Only 1 will really know the meaning behind this blog, and it makes me smile. Sorry to those in the dark, that's where you shall remain for now.
For when you clean
Really? It's the Foo Fighters....all good
Sing it LOUD!! and make me laugh
Run
Tangled
Sunshine, wine and a lot of fun! Let's do it again.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Dreaded 3's
Years ago I know I blogged, cried, moaned and whined about how year 3 is the new 2 - for kids. Today I'm here to discuss why bad things seem to happen in sets of 3. WHY??!!
Here are the 3 things that have happened to me in the last 2 weeks, in order:
1. Amos - I recently noticed how skinny he was. He hasn't ever been a plump kitty, but lately he's boney. EW! I called the vet and had him brought in for a check up. He's down to 8lbs!! From 11!! That's pretty significant. They drew some blood and the results came back unfavorably. Amos has kidney disease or failure (a urinalysis will determine), heart disease and pancreatitis. It's not looking good. I had him in for his urinalysis and was found to have a UTI. A weeks worth of meds and I'll bring him back in later this week for another urinalysis.
Amos is NOT supposed to be this sick! I've had it in my mind that Oreo will go first, then in a few years Amos. UGH!
2. Just before spring break, David had a school recital and it was then I was informed that M was laid off from his job. GREAT!! Luckily he kind of saw it coming, so he had some leads for other jobs and found one fairly quickly. However, it doesn't come without it's problems as well. Without going into great detail, he and I will be discussing finances soon, perhaps through an authority figure.
3. David and I were at a Birthday party on Saturday when my phone rang. It was my sister calling to tell me that Mom had fallen and broken her hip. She was just out of surgery. Ummmm, what? Just out of surgery? Why am I hearing about this "just out of surgery" and not before? I don't think Karen found out until around that time either and, really, I'm out here in WA....not like I can "be there in a minute". Anyways, I didn't get any further details until almost Monday evening when I finally spoke to my mom!!! Sunday she was too drugged up to talk. 2 days after surgery and she's been moved to a rehab facility.
Needless to say, all of that stress finally got to me. I was going batshit crazy in my house, so on Sunday I decided I needed to get out. I didn't have David - and it was his official Birthday, that sucked.... I got my ass into gear and headed off to hike. I decided to conquer Beacon Rock and I did. Made it to the top in about 35 min... 850 vertical feet in 3/4 of a mile. I guess all my working out has really WORKED! I even stopped and admired the view many times. It wasn't crowded at all, and I even got adventurous at the end and went a little ways down the West trail....a harder trail. But I was alone and didn't want to find myself in a situation I couldn't get out of, so I turned back.
Here are the 3 things that have happened to me in the last 2 weeks, in order:
1. Amos - I recently noticed how skinny he was. He hasn't ever been a plump kitty, but lately he's boney. EW! I called the vet and had him brought in for a check up. He's down to 8lbs!! From 11!! That's pretty significant. They drew some blood and the results came back unfavorably. Amos has kidney disease or failure (a urinalysis will determine), heart disease and pancreatitis. It's not looking good. I had him in for his urinalysis and was found to have a UTI. A weeks worth of meds and I'll bring him back in later this week for another urinalysis.
Amos is NOT supposed to be this sick! I've had it in my mind that Oreo will go first, then in a few years Amos. UGH!
2. Just before spring break, David had a school recital and it was then I was informed that M was laid off from his job. GREAT!! Luckily he kind of saw it coming, so he had some leads for other jobs and found one fairly quickly. However, it doesn't come without it's problems as well. Without going into great detail, he and I will be discussing finances soon, perhaps through an authority figure.
3. David and I were at a Birthday party on Saturday when my phone rang. It was my sister calling to tell me that Mom had fallen and broken her hip. She was just out of surgery. Ummmm, what? Just out of surgery? Why am I hearing about this "just out of surgery" and not before? I don't think Karen found out until around that time either and, really, I'm out here in WA....not like I can "be there in a minute". Anyways, I didn't get any further details until almost Monday evening when I finally spoke to my mom!!! Sunday she was too drugged up to talk. 2 days after surgery and she's been moved to a rehab facility.
