Is it Friday yet?

Please? Oh come on! This has been the longest week of my life! Ok, not counting finals, term papers and waiting at the dentist…

I got the “all clear” on my knee last Wednesday. It still creaks, but everything is as healed as it will get. I think that George wanted to double check the doctor’s work, but… I’m not playing that game! Both my sisters and brother called to check up on me too. Hurray for free long distance! Oh, and Mom and Dad came by again to make sure that I was taking care of myself.

Friday and Saturday were busy. Blackthorne Computers as a company are thinking of buying this old microwave tower outside of town. George and Kevin climbed all over it and checked out how well signals went and that kind of thing. Too many watts, frequencies, miliamps, etc. My brain turned to mush. While they climbed, I got to be safety again. Yep, sat on my ass with my knee up and a radio in my hand. Don’t know what they were thinking, because if either one of them fell off that tower, they’d be paste for the EMT’s to scrape into a bucket!  shudder!!!

Afterwards, we had to do up reports on the tower and all the info they gathered. Talk about excited! Two kids with the keys to the candy and toy store couldn’t have been happier. “Gemma come see this!” and “Gemma, did you notice that?” or “Gemma, look what we can do!”  I think I worked on reports until nearly 8pm.

Sunday, I had planned to go shopping, clean house and maybe just sit back with a movie and enjoy some quiet time. Hahahahahahahahaha!!! What a funny idea. I started the washer and next thing I knew, there was bubbling ooze in the laundry room from the trap in the floor. My sewer was backing up! I called Mom. She called baby brother Jim, and the next thing I knew, I was off to the hardware store to pick up a sewer snake. That’s the polite term for this nasty piece of metal. George showed up as Jim was trying to figure out just how fast to twirl and twizle. The two of them ended up covered in the proverbial… Seems that someone before me had dropped a toy in the line and it had finally clogged beyond recognition. Ewww! Oh, and that I somehow share a sewer line with my neighbor. That meant we had to snake his drain too. Otherwise it would back up into his house. In the end, George and Jim did my house, the neighbor, Mom and Dad’s house and my sister Kes’s house. We hosed the guys off before we let them in to shower! Phewwww!

Monday was tech support day from hell. I think that everyone just lost their minds and dumped their computers in the same pile. I must have asked “have you run your virus scans?” twenty times. I know I walked people through various trouble shootings until I could have done it in my sleep. This one guy must be retarded, because he calls about the same thing every time! George says he just likes my voice on the phone while he’s cruising porn! Uck!!!

Tuesday wasn’t much better. I couldn’t stay awake to save my ass! Our one customer who calls every day at 9:05am to tell us a joke asked me if I was ok, because I kept yawning in his ear! He also called three more times just to make sure I was awake! If he wasn’t such a dear and nearly 80, I think I’d kick him in the ankle.

Yesterday and today have been slogs. Lots of paperwork because of orders coming in and the phone wouldn’t stop ringing! I’ll be saying “Blackthorne Computers, Gemma speaking.” in my sleep! Best part about today though was that I got an article written up in the local newspaper! Well, George and I did. We are writing a Computer Smarts column. Sort of a how to for the computer illiterate. If the editor gets positive feedback, we will write more!

Now all I have to do is survive Friday! It’s suppose to be hot, and we are going out to the tower again. The one George almost got blown off. We have to check the ground cables and the guy wires. Wheee….. I am not going to trip! I am refuse to fall down!

Wish me luck!

Stairs are Evil!!!

They really are. Especially if you are having to walk up them slowly! With a cane! I must have taken five minutes to get up 10 steps. Disgusting! Frustrating. Grrrrr!!!

As it is, I only stayed at work part of the day. I think something loosened up in the night and I was in a lot more pain than I had been yesterday. Or, if you go by George’s outlook, I hurt more because I was using it more. Either way, I hurt!

So, I’ve come home and curled up with my laptop and snacks. I also have a new addiction. Babylon 5. George and Kevin watched it when it was on tv, and now they watch it on DVD. George brought over the first series and I am working my way through it one disk at a time. I have to call him on occasion to have bits of the plot explained or just to discuss things. It’s actually a decent show.

Hmm, maybe I’ll call George and Kevin to come over with some dinner and we can watch Babylon 5 till we go cross-eyed.

Hobble-de-de!

Yep, that’s me. Hobble-opicus. Or is that hobbling octo-cuss! Not matter which way I think of it, I hobble. With cane no less! My knee hurts!

Tuesday, I did order pizza via George, and had a lovely quiet evening right up until the point where I had to take a shower. I should have stayed stinky. It would have been less embarrassing. As George was cleaning up the pizza fest, I mentioned that I was going to take a shower after he left and crawl in bed. George gave me a look that I am beginning to recognize as that questioning one which means I’m about to have to fight or prove myself to him. Not a bad thing, but some days… This one was that “oh, so you think you can stand on that knee?” look.

I should have kept my mouth shut and not said anything. HA! That would have been the smart thing. Instead, I asked him what the hell that look was for. He leaned against the door frame and crossed his arms with a smile on his face. I should have really known I was in trouble then. So, he asked me to stand up. I did. Then he asked me to step over his foot, which he stuck out. I tried. That’s when I realized that I couldn’t do it. George caught me before I fell. I felt so stupid. I realized that what he was trying to do was show me that I couldn’t step into the bathtub safely. grrrrrr!

He sat me back on the couch and said I had two choices. First one was stay stinky. No way! It had already been two days since my last shower. Second choice, was help. Either him or one of my family. I called my sister Kelly. She came over and helped me get in and out of the shower with a little dignity. George stayed out in the living room until I was finished and in bed. I felt so stupid. He also told me to stay home again. I started to protest, and then he reminded me that the office has stairs. I gave in.

Wednesday, I relaxed and read my book. Not that I had much of a choice. Kelly told Mom and Dad that I’d hurt my knee, and they kept popping in on me. I finished Blood Noir, and started Hunter’s Moon.  yes, more werewolves and sex! George came by after work and cooked dinner. Well, I don’t know if you call making toasted cheese sandwiches cooking, but they were good. He didn’t burn them! Nor did he use an iron! sneaky Johnny Depp reference

After dinner, I walked around a bit using a cane that he brought over. He tore his own knee up hiking years ago, so understood not only the pain I had, but the frustration of not being able to move.

This morning, I crawled into the shower with the help of the cane. HA! Take that George! Then I got dressed and called Kelly to drive me to work. I knew better than trying to drive! George was peeved with me for showing up, because my knee was still wonky. However, the phones had been ringing off the wall and files were stacking up. Kevin was happy I’d come to work too. He brought me a foot stool and all the tea I could drink. Apparently, George had had him answering the phone in my absence. LOLOLOL!

I came home exhausted. Kevin will pick me up in the morning so that Kelly doesn’t have to come into town just for me. She lives out on a ranch now. I cleaned out the fridge of all the leftovers and now I’m off to bed with my book!