Archive for November, 2008

Last day of this project. Welcome, December!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo.  This is my 33rd post for the month, so I’d have to say I think I did fairly well on this project.  I can’t say that every post was actually something interesting and worthwhile, but I did manage to post every single day of the month, sometimes more than once, so I call that a success!

I can tell you for sure that I’ll be pulling back a tad in December.  Not too much, because I really do enjoy this, but enough so I can go to sleep at night without thinking about whether or not I put up a  post yet today.  There’s going to be lots happening next month, I’m sure, and I’ll be sure to keep ya’ll informed.  Just not every single day of the month.

I’m pretty sure I should wrap up this project by writing something profound about my experiences and how I feel about it and all that.  But I’m just not feeling it today.  Maybe I’ll think of something tomorrow.  Today has been a gloomy, rainy day.  It’s the last day of my extended weekend and it’s been a fantastic weekend, so I’m not much looking forward to going back to work tomorrow.  The comforting part is that there are only a handful of weeks before the Christmas break and it’s going to be fantastic.

I’m trying to think of something interesting to talk about that doesn’t involve me putting up pictures because I don’t have the energy today to reformat anything.  The best I can get is how thrilled I still am about the eye doctor appointment yesterday.  I brought home two different kinds of eye drops and an eye wash and new contacts.  I’m supposed to used the drops and wash two times a day, and they’re so great.  Maybe it’s just because I get to wash my face with warm water and it’s lovely, but I think it’s that my eyes actually do feel better.  Less scratchy.  More moist.  And they haven’t teared up on me at all since my appointment yesterday afternoon.  Plus, contacts again!  I have clear peripheral vision!  I can see things clearly!  And without the too strong lenses, it doesn’t hurt to look at things up close.  I’m a happy girl!

Plus, Justin and I got haircuts last night.  His was shaggy and he looks so much more clean now.  Mine was just to trim split ends and put in shape and it looks fantastic!

But I think that’s where I’m going to wrap it for today.  I’m going back to my book, curled up with some hot cider.  It’s the perfect late afternoon activity.

Have a great evening, everybody!  I hope you’ve had a great November.

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Another quickie because I’m watching Heroes!

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Sorry, folks, but you’re getting another “Kylene is too busy to write a post and right in the middle of something else so she’s not going to spend the time right now, either.”  Sorry.

I had my eye doctor appointment today, though and it was fantastic.  I have found a competent doctor!  Who was able to look at my eyes and tell me why they’ve been watering and what’s going on with the scratchy feelings and all sorts of wonderful things–not the least of which was that my prescription that I’ve been wearing was step too strong.  Weird, huh?  But hurray for having contacts again!  And eyedrops to take care of the little hard spots on the back of my eyelids and eye wash to take care of the infection under there, too.  And I’ll get glasses at the beginning of January because although my insurance is fantastic, it’s not perfect.

We finished season 2 Heroes this morning and now we’re watching the beginning of season three.  Unfortunately, there wasn’t any sound for the first five minutes, so Justin’s finding the transcript so we can read what happened.  And then we’re going back to watch that before it gets really too late in the evening.

So, take care!  I’m going to go watch some more TV.

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Aaaaand it’s 11:30 and I need to put up a post today.

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Know what?  In a few more days, I probably won’t be getting out of bed at this time of night to come in and write to all of you.  Instead, I’ll roll over, sigh, and fall asleep.  Like a normal person.

Well, okay, so not quite like a normal person.  Today, I carried my camera around all over so I could take pictures of our activities.  I have pictures of us out procuring an object now sitting downstairs and I have pictures of objects removed from my kitchen, scattered all around the living room floor, and then replaced back in the kitchen.

And while taking pictures of all these things isn’t too odd, what is odd is that the whole time I was taking pictures I was thinking, “I wonder if any of these will turn out well enough that I can put them up on my blog.”

I’ve become one of those girls.  And I’m not nearly as bothered as I probably should be.

Anyway.  I’ll talk about today once I have pictures to show ya’ll.  It’s fun.

Tomorrow I have an eye doctor appointment.  I’m very excited about this appointment because I want contacts so badly!!  And I want glasses that I can wear properly without my eyelashes leaving streaks on the lenses.  And because since I started on this new project at work, my eyes feel like they’ve changed and I want to know whats up with that.  Too much small type.  I wonder how old I’ll be when I get bifocals.

We’re down to the very last episode of season two Heroes.  So many things are happening in the show right now, I’m really not sure what’s going to happen in this next episode.  This show was one that never made it back last year after the writer’s strike.  So it’s very possible that the season just drops off in the middle of everything and doesn’t resolve any of the stories.  The good news is that we’ve got the beginning of the next season saved downstairs.

But for now, I’m going to go curl back up in bed and get some sleep.

I hope you all had a great day!

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Grace in Small Things — It’s all Schmutzie’s fault.

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Schmutzie at Schumtzie’s Milkmoney or Not, Here I Come brought up an assignment from her therapist lately.  It was an idea that I’d just recently read about in Real Simple magaine and thought was interesting.  And then Schmutzie made it into a challenge and I was really interested.

Real Simple called it Sharing Gratitude.  Schmutzie’s calling it Grace in Small Things.  Every day for the next year, she’s going to write a gratitude journal.  She’s going to write something for which she is thankful.  She even made badges because she’s inviting everybody else to join along with her.

Isn’t is pretty?

Now.  I’m not sure if I can do a full 365 days worth of posting things I’m thankful for every single day.  But I can try to at least do it as often as I can.  There’s been research, I heard lately on the radio (yet another reason why this idea’s been sticking with me–I heard about it on the radio!) that people who keep journals about what they’re thankful for are happier with life and more optimistic.  Now, I’m not convinced that the one leads to the other instead of it being that people who keep journals telling what they’re happy about aren’t just happier people to begin with, but it’s an interesting idea to toy with.

So.  It seems appropriate that I should kick this off on Thanksgiving Day.  I’m going to try to keep this up until next Thanksgiving.  I think it’s going to be very interesting to see what this looks like at the end of the next 365 days.

With all that said, here I go.

I am thankful . . .

  1. That my family, even though I couldn’t be with them this holiday, are all well and healthy and happy.  And that they’re not angry or upset at me for not making it up north and that they’re so understanding.
  2. That Justin and I are both employed and doing well.  This time last year, this wasn’t the case.  This year, Justin has a job where he does excellent work and I just got hired on direct at my company and got a significant raise in pay. (Just as a disclaimer–Justin didn’t get to design the page in the link, but he made it work better.)
  3. For my husband and eight months of giddy wedded happiness.
  4. For health insurance that actually covers medical expenses.
  5. For really, really good turkey, gravy, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, and cranberry sauce in the shape of a can.
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Just in case I don’t make it back in this evening, I hope you all had a really fantastic Thanksgiving, filled with lots of smiles and good times and good food.  I’ll talk more about my day on a day when I’m not actually in the middle of it.  :)

I’d put a picture or a video up, but I’m kind of in a hurry and I can’t find anything fast enough.

Take care!  Have a great night!  And I’ll be back again tomorrow.

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