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Day 81: The Self

There was this game with marbles that I used to play as a child. I can never remember the name of it and I’ve always wondered if it was still being made like Connect Four or Perfection.

Thanks to a Facebook quiz that I decided to take because I don’t know why, I now remember! It was the last game on the quiz!!! Ahhhh….finally!

The name of the game that I’ve been trying to remember for many, many years is called Stay Alive. I feel as if a great weight has been lifted.

I also got 100% on the retro toy quiz. I didn’t realize I had that great amount of knowledge locked inside of me. I think I have a section of my brain dedicated to repressed toys.

  Ada and James - Summer 2007 
  Originally uploaded by Mac and Mel Wisler.

We decided to go ahead and get the kids pictures taken. Mac wanted to get family pictures for his Father’s day present. He agreed to my plea to wait for pictures until end of October to give me more weight loss time. In the meantime, our grandmothers have back-to-back birthdays, so we got the kids pictures taken. We are taking one for Mac’s grandmother this weekend to her birthday party. I’m going to mail a framed one to my grandmother.

My cash monies diet is working well. It was hit and miss at first with lots of fluctuations. I think I’ve finally found my calorie limit to make it work. I’ve been on it 3.5 weeks, and I hit the 8lb mark this morning.

I took a vacation day today to get other things done besides pictures. One of those things was to get my hair touched up. My roots were showing. Charity redid my color, and I love it. I’ll have to get Mac to take a picture. My cut is a little different too. I didn’t end up liking the back of my first hair cut. I still have the a-line cut, but it is textured a lot more. I like it.

  New Frames Part II 
  Originally uploaded by Mac and Mel Wisler.

I got my second pair of new frames today. This picture isn’t  the most flattering angle of myself, but I wanted to show the side–dark green on top, MellyStu green on bottom.  They are also the thickest frames that I’ve ever owned. This is the first time that I’ve gotten two frames, but I could not decide between the ones pictured here and my New Frames Part I.

I didn’t mention it, but I found my frames that I started college with. WTF? Those things were big! And I remember when I got them, I thought they were small compared to the ones from high school that I replaced them with. Egads! I won’t mention how many years ago that was (*ahem*), but I did wonder when I bought these how many years will go by before I look at them or pictures of me in them and think that I look like a big dork^*.

  One pair of my new frames 
  Originally uploaded by Mac and Mel Wisler.

Last Saturday, I made an overdo trip to the eye doctor, and ended up with a slightly stronger prescription. My daily headaches are getting annoying. I also ordered two new pairs of frames. The pair in the picture is why. I got them 1/2 off for ordering two, and I couldn’t decide between this pair and the other pair that I ordered. My other pair are the same square shape of my now old frames, but with a thicker frame. They are also back ordered, so I have another 3 weeks before I get them.

In the meantime, I have these, and hopefully no more headaches.

I went to the fridge at work this afternoon to get my lunch, and when I went to grab it, I saw my phone sitting in there. Yes, I put my cell phone in the fridge at work by my lunch. Even funnier if I had a call while someone was in there getting coffee and heard the fridge playing the theme song to Fraggle Rock.

This is the 7th day in a row that I’ve been suffering from headaches. I went to the eye doctor yesterday, and he made my prescription for my glasses a little stronger. He warned me that my distance vision will get a little blurry, but I think lack of eye-strain headaches is way better than blurrier distance vision that I’m used to. Plus, I rarely every drive with my glasses on.

Besides, without my glasses, I can still read the very bottom line on the eye charts, so who cares? If I have my glasses on, and someone standing at a distance says, "Hey Mel, can you read this teeny text for me," I will no longer be able to do that unless I take my glasses off. That scenario will happen…let me think…never.

Other than that, only one thing changed–the pressure in my eyes. In the past, it has been 13. This time, it was 20. More than 21 is considered abnormal or high pressure, so I’m within the normal range, but it was a big jump from my last few measurements. He took a picture of my eye (which was cool to look at) to compare with future appointments since the one eye problem that I do have in my family history is glaucoma. I never really realized how much information you can tell about other health issues by looking at a picture of the back of your eye, mainly coming from the fact that you have a picture of some of your blood vessels. I have no blood vessel damage, no cholesterol build-up, no high blood pressure (although I knew that from my gazillion doctor appointments from being pregnant), and I don’t look like I’m about to have a heart attack or a stroke. And the part where he looks to check for glaucoma, he can also tell if there might be a brain tumor. He can also catch macular degeneration early if you get a picture at every appointment. 

I decided to get new frames since mine are four years old, and I keep needing to replace one pad, which is annoying. I actually ended up with two frames. I can’t wait to get them.

I put on jeans this afternoon to go out for lunch, and they were fine for awhile, but by the time I got home, my incision hurt. No pants for me for a little bit longer. The incision is looking better, though. I don’t want to spend a lot of money on clothes, but I have a few pairs of workout shorts and two dresses–one of which I need to wash and return. I need to find something I can wear though.

Mac officially listed the convertible for sale. He asked me out for lunch, and we took out the convertible before it is gone. I was a little surprised when Mac said he wanted to sell it because he’s said in the past that life was too short to not own a convertible^*. Since he works from home full time, and with the kids, he says he doesn’t drive it enough to own it. He would rather add to our savings for our next house.

I am recovered from my surgery nicely. I haven’t taken the sterile strips off yet, but nothing is puffy or oozing or bleeding. And my pain from it is almost gone. I want him to do my next c-section^*. However, I caught a case of what I call The Death from somebody (*cough* Chris^** *cough*). I cannot sleep with the exploding head syndrome, and NyQuil doesn’t work. Here is the kicker. I still have a fever, and my throat is on fire, and my head wants to explode, but if I use more than 5 sick days in a row, I have to file for STD. I used my 5 sick days to recover from surgery, so I have to either see if I can get STD to cover a headcold or take vacation, so tomorrow I’m taking a vacation day to cover having one more day to shake off The Death.

Tags: surgery, sickness

The surgery is over, and aside from waking up majorly confused and not knowing where I was for a short time, all went well. I’m in pain, but that is what happens when you get an organ removed. I have pills. They give me small windows of relief. I do have to say, the missing organ pain and the gas in my back and shoulder pain is a walk in the park compared to my c-section recovery.  I hope that I won’t strain myself and make my recovery longer. I have a tendency to do that. I’m going to try very hard to just rest all day tomorrow.

James is rolling over. So exciting! Ada is getting cuter everyday, plus she is tons of fun to play with. I couldn’t sleep the other night, so I was lying in bed thinking. If somebody gave me the opportunity to pop back into my childhood and give it another try–getting to keep the knowledge and lessons I have learned so far–this is the first time in my life that I wouldn’t take it. That, I concluded, is true happiness. I don’t want to risk that small chance that even if I tried, I wouldn’t end up with Mac, Ada and James.