This has been a whirlwind of a week. I’m winding down my housing search with 2 more shared viewings today. I was offered an awesome room in Ballston, but the price is a little high. I really like it and the roommates, so I’m sure I’ll pick it, but I have to finish my due diligence today.
My nose is still pretty sore. If I touch it very roughly at all, like just to scratch and itch, it gets sore. I snagged my nose on my shirt as I was taking it off the other day and man… my nose was sore the rest of the day. I read that the first 2 weeks are when it’s the most fragile, so I’m just really hoping I haven’t messed it up.
I’m exhausted. I went to Winchester for work on Thursday meaning a very early start to the day. That night, very late, I had a softball game to manage (not play yet). It was late and was even later once I actually got to sleep. I still feel like I’m dragging.
Grad school starts very, very soon. I’m not really sure what to expect, but I’m excited. Looking forward to something to focus on.
Well, I kind of dropped the ball on blogging the past week… so, here’s a quick update on the past week!
Day 15 – I ran out of pain pills and this was by far the worst pain day since the surgery on Monday. I basically slept all day until my “favorite” was able to being me some Ibuprofen and Tylenol to start rotating through. Not much happened this day besides sleeping, eating, and watching TV. Maybe a few emails answered, but that’s all for work.
Day 16 – Luckily, my Thursday softball team’s game was rained out. I say luckily because I wasn’t able to go even watch so this way I don’t miss the game. I worked this day (from home like always) and rested in the evening.
Day 17 – Friday was a nice day. My nose was feeling significantly better, so much so that I couldn’t wait to get out of the house. I accompanied my “favorite” out to Oakton, VA to drop something at his boss’ house. We stopped at this cute little Italian place and had some AMAZING wood-fire grilled pizza! And appetizers, and dessert, and everything I shouldn’t eat. 🙂 Comfort food helps my nose. I Swear!
Day 18 – Saturday morning I checked out a room in a house in Ballston as my lease expires 9/11 and I want to move. I really, REALLY liked it. Spent the rest of the day at my place, lounging and resting with my “favorite”. Early evening we went to his house to hang out with a couple friends, but I didn’t stay long and came home to bed.
Day 19 – Sunday I met my friend, Rachel, for lunch at this great place called Seasons 52. I went all out with a pre-meal drink, entree, and a small shot of Carrot Cake with a latte. Again… my nose deserved some comfort food and it was the last day of having my cast on. She went with me to look at a condo for rent, then we parted ways. I kept on looking at 3 more rentals throughout the day before spending some time with my “favorite” and coming home.
Day 20 – FINALLY! My nose cast came off! Then I bought donuts because, well, my nose deserved them. I stopped by my “favorite”s house to share some with him before returning home to work. In the evening, I ventured out to watch my Monday night softball team play as I still cannot. I stopped by my “favorite”s house afterwards for a short bit before returning home to rest.
Day 21 – Busy day! Worked all day then viewed 2 places for rent, one with a roommate and one without. Neither of them seemed to be a great fit, so I was looking forward to the rest of the appointments throughout the week. I had dinner with my friend, Peter, then came home to rest and sleep!
Day 22 – THAT BRINGS US TO TODAY. Ugh. Blogging every is WAY easier than blogging once a week. Lordie. I think I remembered everything I did this past week. I think. Today I’m working then checking out a couple more rentals followed by a couple X-Life calls. Busy day again, but I’m loving it. I was getting WAY tired of being laid out. Glad to be active again, even if not 100%
*wipes forehead* I told myself I would maintain this blog for a YEAR. I’m not a huge fan of setting goals and dropping them so… we keep trucking along.
My mood has significantly increased since being able to get off the couch and not hurting so bad. Oh, and I started an account on OK Cupid. Oy. Dating sucks but hey… sometimes you just gotta do it!
That’s enough for today, THANK GOODNESS. Live long and prosper!
Nose surgery. Bad food. Good meds. Running out of shows in my queue. Marathoning “American Horror Story”, breaking with “Mistresses”. Missing playoff softball game. Supplements again, YES!!!
Today has been mostly uneventful. I worked a little, but I also tried to rest and take care of my face. My eyes are starting to blacken up now from the inside corner. I figured it would be worse by now. I had therapy this afternoon which was mostly spent talking about my face and all the fun things I’ve felt since then.
