So, as many people have been wanting an update to my present illness.. here it is..

I've been diagnosed with Acute Diverticulitis as of Tuesday.  The symptoms started Friday night when I was unable to keep anything down and got progressively worse.  Now, it's no mystery to most that my stomach is not my friend.  I have bouts like this where I eat and promptly get rid of everything that I've eaten.  It's due to the removal of my gallbladder.  Ever since the surgery my body produces bile at a heightened rate, therefore breaking down and attacking anything that enters my system.  It sucks but I live with it. 

According to the doctors, my already existing stomach problems probably caused the onset of the illness.  It's extremely rare for people my age to get this even with my family history of it.  Lucky me, eh?  So, I've dropped 5 lbs (down to 104) and am now on a liquid only diet.  You know how bad it sucks to be starving and all you get it broth?  If you do, I'm sorry. If you don't consider yourself blessed.

So now I'm on antibiotics to try and reduce the pain in my side.  It's slowly getting better but it's still very much there.  If it's not gone by tomorrow evening I was told to go to the hospital.  Not really all that thrilled about that possibility.  So I'm hoping for a more notable improvement soon.  Only time will tell, for now  I'm trying to keep myself occupied with knitting, video games and random internet searches.  I think I am going a little stir crazy, but I'll survive.  

That's the update.  More as it happens, which I hope to report soon that nothing is happening.  It's been a crappy year for me physically.  All I can do is hope that it gets better soon.

This has been a great and productive three day weekend.  If you're not interested in the update, then scroll down.. You HAVE to read my weird sitings this weekend.

Friday, I came home really pissed off for multiple reasons, mainly because people are assholes.  After a nap I lost my grumpiness and Pete and I spent the evening hanging out. 

Saturday, I cashed my loan check and ran errands all over the place.  I hit up a variety of different stores to get misc. craft supplies and stuff for the house.  Mom needed me to pick up her school books so I did that, fortunately there wasn't a line at Mary Janes books.  It's amazing how inexpensive that place is.  Came home and spent the evening seriously cleaning the house.  I cleaned out from under the bed and threw out everything that I hadn't used/missed in the year we've been living here.  Then I did the same thing with the closet and tossed over half my old clothes.  The yarn collection also was seriously reduced by my cleaning spree of doom.  After the cleaning, I was spent.  The rest of the evening held more knitting and hanging out.

Sunday, I went over to Ezili's house to work on the Discard Avant Garb project.  It's going to be awesome! You should definitely come if you can!  After that, it was DATE NIGHT!  I love date nights.  Pete and I went to Olive Garden and stuffed ourselves on the never ending pasta bowl and breadsticks.  Stopped off at Barnes and Nobles to kill time until the movie then we were off to see District 9.  Aside from a minor altercation with a small gathering of teenies, it was great.  District 9 is awesome!  The aliens are very well done.  It doesn't look overly CGI-ed out which I was pleased to see.  The story was terrific.  Definitely go see it in the theatre while you still can!  Came home, had some fun and chilled out.

Today we're heading over to Pete's parent's house to hang out with them.  We haven't seen them in a while so it will be nice.

Ok, so WEIRD Sitings 2009...

1.  Saturday 10:30AM - Driving down Clinton Ave (sort of ghetto area).  I am stopped at a stop light and I see a man outside in heart boxers.  Apperantly he locked himself out of his house.  He's banging on the window to try and get someone to wake up.  So I'm watching out of the corner of my eye as this guy is seriously slamming into this window.  Then.. CRASH!  The poor guy in his heart shaped boxers, smashed his window out.

2. Saturday 1:30PM - Waiting for my mom to come get her books.  A woman walks out with an older lady.  Apperantly she either had surgery to make one leg shorter than the other, or she was born that way.  One leg was normal and on the other one.. She easy had a platform boot that came up to my neck.  I'm not laughing at her physical abnormality/ailment, but the platform boot was INTENSE.

3.  Sunday 11:00AM - Dropping off stuff at the Troy Goodwill.  As I'm bringing stuff in a man yells, Who's f*cking kid is this?!  A woman had totally neglected to watch her child, and this small 2 year old boy (without shoes) was found wandering around in the parking lot.  The mom raised her hand and the man brought over her kid.  Before he leaves he says.. Some f*cking parenting.

