Holiday weekend

Anyone have plans? I'm spending most of the weekend right here in my own home. I plan to craft my self crazy. I've been making Halloween cards and need to make a few more. The set from Papertreyink are so much fun! I also need to make a very special Thank You card so that is on my "to do list".

Not a lot to talk about but I wanted to drop by to say hello. Leave a comment and tell me what you have been doing. Seems like with school starting the bloggers are kind of quiet. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon. I love to hear from all my "webfriends" and see what they have been up to. I especially love seeing all the creativity that is so inspiring. If you need a creative shot in the arm, check out my list to the left. "Thinking Inking" alone will take you to a world of talent you can't believe.

Have a wonderful, safe Holiday and I'll see you soon.

Til later...............

Good News, Bad news

Work will be back to normal after today's "review". Thank goodness!! I never want to make another copy again. I seriously used an entire case of copy paper over the last three days. I can't even tell you what a pain in the butt this has been but if they want to pay me to make copies..OK then.

Now for the results you have all been waiting for......They have no idea what is wrong with me. The ultrasound showed no gall stones, a slightly fatty liver (everything else is fat so why shouldn't my liver be??) , all the rest of the stuff was fine, my blood work was fine. The doctor actually said he has "NO idea" what is causing my pain. He said my next step is to see the Gastro Dr. and have him do a scope down my throat and if that shows nothing then I will have to have a test to "light up" my gall bladder to see if I have "Gall bladder disease". He said he still thinks it is my GB but it may just have "Sludge" that is causing the irritation & pain but doesn't show up on an Ultrasound.

So, we move on. I figure I've been living with this for at least 3+ years so a little longer won't hurt me..no pun intended. Maybe my body is telling me to loose weight and that will take care of all of my aches & pains. At least it looks like I won't need surgery, at least for now.

Thanks for all your well wishes and good thoughts.

Now, how are you all??

After today, I have the next 5 days off...Wahoo!!! It's so nice to have days off...with pay for the first time in 4 years. I hope to get alot of scrappin/card making done. What are your plans for the Labor Day holiday weekend??

BTW, I stopped into Michael's on BBD last night and they actually had some of the "Martha" stuff in the CLEARANCE section. WOW. They won't take coupons but they can mark down packages of 18 x 12 paper to .89? OK, so I bought 6 rolls that have three sheets of double sided paper in each of them. That's a lot of card making paper.

Ok, so I failed my NO buying pledge. I didn't make if official "here" so it doesn't really count.

Does it??

Til later................

Holy Poop

How can it be that I haven't posted since Wed???? I'm so sorry. Apparently everyone one else has been busy cause ya sure didn't call or email me to see if I was OK.

So what cha been doing?? Me?? Well, work has been very busy and will be Monday-Wed of this coming week. We have an audit being done, yearly thing apparently, and things are crazy trying to get ready. NO time for my peeps during the day and by night fall I've been collapsing.

This weekend I redid the scrap room....yes again...with all the 2 drawer thingies I got at staples. SPEAKING of Staples..my sister and mom stopped over Saturday morning to give me my B-day gift and guess what it was?? Come on..if you read my blog you should be able to figure it out....YEP, my long reach stapler. WAHOO. Thanks sis/Mom!!! I haven't played with it yet cause I just finished the room re-do and typing a letter that MUST be mailed in the morning..but I will. If by some slim chance you have one waiting to give to me..I still need Photoshop Elements...LOL!!!!

In between the re-doing, I've watched Nascar and the Little League World Series. YEAH for the Georgia boys!! World Champs for the second year in a row. I felt like I was their moms I got so emotional watching the final game. I also cried a little for the poor Japanese boys that lost cause they were crying and that breaks my heart. I can't stand to see anyone, especially kids, cry.

So, this week will be crazy and I'm sorry if I'm MIA again. I love you all dearly, really I do! I'll try to get time on the computer if I can get DS off of it and maybe drop a line or two. I'm taking Thursday & Friday off and that will make it a 5 day weekend. YEAH!!!!! I should be able to get one on here next weekend as DS is at his dads and I won't have to fight for screen time.

Oh, I almost forgot...I made 6 or 7 Halloween cards yesterday using my new Papertreyink set. So cute!! We also have been enjoying the wild life out behind our house. A couple of baby raccoons have been enjoying our bird feeder. DH got some great pics and I promise to show you both the cards & the little fuzzy fella soon. Oh and I have my Doctors appointment on Tuesday afternoon. I must not be dying since they haven't called in a panic. I've tried to be a good girl and not eat the bad foods since the Ultra sound. I haven't had any Ice Cream in at least a week. I'm going crazy for some but am trying to treat my body better. So I say for now.

Til later.........

Waiting for news

I went for my Ultrasound and I won't find out the results until Tuesday when I see my doctor. I tried to get some idea of what they saw but the tech wouldn't say. I'm sure she's seen enough scans to know when somethings wrong. I understand she can't say because she's not a doctor but come on..throw me a bone. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes. I'll let you know as soon as I find out. I'm pretty sure it's going to be my gall bladder. Wonder if I can change my eating habits and avoid surgery? Yeah-right!!

My birthday was quiet but nice. My DD took me to lunch and brought me a HUGE balloon that sings a "RAP happy birthday" when you hit it. It has been the "hit" of the office ever since. Friends of mine gave me a GC to Cheddars, my FAVORITE, so I'll be enjoying that some time soon. My DS & DH gave me very sweet/cute cards and my son gave me a beautiful plant. Luckily for it, my DH is in charge of the plants on the patio. The ones I planted in the "strawberry wagons" in the front yard went from beautiful to "dead" in a couple days. Must be the heat. DH gave them plant food so maybe they will come back. I got my Halloween themed stamps from Papertreyink and some from Hambo so I have some new toys to play with. Yesterday I found 2 drawer "storage units" on clearance at Staples. I bought about 8-10 of them and will be re-doing my re-done scrap room this weekend. It never ends!

