Suziecat

Morning Girls. Kat, you have such wonderful insight. That's what I love about you. And you have such a way with words. I always seem to jumble it up and juts can't put into words what I'm feeling in my heart. Jenn, I'm so happy to be reading your great post. You sound so much better now than in the past. Looks like you might be headed in the right direction. Good luck and I hope things work out for you in court and with Billy. And I'm glad to hear about you making amends with your neighbor. Life is to short to live it with hatred in your mind or heart. Tracy, If you get a chance, go to the rodeo. You'll have a good time. And the people watching is awesome. Right now I'm getting ready to get on to ticketmaster to try to get tickets to see George Strait and Reba in concert. Wish me luck. Be back soon to let you know how it went.

Kat, I love your new siggy. LOL.

Michelle, I agree with Kat. I would let it drop now that you have apologised. Hopefully they will also. When everyone gets together if it brought up again by them then you know that they are not someone that you really want in your life. Who knows you guys might end up all being good friends some day. I have one of theose one sided people in my life. It's my older sister. She is constantly at the Doctors or is reminding us how much pain she is in. I do understand pain and know what it feels like, she just acts like she is the only one who has it and that no one cares. She calls all the time to tell us what her ailment for the day is and never once asks us how we are doing. Right now she has no idea about my condition as I have chosen not to tell her at this time. I need to know exaclty what they are going to do with me before I tell her. But I can tell you right now that when I do tell her that she will somehow turn it back over to a whoa is her thing. How sad it will be that she can't rely on me to take her to her appointments or shopping or whatever else she needs. What cracks me up when she calls me is she always tells me that no matter what it is that "she will be just fine". Don't worry, I'll be fine. LOL. Does it look like I am worried, LOL? Isn't life wonderful.

Sitting here getting get caught up on American Idol from last night. One of the girls we work with at the hospital texted me to let me know that they only have 2 surgeries and that if we wanted to stay home that it would be ok. Well you know it doesn't take much for a guy to say he will stay home. So here we are. Got my houswork done and I will just spend the rest of the day getting caught up with stuff on my TiVo. Tracy, it's up to 17 degrees now. Looking for a high of 23. That pool is looking better to me each passing day. Before we know it I'll be floating.

Home from our workout. Now I'm gonna have a bowl of Fiber One cereal. I like that stuff. And it wirks. LOL. Got lots of housework I need to get caught up on, so that is my agenda for today. And then it's Hospital day. I'll check in when I can. Make it a good one.

8 above and a windchill of 4 degrees. That's what is facing me as I walk out the door to go exercise. So glad hubby woke me up for this. But that's ok because I didn't get in any yesterday. I'll be home soon.

Michelle, I think I have heard that about B-12 before. I guess I need to read up some more on it. But I bet you can't wait till your bed is all put together and you can relax and feel comfortable on it. Just and old lazy day here. I took a little nap and it felt good. BIL and I are not going to the movies tonight. He's home sick and I'm not going around him. Be back soon.

Home from work and I can not get warm. Seriously. I'm shivering. I brought it up with my Doc and he had my Thyroid checked and all is ok there. I have 2 thermal underwear shirts on and a t-shirt. Crimany. I had a bowl of Fiber-One cereal for breakfast and I really liked it. Had a wonderful taste to it. It's better that Kashi.

Ewwwww, it's 11 degrees out and I have to go into work. Looks like it will be a 4 layer day. LOL. The reason Hubby and I went to the Docs is because when I went to pick up our meds, our co-pay had went up to $25.00 a piece for brand name. We decided we would ask him if he could give us generic. One of hubby's he said he could but didn't think it would be as good. It's his Crestor. So we are going to try the generic for 3 months and see how it goes. I know we shouldn't girp about the $25.00 but when you are retired and on a budget, you have to watch every penny. The nuerotin(sp?) was given to me when I had my toes operated on about 5 years ago. The Doc who did it never took me off of it and I really haven't been back to see him. So this Doc said since it was so long ago and that is was such a low dose that he didn't see why I couldn't come off of it. My Band Doc took me off of the Metformin the day I had my surgery. Yesterday Doc took me off Actos. That just leaves my Glipizide to take. My last 3 A1C test have all been right around the 5.5 mark. Good enough to take me off one more med. And than I have my kidney med to take. So I'm down to 2 meds now. Happy Me. Looks like my BIL and I are going to the movies tonight. He has been wanting to see Avatar. I loved that movie and would like to see it again. The only thing is that it doesn't start till 7:40pm. That would put us home around 11pm. To late for me. lol. So I think we are going to see the 3D IMAX showing at 6 pm. This will be neat. I have never been to a IMAX movie. He's also not sure if he is going to use the wheelchair or the crutches. I told him to use both. Wheel in and than park it at the front and than use the crutches to climb about half way up. There is still swelling in his stump and until they can get that down, he can't go in and get fitted for a new leg. OK, off to go dry my hair and than to work. I'll be back soon.

