One More Time

I finally made a move.  I called the doctor to get a checkup. Usually if I call to make an appointment and I am a new patient, I have to wait at least a month.  But...no...I was on the books for a less than a week later.  I needed to have my thyroid checked...what is left of it.  It is swollen.  So...here I go again.

The doctor seemed to like my sense of humor.  And why do they always seem surprised to find out I don't take any medications and that my blood pressure is normal?  So, he made me call and schedule a mammogram along with an ultrasound for my thyroid.  I also am having a full panel blood workup done.  yikes.

My 2 trees in my yard were taken down over the course of these last 2 days.  $1200 for 2 trees and the stumps ground into the ground.  Now my yard looks naked.  I am now planning on planting a row of lilac trees in between my side porch and the street.  At least it will smell nice and give me a degree of privacy.  The only problem is it will obscure Lucy's  view. She LOVES to watch the joggers, bike riders, walkers, school kids and cars go by.  So...I may have to plant them off at an angle so that she still has a street view.  I will figure it out. Lucy spent the second day of the tree workers half laying under my desk while she watched them load the logs onto the trucks.

I got the fireplace in the sunroom figured out.  I did not know that once you light it, the temperature sensor tells the flame when to shut off and turn back on!  I open the door from the sunroom into the diningroom and it warms the WHOLE house.  I set the thermostat down for the furnace.  Lucy doesn't want to come in at the end of the day when I shut off the fireplace and want to close the door. The logs are missing because my mom broke them when she picked them up.

I got my rug laid down in my area of the sunroom that is my office.  It makes it look so much more like my office space.

I am killing it with the IEPs I am writing. They are buttoned down!  I am getting my job under control..finally.  I feel like I am getting somewhere.

The next thing I have left is to get the cataracts off my left eye.

Bethany and Jordan are coming to visit next weekend.  They are coming after she gets off work Thursday night.  I am taking Friday off of work. They awarded the Intervention Specialists a $200 bonus and an extra paid day off whenever we want.  So, I am taking mine.

Jordan decided to text with me the other night.  He says that his online trading has slowed down for a bit.  He is going to work for FedEx over the holidays just so he can pay the rent without dipping into his money.  He is saving up to buy a house with cash.  Must be nice.  He is smart.  He is also studying to how to raise gourmet mushrooms.  He sent me pictures of the petri dishes he has that he is trying to grow samples in.  The have some kind of tree stuff in them that the fungus needs to grow.  He is different.  ha ha!  And Bethany will soon be taking her Pharmacy Tech National Cert test.

I think Jordan will be looking around to see if he is interested in them moving up this way next spring or summer.  He, Bethany, Frodo the cat, Pippin the cat and Arwyn the bearded dragon.   And the fungus.

The sad part about the last few weeks:  my cousin Tom succumbed to pancreatic cancer...less than 2 months after he found out he had it.  He was a wonderful, fun, big hearted guy. He was smiling until the end.

Nope

Nobody new in my life.  Only new plants.  planted.  outside.

I have 2 trees coming down in a few weeks.

I complained the gas company into checking the lines in my house...including the fireplaces.

I find it HYSTERICAL that when I call the gas company AND they ask for my account number, they can't find me....they can't find my phone number but BoY HoWdY they can find me to send me a bill!

I am trying to figure out a way to raise money to put up a fence along my property line next spring/summer between me and The Godpenguin next door...him and his wife aka Shreekie Quinn.
Ugh.  It will cut into her exercise routine because then she will not be able to mow MY YARD!  It should not bother me?  Less for me to mow?  At first I thought that but after she had mowed on a Wednesday, I mowed on Saturday morning (ALL of MY yard) and then she went out..right AFTER me...and mowed over it AGAIN..I knew there is a definite problem.  I do not want the drama. Put up a fence.  Done.

My mother is now telling me that after this winter I may be wanting to sell this house and move on. She thinks the winter will be too cold for me.  I just bought this place.  I have no idea how good or bad the winter will be.  Give it a chance!  sheesh.  I really do not see me moving until I retire.  And then, believe it or not, I am actually thinking of finding a decent independent living place.  Might as well.  If it is just me, I like the idea of the security of knowing that if I drop over dead, I just might not have to lay there for 3+ days before someone finds me.

I know...morbid...but this is the type of thing that wakes me up at night with a full blown panic attack.

I have a problem...if I go to sleep and actually get 8 hours of sleep I feel GREAT the next day.  But then, the next night I can't sleep very well so then I feel tired the next day...then I go to bed and sleep 8 hours...you get the drift.

Life is too complicated.