My Thursday night championship team has a game tonight. My “favorite” is picking me up and driving me so I can keep taking the pain medication. If I don’t take it, my face doesn’t feel too great. I’m glad I get to go, but talking hurts my face so yelling likely isn’t in the cards. I’ll just be the quiet stats girl. Hah.
I’m in an okay mood today. Nothing too great or too bad, just steady. Face hurts and I’m tired from all the sitting around. Hopefully, I can be a little more active tomorrow.
Yeah. It hurts. Not as bad as I figured it would. It’s interesting how when I look at this picture of my face, it doesn’t look that bad. I wonder if I saw this picture, but it was someone else, if I would think the same thing. Most people who have seen this picture have said it looks really rough. It was. That ball was hard, was hit hard, and hit me right in the face.
I’m feeling a lot of things today. Stupidity for putting myself at 3rd in the first place simply because someone adamantly suggested it. I knew better, but I did it anyway. Thankfulness for the people at the game who jumped to my side and helped take care of me. Luck as had I not been wearing sunglass or had my head been turned slightly a different way, things could have been much worse. Empathy for the poor guy who hit the ball. A teammate told me the guy was visibly upset and his father told me today he had to console him because he was very very upset. And many others I’m not going to go into.
SILVER LINING!!! I’m almost caught up on Bachelorette. I was starting to be told to go rest every time I responded to work emails, so I figured they can’t ALL be wrong. After this, I catch up on Rookie Blue. Well, my favorite may come over tonight though, so maybe I’ll be watching something we both like. We’ll see. Oh and they gave me Percocet.
I’m alive. I’m recovering. I’m medicated. Good day. Good day.
It took a whole whopping 7 days to hit a bad mood. Womp womp. This mood is acerbated by the fact that I have not been very financially smart over the last few months and now it’s biting me in the ass. There seems to be so much to focus on that I can’t understand how some people have it all together. You have to think about finances, retirement, health, fitness, beauty, work, friends, family, etc. I start to focus on one and slip in the others. Maybe if I could afford to pay people to focus on things for me… alas, I cannot.
Money can’t buy happiness, you say? I say you’re ridiculous, shut up, and sit down.
Oh, I should mention I got hit in the face with a softball tonight. Was playing 3rd (don’t ask why), hard hit took a bad bounce right into my face. Broken nose. Womp Womp. Here’s a pic and I imagine it will get worse before it gets better:
Today my custom built desktop decided to have a fit. I turned her on and she went into a strange disk recovery screen for Windows 8. After quite a while, she did some weird black screen, white text super scrolling speed demon shit then proceeded to boot Windows 7… which I have not used on this machine since 2013. UGH. Why is she doing this?! Now, I’ve got to try to find time to fix her, but it’s going to have to wait. I love to listen to music on her because she has the best speakers in the house. Ugh. #firstworldproblems
It was a hot one out today. Well, I haven’t been outside since 7:30AM, but it was hot then and weather.com is saying it’s 94 degrees out. I was supposed to play softball, but I decided to sit out as I’m still sunburned and generally just drained from this weekend’s superb activities.
Started a new 8 day today! Feeling a little sluggish and still haven’t met my health and fitness goals, so I’m getting back on that horse and riding it for 8 full days to get back in shape. My birthday weekend was fun, but MAN it did a number on my progress. 🙂
Wound up going to see “Ant-Man” with some friends! It was good!
Day 1 could not have been more perfect. I went shopping for a birthday outfit and came up with this bad boy! LOVE IT!
I also had my hair trimmed and blown out. It’s actually still amazing looking despite being slept on. Unfortunately, the blow out is going to end in a short bit when I color my hair. It’s been a couple months and is needed. New year of life and new hair! Can’t go wrong with that.
Dinner last night so AMAZING. 12 wonderful friends came out to wish me a happy birthday. This picture of the whole group isn’t the best picture, but I still adore it. We went to Landini Bros. in Old Town Alexandria, VA. I had a great time, everyone else said they did too, so I call this a success!
I’m feeling so good today. I’ve got a softball game tonight against one of our rival teams… it can get a bit nasty so here’s hoping for a calm, fun game tonight. No rain in the forecast! WOOT! Rain lately… sheesh. SO many games cancelled I can’t even talk about it.
30 baby. Starting off better than I could have imagined!
