Thursday, November 8, 2007

Catching up..

This has been one crazy week! I've got tons of pictures to share, so I think I'll put them on my Flickr account, I haven't decided yet.

Drove up to the hospital on Tuesday, we had a meeting, I signed up for insurance this year through the hospital. We have Blue Cross, as does ConAgra, but our overall benefits are better and cheaper. So Steve did the pretax account and I did the insurance. I got my flu shot for this year and went to get my TB test, but for some stupid reason I had to have my doctor's okay since I take prednisone for an autoimmune disease. Nobody asked for a note last year... Of course I had just had my doctor appointment the day before. Isn't that always the way it goes? Gas is only 3.19 a gallon, I guess I can drive up twice next week...

Then my doctor called on Tuesday with all my test results. Still no definite autoimmune diagnosis - after 19 years I've pretty much given up on that. My stupid cholesterol was up, so I've started taking Lipitor - just what I needed, another drug! I'm starting to feel decidedly old! One good thing though, I've decided to finally get busy and get some of this stupid weight off. I'm trying a modified South Beach, so we'll see how it goes. Actually, today went surprisingly well - even with no carbs!

Steve is off hunting Bambi. His weekend got off to a expensive start, he pulled into the campground and heard something dragging from the bottom of his truck. His steering linkage was dragging on the ground. Thank goodness it didn't happen on the interstate going 75 miles an hour! It only cost him $500 to get it fixed, and $100 of that was towing charges, which is reimbursable through the insurance company. I think he's going to have to bite the bullet pretty soon and get a new truck. He hasn't had a car payment in 7 years and he's not too anxious to have one again.

Poor Toby is missing his dad. He sat by the garage door and cried for at least 3 solid hours tonight. He's absolutely inconsolable and doesn't want anything to do with me. I pretty certain at this point that it was a woman who hurt him, he just doesn't want to warm up to me at all, and I've never done anything at all to him. Poor little guy. I feel sorry for him, but I'm at my wit's end trying to make him happy when Steve isn't home.

The primary program is this weekend at church. I can't believe it's that time of year already. It seems like just last week that I was writing the script for last year! The kids are so freaking cute though, I love to watch them singing their little hearts out. Pretty soon it will be Christmas again - I wonder who they'll have be Mary, since the Petersons have moved. It just won't be the same without Kaylie.

I can't think of anything else of great importance... LOL! I'm going to try to get my pictures loaded on to Flickr and then I'll post a link. Later!

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

I have no idea what the hell is the matter with this keyboard. And I'm too tired to figure it out. If I'm still alive in the morning, I'll post from a normal place... Ugh

Bad day/good day

This computer seems bound and determined to eat my posts. The day sucked going to the doctor. He still doesn't know what I have. It's stilled mixed undifferentiated type of an autoimmune disease. I'm glad it's not MS, or MG, or Scleroderma, but at the same time I want to know! I want a for real diagosis that people can treat! I did get new drug, Lyrica, which I did not want. I"m intolerant of Plaquenil, so this may be the only other thing I can try for pain. Although I told Steve after I took it tonight at bedtime and I was afraid because it felt like my nose and throat were swelling. He went to bed. "Oh, I'm just closing my eyes". Right. I could die in my sleep and he wouldn't even know. Thanks honey. You're my hero. I love being married. I should have stayed single.

Then I g

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Vista Sucks

That about sums up what I think of Windows Vista. Sucks, sucks, sucks. And on top of that, I don't like it. Why the heck can't you get the OS you want when you buy a computer and not the Windows OS du jour?

Busy Week!

Well, I just sent my post off somewhere, so I'll start again! The week went by pretty quickly - I spent most of it working alone, as usual, but it wasn't so bad. Cindy was on vacation, but luckily the work load was pretty low. Until Friday when we got hammered. I feel sorry for Amanda being stuck with all the stuff from yesterday over the weekend, but maybe I can get a couple hours in tomorrow.

Today was a pretty busy day - Toby had to get his toenails cut, which requires a trip to the vet for him. He has to be muzzled to have his nails done, he only has 2 good legs and he's going to make sure nobody messes with them! lol Steve took him while I stayed home and got ready to go shopping. CJ Banks was having a 40% off every regularly priced item in the store sale. Yahoo! I love CJ Banks and Christmas is coming! See where this is going? Anyway, Steve and I went out to Westroads and we got some clothes for me and mom's Christmas present too. The whole thing was over $265, but with the discount, he only paid about $153. Gotta love sales.

We then trekked out to Williams and Sonoma for mulling spices. They only sell them around this time or year, and I love mulled cider (minus the wine of course). I also just simmer some spice when we're going to have company. Makes the house smell nice and it doesn't bother my reactive airway disease like a candle does. Yummy.

While we were out at Regency Court we went to Borsheim's. Whew - what a place! I looked at this little dachshund statue they had there - it was about 2 inches long and about 1/2 inch high - yeah, $310. Little rich for my blood! We also went to Pottery Barn - I didn't even know we had one here. Of course I never go to Regency - rich people shop there, not me! I doubt if I'll be back there any time soon.

Tonight Meg had a signing concert (no, that wasn't a typo) at school. We went to that with mom and Bob, it was surprisingly good! I don't know what I expected, but we had fun. I usually hate crowds, but this wasn't too bad. Mel, Dan, the twins and dad went too, so Meg had a good fan section! She was good. A lot of signing is in the facial expression and body language, she was a born ham, so she's good at that! It really was fun.

After the concert we went to Pizza King for dinner. We hadn't eaten beforehand and I was getting a little hungry. Steve had the king crab legs -- holy cow! They were huge! I've never seen such huge crab legs. All I usually see are little snow crab legs, but there were Alaskan King Crab - There must have been 2 pounds of crab meat on those legs. I was shocked that Steve ordered something off the menu when the price was "market price"! Turns out his crab dinner was about $40, but he says it was worth every penny. I'm too much of a Nebraska girl, give me my beef. I remember one time being in one time being in Seattle with my great uncle and going to the wharf for lunch. Nothing on the menu but seafood. Nothing. So I ordered a shrimp crab Louis salad. Oh, ick. I ate everything around the shrimp and crab and left all the seafood in the bottom of the bowl. I supposed the waiter was shocked, but I can't abide seafood! BTW, I had a chicken fried steak that was wonderful. I've never had one so tender. And huge. I brought half of it home for sometime later.

Tomorrow mom has tickets for a smorgasbord at the Swedish Hall, so that's probably all we'll eat tomorrow. I love being Swedish at Christmas - but don't pass me the pickled herring!

Tonight is one of my favorite nights of the year -- an extra hour of sleep! Hooray!

Oh, and my big news for the weekend? I broke down and bought a laptop. Not exactly what I wanted, but what I could afford. It's a Gateway (boo, hiss), and I paid to have an extra GB of RAM put in. All I wanted it for was my genealogy records and then I get it and find out my Family Tree Maker isn't compatible with Vista and I can't download PAF from www.familysearch.org either. But I think hat's their problem, because I can't get it on my home computer either. Ack. I'll have to see what I can find out on Monday about FTM, hopefully there's some way I can get it to work. I don't have a copy of XP or 2000. I'm thinking I'm not liking Vista already... Ah well, off to enjoy my extra hour of sleep!