For those of you that don’t know, a tornado went through Kim’s neighborhood Monday night. She and her family are okay. They lost power and her computer has been fired.
The topic discussion on Books for tonight has been postponed until August 20th.
Tonight at 10 pm Eastern, there will be a GNI Unplugged on Talkshoe. Come join us for a chat on anything we want. Got a topic? Come live and request to talk. http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/16412
Please keep Kim, her family and neighbors in your thoughts and prayers.
The Girls Night In podcast has had it’s biggest month ever for downloads here in July. So far we’re ahead of our record downloads by 250 and there are still 2 days left to the month. We’re getting right around 1,000 downloads per week now. Our subscriber base fluctuates between 600-700 and we’re gaining between 40-60 new listeners every month. We’ve also been a featured podcast in iTunes since September, 2007.
Thank you for spreading the word about the podcast. Most stalkers tend to keep the objects of their obsession to themselves, but you all rawk! And just for that, I’ve made you a handy-dandy little stalker badge that you can wear as your avatar, internet icon or as a mask on Halloween.
Let’s hear it for female personalities playing loudly in the podcast waters!
If you haven’t listened to the show yet, minor spoiler warning - I loved the movie. I loved the music, I loved the acting! I enjoyed it all from beginning to end. (It also didn’t roll the credits in the beginning of the movie during the introduction, which I love. The title of the movie is shown and then it starts, credits are for the end! okay, back to Mamma Mia!)
So I’m in the process of editing last night’s show titled When Nature Attacks. It all seems to be taking a bit longer than usual. Reason one is that the show went much longer than it would normally! All of you had some fantastic stories to share and I simply can not wait for our listeners to hear them.
Reason number two is that I’ve been sick this week. At the end of last week I started feeling a bit “sinusy”. I have allergies so it didn’t really phase me. Over the weekend though I started getting worse. By Tuesday I was absolutely miserable. I asked my good friend Kim to drive me to a local clinic. You may recall from an earlier episode that I get car sick when other people drive. I had to have been feeling pretty darn awful to have her drive me. I was in and out of the clinic within a 15-minute time period. Diagnosis: sinus infection, bronchitis and double ear infections. Yesterday I was feeling about 200 times better than I was on Tuesday. I attribute that to prayers and adrenaline. I had a lot to do: meetings during the day and the show during the evening. I accomplished everything I’d set out to do, except for editing the show.
Last night as we were doing the show I thought of many more stories that I could share about when nature attacked me. Since we had a limit on the number of stories, I thought I would start blogging some of them. Before you think, “but Kim, you just said that the editing is taking longer than expected and now you’re going to blog?” Files are processing in the background, there is no wasting of time here!
Years ago I had a cat named Sam. I loved him and he loved me. We were like best buds. He’d sleep outside my door at night or on the foot of my bed if I let him in. When I’d nap on the couch he’d curl up against my chest when I laid on my side, just so that I could put my arm around him. He was like a child to me.
Sam’s only drawback was that he got temperamental when we would brush him. Certain measures had to be taken when brushing him: watch the way he wagged his tail, watch his breathing, listen to his purring, watch his eyes. There were certain cues that needed to be taken into account to consider when Sam had had enough. Apparently, I missed a few of them.
I was brushing and talking to him, losing myself in the softness of his fur when out of nowhere he jumped at me. He didn’t have any claws so his method of “defense” was to use his teeth. His mouth opened and came at my face. It was like slow-motion that I just couldn’t stop. His mouth closed down right on my nose. The two longest teeth on the top sunk into the top of my nose while the two longest teeth on the bottom went into my nostrils.
Thanks Sam, I guess we’re done now. Back to editing.
For everyone who missed my tweet Wednesday night, I listened to all my podcasts!!!! I had no podcasts to listen to Wednesday night, so I listened to the Rent Broadway soundtrack. Thursday morning two podcasts downloaded so I got down to 0 again (it wasn’t as exciting the second time but still counts in my mind). But then last night/this morning about 9 shows downloaded, so I am not currently at 0, but I got there, I got there twice!
I really wanted to post Wednesday night but I forgot how to log in to the website. I have now starred the email from Kim with the directions so next time I can find it faster. I couldn’t find it Wednesday and it was already past my bedtime (way past actually) so I gave up and went to bed.
It is really cool that I have finally gotten to 0 after months of trying ( I can’t remember what month Rachel and I started our war, see GNI Unplugged #2 for more details). Its kinda cool. Yay for me!
now if i could just beat Rachel at a war. maybe one of these days when i grow up and stop cheating ;~) [wait, i didn’t say i would stop cheating did i? hehe. ]
My parents had four children. Three boys and then there was me, the only girl. One lovely fall day day my oldest brother came running in the house carrying a harmless garter snake. My mother, a hair dresser (this will become relevant soon, I promise), freaked the heck out but like in the case of Y from Joy Unexpected, my father allowed him to put it in our fish tank that prior to this day housed nothing but air. A boy needs a manly pet, right? Right!
Two days later, while we were all at school, my mother entered my brothers room with an aerosol can of hairspray. That woman did some major hair renovation on that lil garter snake that he just wasn’t the same after that. Dead would be a good descriptor. It wasn’t until a few years later that we found out the reason for poor Gartie’s death. Mom is still proud of that hairdo.