Needless to say, all of that stress finally got to me. I was going batshit crazy in my house, so on Sunday I decided I needed to get out. I didn't have David - and it was his official Birthday, that sucked.... I got my ass into gear and headed off to hike. I decided to conquer Beacon Rock and I did. Made it to the top in about 35 min... 850 vertical feet in 3/4 of a mile. I guess all my working out has really WORKED! I even stopped and admired the view many times. It wasn't crowded at all, and I even got adventurous at the end and went a little ways down the West trail....a harder trail. But I was alone and didn't want to find myself in a situation I couldn't get out of, so I turned back.
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| Mid level |
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| Summit. It was HELLA windy up there!! I didn't think that I was going to make the hike because of the wind. (random people at the top took the pic...nice hair) |
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| On the way down. |
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Back that THING up!
I'm talking computers people! I'm so fortunate that mine was recently backed up (Thank you) - yes, the hard drive on my Mac died. Died. No warning. Well, there was a moment of warning - when it locked up, the screen flickered and then it died. So, off to the Mac dr. my computer went, and a day later I have a new hard drive, more memory and faster processing. I found it funny that when I picked up my computer, they gave me my old hard drive (all nicely wrapped and labeled) and as he handed it to me, the guy said "in case you need something off of it".....ummmmm, wha? Isn't that why I got a new hard drive because the old one died. Ok. Whatever. I'm guessing that it has more to do with privacy stuff than recovering stuff off of it.
Back to backing up.... DO IT!! Do it NOW!! As I said, my computer was recently backed up which saved about 95% of everything. Almost all of my pictures were saved. I've lost all of 2011 pictures, but I'm hoping that those will be recovered in another way. I could have lived with losing a few months, but an entire year is pretty terrible. I would've been devastated to lose them all. All my pictures since D has been born were on that computer. OMG! I have a panic attack just thinking about losing those.
If you haven't gotten my mantra for this blog: Back that THING up!!
Back to backing up.... DO IT!! Do it NOW!! As I said, my computer was recently backed up which saved about 95% of everything. Almost all of my pictures were saved. I've lost all of 2011 pictures, but I'm hoping that those will be recovered in another way. I could have lived with losing a few months, but an entire year is pretty terrible. I would've been devastated to lose them all. All my pictures since D has been born were on that computer. OMG! I have a panic attack just thinking about losing those.
If you haven't gotten my mantra for this blog: Back that THING up!!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
My ghost
Since I can remember, I have always had a feeling of not being alone. As if someone was watching me, but nothing ever happened, so I've just pushed back those feelings until recently.
At Christmas, I received a Scentsy type burner that turns on by touch. I put it on my dresser in my bedroom where the dog cant get to it, David doesn't care about it and the cat is never up there. Recently, Catrina and I broke up, I've been a mess, and this is when I started noticing the burner would be on when I would walk into my bedroom. For a while I would just assume that it was me turning it on and not remembering, but after it started happening multiple times per night I wondered what was happening. I don't hang out in my bedroom (no tv, fold laundry on the couch...etc), so it was odd that the burner would be on so often.
One particular night, by coincidence, I was having a bad night and I watched Ghost Hunters when I walked into my room and found the burner on again. hmmmmm - I thought I'd just try something. I said out loud: "Thank you for being here with me, but will you please stop turning on my burner. It's a little dangerous especially if I leave the house and I don't know that it's on, so please stop." The burner hasn't turned on since!! I'm not kidding! WHOA!!
