update....

It was Hubby's grandfather...I guess he has skin cancer. He has dealt with this before, so it's not a shock, but still not a happy thing. Not sure why he couldn't tell me on the phone, since he just said it and we moved on...but, whatever....
Need a snack.....

hmmmm....

Ok...well, it took several tries to get the create box to work....weird....
Anyway...had lunch with my Dr. friend today. I guess if I'm Psymon, she is Simon...same name, different spelling. Looking at her sisters band pictures for the slide show, saw Darth's sister. Guess she's pregnant and un-wed. Her best friend (at least in high school) just had a baby...I was afraid to ask if she had a hubby or not... Shouldn't bother me, but it does. We're trying...well not TOO hard, but still we should have gotten it right one of these times!
Also, Hubby just called (well, a half an hour ago now) to tell me he was on the way home, and then said something about having a bad day, well, just one thing, and he talked with his mom for a while.....so it makes me wonder if his grandfather's cancer is back. If my SIL is pregnant, that would be bad (but he said it wouldn't make me mad...THAT would make me mad). All I can think is his grandfather.... I'm probably worrying for nothing. But I do that...worry.
Still haven't worked on either paper....napped most of yesterday after brunch. That was a bad thing. Hubby liked it....I thought it was cheep and tacky and the food was bad. Yes, I went in with a bad attitude, but it was just bad all around. But, we sat with the "normal" relatives, so that was good :) Hubby said his sister seemed like she was in a foul mood....I thought she was normal, but in an unflattering pink top.
Well, Hubby should be home soon...I took some sinus meds a few hours back to help with my headache, but I don't think I needed it...now I'm a little dizzy. And my head feel funny....but at least it doesn't hurt!

Headache....

what's with all the freekin' headaches?! Ugh...ENOUGH ALREADY!
Anyway....brunch with the extended in-laws tomorrow. We're meeting Hubby's parents in 9.25 hours....I should be in bed. Soon.....
I am halfway done with the paper due on April 11th....have not yet started the paper due the 4th. Hmmm....is that a problem? Maybe that's the cause of all the headaches....
We had another committee meeting for the reunion...then we went shopping! We bought (meaning I charged) all the decorations.....candle holders that my dad (and possibly Hubby) will sandblast, other candle holders and colored rock (all on sale!!!) for photo holders. So, we'll now have to take an evening out to assemble the wires (we'll assemble the whole photo holder at the reunion site the day of), and take a few days to cut the vinyl and stick all the stickies on to the glass, then maybe an afternoon or a few evenings to blast the glass. Once this family class is done, I hopefully will have a little less stress and can feel free to work on this stuff.
Ok....time to put laundry away and go to bed.........

Vacation!

Well, not really, but hey....4 stay home days...that ROCKS!
Dreamed about Ty Pennington from Extreme makeover last night...that was weird. He was lost in a Sears and I was helping him find the exit so we could go to the reunion meeting. We got stuck in the basement...we couldn't get out because the steps were big. I tried telling him that as he dragged me down the steps, but he said that was the way out. I also dreamed that I was at the High School, waiting to get into the office to talk with someone about loaning us money for the reunion. I couldn't get in right away because there was going to be a funeral in the auditorium and they were setting it up...a funeral for a mobster. Serious....didn't eat anything weird before bed!
I have something funky going on in my ear...or I'm just imagining things. I think it's filled with ear goo, but I am NOT going to get it flushed. Last time I had that done I almost passed out. It is SO uncomfortable...Hubby's had it done and says it feels good. I thought I was going to vomit and then pass out. Instead I got to lay down when it was done and have wet ear goo drip all over my neck. Yeah, I'll just stick to the ear stuff Hubby's doc recommended (after we bought it, how cool is that) and a warm heating pad and hope I don't end up with an infection.....
Have I bitched about all the papers for class? My instructor and my sister both say I can use the illness of a parent as my topic. Now I just have to find some primary resources. Or should I do alcoholism? Maybe I should do some research tonight before bed and choose then.....
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Ok....I feel better. I WANT to sleep in tomorrow, but I think in order to get anything accomplished, I need to get up with Hubby and do some housework and work on this stinky case study a bit more. I feel like that's the only paper I CAN do, but it's sort of the lesser of two evils. I don't understand really what I am supposed to do for either of them, but I at least have something to go off for the case study. Why did I go back to school again?? Oh yeah.....cuz I'm insane!!!!

