the clumsy strikes again
last night, while walking from the office to our bedroom to go to bed, i jammed my baby toe into the leg of the ottoman in our living room. i had never felt a pain like that before. i thought it was your run-of-the-mill stubbed toe, but it hurt so much more. it even was sensitive to the touch for at least another 30 minutes and finally subsided when my 4 advil finally kicked in. luckily, with the pain lessened i was able to sleep. when i woke up this morning, it was painful to bend the toe, but i was able to put most of my weight on my entire foot. i still had to limp slightly. i only noticed earlier this morning that my baby toe is almost completely black and blue. i really jammed it good. however, i don't think it's broken. if it was broken, i wouldn't be able to bend my toe at all and i gave my toe a feel and didn't feel anything out of place. it's just swollen and badly bruised. i've NEVER jammed my toe that badly before. i've got some ice, so i've been icing it off and on for the last hour. when i get home tonight, i'm going to tape it together with the adjacent toe to keep it stable and hopefully the added pressure will help lessen the bruising.
i was really hoping to get in a run later today, but i don't believe i'll be doing much exercising right now. i'm clumsy enough as it is, add in a bruised toe and shaky balance, i'm better off staying in my chair, at least for a little while.
i had to actually go into work yesterday because i had a production launch for one of my new books. i decided i'd just work from home tomorrow instead. unfortunately, i also had a class meeting online that started at 6. i had to rush home and get all situated and sign on. since i normally have done my wednesday work out in the morning, i couldn't do it because of work and i couldn't make up for it after work either. i got home with enough time to do some of the prep work, so it wouldn't take marshall hours to make dinner. the frustration continued later on in the evening when my laptop kept crashing. i got a BSD twice last night, two different error codes (one ending in a 50 the other ending in a 124), one of which i KNOW was a paging error (paging in non-paged area, was the message, i believe). both of them happened when i was running more than 4 tabs in firefox, along with my java client for the online meeting. finally, i gave up and logged in using my desktop. luckily, i didn't miss much when i crashed both times, but i was just so frustrated. i'd been using my laptop consistently for the last week and everything was fine. *sigh* my hardware warranty runs out tomorrow and since dell support keeps insisting this is a software error, i'm not sure i can convince them of anything more. they run the diagnostic tests and everything passes. seriously - paging errors mean bad memory. i might as well take things into my own hands now that my warranty is up and just replace the memory myself - i've done it before with past laptops. i dunno...
anyway, i was so exhausted after working solidly all day long, then with the class meeting and laptop problems. dinner last night never tasted so good, since we didn't eat dinner until almost 9pm. everything was so simple to make: roasted tomatoes, crispy new potatoes and seared salmon w/ green sauce (simple sauce of parsley, basil, mint, garlic, capers, lemon juice and olive oil) and it all tasted so incredibly delicious. thank you, martha! i spent the rest of the night relaxing and playing WoW. i squeezed in some personal work during flights to and from dalaran and sent out invites for marshall's birthday AND got the ball rolling on bridesmaid dresses. i think we found a winner. my sister's checking with a place that will get them even cheaper and if she's successful - we're good to go. i feel bad not ordering from trudy's, but their bridesmaid dress prices are so expensive!
i was feeling pretty good with myself until...BAM!! - right in the toe.
the sad thing is, i was looking forward to an evening run tonight. *sigh* maybe i can do some weight training, instead. :(
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in happy news, marshall and i took out bff-sarah and mike for dinner for sarah's birthday. we weren't sure if there was going to be any sort of party, but i wanted to make sure we took her out. i chose tigelleria in downtown campbell. it's a completely organic italian restaurant and my parents raved about it. all of us really enjoyed our experience and the food was amazingly good. it's very much a european experience in that they only do one wave of seating for the evening. that means, you and your party can stay as long as you want. no one pressures you to leave and you have to ask for your check, they don't automatically bring it to you. everything is made fresh, so your courses come at a leisurely pace. the only thing that frustrated us was the service. our waitress first forgot my wine and we had to flag her down about it. then she messed up sarah's pasta order (her gnocci came with the wrong sauce). i thought for sure she would comp me the wine, but she didn't. i didn't know this until after we paid, but if i saw that i would've made marshall challenge that. it's not like the wine took forever, she just plumb forgot about it. anyway, once our waitress left (i guess) we got another and i think she might be a manager of sorts. she took care of our dessert course and was really friendly and knowledgeable. you'd think this was an expensive place, but their prices are comparable to ANY other italian restaurant in the area. the food is fresh and delicious and atmosphere is just great. i definitely recommend it. anyway, we all had a wonderful time and sarah thoroughly enjoyed her birthday dinner, and that's all that matters. :D
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in other news, they keep changing the date and time of my grandma's burial. she's getting cremated, so i know things change, but originally it was going to be at 11am next friday, then noon, then i get a call from my dad a couple of days ago that they've changed it to the following tuesday at 11am. finally, my mom emails out a confirmation saying it's tuesday at noon. my mom's getting frustrated getting everything together. my dad's the executor of the will, but he's hardly doing anything. at least my dad and my uncle made a decision about where my grandma's getting buried. we went with the safe choice and she'll be buried next to my grandpa at the golden gate national cemetery (my grandpa was in the army). so yeah...
