I have just learned that a very dear friend of mine has been put into hospice care after a long battle with cancer. It started out as breast cancer and that metastasized into so much more. She doesn't have a lot of time left. Today is a very sad day.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Ugh...
So I overslept this morning, and was awakened by the call from one of the assistant supervisors at work asking where I was. I had turned my 0530 alarm off, and then just disregarded the other two alarms that I had set... and one was set to PM and not AM. Awesome. It's great to wake up to the phone call asking where you are... Actually, I didn't even let her get that far. I realized what number was calling and answered the phone with, "I'm sorry! I'll be there ASAP!"
Being jarred awake like that SUCKS! Then you're shaky and off for the next few hours, or sometimes, the rest of the day is messed up because you feel like you can never catch up!
Finally, a cup of coffee and a glass of iced tea into the day and I was back to feeling like a relatively normal human being.
Tonight I am going to cook some hamburger rice casserole for my darling boyfriend, and we're going to catch up on some TV shows like Terra Nova.
Being jarred awake like that SUCKS! Then you're shaky and off for the next few hours, or sometimes, the rest of the day is messed up because you feel like you can never catch up!
Finally, a cup of coffee and a glass of iced tea into the day and I was back to feeling like a relatively normal human being.
Tonight I am going to cook some hamburger rice casserole for my darling boyfriend, and we're going to catch up on some TV shows like Terra Nova.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
As mentioned in my previous post I have been working A LOT recently, and I was finally able to have a few days off. My first day off was spent sleeping and laying on the couch. I know it's lazy to do that, but it really is just what someone needs sometimes! Four days off were great. I got to spend two of them with my "worse half" as one of our friends puts it (the female is the better half and the male is the worse half). During one of those days I went with him to sign the lease to his new apartment, and then we went to check it out and move the bedroom set that he bought for his daughter (I found a GREAT deal for him). It's a really nice apartment. Vaulted ceilings, big closets, cute balcony. This is finally the first step in us finally being able to be us. To be together without side stepping around someone else. Tomorrow is a big day for us as well. While I do have to work tomorrow I will be going to his apartment (he's moving everything in tomorrow), and I will meet his daughter. She's met me once before, and from everything that he's told me she already likes me, but I can't help but be nervous about meeting her. I want her to like me.
Tuesday will be a day full of adventure and excitement! (This is when we need a *sarcasm font*.)
I have an endoscopy scheduled for Tuesday. Due to the weird, and sometimes pretty excruciating, abdominal pains I've been having the gastrointestinal doc wants to do an endoscopy on me to see if I possibly have an ulcer in my pouch. I hope I don't. I also had an x-ray done last week to make sure that there wasn't a residual gallstone in the little blip of a duct that is still there from the removal, and they found that my intestines are a little blocked. So, literally, I am full of shit. HA! The GI doc has had me drinking Miralax to help with that, and an antacid just in case I do have an ulcer to help start the healing on it (if it's there). On Tuesday I'll have the full schpeil (yeah, spelled THAT wrong, but whatever) on what's wrong with me, and hopefully we'll get this abdominal pain taken care of once and for all.
Now I'm just waiting on my appendix to go out. Seems like for the past two years mid-July to mid-August my body has decided to PAIN ME and send me to the hospital. First it was a kidney stone in 2010, and this year it was my gallbladder. Next year it just makes sense that my appendix will go out; though, I hope it doesn't. Medical bills are expensive!
OH! Random thought just now... I'm trying to get into couponing... We'll see how THAT goes.
ALSO!! Anyone who LOOOOVES pumpkin, and pumpkin flavored desserts should try my pumpkin cheesecake, and the "pumpkindoodles" (pumpkin snickerdoodles) that I made the other day. Holy crow were they both DELICIOUS!! Next I'm going to make a halloween cake... Or some variation of this... With sprinkles!
Tuesday will be a day full of adventure and excitement! (This is when we need a *sarcasm font*.)
I have an endoscopy scheduled for Tuesday. Due to the weird, and sometimes pretty excruciating, abdominal pains I've been having the gastrointestinal doc wants to do an endoscopy on me to see if I possibly have an ulcer in my pouch. I hope I don't. I also had an x-ray done last week to make sure that there wasn't a residual gallstone in the little blip of a duct that is still there from the removal, and they found that my intestines are a little blocked. So, literally, I am full of shit. HA! The GI doc has had me drinking Miralax to help with that, and an antacid just in case I do have an ulcer to help start the healing on it (if it's there). On Tuesday I'll have the full schpeil (yeah, spelled THAT wrong, but whatever) on what's wrong with me, and hopefully we'll get this abdominal pain taken care of once and for all.
Now I'm just waiting on my appendix to go out. Seems like for the past two years mid-July to mid-August my body has decided to PAIN ME and send me to the hospital. First it was a kidney stone in 2010, and this year it was my gallbladder. Next year it just makes sense that my appendix will go out; though, I hope it doesn't. Medical bills are expensive!
