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- I left the trip to Poland out of the last entry! I don't know how that happened. It was pretty sweet. Kaina has this friend in Girl Scouts and the mom likes us, so she invited us along on their trip. Poland was simultaneously depressing and uplifting. They're still suffering from the war, etc, and yet I saw a lot of little things people were doing to make their lives nicer, working with what they had. We stayed in a mission, which was admittedly a little uncomfortable for me, but it was very nice. The moms were really accepting of me, even after one of them mistook me for one of the girls. [forced laughter] We ate at this other place that's a restaurant and a hotel - some British people wanted to retire to Poland and they bought an old condemnable farmstead, then completely renovated it into an almost upscale resort place. It was *nice*. We also visited a glass studio, and a pottery studio, where the girls painted mugs. I was offered to paint a mug, naturally, because I look like a teenage girl. First I refused, but then Kaina took like 85 years to paint her mug so I went ahead and painted one while I waited (I still finished before her, lol). They're still being fired, but one of the moms is going to pick them all up sometime soon. The one mom that invited us along also took Kaina and I for a manicure while the other girls went horseback riding, since Kaina and her daughter didn't want to go. I also went into a restricted building. It was labelled "unsafe, do not enter!" in two languages, but do I listen? Nein! Kaina says I'm determined to get arrested in every country I visit, lmao. Overall it was really a nice trip. I had a lot of nice conversations with the mother and I will definitely miss her when I go.
- I also got invited to Mai Markt by my friend at work, Irene. She volunteers sometimes but mostly she's a regular customer and I've made friends with her. She is a naturopath, which I regretfully have to admit I was a little skeptical of at first, but she's really helped Smushy out a lot so I am very appreciative. She and I went with Nadera and Lesa and we had a very good time. It's like the agro-expo portion of the State Fair. There were several buildings full of all sorts of goods and services for purchase. I bought a really sweet vacuum head/lint brush hybrid that actually cleans up cat hair! Also, a can opener that doesn't make sharp edges, and the same slicer thing that the other women all bought. I had to be part of the club, you see. ;D It was really nice, I was glad they invited me along.
- I have been getting really good reviews on my hair. So much so, I felt a little bad when I finally dyed it again. It was just far too brassy and it made me inexplicably uncomfortable when I looked in the mirror, so I bought one box of medium ash brown and one dark ash brown, mixed them, and Asami put it on for me. I think it turned out practically perfect. I'm a little frustrated because I went through SIX processes to get it maybe 2 shades lighter than black in the end, but I do think it will fade a little and be pretty much exactly the natural color. Then I will leave it alone until the grey is more prominent, at which point I will play it up so people quit mistaking me for twelve. (That is the third time this post I have mentioned that, btw)
- It has finally sunken in that I am moving and I am officially depressed. I haven't sewn a damn thing, I have half a dozen quilts I'm supposed to finish before I go and it will not happen, I want to stay in bed all day, I am exhausted, I am irritable...I had to take some Ativan the weekend of the Mai Markt when I started having a fit working on Asami's brallet. (Note: I made myself a wallet out of my old bra, and Asami thought it was really cute, so I was helping her make one. Bra+wallet=brallet.) I am not sure if I have mentioned Asami - she's David's coworker's wife. They're moving in like, 2 weeks, which blows, because I just met her and I really like her. The day we finished my hair, she showed me how to make sushi rice. ERIN: I can show you how to make Rob sushi now! SARAH: Same goes for you! =D
- I had my bone scan today. I am too lazy to see if I wrote about it or not, but long story short: Depo Prevera is poison, it leaches calcium from your bones, I broke my hand in my sleep two summers ago, and we think Smushy cracked my rib jumping on me recently. I still have a big blue bruise and the pain meets the field test for a hairline fracture, but it does not show up on xray, although the sternum is very hard to capture (it's right where the rib meets the sternum) as are hairline fractures in general. I had to go to a German clinic (KLINIK) and they put me in some weird flatbed scanner type machine and scanned my spine from pelvis to rib cage. No one at the American hospital told me what they'd be doing, so I went through the hassle of taking out all of my earrings (they are tiny, tiny TINY barbells, which are a pain in the ass to screw in and out) and it turned out I didn't even need to take off my watch, lol. I still don't know what the scan was called, either, because only the doctor spoke English, and she only asked me some questions and then explained the results. And what were those results, you ask?
I HAVE THE BONES OF AN ASTRONAUT.
Yes, that's right guys, I have osteopenia. It's what happens before osteoporosis. Also, astronauts get it in space somehow, something to do with lack of gravity. I only saw the graph, not the numbers themselves, but my little mark was pretty close to -2 and -94. I researched and can tell you the -2 means I have ridiculously low bone mass, but I didn't find anything about the -94. My best guess is that maybe 94% of people my age have denser bones? I don't know, it makes sense. I should be in my 50s at least before this is an issue, and I am not quite 25 yet. Luckily for me, there is treatment - eat some calcium supplements (which I have already been doing, so I wonder if the bone loss was even worse when I broke my hand), and [shudder] "PLAY SPORTS". lgjahurhatowihetpawuegjkfnb I HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED TO PLAY SPORTS! [dies] Weight bearing exercise is best I think. David bought me a pull up bar, a thing to hold my feet so I can do sit-ups, and some wrist and ankle weights. He nagged me to get a ball of some type and I told him that there's a reason my parents did not name me Grace, so we did not get a ball. He swears he will go to the gym with me but who knows.
