.:: Yolospat ::.

It only takes one single person to make WoW not be fun. It’s those people, I need to not be around.

My husband and myself both had the day off today to celebrate our 2nd year anniversary. We both slept in but when I got up my feet, knees and hips were SCREAMING at me. I took a pain pill and a muscle relaxer and went back to bed until Jonah woke me up needing to go out.

Mom sent us a card with a $100 gift certificate for Walmart and a very nice card. After Brendan and I got up and around we went shopping for groceries and about 97% that wasn’t on the list. Heh. We came home to rest up because we’re going to Red Lobster for dinner.

I’ve learned so many things about marriage in the 2 years we’ve been married and the 3 years we’ve been together. We have already tested these vows:

1. For better or for worse
2. In sickness and in health

And we made it And that makes me happy and I look forward to many years to come.

This change in weather has been kicking my ass. This morning I was so sore and stiff. The pain lately has been a lot worse too, especially in my legs. My feet have been swelling up all weekend too so I’m trying to keep them propped up as much as possible. I have the just-got-run-over-by-a-mac-truck feeling today and lately.

I found a web site Friday night that streams the police scanner at Scan Cobb. When I was growing up my Father was a fireman and we always had a police scanner playing 24/7. I used to have a mobil scanner, but I don’t anymore so it was exciting that they actually stream this stuff. It makes me feel like my Grandma Reba who still has her scanner going all the time.

Tomorrow is my husband and I’s 2nd year anniversary. It’s amazing.

When I came home from work on Friday I did the usual. Got out my Macbook Pro and set it up on my desk (I take it to and from work everyday, it’s constantly with me) and I turned on the TV to see if there would be anything good on. Sometimes I just like having the TV on for background noise. I switched over from Comcast to AT&T U-Verse a few months ago forever bidding farewell to an ISP who had shown me time and time again how horrible they were yet I felt like I didn’t have a choice since they were the only ISP available who had the speeds I wanted.

Anyway, with the plan we got a DVR which we put in our living room. The only time my husband and I watch TV in the living room is when the DVR recorded a show that we both like, or if we have company. I usually watch TV in my home office otherwise. So on Friday I noticed that I had a few new options on my menu screen then I usually do, and one of them was “Watch Recorded TV” .. I just have a regular cable box in my home office, but to my surprise and excitement I was able to pull what we have on the DVR and watch it! This was very exciting for me, and another reason why we went with AT&T U-Verse.

Now, I didn’t have all the options that I would had I been in the living room watching the TV with the actual DVR attached to it. I couldn’t delete shows from my home office like I could in the living room, which really isn’t a big deal. So now I’m looking for more shows that only “I” want to watch and record on the DVR since I have access to it now.

I don’t regret ever switching. I’ve hated Comcast for the last 8 years I was a Comcast customer. I’ve gotten horrible customer service from them and at at least 3 different locations I had a lot of problems with Comcast dropping signal. Very annoying. So, dear Comcast, I’m so happy that I will never have you in my home again

I’m so sick of them. Hot/Cold Hot/Cold … when will this be over?

The other day when I was at CVS waiting to pick up my prescriptions I was sitting in the pharmacy waiting room tucked way in the back beside the pharmacy counter, reading the Twillight series on my Kindle which goes every where with me these days. I thought I heard my name called, so I put my kindle in sleep mode, stood up, peered around the corner only to find out there was another “Jenny” they were talking to. So I sat back down and punched in the two keys that bring the kindle out of sleep mode and the screen freaks out on me. It looked like a broken LCD with thick black lines running horizontally except for 3/4’s inch on top where the screen savor was. The kindle screen isn’t an LCD screen. It’s electronic paper.

So I called the Customer Service number I got from my kindle owners manual. The phone rang about 5 times and to my surprise, a live human being (I think) answered. I told him my problem, he ran me through a few steps like holding down the reset button in the back for 10 seconds. Nothing helped, my screen was still foo-bared.

And just like that, he told me he was overnighting me a new Kindle. Wow! That’s not where the surprises ended, however. When I got home from work I eagerly tore open the amazon box waiting for me on the kitchen counter, shaking with kindle withdrawals. I got it out, plugged it in, went on the amazon site to register my new kindle which took 5 seconds, and HURRAY! It was registered. Since I’m reading the Twillight Series by Stephenie Meyer, they were the first books I downloaded from my book repository on Amazon servers.

