Comments are fixed, I don’t have to reinstall like I thought I was…thank god.

For some reason, literally overnight, my comments table in the database is majorly fucked up. I’m in the process of working on this so hopefully things will be back to normal sometime in the next 24-48 hours. If I happen to have to reinstall WordPress I’ve already backed up the database. I could seriously care less about the comments being saved. The most important thing to me is the entries, considering everything in the last year about Joe is really important to me.

I’m sure I’ll have an update sooner or later.

I’m not really that big on pictures but there are just some times when you have to give some kind of visual proof to what you’re about to say. This is my left ankle, this is what happens when you’re going down stairs and there’s uneven ground. It’s swollen to a little bit more than double the size and as you can tell, it’s a pretty shade of purple. I’m in an awful lot of pain and I’m surprised by this considering I normally have a high pain tolerance. Baby thinks that it’s gone past a bruise and is like ‘internal bleeding’…riiiight. This isn’t the first time I’ve done some major damage to my ankle though. I’m basically a sprained ankle junkie, freaky huh? I’ve broken both ankles, I’ve fallen down stairs (see a pattern here?) landing feet first and spraining both ankles at once. You can imagine my surprise when I landed on Tuesday and it was only the one ankle that was damaged. I felt it pop when I went down but figured I could walk it off. I can volunteerily crack both ankles by just twisting my foot a little so it didn’t phase me much.

A few hours later I noticed that it was getting hard for me to move around. At this point I’d been on the couch for a little while watching television so since I wasn’t standing up much, it didn’t phase me that my foot was still sore. I figured this was a given considering I’d fallen only a few hours prior. Once my foot touched the floor and flattened out I felt a shooting pain go clean up my leg…the likes of which I’ve never felt before. This scared me but I didn’t think much about it considering I’ve hurt myself before and have come through with flying colors. The next day before I went into the shower I looked at my foot and noticed it was a heavy shade of purple. Since then, I’ve been nursing and medicating the pain and hopefully my foot will go back to normal sometime over the course of the next couple of days.

Valentine’s Day
Baby and I went to Applebee’s last night and enjoyed ourselves at dinner. We watched a movie before we went to bed and I don’t know about him but I woke up feeling very refreshed. He got me a HUGE teddy bear and a box of chocolate. On Wednesday morning before we went to sleep (We don’t usually knock out until about 5:30AM) he put the bear in the bed with the candy and threw a blanket over it for me to find. I was pretty surprised, he was very sweet about it.

Closing time…
In any event, I think I’m going to head off for the night. My back is starting to bother me from sitting here too long. I think I’m going to hobble myself outside and have a cig.

I told myself, and the boyfriend, that I’d be in bed by 4am so I needed to get my ass in gear on finalizing some things with a client. It’s now almost 5am and I’m still awake…typical.

Be My Valentine!
It’s Valentine’s Day and already I’ve been rather productive. Baby and I are basically going to spend the entire day together. I even conned him into setting up his laptop in the dining room so we can work together before we go out to dinner tonight. Originally we were going to head to Salisbury and go to The Olive Garden but unfortunately with the rain/snow in the area it’s easier for us to just stay south. So…we’re going to dinner at Applebee’s…it’s my new addiction. I’m a sucker for the Three Cheese Chicken Penne Pasta. He’s a sucker for their Buffalo Wings so everyone’s happy at dinner.

Sluggish
I’ve been meaning to update but it’s been a pretty ‘eh’ week for me. I spent the 7th in a daze because it’s been 11-months since Joe died and it hit me pretty hard. Who knows how I’m going to be on March 7th because that’s the one year marking of a very crazy year.

Relocating
Baby and I have discussed everything and I’m officially going to be moving out of New York once finances allow. I’m nervous about it because New York is all I’ve ever known but I believe this change in my life is going to be the best thing for me. I have to step out of my comfort zone and get into this ‘real world’ everyone seems to boast about. We’ve already got big plans as far as how the bedroom and office are going to look. It requires a bit of money in order to get everything where it needs to be. We’re two big people so there’s no way in hell we’re going to be sharing a full-sized bed anymore. It’s time to upgrade, and by upgrade I mean KING.

