Crasymaker

See that hot chick? That’s my lady and she’ll be modeling at the Mason’s Fall Fashion Show to benefit the Peace at Home Women and Children’s Shelter tonight at the Fayetteville Town Center on the square at around 6:30pm. Advance tickets are $10 (no idea where to get em) or it’s $15 at the door.

Need more inspirado?

• The first 300 people in the door will get a $20 Mason’s gift certificate
• Laura’s Darling Desserts will be catering the event (mmm, tasty)
• There is a possibility that The Early Morning Bourbon Girls will be there
• You’ll get entered into a raffle with lots of sweet prizes
• All proceeds go to charity

Thanks to the illustrious Eric Hobbs, I can now enjoy the luxury of sitting approximately 30 inches higher than before on my front porch. We still need to add stairs, thicken the columns, add rails and stain it but boy am I in love with it already. We also took the opporunity to also install a brand new door to let in more light while we were at it so needless to say, I am pretty excited. You can see a few pictures on my Flickr page if you wanna.

Eric is one of the most talented Dudes I’ve ever known so if you need anything at all in the way of renovation, construction, remodeling, welding, etc. you owe it to yourself to have Eric do it because it will be done quickly and it will be done right. If only he knew how to repair/remodel my eye…

Ever since I got hit in the eye, I have been doing all kinds of dumb stuff. Sarah thinks it’s because I haven’t been sleeping well since my accident but I think I might have actually lost some of my brain cells.

It’s just not like me to be clumsy all the time. For example, yesterday after watching a movie I rented at Hastings, I promptly inserted it into a Netflix envelope and dropped it in the mail. Apparently the odds are 50/50 that Netflix will notice my error and send me back the DVD. Shit.

UPDATE - Holy crap. I feel like I probably shouldn’t say exactly what the nice guy at Hastings did to resolve this problem but I will say this:

Sincerely,
Todd

…but I still managed to put on two different shoes before coming in to work. Fortunately, as I made my way around the office showing people (before they saw it themselves and made fun of me), nobody could really tell until I literally pointed it out so it must not be that noticeable. Nevertheless, I still feel pretty dumb.

It could be worse, though. One guy I work with said, “That’s nothing. One time I went in to work with a bad hangover and realized I had on one boot and one tennis shoe.” Yeah, that’s a little worse.

Most of you know that Sarah sells clothes on eBay but if you haven’t actually had a chance to check it out yet, then visit Bittersweet Styles and look around a bit.

If it looks easy, let me be the first to tell you that it’s not. I’ve had a first-hand look at how much work is involved. She shops, she dresses up, takes photos, edits photos, uploads photos, writes listings, answers tons of email questions, monitors her sales, contacts the buyers, receives payments, packs orders, ships orders, leaves feedback and then starts all over again. Phew.

Needless to say, I am really proud of her.

Last week I played my first softball game since getting smacked…sort of. So far, I am just a hitter, meaning that I only hit (with my helmet, of course) and don’t actually play in the field. It kinda sucks just sitting there waiting to hit and not being able to help out in the outfield like I am used to but it is fun to be playing again.

We got our pictures taken the other day. I think we are making trading cards for each of us. Check out the photos at Nick’s Flickr page.

The picture to the left is of a pipe that is almost directly above my desk at work. I was across the room talking to someone when I hear a guy yelling at me to get to my desk. I got over there and found tons of sewage pouring out of the ceiling around that pipe all over my work area. The computers were spared but I had to trade my file cabinets and all my papers had to be trashed. Guess what? It stinks, too. Imagine that.

In eye-related news, my face is healed up but there’s still no change in my vision. My eye is still completely dilated and the doctor officially verified the possibility of it never returning to normal. Awesome!

Needless to say, it hasn’t been a very good month for me. Hopefully, April showers will actually bring some May flowers this year.

Tomorrow marks the 2 week anniversary of that ball landing on my eye and guess who’s not celebrating…ME! As you can see from the photos, I am healing up nicely…on the outside, that is.

There’s still no sign of my vision getting any better and if you look closely at the last photo in the Mr. Softball - Finale gallery, you can see that my eye is still VERY dilated which, for a lack of better words at this moment, sucks ass. Everything is too bright including the screen of this laptop I am using right now. Nothing looks right and the headaches I get from trying to do the most normal things are pretty crummy. However, when I was in the ER 2 weeks ago, I couldn’t see one single drop of light so considering how far I’ve come, I am extremely thankful to no longer be blind. Speaking of the ER, if you’ve ever wondered how much it costs to get your eye beat to hell with a softball, it’s $1532.75 plus 4 hours of sitting there scared as hell and wondering if anyone is ever going to come tell you what the results of your CT Scan are. Speaking of CT Scans, they cost $1244.75.

In case you have any other financial questions about the ER, here is a rundown of how much things cost in there besides the CT Scan: One pain pill will run you $55.25. One disposable ice pack costs just $10.00. The ink that they write the prescription for more pain pills apparently is worth $6.00 and finally on top of all that, they also charge you $216.75 just to sit in their fabulously comfortable plastic chairs for 4 hours. Add that to the 7 trips to the eye doctor at $90 each plus the 8 vacation days you lose at work and you’ve got yourself one hell of a deal. I knew playing city-league softball would prove to be a rewarding use of my Tuesday nights but I never suspected it would be this exciting! ARGHHHHHH.

