I think they broke a rib.

Echocardiograms hurt like a son of a bitch. This chick just kept smearing this nasty gel on me while she pushed an ultrasound probe as hard as she could into my rib. Ouch motherfucker!! It was not so fun at all. What is fun, though, is that I am only one single solitary step away from being done with my presurgery testing. I am so excited about that. All I have left is my Upper GI Endoscopy next Thursday and then - voila! I get to go in and meet with my surgeon again and get my date. I am so happy about this. I just want to know my date so I can start getting official abou tit. I can finally tell the rest of my family and peopl, I can figure out my time off of work, I can hound my mom to come up and stay with me :) I just want to know what the deal is.

What else? I need to keep packing and I have kinda slowed on that front. It got really boring, to be honest. I will continue this weekend. Ooh! I know! I am going in for a color consult with a new girl this saturday. I am going to have to stop bleaching my hair before the surgery so that I have a better chance of it not falling out. I have come to the conclusion that the only way I can really do that is to start the process now. I was needing to get my color done anyway. So on Saturday I am going to some strange salon and finding out the process to turn my hair boring brown. (disclaimer: if you have brown hair, I love it. I just can't see myself with it.) I hope I can keep at least a little Neely to it. We'll see what ends up happening. This could be th ebeginning of a very long road. A big cut is in my future too. I think I will wait until at least November on that one though. Oh man. Me with just one hair color? That is just weird.

Back to pseudo-work for me. Lame.