Head Trauma
Mood:  caffeinated
we're back from wild, wonderful, west virginia...mostly the weekend was relaxing; hiking around in the unseasonably warm weather, and e didn't have all that much work to do. mostly he just had to check in on the crew twice a day. so we got to hang out together. i hear that some married people do that fairly often...strange.

the most eventful part of the trip was the first five minutes after arriving in west virginny. we stopped at a bp so that e could call ray and arrange to meet. while e was doing that, i figured that i would pop into the bp to use the ladies room and get some gum, since we would then be driving around the site for a couple hours...did i mention that it was pretty much a blizzard up there? it was sooo windy and the snow was blowing everywhere.

on my way back to the car, my boot slipped on the ice and i landed face first on the hard parking lot, broke my glasses, and was covered in blood. e, thinking that i'd just slipped and landed on my butt, hopped out of the car to help me up, only to find me shrieking and holding my bloody head. since i broke my glasses, and my eye was covered in blood, when e said "it's bad," i thought that perhaps my eye had popped out. luckily this wasn't the case. it hurt so badly and there was so much blood, i thought that i had some sort of severe head trauma and insisted on going to see a doctor. to which e calmly responded, was not all that easy to do in darkest west virginia. apparantly the nearest medical attention was 15 minutes away. after he assured me that there wasn't a gaping hole in my head, i agreed to the drive and held some tissues to my bloody head, feeling nausiated and refusing to look at the injury, all the way.

happily, e's memory was correct, there WAS a clinic in davis...but they didn't open until 11am, and it was now 930. luckily it was right next to a pharmacy, where we were able to purchase some band-aids, neosporin and tylenol...which i realized that i actually had some of in my purse already...stupid head injury! the people there were very nice and helped me find things, since e went outside to take a call from ray (reception is terribly out in the woods and they'd been trying to connect for over an hour), and my glasses were brokent, so i couldn't see anything. the girl was very nice to let me follow her around the store and hand things to me.

e thought that it might make me feel better to actually LOOK at what he now described as a tiny scratch, which was infuriating, since it hurt like a *&&^%, "how can it be that small?! it's bleeding like a bad bruce campbell movie over here!" but i gave in and looked in the mirror...he was right. the spurty, horror movie blood was coming out of a cut that was MAYBE a half inch long. amazing. terrifying. anywho...since we couldn't get in to see a doctor for awhile anyway, we went to meet ray and get a tour of the site...i was not thrilled about this, as my head was aching all the way and i was still a little slow and confused...oh, and the site is boring. but at least i had some pain killers and a band-aid. and e had cleaned me up with some water and napkins from our burger king brekky...later i would regret that, as the oil from the napkins caused me to break out a couple days later.

after an interminably long time, we were finally on our way to the condo, where i could put my contacts in, so that i could see. and then see the doctor. happily i was able to get in really quickly, even though i was assured that it would "be awhile." west virginia time is just different than regular time. and the doc said that i didn't need stitches. he shot me up with some lydacane, which was LOVELY (after the pain of the needles peircing the side of the owey subsided) and fixed me up with a compression bandage to help it heal nicely to minimalize scarring. he was most certainly a small town doctor - he had to run around all up and down the hall to get all the supplies he needed to fix me up. after i was all patched up, i felt much better, aside from my aching head, of course...the rest of the weekend, women would look at e as if to say "you bastard, why'd you hit the pretty little girl?" one girl even asked him...he didn't care for it.

i'm gonna knock you out,
jwm

This message will self-destruct if returned to sender
Mood:  caffeinated
happy wednesday, blog-reading people. i hope that you all checked out the pic of the jack russell that rach posted to the comments. we're going to meet him this evening to see if we'd make a compatible family. since we've both been around jack russells, we think that it should be a good fit...as long as he likes us...

in other news, i finally spoke to a real, live person at the minn. dmv...apparantly, since we were having our mail forwarded, it was returned to sender, b/c licenses can't be forwarded...i'm still not exactly clear on why it wasn't just delivered to the house then, but whatever. anyway, i asked if i could just pick it up, but they don't do that either. it has to be mailed to your address to make sure that you aren't lying about where you live. i was tempted to ask why anyone would lie about living in OUR neighborhood, but i digress. as soon as my face appeared back in their mailbox, it was destroyed. so now i have to ask them to reprint it and send it again. i'm going to wait until after we cancel our forwarding though...to make sure that i don't get destroyed all over again. after all this waiting, my picture had better rock!

cheers,
jwm

ps i'm off to west virginia with my husband tomorrow morning. he has to babysit the crew over the weekend while someone is out of town. so we're going to chill and drink cocoa in the ski lodge.

S-T-E-E-L-E-R-S Steelers are the very best!
Mood:  happy
go steelers! did everybody see the game yesterday?! we're going to the superbowl! finally, a superbowl that i actually care about...it's been years.

anywho...the commercial shooting went just fine yesterday, although we didn't actually do OUR wedding dance. the director mostly just wanted us to dance eighth grade stayle in a circle and smooch, which is fine. if you live in the state college area, look for the new hoag's ad coming out sometime in the near future.

today is gross and snowy. e headed back to finish the paperwork for his project, but they're finally done with the erection! hee hee. so we'll be heading back to mpls in the first few days of feb.

cheers,
jwm

Feeling better, and much much worse
Mood:  sad
well, i seem to have triumphed over the cold, but mort has triumphed over me...we lost our battle for maui. e will NOT be working on that project. so for everyone who wanted to come and visit us and stay in the extra room, i'm afraid that dream is over. so that we don't mutiny, mort has agreed to provide us with two plane tix and free use of the condo in march...although this sounds fantastic, the thought of february in mpls without having had a summer is weep-inducing, as is not being able to spend as much time there, of course. but this way it's a real vacay, which is nice. i don't often get my husband all to myself.

