Not so true when it comes to some things! Among them today let's just say that this 47 yr old body is doing okay with overnight shifts, but I remember doing them when I was 20 and used to leave work and go directly to the beach for the day. This is quite a bit different!
The job is kind of physical. A bunch of things are timed and graphed somewhere. They keep you moving, walking, lifting and adjusting. (If you haven't seen the post from the other day this is a seasonal retail job.) There's not time to get sleepy except for when they have you take a break! Yes, there was a point last night when I wished I could have worked through it just so it wouldn't slow me down!!
They say I'm learning well, and showing motivation. I feel like I might get flushed down the throne if I don't! They explain things and then you roll with it. I have to say that one thing that sucks is needing these stupid reading glasses Raising and lowering either the glasses or my head is a pain in the butt! It feels like a lot of focusing and refocusing that most everyone around me doesn't seem to be doing. Between that, hot flashes and I'm 1 1/2 weeks into Cha.ntix (stop smoking meds and probably going through withdrawal stuff) had a bit of an unsettling weekend. But it has been exhilirating?!
Now, totally off-topic here! I miss my graphics editor! I can't load it on this old computer and can't make goofy little photos or labels to add to posts withut transferring from an even older laptop to here. The darn thing shuts OFF with no warning, but if I do things fast before it heats up I can get a couple little things done! Cross your fingers for me that I'll be able to get something hooked up soon! I know my hubby will probably spend too much money on a new computer for me for Christmas, and then I'll want to strangle him for spending too much (but LOVE he computer so much I can't actually strangle him)!
So yes, this is a strange post today! This is what happens when you've had 6 hours of sleep in the last 72 hours! I have tonight off and go back tomorrow night. With any luck they'll offer me an extra shift on Wednesday or Thursday, which I'll take. They offered me one tonight but I knew that I won't have enough sleep because there's nobody else to watch Daisy during the day. I did stay an extra hour last night, so it's not like I just turn them own when they ask and I hope they remember that!
Think you would or could do it? After so many years of not changing your body's whole timing?
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
I'm getting just as bad as he is!
My laptop conked out! It won't even turn the fan on to pretend to boot up. Please say a few kind words for us as I am in hopes that one day I may resurrect at least the hard drive of it and recover much of the information that I have in the Family Documents section! Shoot, photos and movies in there would be nice too, but I think I have those backed up on the EHD.
We have some money that will be coming in this week that is money that we've paid out in recent months and we'll be getting it back. Money that should go for some of the minimum payments that we haven't been keeping up with. Well, it's going for a new computer! I sure hope they still have some left where I saw them a week or so ago. The price was right and it's still WinXP so that would be great for me! Daddy said that we'd have to do this, just so I don't go crazy. It is true. Sad, but true! I would miss is terribly, and I can't help but get excited about all of the things that I'll be able to do with a new computer. Bigger HD, built-in DVD writer, more ram, more memory!!! Shoot, I have visions of trying to put together a website that I could earn some darn $ from here, and if I have a computer that won't BUST on me then maybe I could get a grip on that!
But we all know that the money had other places to go. Now I'm going to be just as bad as Daddy is. He's famous for making people happy and not being good about the $ in this house. His theme song in life needs to be "I owe, I owe, so off to work I go!"
Do you buy things like this when you know you should spend the money somewhere else? What was your last purchase that should have waited and who was it for? You? Hubby? The kids?
Oh, and sorry if there are more than the usual typos here. I'm on the kid's computer which is TOO SLOW and I'm just trying to get this post out! No spell-check today!
We have some money that will be coming in this week that is money that we've paid out in recent months and we'll be getting it back. Money that should go for some of the minimum payments that we haven't been keeping up with. Well, it's going for a new computer! I sure hope they still have some left where I saw them a week or so ago. The price was right and it's still WinXP so that would be great for me! Daddy said that we'd have to do this, just so I don't go crazy. It is true. Sad, but true! I would miss is terribly, and I can't help but get excited about all of the things that I'll be able to do with a new computer. Bigger HD, built-in DVD writer, more ram, more memory!!! Shoot, I have visions of trying to put together a website that I could earn some darn $ from here, and if I have a computer that won't BUST on me then maybe I could get a grip on that!
