Atlanta bars have one problem...

really bad bathrooms. What is it with the non flushing toilets? I can appreciate the graffiti scrawled by the many druken patrons, but please fix the damn toilets. Last nights find was especially funny. Granted I have done some bad things to this very bathroom, like spilling fake blood everywhere, but somebody decided to make it smell a little better.

Yes, those are rose petals on the floor. They almost helped. Still the toilet did not flush.

And I just had 2 Sweetwaters.

Part time model

Once upon a time I modeled for art classes and now I model for Tress (and whoever else needs to fill a gap in thier portfolio). Tress needed some more bridal pictures so I squeezed into my wedding dress and let Brandon give me a faux hawk. The results?

Tress was also kind enough to take some pre-surgery pictures for me. Something for me to look back on when I was in pain and wondering why I let anybody operate on me. Most people don't notice the lump on my spine right away but believe I always felt it.



Ten days after surgery when I was finally home my back looked like this...

Next photo shoot with Tress will be of my new spine, minus staples, extreme swelling and straight as it should be. After that will be a "mess the dress" session with Regan and Tress both.

Dr. Knoxville or How I learned to stop worrying and love Jackass

Once upon a time I hated Jackass. I flatly refused to watch even a half second of a single episode. I dated a guy who watched it, then married a guy who loves it. still I hated it and would not watch. When I heard they were making a movie I knew there was no way I could get out of seeing it, my husband was much to excited for me to deny him the pleasure of torturing me for almost 2 hours. I went with much grumbling and complaining. Then I saw "the rental car smash up derby" I was hooked. See, I once had a ford rental car for 2 weeks, and that is exactly what I had wanted to do to it. From that moment on, I was a full fledged Jackass fan. Now I watch every episode I come across. I own both movies, the wildboys series, and proudly wear my Bam element shirt. I realize that with every minute I am exposed to Jackass and it many related shows I lose a few more brain cells, but I don't care. I love Jackass, there I said it.

Insomnia and my very first post here

It is 3:00 A.M. and I still am not asleep. My day started at 6:00 A.M. and I haven't even had a nap yet. I have insomnia again. Some days I can sleep all day, others I can't sleep at all. Needless to say it makes for interesting mood swings. How did I get this way? Dilaudid and Morphine given to me post surgery. I even had my very own dilaudid overdose via PCA, followed by a shot of naloxone. I do not recommend trying this for yourself. The movies that depict people coming around slowly after a shot of naloxone to counteract an opiate overdose lie. What actually happens is that in a split second your body goes from barely breathing and hypotensive to extremely hypertensive, rapid breathing, with your heart racing. The added benefit is that if you just had surgery, you can feel everything. For me that was just no good. After having one vertebrea removed, osteotomy on a second, followed by a 5 level decompression stabilized with rods and screws, you really do NOT want to feel that. So, after a couple more days of a PCA loaded with dilaudid I started to become immune to it. Once I convinced them to take the evil PCA away I was switched to oral morphine. I took it as directed, even less than directed some days, but still suffered withdrawl symptoms. Yuck. This is the lasting side effect, screwed up sleep patterns. Oh well, small price to pay to be pain free and happier.