Wild and Crazy

Yesterday I went to Agua Caliente Casino Resort with Sara and Jessica to see the Train concert.  I had never heard of Train, but way back in August decided to go because it seemed like a good idea to get out of the house.  What an adventure!  First, it was my first time being so long in the car and that was ok.  Then, we partied it up with sandwiches at the 6:00pm After Hours Hours at Dennys.  That was followed by some beer pounding and walking.  There was a lot of walking.  I asked Sara and Jessica if they noticed that we were walking at what could be described as a normal speed.  They had, but that speed didn't last all night and we eventually went back to a crawl.  The concert was really great.  Turns out, while I may not have heard of Train, I've heard Train and knew most of the songs.  The lead singer came out into the crowd and I thought if he had ventured up to the balcony where we were, I would have tried to get him to touch my back brace!  After the concert we drank some more beers and went to bed at 2:00am because that's how we crazy bitches roll.

Today I rode 15 minutes on the spinner bike!  Yea me!!  I wanted to do 20, but was afraid that might be too much right off the bat.  Little steps.  Little steps.

Celebrate!

I went to the doctor today.  He said that my back was fusing well and I can take my brace off in one month!  Which means only one thing!!  BRACK BRACE PARTY!!  I'm going to have a shindig to celebrate not wearing the back brace.  You'll get an invitation unless you didn't help me, because this party is only for people who have helped me in my recovery.  It's going to be the BOMB.  There's going to be walker races and contests with the pinchers.  And also copious amounts of alcohol most of which is left over from the Big Guy's retirement party because with only two exceptions, those lawyers were all a bunch of teetotalers.

The doctor also said that I can start riding the stationary bike!! Yeah!!! Jessica came over and moved the spinner bike from the bedroom, where it had been banishèd, to the living room where Hawaii 5-O plays.  I'm not riding it today because I already walked and I don't need to be a hero.  Plus Hawaii 5-O doesn't start until next week.  I'm going to start with getting on and off the bike and work my way up from there.  I forgot to ask the doctor if I'm supposed to wear the brace while riding, so I guess I will.  I don't want to fuck anything up now.

What a great day!!

Panique au matin

Yesterday morning at 5:30 I had a brief ten minutes of increasing panic and despair when I couldn't find the damn duck and couldn't remember if I had seen her the night before.  Normally she is waiting anxiously for me to feed her, so when I couldn't find her I started to wonder.  Then I got my flashlight, which for its size, emits an amazingly weak light due to the fact that it needs new batteries and I can't seem to make that happen.  I searched high and low.  I searched in her duckhouse.  I searched under the tables.  I called.  With mounting anxiety, I walked back through the house to the big back yard and started reluctantly looking for a duck carcass.  Randi and Earl looked surprisingly confused.  Then, as I was searching the perimeter in the dark, the flashlight beams came across the two bright eyed eyes and beak of the duck who was sitting on her damn nest hidden behind the half dead tree.

I just found out that you can vote for Max every day which I'm not going to lie, makes me less excited about this whole contest because it's one thing to ask people to vote once, but every day?  Til when?  That's a time commitment, I'm not sure everyone can do.

Popularity Contests

Look who's got a friend now!  ME!!!

Par contre, Baby Max is currently ranked at 245.  245!! SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE!  Max is better than a measly 245.   Absolute nonsense, which is why I told all of the students who work for me after school to vote for him and one may or may not have said that he was going to post it on Faceebook with the message "Vote for this kid or my boss is going to fire me."  Have you seen the other pictures there?  Max has got this in the bag!   You are only excused from exclaiming Max's superiority on the World Cuteness Index if you have your own new baby because then clearly your baby is the Cutest Baby in the World.

Vote for Max!!

My dad entered Max in a contest.  You can vote for him to be officially the Cutest Baby in the World!

http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/photo/1041707

You get six thousand extra bonus points if you post this on Facebook and get your Facebook friends to vote as well!

Zero Is the Loneliest Number

Really people?

 Good thing I'm too happy I can walk to be depressed.

A Curse Upon My House

Last night Sara and I discovered that my surviving duck is cursing my house multiple times a day by walking underneath the ladder on the patio.  Just while we were sitting out there, she added 21 years of bad luck to the Saratoga Animal Shelter.  She didn't care one bit.  She just marched herself right under it as if it didn't mean a damn thing.  I asked Sara if she thought it was a plague upon both our houses (mine and the duck's) and she said she thought just the duck, but I'm not convinced.  I'd move the ladder, but it's heavy.

Today Randi and I watched Night at the Museum 2.  I say Randi and I because she was more interested in it than me.  She was enraptured by all of the noises and animated objects.  Her favorite movie by far.

I also spent about an hour with this guy.