1. A wedding in February
2. Building a house and moving
3. Having a baby in August
4. And my co-worker is planning on taking classes towards a degree.
They've been doing a flurry of planning since they found out and he proposed. Any one of those things would be a lot of work to organize - but all at once, so to speak, is quite impressive. Or crazy. Or both.
In other news, my room-mate and I managed to injury ourselves playing Wii. I was getting bored with the bowling and tennis and so we tried a few rounds of boxing. The next couple of days after that I was sore in my chest and arms - he had that plus shoulders. (Mine were okay since they were conditioned from my swimming). We're both better now, but there were a lot of "we're old" comments for a while.
I went and gave blood on Monday and as I went in I noticed that they had the double-red machines set up. I've done that before and while it took a little longer I actually felt better after the donation. The staff didn't comment on this while I was doing the history until I asked if that was going to be a regular thing. They didn't know but said it might be cause it was a special "O" blood drive. Which I have. I got taken over to another table for a regular donation. One of the double-red areas opened up and the guy after me in line got taken to that area. I didn't know about this in advance and don't know if I needed an appointment. Felt a little dissed, actually.
When they did the needle stick, the tech warned me that it would be a "pinch" - and it was more painful than usual. Enough to make me hiss though my teeth - though I didn't cry or anything. The tech said, with a little bit of a snide tone, "Don't like that part?" I replied, "Well, it's not a pinch".
"It's a big pinch" she replied and I didn't comment as my next remark would have involved some swearing.
I think I've ranted before that telling someone it's going to "pinch" when they shove a big needle into your vein is just bullshit. A pinch is something completely different. Granted, I don't think they should say, "I'm going to shove a harpoon into your arm, hold still," but maybe a "here we go" comment would be enough warning and not involve lying.
Anyway, the donation went fine and though I was tired afterwards I recovered okay. Next time I make an appointment I'll have to see about getting on the double-red list. And for the record, yes, it's a smaller needle.
That evening, my room-mate needed my help in taking the lights off the tree and I think wanted me to carry the boxes to the basement. I told him I would do that - but not until the 5 hours of no heavy lifting after giving blood had passed. He took the boxes down himself.
Finally, I've been working on a large scale origami project using packaging paper. 30 inches on a side squares. Except I ran into some 'replicating failure " issues.
See, I was working from a long roll of paper and to get my squares I would fold the end down to the side and get a right triangle - then cut along that new line and get a new edge. Doing so introduces the chance that my new edge may not be 100% and since I kept doing this, the errors built up. I got my 12 squares out of the roll and as I started to fold I found several were not really squares. A couple of those were close enough to make work, but about 5 sheets were unusable. All the good ones are folded, but I'll need to get more paper and cut some more squares. The end result is going to be a giant star with multiple points - the number of those depends on how much paper I use.
I'm going to hit the pool again today and my sister has asked that I do an extra lap for her since she would really like the weight reducing feeling that a pool creates.
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