Catching Up

So, I promised a long post yesterday . . . I think I can finally do it today.

Catching up, that has been my year so far but I’ll go back a couple of weeks and see if I can get you “caught up” with what’s going on.

New Year’s Goal

I have the same goal as everyone else in the world, I want to lose weight, get more exercise and eat better.  Ok, I’d like to just be a skinny chick and not have to do any of the work but that doesn’t seem to be in my genes so I need to add the eat right and exercise part.  Every year I say I’m going to do it but this year I have a goal and a reason.  #1 reason is that diabetes and heart disease run in my family and I’m getting to the age where I have to start thinking about that stuff.  #2 reason is that, since I have given up on getting pregnant, there is a surgery I’d like to have done.  I would like to have breast reduction surgery done but I feel like I should enter that surgery being more healthy than I am right now.  The surgery isn’t something I’ve completely researched yet because I don’t have the money to do it right now, but once we get back on our feet it’s something I’d like to save up for.  I know I have plenty of time to drop 30 pounds, at a healthy rate, before it happens so I could make it a year-long goal for me.

The House Is Almost Clean

That’s what I do over my “break”, I clean my house.  I clean the stuff that you don’t clean every week, like, I wash all the wood (cabinets, trim, floors).  The big job I didn’t get done that is still killing me because it’s not done is the loft.  The loft is the coolest room in our house and we never use it so it’s become the catch-all room.  Right now there are piles all over the place and it’s really starting to drive me insane.  I know that I could spend 2 hours on that room and it would be very tolerable and you would think that I would have found 2 hours in the 2 weeks but I didn’t.  I guess the reason I didn’t is in my next subject.

Steve Speed vs. Vicky Speed

I am constantly wondering what he does all day that he gets nothing done.  Ever!  I can get more done in 30 minutes after I get home from work than he will accomplish all day long.  Well, the speed at which function is drastically different than his.  I get out of bed and I’m going.  I can have the bathroom cleaned before I even come out of it first thing in the morning.  Why sit there and just drink a cup of coffee when the washer can be running while you do it?  I try to cram everything I can into every moment.  Now, once I’ve gotten a few things done I can sit and relax, but I can’t relax until I know that stuff is done, does that make sense.  However, if I choose to be lazy in the morning I will be lazy all day and nothing will get done.

Steve works completely different.  He gets up and has to drink two cups of coffee before he will even consider what he’s going to do for the day.  He doesn’t want to be disrupted while he’s waking up and that drives me insane.  For two weeks I had to wait for him to wake up before I could move which completely was a waste of my time.  So, he’d finally get moving around 10:00 or so and then I could tear apart anything I wanted.  By this time I was getting lazy and couldn’t get motivated.  That doesn’t really matter because Steve is normally done working on whatever is project is by 1:00 and it’s time to relax again.  I have no idea how we are going to survive being retired and trying to live together with our totally different routines.

Zach is home

My 5^th nephew was born on December 30 but didn’t get to come home from the hospital until Sunday, January 6^th.  He had some infection and they had to give him tons of antibiotics to kill it before he could home but he’s home now and I’m hoping to get to meet him in the very near future.

I’m Ready To Kill My Dog

Rusty got very used to me being home with him for 2 weeks and liked it.  On my last day off Steve and I went to Grand Rapids and messed around for a few hours.  When we got home I discovered that Rusty has peed on my bed!  He has done this twice now and I can’t have that.  So, now when I leave the house I have to close the bedroom door but I’m afraid he’s just going to crawl up into my chair and do it or something.  All I know is that he better stop this or he’s going to be homeless, just like he was when we found him.

January Thaw

We have been in quite the January Thaw for the past few days and I am not complaining.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the snow and would much rather look at that than all the brown, dead stuff but it was nice to reach the 50’s and see the sun shine.  It was also nice to see the banks of snow melt because they were getting really high for me to reach with shovel.  Since our snow blower is broken and Steve doesn’t have a job so we can’t replace it, all the snow removal has been done by hand this year.  It’s back-breaking work but it has to be done and it’s great exercise.  However, I’m glad to see those piles get small so our next blast of snow I can start from the ground again.

Wrap Up

It seems like I’m forgetting a million things. . . but, I’m back to work and trying to get caught up here and with all my internet stuff.  At home I have a 24K dial-up connection and that simply doesn’t cut it for about anything you want to do online.  I don’t have the patience for it and, plus, have the websites don’t even open at that speed.  I don’t even bother

Oops, I knew I forgot something, Steve’s Ear!

Steve got an infection in his ear, not the inner ear, the outer ear.  He looked like he had a cauliflower growing out the side of his head.  January 1^st, after the game, we were in the ER for them to look at it because I was afraid his ear canal would close off from the swelling.  They tried to drain it but they didn’t have much success and told him to follow up with our regular doctor.  He went to them on Friday and they were clueless.  They did give him a shot of a steroid, some antibiotics and pain killers and told him to come back on Tuesday (yesterday).  Yesterday he went back and they sent him to the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor.  They knew what to do and I guess this is an infection that’s “common” in athletes like wrestlers or people that wear helmets.  She was able to drain off 7cc of stuff.  I won’t get into details but he has a bandage sewn to his ear and will have it removed on Tuesday.

*****

Wow, that was a nice note to sign off on.  However, I really do have to get back to work, my list grew while I was typing this so now I have to go play catch-up (and eat).  If you read all of this, I’m very impressed.