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| Anyone who follows my Notebook or Twitter feed has heard about "Operation Global Domination" (aka #OGD) It is an actual a thing... several years in the making, seriously   A pet project that ran out of control and keeps getting interrupted by real life. Or the people in my real life who seem to have a problem with me living my dreams, making things difficult... As well as various sicknesses and injuries  It's one of those projects that won't go away, just develops and evolves as time goes by  However, once I have it set up and running I believe it will be easier to deal with any outside "distractions". Set up and getting the ball moving seem to be the hardest part of any project. The delays have not been in vain - each setback seems to develop the project a little more, not to launch ready but it's been getting there, slowly. Consider it Research & Development. All I've done this month is reorganise the project folder - created a new one "Overlords Inc" to house it all in because I had this idea that will eventually incorporate OverlordsInc.com ... Sort of making it's 'first run' here on WdC   ... The little work I've done tells me that things are far from ready... I had hoped to have the project up and running by the end of the month but due to (another) injury [see: "Invalid Entry" ] it has been delayed  . So new goal for the project: Launch July 31 There is a reason for this date, but you will have to wait for a reveal.So what is O.G.D.? Well, I don't want to give away any spoilers but the aim is to have a safe place for people to share and encourage each other to live (and achieve) their dreams of World Domination  The WdC side of things will be a little different to my final vision - contests, review raids, perhaps it's very own Merit Badge... I'm even thinking that The StoryMaster's new Trinkets could play an exciting role  At the moment I have so many notes and ideas for the project, some I even lost and found at later dates over the years. I want to sort through all the notes and organise everything properly, fixing any problems/holes I find. Releasing everything in a logical order - mainly so I don't look like a crazy ... I realise I may be too late for that but I'm sure you know what I mean  I'm curious. How would you take over the world? Something nice and simple or completely over the top? Feel free to share your plans in the comment section below! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| I had a very close call at the beginning of the month. Friday June 3, I went to bed thinking all was good in my world... Excited by the fact my long awaited project, "Operation Global Domination" , would be starting in a few days. I woke up sometime before 3am to a heavy rain storm, lightening flashing now and then - I love rain storms, so calming and refreshing. I was fully awake, I’m sure you know that “awake but not getting up” feeling. After listening for awhile I realised that the rain was actually coming through my windows, so I got up to close them. The security screen would only open about two inches no matter how hard I tried to open it, so I closed the two end windows, leaving the middle window open. As my curtain is actually a shower curtain, I figured it would be enough to protect my printer and computer from the wet (they are set up near the window). I know what you are thinking... a shower curtain as a curtain?!? This house can be super dark even in the middle of the day and as these windows open to the street - the next three houses can clearly see into the room sans curtain. A white shower curtain lets the light in and blocks the view both ways for privacy. Method to the madness.Satisfied my electronic belongings were safe from the rain, it was time to return to bed and listen to the storm. Before I could move properly, my foot slid inside my sock. This happens all the time, so I adjusted myself accordingly... As I didn't turn on the light, I wasn't aware I was so close to the bed. The back of my knee hit the top of my mattress, most of my weight was on that leg, so naturally the leg bent and I went down. Thinking I was just falling onto the bed I didn't brace properly for the fall. My head hit the edge of the small square bookcase that sits at the end of my bed as a makeshift bedside table, my eye collecting the corner. I believe the lights being out was my first stroke of luck - not being able to see what was happening. "Catching" myself was my second. The third was that my eyes were closed at the time of contact. I think my hands/forearms hit the mattress first because I feel like I did catch myself and the 'jump' of my body falling on the mattress. I say this because I'm sure I felt my eye hitting the corner of the bookcase and also a point at the bridge of my nose. That said, I did feel like there was a presence with me to help with the 'catching'. Literally, I felt as if someone grabbed me around my shoulders as I fell and caught myself. No crying out in pain - in fact I believe the most noise I made that morning was trying to open the security screens at the windows. Nobody in the house heard a thing. I rolled onto the bed proper, hand over my eye, expecting pain. It was fine... for about the count of five. Then the pain came. I got up and turned on the light - even more pain. At first I thought I was fine, then I started to feel nauseous and well, not dizzy but my head was feeling weird. I went to the bathroom to have a look at the damage. I couldn't see much, the eye wouldn't open properly in the bright light, no blood but the white of the eye was red on one side. As much as I hated to wake Mum up, I called out to her to check it out (she's a super-light sleeper and was likely