out of touch

I feel out touch because I have been under the weather. Dave says it is just a virus. I called the doctor today and even he says it just a virus. Hard to feel like it is "just a virus" when I cough all the time and feel like I am hacking up a lung. But I am doing a little better. I just am trying to tough it out, as in the past even when I got antiobiotics, it still took me forever to get better. I don't understand my body at all. Dave still has a cough, but he is feeling a lot better.

The days are getting shorter and my sleep pattern is changing. I get sleepy earlier. It seems so weird to have it get dark at 6 at night.

Guilt and sickness

I am feeling very guilty. I hate the fact that I cannot do my second job as well as they need me to do. They know that I am working at another job, but still I put this pressure on myself to keep doing a full-time amout of work. But I am falling short by a lot. And I hate every minute that I am working the second job. That is why I am typing this instead of transcribing reports.

Dave has a nasty cold and now my throat is feeling tingly and starting to get raspy. Yikes, there is nothing worse than two sick people in the same house with one bathroom and lots of work to do.

Keeping in touch

I called all my fathers today.  I have three right now.  I get behind keeping in touch with them.  My dad is feeling good he says.  My call put him behind on his daily morning bike ride.  His doctors are watching his eyesight just in case the tumor on his pituitary gland grows and starts causing him blindness.  He also has a cyst on his kidney, but has had that for a while and it doesn't seem to cause any problems.  He is sort of mad at his girlfriend because she is going to stay with her daughter for a week and did not invite him along.  He is also upset that none of his kids come and see him.  

Ken is feeling a little better, in that he isn't anemic any longer.  But he has an aortic aneurysm that might need to be surgically taken care of.  He has lost 20 pounds and is on a diet, exercises, and other therapies.

Dave's Dad just had two stents put in his arteries to his heart.  He is doing okay, but probably needs to rest a little more before galavanting around town.

Dave is fighting a cold.  Mostly he is coughing.  He has a tight, wheezy cough.  I hope that he starts feeling better soon.  

This is a test

This is a test of the email blog publishing.

 

Deb

just ramblings

I have to keep telling myself to slow down, take it easy.  You will be able to get all the stuff done that you need to.  It is crazy, but the new job is keeping me busier than I thought it would.   Part of the problem is that I am not very organized and I can always find more to do.

I am still trying to learn all the clients and their accounts.  There is one person who bought the program two years ago, but now wants support and all the new upgrades, but doesn't want to pay for them.  She keeps calling me asking me questions, but my boss doesn't want me to help her until she pays for some support.

I woke up with a horrible headache this morning.  It hurt in the front of my head and the back and down the neck.  Earlier in the morning (about 3 a.m.), I put some ice on my head.  Later (about 6 a.m.), I took three Tylenol (I have recently found that I am allergic to ibuprofen) and washed out my nasal passages with salt water (sinus infection prophylaxis).  Then I tried putting a hot wet washcloth on my head.  Then I remembered that I had not had any Pepsi yesterday, and so I took a couple sips of Pepsi.  I think I was suffering from caffeine withdrawal.  It makes you wonder why we poison ourselves with something that makes that kind of pain (if that is what caused it).  

I kind of like this blogging thing for keeping in touch with everyone.  

Weekend Recap

Dave and I had a good weekend.  We went to DeKalb, Illinois so that Eastern could lose again to another MAC team.  Sheesh, what is with those guys.  

Then we stayed overnight at a Super 8.  Did a little on the computer, slept, worked a little more on the computer for www.macreportonline.com and then drove the 5 1/2 hours home.

Once home, we spent a little "quality" time with the lovebird, Sparky, and then got ready to go to the Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush concert in Ferndale.

Dave took the day off so that he could write his Week 7 review of the MAC football games.  Plus I think he is finding a cold.

Downloaded the Blogger for Word, and am testing it out.

Ladybugs and cornfields

Has anyone ever heard of someone being allergic to ladybugs?  Do they bite?

The reason I ask is that I have developed spots were I was either bitten by a bug or I have hives.  My neck and face have a slight rash.  The football field that I went to this weekend had a ton of ladybugs flying around.

But on second thought, I think I am allergic to corn silk and stuff, and the football field was surrounded by cornfields.

Weekend

Hurray, it is close to the weekend. So close I can almost taste it. This weekend, Dave and I are traveling to Illinois to see the NIU/Eastern football game. I will be taking more pictures. The pictures from Toledo are a little disappointing because as good as my camera is, it doesn't take action shots in the dark very well.

Starting 10/24, I will be working the second job three days a week. That should help a lot. M,T, Th will be the days that I am working evenings for the transcription company. Wednesday nights, Dave and I will be producing that radio program with Al.

I hope everyone has a good weekend.

Well, I have Mom Joanie now blogging and reading everyone else's blogs. That is good. This way we can all keep in touch.

I am really loving my day job. I get to solve problems all day long.

Today, though, I almost burned down the apartment complex. I put a hamburger on to cook and I was browning the buns. Well, I went back to the computer and forgot about them. Yep, the apartment was full of smoke and the smoke detector was going off. Boy do I feel stupid. I told Dave that I would not be cooking myself meals during the day anymore. My kids know that I am notorious for burning things, toast and such.

