Ouch ...

This past Sunday was my church's 40th anniversary so we had a potluck! Was kind of, um how should I put it, interesting? Fun? Annoying? Well that's not my point, during the potluck my friend's 18 month old daughter decided that she wanted to go play outside on the playground and she wanted me and my wanna be little sister to go play with her, that's all fine I don't mind playing with her, I love her like my own. When we get out to the playground her Royal Highness decides that she doesn't want to play on the ground, oh no she needs to climb up to the top of the playground. I was like "oh hell no, there's no way in hell I'm going up there in high heels and a skirt to keep her company" so Sis went up and was playing with Highness, I turned away from them for a second and when I looked back up top where Highness and Sis were I realized that Sis had left Highness up there all alone and Highness was getting scared (weird I know, a toddler scared of heights?) so I went up to get her because she refused to come close enough to the edge for me to safely get her off. I got up top, picked her up and headed back down the stairs, now remember I am wearing 3 inch heels and a knee length skirt, those playground stairs, well they are perfect for a child;s foot but not big enough by a long shot for a women's size 8!!! As I am walking down the million mini sized stairs the heel of my shoe gets caught in one of the annoying holes in the step and all of a sudden I'm falling!!! Well the fall was perfect, in slow motion and all, slow enough to realize what is about to happen and shift my body so that I don't land on Highness who is still in my arms but definitely not slow enough to catch myself on anything before I hit the ground. Good thing I was only 2 or 3 steps from the bottom yet non-the-less I fell pretty hard to my knees, banged them up pretty good right one more so than the left because Highness was on my left side and I shifted my weight just in time so she wouldn't get hurt! Anyway as I fall and jump back up as quickly as possible so maybe the other kids on the playground and any adults who are watching wouldn't see my less than graceful plummet to the WOOD CHIP ground beneath, I see Sis standing up above where I had just come from laughing her little ass off at me?!?!?!?! like wtf? where the hell were you when Highness needed you and how the hell did you get back up there without me noticing? So yeah Sis had a good laugh at my expense and I now have two scraped knees, and am in pain every time I move my legs! Let me tell ya landing on wood chips with all your weight on your damn bare knees hurts like an sob and to add to my knee pain my back and neck hurt too and I haven't been able to really sleep in the last couple of days, so I'm just freaking miserable right now! I'm venting, I need to vent my misery, to spread it around maybe if others around me are miserable as well I wont be so miserable! This was the second time that I have fallen in church while walking down the stairs, damn my luck! The first time I was walking down from the balcony and on about the 3rd stair from the bottom my knee gave out and I went flying down, got some nice rug burns on the anterior side of my feet. The balcony stairs are visible from the sanctuary but good thing they were praying when my little "mishap" occurred and only 2 or 3 kids saw, they were kind of worried about me when I came crashing down, but low and be hold I was fine. I guess the lesson that I have learned is that I should avoid walking down, or up for that matter, stairs in church while I am wearing high heels and a skirt!!!

What a waste...

today has just been the most exhausting day ever and I didn't even really do anything! This is how my day went today woke up took a shower, called my doctor to make an apt because I don't think that this thing that I have is just the flu, called in sick to work (my manager was not happy), ate breakfast, did some of my English homework, surfed the internet, did some History homework, helped my friend with his EMT work (he's having the hardest time with it, his English is not so good and getting the terms right is half impossible for him yet the skills themselves he has no trouble with what-so-ever), had lunch, read some of AD's book, checked my email, yelled at the stupid computer for being fucking slow as hell, did a little research for my English paper, gassed up the car (gas is finally under $3.50 here, we have some of the most expensive gas in the country right here because there is only have twos ways in and out of this area, we have one major freeway running through town and a mountainous highway which trucks don't use so gas is kind of consistently ridiculously expensive here), went to the gym, came home and went on here and now I'm kind of hungry but it's 2300 and kind of too late to eat, so basically today has just about the biggest waste of make-up. I'm sick again I have gotten sick 3 of the last 4 weekends, this time has been the worst I think my boss is on the verge of firing me because I have missed so much work lately. I hate being sick and I have been sick more in the last few months than I have in the last 10 years combined, I think this has something to do with work because there is always at least 2 people sick and the bastards decide that it's perfectly okay for them to come to work and expose everyone else in the damn office to whatever they have. I'm kind of pissed, anyway I was just kind of excited that gas prices are finally starting to fall to maybe-someday-soon reasonable prices!!!
Oh and by the way if anyone can point in the direction of some good articles or books on the topic of access to health care in America I would it appreciate so very much, I am doing my English research paper on this topic and have found some decent information but figured it wouldn't hurt to ask others to pitch in. I know that there are many bloggers that have a lot to say on this topic and a lot of good information but I need info that's been published and that can be backed up by research! Thanks a bunch!