i feel leaky, oh so leaky

The Very Unpleasant Surgery is over, and everything is fine. Actually I won’t really know if it’s fine until I go back in for tests, but it went quickly and with few side effects. It only took about 15 minutes and was, as I expected, Very Unpleasant. Doc came with me and stood next to me and held my hand the whole time, which helped to make me much less scared. How can you not love a guy who will voluntarily stay by your side to comfort you while strangers are painfully poking around in your nether regions?

I sat up after it was over and felt ok for a few minutes, but then nearly passed out. It was weird — the doctor was talking with us and I felt my face suddenly get very hot and I started seeing little red dots everywhere. I laid back down for a few minutes, and then we went home. I was in considerable pain for the rest of the day, but I felt pretty good the next morning. There are a few lasting unpleasant side effects, the worst of which is about six weeks of enforced celibacy.

House updates: Acquired a new futon sofa (new to us; thanks Roosh!); got a new slipcover for falling-apart white sofa; a couple thousand dollars worth of dead tree removal and new tree replanting are coming up; installed a new fluorescent light in the garage to replace the one whose ballast died about eighteen months ago (you think we’re procrastinators?); we still haven’t called the electrician to fix our electricity which has been on the fritz for about 2 months (no, we’re not procrastinators!).

The Visions Expo is coming up in less than two weeks. We still have NO IDEA what we’re going to do for it. The cream cheese mints are becoming a standard and a crowd favorite. I guess that we need to pick 2 or 3 things to make, and then suck it up and go shopping. The publisher is reimbursing us for expenses with our own books, which doesn’t seem to bode well. At least they are helping out in some way, though.

And, last but not least, I made some really great tilapia tonight for dinner. It was oven-baked, batter-dipped, and veeeery crispy. Even Doc liked it, and he usually doesn’t care for fish unless it’s in fried stick format. I think it’s one for the next book.