Monday, February 9, 2009

Day Something. I can haz bucket?

At the beginning of this experience, I lay on the couch in my new cast with piles of stuff around me. I was constantly asking Tom to carry something for me into another room. Then we hit on the idea of The Bucket. 

The Bucket is a plastic bin that I have filled with all the items I need on a daily, hourly, minutely basis. It moves into the bedroom at night and sits next to me on the bedside table. It moves back into the pink room in the morning and sits next to me on the couch. I love my bucket. 

Bucket Contents:
The New Yorker, Feb 9 and 16
Moleskine planner
Half-empty jar of Omega-3 "700" EPA & DHA from cold water fish
Half-empty mason jar of homemade herbal salve
Vitamin organizer (Sa-Su)
Checkbook
Red wallet with owl decal
USB cable
Body lotion with royal jelly and natural mica to enhance skin tone (99.02% natural)
Green zipper pouch full of pens
2 straps for holding cold packs onto cast
Rubber MacBook keyboard cover, unused because annoying when typing
Hand salve- a farmer's friend
2 boxes of chocolate truffles, from Heather
Shea butter hand repair cream
Half-empty jar of vitamin D 3, 1000 IU
1 bottle Oxycodone with Acetominophan 5mg/325mg
1 bottle Hydromorphone, 2mg (only 3 left)
2 pencils, one sharpened, one unsharpened
iPhone earbuds
Emppty glasses case
Smaller jar of homemade salve
Memo book
Rewetting drops
Feline claw clippers
Tweezers
1 bottle aspirin
Half-empty water bottle
Downstate discharge paperwork
Pharmacy receipts
3 vials Arnica Montana pellets
Lip balm
Dental floss
1 bottle Cascara Sagrada pills (look it up!)
1 packet Desogen pills (pause to take today's dose)
1 ball point pen stolen from nurse at hospital
1 red diary

Man, I'm gonna have to downsize. I've asked Tom to do the cleanup game. He said, "Not right now." Dammit. This room is a mess. 

My ankle is bugging me a bit today. 

3 comments:

  1. Hi there,how do you feel? broken in NY sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Block B wants to know if that's actually a bucket or really barrel. How much STUFF do you need??? Ajay was here. Justin and Jose and Evelyn and Alexis and Kadeem and Jazmen and Sandra And Jeannette and Henry and Karren say HIIII!!!! Studio is lonely without you. Sniff Sniff. Dayla says, I guess IHOP will never happen. . .

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  3. It's a lot of small things. I need a lot of stuff, okay?? Think of it as the equivalent of my gigantic black book bag I use while at Heritage.
    Tell Ajay I gave him a shout-out on an earlier post.
    Hi to everyone!!
    Dayla, I'm not dead. IHOP is still a possibility when I get back.

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