I have made it to my parents for the holidays. I had to try and time it so I could try to avoid snow storms and blowing snow. Friday I used the snow blower for the first time. It wasn’t pretty, but I got the job done. I did well on the sidewalk, but the driveway was a little a little ehh. I didn’t know which way to blow the snow, I ended up blowing into the wind so it blew right back at me. I also blew it where I already cleared and had to clear again. While I was trying to clear a spot for the trash bins by the curb, I put the blower into reverse took a step back and was against the edge of the drift in the yard and had no place to go – unfortunately I didn’t take my hand off of the clutch fast enough and snow blower ended pushing me backwards into the snow bank. The only thing hurt was my pride. I did take a quick look around to make sure the other people out snow blowing didn’t see me though. To make sure no one learned of snow blower bullying me, I took the shovel and tried to rearrange snow bank so no one would know I fell into it.
I spent the weekend at Aaron’s parent house. It was a slow drive thanks to the snow and the wind. But my kitties were quiet. Spooky took her pill – but for the rest of the day it was like she was high. Her eyes didn’t focus and she growled instead of purring. But I think she meant to purr. She would be all lovey and rubbing against me and growling.
We did puzzles. I like puzzles. And Aaron’s little brother tormented the dog with a whoopee cushion. For a while Bagley wouldn’t even go near his bed for fear it would make a funny noise when he laid or walked over it.
I made it to my parents today. I didn’t drug the kitties and they did quite well. They just chilled in the back and tolerated the ride. My parents don’t have a lot of snow, but it sure does blow a lot and drift even more. My dad pushed snow this afternoon and when my mom and I went to get groceries you could hardly tell he had done anything – guess he’ll have to move all the snow again.
Time to go check on the kitties and make sure they aren’t being bad little kitties.
252 days to go.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Day 144
Christmas shopping is done. I got the last of what I needed yesterday morning and I wrapped most of them last night. Just a few more to wrap and I can cross something of my To Do list.
Boo is feeling better. The antibiotics must have started to do their job because after 2 days of not eating she started eating again last night. Not the full on chow down like Spook was doing, but she ate none the less. Now we’ll have to see how she travels. I can’t give her the sedatives while she is on the antibiotics so I may have a 3.5 hour car ride with a whiney kitty. My plan is to sedate Spook – hopefully if Boo sees her lying down and being quite she will do the same.
I’ve been feeling for lack of a better term “off” as of late. This morning I woke up to my alarm, and it took me 5 minutes to figure out what day it was and if I needed to go to work today or not. Yesterday I had to be called to a meeting I scheduled because for some reason I was convinced I scheduled it for an hour later than I did. I even look at my calendar yesterday and saw the meeting at 10 instead of 9. I felt so silly and unprepared. Things like that just keep happening more and more frequently. Aaron tells me it just because the holidays are here and I have more to worry about. I hope that’s it. But it could be any number of things, the cold, the short days, the migraines, the migraine medicine, the 3 important projects I am trying to balance as well as my other normal maintenance thingies. I have notice my mood is down more too. I certainly hope I don’t have the winter blahs already – we’re not even to the official start of winter yet. I plan on adjusting my work hours in January so I can start running on my lunch hour. With it being as cold as it has been I have ran since December started. :( I'm hoping a little bit more activity in my schedule will help balance me out again.
Finals are winding down here and campus is starting to empty out. I typically don’t mind the students but some of them just really grate on my nerves. For example – we have 1 classroom in our area, and a couple offices for TAs. Students will come and just sprawl out on the floor an more or less block the hallways and I literally have to step over them. I would love to tell them this is not a lounge area but I don’t. They also do the same thing in the coffee shop. Well not the laying down bit, but just taking up more space than they need to. There are times where we have 6 people crowded around a table meant for three sipping our java while at the next much larger table is one student, sitting in one chair, coat in another, backpack on a third books all over the place and not even drinking coffee. Enough ranting for one day.
256 days to go.
Boo is feeling better. The antibiotics must have started to do their job because after 2 days of not eating she started eating again last night. Not the full on chow down like Spook was doing, but she ate none the less. Now we’ll have to see how she travels. I can’t give her the sedatives while she is on the antibiotics so I may have a 3.5 hour car ride with a whiney kitty. My plan is to sedate Spook – hopefully if Boo sees her lying down and being quite she will do the same.
