February 17, 2014

Last night thanks to my kidney, I didn't sleep the greatest. I woke up several times because of the aching and eventually had to get my heating pad and sleep on that, which helped somewhat. It wasn't a terribly painful ache but it was enough to be uncomfortable. This morning I was doing better, other than a headache, and made it through the day with only a few instances where the aching was a bit pronounced. I was still terrified to move, afraid that I would get the stone moving again. I am leaning more toward the opinion that it is going to be a long and drawn out battle.

I was tying to avoid stairs today but I ended up going to the third floor two and a half times to help the gifted teacher with computer things. She kept “paying” me in small peanut butter cups. I don't have the heart to tell her I don't eat candy.

I continued working on storybooks but didn't make that much progress today. The book I'm on now is pretty much all white backgrounds which involves a lot of erasing. I glanced through the last book and it seemed to be mostly colored so that should be easier. I'm so close to being done.

I was given the first batch of kid pictures for the sixth graders today, which I am supposed to scan and then create a slideshow for the last day of school. I've never actually made a slideshow before but I said I would do my best. I've got a few months to figure it out so I'm fairly confident. I haven't looked into it but my initial thought it to use my video editing software to make it. I would imagine it would have a slideshow option. If all else fails there is always PowerPoint.

After school I thought I had a haircut and the lady who cuts my hair has moved to a new place so my first goal was to find it. I thought I knew the general area but when I got there I couldn't see it. I ended up parking and trying to call my mom but she didn't answer so I called my sister. She didn't know either but she was with my dad and grandma, and my grandma knew. She said it was where I thought but she narrowed down exactly where, and even though I still couldn't see it, I took her word for it. As soon as I got out of my car a lady walked out of the business across the way to tell me I wasn't in an actual parking spot. There were lines and I figured they were old and worn out but I guess they had been blacked out. So I got back in my car and moved. From my new spot I could see a door that I wasn't able to before and it was my new haircut place.

The lady had semi-retired because she owned the other place but decided she wanted a smaller, quieter environment that was more laid back. She had to do quite a bit to clean the place up but it is actually pretty nice now. When I walked in I found out that when my appointment was moved to today the time also changed, which I hadn't remembered. So I went home for awhile and came back about forty-five minutes later. And now my hair is shorter. Success.

Tonight I found out from my friend that Bayside has a new album coming out tomorrow. I had no idea but I immediately got on Amazon and bought it. I'll be able to download the album tomorrow and in a couple days I'll get the physical CD. I am pretty excited because I need to cancel my XM radio subscription in the next day or two and the Bayside CD will give me something to listen to.

I played a couple rounds of BF4 tonight, mainly just to get the battlepack, but I think I got it before I even played a game so that was kind of pointless. Tomorrow the new DLC comes out and I am looking forward to trying out the updated version of Operation Metro because that was my favorite map from BF3. In BF4, Operation Locker kind of reminded me of Metro but a little bigger with more ways to get around. I am interested to see if Operation Metro is still fun. I also want to try it on a 64 player server because that seems like it will be a complete mess. And make it easy as hell to rack up the points.

With the rest of my night I did laundry (because I didn't get around to it last night) and watched YouTube videos. So much fun. But now I am going to go to bed. I've been feeling the lack of sleep from last night all day and I am hoping that I can make up for it tonight. If my kidney plays along.