Good nite all......

hitting your head against a brick wall, does it give away finally?

Dave and I are spending a lot of time on our website. Dave spends just about every night and part of his work day writing up articles, contacting SIDs, coaches, and radio station personnel. I spend time updating the website and sending emails. We also try to attend all football functions and media events that we can. Sunday is spent printing out stats and quotes and Dave writing the review of all the games. Then I upload it to the website. Then Dave writes a short note for the main bulletin board and I post that noted on the 12 other school's bulletin boards. I also have to review all the photos that I took, crop them and put them on the website gallery.

My hope is that with all this work we are doing, trying to be professional about this and doing the best we can do (both of us are very anal about having all our t's crossed and i's dotted, and still we find small errors or other people find them for us), this will work into a full time career for Dave and possibly me (if our website starts making money for us). Are we being foolish to work so hard for so little result (at least right now)? My heart says that we should keep trying. Don't give up. It will pay off in the end somehow.

cooking for the husband

Why don't I cook for my husband? This is why. I found a recipe that had all the ingredients in it that he likes. The one iffy one was cilantro. I left out the chili peppers and onions, but it had chicken, black beans, pinto beans, corn, and rice. It did have diced tomatoes. I should have used pureed. I had it hot and ready when he got home from work. He ate the chicken and picked at the rest. Sheesh. I still might try the recipe again, leaving out the cilantro and using pureed tomatoes. Oh, well, for a while he will have to fend for himself.

I did make the turkey pita sandwich that Mark told us about. He liked that. He liked it so much he asked me to get out of bed in the morning and make for him to take to work. Pushy, isn't he?

Irresponsibility

Okay, I am irresponsible. I bought the parakeets and then two years later, I decide that they are too much trouble, so I get rid of them. I think I found a good home for them, but still I feel very guilty that I did not take better care of them. I bought them when Dave and I were dating and I didn't have much hope of he and I getting together. I thought I could live my lonely life as a bird woman. But then he changed his mind and we tried to bring our "family" together. Dave, me, Sparky the lovebird, and the two noisy, unsociable parakeets. I can't help it. They were driving us insane. Now with working from home and having to talk on the phone to customers, I can't have that noise in the background either. Well, judge me as you will. I am a terrible parakeet mother.

What I have learned from my children and parakeets

These are only a few of the things that I have learned.

From parakeets: They are noisy, but they like to do their own thing and not interact with anyone else. They are harder to put up with than children.

From Brett: humor and quiet observation.

From Mindy: compassionate and faithful to her friends and family

From Kari: adventurous and fiercely self-reliant.

Dave's first internet radio program

Check out www.macreportonline.com and the MAC Report. Dave and Al Fellhauer (McDonald's mogul) are hosting a new show. I know most of you do not enjoy sports talk shows, but this is your "dad", so check it out if you can. It is live on Wednesday nite at 6:05 p.m., but can be listened to later if you miss it.

Next week it will be even better.

Coming soon to this blog is 1) the why and how of owning (and giving up) the parakeets 2) what we learn from our children 3) reflections of seeing a child at play at the grocery store

When will I learn?

I got up at 6:00 a.m. , ran to the grocery store, ran home, didn't put all groceries away, worked both jobs. It is now almost 8 p.m. and I am falling asleep at the computer, but I still have a lot of typing to do. I have a lot of documenting to do for the other job, but I will have to find time for that tomorrow, but I was hoping that I could get up early in the a.m. tomorrow to finish the shopping that I didn't finish today. I also have to get to the bird feed store to get more bird seed. I just want to crawl into bed though. Maybe I could hook up my laptop tonight and then sleep in in the morning and work from my bed for a while. Go to the store later in the day when I go get the bird seed. Hmmmm, sounds good. I might do that.

Saturday College Football & bye bye birdies

I had a great time at the Eastern Michigan game yesterday. Kari and Mark were able to come for the tailgating and the game. I feel so bad for Mark, with his back hurting as bad as it does. But I think they had fun. At least we had chair back seats for them. Dave and I went down to the field for some of the game, well most of the game. But we spent time with K & M before and after the game.

Then after dinner and K & M went home, Dave and I went over the Al Fellhauer's house. We needed to set up the logistics of the radio show that Dave and Al will be hosting next Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. It will be live on www.SportsAmericaRadio.com and then will be archived. The archive might be on www.bcmonsters.com.

Today, two people from the Rainbow Feathers bird club came to pick up the two parakeets. They think they have someone to take the parakeets. I feel bad that we had to give them up, but they were driving us insane in this small apartment and with me working from home. I think they are going to a good home.

Why did I get the birds in the first place? I will detail that in the next blog, as Dave is having me work on the MAC Report Online stuff right now. We have a lot of stuff to do with that and my radiology transcription accounts wants me to transcribe reports tonight if I can because the weekend transcriptionist's dad is in the hospital.

Hope this was interesting to someone...... more later.