OH! Random thought just now... I'm trying to get into couponing... We'll see how THAT goes.
ALSO!! Anyone who LOOOOVES pumpkin, and pumpkin flavored desserts should try my pumpkin cheesecake, and the "pumpkindoodles" (pumpkin snickerdoodles) that I made the other day. Holy crow were they both DELICIOUS!! Next I'm going to make a halloween cake... Or some variation of this... With sprinkles!
Monday, October 3, 2011
Musings
So, just to go ahead and get it out there today is working day 4 of 7. I worked this past weekend, and it really wasn't bad so I have no complaints. I was REALLY hoping that today I would NOT get called in, but that didn't last long as I was told yesterday to go ahead and come in and then this morning when I woke up I realized that the acting night supervisor had sent out the "call for help" email... aka the "if you can work overtime on dayshift PLEASE call" email, so I know I'm here for the day. I was nice enough to help out a coworker and picked up overtime for tomorrow so that she could go on vacation... Now I'm wishing I hadn't done that, but it's too late now. Not to mention I could use the extra cash what with a roadtrip to Florida at the end of the month and then Christmas "around the corner" after that.
October is a messed up work month for me anyway. I am working these 7 days, then have a day off, working 1, on call, working 2, off 3, working 3, off 1, working 3, off 1, working 3, off 1, work 1 (trying to get these last two switched so it would be working 4), and then off the Florida. In October I have counted that the only Saturday I will have NOT working will be the one where I'm out of town, and I will have two Friday's not working, and no Sundays not working besides when I'm in Florida. It's a crazy schedule, I did warn you about that. When I come back I'll have a 5K to run, then work 3, off 1, work 3, and then back to a relatively normal November schedule (but at that point it's halfway through the month). Oh man... it's going to be hectic, and those days off are tentative as I might try to pick up overtime. There will be more overtime available as one of my coworkers has had her baby (or is so close to having the baby you can just say she's had the baby). So I'll probably fill in a few of those multiple "off" days with overtime if I can--it's hard to come by, have to take it while it's available.
I've already told my parents that I'm going to be working on Thanksgiving (I've already told the supervisors that I want to be first in line for overtime on Thanksgiving), and Christmas (my squad is working Christmas again this year) so they're prepared for that. I am also doing my best to spend time with my boy whenever I can. I love spending days with him, and for the next month or so that is going to be hard to do but I'm going to make it work.
Ok enough about work stuff for now. I have talked too much about it already, and have probably bored what few readers I do have to the point where if you've made it this far in the blog you are a TROOPER!
I want to do a fall cleaning of my apartment. I have WAY too much clutter and I need to fix that. What I would LOVE is a full 3 day weekend, but as you read before I don't have one of those for quite a while. So, I'm going to try to do a little here, and a little there, and just work on decluttering my shit. This is when I wish I had a yard in a good neighborhood so I could just have a yard sale. But, instead, I think I will either donate goods to GoodWill or I will see what I can get for some things at a consignment type shop (I don't think I'll get much if anything, but something is better than nothing--sometimes).
October is a messed up work month for me anyway. I am working these 7 days, then have a day off, working 1, on call, working 2, off 3, working 3, off 1, working 3, off 1, working 3, off 1, work 1 (trying to get these last two switched so it would be working 4), and then off the Florida. In October I have counted that the only Saturday I will have NOT working will be the one where I'm out of town, and I will have two Friday's not working, and no Sundays not working besides when I'm in Florida. It's a crazy schedule, I did warn you about that. When I come back I'll have a 5K to run, then work 3, off 1, work 3, and then back to a relatively normal November schedule (but at that point it's halfway through the month). Oh man... it's going to be hectic, and those days off are tentative as I might try to pick up overtime. There will be more overtime available as one of my coworkers has had her baby (or is so close to having the baby you can just say she's had the baby). So I'll probably fill in a few of those multiple "off" days with overtime if I can--it's hard to come by, have to take it while it's available.
I've already told my parents that I'm going to be working on Thanksgiving (I've already told the supervisors that I want to be first in line for overtime on Thanksgiving), and Christmas (my squad is working Christmas again this year) so they're prepared for that. I am also doing my best to spend time with my boy whenever I can. I love spending days with him, and for the next month or so that is going to be hard to do but I'm going to make it work.
Ok enough about work stuff for now. I have talked too much about it already, and have probably bored what few readers I do have to the point where if you've made it this far in the blog you are a TROOPER!
I want to do a fall cleaning of my apartment. I have WAY too much clutter and I need to fix that. What I would LOVE is a full 3 day weekend, but as you read before I don't have one of those for quite a while. So, I'm going to try to do a little here, and a little there, and just work on decluttering my shit. This is when I wish I had a yard in a good neighborhood so I could just have a yard sale. But, instead, I think I will either donate goods to GoodWill or I will see what I can get for some things at a consignment type shop (I don't think I'll get much if anything, but something is better than nothing--sometimes).
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