Then panic hit. I didn’t want to go through page by page to find where I left off. If you have seen these books, you would know they are quite thick. So I opened the first book fully prepared to go page by page hundred’s of times. With my jaw on the floor, the book opened right to the page I left off. I didn’t realize that the kindle sync’d my bookmarks too! Way too cool.

I love my Kindle.

Stealing from Fyrfli because it couldn’t have been expressed more perfectly.

catharsis (k???ärsis)
noun

1 the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
2 rare Medicine purgation.
ORIGIN early 19th cent. (sense 2) : from Greek katharsis, from kathairein ‘cleanse,’ from katharos ‘pure.’ The notion of “release” through drama ( sense 1) derives from Aristotle’s Poetics.

I had my monthly follow-up with Dr. C today. He ran a virus panel on me last month, so today he went over the findings. Apparently I still have pneumonia from when my Grandmother gave it to me last April. However, this is going to be kept a family secret (she doesn’t even know what a computer is so I’m safe to write about it on my blog) otherwise she would feel absolutely horrible and guilt ridden. She’s 89 years old, she needs nothing but happy memories from here on out. I also have the Epstein-Barr bar virus and from what I understand, it’s a common virus also known as Mono. The weekly IV’s that I’ve been getting aren’t seeming to help, so he raised the dosage on my pain patch. I’ll be going on twice a month for an anti-viral IV along with a shot that goes along with that. No more weekly IV’s, yeeeeee haw! So excited about that. It’s gets a little annoying to get poked so often.

So, all in all we have a few set backs that we have to clear up, but I feel so much better than I did the month before last. That’s progress. I’m paying about $2k of meds per month. That makes me not so exicted, but once I start getting better hopefully the amount will start going down.

Since the pain patches aren’t exactly the easiest thing to keep on, I found these clear water-proof dressings at CVS that fit perfectly over the pain patch which allows it to breath and keeps it on my skin without any creases. I need to order more since they only come 8 in a box. That’s the box on the right side of all my new meds and re-fills I came home with.

I spoke to a woman at the FFC today who was really discouraged with her fibro. She was feeling so alone because she came from a small town in South Carolina and didn’t know anyone else with fibro. I talked to her a bit and told her even tho we might not all have exact same symptoms doesn’t mean your alone. Every one with fibro is unique with their own unique bodies and unique yet similar symptoms. She said that was the most hopeful thing she had heard in months. Always makes me feel good to know I helped someone.

So, this is the month to get rid of those nasty little virus bugs in my blood. Oh joy!

Work has been busier this weekend then it has for a long time. I’m merely “on call” which means I only get called if there is a “Priority 1″ or “Priority 2″ system outage. Mainly, one of our sites has to be completely down, or partially down. This weekend, it seemed like everything was down, especially the last 48 hours. I’ve gotten calls back to back all throughout the night up until this morning. I feel bad because my poor husband got woken up each and every time the phone rang. As for me, I’m exhausted as I’ve had little to no sleep.

The good part about all of this is I get some days off due to all of this. I have a doctors appointment Tuesday at the FFC with Dr. C anyway, so I’m going to take that day off for sure.

I’ve been lax with updating my wordpress plugin’s and such lately too so I plan on getting my site all up to date today. I’ve also finished a few afghan’s that I’ve made for friends which need a few finishing touches and hopefully I’ll get those out in the mail this week. Pictures coming soon on that.

Now for WP maintenance.

I’m having a bit of a problem sleeping at night lately, and the fat overfed squirrels aren’t helping. Let me explain.

We have roughtly about 5 huge tall acorn tree’s around the house and some of the branches and limbs go right above the house about 150 feet straight up toward the sky. We have skylights in our living room to allow more light in since we live in a very wooded area. Acorns are small, usually less than an inch big but they are like hard little rocks. With fall upon us, the tree’s are raining leaves down pretty constantly round the clock. Along with the leaves, come the acorns. When these acorns make their 150 foot fall right on the skylights there is a bomb like echo that radiates through the whole house.

BOOOOOMMM

It’s so loud. When it’s 3am in the morning it’s enough to sit you straight up in bed with a panic. My husband and I are getting used to it, a little, but it’s making our sleep pattern very chopping in between each acorn that falls.

I was outside on the porch this afternoon putting Jonah out and I noticed a few squirrels on the top of the fence. Holy moly, they have gotten fat. Every morning there are at least 20-30 acorns sitting on our porch and since the squirrels are so full they aren’t cleaning up these extra acorns.

If you have any starving squirrels, please send them my way.