Ankle Update . . . Among Other Things

When my dad got to my house on Friday, he made me pack up to go to my parents' house. I had to crabwalk all the way up the stairs to my bedroom, get my clothes bag and my laptop case, as well as my backpack (to carry my research materials in), pack some clothes (I ended up forgetting my hairbrush), and then go back downstairs to get the computer and the books.

Dad got back before I was even finished with the clothes. So he helped me carry a couple of the bags back downstairs, and I packed those too. Then we went to my parents' house.

I didn't actually do anything with the astronomy paper on Friday evening. Instead, Anna, Kayla and I started watching season 4 of Red vs. Blue, and then Kayla fell asleep and she was going to watch Star Wars with Dad anyway, so we stopped RvB for the time being.

Saturday, I woke up extra late, then when I got up to go to the bathroom (I was on the crutches) Kimba was already in there, so I had to wait. For some reason, I started to feel like I was going to pass out. Luckily, I didn't before I actually got into the bathroom, but I did spend quite a few minutes with my eyes closed and my head leaning on the bathroom sink area. After that, I went into the living room as quickly as I could (I've never had to use crutches before, so using them properly and quickly took some getting used to) and flopped on the couch. That was around 9:30am.

I didn't fully get up again until around noon or so. Everybody was nice about getting things for me like food and the ice pack, which I wouldn't have been able to carry with the crutches.

Sometime in the evening, Jason, Kayla and Anna decided to play some games, but I had to write my paper. So they played Electronic Banking Monopoly while I wrote my paper on quasars. I'll post it in the same place I'm going to post my school newspaper articles later.

I think we might've played some video games after that, but I can't remember very clearly. I know we at least did some video game bowling and played Halo 2 sometime this weekend.

Sunday was pretty uneventful. More games and stuff. Anna and I watched Gilmore Girls on the projector for a while before everybody got home from church, then I think we finished up the Star Wars movies.

Monday, Anna took me to work, and then Dad picked me up so we could both get our allergy shots. Then he took me back to their house, and Anna, Kayla and I finished watching Red vs. Blue season 4. Only one more season to go!

I got home around 10:30-ish on Monday night, and basically just read the book I'd borrowed from Sister G.

Yesterday, I drove myself to work; it was uncomfortable, but nowhere near as painful as it was on Friday. After work, I went to take my astronomy final, and turned in my paper and night sky observations. The final was a cinch.

When I came home, I finished the book while I started my laundry (after dragging the basket from my room as I scooted downstairs) and then tried to watch the shows I'd recorded on my laptop. But alas, apparently my laptop is not able to read DVDs that I've recorded myself. So I had to go back upstairs and watch them on my TV. That wasn't too bad; all I had to bring were my pillows and the DVD.

I watched the Bones from May 5th, the Smallville from May 8th, and the Numb3rs from May 9th. When I went to delete that Bones episode, I accidentally deleted the second Robin Hood episode I'd taped, so there will be no watching it "just to see if it's really as bad as it seemed the first time."

Before I left the house on Friday, I'd forgotten to set the DirecTV box to autotune to Fox for Monday's Bones episode, so I dragged my carcass (and my pillows, as well as the DragonLance Chronicles novels) downstairs again and found this past Monday's episode on Sidereel. I finally finished watching it around 2:30 this morning, so I am officially caught up on all of my shows.

SPOILER WARNING!!!!!

But holy crap, Booth got shot at the end of the episode! There were no previews on the Sidereel video, so I tried to find the trailer video online for next week's episode (it's the season finale on the 19th). I didn't find any trailer videos, but I did find spoiler pictures in which Booth is up and about, seemingly without trouble from the bullet wound, so I breathed a sigh of relief.

END SPOILER WARNING

Now, here I am typing this up, and I have almost nothing else to say. After work, I'll probably watch a movie before reading some more. I might even fold my laundry, even though I won't be taking it upstairs until after my foot is feeling good enough to actually walk up and down the stairs. The swelling went down considerably yesterday, but it actually hurts slightly more now than it did when it was all puffy. I think the swelling must have helped to dull the pain or something.

I also have bruises on my foot that aren't really in the places that my foot hurts. One of them is on the complete opposite side of my foot, on the instep side of my heel. The other is on the outside of my foot, and runs from my heel to the ball of my foot, just below my ankle. The truly tender part of my foot--the part that actually hurts--is my ankle itself, and the only bruise there is just above the actual bone and slightly heel-ward. The top of my foot on the outside is also a bit tender (although not much at all), and has some light-greenish bruising on it. Maybe I'll post some pictures later.

Didn't Quite Get Things Finished, but Had Fun Anyway

After setting up the modem and such on Friday night, I found out that my DirecTV receiver had already been delivered (three days before that). So I set it up in my room, but apparently the installer guy who did the first receiver didn't hook up the satellite to the whole house--just that one receiver. So, they're sending another installer guy to hook up the satellite to my room and Stacie's room on Wednesday.

Because I didn't know the receiver had been delivered (and didn't know the cable hook-up on my wall wasn't connected to the satellite yet), I missed both Psych and Smallville. There was no episode for Numb3rs last week.

Saturday, I did my financial figuring, paid the bills, got groceries and gas, then packed up to go to Mom & Dad's house. I've decided that I'll probably end up spending at least Saturday nights there every week, now that Kayla's moved out of the townhouse.

