On Monday I got my cast off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WoooooooHoooooooooooo! It took forevvvvvvver. First, the girl that was supposed to take off the cast hadn't done one "in months", so she had to go and get someone to show her how to do it; then they couldn't saw through all the layers so they had to change the saw blade; then they couldn't get it off my arm, partially due to the fact the my cast hadn't allowed me to move my fingers without pain-a sign that your arm should be re-cast according to the physical therapist-and my fingers were bent over and couldn't be opened without immense pain! After 20-25 minutes my cast FINALLY came off! On the positive side i am now offically over my fear of cast saws :-> My joy at getting my cast off was quickly 
overtaken with the pain of washing my hand (something I'd dreamed of for 6 weeks)...It hurt like a bad mamajamma ! Between the pain on my bone that had been rubbing on the cast and now had some nerve "issues", the fact that everything was painful and the fact that I'd now developed a heat intolerance on my right arm it was NOT a good time!!!! grrrrr. And to top it all off my 30 minute appointment turned into a 2 hour 45 minute appointment. Hey, at least my doctors cute, okay, he's downright handsome as all get out!
overtaken with the pain of washing my hand (something I'd dreamed of for 6 weeks)...It hurt like a bad mamajamma ! Between the pain on my bone that had been rubbing on the cast and now had some nerve "issues", the fact that everything was painful and the fact that I'd now developed a heat intolerance on my right arm it was NOT a good time!!!! grrrrr. And to top it all off my 30 minute appointment turned into a 2 hour 45 minute appointment. Hey, at least my doctors cute, okay, he's downright handsome as all get out! Then...I missed a regularly scheduled appointment that I have every Monday with one of the Speech Therapists to go over our children and when i did get back to work I thought I was off, so i grabbed my stuff (and took pictures of my skinny little paste-y arm) and drove to my friends house to pick up something...good thing she lives close to work....turns out...I didn't get off at 3pm on Mondays (that was my old schedule), but instead I was supposed to work until 3:45! Crap! I turned around and drove back to the office...laughing and shaking my head the whole way.
My garden is continuing to change and is begining to show signs of new growth. Guillermo erected a trellis for both the beans and the cucumbers. It looks great! He even gave me some corn plants that he wasn't going to use, since he has the greenest of thumbs he always has a LOT of seedlings. I'll be taking more pictures next week.
On Friday, Guillermo was there and was excited to show me all the things he'd done. I've gotta say...I wish my garden had looked like this last year! It's beautiful. One thing I've noticed is that the Hispanic and European gardeners tend to get a whole lot more in their gardens than theirAmerican counterparts. I currently have tomatoe plants, beans, cucumbers, 2 kinds of squash, cilantro and something else i can't think of right this minute, but planting this way I have sooooooooo much space left over! I'll have to make another trip or two to the nursery. I asked Guillermo if he had any ideas of what could go in the empty space, but he didn't either...maybe sunflowers..but it's such a big space...don't know...I'll have to get inspired at the nursery.
We had our first Solstice Parade Staff meeting Wednesday night. It was great to see so many familiar faces and so many new one's too. Us veterans always approach having Solstice virgins on the staff with some trepidation ie., it either works or it doesn't. One year we (the float builders) had to explain to the TECHNICAL director numerous times why his suggestions wouldn't work. A little frustrating to say the least. We all agree that getting in new blood is a good thing, but an interview in an office is not a real good indicator of how someone builds, works with others, follows directions, can problem solve, how they are under pressure, and probably most important...can they multi-task! Time will tell. The workshop is already set up. A first. Usually it opens in the last week of May or first week in June. It's thrilling to see it slowly coming to life!
"The boys" are actually going to be building the frame of my little tropical shack next week-again, a first. The idea is that in the next week I'll be able to walk in and get started. Can't wait :-)
Friday was my first Hand Therpy appointment...OUCH...I now, however, have something resembling a hand rather than a claw, and my fingers are actually starting to stand up! YEAH!! I have slowly been able to use my hand every now and then, and find myself saying, "Wow, look at that! I couldn't do that before." Ahh the simple pleasures...I was able to put face stuff on using two hands...and I didn't have to turn myself into a pretzel to do it :-) or be in pain..wooohooo.
Yesterday, I got up early to go take a seafood cooking class, which subsequently got cancelled due to low numbers...but she gave us the recipes anyway. There's even one using agar agar instead of gelatin (similar to MJ's chill over powder). I'll post it here soon.
Since I had time on my hands I decided to finally make a trip down to Walmart to look for fabric for aprons and things for my costume. I didn't buy any fabric, but I did find some great things to add to my costume. After my little excursion I came home and got a lot of my Sunday chores out of the way...2 loads of laundry being the most impressive. I even had time at the end of the day to sit down and watch all the shows I'd saved over the week. It was crazy foggy. You know the kind where you can barely see across the street. Bleech!
today is not as foggy, which isn't really saying much...it's the kind that makes you want to stay in your pj's all day and bake....which is exactly what I'm going to do! I'm off to make a wheat and white flour-free, dairy-free, yeast-free, sugar-free pizza. It's really good! Oh, and I should probably put the laundry away :-]
Well, here it is...The package said "...and bake for 15-20 minutes...". Well 37 minutes later...my pizza came out. Yummmmmmm. At first I was a little stumped with what to put on it, but after looking through the fridge, discarding some unidentifable things and much thought I ended up with a pizza with onions, zucchini, pattipan squash, arugala, cilantro and olives. It was darned good!4:40pm and i'm still in my pj's...hmm what to do... :-)
I do have 2 movies waiting... the options are wide open. There's a hint of sun outside...if you squint and use your imagination. Where has the sun gone?! A few days ago it was in the 70's, now we're lucky if we break 63. Seems like it's going to be this way for the week. My cucumbers are not going to be happy. Apparently they need a lot of heat to grow. Hmmm...maybe I can come up with a cover of sorts that will give them the illusion of being warm.
