saving sarah cain and chess

Went with Dave and MDK down to her chess tourney, she won 2 and lost 3, she did okay but was tired and left before the award cermony as she wasnt going to place for a trophy.  It was a good day just hanging out with the other parents and I sat around chatted and did some cross stitching.  We came home and decided to bum the rest of the night.  Dave and MDK are watching Young Frankenstein a parody.  It is funny to listen to Dave and Meg just laugh till they cry.  We watched Saving Sarah Cain, a very moving movie about Amish kids placed with their English aunt.  I enjoy movies like that, good plot line, nothing dramatic just a good wholesome story. 

Tommorow MLK will be celebrating her 19 birthday, wow that makes me feel old just typing this.  In about a week she will be home, it will be nice to have her here. 

two feet in two worlds

The plight of the modern woman, we always seems to have our feet in two different worlds the world of home and hearth and the world of work and career.  I have had it a little easier than most with the ability to schedule my own way (to a certain extent).  However mixed emotions and the feeling of never being good enough at either your work or your home life is a frustration for the modern women.  I love being home and doing stuff around the house but I also like the feeling of doing a good job, being good at my job and moving myself to the next level at my job.  Today I will be at home tommorow I will be out all day, this is how it goes.  I think alot of woman float thru life in the same boat I am in.  Just some random thoughts way too early in the morning.

random thoughts on a monday

Well this weekend was a weekend of doing nothing well that is not completely true.  However I think it did help accomplish getting my energy back.  I actually feel normal which is the best I have been in three weeks, it seems like the month of October was a month set aside for being sick.  Dave is sick and not feeling well at all, took him to the doctor on Saturday.  I am in hopes that he wont get pneumonia.  MDK worked all weekend and got caught up on school work.  I cleaned house, printed out invoices, straighten the mud room, planted some tulip bulbs, the projects of rewiring the dog electrical thing and cleaning out my closet got postponed.  I have a big bunch of tomatoes in my green house (volunteers that Dave dug up and re potted while I was gone) and he hooked up an old hose to my rain barrel it works awesome for the green house.  I am already looking forward to next session.  Still need to get some horse manure not sure when that will happen.  MDK has a chess tourney this weekend we are going to go see.  Had a busy week of interpreting, doesn't look as busy this week.  Need to work on my testing stuff.  I rescheduled that for Dec 1.  I am nervous but more than that I just want it done.  Well better get around for the day, plan to work with MDK and then go see Denise today.

another day another dollar

I have had just a slew of interpreting jobs all at once, I am glad for them but coming off being sick I must confess they are wearing me out.  So I work and come home and rest, I do think I have finally turned a corner but now Dave is really sick!!!  I keep trying to get him into the doctor but he doesnt want to go!   Men can be so stubborn at times. 

We havent accomplished much around here of late, we are going to have to fix our electrical in ground thing as it has quite working somehow, we have now put Louie on a chain when he goes out.  MDK went to a scenty party last night that we were both to go to but I was one with the bathroom again last night, i think leftovers from the antiboditic.  She was glad to see her friend Paige.  They dont get to see each other as much as she use to. 

Well best get around and get off to work.

icky slushy rain

What dreary weather, luckily I stayed home yesterday, mostly just coughed all day and rested, so tired of this routine.  I took codeine cough syrup (leftovers from last year in the fridge) and that really helped the coughing.  I finished my zpack got steriods to go and musinex dm that I am taking.  Hoping to get rid of the crude asap.  Went to bed around 9 and got up around 5 this morning.
Kim that use to torture me when I worked at Meril died unexpectedly this weekend in her home, that is a hard one as it will effect the deaf community strongly.  I had a good time at the terp conference it was very enjoyable even though I had to take naps to keep up my energy.  I would love to get my energy back that is what I really hate about being sick.  Well better get around more later.