My eye seems to be getting better on the inside while getting a little bit grosser on the outside. The doctor was pleased to see some improvement this morning. The fluid is clearing up and my vision is slowly coming back. The pain pills have kept me feeling pretty good despite being stuck in bed all day and all night for 3 days now.

As you can see from the photos of days 2 & 3, the swelling is going down leaving my eye exposed a little. I have to keep a metal shield over it all day which is kinda odd since it’s got little holes in it. Now I know what it’s like to be a fly except for the landing on/eating dookie part.

Apparently there is a high risk of re-bleeding on days four and five so this weekend is supposed to be VERY low key. I guess I will continue watching Deadwood season 1 and Curb Your Enthusiasm season 2. Wish me luck and don’t get pissed at me if those pictures gross you out.

I’ve put up a few photos in the photo section for those of you who aren’t easily grossed out. My eye seems to be getting a little bit better on the inside but a little bit worse on the outside. See for yourself if you wanna. Back to the doctor in a couple of hours…

A huge thank you to Tim and Cathy for bringing by a kick-ass care package complete with an eye patch, Dr. Peppers and plenty of sweet treats. Another enormous thank you to Jonathan and Lacy for the Chicken Spaghetti. Care packages are flying in left and right. I even got flowers from my work. Thanks, everyone!

The eye specialist said that the pressure on my eye was normal and that my vision is getting a little better with time. Lot’s of interior bleeding and the swelling is ridiculous. I have to go back to the eye doctor once a day for the next 3-5 days to make sure the bleeding/pressure doesn’t increase. After that, he said it could be 2-3 weeks before the swelling goes down enough for him to get a proper examination and to know if my vision will come back completely. I’m crossing my fingers.

For now, it’s back to sleep and hopefully some DVD watching later tonight.

Some of you have asked to see a photo of my eye. It’s pretty crazy-looking so consider yourself warned before clicking here.

For those of you that I haven’t been able to get a hold of yet (and before you hear from someone else), I got hurt pretty bad playing softball last night. I was playing outfield and was chasing a fly ball (that I should’ve let Nick take b/c it was WAY closer to him) when I stumbled and my arm dropped allowing the ball to hit me right in my freaking eye.

After a few hours in the emergency room, I was finally sent home with this diagnosis: My nose is broken. The bone below my eye is broken. I had no vision in my eye at all due to a lot of bleeding. However, some of my vision has come back in the eye which is a huge relief. It’s only about 10% but last night it was 0% so hopefully that is a good sign. I have an appointment with an eye specialist this morning to determine the extent of the damage to my eye and to also determine if I need surgery to repair the broken bones or to relieve some of the pressure on my eye.

Thank you so very much Sarah, Eric and Laura for driving me all over NW Arkansas until the wee hours of the night and taking care of me. Ya’ll rule. Also thanks to whoever hooked me up with all that ice at the softball field since there was no ice anywhere on site (not even the concession stand).

I will post something as soon as I am back home and know more (not pictures, though b/c it is really, really crazy-looking…OK, maybe pictures later, heh.) Thanks again everyone for the calls, text messages, emails and overall concern.

GO CANADIAN TUXEDOS!

Looks like I got tagged again so here goes. PS-I don’t like these things much:

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Staff member at Boy Scout camp
2. Breakfast Manager of a fast-food restaurant
3. Ski lift operator at a Ski Resort
4. Barista at a coffee shop

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Say Anything
2. It’s A Wonderful Life
3. High Fidelity
4. Christmas Vacation

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Memphis, TN
2. El Dorado, AR
3. Fayetteville, AR
4. Salt Lake City, UT

Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. Pensacola, FL
2. San Francisco, CA
3. Paris, France
4. Frankfurt, Germany

Four TV shows I love:

1. Six Feet Under
2. The Simpsons
3. Conan O’brien
4. The Cosby Show

Four sites I visit daily:

1. The Unofficial Apple Weblog
2. Engadget
3. Arkansas Rockers
4. Pitchfork

Four bloggers whom I’m tagging:

1. Katie
2. Sarah
3. Michelle
4. Dave

As of last night, I am officially engaged to be married to the sweetest girl on Earth. I won’t get any more sappy on ya’ll so I’ll just say that it was a perfect night and I am super happy and excited.

We haven’t set a date yet and probably won’t for a while. We both want to experience being engaged before tying the knot (plus I’m only 29, geez).

If you are a close friend or family member and you are just now finding out, I tried to call all of you last night but NOBODY ANSWERED. Sarah, however, seemed to have gotten in touch with everyone she knows and has ever known in her entire life (kidding).

Thanks a ton for all the congrats that have already been sent our way.

I’m sure Sarah will be posting plenty of pictures of the ring if you’re interested…

PS-The picture below is a few months old so it’s only a coincidence that I have a slightly terrified look on my face.

If you want to be as much of a dweeb as I am, then check out some more photos of my new 2006 Honda Element.