Archive for December, 2009

Christmas recap (part 1)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Justin and I are back in South Carolina from our trip to visit my family in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  I’m at a little bit of a loss to know where to even start writing about it.  For one, I’m not sure that anyone visits here who doesn’t already know how that trip went because I SAW YOU THERE.  :)   And my head and heart are so filled up with the experience that I’m not sure how to say what I really want to say about it.

I think what I might end up doing is taking several days and just talking about one part at a time.  I’ll spread it out and take my time processing through the whole trip.  And that way I can ramble on and on and not spend pages and pages for one single post about it.

Justin and I are still in our post-travel resting stage.  The house is a wreck.  The bags are still packed and sitting next to the laundry.  We haven’t even made the bed today.  We did shower!  But that’s only because we had to go into town.

The traveling part of our traveling actually went very well.  We flew out of Charleston airport, connected through Chicago, and landed in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and took that same route back home.  Our flights were all on time.  Our connections weren’t too difficult – we did have to catch a shuttle at Chicago to another terminal on our way back, but we got in line just in time for the shuttle and got to go right across.  I even had time to hit the ladies room and then pick up a yogurt and be back right on time for loading.

All of our luggage made it through with us, security wasn’t difficult, flights were pretty easy on us.  All in all, the traveling went well.  It’s just tiring.  Which is why this post isn’t going to be very long.  But I’ll be sure to come back again soon and write more about the trip.

It really was a wonderful time.  We both enjoyed it a lot.  It had been a long time since I’d made it up that direction and it felt so good to get to see it all.  But it was especially nice to get to spend a bunch of time with my family.

I love you all!  And I miss you already.

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I’m still cheerful!

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Yesterday made a solid grab at trying to make me a less happy person.

I got up to exercise, even though I was really stupidly tired.  But I went, did my weights, waved at my personal trainer friend, and drove home.  And a deer nearly changed my whole day when it ran right out in front of me.  He wasn’t too big, probably a two-pointer.  But I was not happy to see him and he was not happy to see me and my tires were not happy to suddenly be screaming against the asphalt of the road.  Thankfully, the buck was a swift little guy and moved out of my way in time.  My poor little blue car just wouldn’t have handled that encounter very well.

I got home, I went to work, I got completely covered up in projects.  I’ve had four projects in the work since the beginning of the month, but haven’t been able to make any progress on them – not because of my fault but because they just weren’t ready yet.  Now that it’s the last week of the year, now that I’ve got two to three hour meetings every day until the end of the year, now I can make some progress.  So I worked as quickly as I could until 11:00, when I had a meeting that lasted until 1:00.  And then I had a 1:00 meeting that lasted until 2:00.  And then I had to request some supplies from one of the admins in the area and that took another 30 minutes.  I finally got back to my desk at 2:30.

By that time, the headache that had started sometime during the 11:00 meeting had decided to have a party.  I took some Advil, but my head was still pounding and lights were too bright and any and all noises made my head pound even more.  It hurt.  It hurt a lot.  I almost started crying when someone came into my cubical and started talking about something he needed because it just hurt so badly.  And I had to keep on working because I just don’t have time!  The Advil did eventually kick in and the pounding dulled down to a knocking, but I still wasn’t feeling great.

When I made it home, I sat in the bedroom in the dark for a while.  Justin brought me some more Advil and I just lay there, enjoying the quiet.  And that’s pretty much how the rest of the evening went – sitting quietly in dimmed lights.  And then Castle was a rerun again.

But I will not be daunted!  It’s the Christmas season and I will be a happy person!  I got up this morning and hit the elliptical for a solid 45 minutes and I can still feel the burn.  The meeting today was really productive.  I’m listening to music on my music box and I’ve got very clear direction on where I need to be going with my afternoon.  And I’ve got about 25 hours to log at the office before I’m done for the year!  It’s a good time of year!

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HAPPY!

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I just wanted you all to know that I have been so happy the last couple of days!  I can’t really point at everything that’s made life so wonderful lately, but let me tell you, it’s been WONDERFUL!  And I really hope that all of you have been having a really fantastic December so far as well!

Love and blessings!

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I’ve been sleeping

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I think I’ve slept more in the last couple of days than I have the whole two weeks prior to getting sick.  I have slept A LOT.