my new full time job. . . getting over the crude

Wow I have been truely amazed with this year and how easily I have gotten really sick and not gotten well and how much more sympathic I am with people with chronic issues.  I have gotten really sick a total of about three or four times this year alone.  My mom being a typical mom is worried about my diet due to my surgery my eating is radical different, but according to May blood test other than a little low on iron I have done quite well, they checked the whole screen.  I dont get all the food groups in a setting I do it in a day or two.  But I am very consquence of getting enough nutrients.  My thing I would say is sleep, it has been so elusive and so needed.  I am okay with tylenol pm but dont want perscription drugs to sleep.  I am not worried or stressed I think plain and simple it is menopause, some people lose alot of emotional stuff when they go through it me I just lose sleep.  It is however physically not good for me, my mother said as a child I always was a kid that need extra sleep and if I get less than 7 hours a sleep a night for more than a few days it really physically messes with my body and my ability to judge and now I have to deal with am I actually getting REM sleep so I need to remember back and say when was the last time I dreamed because I will start failing being able to make good and quick judgements with things if I am not properly rested.  So why am I up tonight, well the antibodtics are ripping out my lower gi, but after the shot and the starting of the zpack I am feeling soo much better.  I am just going to have to not be stubborn go to the doctor earlier untill my immune system decides to show back up.  However I feel better today, I was dreading the interpreter conference yesterday because I felt so bad but I know feel good enough I am okay with going.  My oxygen sats were low at the doctors but they got me to coughing up junk and it went back to normal. 

So life has slowed a little for me, MDK and I have suspened Algebra 2 for two weeks, and then when I am on my feet we will do double lessons till we get caught up. Since MDK job it has been a learning curve for both of us, with her finally making a decision to change her avialbity at work so that she has a more set schedule and has mornings off to do her schoolwork before work.  She thought at first that after work she felt she would have the energy to get it done but that was not the case, so I told her got a few weeks to work this out or I go talk to your manager and we cut your hours.  So she fiqured out what was going to work for her and I do think it will be better for her.  She was keeping up with her work but her quality was slipping so I had to call her on that.  She decided it was best to cut out a set time everyday for schoolwork and I think this will work for her. 

Well back to the potty again.

sick again

Well I got the crude everyone was passing around and I got it good.  I cant seem to stay healthy this year.  I dont know quite why that is.  I quess sometimes you get really sick and then your immune system isnt as built up as it has been in the past and so you are left more vulenerable.  I have not done much since Thursday afternoon.  I get up and do a small chore and then sit down and rest for about an hour.  I quess if you plug away long enough in this fashion you get a little ways, right?  So I am watching alot of tv, doing a few odd chores here and there, reading and playing on the computer and drinking enough to drown a normal human being.  Milk, orange juice, peach juice and water have been my main stay I finally got my appetite back on Friday, had some mashed potatoes with some chicken broth from the noodles and chicken Friday night.  I have been taking cipro, musinex and before bed, bendreyl. I am working on a baby blanket crocheting and finished one book of the Little Britches series.  Been taking naps sporadticially.  Well enough for now, back to getting better.

salsa and apples are done

Wow I think my hands are stuck in a position of holding a knife and an apple/tomato.  I finished off the salsa got a total of 9 quart jars of salsa, it was awesome!!!  It tastes so good, and to be able to not waste so many good green tomatoes was an extra blessing.  I feel like my first real gardening/canning experience was not bad, however I had envisioned so much more.  I am going to see if we got any more peppers and also zukes and then this week will proably be the end of it.  I am looking forward to next year with a whole bunch of different ideas of what we can do.  Plan to possible grow some indoor herbs this winter. 

Yesterday, MLK went with her friend K. and their family to the applefest in Winston, MDK was at Bible quiz and Dave and I stayed home.  He was worn out he has been worn out and it was starting to affect him some.  So I made sure we had a down day.  Now mind you that much peeling and canning was alot of work, but it kept Dave off his feet and resting most of the day which is what he needed. 

Next weekend we are going to celebrate MLK birthday, wow her being 19 seems impossible.  I quess I am an old woman, I will def. feel that way when she hits 20.  Well better get everyone up and around for church.