I thought I'd try something else last week. I got that "feeling" again, so I said aloud "Hi. Are you here? If so, turn on my burner" Nothing happened. But the next night I went to go to bed and the burner was on. Sometime last week, I got into bed and the burner turned on! Just me in the room....the dog and cat do not sleep in the bedroom. It never before turned on when I was present. Apparently me asking it to turn it on has given it permission to turn it on again when it wants. I have since moved the burner to another outlet to see if it was a fluke with the plug, but it's turned on by itself in that area too. It only turns on when I'm at home - I've never come home from work and it's been on.
Parts of me just can't wrap my head around the supernatural, but most of me can accept it. I have been trying to asses my 6th sense on the nights I find the burner on. Did I get "the feeling"? Can I feel something around now? Do I have the feeling I'm being watched? What did I do tonight that I possibly turned on the burner.... For now, I smile when I find it on and know it wasn't me who did it.
At Christmas, I received a Scentsy type burner that turns on by touch. I put it on my dresser in my bedroom where the dog cant get to it, David doesn't care about it and the cat is never up there. Recently, Catrina and I broke up, I've been a mess, and this is when I started noticing the burner would be on when I would walk into my bedroom. For a while I would just assume that it was me turning it on and not remembering, but after it started happening multiple times per night I wondered what was happening. I don't hang out in my bedroom (no tv, fold laundry on the couch...etc), so it was odd that the burner would be on so often.
One particular night, by coincidence, I was having a bad night and I watched Ghost Hunters when I walked into my room and found the burner on again. hmmmmm - I thought I'd just try something. I said out loud: "Thank you for being here with me, but will you please stop turning on my burner. It's a little dangerous especially if I leave the house and I don't know that it's on, so please stop." The burner hasn't turned on since!! I'm not kidding! WHOA!!
I thought I'd try something else last week. I got that "feeling" again, so I said aloud "Hi. Are you here? If so, turn on my burner" Nothing happened. But the next night I went to go to bed and the burner was on. Sometime last week, I got into bed and the burner turned on! Just me in the room....the dog and cat do not sleep in the bedroom. It never before turned on when I was present. Apparently me asking it to turn it on has given it permission to turn it on again when it wants. I have since moved the burner to another outlet to see if it was a fluke with the plug, but it's turned on by itself in that area too. It only turns on when I'm at home - I've never come home from work and it's been on.
Parts of me just can't wrap my head around the supernatural, but most of me can accept it. I have been trying to asses my 6th sense on the nights I find the burner on. Did I get "the feeling"? Can I feel something around now? Do I have the feeling I'm being watched? What did I do tonight that I possibly turned on the burner.... For now, I smile when I find it on and know it wasn't me who did it.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Vertigo
I'm not talking about the Hitchcock movie, I'm talking about room spinning, nausea inducing vertigo. I'm having it again....yes, again. I've been having it off and on for a couple of years. The first time I had it was severe, I was nauseous and could barely stand. I went to the dr. and he put me through a battery of tests and determined that it was an inner ear infection, wrote me a Rx for antibiotics and told me to also take a Claritin to help drain the fluid. Within a few days I was fine. Since then, I've had small incidences of
spinning, but nothing that wasn't fixed with some pseudoephedrine. When the Dr. looked in my left ear, he stated that there was a lot of scar tissue within the ear and asked if I had any surgeries. His statement has bothered me since then because I do notice that my left ear is weaker and I don't hear very well with it.
For the last 5 days, I've been suffering with spinning again. This time, allergy drugs are not helping. I've researched vertigo online and tried the "exercises" to reset the "stones" in the ears - no help. It's time to find out what's wrong, I have an appt with an ENT on Monday. I really want to know why it keeps happening (is it stress induced, infection, defect), what's up with my left ear, and get my hearing checked. I'm DONE with feeling like I'm falling into a hole. There are times this wakes me from sleep because I roll over and feel like I'm falling out of bed, when I'm not.