to be awake since I turned on the bathroom light). Gave her a quick rundown of what happened, saying I may need a hospital - Mum took one look and said "let's go". So a little after 3am we were off to the hospital. Still no real pain, lights were causing it pain and my head was clouded (not dizzy but felt weird, plus the nausea). Got to the hospital, gave my details and went to see the duty nurse who had a quick look and made me read an eye chart (didn't take my glasses but I did alright). My vision wasn't blurred in the injured eye (only tears made it blur) so she gave me two panadol and sent me out to the waiting room. Some time past and we got called into see a doctor, she took a look while I explained what happened. She wasn't particularly concerned with it, I wasn't in bad pain, vision wasn't effected. Told me that I'd get the "mother of all headaches" and very bad bruising around my eye and gave me a bag of ice to help with the swelling (alternate 20mins on, 20mins off). Gave Mum a sheet of paper with what to do, things to be on the lookout for and sent us home. I was home, back in bed by 3:45am  As I was alternating the ice bag, I didn't go back to sleep straight away. By the time the ice melted it was about time to call work and let them know I was taking the weekend off, on doctors' orders, went back to bed and to sleep. I woke up a few hours later busting for the toilet - only to get blocked just outside my door by Dad, who was in my face with the sheet of paper from the doctor going on about how he has to check me out. Look at my eyes, steady on my feet, etc - super annoying me. How can you tell if I'm steady on me feet when I'm dancing on the spot busting for the toilet? I don't like people in my personal space (bubble?) at the best of times, I felt like biting his head off. My head still feeling weird from being hit did not help matters. He went off at me because he "had to see if I was alright" but he literally trapped me in a corner to do so and that did not make me feel alright.Spent most the day in bed, did look at my eye later - from the edge of the colour of my iris in towards the nose, the white of my eye was blood red. I could barely look at it, it looked painful even if it didn't feel as painful as expected and no bruising. I took two Panadeine Forte after I first woke up and another two that night. Sunday was mostly spent in bed but no pain meds needed. My head still in a weird headspace. By Sunday afternoon the redness started to fade. For those two days, there was no television or computer time, I couldn't look at the screen or moving colours. Just spent it laying down and resting. Monday I called in sick as a headache was starting to form and took another two Panadeine Forte - I thought it was the headache the doctor promised but turned out to be a very mild one. Redness on the eye still fading, Mum and I joked that it would be gone before I went back to work on Thursday, and with the no bruising my bosses wouldn't believe I'd had the accident. By Thursday the redness was right down, while still a little red you could see the white of the eye through it. There was three spots of red in the redness where I believe the corner actually hit and, of course, the spot on the side of my nose that also hit the corner. No bruising anywhere, I think it was all beneath the skin as the whole area was understandable tender. By Saturday morning, a week later, there was no redness on my eye - you would never have known I'd injured it. The 'weird' headspace feeling lasted until about Thursday/Friday - it's hard to explain the feeling, wasn't a fog or dizzy feeling, just weird. Super fast healer, that's me. Some of the ladies at work commented about it, some of them in awe after I told them what had happened. I often joke that I heal fast like Wolverine, not quite as fast as him but faster than normal. The handful of times I've had stitches I've always been told the stitches should have come out days earlier - even though I go back to the doctor when he tells me to for their removal. But I still can't shake the feeling that someone was watching over me and helped to catch me when I fell. In fact, I got the distinct feeling of a friend saying "don't worry, I got you" as it happened. The damage should have been bad, but wasn't. Not that I'm complaining, just the whole incident and how it happened, it should have been worse that it was. Naturally I thanked whatever helped me several times. The weirdest part of it? The knock to the side of my nose/head made me feel more like myself than I have in years. I'm not sure if that reads right, but it is how I feel. There's been something missing from me - the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland would say that I had "lost my muchness". Perhaps. I'm not sure, all I know is that as the month has progressed I've felt more and more like myself... more confident of my dreams and goals - like I can actually move on with my life. Oh, and the storm that night/morning... turns out there was bad storms along the entire east Australian coast that morning. The news was talking about nothing but the storms and the damage they'd caused over the weekend. I'm sure there is a conspiracy theory in there somewhere... So all my projects got put on hold... again. I was ready to jump straight back into them, "I'm only a week behind" I thought, "easy to catch up" ... and I got the flu - it got so bad that within two hours of my day job shift on June 16, I was sent home because I couldn't stand up. Now I'm flu free and 100% healthy *touch wood* It's time to get these projects started... I'm only a month behind ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
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