Fingers

I have realized that there has not been a single point in the past three and a half to four week where I have not had at least one finger that was too swollen to bend all the way. Between the basketball and the volleyball, I have really done a number to my hands. Either that or I’m supremely clumsy in regular day-to-day activities and needed something to blame it on. I’m pretty sure that’s not it though.

One of my friends back at home has shingles but seems to be a trooper. He hasn’t let it stop him from going to work or doing any of the other various activities that he usually enjoys. I’m a bit concerned for his coworkers health and safety though I suppose as long as everyone at his work has either been vaccinated against or already had varicella, there shouldn’t be any major problems.

I found out on Monday that my car is going to be delayed another week. That means the repair shop will have had my car for six weeks. I am expecting it to look like a Ferrari when I get in there. I want it to be yellow. With a racing stripe.

As an added bonus, the repair is also going to cost about $1,300 more than they originally estimated. I don’t know if that means they would have originally called it a total loss if they had known that beforehand, but now the repairs have already been started, so my insurance company has to keep paying to have them get it back in working order. I just know I’ll be more than happy to be back behind the wheel of my own car instead of driving around in other people’s cars. There just isn’t a car that feels quite the same as mine does.

All that said, I am going to be flying Southwest to pick up my car, so thankfully I haven’t had to pay any change fees for changing my plane ticket three times. That doesn’t mean the friends meeting me on the other end of the plane ride are any too thrilled about having to move their plans around to accommodate me, but I figure they will get to the point of forgiveness soon and then we’ll quickly arrive at the point where we can laugh about it.