But we all know that the money had other places to go. Now I'm going to be just as bad as Daddy is. He's famous for making people happy and not being good about the $ in this house. His theme song in life needs to be "I owe, I owe, so off to work I go!"
Do you buy things like this when you know you should spend the money somewhere else? What was your last purchase that should have waited and who was it for? You? Hubby? The kids?
Oh, and sorry if there are more than the usual typos here. I'm on the kid's computer which is TOO SLOW and I'm just trying to get this post out! No spell-check today!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Message boards. Lov'em or leave'em?
I'm finding myself going deeper and deeper into this blogging stuff! Several years ago I started going to message boards because I finally found a community of women that I belonged with. A Sisters of Spirit kind of thing. Eventually public message boards bit me in the ass and that sure wasn't/isn't fun. Snarky people, ones that have to find someone to put blame on, and there are also the attention seekers that get pissy when you get too much attention, not them. Whatever!I've got a harder shell up now and don't expose myself there like I used to.
Oh, and there are the fence sitters, the ones that don't want to choose a side. They go back and forth and try to ride the line, but I really wish that they would just choose! Sometimes their topics bleed into one group from the other and then people start talking about posting at the other place. If you're going to post there and not here then shut up about it here! At the very least please don't insult us here and tell us that you posted there (like a little tongue wagger with the neener-neener crap) where we do not have access. Nor want it.
I like coming here. My blog, MY rules! Not that I have made any rules here yet, but if you don't like it then leave! I can ban your IP, or take my sh*t private!
Message boards get this 'democratic' thing going. People think that every darn thing has to be fair and equal. Oh, and please don't ever let a moderator have an opinion, right? Message boards that are private and get a mutiny going suck. Some go with this one and some stay with that one, but either way you end up losing people that you thought were your friends. I do like cleaning out the rif-raff but it still sucks a bit.
Oh, and there are the fence sitters, the ones that don't want to choose a side. They go back and forth and try to ride the line, but I really wish that they would just choose! Sometimes their topics bleed into one group from the other and then people start talking about posting at the other place. If you're going to post there and not here then shut up about it here! At the very least please don't insult us here and tell us that you posted there (like a little tongue wagger with the neener-neener crap) where we do not have access. Nor want it.So, I'm becoming quite content here in blogland. There's a lot of surfing around to find folks that I want to read but when I do find someone then I like then I'm in there with my subscription right away! I have to get better at my blogroll and add some more of you there because I keep going back and some of your writings influence some of mine. I promise that I'll get right on it, ok?
I have to go paint now. Daddy told Jabber that I'd help him and the only way to get some peace today is if we get the last primer coat on his 'new room'. Yayyy!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
There is a light at the end of the tunnel!
I'm not quite sure that I see it yet, but at least there's a glow 
ahead of me and I have a feeling that it's there!
I went to see the new Doc about the TMJ stuff finally! I've looked up a few things about it online before going and everything that he said makes sense to me. I'm not a candidate for surgery at this point and hopefully the other things that we're doing will mean that they fix me without surgery! Yayy!! Ok, I would have done surgery if he said I needed it, but glad that I don't have to!
I got a mold made for a night guard, some meds to help me relax my jaw and mouth muscles for a couple weeks and since the little no name sports guard has been helping me already we're fairly sure that the night guard will be all we need. There is one tooth that is grinding on the back and I may have to have the dentist "shave" that one down, but we'll know more in 2 weeks.
Everything made sense to the Doc about the timing of some added stress around here. Between the miscarriage that Glory had at the end of February (which was almost 3 weeks long from start to finish) and the air getting thicker between Mystery and I, that would have been the start of teeth grinding. Sleeping with Daisy on my neck in May (and having a stiff neck for 3 days) would have been the trigger and then the jaw/head pain since just because it needed to be treated. It feels so good to know that I'm not nuts! I wasn't exagerating, and best of all it can be fixed!
