Frustration with ones-self is.....

Have you ever parked not entirely in a parking spot because the person in front of you didn't leave enough room and there is NOT a spot behind you and it says "No Parking". Well, I did it in hopes of just being able to go in and out of the store without getting in trouble. Well with a 4 1/2 minute trip inside, I got a parking ticket. Something that was just supposed to cost me $4 ended up costing me $44.

Un-happiness is getting a parking ticket. When you were just trying to run a simple errand.I'm not pleased.

But, I still did it...and I got a ticket. It happens, and it happened to me.

I'm still not happy but I'll get over it.In the meantime, I'm still pissed but I'm coming down from it.



Has this ever happened to you?? or someone you know??

A day off

A day off is good, no matter what day of the week it is. Yeah I know today is Saturday but I'm not gonna do anything today (well atleast nothing that I don't want to do).

It has been one crazy week to say the least. With one friend in and now out of the hospital (thank goodness she's feeling and doing better), work being crazy, myself with all of my stomach issues and doctor visits, lack of sleep, etc....I figured since being near a bathroom is a must for me that just hanging home today would be an ideal thing to do.

Watching a few chick flicks on television, surfing on the internet, chatting through various IM's and resting. Nice day.

How is your weekend so far?? Do tell.

Health update.....

Well...for those of you who've PM'd me or emailed me, I got results of my initial blood tests back and I am NOT pregnant.Which means, there is a more serious issue at hand with my abdomen and they are working on trying to figure out what it is. I'm very tired of eating a mostly liquid diet, it is taking it's toll on me. I'm actually forcing myself to eat sandwiches and lots of crackers, even though solids make me feel VERY ill.

I'll be honest, I'm pretty freaked out by all of this and hope I'm able to be helped or that whatever is going on works it's way out of my system and I'm ok after a bit of time.

*knocking on wood*


I've got some pictures I'm trying to scan onto my computer...so excited they are from when I was a baby all the way to high school. So liking it. (it's the bright part of my nausea filled day)

Nausea...ewwwww

Well I know the current speculation is that I'm preggers.....well according to EPT and First Response, I'm NOT. But the nausea is worse than ever. And no matter what I eat, bland or not...I feel awful when I eat. And if I don't eat I feel sick...it's just an vicious circle. So I'm going to the doctor (my regular doctor, just to clarify) at 3:30pm today. To see what they think.

Yes I do know there is still a chance, but with my digestive history and such I need to make sure it's not something more serious. Especially in light of what has happened with my sister lately.

Nausea sucks

Nausea...it really sucks. It's 4:15am I'm still awake. I've been having really bad nausea since about 8pm. WTF?? I was hungry when I got home from work, I was fine and thirsty. I had food and drank some water, I was fine and then I started feeling sick. I thought maybe because it was tired and stressed about different family issues going on right now. I have no idea. I'm exhausted, but everytime I lay down I feel like I'm going to hurl.

I'm thirsty but I'm afraid to drink water for feeling to full, does that make any sense?? Oh well.I'm hoping this is just temporary. Maybe I should just make myself lay down and hopefully I'll go to sleep. Ugh I hate feeling like this.

I've been perfectly fine all weekend and all the way through Tuesday. Today was good too...it was after I got home and relaxed. Ick.

Pain, pain go away

Well, we had a great 4th of July weekend. We went to a few BBQ's, I got my hair cut, went to a baby shower. It was a fun filled 3 day weekend.

But you know how my back reacts to weather...and if you don't I'll explain. When the barometric pressure has major shifts when it trying or getting ready to storm, the titanium in my back tells me and I have a lot of aching in my back and/or leg(s) or instead of aching...it's pain. Each day this weekend there was at least a little storming or raining each day and I sure did feel it.

I woke up this morning to EXTREME discomfort, my right leg hurt and my hip and lower back were not feeling well at all. I thought maybe I just slept in one position all night and my body was stiff....uh...NO. It took me 10 minutes to get out of bed to use the bathroom and get my cell phone to call my boss and work. I was able to grab my laptop an put it on my bed so I could use it later.I took a muscle relaxer and its helping a little bit, it sure did make me sleepy. I took a nice nap, but the muscle relaxer doesn't do anything for the pain, so now I need to determine if I'm going to take a pain pill too or not. But I haven't got out of bed since I got my phone and laptop this morning.

Ugh. I don't like pain. This is the first time I've had to take major medication in about a year. Because I usually just take Aleve or Advil. But that won't do today.

My turn for the "Book List"

I've seen about 20 other people doing this list...I guess I should do it too.

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According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

The instructions:Look at the list and bold those you have read.Reprint this list in your own blog

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [isn't this part of #33?]
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare [Er, is #14 really complete without Hamlet?]
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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24 Books for me.

Air Conditioning Drama...has come to an end.

Well to let you all know what ended up happening was certainly interesting to say the least.

The original company that came to try and fix the problem (and will NEVER set foot on our property EVER again) said we needed a new unit. Our warranty company requires a second opinion from another contractor before replacing and entire A/C unit. Well the second company came out, literally, right away and with two guys who looked at EVERY nook and cranny of our A/C unit. The first question they asked was WHO was the other company that came out and said we needed a new unit. When Flipper told them the company name, they said "say no more" that the company did not have a very good reputation or track record at all. The problem that they found was the new circuit boards that were installed by that company were COMPLETELY wired wrong and that's why our old thermostat was completely fried. We have a new thermostat, keep in mind not as nice (in our opinion) as our other one, but it's still digital and does it's job. The guys re-wired the unit, CORRECTLY, and we had our A/C working in under 45 minutes of them being here.

So we now have our A/C back and all is finally well back at the Casa De Flipper.