For the last 5 days, I've been suffering with spinning again. This time, allergy drugs are not helping. I've researched vertigo online and tried the "exercises" to reset the "stones" in the ears - no help. It's time to find out what's wrong, I have an appt with an ENT on Monday. I really want to know why it keeps happening (is it stress induced, infection, defect), what's up with my left ear, and get my hearing checked. I'm DONE with feeling like I'm falling into a hole. There are times this wakes me from sleep because I roll over and feel like I'm falling out of bed, when I'm not.
Quality of Life
1 year ago today, I wrote about Oreo and thinking that she was going to die...any day Oreo . Well, 1 year later and Oreo is curled up on the couch snoring loudly. I may have written your eulogy a year ago, but how was I to know that you'd defy the odds and still be around!? And Happy Birthday! You're 13.
In the last year, you have become slower, whinier and gassier. MAN, you can clear a room! You're funny when you fart loudly and scare yourself. It's generally the silent ones which are deadly. You can no longer walk the 2 blocks to the bus stop, the 1 block walk to the dumpster is about all you can handle. However, you are spunky when you want to be. You get excited over seeing people, you will run...trot really and you are happy. Your age is catch up as you like to lay in front of the heater when I turn it on, you sleep more often and you're a bit grayer in the face.
Yes, you still have cancer- although, I really wonder if it's cancer. Your mammary tumor us HUGE, but it doesn't seem to bother you too much. We get some funny looks from people when I take you outside and I'm sure that those people are thinking I'm cruel to have this tumor hanging from you, but even the vet says that it's fine to stay and the risks of surgery are just too great.
You still LOVE to chew on rawhide bones. Sure, you have your good days and bad, but the good still outweigh the bad ones. I'm not going to predict the future or whether 2012 is going to be your last year because every time I think that you're a goner, you just prove me wrong.
In the last year, you have become slower, whinier and gassier. MAN, you can clear a room! You're funny when you fart loudly and scare yourself. It's generally the silent ones which are deadly. You can no longer walk the 2 blocks to the bus stop, the 1 block walk to the dumpster is about all you can handle. However, you are spunky when you want to be. You get excited over seeing people, you will run...trot really and you are happy. Your age is catch up as you like to lay in front of the heater when I turn it on, you sleep more often and you're a bit grayer in the face.
Yes, you still have cancer- although, I really wonder if it's cancer. Your mammary tumor us HUGE, but it doesn't seem to bother you too much. We get some funny looks from people when I take you outside and I'm sure that those people are thinking I'm cruel to have this tumor hanging from you, but even the vet says that it's fine to stay and the risks of surgery are just too great.
You still LOVE to chew on rawhide bones. Sure, you have your good days and bad, but the good still outweigh the bad ones. I'm not going to predict the future or whether 2012 is going to be your last year because every time I think that you're a goner, you just prove me wrong.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Black Friday Fun? Of COURSE!!!
After spending the day eating delicious food, I tried to go take a nap prior to heading out to Toys R Us shopping and then to work. I said I tried, but failed....I was too excited. Black Friday for me is like Christmas for kids - I LOVE IT!! I like the crowds, the people watching, the mayhem that happens. It's just exciting to experience it and watch it all unfold.
At 6pm, Catrina and I headed off to Big Lots because they were open until 8pm and we may as well start our shopping early. Stuff was purchased, but I cannot remember what.... Once BL's was done we headed across the river to Toys R Us to stand in line and get in early when they open at 9am. We were in line at 7. We people watched, made friends with the people in line with us, tried to bribe Portland Police, tried to bribe TRU workers....yea, it didn't get us far. Then it was 9pm and the line started moving - YAHHOOOOOOO, let the fun begin!
Catrina and I are no longer amateurs when it comes to BF shopping. This year, Catrina was a organizational guru! No longer did we have handwritten lists of what we were going to purchase and where, nooooooooo that's too simple. This year Catrina organized each child with the items they wanted, THEN listed each store where they could be found AND at which price!!! This way we knew at a glance that the Angry Bird hooded blankets were the best deal at Kohl's for $19.99, plus an additional 15% coupon I had, PLUS my employee discount.