The other medical event this week was that I went for the CAT scan for the migraines and the next morning my Doc called me to tell me that the radiologist said that there are no tumors, but I have small ventricles. Now I'm getting an MRI to go with me to the neurology appointment at the beginning of next month. It's a bit un-nerving to have the Doc call instead of just having her nurse do it, but I'm glad that she's paying attention!
Anybody else out there with small ventricles? What difference does it make?! I kept finding things about seizures when I looked it up and have heard from another online friend that if I have small ventricles they are associated with headaches. Yep! Got them!
ahead of me and I have a feeling that it's there!I went to see the new Doc about the TMJ stuff finally! I've looked up a few things about it online before going and everything that he said makes sense to me. I'm not a candidate for surgery at this point and hopefully the other things that we're doing will mean that they fix me without surgery! Yayy!! Ok, I would have done surgery if he said I needed it, but glad that I don't have to!
I got a mold made for a night guard, some meds to help me relax my jaw and mouth muscles for a couple weeks and since the little no name sports guard has been helping me already we're fairly sure that the night guard will be all we need. There is one tooth that is grinding on the back and I may have to have the dentist "shave" that one down, but we'll know more in 2 weeks.
Everything made sense to the Doc about the timing of some added stress around here. Between the miscarriage that Glory had at the end of February (which was almost 3 weeks long from start to finish) and the air getting thicker between Mystery and I, that would have been the start of teeth grinding. Sleeping with Daisy on my neck in May (and having a stiff neck for 3 days) would have been the trigger and then the jaw/head pain since just because it needed to be treated. It feels so good to know that I'm not nuts! I wasn't exagerating, and best of all it can be fixed!
The other medical event this week was that I went for the CAT scan for the migraines and the next morning my Doc called me to tell me that the radiologist said that there are no tumors, but I have small ventricles. Now I'm getting an MRI to go with me to the neurology appointment at the beginning of next month. It's a bit un-nerving to have the Doc call instead of just having her nurse do it, but I'm glad that she's paying attention!
Anybody else out there with small ventricles? What difference does it make?! I kept finding things about seizures when I looked it up and have heard from another online friend that if I have small ventricles they are associated with headaches. Yep! Got them!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Not that I think
"all that" of myself here, but I figured that just in case anyone pokes their head in here trying to see where I am I'd leave a note here!
My lovely laptop is fritzing out on me, again. It seems that there's a problem with the graphics card or just with the screen, but the last time I got it fixed this is what I had going on. I don't think it's misbehaved when the tech got a hold of it though (thought that then too) so now it's just tired and misbehaving again.
I took it with me for the weekend and this one was very busy. I took Daisy and went to visit family with young kiddos and she had a blast! We also went into the city and met with an internet friend of mine that I haven't met before. I've known this gal for 4+ years online and we chat by phone a lot too. There's a lot more to our friendship than that, but I'm not trying to make this a long post.
While we were out of town a close local relative had her baby prematurely at 30 weeks. Her DD is the tiniest little munchkin, but she's fine and just needs to grow. She weighed just under 3 lbs at birth and had enough time for the steroid shots to help mature her lungs to do their job so she is not having any extraordinary struggles. I'm the lucky one with the coolest camera to take photos and movies so I've been summoned to the hospital for special events like bath, weight checks, etc. It will be several weeks before she is able to leave but she is doing very well, and her Mom is too!
Glory called yesterday and is asking for help to come home for a visit. She needs $$ now for a ticket but by the time she gets here she'd be able to pay me back. It turns out that she can't come for a minimum of 2 weeks because of her job and that if she left now she'd be forfeiting almost $2,000 in commissions for this past month, so that's just too much $ to walk away from. It seems that she needs a break from being the responsible person and she'd like Glory-Be to get a little wake-up call while she's gone. Let's just say he needs a job and leave it at that for now.
