This is it....

When this posts, if all goes according to plan, I'll be safely asleep and they'll be fixing my shoulder.

Alyssa plans to send out the email to all of you who asked (it will come from my email address) as soon as they let her know I'm in recovery.
I don't know what time I'll be home. I don't know how long the surgery will take.

He's not sure what he's going to find in there, but told me that he will do both an arthroscopic surgery AND one that involves a pretty serious incision.

Now I'm not worried about a scar, after all, my stomach looks like a contour map of Tibet, I have scars here and there from other things, and really, you'll never see me with my clothes off anyway.

But I am worried about pain. I'm a baby about pain. I will whine. I'll try not to do it too much here, but it's my bloggy and I'll whine if I want to.

Meanwhile, I'll be sleeping a lot. Boring.

Lyssa will have to post for me.

When I start blogging for myself again, I'll have to type one-handed.

But I'm still glad this is getting fixed. It hasn't been much fun.

See you in a couple days?

Dyed

On the advice of several people, some of my imaginary internet friends among 'em, I purchased several really large shirts to wear post-surgery.

Sprawlmart yielded a few really big long sleeved shirts, but they were white. The other colors weren't in the larger sizes. Figures.

So I figured I would dye them along with a couple gifts I'd planned for people.

Lyssa is modeling a shirt I made for a person who occasionally reads my blog. So I am not saying who it's for.

You can't tell from the photo, but there are actually two different colors of blue/white Granny Panties.

It's awfully hard to take decent pictures of this stuff... and I didn't quite get the pastel effect I was going for, but I'm happy with the results overall. What I'm not happy with is the way Blogger loads my pictures. It's driving me bugshit to sit here and try to get them in the right places on the page. So just look at them and ignore their placement. And don't whine about it, at least you get to see them.

;)

The granny panties are mine, so are most of the socks, although I discovered a pair of socks I had not rinsed a few minutes ago. They were in their ziploc bag and had fallen into the bag of dog food next to the washing machine. I just don't have it in me to do any more rinsing of tie dye tonight as I write this, so the socks will sit next to the washer until tomorrow. (Monday.)

The really big pink shirt is large enough to wear over the sling and probably tuck in a snack, a book, a friend and a CD player... but I can wear it as a pajama shirt later on.

I also made a larger version of the shirt Lyssa is modeling. I know I'll be able to wear that with the sling, too. 

If I'm awake and, you know, still alive, I'll probably wear some socks to match. Matching socks always make me feel better. Imagine the double whammy of socks AND granny panties to match my shirts!
Wowie!

Lots of stuff to do to be ready for my early AM surgery on Tuesday. That's what I'll be up to when I'm not at work today.

I'm gonna miss 'my' kids for the time I'm off work, but it will be nice to see my own kids for more than an hour or two at a time during the day. Even if it's only telling them to fetch and carry for me.

:)

Getting there...

Prepared to do the tie dye this morning.

Got all the garments folded, tied and/or banded. I learned over the summer that it works fine to prepare the garment dry and then toss it in the soda ash soak already tied. It was a lot easier for me to do it that way then and it's easier now, too.

My poor shoulder and arm are about toast right now, though. Eric said, as he was helping me tie the pillowcases I promised to my cousin and her wife, "You better take it easy on that shoulder. Keep it up and you'll need surgery!!"

Smartass.

We did the grocery shopping Saturday afternoon, and he picked up a couple items at Home Depot. He is changing the orientation of the recliner so that the lever is on the left side of the chair instead of the right. That will make it easier for me to get up and down and not need as much help.

As nice as everyone is about wanting to help me, I'd really rather do things for myself as much as possible.

I got all the laundry done. Everything isn't put away yet, but will be by this afternoon. I have enough pants and big t shirts to get me through a whole week, which ought to help, too.

I'll be visiting my favorite chiropractor and my favorite writer this afternoon... bearing gifts.

That's so they'll be happy to see me.

So I have no tie dye pictures to show you today, but you can look at old ones on my blog here and here, too.

I'll try really hard to get some pictures today. Since I'm trying for a more pastel effect in the dye, and I learned that I can rinse almost immediately after dyeing this summer, too, I'll be enlisting the help of my family to get everything rinsed, washed and dried in time to photograph it and get it put away.

I'm not going to show you photos of my granny panties, though. You'll just have to imagine them.