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Archive: November, 2009



Grateful Friday

Friday, November 20th, 2009

1. Bryan made it to San Antonio safely and this retraining process is *officially* on its way.

2. Only 2 more days of work and then 5 days off.

3. New clothes (sssshhh, don’t tell Bryan:).

4. New hard drive is in, Windows 7 Pro is running beautifully, home wireless network is fixed and my primary applications are installed so I can at least function.

5. Life, stressful as it may be at times.

Lacey

Tuesday Tidbits

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
  • Today was a not so great day. Started off great, but let’s just say boiled eggs are no longer my friend. Headed to work, my boiled egg breakfast in hand. Started working and eating my egg which resulted in me not paying attention to my bite sizes or how well I was chewing. Stuck, big time. Severe pain was practically immediate and none of my normal methods for relieving the pain worked. Finally after trying to battle the pain and work for an hour, I gave up and came home. Experienced my second vomiting episode since being banded 15 months ago, this time, foam and all. Yuck. Managed to doze on the floor for about 30 minutes when the pain subsided a bit and then was rudely woken up by the severe pain returning. The pain finally subsided enough (mind you it was still pretty rough) for us to head up to the hospital for immunizations where I paced the floors until we got called back. Thankfully, 4.5 hours after the pain started, the food finally made its way through right before I had to get my shot. Maybe this was God’s way of giving me a wake up call, I dunno. I keep saying I need to get back on track and keep putting it off. I have no choice but to do liquids for a few days now, due to the irritation so I am going to do the 5 day pouch test while I am at it. Get this carb monster killed and get these last stinking 18 pounds off.
  • Today, Jacey and I both got our H1N1 vaccines and Jacey got her 2nd seasonal flu shot in her series. Now she just has to go back in 30 days for the 2nd H1N1 and she’ll be done for a year. I really had mixed feelings about the whole H1N1 vaccine. My oncologist recommended it but Bryan and I still weren’t 100% sure. We finally decided that for us the risk was greater to get the actual swine flu than to get the vaccine. Bryan leaves tomorrow, so if J or I got sick, we would be SOL and me being immunocompromised, who knows how it would affect me. Bryan is not eligible right now, but at least J and I will be protected. Bryan never gets anything (illness) anyway, he just always bring it home to me. Lucky me.
  • My hard drive comes in tomorrow and this one is still chugging along…YAY! If I disappear for a few days though, you know why.
  • We had our Relay For Life Team Captain Party last night and it went really well. Bryan resigned his online chair position (because of retraining) but it was picked up by another sub-committee member, so we still have a full committee roster. We don’t have another meeting until January and while I love relay, I am looking forward to the break. I just really have a lot on my plate right now and it is one less thing to stress about.
  • And, like I mentioned earlier, Bryan leaves TDY for his first class tomorrow. I hate watching him pack, even though this first TDY will be cake. He’ll be gone a week, we’ll see him for 4 days at Thanksgiving and then he will be home a week and a half later. Now the TDY in January, will suck. He’ll be gone 2 months since the 2 classes are back to back. Oh well, right?! I made it through 2 months last year and at least he is not deployed. I am thankful for that every day!
Lacey

dying the slow (hopefully) death.

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Several weeks ago, my hard drive started clicking randomly. We thought it was possibly my motherboard flaking out and not supplying proper power, since I was also having random USB issues. Then, yesterday the grinding started. Sigh. Hopped on Newegg and ordered and new hard drive. Yeah, I REALLY have time in my schedule to be dealing with this.

Not.

I’m not worried about data loss, I use Mozy online and a network drive here at home, but man, what a hassle. I guess it gives me a chance to rearrange my file structure a bit and clean out some programs that I rarely/never use but I had everything *just* the way I like it. Oy.

I did upgrade by 90GB, so I guess I no longer need that external drive I was eyeing.

Yeah, trying to find the bright spots in this mess.

Too bad, I can’t just push it off on Bryan to fix since he leaves TDY Wednesday. I am fully capable of doing it but he gets so much more pleasure out of stuff like this than I do.

Anyway, just pray that the old drive lasts until the new one gets here so I have as seamless of a transition as possible and I’ll stop whining now :).

Lacey

Grateful Friday

Friday, November 13th, 2009

1. Jacey decided to go to the airshow tomorrow instead of the birthday party. I can’t say I am sad, I really wasn’t looking forward to 1.5 hours with wild screaming kids :).

2. Jacey wrote all of her thank you notes with no complaining.

3. Bryan and his ability to put up with me gracefully.

4. The yard work is all done, so hopefully I won’t have to do it while B is gone (good thing, since I am still not over my allergic reaction to something from working in the backyard last weekend).

5. 2.5 day work weeks, I could get used to those!

Lacey

Thursday Thirteen

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Thirteen Things I want to get done while Bryan is TDY these next few months.

1. Clean out the file drawers. I usually do in in January each year, but slacked this year and it is almost January again.

2. Update our wills.

3. Purge the garage/attic stuff.

4. Get a good budget for after the move planned out, since losing my income is going to be a rude awakening the first few months.

5. Read 3 books.

6. Clean up and organize my firefox bookmarks.

7. Get caught up on editing pictures and stay caught up.

8. Scrap again.

9. Write a book review that I should have written months ago.

10. Create a chore chart for Jacey (she wants to clean toilets, I am tempted to let her…LOL).

11. Go to bed earlier.

12. Not go crazy.

13. Lose these last stinkin’ 17 pounds.

Lacey
 

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