So, I'm not sure when I'll be checking in and out here. I'm am SO going to miss being able to go and read all of the rest of y'alls blogs in the meantime. Please feel free to leave me a comment or email if you blogged something that is SO up my alley that I have to read it first! I'm using the kid's computer right now and Jabber is a little uptight about this, and the darn thing is so slow that it takes me forever anyway to process anything here. So, hopefully there will be some magical occurence in the next day or so and I don't get too far behind. If you don't see me posting then I fell into that black hole of computer doom, and am trying to crawl my way back up.
My lovely laptop is fritzing out on me, again. It seems that there's a problem with the graphics card or just with the screen, but the last time I got it fixed this is what I had going on. I don't think it's misbehaved when the tech got a hold of it though (thought that then too) so now it's just tired and misbehaving again.
I took it with me for the weekend and this one was very busy. I took Daisy and went to visit family with young kiddos and she had a blast! We also went into the city and met with an internet friend of mine that I haven't met before. I've known this gal for 4+ years online and we chat by phone a lot too. There's a lot more to our friendship than that, but I'm not trying to make this a long post.
While we were out of town a close local relative had her baby prematurely at 30 weeks. Her DD is the tiniest little munchkin, but she's fine and just needs to grow. She weighed just under 3 lbs at birth and had enough time for the steroid shots to help mature her lungs to do their job so she is not having any extraordinary struggles. I'm the lucky one with the coolest camera to take photos and movies so I've been summoned to the hospital for special events like bath, weight checks, etc. It will be several weeks before she is able to leave but she is doing very well, and her Mom is too!
Glory called yesterday and is asking for help to come home for a visit. She needs $$ now for a ticket but by the time she gets here she'd be able to pay me back. It turns out that she can't come for a minimum of 2 weeks because of her job and that if she left now she'd be forfeiting almost $2,000 in commissions for this past month, so that's just too much $ to walk away from. It seems that she needs a break from being the responsible person and she'd like Glory-Be to get a little wake-up call while she's gone. Let's just say he needs a job and leave it at that for now.
So, I'm not sure when I'll be checking in and out here. I'm am SO going to miss being able to go and read all of the rest of y'alls blogs in the meantime. Please feel free to leave me a comment or email if you blogged something that is SO up my alley that I have to read it first! I'm using the kid's computer right now and Jabber is a little uptight about this, and the darn thing is so slow that it takes me forever anyway to process anything here. So, hopefully there will be some magical occurence in the next day or so and I don't get too far behind. If you don't see me posting then I fell into that black hole of computer doom, and am trying to crawl my way back up.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
How many friends do you have?
I have a best friend. Curiously enough I'm probably not her best friend! Ok, it's Sparkle and we'll be together as extended family forever, but she IS the person that I want to call and tell something new and exciting to. The person that I want to vent to, to call and tell her to go beat somebody up for me. We were both with the XI for years and know that torment, we both married again and had an AMA (Advanced Maternal Age) baby 2 months apart. When I need someone and need to ask for something big she's been there and the same goes for her asking me for things. It doesn't happen often but we both know that the other one is coming through just because it's a big deal to ask. My 'chosen sister'. Our biggest thing that keeps us apart is the miles between us, since I moved about 30+ miles away ten years ago. If she doesn't call me I call her and it's a pretty darn mutual thing!
I have another friend in that same town, I can pick up the phone and call her and it only takes about 20 minutes to feel like we've caught up except for the juicy details. She's another one of my friends that has kiddos the age of my big kids and then soooo many years later here comes one more! Yes, she was another AMA Mama, and we ought to stick together right?! There's only one 'problem' in our relationship and that is that she never calls. I'm always the one that picks up the phone, drops an email or swings by her house when I'm in town. Her oldest DD goes to college in my town, so she's here during the school year on weekends to drive her home just about every weekend, but hasn't popped in here. She's talked about it, but it hasn't happened. She has been here once and it was for my wedding back in 2005 and it was great that she and her girls made it, so she does know how to find her way here!
I started thinking about 2 years ago - probably after and 0pr@h show or something like it - that if I do all the calling then are they really friends, or just people that I know?