Back from my outing. Good news from the Doc. He took me off one of my Diabetes meds. That's off 2 and 1 more to go. He also took me off of one other one. That puts me at just 2 meds a day now. Woot Woot. While I was in the Docs office my hone rang and it was the Dentist office wanting to know where I was. LOL. Seems they told me the wrong time. I said I would be there just as soon as I finished with the Doc. So I make it over to there and he said he could fix the filling in a jiff. Ya know when they say that you should always be prepared. It ended up being a little bit more than that. So I'm back to normal now. lol. Well it was 3 o'clock by the time we got out and hubby said lets go to SidePockets and play some pool and get some lunch. We had a really good time and enjoy the relaxation. Now it's Jammy time and Olympics and off to bed early.

Tracy, just when you were getting over being sick. Hopefully you won't catch anything again. I like getting up early and getting my work done.

Crap, crap. I get up, come out and turn the TV on and check the school closings. Nope, I have to go into work. So I go in take a shower, come out feed the cats, fix my hot cocoa. Check in, sitting here waiting to go dry my hair and they finally announce that schools are closed. Why couldn't they have said that 45 minutes ago, I could have went back to bed. Oh well, I'll take it anyway. So you guys have me today till it's time for my Do appointment at 1 and my Dentist appointment at 1:45.

Morning Girls. I'm finally checking in. All is fine here. Just cold and some ice and snow. Schools aren't closed so I have to go into work. I'm really thinking that when I get off work that I will head over to WW's and join. They are still having free joining so that might be part of my inspiration. I'm hoping this will help me get back on track also. Worked on the last of the quilt yesterday and got it finished. I'll turn it in soon and I think I'll try to get one more done. That will be it because then I have to get started on my next project. I'm doing a counted cross stitch for my niece's wedding. Made some chicken noodle soup yesterday and couldn't stay out of it. I think I ended up having 3 bowls thru the day. It tasted so good. Lots of veggies in it. Yummy. Kat, hope Rick stays safe on his work outing. I'll check in later. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Saturday morning and I'm finishing my hot cocoa so I can go get ready to go to work. yuck. Went to bed real early last night and got a good nights sleep. I wasn't feeling real good and the Doctor said that yesterday. She said I might experience some cramping and discomfort. So I turned up my electric blanket and crawled in. Have a great day.

Had my upper GI this morning and all went ok. Not that I ever want to go thru that again, but it wasn't that bad. I was however reaching my limit on drinking that stuff. One more swallow and I may have had to spew it out. Now to wait and see what they say. We left there and went to visit my cousin in the hospital. By that time it was snowing out. It was the hugest flakes I have ever seen. It was so pretty out. But it was also warm and it was just turning to slush on the roadways. We stopped for a quick bite to eat and than came home. I tried to take a nap but the phone kept ringing and I finally gave up. Now I feel like I may be coming down with something. It may have been the lack of sleep and being out in the cold, damp weather. So I am off to bed. Tracy, I hope you had a wonderful day.

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Home from all my running around. And Kat you will so proud of me. The weather is really nice here today so I grabbed the dog and went for a long walk. I wore him out. It felt good and I enjoyed the weather. Came home and cleaned up around the wood pile and then swept the garage. Whew. Fixed me a baked potato with a little cheese and sour cream. Only able to get down about half of it. The grocery store is have a 3 day fish sale. I was only going to pick up 3 things and ended up buying fish and shrimp. Going to work now. Be back later this evening.

Wow Tracy, that was a long post from you. And I enjoyed it. There's nothing I can do about it this year but I suggest that next spring we try to make a trip to Jenns. Maybe that would give us all time to save up for it. We can either do it just girls or families. I'm off to go take my Sis to her Doc appointment. Then we will go to the store and then home. Plus I have to work this evening. Everyone have a great day.

