A Day About Nothing

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 20.34.37 |  by Jamie  |  Adventures, Family, Health, Illness, Life, Married Life, Social Networks, kids

I wonder why Doc Mick upped my medication from Vicodin to Oxy? I have not taken any, too scared of the unknown side effects, but I’m curious as to why he’d do something like that. He also just gave me a bottle of Oxy in his office yesterday, in case I couldn’t make it to the drug store. I have a headache right now, but the hard parts are over. I won’t be needing anymore surgeries or procedures done for another year. I’m really happy about that. Does it mean that I’m getting well? The doctors I have rarely tell me anything. Doc Mick just drugs me and tells me to close my eyes and ‘not watch’ the procedures. But my morbid curiosity takes over, and I watch. This has annoyed him in the past, and he ups my dosages. I go back to see him Monday to get the stitches pulled. Then it’s over. I don’t go back for another year or so. Lucky, lucky me. I finally find a doctor who takes my pain seriously and gives me treatments that actually work and I can only see him once a year. That’s a good thing, I hope.

The weather has been strange here. It was “cold” yesterday and today. 68 was the high. For August, that’s not bad. It was October weather in the middle of summer. I’m torn between shutting the air conditioner off and turning it on after having a hot flash. The weather has made me restless. My sudden lack of pain has made me energetic. I want to go out and play in the nice weather while I can, but I devoted myself to solving the problems at home, first.

My monkeys have transformed to monsters. They trash the house. Let the dogs out the front door, where there’s no fenced yard. Turn the pet rat loose in the house. Dump food out of the cabinets and ice box. Dump trash out of the cans. Pull the sheets off mommy’s bed. Chloe even unplugged my bed; in both areas, and when I laid down today, water gushed out of the mattress all over me! All of them, except for Hayley, are acting up. No amount of sending them to their rooms or locking things up seem to help. When all else fails, they tear up the carpet and peel the wall paper off the walls. This transformation has come because mommy and daddy are mad at each other and they can feel the tension. They’ve guessed that if mommy and daddy are mad at them, we can’t be mad at each other anymore. It’s brilliant, really. They have outsmarted and out numbered us, and their plan worked. For now. There are deeper issues that have to be surfaced, and those issues aren’t going to be resolved overnight, nor will they be solved in front of the kids. We’re going to talk about this. Not tonight, because I’ve got a migraine starting, but soon.

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Simple Pleasures

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 21.54.09 |  by Jamie  |  Drugs, Family, Life, Social Networks, kids

Tonight I tried I Love Juicy shampoo and American Cream conditioner on both myself and my husband. We took turns washing each others hair and then conditioning each others hair in the bath tonight. I love both of them! I’m going to buy some more when I get the money. The spices in them are a little overwhelming at first, but they rinsed out pretty well and I can still smell a hint of the spices. I think Dennis used too much shampoo in my hair because it took forever for him to rinse it out, when it only took me a few minutes to rinse his out. He has less hair than I do, but I still think he used a little too much. I wonder what our hair is going to look like in the morning? Super shiny or dull?

Overall, the entire bath experience was quite enjoyable. I got to relax and not think about the birthday party in May, and I haven’t touched my narcotics in over 24 hours. That’s not to say that I won’t break down and take more of them between now and then, I just haven’t been tempted. I did indulge in the hypnotics last night because I couldn’t sleep. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to fall asleep before 5am and that really makes me dangerous in the pharm lab. Speaking of Pharm, we’re having our lab final on Friday, and then Professor Buchanan is going to release us to clinicals (internships) in real pharmacies, chemical companies, hospitals, and other places that we’re needed. We’re going to be on our own until the lecture final and then graduation. Then it’s back to the real world. I’m kind of excited and kind of scared at the same time. I don’t have much confidence when I’m working with chemicals, even though I triple check my weights and measurements before I mix anything, and I read over the instructions several times before I even begin lab. It’s just nerve wracking, working with potentially dangerous chemicals all the time.

Tomorrow I’m taking Chloe for her “entrance exams and immunizations” to get into school in the fall. The school has a list about three feet long of things that we have to do, that Chloe has to go through, before she is going to be allowed in. It’s a private school, so their standards are higher than most public schools, but on the list of things she must have accomplished before being accepted is she has to be able to read at a “standard first grade level”. She can read, but to be safe, I ordered some of the text books and workbooks that I used when I was six. I found several of them via Amazon.com, and I’m going to start working with her all of next month. We’ll have a one-to-two hour reading session per day.

Oh, and before I forget….My mother has a FACEBOOK ACCOUNT NOW! OH LORD HELP YOU ALL! YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN WARNED!. I haven’t added her back yet, but it’s the principle, right?

Ask Me…

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12.35.03 |  by Jamie  |  Social Networks

Nice Try

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Sunday, January 17, 2010 18.04.31 |  by Jamie  |  Adventures, Humor, I hate people, Life, Pictures!, Social Networks, technology

You know…if you’re going to make a fake FaceBook profile to attempt to get me to add you back, because you think I’m talking shit about you on there (I’m not! I promise!), and you make the profile of a real person, but change their birthday, it kind of sticks out that your profile is fake. Try reading that actor’s Wikipedia page or even Googling their name before you make a fake profile of them:

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Nice touch adding and getting approved by Costas first. At least you’re in the right franchise.

Las Vegas Pictures I

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Monday, October 26, 2009 11.54.38 |  by Jamie  |  Pictures!, Social Networks

The first set of pictures from Las Vegas. Read the post on there. It tells what is coming next. :)