I think my cold is finally over. I'm not coughing like I used to.

Work's going well. We have a new computer system that we are just starting up. Midnights is doing good with it. Days and afternoons is having a harder time with it. It took some girls as long as it took me to do all of them on midnights to do theirs during the day. Theirs takes longer b/c they have to chart on eating and what they actually do during the day. Midnights is easier b/c we can chart 'did not occur' for 85% of what's being asked about. Tonight is change over, end of the month, what ever you want to call it. I haven't done that before, but looked it over last night to get it in my head what needs to be done. It won't be hard, just long and tedious. Twice or three times the amount of paper work and then charting on the computer. Tiffany said she'd help me, I shouldn't need it if it's quiet like the last two nights, if it's like the three before it, well, we will need all the help we can get. I'm trying to look at this optimistically. If I don't work will be alot more frustrating and it will all be my fault. I'm watching some of the girls who are good on the floor and they are so down about using the computer that they are stressed all day about what they have to do at the end of the day. Not good.

It's raining. Anna is across the road playing and screaming. I'm assuming everyone down the block is home and hearing her. What a ear piercing screech! She's stopped now, maybe someone has said something. Nope cancel that, she's moved down the block, I can still hear her, she's just farther away. Well, at least she's off irritating someone else.

I've been gritting my teeth the last two morning while I sleep. Yesterday I actually dreamed that I couldn't talk decently b/c of my pain in the jaws. They are still sore, I'm trying to relax those muscles.

Okay, so this is a night shift that I won't forget anytime soon. Of course I can't go into details, but uhgg, what a terrible night. The only way it could have gotten worse ... no strike that I can think of alot of ways it could have gotten worse. I'm glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been. And I didn't have to stay over, even better! I'm headed to bed as soon as these meds kick in.

Silly me, I've been bringing a ball of yarn to work now for two days hoping to turn it into the beginning of a baby blanket. I haven't even pulled it out at work.

I made a recipe from a mystery book I was reading. I should have known, the book wasn't that great, and I've already tossed the recipe. What I want to know is if the author even tried the recipes before she had them printed in the book. And did she do a taste test with people in her publishing company or even family? I'm guessing not, b/c those muffins were more like bricks than anything else.

Leah had the baby. Marcus Fischer was born this morning. Cool thing happened when I heard the news. Jeremy asked me if I was okay with it, and I had to ask myself why I wouldn't be. Then I remembered and I still dono't have a problem with it. I'm healing, It's only taken 5 years, but I'm getting there.

The whole Micheal Jackson sounds fubar to me. His doctor's vehicle has been impounded & they have robbery homicide detectives looking into his death. What???

Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson both died

So Farrah's death is so overshaddowed by Michael Jackson's death. That's so not fair. Not that anyone can do anything about it but two in one day, not fair to Farrah.

The living room looks so much better. I'm inspired to do more. One room at a time I guess.

I started the zig zag afghan today. I'm using the fugly colors from Vinnies. They are clashing so much they are going together. It's alot easier than I thought it would be.

My cough is still there. Just a tickle that makes me catch my breath every so often.

Jeremy's upstairs said he had to put his feet up. It's lonely down here with out him. Yes, he drives me nuts with his OCD outbursts that boarder on terets. But it's quiet w/o him down here and I wish he could stay down here later. I would go up there, but I will only end up falling asleep. We snuggle for 10 minutes, then he has to sit up, I roll over and fall asleep. I love to snuggle, but I can't sleep this early yet.

There's absolutely nothing of interest on tv. AMC is on, but I've watched it already. But b/c there's nothing else on it is what is on tv. At least I didn't watch all of OLTL. And Southern Belles is on after that. I started watching tv from On Demand, but quickly blew thru the few shows I would even be interested in watching.

I ALMOST FORGOT MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE DAY!

I BEAT CARI'S SCORE AT FARKLE.

SECOND GAME AFTER I GOT OFF OF WORK.

I'M PRETTY SURE THAT'S WHAT GAVE ME THE BOOST TO KICK THE LIVING ROOM INTO SHAPE.

