Well, it's been a while since I have posted...that could be due to the fact that the past few weeks of school were rather mundane and lacked eventfulness thanks to studying for finals and packing...
But, now I'm home. Home sweet home. It wasn't sweet for long though...
Only 3 days after being home I had sinus surgery. Don't fret! It actually was relatively painless and again, uneventful. The best part of the surgery was actually the pretty ice pack ("princess crown") that I got to strap around my forehead and the beautiful gauze "moustache" that I sported under my nose for 4 days...I looked utterly ridiculous, but hey, who cares?!
Another funny part of surgery day happened when I was waiting in my hospital bed for my turn for the operating room (and let me tell you, those hospital beds are so comfortable...I'm pretty sure they are comparable to a TempurPedic or Sleep Number or something like that...) Anyways, I was just chilling when all of a sudden 'Man I Feel Like a Woman' by Shania Twain randomly popped into my head and began to play itself over and over...and over! The weird thing is that I haven't even heard that song in a good 9 years, so I'm not really sure what prompted it to enter into my brain at that exact moment. Then ironically, that same song began playing on the radio...this of course made me chuckle. I then began to have a contest with myself to entertain myself while I waited. I played 'Name the lyrics of Shania Twain songs.' It's crazy because I used to know every word of every song of hers...and here I was laying there and it was all I could do to remember the next line of the chorus of 'Honey I'm Home.' Ultimately, I won the game against myself, finally remembering the lyrics to the chorus, which consequently also got stuck in my head. I was hoping that when I woke up from surgery the song would be gone from my head...unfortunately for me, it was not. I woke up in recovery singing, "Honey I'm home and I had a hard day, pour me a cold one and oh by the way, rub my feet give me something to eat, fix me up my favorite treat..." Don't worry, I'll spare you by not typing out the second half of the chorus because by now, I'm sure I have sparked your memory and now the song is stuck in your head...because it sure is stuck in mine now! I think I will let it serenade me to sleep now...hopefully it will be unstuck from my noggin by morning!
:)
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Why did the ________ cross the road?
Today I am feeling a bit like Noah...only the animals that are following me, only follow me when I am driving...in my car.
Let's back up a little bit...
Yesterday I was taking a pleasant little drive to the art building when a small flock of birds decided that the middle of the road would be a fabulous place to rest their feathered butts...well, most of them were smart when they saw my car speeding towards them at 35 mph and they flew away...but sadly, one did not. That little bird quickly became a casualty of my left front tire... Ironically, I had a bird fly into my windshield 3 weeks ago...only I was going 70 mph...yes, that bird died too.
That's not even all...
Next I was driving around town when a squirrel suddenly ran across the road, then stopped, went the other way, then turned around and ran the other way in front of my car. I slammed on my brakes as my friends sat in the car screaming at me not to hit it. My car came to a complete stop giving everyone in the car whiplash...
We weren't sure if we had hit the squirrel or not so on the way back we checked the road...lucky for us, the squirrel escaped unscathed.
I was driving somewhere else today when a random turkey decided to cross the road...needless to say, I slammed on the brakes and came to a very slow rolling stop as it took its sweet time getting to the other side. That turkey was lucky...it escaped the clutches of death...this time anyways...maybe it will re-visit me next Thanksgiving...
Finally, on my return trip home, my friends and I were laughing about the mass number of "animal in the road" experiences I have had recently... Jokingly, we decided it would be really ironic if I hit a deer...that would happen to me...especially on a day like today. Anyways, ironically, we did see 3 deer on the way home...lucky for us, they all decided to not cross the road as I was passing them.
So, all in all, that makes 2 birds, 1 turkey, 1 squirrel, and 3 deer that have recently been in the face of danger thanks to my car...2 casualties, and 5 near casualties...hopefully this doesn't become a common occurrence...
:)
Let's back up a little bit...
Yesterday I was taking a pleasant little drive to the art building when a small flock of birds decided that the middle of the road would be a fabulous place to rest their feathered butts...well, most of them were smart when they saw my car speeding towards them at 35 mph and they flew away...but sadly, one did not. That little bird quickly became a casualty of my left front tire... Ironically, I had a bird fly into my windshield 3 weeks ago...only I was going 70 mph...yes, that bird died too.
That's not even all...
Next I was driving around town when a squirrel suddenly ran across the road, then stopped, went the other way, then turned around and ran the other way in front of my car. I slammed on my brakes as my friends sat in the car screaming at me not to hit it. My car came to a complete stop giving everyone in the car whiplash...
We weren't sure if we had hit the squirrel or not so on the way back we checked the road...lucky for us, the squirrel escaped unscathed.
I was driving somewhere else today when a random turkey decided to cross the road...needless to say, I slammed on the brakes and came to a very slow rolling stop as it took its sweet time getting to the other side. That turkey was lucky...it escaped the clutches of death...this time anyways...maybe it will re-visit me next Thanksgiving...
Finally, on my return trip home, my friends and I were laughing about the mass number of "animal in the road" experiences I have had recently... Jokingly, we decided it would be really ironic if I hit a deer...that would happen to me...especially on a day like today. Anyways, ironically, we did see 3 deer on the way home...lucky for us, they all decided to not cross the road as I was passing them.
So, all in all, that makes 2 birds, 1 turkey, 1 squirrel, and 3 deer that have recently been in the face of danger thanks to my car...2 casualties, and 5 near casualties...hopefully this doesn't become a common occurrence...
:)
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