A Year in Photos - Day 10

This month we had 3 birthdays.  We normally do individual cakes.   But it just didn't work out that way this month.  So I made one cake.  Me and my friend here decided we ought to divide the cake according to age.  So Danny, who is 20, got the smallest chunk.  Curis got the largest (just by a little) then Jack.  It was quite amusing! 

A Year in PHotos - Day 9

Ok, so the story behind this is last week me and one of the boys who works the front desk saw something on the roof with the security camera.  all we could see were the feet and it looked like a little dead body up there.  So he and another of the boys tried to get it last week but couldn't get on the roof.  So Tuesday when I was gone, one of them got up and retrieved the little guy.  Which we now know is a Wolfman.  So this is what I see strung up over my desk when I came in Wednesday morning.  With  the "el dan-o" signature card.  (Derived from el bart-o from the simpsons)  I decided since it's not in my way, he can stay up there indefinitely!

A Year in Photos - Day 8

We went to a funeral in Willard today.  This is the family window in the church.  On my dad's dad's side.

A Year in Photos - Day 7

Yes, on the 6th day I already forgot to take a picture! 

So Day 7 we were trying to get a picture of the kid in her curlers!  Joe got a good one on his camera phone.  This was the best one I got.

A Year in Photos - Day 5

We went to McCall's pumpkin patch for a friend's daughter's birthday.  I thought this pumpkin jumper just looked neat.

A Year in Photos - Day 4

I saw this on a car I parked behind at Big Lots.  I LOVE the Yoda one!!!  

A Year in Photos - Day 3

The first freeze of the year!   BBRRRR!!!!  I don't like it one bit!

A Year In Photos - Day 2

I got to see my hubby today!  It doesn't happen often, so I get quite giddy when it happens!  So I took a picture of his truck while I was waiting for him to unload.

A Year in Photos - Day 1

I've been hearing about this for quite some time.  I'd been debating doing it and I finally decided to just do it and stop thinking about doing it!  So today is my first day.  This was taken as I was heading home on my bike ride this morning.  It was still dark out and light was just starting to seep out from behind the mountains.

Back to the land of the living!

I think I'm ready to start in with the old routine again.  As far as our workouts go.  I haven't gone since I first got sick a month ago.  So I'm starting back up today.  I went for a bike ride this morning.  Fairly easy since I still get to coughing when I exert myself too much.  So I'll just have to take it easy until I fully recover.  I decided to do the morning ride because I need extra exercise.  What I've been doing just doesn't seem to help with the weight loss.  I felt the difference in my ability to do things and whatnot, but there wasn't much weight loss.  So I'm guessing I need to do more cardio work to burn more fat.  So, bike riding in the morning should help.  So we'll see how that works out.  

Xmas shopping

We did most of our xmas shopping this weekend!!  Wow!  This was my month for my extra paycheck and another one for Joe.  He gets paid every week....lucky!  So all the months that have 5 Wednesdays he gets an extra paycheck!  So I think that's 4 months a year.   Sheesh.  So anyway, since this was my month, we decided to do our xmas shopping.  Phew!!  We nearly got everything taken care of!  There are just a few random things here and there to pick up.  But for the most part everything is done!!  So those few things we still need are absolutely no big deal!!  A friend of mine just had surgery last week so she's still all drugged up.  I found something I thought she and her family would like so I asked to make sure she didn't have it already.  I'm counting on the drugs to help her forget so it'll still be a surprise in a couple months!  HAHAHA!!   But man, it was great!  No crowds.  Everything we wanted to get they had!  We found some great sales too.  Ahhh.....it's so nice to think that it's all behind us!!  Now we just have to wrap everything!!  Soon too before we forget what we got for whom!  HAHA!!!  

Sick & Tired

Tomorrow, it will be 4 weeks since I first went to the dr. with whatever crap I've got.

It started out in my nose and I possibly had a sinus infection. They gave me some antibiotics that made me totally nauseated so in addition to the crap-like feeling I was already experiencing I felt totally pukey. That was lovely.

A week later, it hadn't gone away, and they tell you, if it doesn't go away, come back. So on a Sunday, off I go to Urgent Care again. Oh, I had started coughing junk up at this point. So they took a chest x-ray just in case cuz the dr. who saw me said quite a few people had come in with pneumonia. No pneumonia for me. Bronchitis. So he gives me a stronger antibiotic. The 5 day zpack. Take that. Nothing really happens.

A week after that, on Monday, I go to the dr. again. Hmm...what could it be? I got some stronger cough medicine since that was still much of my problem. Again, not really doing much for me.

Another week passes, this past Tuesday I go to the dr. again. This one goes over all my past visits. Does a peak flow meter thing to check my lung output. That's fine. Does a strep test since by this time my throat is killing me. He decides that it can't be the same infection because a viral infection shouldn't last this long. There was also no reason for me to have had antibiotics when they said it was bronchitis since it's a virus. But since the antibiotics didn't do anything for that and didn't prevent anything further, it has to be 2 viruses I got. Back to back. Fun stuff. So, he pretty much said that the second one should be nearly done. He gave me more cough medicine since that is still my major issue. (I wonder if they are going to red flag me in the narcotics notebook at the pharmacy???) He pretty much just said to wait it out. Nothing we can do but help alleviate the symptoms. Sigh....hack....sigh...

Oh! I forgot, the most amazingly horrible thing happened yesterday! My throat is still hurting. I discovered the other day that blowing my nose kills my throat!! Yesterday I found out that sneezing makes my throat feel like it's exploding!!!! I swear I thought i was gonna die. It was one of the most painful things I've ever felt. Horrible horrible!