We went to a few stores this past week and we laid down in a Seely Posturepedic and I instantly fell in love. I know they’re a little bit pricey but I’m confident that we’ll have the money so there shouldn’t be anything to worry about there. It was extremely comfortable, my back felt GREAT in it, I can’t wait to buy one. It’s also nice to not be on top of eachother either, we can just roll to our designated corners and stay clear away from eachother. It’s not that I don’t want to cuddle up with baby it’s the fact that we both kick and steal blankets so it’ll be harder to hurt eachother when we’re on (basically) opposite ends of the room…you know? It should work out fine.

Ouchies!
In other news, I sprained my ankle. The front door has been acting kind of nutty (not closing properly) and I decided to just go out the side of the house and sit on the stairs while having my cigarette yesterday afternoon. I went down the stairs and didn’t realize that the grass was higher than it looked. I stepped in a dip and now my ankle is beyond messed up. It wasn’t a happy day for me…that’s all I have to say. I’m having trouble getting around and my new nickname, instead of “Baby” now seems to be “Limpy”. Not fun…not fun at all.

And I’m Spent!
I think I’m going to head to bed now. Baby’s mom just woke up for work and she’s looking at me like “Don’t you sleep?” She’s a little grouchy though, hasn’t had her coffee yet. After a cup or two she’ll be her usual goof-tastic self. So I’m going to go sneak in on Baby now and then maybe get some shut-eye so I can get some work done in a few hours and be rested for my uber-sweet day with Baby.

Happy V-Day Everyone!

I probably should have posted on the 1st when the template went up but I honestly just wasn’t in the mood. It’s been a pretty busy couple of weeks. The boyfriend and I painted the kitchen as well as his bathroom, eventually we’ll be working on his moms bathroom as well. We’re currently talking about my officially moving in with him so I’m sure I’ll have an update on that sometime in the near future. It requires me to move away from everything I’ve ever known and that’s a big step for me but I also know that I’m moving to a place where I feel the most comfortable. Although I will always be a New Yorker at heart, Long Island just isn’t the place for me to be anymore.

Over the course of the next couple of days I’m going to be working on getting some clients knocked out, as well as picking some of them up. I figure I need around $1,000 in order to move so I’m going to have to get my ass in gear on things. I’ll be getting a job down here after I’ve gotten some of my things here. I figure the only important items to come with me are my TV, computer, Bella and my clothes. The rest are things that I truly don’t need so I’ll be home for a few weeks doing some cleaning out. It’s my goal to pack three boxes (total). If I load up on space bags I’m sure that will be completely possible.

Love
I believe for Valentines Day the boyfriend and I are going to be in Ocean City, MD. There isn’t much to do down there in the winter but we also know exactly how to go about having heaps of fun without spending a lot of money. We’ll most likely be going to an arcade, then dinner, and then probably a walk on the beach because the way the bay and the ocean meet up is nothing short of gorgeous in the moon light.

Pain
My abscess has come back. I wasn’t expecting this to happen considering I’ve had a root canal done on the tooth but I guess I can’t win ‘em all. I do have antibiotics and pain killers so I’ll hopefully be able to fix this without a hospital visit this time. My back has really been acting up pretty bad lately, I’m convinced that the bed I’ve been sleeping on is out to kill me. I just think all of my nerves are out of wack because of the abscess. Someone told me that your mouth acting up can effect like every part of your body. Considering an abscess is a clear-cut sign of an infection, I think I’ve got that floating around. I’m also on my period so I’m feeling like crap on all ends of me, it sucks.

Work
I’m going to have to update my portfolio again (image wise) because I really need to get my recent work in there. The screen shots listed on acidgloss.net now are so out-of-date it’s unreal. Maybe if I update those I’ll have some more clients coming in. I need to get some money together for advertising too, I used to just depend on word-of-mouth but at this point that just isn’t enough anymore. If things don’t pick up I’ll cut back my hours and then pick up on a full-time job out of the house and just leave the internet stuff to part-time. It would make life a little easier, honestly. I get nice sized paychecks here and there for design work, don’t get me wrong. But I’m doing small $500 template work here and there. I’d rather just be making $500 a week. I’ve got to surf around monster.com and see if there are any secretarial jobs around here. There’s so many real estate companies here I’m sure there’s someone hiring somewhere, you know?

Lights Out!
In any event, it’s a little after 6am and I’m exhausted. The penicillin is kicking in and making me very, very sleepy. The hydrocodone doesn’t help much either…heh.

PS:
Arwen – I did get your email, I’ll respond to you as soon as I can. I promise.