I guess I don't have a long list of things that are required to be a friend other than to get along and be able to have a whole buncha things in common, a bunch of things that are different so that we don't entirely bore one another and that the effort to communiate be mutual. Yes, I have other friends, although they are more like people that I know though. I can strike up a conversation with them and have some background history, we probably either worked together at a former job or they are parents of at least one of my kiddos. But really, those are people that I know, not real friends.
How many friends do you have? What makes them your friends vs people that you know? Heck, show me a link to an online friend test and maybe I'll double post today!
I have another friend in that same town, I can pick up the phone and call her and it only takes about 20 minutes to feel like we've caught up except for the juicy details. She's another one of my friends that has kiddos the age of my big kids and then soooo many years later here comes one more! Yes, she was another AMA Mama, and we ought to stick together right?! There's only one 'problem' in our relationship and that is that she never calls. I'm always the one that picks up the phone, drops an email or swings by her house when I'm in town. Her oldest DD goes to college in my town, so she's here during the school year on weekends to drive her home just about every weekend, but hasn't popped in here. She's talked about it, but it hasn't happened. She has been here once and it was for my wedding back in 2005 and it was great that she and her girls made it, so she does know how to find her way here!
I started thinking about 2 years ago - probably after and 0pr@h show or something like it - that if I do all the calling then are they really friends, or just people that I know?
I guess I don't have a long list of things that are required to be a friend other than to get along and be able to have a whole buncha things in common, a bunch of things that are different so that we don't entirely bore one another and that the effort to communiate be mutual. Yes, I have other friends, although they are more like people that I know though. I can strike up a conversation with them and have some background history, we probably either worked together at a former job or they are parents of at least one of my kiddos. But really, those are people that I know, not real friends.
How many friends do you have? What makes them your friends vs people that you know? Heck, show me a link to an online friend test and maybe I'll double post today!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Funk: Day II
Today I went into the 5 boxes of stuff that were along that wall and threw out a bunch of stuff that I might not have otherwise. I found my turkey roasting pan that I haven't seen for 4 years! It wasn't 'hit' so it's been reshelved in a better spot! Also, today was trash day, so it's not just moved and waiting for another day. Gone baby, gone!
I got out the power washer and sprayed the rugs outdoors that we'd like to save. Daddy will get the washing solution on it when he gets here (his secret stash!) and we'll see if it's worth it. I moved the big file cabinet but am saving the appliances for him so that we can get the last rug pieces up and out and then we'll be down there together bleaching or whatever it's going to take.
I also need to try to get the lawn mowed today if Daisy would only decide to nap for me! It's supposed to rain tomorrow and I don't like mowing hay!!
Oh yes... we'll be showering and then going somewhere else to eat tonight!
I also talked with Sparkle this morning. Lolli is doing fine, wants to run and jump around and LOVES that she gets so many popsicles. Her voice is a higher pitch, but it still sounds like her. We'll probably see them at the beginning of next week hopefully.
Jabber is going to be thrilled to find out that when my neighbor and I were chatting today I have him lined up to mow their lawn for them to make a little spending money! They don't have a place to keep a lawnmower and would rather pay someone to do it, and had payed some guy walking by who asked if they wanted it done the last time. He thought he'd lost the job for the summer, but looks like he can have it! They're just glad not to have to keep up with it!
He went to his first night of football camp last night (TWrecks brought him from her house) and told us that they put him in position as a linebacker. He was a defensive end as his primary position last year, but Daddy said that he'll love getting to get some hits in this position!!
Oh, and he's going to have to wait for new sneakers. Daddy told him to ask TWrecks if she could get him some (considering that he paid for the camp, and all the pads, helmet etc. that he had to have of his own). Nope. She gives him a ride there. Par for the course.
I got out the power washer and sprayed the rugs outdoors that we'd like to save. Daddy will get the washing solution on it when he gets here (his secret stash!) and we'll see if it's worth it. I moved the big file cabinet but am saving the appliances for him so that we can get the last rug pieces up and out and then we'll be down there together bleaching or whatever it's going to take.