GUESS I SHOULD PLAY FARKLE MORE OFTEN, THE HOUSE WOULD BE CLEANER! jk, it won't help at all.

I've been up for almost 24 hours now. I got home from work this morning and felt like cleaning. I shucked out the living room. Mostly just got rid of the junk and rearranged all the books that were hanging off of every surface.

After Jeremy got up we mailed Niki & Dak his diabetic stuff. I hope they appreciate it. I hope this helps him take it more seriously.

It was weird watching my stories during the day. It felt like it should be late evening. That and I was starting to get tired.

I got two garbage bags full of yarn from Vinnies today. Only $12.50 for all of it. I'm going to work on another Fugly Afghan. This time I'm gonna practice those stitches that still have to be mastered. Then I'm gonna put them together like a patchwork. Should make it pretty Fugly. And a good learning experience.

Also picked up alot of towels and Jeremy found a few books.

Well it turns out the woman who does the paperwork came down from Houghton just for Jeremy. He called and told them I was sick and he couldn't get there. They called back and left a message saying he needed to call back. We didn't get the message until after they closed for business.

Oh, an Mom called back returning my call from Sunday. It's what? Tuesday? Good thing nothing was life threatening or no one died. I'm also guessing she also wants rent $$$$.

Jeremy met Missy today. It was so interesting listening to them talk. I think they are twins separated at birth. Jeremy was afraid if he met her that they'd be scared to talk to each other and just stare at each other like they are freaks. Nope, they talked and talked and talked.

We got an industrial size fan for the dining room table. It's pulling the North side of the house cool air into the house. It was so hot in the house b/c I forgot to shut off the oven last night before I went to work. Oops! I've got to start being more careful.

It's cooling down outside, and it's starting to feel cooler in here too.

It's Tuesday morning. This working midnights is strange. I never know what day it is. Jeremy has an appointment to do paperwork at the doctor's office. It's been rescheduled every month for the last six months. One more month isn't going to do anyone any damage.

My arms and hands ache. This weather is killing me. We had a thunderstorm go thru last night. Not sure if we actually got the rain but the barometer is going all over. I haven't been upstairs to see Jeremy, but I'm guessing that he's in agony too.

Right now it's 85 inside the house and 75 outside. I have the fan blowing in, but I'm guessing we are either going to spend the whole day upstairs in the a/c or are going to buy a few more fans and have burgers on the Foreman for supper.

Leah hasn't had the baby yet. She's been off of bed rest for 3 weeks and still hasn't gone into labor. Did I write about that last night? Seems vaguely familiar. I remember maybe something about Freddie taking his sweet time showing up in the world too. Hmm, just had another thought, he's still that way, like Grandpa Frank Wall.

This cold is kicking my butt! I couldn't even lay down and sleep in bed this morning. I ended up on the couch.

The bun is still in the oven. Leah's been off of bedrest for almost three weeks and still the baby is deciding that it will take his own sweet time. I guess like Father like Son. Freddie was almost 4 weeks late according to the doctor's calculations. The baby was due about this time, but it could be a while still b/c the doctors kept moving the date around. I guess they were hedging their bets.

I'm tired, I'm gonna try to sleep some more.

Jeremy's not doing good with me working midnights. His fibro pain is getting to him. The lyrica isn't doing anything, or it's helping but not enough. Don't want to take him off of it to see which it is. Either way, it's not good.

Work is going okay. There's alot of rumors going around about different things. I will wait until things actually happen before I get all bent out of shape about what I've heard.

Warm and muggy again. It's been so muggy the last few days. Over night the humidity was over 90%. My alergies (or is it a cold? I'm not sure which it is anymore) are kicking my butt. I'm on the verge of coughing more of the time. Either way the claritan & benedryl aren't completely covering it. I've been pounding the liquids, make me have to pee, there is no easy solution to anything is there?

They are racing in Sonoma today. KY is leading. GRRR I really don't like that dude. They are doing double file restart. It looks pretty hairy. They took half a lap to get the majority of the guys back in line. Got to give the guys credit, they didn't wreck, looked like more than one wee on the edge of wrecking. Boris just got completely turned around and nobody wrecked. It was in the middle of a corner and they all managed to avoid him. KY has a red M&M with flames on a dark blue background. Very cool looking car. Too bad the driver's who he is.

