For a snow day today isn't going so hot

[cornerofmadness]

I did get the caulking done. I think it made a little bit of a difference. Found the front door draft stopper and i'm sure i won't use it long. My door is SO bad that it passes over the draft stopper (it's one of those dual ones that are supposed to fit on either side of the door).

I got all the 2010 bills and what not out of the file boxes, put some things in an 'IRS' folder and recycled all those paper envelopes. This took an astonishing amount of time.

Mom called to tell me my cousin Palmer died today. It wasn't much of a shock. He was closing in on 70 and smoking got him last year with trachael cancer. It finished him today. In the middle of this call, she got a call saying Aunt S (her best friend) was rushed back to the hospital coughing up blood. Yeah if she lives out this year I'll be shocked but I said that last year too.

I have my orthopedic surgery appt for my shoulder tomorrow. It's getting really bad. Then monday a blood draw then the monday after that the endocrinologist (hmmm i'll be thru my insane deductible before i know it)





this is the last part of the earthen basement. Beyond the door is more basement but the new part (as in 1950's new). When I was a kid, there was a shower there because my coal miner grandfather would come home too dirty to be allowed in the house so he'd enter the basement first and shower before going upstairs. There is no picture of the new basement because all you'll see is all the freaking boxes I still have in it

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Okay, this picture I don't recognize.

Sorry to hear about your cousin.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i didn't think i sent them all but what can i remember?

thank you.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, Dory.

Speaking of which, Mom had Dory as a clue in her crossword puzzle yesterday.

You're welcome.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha funny

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

This basement has just given me the willies all over the place with each ensuing photo. SCAWWY SCAWWY SCAWWWY basement!!!!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it is creepy

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

*shivering* I admire you for being able to stay down there long enough to take the photos. I would have taken one look at the stairs and backed up so fast there would have been a sonic boom!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

a lot of my stuff is down there. i don't mind being down there really

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

I would be the one wanting an attic for the storage of my stuff.

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

): Sorry about your cousin and your aunt. And about all those appointments! They sound heinous... I hope everything works out <3

Er... Tax stuff. Ew. I need to get on that, too, and bother my parents about it because I need to fill out my FAFSA for the next academic year. You know, so the government can tell me I'm poor but not poor enough to get anything but loans. Assholes.

Are you getting another day off tomorrow?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

the one will be heinous (tomorrow), one will hurt (blood) and the other will be frustrating

yeah I battled student loans today too. guess what dudes, I'm too poor to pay what you want

hmmm let me see, no news but i doubt it. won't matter i have to be at the clinic at 8 AM anyhow. if it makes the toothache throb stop in my shoulder i'm game

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

Damn, that sucks. But yeah, if the appointments do some good, I guess it's worth suffering! Do the doctors know what's wrong?

Haha, I wish telling them that would work! I'm becoming more and more tempted to take the military route once I finish my BS... If they pay my med school bills for me, then they can send me wherever the hell they want, so far as I'm concerned.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

for the surgeon, yes i have subscapularis tenosynovitis (but it may have gone to full on tendon rupture judging by pain and lack of use)

for the endocriniologist, i'm a diabetic

I wanted to go military SO bad.

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

OMG ow! How long have you had that? If it's a full tendon rupture, what can they do?

I really, really have been into the idea lately. I want to go into trauma surgery, and the uniformed services university has a GREAT reputation for turning out surgeons from what I've heard. The catch is that you have to go military after, but hell, that's what I want! What kept you from joining? Health stuff?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

since the summer. had a steriod shot in august. if it ruptured i 'm in for surgery

Health stuff wasn't an issue back then. first the programs i wanted were cut and I was borderline for eye sight (you had to have 20/800 and I was right there at the border)

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

Hell, that's awful. I hope it gets resolved without surgery.

): Damn. I'm sorry about that. Which program was it that got cut? I haven't spoken to a recruiter yet, so I'm not sure about the one I'm looking into yet, either. Got my fingers crossed though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there's only 10% chance of that

I wouldn't worry about the cuts. I'm much older than y ou. this was back in 1988. You weren't even alive then (WAAAAH so old)

[seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers*

LOL I wasn't even a fetus then! But good to know I shouldn't have to worry.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well you may but I wouldn't know about. i've been out of the game for a little bit

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your cousin.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your cousin.

Why does this photo make my hairs stand on end? Of course, the shovel for hiding bodies doesn't really help calm my nerves.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you

yes, notice the decomp stains on the shovel there

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

ooh. creepy basement. sorry about your cousin. hope all goes well with the shoulder.

Ick IRS. Gotta get started when I get back. Plus apparently the south carolina tax people think they didnt get a tax return for 2005 and now want me to pay them again. tomorrow. gak return is far far away in storage. i mean really 2005!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

creepy is what this basement does best

thanks

oh dear god. figures. good luck