Pity party

Happy first day of spring....it was bright and sunny and we should have gone outside. Instead, we slept....ehhh....
I haven't felt well today...girl problems, of course. Bleh. I read a cookbook called The Mom's Guide to Meal Makeovers by Janice Newell Bissex and Liz Weiss. Very good ideas on how to make convience type foods (mac & cheese, chicken nuggets, etc) more nutritious. I am going to try the Blueberry snack cake, and the taco seasoning. I was so excited about trying some of these things, so I decided to do the bills tonight, before I ordered groceries. Then discovered that we don't have enough in the checkbook to pay for bills and groceries...and payday is 2 weeks away. We haven't been spending friviolusly, so I think it was the large credit card payment combined with a short month (smaller paycheck for me) that threw things off. But I was at the table, crying and crying. So, we paid what we could, and I'll have to actually shop for groceries for the next couple of weeks. I like having the groceries delivered, but I don't like the $8.00 delivery charge. So....I guess I get to charge groceries for a couple of weeks, and then don't pay quite as much on Hubby's credit card next month to make up for it. Ugh....I hate money! So, on top of feeling physically icky, I am emotionally icky. *sigh* But, I mailed my paper in "early." It's not great, but I don't really care. I don't care for this class at all, and it sucks that I get to spend my "spring break" working on a research paper.
So I don't sound like a whiney bitch ALL the time....let's celebrate the fact that I have 2 four day work weeks coming up :) Sleep in Friday and Monday :) I have a breakfast date/meeting on Saturday for the reunion and then we are going to brunch with Hubby's mom's side of the family. Ugh....super dreading that. Dinner with my parents here on Saturday....yummy dinner and a little brain picking for my class.
Ok...gotta feed the cats...they are closing in!!!

We just figured out Blue's Clues!

Hee-hee...I'm watching Blue's Clues on Noggin right now. I love Blue's Clues, but only the old Steve shows. Joe is dumb. It makes me laugh...I can usually figure things out with only 2 clues. Oh wait...I'm almost 30.....if I couldn't do that, then THAT would be bad!
Anyway....we got about 6 inches of snow yesterday. It started here around 6am, and then snowed ALL DAY, stopping around 9pm. Hubby works north of here and it didn't start snowing there until about 3pm, and they just got a dusting. South of here got about 9 inches, and even further south got almost 20! They said in the paper that the range was 1-20 inches in a 80 mile area. Crazy!
I went to the library today...."My" library. I've been going there since I was little...3 maybe. I think I had my first library card then. The library is not that much older than me, I think. A few years back they closed for the summer and re-did the place. I was SO sad to be cut off from my library. I had to start going to the one in Minnetonka....it's even smaller than my library! But I do like all the changes....except that it's not a quiet place anymore. And they have a security guard on in the afternoons to help control the high school kids than hang out there. It's odd...they have a self-checkout area, and you have to ring a bell if you need help. And the self-checkout machine doesn't tell you if you have a fine or a hold. If there hadn't been a librarian at the desk helping someone else today, I wouldn't have paid my fine. I HATE ringing bells to get someone's attention. I wonder how long until they come up with a fine machine, like a vending machine. Insert your card, insert your money, get a reciept. But my library is in a big park, and it's close to the house. When we first moved in, I didn't have a license, so I would ride my bike or walk over to the library. Actually, I used to bike there from my parent's too. I'd linger in the air, reading magazines or starting my books. Now I just buzz in, buzz out. Maybe this summer Hubby and I will have to stop in on our walks through the park. Or I suppose I could get the bike tires pumped up and bike over on the weekend. *Sigh*
I can't convince myself to work on my book review.....I think I got off on the wrong foot, so to speak, with it, and I'm not sure if changing it will change anything. So, I don't write. Plus, I know once I turn this in I have to start the next paper, which is a little scary, and the last paper which is REALLY scary! I have to write a paper on a topic, issue, approach, or problem involving family functioning and discuss its importance for the field of early childhood education. WHAT?!?! The part that gets me is the "primary source research." So, does that mean if I'm doing a paper on illness in the family I have to read autobiographies and interview someone who has experienced this? I don't even know if illness in the family is an appropriate topic....but it's what I'm leaning toward. It affects family functioning, and it does have significance in ECE (it could cause the children to be in care for longer days, they can't always verbalize their stress so they act out in other ways, we need to be sensitive to the familiy and their needs at this time, etc). Plus, I could interview co-workers and my mother, as well as ladies at Parenthood.com.... And I know it's covered in our texts, which I also have to use. There, I've justified it enough for myself.....I'll have to ask my instructor next week.
Ok....time to flip through the cookbook I got at the library and maybe sneak in a quick nap before heading to the in-laws. Or clean the fish tank. OH....I lost another fish last week, so I'm down to 3. I picked up an ammonia test, thinking maybe THAT was the problem. It should be at 0...my tank is at .25, so it's still safe. The Ph is a little high, but both types of fish seem to be ok with that (other than the dying thing). So, I guess whenever it is that these fish go, I'll maybe store the tank, or switch types of fish. I did find out that if I leave the filter in the tank when I add the Ph stuff, the filter has a tendency to filter out the Ph stuff. So, I think I'll add it tomorrow when I change the tank, and then leave the filter off for a while. Hopefully I won't kill off the fish!!!
Mrs. Doubtfire is on....I like this movie :) My favorite Robin Williams movie, though, is The Birdcage. We have RW on DVD from his last tour (or maybe second to the last?)...Hubby and I watched that and laughed through the whole thing. I would love to see him in concert, but I don't think we could afford that!
No, really....I'm going off to pretend to be productive!!!!