PBS is going like gangbusters!

8:20 Friday nite. Jeremy's watching qualifying for Sonoma. I won't get to watch them tonight b/c Soap Channel doesn't show them Saturday mornings.

I scrapped my mint/baby blue teddy bear afghan for now. It's going to be too wide and not tall enough. I'm working on a different version, will make the first as a pot holder b/c it's good sized then will make a bigger version as a baby blanket.

Paper Back Swap is going like gang busters for me. We stopped at Vinnies sometime in the last few days I had off and I have 4 books to go out and one that I will probably just mail to a woman b/c the corner of the hard cover is chewed up. I pmed her and asked her if I wanted to just send it to her w/o taking the credit. Will see how bad she wants the book. I may just mail it to her anyway if I don't hear from her before I send out the other books. I ordered a Macomber book, the first in the Blossom Street series. I also checked out the Cedar Cove series, I got book number 5 and it looks like that's where I'm at in reading the series. Might have to wish list that series too.

And I have to kick butt and finish reading my Eggs in Purgetory book b/c it's been requested from me. I said that I can mail it by the 25th, so I have almost a week to do it, but am going to pound the reading tonight at work.

I have to work the next 5 nights. Hope my routine gets down good. Don't want to only work and sleep. The biggest problem I'm having is Jeremy's sleeping what he wants and I'm not spending as much time with him as I'd like. Can't blame him though, he needs his sleep. Tracey is on his sleep schedule, Katey's been staying up to sleep with me. She's really messed up as far as sleeping goes.

Okay got to go and pop chicken in the oven for Jeremy and get my work clothes off the line. Hopefully they are dry enough. I do have some in here, but don't want to wear them. Will do what I got to do. Maybe Missy's working tonight and she brings in those clothes. I'm pretty stoked about them. She will probably forget and it will be another three months before I get them. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

Hot and muggy. 78 degrees but feels like 95.

Went to Harbor Town for supper. Nothing new there. Except the fries were better than normal. I ordered the nachos and cheese and a mushroom swiss burger. Of course I didn't even finnish the nachos and cheese, so the burger's in the fridge.

We've had the fixings for tacos for days now and I've not made them yet. Have to tomorrow b/c the lettuce & green onion is going to get soggy and the hamburger that I've been thawing is going to go bad. It still had some frozen in the middle, so I know it's good still.

Hit the jackpot at Vinnies. Lots of books and 1/2 dozen scrub pants that are long enough. I figured if the weren't I'd make shorts out of them. There were three pairs that are to short. Will offer them to Missy and if she doesn't want them, will make shorts out of them.

Finally did laundry, haven't done laundry since before I was sick, which was almost two weeks ago. I was running out of socks, and washing my bras by hand. I hung them out while it was raining. Figured at least they are out there and they will eventually dry. Hope the towels are at least semi dry tomorrow before work b/c they are all out on the line.

Saw Cheri and her old man at Vinnies. She looked ragged. Wonder what's going on with that mess. At least she's not in jail. Could be worse. I wonder if the let her shop at Pat's? Not that there's another place to grocery shop. I would be embarassed to show my face there.

I finished the pink & white granny square afghan. It's 45 inches square, and it's bigger than I thought it would be. I'm now working on a baby green and blue teddy bear silouette afghan. Found the pattern for cross stitch and am using it as a guide.

I found some really cool snow men too. That's next. Don't know if I'm going to want to sell it, but it will bring in big bucks. Should also start thinking about that snow flake one too. Have to go back online and find the patterns b/c they were on the other computer and I don't even know where it's been stashed.

Am going snow flake hunting! Hope that makes me feel cooler. Right now I'm wearing an orange Nike t shirt that I cut the sleeves off of. I'm using on of the sleeves as a sweat catcher. I'm sure I look funny but you know what, you got to live a little. Have fun. Not take yourself so seriously.

Good night at work. I have the next two nights off. Don't want to go to bed yet. Should stay up and do stuff and get a nap in later.