Once in TRU, we stick together for the initial "big" purchase items that we're seeking, then we divide and conquer on other items (when you have boy and girl items you have to split up). Once we're satisfied with what's in the cart, we had off to get into line. However, we tag team while in line. I stood in line first while Catrina went back into the bowels of the store to find more goodies. Back she came with an armful of stuff, tagged me from the ropes and I was off! It's like WWE and Supermarket Sweep all in on!! (Supermarket Sweep - there's a golden oldie)
We were out of TRU by 11pm. Back to my house to unload the car and go our separate ways. Catrina was off for more BF shopping, I was headed inside to get ready for work. Since I had been up since 7am, I thought it would be wise to shower and brush my teeth b/c I'm not getting that opportunity until after 12pm the next day.
Kohl's was CRAZY!!! The line snaked through the store, but I have to say people were all very nice. In the 9 1/2 hours I worked, I only encountered 1 crabby person. I started at 1am and we were crazy busy until around 3:30am, then DEAD from 4 until around 7'ish. By 8:15 we were crazy busy again. That lasted until I left my register at 11:30. Catrina was there to meet me for some shopping - which she had already started (YAY!! Cuz I was tired) and we were out of there, had lunch and home by 12:45. I was asleep by 1, but up at 4pm. What's a couple of girls to do? Go SHOPPING!! Fred Meyers, Target and the Mall were all hit. We picked up some Green Tea Kitchen (Chinese food) on the way home and collapsed in bed for a long winters nap.
At 6pm, Catrina and I headed off to Big Lots because they were open until 8pm and we may as well start our shopping early. Stuff was purchased, but I cannot remember what.... Once BL's was done we headed across the river to Toys R Us to stand in line and get in early when they open at 9am. We were in line at 7. We people watched, made friends with the people in line with us, tried to bribe Portland Police, tried to bribe TRU workers....yea, it didn't get us far. Then it was 9pm and the line started moving - YAHHOOOOOOO, let the fun begin!
Catrina and I are no longer amateurs when it comes to BF shopping. This year, Catrina was a organizational guru! No longer did we have handwritten lists of what we were going to purchase and where, nooooooooo that's too simple. This year Catrina organized each child with the items they wanted, THEN listed each store where they could be found AND at which price!!! This way we knew at a glance that the Angry Bird hooded blankets were the best deal at Kohl's for $19.99, plus an additional 15% coupon I had, PLUS my employee discount.
Once in TRU, we stick together for the initial "big" purchase items that we're seeking, then we divide and conquer on other items (when you have boy and girl items you have to split up). Once we're satisfied with what's in the cart, we had off to get into line. However, we tag team while in line. I stood in line first while Catrina went back into the bowels of the store to find more goodies. Back she came with an armful of stuff, tagged me from the ropes and I was off! It's like WWE and Supermarket Sweep all in on!! (Supermarket Sweep - there's a golden oldie)
We were out of TRU by 11pm. Back to my house to unload the car and go our separate ways. Catrina was off for more BF shopping, I was headed inside to get ready for work. Since I had been up since 7am, I thought it would be wise to shower and brush my teeth b/c I'm not getting that opportunity until after 12pm the next day.
Kohl's was CRAZY!!! The line snaked through the store, but I have to say people were all very nice. In the 9 1/2 hours I worked, I only encountered 1 crabby person. I started at 1am and we were crazy busy until around 3:30am, then DEAD from 4 until around 7'ish. By 8:15 we were crazy busy again. That lasted until I left my register at 11:30. Catrina was there to meet me for some shopping - which she had already started (YAY!! Cuz I was tired) and we were out of there, had lunch and home by 12:45. I was asleep by 1, but up at 4pm. What's a couple of girls to do? Go SHOPPING!! Fred Meyers, Target and the Mall were all hit. We picked up some Green Tea Kitchen (Chinese food) on the way home and collapsed in bed for a long winters nap.
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