Got a story like this? Think you could even top it? Share it for our next show When Nature Attacks on Wednesday April 16 at 9pm ET.
Went to the orthopedist today to find out the results of the MRI. Turns out I have what’s called a bone bruise. From what I understand your bones have a bunch of tiny vessels within them. A bad fall can cause some of these vessels to break. If too many of them break, you get a fracture. if a lot break, but not enough to cause a fracture, you get what’s called a bone bruise. So basically I have a whole bunch of blood built up in the bone of my arm. Yeah, that sort of hurts. He said, if they had known it was a bone bruise sooner they would’ve put it in a cast. But since they usually have it in a cast for six weeks and it’s already been six weeks he doesn’t want to put it in a cast now. He actually wants me to start using it some to help build up the muscles around it. I have a new brace I am supposed to wear some. It’s another of the pre-manufactured kind, but it doesn’t hurt like the other one did. I start with physical therapy next week and will go back to the orthopedist on May 1. I’m not entirely sure how well it will go since I am still in a lot of pain, when not hopped up on my pain meds. But I guess I’ll just have to wait and see. Everyone was very nice to me today and the nurse said if I had any troubles, I’m supposed to call back down ortho. So I feel much more assured. What I found online is bone bruises can last from a few weeks up to four to six months. Not too thrilled about that. Considering all the nightmare scenarios I had running through my head this really is quite good news. It’s not actually broken and I don’t need surgery, yay! And hey, workman’s comp can’t possibly blame this on my tendinitis! plus it’s good to know that I’m not just crazy or a wuss for thinking it hurt so much.
Well as you should know I fell 3 weeks ago on ice and believed to have sprained my wrist. After 6 days of it not getting better I went to the doctor. She was very concerned and took me out of the brace I had been using and put me in this huge splint from hand to just below the elbow. Fast forward to today. I finally went to the orthopedist, well actually the ortho PA. The nurse had me take my splint off and promptly threw it away! The PA came in a whirl wind, obviously hadn’t read the file on the accident. After examining me she went to review my x-rays and talk to the orthopedist. She came back and said they need to do an MRI on it because it sounds like a ligament injury, tissue damage or fractures that are too small to show up on regular x-rays. She was about to send me on way when I mentioned the nurse had thrown away my splint. She said she’d send her in. So the nurse comes back with a velcro wrist brace almost exactly the same as I had before my first appointment and put it on me. I mentioned that the doctors didn’t want me to flip my hand palm up and the nurse said no, they don’t want you to rotate your wrist. Confused I went up to make my appointments. My MRI is Monday at 7AM, which was OK I figured I could deal with this crappy brace for a few days. Then we scheduled the appointment with the orthopedist so I can find out what the MRI says. Well he’s on vacation next week and can’t get me in until the next Thursday (2 wks from today)! The woman making my appointment even asked the PA if it was OK for me to wait that long, which it is to her. So I have to go 2 more weeks without even knowing what’s wrong or being able to start doing anything! I was very frustrated and as I do, I started to cry, hard, luckily I made it to my car first.
Frustrated I went back to work. I tried to put my arm on the arm rest of my chair but couldn’t because where the metal of the brace is it pushes right on an injured part of my arm. I couldn’t even rest my arm on my leg. A piece of paper fell off my desk and reflexes kicked in and I reached it to grab it. This sent the worst pain I’ve ever felt through my arm because this brace is letting it move so much more than the splint. I also had a tingling feeling in my fingers since putting it on. I finished up my day and went to the gym to do everything one handed as I have been. Driving home I wasn’t able to use my left hand for turn signals as I had. Got home, told my mom this story, then took a shower. Got out, put the stupid brace on. I noticed my arm was hurting worse and worse sending constant pain through my arm. So I ripped the brace off and my wrist had swollen more than it was when I first hurt it. With using the splint I could wrap my middle finger & thumb around wrist completely upon removing the brace they were about 1/4″ apart but grew to 1.5″ in the matter of ten minutes! I took some Tylenol for the pain (can’t take ibuprofen) and didn’t put the brace back on. It’s down to 3/4″ now. I will be calling in the morning for an actual splint again.
Let me ask you, is it really a good idea for someone to be able to move their wrist in the manner that hurts them the most when you aren’t sure what is wrong and it’s most likely ligament damage? Yeah, not sure whose call the brace was instead of the splint. I guess I’m just used to the wonderful people in family medicine where they care.
Inigo Montoya and The Man in Black are both ambidextrous. They can sword fight equally well with both hands.
It can be a talent that you have or a talent that you wish you had. The question is left open to interpretation for that reason. Answer with whichever appeals to you most.
So I can’t decide what to announce my movie pick as for our next movie show which we’ll review The Princess Bride. (Have you watched it? I haven’t yet but I have it from Netflix. There is still time!)
I need help to decide what to tell you all to get from Netflix for April. I’m sorry for not posting this sooner but I was busy at school right before Spring Break! (yay for Spring Break)
You can only vote for one movie. I might pick one of these 3 movies (no promises), but I can be swayed in the comments so if you have a better idea make your argument in the comments and I might just pick your movie (no promises).