My toe nail was bothering me at work. So when I came home I tugged it off. It was barely connected, just stuck in the side of the toe nail crease, if that makes sense. I tripled it up good and wrapped it up good and I'm feeling good about it now.

It's 7:30 in the morning and in the mid 50's already. It's over cast, so maybe it won't get as high as they say it will (mid 70's). Even if it stays where it's at right now would be fine.

Here's a picture of Megan sitting on my lap. This was taken the Friday of Ben's graduation. She's always so interested in me crocheting. And she always asks if this blanket is going to be for her. That's b/c she has two I made for her and one I made for her babies. And Ryan has one too. Not sure who that afghan is for yet. I've stopped working on that one, in fact I think that was the last night I worked on it.

I finished Jackie's and brought it to work last night.

I started a pink and white large granny square afghan. Just had to use that pink. It was calling me. I think this may be the first one that I put online and use the "I'm selling my beloved afghans to pay for my disabled husband's medications."

It will be used for house hold bills. We're spending almost $300 on our meds a month. That's nuts. It would be close to $1,000 a month if it weren't for his prescription plan, but his prescription plan is screwed and we have to find a better one this fall when we can change plans.

Beautiful day! Low 70's and a nice breeze.

We've had a good day. Got up late morning. Made french toast and a jello cake.

Dubbed on the computer most of the day.

Henry took this June 10. It's a sunrise over Lake Superior. He takes such beautiful pictures, I'm going to start sharing them here.

I remember this morning, the colors outside the hospital windows was beautiful. By the time I got home, it was just another morning.

Jeremy's sick and I have a headache and were both cranky.

It's almost 3:30 Friday. I've been up since almost this time yesturday. I worked last night and don't have to back until Monday at 10:30.

I'm working on Jackie's afghan. I'm almost done. I've been blasting it out. One of my few goals for today (besides stay awake long enough to be able to sleep decently tonight and have a regular weekend with sleeping at night and being up during the day) was to get this afghan done.

No one in this house is happy with me right now. Jeremy wants me to go to sleep. The dogs are giving me dirty looks b/c they have to wait to go upstairs til I go. And I think the cats want the downstairs to themselves.

It's official, I'm full time!

Yeah, whooo whoooo whooooo!

I got the midnight bid. I had a note from Donna to come see her and I was afraid it was b/c I called in Sunday night. I'm at my limit for calling in for the year. I have to be almost dead and have a doctor's slip to call in. I won't go into the details but we aren't allowed many call-ins per year. Which is good b/c there are alot of call-ins and they are being slowed down by this policy.

Okay, I got to get off my butt and get some work done around here before it's time to get ready and do it all over again tonight.

I must say, I'm addicted to Farkle! The one I'm playing is connected to facebook, but I'm pretty sure you can play it other places, just haven't b/c I've bookmarked this one. I tried playing UNO online with other players online but one left three rounds in and the rest of us were left hanging. It would be fun to play against Jeremy and others I know online.

Okay, seriously, there's cat boxes calling me and trash to be taken out and something has to be done about food. Hmmm, nothing really sounds good now.

Imaginarybitches.com

Just watched the whole first series, so funny.

I go back to work tonight. I guess I'm ready, I'm not feeling at bad as I was, just don't feel like going in. Also have a mandatory meeting tomorrow to. We've had a lot of them lately. I'm going to need to work on practicing the CENA charting too. If I don't get that done tonight will stay after the meeting tomorrow.

Have to do something about our messy house. Guess that's why we got the dumpster. To just ditch all the junk we don't use. Have been mostly emptying that garage out, but should work on the misc stuff in my room and Jeremy's room. Also our bedroom has accumulated an unbelievable amount of junk. Should work on that this week.

I'm finally over half way done with that afghan for Jackie. It's alot warmer and heavier than the original version. I'm happier with this one. I hope she likes it too.

Oh, I was looking at the afghans on ebay. One of the women put that she has to sell the afghan to pay for her baby's birthday gift. Talk about trying to pull on the heart strings. It gave me the idea of putting mine up there and saying that I really don't want to sell the afghans (I don't, but CAN'T keep them all), and that I "need the money to pay for my disabled husband's meds. " I could also use the "need money to fix our vehicle to take my disabled husband to his doctor's appointments." Which pulls on your heart strings more? Both are true. We are always short on money for meds and the truck needs to be worked on again.