Snow, glorious snow!

We are supposed to get between 1-12 inches of snow tonight-Saturday morning. An inch or 3 overnight, then maybe 3-7 more tomorrow. I guess the Twin Cities is right on the edge of a the big ol' band of snow....it could be flurries, it could be a boat load of snow. I REALLY want the ton of snow. I don't know why....it will all melt next week. They are predicting 50's next week!! Whoo-hoo!
Hubby and I watched the trailer for Star Wars: Episode III. I can't wait! It looks SO good!!!!!
Well....time to get ready for bed....feed the cats and all that. This weekend...haircut and dinner at the in-laws Saturday, Sunday BS my way through a Family Systems paper. *sigh* I was reading the info for this year's graduates and my stomach churned just thinking about it. Writing and finishing AND then defending my Capstone paper....EEEKKKK! Less than a year left.......

weekly update

Eh...nothing new to update.....last week was a pretty crappy week. Apparently PMS is here for the WHOLE TWW (two week wait....although we aren't really waiting for anything. I know AF is coming...). I was a basketcase Monday night, crying, crying, crying. Tuesday I started crying at work when the music teacher started singing "You are my sunshine." OH crap....I just remembered we have conferences this week. Oh well...they should go well. But anyway, last week was just long and icky. LOTS of reading....I read 4 of the 6 chapters. Do I feel guilty and/or bad? Nope. This week....7 chapters! Oh, and a paper due next Monday. When the hell am I going to get that done? Dinner with the in-laws next Saturday for SIL's birthday. Yippee.... But, I'm getting my haircut Saturday morning, so that will be good. It's been a while and it really needs to be trimmed. Not chopped off, like my sister, but maybe an inch or two.
Hubby hurt his neck yesterday getting into his truck, so that's no good. He's been taking it easy (and complaining about how unproductive he's been), so hopefully that will heal up soon. Not sure what type of care COBRA will cover if he needs to see the Dr. for it. I just hope he's safe driving. Don't want him to get more hurt.
I need a vacation...... *sigh* I can't even have ice cream cuz the scale is making me sad :( I know it's just bloating and whatnot, but it still makes me sad. So, no ice cream *sigh*

84 photos in 45 minutes!

Yup....decided to scan photos instead. I scanned 84 photos, got ready to pack up and then realized that I had not scanned any of the photos of the West trip. But, it's 9pm, still need to order groceries before 11 and Hubby still needs his hair cut. I guess the West will have to wait.
What am I scanning photos for? Well, this summer, 2 friends and I are organizing (well, we're doing that now...this summer, we'll be actually HAVING this thing) a multi-class band reunion. I have been volunteered to do the table decorations (lucky for me my sister is crafty :) ), and another friend is doing a PowerPoint slide show. So, that's what the photos are for. Hopefully other people will send photos...otherwise it will be a slide show of the trumpet section (Hubby's section...Hubby's pictures)!
Ok...time to play barber shop!

D'oh!

No...not a D'oh moment...just watching the Simpsons :)
It was 60 degrees here today....in March! Not a record, but sure nice anyway. We opened the windows, took the cats out and enjoyed the sunshine. I washed the windows in the living and dining room, even the one behind the fish tank. I also washed the curtains....I pulled a sheet of cat fur out of the dryer lint trap! Apparently the curtains were pretty fuzzy! The downside is that the house (well, at least where I'm sitting on the couch) smells like dryer sheets. It's a little overpowering.
Left on the to-do list tonight:
Order groceries
Cut Hubby's hair
Look at the syllabus for next week
Read more of the Pipher book

I think that's it. Oh, and go to bed. Shoot...I should scan some photos. Maybe I'll pull out the ones I need scanned and scan them throughout the week. And I need to talk to my dad about sandblasting a small hurricane candle holder...so I guess I should find the perfect clip art...hmmmm....I'm a busy girl :)

On the bandwagon....

After doing this, I realized that I haven't been to as many states as I thought I had been to. Makes me want to travel.....maybe Summer 2006....

bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...
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