i was really hoping to get in a run later today, but i don't believe i'll be doing much exercising right now. i'm clumsy enough as it is, add in a bruised toe and shaky balance, i'm better off staying in my chair, at least for a little while.
i had to actually go into work yesterday because i had a production launch for one of my new books. i decided i'd just work from home tomorrow instead. unfortunately, i also had a class meeting online that started at 6. i had to rush home and get all situated and sign on. since i normally have done my wednesday work out in the morning, i couldn't do it because of work and i couldn't make up for it after work either. i got home with enough time to do some of the prep work, so it wouldn't take marshall hours to make dinner. the frustration continued later on in the evening when my laptop kept crashing. i got a BSD twice last night, two different error codes (one ending in a 50 the other ending in a 124), one of which i KNOW was a paging error (paging in non-paged area, was the message, i believe). both of them happened when i was running more than 4 tabs in firefox, along with my java client for the online meeting. finally, i gave up and logged in using my desktop. luckily, i didn't miss much when i crashed both times, but i was just so frustrated. i'd been using my laptop consistently for the last week and everything was fine. *sigh* my hardware warranty runs out tomorrow and since dell support keeps insisting this is a software error, i'm not sure i can convince them of anything more. they run the diagnostic tests and everything passes. seriously - paging errors mean bad memory. i might as well take things into my own hands now that my warranty is up and just replace the memory myself - i've done it before with past laptops. i dunno...
anyway, i was so exhausted after working solidly all day long, then with the class meeting and laptop problems. dinner last night never tasted so good, since we didn't eat dinner until almost 9pm. everything was so simple to make: roasted tomatoes, crispy new potatoes and seared salmon w/ green sauce (simple sauce of parsley, basil, mint, garlic, capers, lemon juice and olive oil) and it all tasted so incredibly delicious. thank you, martha! i spent the rest of the night relaxing and playing WoW. i squeezed in some personal work during flights to and from dalaran and sent out invites for marshall's birthday AND got the ball rolling on bridesmaid dresses. i think we found a winner. my sister's checking with a place that will get them even cheaper and if she's successful - we're good to go. i feel bad not ordering from trudy's, but their bridesmaid dress prices are so expensive!
i was feeling pretty good with myself until...BAM!! - right in the toe.
the sad thing is, i was looking forward to an evening run tonight. *sigh* maybe i can do some weight training, instead. :(
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in happy news, marshall and i took out bff-sarah and mike for dinner for sarah's birthday. we weren't sure if there was going to be any sort of party, but i wanted to make sure we took her out. i chose tigelleria in downtown campbell. it's a completely organic italian restaurant and my parents raved about it. all of us really enjoyed our experience and the food was amazingly good. it's very much a european experience in that they only do one wave of seating for the evening. that means, you and your party can stay as long as you want. no one pressures you to leave and you have to ask for your check, they don't automatically bring it to you. everything is made fresh, so your courses come at a leisurely pace. the only thing that frustrated us was the service. our waitress first forgot my wine and we had to flag her down about it. then she messed up sarah's pasta order (her gnocci came with the wrong sauce). i thought for sure she would comp me the wine, but she didn't. i didn't know this until after we paid, but if i saw that i would've made marshall challenge that. it's not like the wine took forever, she just plumb forgot about it. anyway, once our waitress left (i guess) we got another and i think she might be a manager of sorts. she took care of our dessert course and was really friendly and knowledgeable. you'd think this was an expensive place, but their prices are comparable to ANY other italian restaurant in the area. the food is fresh and delicious and atmosphere is just great. i definitely recommend it. anyway, we all had a wonderful time and sarah thoroughly enjoyed her birthday dinner, and that's all that matters. :D
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in other news, they keep changing the date and time of my grandma's burial. she's getting cremated, so i know things change, but originally it was going to be at 11am next friday, then noon, then i get a call from my dad a couple of days ago that they've changed it to the following tuesday at 11am. finally, my mom emails out a confirmation saying it's tuesday at noon. my mom's getting frustrated getting everything together. my dad's the executor of the will, but he's hardly doing anything. at least my dad and my uncle made a decision about where my grandma's getting buried. we went with the safe choice and she'll be buried next to my grandpa at the golden gate national cemetery (my grandpa was in the army). so yeah...