Okay, so Jeremy is trying to make me feel guilty about even thinking about posting such a thing on ebay. It will be such a long time before I finish them to sell them that most likely I will forget I was even thinking about tugging at heart strings.

Monday night, still sick.

I took musinex earlier and my lungs aren't as full of crap, but every times I cough my lungs and thoat burn.

It's raining outside and only in the high 40's. At this rate I will never get my tree outside. Sweet Pea was eating/beating the tree/bush I took home from Grandpa's funeral. It's currently in Jeremy's room waiting to go outside when it gets warmer. I'm actually surprised that I haven't killed it yet, I'm really not good with growing green things. Heck, how am I kidding, I'm not good with the other living things here either, but they refuse to die!!! Just kidding honey, was checking to see if you are reading my blog. Seriously though, it's amazing the animals haven't mutinied.

I just remembered I have to do Jeremy's meds, should go do that. See yah!

I'm sick

I'm sick. My sinus cold has settled into my chest and it feels like my lungs are coming loose every time I cough.

We watched Gene Simmons Family Jewels. It was a new episode. Sophie's Sweet Sixteen Birthday Party. Nick & Sophie's sibling rivalry was classic. Very funny, I seriously recommend the show, so funny and so not what you expect.

I wish I had more energy. My shoulders are too achy to crochet. I never thought that would happen. Huh, I thought my fingers would hurt too much first.

Okay, I've only been up for 4 hours but I'm thinking bed is calling.

Free chocolate for me!

I did it! I checked my email this morning after I got home from work and there was an email there reminding me to sign up for the free chocolate.

So I stayed up and dubbed on the computer and counted down the last 5 minutes waiting for the screen to change and for me to register.

I thought for sure the site would crash, but it didn't and in 6 weeks, after I've forgotten all about free chocolate there should be a coupon in the mail for free chocolate.

Had a two hour education session learning how to chart on residents on the computer. Should be easy once I know the program. There's another session for practice tomorrow and then next week too. Have to figure out what I'm working and sign up for some practice time. They said we can stay late or come in early to practice, so maybe I will do that. Will see how I'm feeling after working the shift and go from there.

Nice day out, mid 70's, over cast. Too bad we don't have the girls hook up ready for them in back, would be nice to have supper outside in the screen tent. I feel bad leaving the girls in the house though, so we will have to wait for a little more money (two weeks til pay day again) to buy the stakes and more leads.

We aren't completely broke, have enough for the essentials (ie. meds). We should really gather up all the returnables and get rid of them. I don't remember ever having this many sitting around. We have a couple bags in the garage already and more up stairs in the kitchen. Then it's just collecting the rest from our various dumping places in the house.

I;m bored

Jeremy went to bed early. He's been up there since 6 or 7.

I watched AMC and then OLTL.

Nothing on tv, not much online.

I looked at what to post on PBS, I have a couple more that might be of interest to someone.

I have two credits coming and I've been watching boos, really want the new Macomber book, Summer on Blossom Street. Am watching that on Ebay too, there were over 30 books for sale, some as low as $1.

Okay, my meds are starting to kick in, finally, shouldn't have had so much Dr Pepper tonight.

The dogs are getting antsy, I think they can tell I need to pee. They always seem to have an emergency they can't live thru w/o going outside when I have to desperately pee. Okay, going now before I have an emergency.

No Prelude to the Dream tonight

It's raining at El Doro so there won't be a race until September.

ABC still hasnt' gotten channel 10 back on the air. That means that I didn't get to watch AMC at 1. So it's sort of good that the Prelude isn't on tonight, I can watch AMC at 8 on the Soap Channel.

Big accounting error in our checking account. Lesson learned: READ THE FINE PRINT.

Still don't know if I have either bid yet. Tried calling HR only got the voice mail, will try again tomorrow or catch her before my mandatory 3:30-5:50 computer training.

We had a nice afternoon lounging in our screen tent, reading and enjoying nature. It's located in our backyard b/c it is too big for the front yard.