Hey, Hubby and I got home from our shift at the hospital and there was a message from the Doctor that had done my physical last week. He said that the chest x-ray still shows the same as before but he wasn't sure if there had been a big change in the size since he couldn't find the last x-rays. Silly me, I haven't sent them back yet. So I will call him tomorrow and tell him I will be sending them out ASAP.

Back from noon Mass and getting my Ashes. Now it's time to get dressed and head to the hospital. You know what I will be doing when I get home........Olympics.

Kat the Angry one. LOL, LOL, LOL. Now that's funny. But I do agree with you, that is one of the reasons I hated getting the newspaper here. For over 20 years we were loyal customers. How come I have to call and get my name back on their throw list. At one time we did have this one couple that went out of their way to bring the paper garage door so my Mom didn't have to walk very far to pick it up. But after 20 years you would think that I would be a priority.

Just got my Upper GI scheduled for this Friday. I've never had one done. Do you guys know what I am in for? They did say to fast after midnight. That's easy to do. Except I do like my hot cocoa. I didn't ask, can I have any water?

Morning Girls. Sun is shining like crazy today but still very cold. Right now only 17 degrees. Hubby let me sleep in this morning so I didn't go to the gym with him. That's ok, I'll get my exercise at the hospital tonight. Speaking of the hospital. About a month ago when I woke up in the morning and could not swallow anything, I went in and hubby said lets get to the hospital. Well, I get a notice from my insurance company yesterday that they won't cover it because it was a "non-emergency". Hmmmm, someone not able to even swallow their own spit for no reason??? I had no idea what was going on. How was I to know it was not life-threatening. So if I thought I broke my arm and went in and they took an x-ray and it was not broke, would they refuse that also? Looks like I will be making some phone calls today. Other than that, it's laundry time. I'll check in later.

After we moved into our house I attempted to get my hubby to get a dog. But our next door neighbors at the time had 8 small dogs and the otherside of us had 2 poodles. Hubby said that was enough dogs for one area, so we never got to have one. We ended up with kitties.

Long day yesterday and I am exhausted today. Everything went well at my appointment. It actually should have been better but I'll take a 4 pound loss. So I'm telling Doc about the fact that about 3 nights a week I wake up about 2-3am and have to down rolaids. He wanted to know if there was a reason for this happening and I told him that if I ate after 7pm at night that I knew I would be waking up with acid in my throat. So he has decided to order an Upper GI. He said to rule out any possibilities of anything being wrong, no hitial hernia or anything else. Now I'm just waiting for them to call and schedule an appointment. Than I'm off to go meet my friend Judy and she picked an all you can eat salad bar place. It was really nice there and very clean. I tried some stuff I had never had before, like Jicama. I liked it. lol. So we sat a gabbed for 4 hours. She's my 8 week therapy session. We've known each other since we met in the pool at the Y. That was about 9 years ago. She now lives over by my Doc so the only time I really get to see her is then. We finished talking and then went across the street to Baskin-Robbins for some ice cream. We ended up sitting there for a long time also. Finally I got home in time to watch the Olympics. Got up early this morning a went to work and went to give my quarterly blood draw for my kidney. I then went to Wal-Mart and did my shopping. Came home, put things away grabbed my cat and got in my chair and took a nap. Feeling a little better right now. Tonight I have to go to the High School for their last home basketball game. My next door neighbor plays for them and it's Senior night. Kat, I'm all in on the exercise. Here is my problem with it though. I have pinched nerve in my left leg. I think it might have to do with my sciatica. It has gradually gotten better but it's been months now. I would love to get out and walk but there were times my leg would buckle on me. I am now up to being able to walk a 1/2 mile. After that I have to baby it again. My treadmill is in the utility closet downstairs. Whenever my sister and her hubby decide to move out, I will pull it back out and use it. Right now it is 24 degrees so walking outside is not an option. Plus there is still snow in someplaces. So that leaves me with work, going to the gym with hubby and housework to give me my fifteen minutes of exercise. But I'm going to make an effort to get it in. I'm also thinking about joining WW's again. Next monday will be the first chance I have to do it. I used to go on tuesday mornings and all those people want me back. But my older sis has decided that tuesdays would be a good day to schedule all of her appointments. So mondays will be when I can go to the meetings. They start about 45 minutes after I get off work so that will be easy for me. Loving the Olympics.