An early Christmas present

His name is Cooper and he’s 10 weeks old. Can everyone say.. Awwwwwwwwwwwww!?

Worth looking at

Jeff is doing it for me: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9374#more-9374

And then there’s this, is she for real?

You gotta love a new baby!

An Update

I’ve been meaning to write, really I have. I don’t even have a good excuse for not writing. Yea, I’ve been busy, but who hasn’t? I guess at least I’m writing NOW. Hi. I’m writing!

My work life has really slowed down. There are very few calls and emails coming in right now. In a way it’s nice, I can sit back and say phew… we had a hard fall term getting going and now everyone is actively using the site and the complaints are really slowing down, this is good. But in a way it’s bad because there’s a lot of time to twiddle my thumbs during the work day (what are you saying? I could write in my blog??) and I get bored easily.

So what have I been busy with then you ask? Well, Carolyn and I have been working our butts off in the house since last week. It all started with the delivery of the new HOTTUB! Just clearing way for that to come into the backyard was hours of work culminating in a trip to the dump. And then it moved into cleaning out my shop space (which was a huge all day chore). And then it moved to Carolyn  installing some new faucets on two of our sinks. Which led to stripping some nasty paneling out from under the kitchen sink where water had been dripping. And now, and hopefully last on the list is moving all the crap out of the house and onto the front yard for a massive yard sale this weekend. I’m tired. But thank god we have a really cool new HOTTUB to lounge around in any time of day.

In other news, my face looks much better, although it is still very annoying. My black eyes and major swelling are gone. The line is not so visible when I wear my glasses, which is most of the time. But there is still a lot of pressure on my forehead, and the area just above one of my eyebrows is very sore. And when I’m in the car the whole thing tingles. And then of course there’s the numbness, which is better, but still very active. All in all, it’s an improvement to what it was, but I have a feeling I’ll be dealing with the weird feelings of this injury for quite awhile to come.

Surreal

It’s hard to believe it’s been several days since my accident, if that’s what you want to call it. I might be inclined to say my “I’m not 15 any longer and can no longer leap baby gates in a single bound” even though that’s not what I was really doing. But the point is, it’s been a very surreal experience.

The whole thing from beginning to now just seems very unreal. Sitting on the floor in my mothers house bleeding while my whole family is around me unsure of what to do… lying on the bed in the hospital while the doctor floods my gaping wound with a liter size or more bottle of saline… having him cover my face with a sterile cloth and not being able to breathe under the hot lights… going home to a numb bandaged face… removing the bandage and seeing swollen everything… staring in the mirror and wondering who was looking back… days later (today) sitting on my chair with a numb forehead and pressure in the wound area and just wondering… what the fuck happened??

I’ve managed to keep my spirits pretty much up. I know I look awful and I’m grateful that Carolyn has been taking care of me and loving me and pampering me. I have nothing to really be mad at… I tripped, I fell, I hurt myself. Yea, my hurt is ugly, and I’ve scarred my cute little face. But the scar will fade, and I’ve learned that my body isn’t as nimble as I was at 15.

Here’s what I look like today. The swelling has gone down… the bruises are fading… I think I’m going to live.