but i digress...off to mpls we go! on the fifth day, look to the east...

cheers,
jwm

Sickly Me
Mood:  blue
i seem to have contracted the cold that's going around :( i woke up yesterday with a sore throat and sapped energy, and that is exactly how i feel today as well. boo. it's also gloomy, rainy and gross outside - perfect sickly weather.

i hope that you are all having better days.

cheers,
jwm

Maui Owie!
Mood:  d'oh
well, the word is in, we will now be going to maui for only one month, not many :( i'm bummed about this, but am also looking forward to getting back to mpls and some semblance of a normal life...i also wouldn't mind actually having all of my belongings in one place and unpacking all the wedding gifts.

we still aren't sure when we'll be leaving, sometime before the end of the month. i'm sure that some of you are disappointed, especially if you were thinking of coming to visit, but unfortunately, the bosses have spoken. so i'm trying to keep a stiff upper lip and just be happy that i'll have a month to bask in the warm maui sunshine...and hope that it will clear up my eczema!

cheers,
jwm

ps i got my professional wedding album today. it looks great!

Bad blogger
Mood:  don't ask
well, i can tell my the ticker, that some of you are still hopefully checking in for me to write something...i'm so sorry to have disappointed you for weeks now. but here i am. just haven't really had anything to say. the holidays were fine. new year's was sort of a let down, aside from getting to hang out with the smiths and jody. town was pretty much dead and none of the bars ever do anything cool...they didn't even do the countdown to midnight at the grill! lame!

anywho...speaking of counting, i'm counting down the days until we go to maui! unfortunately it sounds like we won't be there quite as long as we'd hoped :( hence, the poor mood, but we're still going, so that's a great big yay! if you want to come and stay with us, be sure to get your request dates in quickly, as we only have the one guest room and many interested parties. since we'll only be there a short time, i suppose that i will be acting as tour guide to our guests, as opposed to finding a real job :)

in other news...i have my first gig in a tv commercial! okay, i realize that i made that sound exciting, which it is, but probably will be less so once i divulge the following information:
1. eli will be in the commercial with me
2. it's for my sister's catering business
3. e and i are going to recreate our wedding dance, wearing borrowed formalwear from diamonds and lace in boalsburg

it should be fun. i'm looking forward to it. how many people get to have the whole town see their wedding dance?!

in even more news...i've decided that i've spent enough time thinking of the thousands of different things that i can do with my life (oh why won't someone just pay me for writing this blog?!), so i've chosen a path. i'm going to grad school: phd sociology. i'm currently studying for the gre...i'm sure that some of you are concerned that this is simply a backlash from having nothing to do with myself for a year, aside from handicrafts, but i assure you that i'm serious.

cheers,
jwm

ps i guess that i'm actually brimming with news today, so if you're one of the faithful who've been checking back often, you'll be pleased!

Happy Misc. Holidays
Mood:  caffeinated
i hope that you are all enjoying the holiday season. there is very little happening in my world...xmas was nice. state college is pretty boring, but of course, not as boring as the candlewood suites. it's sad not having e around though. i miss our house.

cheers,
jwm

It's not a tooma
Mood:  a-ok
well, as it turns out i DON'T have ringworm. i went to the dermatologist today so he could look at my finger and asked if he'd look at the worm too...he said "that's not ringworm. it's eczema." so i probably shouldn't have been putting anti-fungal cream on it. beware when you self diagnose off the internet...just because something appears to be ring shaped, doesn't mean it is. and the really ironic thing is that i was overshowering in order to keep the ringworm from spreading, which was making my eczema worse b/c you're not supposed to shower as often. yikes!

as for the finger, the doc says that i need a divorce...then after a moment, he said the following: this is very common in newlyweds b/c they wear their rings too much. he says that i need to keep the ring off for a couple months if i really want it to heal. but if i don't care about it healing, i can just keep wearing the ring and let my skin fall off. he's a real kidder.

in other news...things are fine here in sc. i'm all done with my xmas shopping and i even rearranged my bedroom to make it feel more suitable for a grown up...except for the cradle full of stuffed animals...but really, where can they go?

rach and i went to see rent (the movie) last night. it was great! i think that they did i nice job adapting it for the screen...obviously not everything was the same, but it was pretty close. if you've never seen it, you should go...bring a hanky.

cheers,
jwm

Goodbye Wilkes-Barre, perhaps for good?
Mood:  caffeinated
hope that everyone is enjoying their saturdays...we're off to state college once again. i will be staying there and e will be coming back. i have had enough of the candlewood suites. my time here has come.

the rest of the week was thoroughly uninteresting...aside from going back to the yummy italian place last night. we had another lovely dinner with e's co-workers, and tried to go out to a jazz club afterwards, but it was unfortunately closed for a private party. so we headed home to bed early. which was also nice.

oh, yes, i almost forgot the most exciting part of the week...i seem to have developed ring worm on my lower back. i was stretching to go work out, and noticed something gross on my back. upon further investigation, it was circular and red, which my internet investigations revealed was ring worm. i was, however, happy to find out that it doesn't mean that i have actual worms. b/c that might make me have a nervous breakdown. i thought that living in isolation was supposed to sheild me from illness...it worked for howard hues, right? now, let my disease be a lesson to you...always wash your hands obsessively and scrub until your skin is raw in the shower after using someone else's gym equipment...

cheers,
jwm