back pain is not something that someone should go to the emergency room for….but yet, where are you supposed to go on a weekend?  Enter urgent care where you don’t have to wait hours upon hours to get seen by a doctor and tie up the ER system.  We were quickly seen by a doctor and CP was able to get a prescription-strength anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxers.  However, the doctor did not appreciate CP’s joke about his upcoming flight to Columbia via Panama- “I’m taking a tour of all of the 90s drug hotspots.”  :-)

The rest of the weekend CP laid on the couch watching television and sleeping.  I have never seen that boy sleep as much as I did this weekend.  Meanwhile, I painted.  And brought CP dinner, water, his phone, his computer, etc. (he had to cancel his trip to Columbia and call his boss).  I walked the dogs.  And yesterday I baked 12 loaves of bread to give to our neighbors for the holidays.  And now I am tired.

How was your weekend?

I don't have any wise words on what happened in Newtown on Friday so I decided not to post on the tragedy.  However, I do hope that our country can come together and pass some meaningful legislation to prevent this from happening again.  Personally, I believe that is going to come in the form of tighter gun restrictions and more mental health dollars.