Domestic Geek

I went to a clinic on the 18th to get treated for my bladder infection. The urine test came back negative, so the doctor sent me on my way with a prescription for some blue pills to ease the discomfort and I ended up being $90 poorer. He said I was probably irritated from something I ate or something. Hm, ok.

Well, it's over a week later, the blue pills are gone and I still feel like I have a bladder infection. This so totally sucks. As Marcus noted, "The mechanic can't figure out what's wrong with your car and the doctor can't figure out what's wrong with you. What's up with that?" I have no health insurance and no money. Now what? I think the thing that's making me most upset is if it had been diagnosed correctly, I'd be taking the last of the antibiotics today and I'd be moving on. Instead I'm in more discomfort than ever, it's Easter Sunday and everything is closed and if I can find a way to get to a another doctor tomorrow, it will still be at least another 10 days until there is some sort of resolution to this. Damn it!

Any wonder why I hate going to doctors of any kind?

Ahhh, the panic is over. I've been using this handy Color Scheme Generator for awhile now. It was one of the Safari bookmarks I lost the other day after the fateful Library trashing. I thought I had linked to it in my blog, but apparently not. I've been frantically searching the web for it and I found it! I'm going to have to start a page of categorized links, I guess. I hate coming across those kinds of pages in search engines, but I guess they're necessary.

Well, that was totally stupid. I'm trying to set up a recipe blog and I had Transmit (FTP program) open. Instead of opening a file to edit it, I accidentally copied it to my hard drive. I right click on it, select delete and hit enter to agree and then realize that I had clicked on the wrong file. Wouldn't have been disasterous if it had been any file other than my Mac's Library folder. You know that one...it contains your keychain, your cookies, your browser bookmarks, your saved emails, your iCal data, all your program preferences. Yeah, that one. I immediately hit the cancel button, but those things never seem to work. I forced Trasmit to quit, but it was too late...all the data was gone. I checked the trash and it was empty. I opened Transmit and it had nothing. Damn. I can recreate almost every thing I lost except the iCal stuff, some of my booksmarks and my emails. Damn it! That's one folder I never thought to back up. Guess I'll have to start doing that on at least a weekly basis, eh?

I wish Marcus was home. I could sure use a hug just about now.

The New York stations I watch on Dish Network keep playing Six Flags commercials. Even though Marcus and I hate the whole Six Flags organization with a passion and have vowed to never give them another penny of our money (and it really sucks that they bought Elitches), I love that Mr. Six guy. I also really like the theme song they play. I kept meaning to find out if that was a real song or someting that Six Flags had composed, but never got around to it. Today I had my faithful Vaio laptop on when I saw the commercial and Googled "Six Flags Theme Song." It turns out to be a song called "We Like To Party!" by the Vengaboys. So, I checked iTunes and sure enough, they had it. Fortunately, I have a couple of iTunes Pepsi credits left, so I purchased it. It doesn't totally make the gloom go away, but it helped.

Ugh, it's cold and gloomy out. It has been for days. The last two days were foggy and snowy. I have to go scrape the car before I can go to work. It's still like 27°F outside. *sigh* It makes me all down when I can't see the sun. I want to go crawl back into bed, but that's what I did yesterday and I was totally unproductive. OK, got to get moving...