I also need to try to get the lawn mowed today if Daisy would only decide to nap for me! It's supposed to rain tomorrow and I don't like mowing hay!!
Oh yes... we'll be showering and then going somewhere else to eat tonight!
I also talked with Sparkle this morning. Lolli is doing fine, wants to run and jump around and LOVES that she gets so many popsicles. Her voice is a higher pitch, but it still sounds like her. We'll probably see them at the beginning of next week hopefully.
Jabber is going to be thrilled to find out that when my neighbor and I were chatting today I have him lined up to mow their lawn for them to make a little spending money! They don't have a place to keep a lawnmower and would rather pay someone to do it, and had payed some guy walking by who asked if they wanted it done the last time. He thought he'd lost the job for the summer, but looks like he can have it! They're just glad not to have to keep up with it!
He went to his first night of football camp last night (TWrecks brought him from her house) and told us that they put him in position as a linebacker. He was a defensive end as his primary position last year, but Daddy said that he'll love getting to get some hits in this position!!
Oh, and he's going to have to wait for new sneakers. Daddy told him to ask TWrecks if she could get him some (considering that he paid for the camp, and all the pads, helmet etc. that he had to have of his own). Nope. She gives him a ride there. Par for the course.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Funk
Yesterday I went into the basement to move over a load of laundry and the rug was wet in front of the washer and went almost into the other room, but I could see a good 25 feet of floor space that had gotten 'hit' for about a 5 ft spread. I thought our machine 'exploded' and called Daddy down to help investigate.
Then there was the smell.
We checked to see if it was the toilet pipes. Thank goodness no. So, we began pulling up the rugs and hauling them outdoors, in the rain. Daddy got the shop-vac and started getting up the water and I was outdoors moving the rugs when the neighbor came out and asked if my cellar was flooded too. We live with a gully in our back yard, so you'd never think of getting water in the basement... too high to come up to our houses!
It turns out that the street drains had backed up. The nasty stuff. It had flooded their front yard and then 'exploded' down into the gully. They had a couple of inches of water in the basement and it drained a lot out when they merely opened the door down there. Yuck! It eroded away about a 2ft by 2ft trail of the soil beside the retaining wall and also came over and hit our driveway before it 'hit' the hill.
So, I finished getting the shop-vac out of the basement, pulled out another rug that we hadn't been sure of and rinsed everything out. The funk is still funky.
I talked to Sparkle for a minute tonight. Lolli's adenoid and tonsil removal went fine and they got home in the early afternoon. I was surprised that Ceecee didn't want to chat a little because I haven't seen her in over a month or so and I haven't heard if she and Glory have been calling each other. My guess is not, but she's going to be excited to find out that Glory and GloryBe are trying to plan to come out here for almost two weeks in the beginning of August. I know that I'll surely see more of her then!
Then there was the smell.
We checked to see if it was the toilet pipes. Thank goodness no. So, we began pulling up the rugs and hauling them outdoors, in the rain. Daddy got the shop-vac and started getting up the water and I was outdoors moving the rugs when the neighbor came out and asked if my cellar was flooded too. We live with a gully in our back yard, so you'd never think of getting water in the basement... too high to come up to our houses!
It turns out that the street drains had backed up. The nasty stuff. It had flooded their front yard and then 'exploded' down into the gully. They had a couple of inches of water in the basement and it drained a lot out when they merely opened the door down there. Yuck! It eroded away about a 2ft by 2ft trail of the soil beside the retaining wall and also came over and hit our driveway before it 'hit' the hill.
So, I finished getting the shop-vac out of the basement, pulled out another rug that we hadn't been sure of and rinsed everything out. The funk is still funky.
I talked to Sparkle for a minute tonight. Lolli's adenoid and tonsil removal went fine and they got home in the early afternoon. I was surprised that Ceecee didn't want to chat a little because I haven't seen her in over a month or so and I haven't heard if she and Glory have been calling each other. My guess is not, but she's going to be excited to find out that Glory and GloryBe are trying to plan to come out here for almost two weeks in the beginning of August. I know that I'll surely see more of her then!
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