4. Sunday 5:30 PM - Driving to Olive Garden with Pete and a van passes me.  Hanging from the back window, thumping in the wind is a stuffed chicken with a rope around its neck.  I scream, Choking the Chicken!!  Pete and I laugh our asses off all the way to Olive Garden.

5.  Sunday 8:30PM - Walking out of B&N.  A van drives by (not same van, I checked).  In the passenger window, dancing around is a Skeleton.  It looks like a kid was down far in the seat and make this life sized child skeleton look at people as they drove by.  It was weird to see we were waiting to cross the street.

That's it for now, but we haven't left the house yet.
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In other news, I am hoping to complete my Anime Fest outfit in time to be able to dress up.  I bought the wig, which should be here in 5 days or so.  Now I just need to figure out how to use a sewing machine and I think I'll be in business.  Next purchase, white shoes and rope.  Keep your fingers crossed, I want this to work out.  

School starts tomorrow.  English Lit on Tuesdays, Algebra/Trig Mondays and Wednesdays.  I really hope I pass this math class.  I hate math. -=giggle=-  

Well that's all, I hope that everyone had a nice weekend!!

I realized about a month ago that I had completely stopped reading and that really bothered me. So I dusted off my library card and paid my $17 late fee (yea, I suck).  Here's what I've read lately..

Geek Love, what an in incredibly bizarre out there story.  A friend of mine recommended it to me and I took her at her word.  I mean it was good but I think the weirdness may have been a little too much for me and I lost the overall concept of the book.  The main character is a dwarf albino hunchback.  She is in love with her brother who is a fish-man.  That's just explaining two characters, the book is simple odd.

Derby Girl, which I had no idea was the ground for the movie Whip It!  It's a young adult novel so it was a really quick read when I could find the time to sit down with it.  I'll tell you what, if they stick with the book the movie is going to be pretty good if anything it'll be a cute coming of age movie with derby girls and hard hitting thrown in.  I still cannot see Juliette Lewis playing Dinah Mite but that's just me.  Maybe it's because she pulls of that bitchy attitude so well.  I'm actually pretty excited to see it regardless if it's more 70's derby and it's on a banked track.  Hopefully it lives up everyone's expectations.

Let the Right One In, now the only reason I picked this one up was because I loved the movie.  I'm not planning on giving any spoilers away so you can keep reading.  The book is terrific, in my opinion.  It clears up a lot of things that people may have has questions about, expands on a couple of things that I wish had been included in the movie and was all around well written.  I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed seeing the film.  If you haven't seen the film, I recommend watching it.  Oh, and don't expect that it's going to be a really gore-ridden vampire flick.  It's not like that.  It's more like a love story or coming of age flick that happens to be about a vampire.  Sorry to disappoint.

Not the best night for me. My second time jamming I was tripped up my an opposing blocker and landed on my right knee. Due to the fact I have landed on the thing pretty much every practice, this one laid me out. I am unable to bend it completely, can't put a knee pad on and can barely put pressure on it without wincing. Just sucks.. but hey..what can you do? I'm just not enjoying my shitty run of luck lately.

I don't have much to do at work right now and my boss is out to lunch, so I thought I would ramble on a bit.  It's my way of trying to pass the time.

I was reading a story the other day about an white supremacist who shot a black security guard at the Holocaust museum.  When I read the article initially, I must have missed that the white man was 88 years old.  I don't know why that caught me by surprise but it did.  I felt the same "What the ---?" mind meld that I did when I found out about the little kid who shot his step-mom in the head at close range with a shotgun.  Did this guy think.. "well, I'm going to die soon, I need to make the other white boys proud."?  I mean seriously, what compels people to do stupid shit like this?  Oh, and what compels people to jump up and support his actions?  I mean I know most of the haters out there are silly but seriously, declaring his actions a "statement that will be remembered forever" is a little.. um.. retarded.  The only thing people will remember is another racist redneck with an NRA card shot someone.  The end. 

So as an update to this story, the son of the shooter released a statement that he wished his father had died instead of the security guard.  Wow, sounds like someone isn't winning father of the year, eh?  Not that I'm surprised in the slightest.

Links to the story so you can do your own reading.

online.wsj.com/article/SB124465512072602729.html

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526278,00.html