I’ve been feeling for lack of a better term “off” as of late. This morning I woke up to my alarm, and it took me 5 minutes to figure out what day it was and if I needed to go to work today or not. Yesterday I had to be called to a meeting I scheduled because for some reason I was convinced I scheduled it for an hour later than I did. I even look at my calendar yesterday and saw the meeting at 10 instead of 9. I felt so silly and unprepared. Things like that just keep happening more and more frequently. Aaron tells me it just because the holidays are here and I have more to worry about. I hope that’s it. But it could be any number of things, the cold, the short days, the migraines, the migraine medicine, the 3 important projects I am trying to balance as well as my other normal maintenance thingies. I have notice my mood is down more too. I certainly hope I don’t have the winter blahs already – we’re not even to the official start of winter yet. I plan on adjusting my work hours in January so I can start running on my lunch hour. With it being as cold as it has been I have ran since December started. :( I'm hoping a little bit more activity in my schedule will help balance me out again.
Finals are winding down here and campus is starting to empty out. I typically don’t mind the students but some of them just really grate on my nerves. For example – we have 1 classroom in our area, and a couple offices for TAs. Students will come and just sprawl out on the floor an more or less block the hallways and I literally have to step over them. I would love to tell them this is not a lounge area but I don’t. They also do the same thing in the coffee shop. Well not the laying down bit, but just taking up more space than they need to. There are times where we have 6 people crowded around a table meant for three sipping our java while at the next much larger table is one student, sitting in one chair, coat in another, backpack on a third books all over the place and not even drinking coffee. Enough ranting for one day.
256 days to go.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Day 141
December is passing so quickly. I wish I could say I was in the Christmas spirit. And I think I am when I’m not in my house. At the store and in the office and in the car I find myself singing along to Christmas songs. Being cheerful, merry, and bright. But at home – its just a normal day. All the presents I bought are tucked under the desk in the spare room with the door closed. The ornaments are still boxed and on the shelf where I put them last year. The wreath I have been meaning to buy is still at the wreath store. But I think I am ok with all of that.
I’ve found that as well adjusted as I think I am about Aaron being gone, I still find myself missing him at times. And it seems to happen at those bizarre I-shouldn’t-tear-up-here kind of moments. For example I was finishing my Christmas shopping and I walked by the jewelry counter at Younkers and I found I was looking at men’s watches. I looked at them thinking many would make a good gift for Aaron – and I started tearing up. I was suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of missing him and not having him around for Christmas. I think it’s a good idea that I’m planning on spending Christmas with my family.
On another note – my kitties are no longer capable of making more kitties. Spooky has not shut up since Saturday. She is constantly purring, and talking, and wants all sorts of loving attention. Boo on the other hand has become very quiet and alone. I’m worried about her. She didn’t eat her food this morning and the earliest I can get her in at the vet is tomorrow afternoon. I hope she is feeling better when I get home.
Yesterday we had a blizzard. It had been forecasted all week so it wasn’t a big deal. Saturday I made sure I got all my cookie baking supplies so I had something to do while it blizzarded and Aaron gave me a snow blower lesson via MSN. We got about 9 inches of snow and everything is covered in white. The sun is shining today and it’s a mild -7 degrees. And thanks to all that extra reflective surface I ended up with a migraine this morning. Not to worry though I caught it in time. I went to the see the doc last week about a different treatment option instead of taking a fist full of ibuprofen. So I popped one of my new pills with the aura started. The head ache stopped in its tracks. The aura reduced. The side effects suck. Doc said I would likely make the nausea worse. So instead of wanting to find a dark quite place to rest because my head hurts – I want to find a soft comfy spot to curl up while my tummy hurts. Thankfully the tummy ache and almost impossible to resist urge to vomit passed after about an hour. But I guess I would take an hour of tummy ache over a day of migraine and sight, sound, and smell sensitivity.
259 days to go.
I’ve found that as well adjusted as I think I am about Aaron being gone, I still find myself missing him at times. And it seems to happen at those bizarre I-shouldn’t-tear-up-here kind of moments. For example I was finishing my Christmas shopping and I walked by the jewelry counter at Younkers and I found I was looking at men’s watches. I looked at them thinking many would make a good gift for Aaron – and I started tearing up. I was suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of missing him and not having him around for Christmas. I think it’s a good idea that I’m planning on spending Christmas with my family.
