February 16, 2014

My kidneys can go jump off a cliff. I'm done with them. My lazy Sunday was taken over by a kidney stone. The sharp pain only lasted about an hour but the ache and discomfort was present for the rest of the day. Only an hour of pain leads me to believe this is going to be one of those that turns into a long, drawn out battle, like the one that was off and on for a month when I was painting the house. Or it could be a tiny one that only took an hour to make it to my bladder. But I doubt that.

Yesterday I forgot to mention that I watched Meet The Robinsons and Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. Meet The Robinsons was the first 3D movie we got at the theater years ago and I hadn't seen it since I previewed it. I'm not good at remembering all the Disney movies I've seen and then ordering them in a list of favorites, but Meet The Robinsons has got to be up there. It is a very enjoyable movie and the T-Rex with the arm length trouble is still funny.

I never got around to watching Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs when we had it in the theater (or the second one) but I always wanted to. It was also a good movie. Not as good as Meet The Robinsons but it was good. I didn't really like the relationship between the main character and his father. He was kind of a dick to his dad for no real reason. It seems like maybe there was more to that story but maybe it was cut out of the final edit. I don't know, but it bugged me.

Today, when I wasn't dancing around my room or curled up on my bed thanks to my damn kidney, I did other things. My kidney stone hit during the middle of a game of BF4. I wanted to get at least a few games in today but I gave up on that. When my kidney calmed down to just aching and not a knife in my side, I laid on my bed with my heating pad and finished reading The Learners by Chip Kidd. It was kind of a downer of a book but I really liked the Psychology aspect of it. And after the book there was a letter to the author from the Milgrim's grad assistant that worked on the obedience study with him. That was pretty cool. I also sent a message to my old friend who gave me The Cheese Monkeys and it turns out she didn't know about The Learners, so it is kind of like me paying her back for turning me onto The Cheese Monkeys.

I also finally watched Despicable Me. I saw parts of it back when it was in the theater but never saw the whole thing. Until today. And it was just as good as I thought it would be. And now I need to see the second one. Years from now probably.

It is closing in on eleven o'clock but I'm not really that tired and my kidney is still being a bit of nuisance. I just want it to feel all better in the morning and not be a bother when I'm at work. That is my positive hope. Probably a long shot. But I've got work all week, a haircut after work tomorrow, and book club on Tuesday night. Kidney stones are rarely conveniently timed.