I got to Mom & Dad's around 4pm with all the stuff I'd brought: clothes for Sunday, the novel I'm reading, my Astronomy spiral and various accoutrements so that I could do homework, my flashlight, my glasses case, my vitamins, half-a-case of Lipton Green Tea with Citrus (to share with Anna) and six games.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the board game
• Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit
• Aggravation
• Skip Bo
• Harry Potter Uno
• Phase 10

I put my stuff up in Anna's room, and we played the Buffy game with Kayla and Jason. I was Willow and Xander, Kayla was Buffy, Jason was Oz, and Anna played the evil side. We played two games--one with Adam as the villain, and one with the Judge--and Evil won both times. Then I watched last week's Psych episode. It was fun (of course), and I like the fact that Chief Vic is no longer just the interim chief anymore.

By that time, it was around 7 or so, and we were all deciding what to have for dinner. It took us about an hour to decide where to go (Arby's), then Dad, Jason and I played Skip Bo while we waited for Anna, Kimba and Kayla to get the food. After dinner, Anna played with us and Jason went to bed.

About 10, Kimba, Anna, Kayla and I went to the house of one of Kimba's friends and hung out. The only other people I really knew there were Amber and her boyfriend Chris (one of three guys by that name in the house that night).

We got back to Mom & Dad's around 1:30 or so in the morning, and then Anna and Kayla and I played some more Skip Bo on Anna's bed. Then we played Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit. Kayla won, and none of us could really remember anything all that well since we hadn't watched the movies in a while. Throughout the game, Kayla kept saying that if it was Star Wars Trivial Pursuit, we wouldn't have been having so much trouble remembering things about it. Anna and I agreed, even though I had had slightly less trouble than they had--I still remembered some of the more obscure character and place names. We watched the first half of Comedy Central's Roast of Jeff Foxworthy before we fell asleep.

Yesterday, I finally woke up all the way about noon (the dogs were crawling on me long before that), went downstairs, got some breakfast, and then waited for everybody else to get up while I called Stacie so that we could order a DirecTV receiver for her--I used Mom's computer to login to my account to do that. A little while later, Kayla, Anna, Jason and I were playing Phase 10 on Anna's floor when Kimba came in to tell us that one of her clients, his mother and his sister were coming over in about an hour. We were all like, "Okay, we'll finish this game and then get dressed."

That lasted about five minutes, when her client's mother called again to ask for directions--they were already on their way! So we had about 10-20 minutes to get dressed and such before they got there. I still needed a shower, so I took my clothes down to the bathroom and got one.

That was the fastest shower I've even been able to take in over a year! Seriously. I mean, the water pressure in my house sucks, so it takes so long to rinse all the soap/shampoo/conditioner/whatever off. The shower at Mom & Dad's was so much faster than that, it was awesomely refreshing.

The people came and left, and then it was almost dinner time. The five of us "kids" played Phase 10 until dinner. Since it was such a hit last week (and there were still plenty of ingredients leftover), Dad had decided to make pizza again--yum! Camille and Betsy came over too, and they both loved Dad's original pizza--the ballpark.

Seriously, that is the best special-topping pizza I have ever had, including the ones we get at work from Vocelli's. It's basically what you'd get at a ballpark, only on a pizza: hot dog, mustard, ketchup (well, it's pizza sauce in this case), and a bun (crust). Dad also made a hawaiian and a meat lover's (plus ¼ cheese only) pizza. The hawaiian was completely gone by the time everyone was full, there were only two slices of ballpark left, and about 3/4 of the meat lovers.

Camille and Betsy stayed to play Imaginiff. There was one extra name space on the board, so we put in Darth Vader, which was kind of funny, because one of the cards which he got picked for said, "Imagine if Darth Vader was a 70's movie. Which would he be?" and then one of the six choices was Star Wars. After the game, Camille and Betsy left.

Dad, Anna, Jason, Kayla, Kimba and I played 90's Trivial Pursuit (three teams of two--Kayla & Jason, Me & Anna, and Kimba & Dad) before Jason had to go to bed, and then when he and Kayla won we all kind of broke up to go separate ways: Dad to the living room; Kimba to her room; and Anna, Kayla and I to Anna's room.

I asked Anna if we could watch the Smallville episode from last week, but she wanted to play Buffy instead. This was around 10:30, and I was thinking I'd have to go home within the next hour and a half so that I could sleep before work this morning, but either Anna or Kayla lent me some clean pajama pants, Kimba lent me her MNDC tee shirt to wear today, and Anna asked Dad to copy the Smallville episode onto a DVD so that I could watch it at home today instead.

The three of us did play Buffy one more time then, this time with me playing evil, Kayla playing Oz and Willow, and Anna playing Xander and Buffy. The villain was the Mayor, and good won. We had a snackage break in the middle, during which I ate the last slice of ballpark pizza (someone else had eaten the other one earlier).

We decided then (about midnight) to watch the rest of the Jeff Foxworthy roast to go to sleep by. I turned off my cell phone for the night, since my charger was at home and I didn't want to be stuck with a dead battery at work. The show was finished around 1:30 am, but none of us were quite ready to sleep yet, so Anna started this other Comedy Central special by Mike Burbiglia called What I Should Have Said Was Nothing. Anna and Kayla fell asleep in the middle at about 2, so I paused it, turned off the TV, and went to sleep myself.

The alarm went off at 7:30, I got dressed, had breakfast, turned the cell phone back on, picked up the DVD Dad had made for me from the dining room table, and asked Jason to help me put everything I'd brought (minus 4 out of 6 bottles of Green Tea with Citrus) back into the Bug. I left the house at 8:05, and I've been at work since about 8:15.

We didn't play Uno or Aggravation the whole weekend, and I didn't do any homework or reading either. I've been procrastinating the Astronomy for too long, which surprises me because I actually want to do it. I should know better than to bring books and homework to Mom & Dad's house on the weekends, I guess.