On another note – my kitties are no longer capable of making more kitties. Spooky has not shut up since Saturday. She is constantly purring, and talking, and wants all sorts of loving attention. Boo on the other hand has become very quiet and alone. I’m worried about her. She didn’t eat her food this morning and the earliest I can get her in at the vet is tomorrow afternoon. I hope she is feeling better when I get home.
Yesterday we had a blizzard. It had been forecasted all week so it wasn’t a big deal. Saturday I made sure I got all my cookie baking supplies so I had something to do while it blizzarded and Aaron gave me a snow blower lesson via MSN. We got about 9 inches of snow and everything is covered in white. The sun is shining today and it’s a mild -7 degrees. And thanks to all that extra reflective surface I ended up with a migraine this morning. Not to worry though I caught it in time. I went to the see the doc last week about a different treatment option instead of taking a fist full of ibuprofen. So I popped one of my new pills with the aura started. The head ache stopped in its tracks. The aura reduced. The side effects suck. Doc said I would likely make the nausea worse. So instead of wanting to find a dark quite place to rest because my head hurts – I want to find a soft comfy spot to curl up while my tummy hurts. Thankfully the tummy ache and almost impossible to resist urge to vomit passed after about an hour. But I guess I would take an hour of tummy ache over a day of migraine and sight, sound, and smell sensitivity.
259 days to go.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Day 127
And we’re into December and only 23 days to shop. Or in my case 22 days to procrastinate :)
Actually this year I am ordering all the presents for my nephews and niece online. I’m not a fan of crowds at stores. I like to take my time and look around, not be rushed, and not have people in my way.
All in all I’m looking forward to the Christmas. I get to spend a lot of time with my family – and I’m taking the dog and two cats with me. The kitties are going to the vet this week to get their shots updated – and then next week they get spayed, and hopefully a prescription for something to make them quiet sleepy kitties for the car ride. The only bad thing about going home for the holidays and not have Aaron with me is that I will be banished to the little room and the twin sized bed. Which may mean the dog will wonder around and look for better sleeping accommodations in one of the other rooms instead of sleeping on his mat in my room. Silly dog – thinking he’s a people and needs to sleep in a bed.
So the rest of Turkey Day weekend went well. I traveled to Aaron’s parents house to visit with his family. We ate, we chatted and we played Wii (something I am not too good at but I’m still going to put it on my Christmas list). They also gave me strange looks as I doted on my dog, and wrapped the 65 pound lap dog in his blanky, and had a one sided conversation with him, and tucked him in at night. I think I may need to find more people to talk to so I don’t look so much like the crazy person.
Aaron made his usual call this weekend, but instead of just calling me he called his parents house. His parents and all of his siblings got a chance to talk too – which I think they all really enjoyed. It sounded like he had a pleasant Thanksgiving and even sent us some photos of the spread they dined on.
273 days to go.
Actually this year I am ordering all the presents for my nephews and niece online. I’m not a fan of crowds at stores. I like to take my time and look around, not be rushed, and not have people in my way.
All in all I’m looking forward to the Christmas. I get to spend a lot of time with my family – and I’m taking the dog and two cats with me. The kitties are going to the vet this week to get their shots updated – and then next week they get spayed, and hopefully a prescription for something to make them quiet sleepy kitties for the car ride. The only bad thing about going home for the holidays and not have Aaron with me is that I will be banished to the little room and the twin sized bed. Which may mean the dog will wonder around and look for better sleeping accommodations in one of the other rooms instead of sleeping on his mat in my room. Silly dog – thinking he’s a people and needs to sleep in a bed.
So the rest of Turkey Day weekend went well. I traveled to Aaron’s parents house to visit with his family. We ate, we chatted and we played Wii (something I am not too good at but I’m still going to put it on my Christmas list). They also gave me strange looks as I doted on my dog, and wrapped the 65 pound lap dog in his blanky, and had a one sided conversation with him, and tucked him in at night. I think I may need to find more people to talk to so I don’t look so much like the crazy person.
Aaron made his usual call this weekend, but instead of just calling me he called his parents house. His parents and all of his siblings got a chance to talk too – which I think they all really enjoyed. It sounded like he had a pleasant Thanksgiving and even sent us some photos of the spread they dined on.
273 days to go.
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