Monday, August 28, 2006

Okay- purse addiction under control

Well, it's Monday again. Yet another hurricane is roaring towards our west coast ( of course the coast that I live on!). I am going to eat steak tonight with friends- I'm not what you would call a fan of steak. And just one more week till the cruise! Let's just hope good ol'e Ernesto or whatever the heck his name is-clears up before we set sail.

lookin' forward to Tuesday-

lata'

L

Friday, August 25, 2006

Addicted to love?.....no, purses.

Well, I guess we can add a new quirk to the list-

I am here to admit to all that I am addicted to purses. I looked at my closet this morning and I realized the truth. Not only am I addicted to the typical cute purse but I am now addicted to designer purses. Yes, friends..I have tasted luxury and there is no turning back. I spent over an hour today cruising( I have decided that I dont surf, I cruise...) the online auctions on the web for gorgeous designer purses............I am so hooked.

My city of New York, what have you done to me? I have no money!
MUST HAVE PURSES MUST HAVE PURSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a feeling that if I were really busy at work this week this addiction would
not have developed- I wonder if I can claim some sort of worker's comp for that?????

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Addicted to love?.....no, purses.

Well, I guess we can add a new quirk to the list-

I am here to admit to all that I am addicted to purses. I looked at my closet this morning and I realized the truth. Not only am I addicted to the typical cute purse but I am now addicted to designer purses. Yes, friends..I have tasted luxury and there is no turning back. I spent over an hour today cruising( I have decided that I dont surf, I cruise...) the online auctions on the web for gorgeous designer purses............I am so hooked.

My city of New York, what have you done to me? I have no money!
MUST HAVE PURSES MUST HAVE PURSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a feeling that if I were really busy at work this week this addiction would
not have developed- I wonder if I can claim some sort of worker's comp for that?????

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Docta! Docta!

So, I have always claimed this blog as a ground for me to vent my frustrations on: so here we go-hold on tight.
Alright so I have a back issue that has been waiting for months upon months to be resolved- I live in constant pain, i can not lean over to do simple things like put on underwear and tie shoes- I can not clean my bathtub-thus i live in filth. I sleep on my back on a heating pad with my feet elevated every night. I wear a heating pad at work. I roll out of bed for I cannot simply sit up and get out. I have to use to handicap bars in bathrooms in order to stand up. To much information? I know but I want you to have a clear picture so you judge me less for my ranting-

So after the initial doctors meeting- i was placed in physical therapy thrice a week for three weeks, if the problem went away then all was to be well and done with. If it did not (which is of course the case) then I was to return to the doctor and decide on the next course of action. Might I say here that never was there an MRI or X-rays(which do not show discs anyways) to give the professional diagnosis that I received which was an eherniated disk in my lower back.

So, I go to my appointment with the doctor ( 1 month ago) and he says that an MRI is a big waste of money, X-rays are too but if I want them I can have them to rule out other broken areas(whatever that means). And then he says this, "Why don't we try physical therapy for about 3 weeks and then see were we are". I wanted to grab the chart that I know if full of the information he should already know and beat him over his aggressively balding head!! But, restraining that urge I instead, grit my teeth and say, "I have already been in physical therapy for 3 weeks." To which Dr. McDumbo responds, "Oh, well hows that going?"- too which i scream ( inside my head) "WEll, I dont know you idiot, I'm sitting in your office-how do you think its going?". Anyways I decide to get the X-rays and then i get out of there having resolved nothing at all. I decide at the moment to find myself a new Doctor-


X-rays show nothing

I go to my last Physical Therapy session and tell them about my dope of a doctor- drawing a small crowd of course to hear the story- and they sign me up for another month of therapy in which we will take a whole new direction.

This proves to work quite well and I actually begin to improve (dare I say it?)
Spoke to soon!
I have a totally relapse of pain and the pain shifts to different areas of my back- now
I can't sleep or sit or...well we have been through that.

New Doctor-
Such a thorough doctor that she finds even more problems with me than I was planning on!
Scheduled an MRI, made new dr's appt with specialist for ridiculous completely different issue-
get medicine- not pain medicine mind you-

no more physical therapy-
extreme pain-

48 hours later, no medicine, have gone twice to pharmacy to be told that medicine is there waiting on doctors authorization, doctor does not answer phone-

anger, rage, tears......

new plan: stay with new crappy doctor until back and other current problems are resolved.
then return to old crappy doctor becasue even if they dont know me and prescribe me things twice- their office is nicer, they are accessible to me and they authorize the medication that they prescribe.

end of story-

no real resolve-

thanks for hearing my venting-

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Once upon a time in New York City...

Well friends I wish I could say that after returning to the city I have decided to just pack up and move there- But alas that whole responsibilities and also that love thing remind me why I don't. Also there is the fact that I LOVE IT HERE and we have made so many amazing friends and our jobs are going great..I can't imagine living anywhere else. So, it's Tuesday and August is almost over already. It seems like just the other day I was turning 23 and there were pretty flowers decorating my desk. So, a few more weeks till the CRUISE!!!! and then off to Oklahoma for Tiffy's wedding. Good grief! Could anyone else get married??? Just Kidding..in fact I have to say that this shindig is one I would not want to miss- and yes, I did say shindig.

Well, I am officially a professionsl doctors appointment attender. It's basically all I do now, I go to the doctor, and oh yeah, on the side I am an interior designer.

Alright- thats it- back to work

lata'

L

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

NEW YORK CITY
Well, we have safely returned from the Big Apple. It was a wonderful
weekend that I will never forget. I loved New York before-but now I love it even more. I saw so much more that I hadn't seen previously and I rfelt like I had barely skimmed the surface before. All the people and the chaos and the horns honking, the high rises and the scary transportation-
Kyle loved it as well, not to mention that he has chalked up plenty of brownie points to get him through the rest of the year! It was the best birthday present I have ever gotten. A list of some things we did and what we saw while we were in Manhattan.
Times Square, Empire State Building, Staten Island Ferry aka Statue of Liberty viewing, Central Park, A play in Central Park, Grand Central Station, Serendipity(a cute little desert restaurant), Rice to Riches(yummy dessert shop as seen in the movie HITCH, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown-secret room and hidden doors in Chinatown, World Trade Center Site, New York City Fire Museum, Trump Towers, FAO Schwarz, Tiffany's, South seaport, flat iron building, New York Public Library, Jon's Pizzaria (rated #1 pizza in New York), Famous Original Ray's Pizza (part of the Ray's pizza historical controversy, Ellis Island, theatre district, Good Morning America-plus we got to meet Diane Sawyer and lots of other little bits of New York. It was a lot of fun, our hotel was amazing and we were so worn out that we both had a huge sigh of relief when we pulled back into our driveway last night.

lata'