Crasymaker

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!

Dustin and I went to the game last night as sort of a last-minute idea after planning all week to watch it at my house. I’ve never screamed so much at a game in my life. The last three minutes of the game were the loudest three minutes I’ve ever experienced outside of my love for Nascar.

Actually I can’t stand Nascar but I have heard a strange rumor that we’re getting a track here soon. Not only that but apparently we’re getting an arena football team as well as a minor league baseball team. What’s goin’ on around here? Anybody got any more info on any of this?

Oh yeah, Arkansas beat Alabama 65-63. Hell yeah.

I’m a little confused. Can someone please tell me if the Torino Olympics are in Torino or Turin? I keep seeing “Torino 2006″ everywhere but today I heard that the Olympics are actually being held in Turin, Italy. Does anybody know what’s up? I did a little Googling and still couldn’t figure it out. Anyone?
UPDATE: OK, I found something. Apparently Italians call it Torino, but the Anglicized version is Turin. Fair enough.

“Here’s an idea… with less than a minute to go and a two point lead, let’s stick a freshman in there. Granted, he’s probably a good free throw shooter, but he’s a freshman and only played TWO minutes. Not that it’s his fault we lost, but damn, only three guys on the team had shot free throws all night, let one of them get the ball. Talk about upsetting.” - Seth

Well put, Seth. Enough said.

Dammit, dammit, dammit. How in the world can a team be up by 18 points and then lose the game? It’s unbelievable. I mean for real, it almost seems as if the team is being paid to lose. They start each game by beating the shit out of the other guys and then either lose the game or come damn close to losing the game. If they’re not throwing the game on purpose then what in the heck is going on? Who is to blame? The players? The coach? Are the Razorbacks cursed? Arrggh!

The Pin Pals are a team of elite bowling enthusiasts. Actually, they’re just some friends of mine who happen to play in a local bowling league. Since softball is over until springtime, I’ve been itching to do something on Tuesdays. Fortunately for me (unfortunately for the Pin Pals), they were short a bowler (actually 3) tonight and so I filled in. I am not a very good bowler. I usually get worse with each game and tonight was no exception. Here are my scores for all three games:

• Game 1: 124
• Game 2: 114
• Game 3: 106

I have never seen so many people in one place in Fayetteville who are definitely not from Fayetteville. Also, the lady bowling next to us was actually named Flo. Add $2 beers to that and you’ve got yourself one sweet night. WHOA! Cocktail is on TBS!

I play softball on a sweet team called The Canadian Tuxedos. We are just about the best team in the league. By “best team” I do not mean the “wins games” kind of best team, though. I mean the “has the most fans, plays awesome music from the dugout and wears football helmets while up to bat” kind of best team.

For those of you not in-the-know, a Canadian Tuxedo is when you wear jeans, a jean shirt and a jean jacket. Sometimes, you can go with just the jeans and the jean shirt. However, jeans and a jean jacket do not equal a Canadian Tuxedo cause sometimes they look cool together. The best way to tell is this: If it looks ridiculous, it’s a Canadian Tuxedo.

I tried to get the other guys to agree to wearing actual Canadian Tuxedos for jerseys but they said it would be too hot. I say, it would be too HOTT as in kick-ass but alas, we got regular jerseys instead. We did, however, get to choose our nickname on the back. Mine is “Winner” which is pretty awesome but not as awesome as Dustin’s nickname which actually is “Awesome.”

There are only six teams in the “Recreational” league and we are one of them. We chose this league over the “Competetive” leagues so we might actually stand a chance of winning a game or two but after games 1 and 2 last week, we realized that “Recreational” league is secret code for “Competetive Leagues Filled Up So The Recreational League Will Have One Recreational Team and Five Competetive Teams Meaning The Recreational Team Will Suffer Endless Losses And Eternal Humiliation.”

We will not let this bring us down, though. We have lots more going for us than just being good (which we aren’t). We have about a dozen die-hard fans, we have Jonathan “Boombox” Haguewood who plays theme music every time we go up to bat and finally, we have a real dolphin for a mascot. Psyche you out. We don’t have a real dolphin for a mascot but we do have way cooler stuff than the other team, win or lose.

Matt Pond PA “Canadian Song”