When "I Can Do It Myself" Lands You in Urgent Care

My first phrase was "I Can Do It Myself", and I think my first word was "No."  My mom will tell us if that is not correct.

Today what I thought I could do myself - and ultimately did - was move my 2nd floor guest room to the 4th floor, the better queen sized mattress to the 3rd, and various odds and ends all up and down all of the spiral and steep staircases.  I don't get a lot of guests, but I definitely do want to have a guest bedroom.  The 4th floor is a very underutilized space, so I decided to use that as the guest bedroom instead of the largest room in the house.  Instead, I want to use that room as my office and put a love seat and coffee table in there so I can catch up on my reading in front of the gas fireplace that will be in that room.

I was doing pretty well until I got the bed frame up to the 4th floor, had tightened all of the corners in the reassembly, and then stood up quickly - not remembering the ceiling slants down - and banged my eye socket against the edge of the ceiling/wall/window frame.  At first I was just going to let it go and thought - that wasn't pleasant.  I actually started putting the frame together again, and then blood started dripping all over the floor.  I went to the 3rd floor bathroom to take a look, and it was spread open, but clean.  I didn't have any butterfly bandaids.  I put some tape on it and looked up the nearest urgent care online, which was a 9 block walk away.  I put on a pair of sunglasses and headed over.  They had me out of there with 3 stitches in within 2 hours!  The doctor was very sweet.  He asked if I was still active in my modelling career and if I was worried about the scarring.  (With all the bruises I have right now, I'm more likely to have a boxing career).

Then I finished up my projects, but was a lot more careful about where I put my head and eye socket.

While I was trying to finish that up, my washer broke again, so I drained that, and fixed it.  Par for the course for this week.

This entire weekend has been unbelievably bizarre... big highs big lows.  But I do feel it was productive.

I am excited to put my plans together for my office and the other spaces in the house.

The pictures album describes everything and contains pictures of the staircases:  Album from 8/30