So yeah...how are y'all? I'm sore and tired and exhausted as always. My boss has been saying for awhile that she still needs to cut hours and today I decided to volunteer myself. It's a trial schedule for now but probably starting next week I get to come in later and leave at the same time. It saves her hours and lets me sleep more which I really need. Between my hands, my insomnia and every other sore part of my body I'm just physically spent by this job. I'm dead when I come home and even more so on weekend. And I'm tired of feeling like crap.

Hopefully working 7 hours a day will be a little less stressful on my body than 8.5. Besides, unless we have shipments or floor moves, it's silly for me to come in two hours before opening. As much as I can use the money (and I really can) there's no use. I sit there with nothing to do...I've started bringing books to work as a result. There's no use for them to pay me for 2 hours of me sitting and reading in the back and no use for me to be up at 7AM to race into work. If the money or work situation changes we can always go back but it's definitely worthwhile to try now. I want to do things at night and on weekends and as it is now, I just can't. I either need to sleep or put my feet up or whatever. I'm hoping that the two weeks I have off soon for my surgery will do me some good.

I also have (hopefully) lots of basketball to look forward to in the next few weeks. God willing I'll be in NYC Saturday night...I won't say more about that lest I jinx it. And next week hopefully the NCAA tournament. There's 4 first/second round sites that are accessible and 4 that are not. The 4 good ones are Winston Salem (which would be absolutely PERFECT for 138937838735 reasons), Buffalo, Columbus and Lexington. The other 4 are impossible (namely Spokane, WA). So God willing again, I'm heading out of town Wednesday/Thursday of next week.

And for those of you who inquired about me after my post Friday night, things are much better. Not perfect, but getting better than it was.

It's a go...
Hand surgery 1 of 2 - April 9th.
2 of 2 - sometime later this year.

Still, having one good hand and one bad is better than having one bad and one worse. I can feel the left one getting worse as I have to rely more and more on it. My right one (the worse one) actually hasn't felt that bad lately but that's probably a result of wearing the brace 90% of the day (even while sleeping) and popping Aleve like they're candy. The best part is that there is no pre-testing required - not for insurance or hospitalization reasons. So score there. All I have to do is call Dr. Smith's office to get some instructions and I'm set. I'm also gonna schedule all the other appointments I need (eyes, OB/GYN, etc.) for later that week so one of my parents can take me (since I won't be able to drive - I have to keep my arm completely immobilized).

Getting to go to Puerto Rico (well, if I ever get the credit card info from my pop pop) will definitely be my reward for getting through it. My boss couldn't be more awesome though - she's like "take whatever time you need, you've earned it". I love her. She called Bryan and I her right and left arm in the department and without us she'd be screwed. As much as I may complain sometimes I really love Bean and she's really a large part of it.

Not too much else happening on the homefront. Just counting the days until the 100th Anniversary of Georgetown Basketball gala and WESTMINSTER. 12 and 14 respectively if you were wondering.

One last thing - Barbaro was put to sleep today. At least his suffering is over. I just fear the outpouring of FANFIC that may come out of this. Yeah, that's right, FANFIC. And not just fanfic, but R/X rated fanfic. Beastiality people. It's been posted on a number of Philly news blogs. It's just sooooo wrong.