But I’m feeling so much better!  Thursday, the day I last posted, I went home from work early, at about 2:00.  I got home and slept for a few hours, before going to the chiropractor’s office.  They looked at me, said “You look like death warmed over” and let me lie on their Bio-mat for about an hour.  A Bio-mat is like an electric head pad except it goes from your neck all the way down to about your knees.  There’s more to it, but basically, it’s a heat pad for your whole body.  It’s WONDERFUL.  Justin got his adjustment and everything and went to find us food for dinner and then came back to collect me.  And the ladies in the office just let me bake there for ages.  It was absolutely fantastic.

The next day, I had planned to try to go into work, just later than usual.  Well . . . I slept until 12:30 and didn’t go into work.  I got up, puttered around on my computer, watched TV, and went back to bed.
 
Saturday was more sleeping, but I was starting to feel better.  Not enough that I actually got out of my pajamas all day, but enough that I was thinking about what I’d do if I wasn’t so tired.

Sunday, we slept through church, but we were both feeling well enough that, when we did wake up, the state of the house really bothered us.  We actually cleaned up and did dishes and got the house almost presentable.  We washed the sheets and another load of laundry.  I was actually able to get out to Target and the grocery store in the afternoon.  I even got the ironing done.  It was more exhausting than any of those activities had any right to be, but it felt good to be moving again.

I think we went through every single pair of pajamas that we owned, putting a  pair on to go to bed, wearing it all day the next day, and then throwing those into the hamper to put on a new pair to go to bed.

But we’re both feeling much better today.  Still tired, but well enough to get into work.  Not well enough to hit the gym at 5 o’clock in the morning, though.  I haven’t been back to the gym since Tuesday morning.  I’m really starting to miss it.  I’m not sure if I’ll be up for it tomorrow, either, but hopefully I’ll be back there soon.

And I’m so done with being sick already.  Two times in the last 4 weeks is nasty enough.  I have 2 more weeks of work and then I’m visiting family.  I do not have time to be sick before I leave and I do not have any desire to be sick while visiting my family.  So that’s it.  DONE!  No more sickness for me.

Right?  Please?

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The last couple of days

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

It’s been an interesting couple of days around  here!

I got sick.  Again.  I was just sick two weeks ago.  I think I’ve been sick more often in the last two months than I have the whole rest of the year.  It’s getting really annoying.

Anyway.  I got sick.  So I went to bed at 8:30 on Tuesday.  Half an hour later, my little brother woke me up from a dead sleep to tell me that he was engaged!  Yea!!  We chatted about it a little bit, I congratulated them several times, and then I went to tell Justin about it before collapsing back into bed.

The next morning, I had to check my phone to make sure I hadn’t dreamed the whole thing because I just wasn’t completely sure I hadn’t had a really vivid dream.  But nope!  Call from my brother.  He’s engaged!   Yea!

Wednesday, I stayed home from work.  I didn’t go to the gym.  I called my lead to tell him that I was even more sick than the day before and I was staying home.  At least for the morning.  I might make it in for the afternoon.  But I wasn’t sure.  And then I passed out again for several more hours.

The whole day was spent in my pajamas, wandering from bed, to computer, to couch, back to bed, back to computer, back to bed . . . .  I didn’t go in to work after lunch.  I missed a meeting, an appreciation event where I could have won prizes, a chiropractic appointment, a church meeting, and a gym class.  I was not happy to be sick yesterday, but I had trouble climbing the steps.  I had trouble breathing through all the phlegm.  I was overwhelmingly tired.  I stayed home.  So did Justin because this time I’m the giver and he’s caught my cold, too.

We bought tickets for our Christmas plans to visit my family!  Justin found us a great deal for us to fly out of Charleston for half the price it would have cost to fly out of Jacksonville.  It’s such a huge relief to have that taken care of.  It feels really good.

And that’s good because I still feel really awful.  I’m at work today, but I might not stay all day.  I’m so tired!  This cold started at the back of my sinuses, drained down to my throat, and has now settled into my chest.  It hurts.  I don’t really want to go to the doctor about it, but if it doesn’t go away soon, then I might.

I have 11 days left of work for the year and I have at least 4 regular projects to finish and a couple of other miscellaneous projects to finish all before the end of that time.  I have a lot to get done.

I should probably get to work on that.

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