When it rains it pours toxic rain

Update on Li'l Sis: she came through her surgery okay on Friday morning, and that afternoon they discharged her. Then while picking up her prescription at the pharmacy she had a grand mal seizure. Thankfully, her husband caught her before she hit the ground so she didn't get hurt in all the epilepsy. Paramedics came and checked her out, a call to her doctor confirmed that it was most likely the combo of stress and anesthesia that counteracted her anti-seizure meds, and they decided she just needed to go home and sleep it off. All seems headed in the direction of fine. Then yesterday she calls my mom in tears because she can't keep any food or liquids down, husband's gone to work, she's alone with Ash and she's too sick and weak to take care of him. So mom ends up taking her back to the emergency room, where they hook her up to IVs and treat her for dehydration. Last I heard they also added a morphine drip because she was in a lot of pain, and they were getting ready to check her for intestinal blockage. I haven't gotten an update on her yet today.

Pray for my sister, y'all.

In other, happier news... Friday night I hit JC Penney and Target to register for girly things for my bachelorette party. I signed up for a nice mix of sexy & skimpy for Matt and cute & comfy for me, with some flowy & romantic thrown in for good measure. I lucked out when I got to Penney's and discovered that all of their summer dresses were on clearance, so I dug into the honeymoon fund and picked up a couple of party dresses for the cruise, one of which will double nicely as a reception dress. That one's a bit snug and I either need to lose five pounds or get myself a good body shaper to wear underneath, but it's adorable--a white halter Marilyn Monroe dress with sparkly gold flecks all over--and it was on sale for $20, so I didn't let the tightness stop me. Then I got to Target and lucked out again with a clearance sale on summer shoes, and found perfect pairs for both dresses for under $6 each. Score!

Saturday night I dragged Tess along to Hobby Lobby to pick up the supplies to make my own veil, which were ridiculously cheap right down to the tulle and convinced me once and for all that dropping a hundred bucks on a store-bought veil would be the height of idiocy. I might rethink that notion once I actually put time in to trying to make the thing, but from what I can tell it also looks like an easy, beginner-level sewing project, so I kinda don't think I will. Anyway. After that we hit the town to see Batboy: The Musical which... okay. This theater troupe has done this show before, and they used the same lead actor as before (the wondermous Chris Crawford), and it was fabulous. But this time they had a new "visionary" director who re-staged a lot of things and, I gotta say, I didn't quite get his vision. Dressing half the cast as Goths makes a certain kind of sense for this show, but dressing the other half as rodeo clowns--yes, rodeo clowns--is where he lost me. It worked a lot better for me the first time when the characters were presented as real people in normal dress rather than cartoon characters. But Chris as Batboy was fab as ever, and the rest of the cast did a great job acting around their costumes, so I can forgive the oddness. Mostly. I mean, come on. This show is in-your-face-strange enough on its own without having to take extra measures for weirdness.

My wedding invitations continue to be a comedy of errors--or is that a tragedy? It's feeling so tragic that I have to laugh. Friday I went on my lunch break to get stamps. I told the nice postman that I needed 50 regular stamps. Since I didn't bring one along to weigh, he was skeptical that $.39 would cover it, and talked me up to $.63, plus threw in a few sheets of regular stamps for the response cards. I had a major brain fart in which I forgot that a) the response cards point people to my wedding blog where they can RSVP online and b) the invitations were already sealed anyway, so I took them, and walked away with over $63 worth of stamps. Of course, when I got home and weighed the invitations, it turned out I was right the first time, and I only needed the 50 regular stamps.

So Saturday morning I got up and hurried to address all my invitations (at least insofar as the addresses I actually have--there are still a few I need to come by) so I could get to the nearest post office before it closed and try to exchange the stamps I had for the stamps I actually need. Around 11 AM I threw on a tee-shirt and jeans and hauled ass and invites to the PO ... only to find that apparently small podunk town post offices aren't required to be open at all on Saturdays. So I'm still sitting on $63 worth of stamps, and my invitations still have yet to be mailed. Le sigh.

Sunday: a lot of knitting, a lot of napping, a lot of cuddling, and a little bit of Farscape. I wish today could be Sunday, too.

Later today is my dreaded doctor's appointment. Since today--indeed, this week--is threatening to be hella busy, I'm trying to just not think about it. This gyno is also my sister's OB/GYN and has been the one treating her through all of this, so I'm trying to focus on maybe being able to get an update, and to remember that this exam will be a cake-walk compared to what my sis has been through all week, and it's got to be done so there's no use whining about it. Still, I'm a wee scared. I'll be glad to get it over with.

This week, like I said, will be busy-busy, so don't expect a lot in the way of updates. I'll do my best to reply to comments, but I doubt I'll be able to keep up with much of what's going on in the blogosphere. There's a lot to get done today before I take off for the doctor, too, so I'd best sign off and get to it.

Happy Monday, y'all.