I've Come All Undone and Been Glued Back Together Again

A tale of emotional strife? No! This is the story of a young woman's battle with a horrific, knife-wielding onion and the sacrifice her left thumb made that she would live to fight again.

Otherwise known as Sheila is a klutz and cut a third of the way through the tip of her thumb.

I was cutting up onion for broccoli salad last night and didn't move my thumb out of the way fast enough and the wonderfully sharp knife cut horizontally across the tip of my thumb. Much swearing and running my finger under water ensued. I could feel it moving under the water stream and it was bleeding a lot and I was starting to wonder if I'd done myself serious harm this time, when Nathan came home. He decided that it was best to go to a clinic to see if I needed stitches or not.

So off we went, the beginning of broccoli salad shoved in the fridge, me pressing a kitchen towel to my thumb. By the time we got to the clinic, the bleeding had pretty much stopped, so that was good. We checked in, went to Safeway for some panini sandwiches and then back to the clinic for my turn.

I didn't end up needed stitches. It had already started to close with all the pressure I had been keeping on it, so the doctor just put that medical crazy glue on it to glue it shut. Then, just to add insult to injury, I had to get a tetanus shot. In the left arm of course. So today, my thumb hurts and I can't put pressure on it and my arm is all achy from the shot.

It sucks and I'm cranky and don't want to be at work doing computer stuff. I can be such a klutz sometimes. Oh well. I'll survive. The tricky part will be getting my nail to grow out fast, so it doesn't snag on everything....

PS Attempting to finish the broccoli salad tonight. Wish me luck!

Because I'm a big geek....

So this week at work I've been a big geek. BIIIIIIG GEEK! For those who don't know, right now I'm working on the expansion to Chinook Centre (yes, they're expanding again, taking out the Shell station). One of the typical things that we have to have on our mechanical drawings is a detail for the water meter room. This is where the city services enter the building, where the water meter is and all other manner of things. Traditionally, this has been a (boring) schematic drawing that just gets tweaked with each job.

For fun, the project manager and I thought we'd try and do a 3D piping layout for the water meter room, in addition to the plain jane schematic. Well! It wasn't overly hard and it looks fantastic, if I do say so myself! I was so disproportionately happy with it that it was kind of weird. I had to show it off to all my co-workers and now I have to blog about it. I can't help it though! It is so satisfying. I think I have finally come to realize that I'm a big AutoCAD geek and it pleases me to no end when I can do things like this.

Anyway, here it is. And yes, those walls are transparent! Aren't I great? I've got a print out at home, complete with notes, if anyone wants to see it..... =D

More Folk Fest and Yard Work

Okay, so I'm a bit late to report on the rest of the Folk Fest. But better late than never!

It was freaking awesome. That's pretty much all there is to say. I heard a lot of groups that I either bought cds for or their cds are on my birthday list. Great Big Sea was fantastic on Saturday night. They are just the best group to see live. So much fun. It was a tad too hot though, and I ended up with heat rash and heat exhaustion after Saturday. I was still feeling crappy on Sunday, so we didn't end up going at all that day but it was still a wonderful way to spend a weekend.

Nathan performing in a workshop session on Saturday. And I mean the band Nathan, not my husband Nathan. =D

Ahhh.... Good times, good times. That's kettle corn that Nathan's eating. It was a great weekend, even more so because we both got a break from yard work. The yard is such a huge undertaking that we were both feeling a little discouraged and overwhelmed by it..... Okay, it was mostly me feeling discouraged and overwhelmed (not to mention cranky!). But we've made quite a bit of progress since then and I feel better about it. The end is in sight. We should be able to finish the hardscaping before the fall gets too advanced. The problem with home improvement projects in summer, is that there's always something else going on, somewhere else to be, something else to do. Ah well, we'll get 'er done eventually. Go to our Picasa site to see the updated photos.