Funny story about my DS's first day of school. Remember the Clinic lady and her insistence that she have the shot record before she would release his schedule......well guess who sent her son to school on Monday WITHOUT the schedule or the original shot record?? Yep, that would be me. Good grief. How ironic is that?! Thankfully my son remembered his first class and he was able to get another copy once he got to school. OMG!!! When they hand out parent of the year ballots please don't forget to pencil my name in. I deserve it.....don't I?

Have a great Wed. and we'll chat soon.


OH.....I forgot the funniest thing about my Birthday. Friday when I went to the doctors they prescribed a muscle relaxer and anti-inflammatory. Note to self # 10000+..never take a muscle relaxer when you have to work. I spent most of the day holding on to things because I was so dizzy and also had very blurry vision from the other meds. I was trying to focus on a word I needed to write out of a ICD-9 (medical codes) book. It was about 15 letters long and I was having a very hard time seeing it. I looked up at the top of the page and realized that the category I was in was about the EYE!! Could my life be more of a sitcom? (must say that in your best Chandler Bing voice to fully appreciate how funny it is....well maybe it's just me)

Til later.........

Birthday thanks

to everyone that sent good wishes my way. I believe it is never to late to get birthday stuff so feel free to continue to spoil me.

I have my ultrasound in a couple hours. Hopefully we'll soon know what is stabbing me and can move on.

Sorry this is short, I have several amusing things to tell you but I have to do some work before I leave so I'll post more later.

Til later.......................

Back to School

It's the most wonderful time of the year......at least that's what STAPLES would have us believe. I'm sure a few of my readers would disagree. Personally I'm not fond of getting up an hour earlier than I'm used to to get the DS off to school. I KNOW he isn't crazy about the idea or activity either.

Since I will be getting up earlier, it will give me a chance to update my blog before heading to work. I'm sure one day they are going to come & escort me out of the building for blog watching.

So..all you Moms & Dads...take your 1st day of school pictures..hug the little rat & head them off to the Florida School System. YIKES!! (side note to my friend Nicole..6 years from today you will experience this wonderful right of passage..Congrats!!)

Hmmmmmmmm, seems like something else is happening today but I can't put me finger on it. Must be OLD age.

Til later..................

Bargains aren't always a good thing

Darn it!! I am half way through my Saturday and haven't accomplished nearly as much as I'd hoped. Hmmmmm. Where have we heard that before? Usually in every weekend post.

It's not my fault!!

Lets start with yesterday and work our way to the present(two more days BTW) and I'll prove it.

Yesterday I still wasn't feeling well. The shoulder/chest pain was still there and my "Stitch" was hurting worse than ever. I called my PCP and was amazed they could work me in that afternoon. I went & described my ailments. NP again says that it sounds like my Gallbladder. Can't be says I. I don"t have any of the symptoms...upset stomach, burping, belching...bla..bla..bla. Nope feel fine except for the unrelenting pain near my lowest right rib. I said don't you think we should do a scan or something to figure out what this is?? She agrees and writes a script for an Ultrasound ..to rule out Gallbladder. Oh and she says...the acid reflux medication that you've been taking for years could be masking the gallbladder symptoms. OMG moment. She also gives me two scripts for the shoulder pain. They drew blood to rule out an infection in my stomach and I called and scheduled the Ultrasound for Tuesday.

I called my mom afterwards, as she's had her gallbladder removed (actually I'm the only one in my immediate family that still has hers) and asked what syptoms she had. She says about the same thing as my Dr. had. She also said that one of the food groups that caused her the most trouble was --DAIRY. Another OMG moment as I eat Ice Cream/frozen Yogurt almost every night.

Head to Walmart (sorry Cari)and get my scripts filled. Picked up a few household items..make that alot of junk food because I was hungry and feeling sorry for myself. And besides, it's all about me and it's almost my birthday.

Came home & whipped up some Quesadias (sorry for spelling). Felt like crap. DH read the medication instructions and insisted I take them right away. Well, I'm a "cheap drunk" and muscle relaxers make me very sleepy! Sure enough, out like a light on the couch before 9:30. Went to Bed around 10 and slept mostly right through until 8:30 am. Was alittle afraid to take another one today but so far so good.

My DH put together the "File holders" that I got on clearance last week from Target. I had bought some file holders at Office Depot (because I'm stupid and didn't get them at Walmart since I kept thinking I needed LEGAL size and they didn't have any. ) DUH. I realized while waiting in line at OD that they would be to big. I went back and got the Letter size.

Long story, that in fact is boring me, I cleared out the scrap room to begin my "re-do version 10, when I discovered the file folders do not fit. WTF? They were about an inch to small to fit from rail to rail. I have some larger ones and tried them and they are about 2 inches to big. ARG!!!! My entire re-do was hinged on those cubes. Crap. Now I'll have to have DH take them apart, take them back to the store and rethink my idea. POOP. So instead of redoing the room, I've spent 3 hours printing off patterns for card making.

I'm going to leave you now and try and make something work. DH is supposed to take me to dinner & a movie but frankly-neither of us looks quite up to it. Maybe a nice home grilledmeal -TV night is a better plan.

Til later.............