- David came back from Grafenwoehr finally. He is trying to be really nice to me but I still think that choosing to live separate from your wife for a least a year sends a pretty strong message, one strong enough that being really nice for six weeks probably can't exactly make up for it. We shall see.
I am going to go to bed now. Fun times.
- I also got invited to Mai Markt by my friend at work, Irene. She volunteers sometimes but mostly she's a regular customer and I've made friends with her. She is a naturopath, which I regretfully have to admit I was a little skeptical of at first, but she's really helped Smushy out a lot so I am very appreciative. She and I went with Nadera and Lesa and we had a very good time. It's like the agro-expo portion of the State Fair. There were several buildings full of all sorts of goods and services for purchase. I bought a really sweet vacuum head/lint brush hybrid that actually cleans up cat hair! Also, a can opener that doesn't make sharp edges, and the same slicer thing that the other women all bought. I had to be part of the club, you see. ;D It was really nice, I was glad they invited me along.
- I have been getting really good reviews on my hair. So much so, I felt a little bad when I finally dyed it again. It was just far too brassy and it made me inexplicably uncomfortable when I looked in the mirror, so I bought one box of medium ash brown and one dark ash brown, mixed them, and Asami put it on for me. I think it turned out practically perfect. I'm a little frustrated because I went through SIX processes to get it maybe 2 shades lighter than black in the end, but I do think it will fade a little and be pretty much exactly the natural color. Then I will leave it alone until the grey is more prominent, at which point I will play it up so people quit mistaking me for twelve. (That is the third time this post I have mentioned that, btw)
- It has finally sunken in that I am moving and I am officially depressed. I haven't sewn a damn thing, I have half a dozen quilts I'm supposed to finish before I go and it will not happen, I want to stay in bed all day, I am exhausted, I am irritable...I had to take some Ativan the weekend of the Mai Markt when I started having a fit working on Asami's brallet. (Note: I made myself a wallet out of my old bra, and Asami thought it was really cute, so I was helping her make one. Bra+wallet=brallet.) I am not sure if I have mentioned Asami - she's David's coworker's wife. They're moving in like, 2 weeks, which blows, because I just met her and I really like her. The day we finished my hair, she showed me how to make sushi rice. ERIN: I can show you how to make Rob sushi now! SARAH: Same goes for you! =D
- I had my bone scan today. I am too lazy to see if I wrote about it or not, but long story short: Depo Prevera is poison, it leaches calcium from your bones, I broke my hand in my sleep two summers ago, and we think Smushy cracked my rib jumping on me recently. I still have a big blue bruise and the pain meets the field test for a hairline fracture, but it does not show up on xray, although the sternum is very hard to capture (it's right where the rib meets the sternum) as are hairline fractures in general. I had to go to a German clinic (KLINIK) and they put me in some weird flatbed scanner type machine and scanned my spine from pelvis to rib cage. No one at the American hospital told me what they'd be doing, so I went through the hassle of taking out all of my earrings (they are tiny, tiny TINY barbells, which are a pain in the ass to screw in and out) and it turned out I didn't even need to take off my watch, lol. I still don't know what the scan was called, either, because only the doctor spoke English, and she only asked me some questions and then explained the results. And what were those results, you ask?
I HAVE THE BONES OF AN ASTRONAUT.
Yes, that's right guys, I have osteopenia. It's what happens before osteoporosis. Also, astronauts get it in space somehow, something to do with lack of gravity. I only saw the graph, not the numbers themselves, but my little mark was pretty close to -2 and -94. I researched and can tell you the -2 means I have ridiculously low bone mass, but I didn't find anything about the -94. My best guess is that maybe 94% of people my age have denser bones? I don't know, it makes sense. I should be in my 50s at least before this is an issue, and I am not quite 25 yet. Luckily for me, there is treatment - eat some calcium supplements (which I have already been doing, so I wonder if the bone loss was even worse when I broke my hand), and [shudder] "PLAY SPORTS". lgjahurhatowihetpawuegjkfnb I HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED TO PLAY SPORTS! [dies] Weight bearing exercise is best I think. David bought me a pull up bar, a thing to hold my feet so I can do sit-ups, and some wrist and ankle weights. He nagged me to get a ball of some type and I told him that there's a reason my parents did not name me Grace, so we did not get a ball. He swears he will go to the gym with me but who knows.
- David came back from Grafenwoehr finally. He is trying to be really nice to me but I still think that choosing to live separate from your wife for a least a year sends a pretty strong message, one strong enough that being really nice for six weeks probably can't exactly make up for it. We shall see.
I am going to go to bed now. Fun times.