In Search of My Body vol. 10 - taking it one paper towel at at time

[AKASnowWhite]

I'm facing a root canal tomorrow. My jaw is killing me.

ugh. That doesn't sound like fun



Great pictures Ronda!

 

[HockeyKat]

Sunday we clocked in at 10:38.

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My dad has been in the hospital for a few days.

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Kat - hope your phone rings and email inbox fills up with prospects. Good java leads are always in demand and it sounds like you have a good network. My current gig is SAS. Goodness knows their API needs help ; )

GREAT pace!!

Sorry to hear about your dad.

Thanks!! SAS headquarters is right down the road from me - I have two friends that work there.

Loved the pics!!


I am swamped over with responses, thank goodness! 5 phone interviews (4 tomorrow alone) and 2 in person scheduled, now, and at one point today I had 9 voicemails stacked up waiting for response.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Declaration of thread bankruptcy.

Coward.

Quick check in... Sue and I did the Trolley Run last weekend. This is our third year for this race. 4 miles. Starts close to our home. We park a car at the finish (my office) and walk to the start the next morning. First year our pace was 13:35. Next year it dropped to 12:20. Sunday we clocked in at 10:38. It was a great day for a run. Around 40 degrees at the start. It's a well executed race of about 10,000 participants.

My dad has been in the hospital for a few days. Rapid heartbeat. They've implanted a defibrillator and may try cardiac ablation if things don't settle down. He is antsy and wants to go home NOW! My brother has been to visit him and Mom is driving down to see him daily. We are headed that way this weekend for Easter.

We are making Europe trip plans. Land in Paris and immediately head south to Provence. A few days there with DGF's uncle and on to La Spezia/Cinque Terra for two days. Rome/Naples/Pompeii and back to Paris for four days before heading home. All together 16 days.

FANTASTIC pace! And loved the pics! Holy skinny! It might be time to pick out your stripper name!

Hope everything with Dad works out. Keep us posted.

The trip sounds awesome. We are planning on taking the kids across the pond next year. We have just been waiting for them to be old enough to appreciate it and I think we are just about there. One more year and I think they will really get a lot out of the experience.

EE--good luck on the root canal. May you be blessed with good drugs (says the woman with a dealer! Ha!)

Kat--sounds like it is going SO well! Are you at the point yet where you can move from feeling panicked to feeling excited about the new possibilities?

Nancy--was the adjustment at the chiro good?

I am, happily, no longer nauseous! OMG, what an awful feeling. And it wasn't flu-like. It was more like being sea-sick. Just awful and wouldn't go away no matter what.

Tomorrow life returns to full swing. LAX practice, softball practice, 2 soccer practices, and Kelly is having two friends sleep over.

Oh--and we have SNOW in the forecast!

 

[HockeyKat]

E, so glad the nausea has passed. What an awful feeling!!

You will hate me when I say it's supposed to be close to 90 here tomorrow.

Yes, I have definitely moved past panicked into excited. I think everything will work out in some way or another, and that I will have a jnew ob before the true panic button starts to kick in toward the end of May.

The nice thing about this much interest is that it takes some of the pressure off. I do have the 8.5 weeks (I got 1.5 weeks vacation paid out as well as the severance), so I am not going to wind up out on the street if I take a little extra time and weigh every option.

Ok, off to bed. Studied up for the first phone screen tomorrow at 9AM, and finished up a test for another possibility. Yes, they make you take tests.

 

[adsrtw]

Hey guys - bad storm just came through. We got lucky, others in area did not. The pictures look horrible (nothing like Kat's experience this weekend though). No official touchdowns, but several funnel clouds spotted.

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

Remember Me!!!

Sorry I have been MIA, been busy, very busy

I did the 6.3 mile run on Saturday and I have not done anything else.
BUTTERPANTS!!
But hey, its good to take a week off right? I hope!

Ronda, so about your dad.
Great pace for your race and I have the pics. It looked hot in the pics.

Happy Wednesday All
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EE, good luck at the dentist.

 

[Ronda93]

EE - good luck. Ache thinking about it.

Nancy - I skimmed the announcement yesterday. I wonder if it would rate a coast-to-coast medal? I'm planning to do the WDW full. Two birds, you know?

Kat - Good luck.

Digging in for work. Later.

Ronda

 

[AKASnowWhite]

Oh--and we have SNOW in the forecast!

enough already!

Yes, I have definitely moved past panicked into excited. I think everything will work out in some way or another, and that I will have a jnew ob before the true panic button starts to kick in toward the end of May.

That's fantastic Kat.

Hey guys - bad storm just came through. We got lucky, others in area did not. The pictures look horrible (nothing like Kat's experience this weekend though). No official touchdowns, but several funnel clouds spotted.

gah. The weather out there is frightful Jo & Ronda - are you getting those horrific storms as well? Scary. Just plain scary. I don't think my nerves could handle it.

Good luck with the dentist today EE!

Remember Me!!!

Sorry I have been MIA, been busy, very busy

I did the 6.3 mile run on Saturday and I have not done anything else.

Here's the thing though Jo. You DID a 6.3 mile run! Celebrate that I, on the other hand, have single-handedly devoured more groceries than the rest of my family combined. I'm up a solid 4 pounds from the Princess. Go me.

Nancy - I skimmed the announcement yesterday. I wonder if it would rate a coast-to-coast medal? I'm planning to do the WDW full. Two birds, you know?

Oh, I'm definitely giving it serious consideration. Very serious. Super serious. I.want.that.medal. (she says in her best Veruca Salt voice )

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

Yes we had bad storms last night but they pasted fast, and today its cold.
I hope it warms up, the Easter Bunny wants to hide eggs outside.

I am up 2 # Nancy, and you would think that would stop me from having the 2 cookies I had for breakfast

Ronda, you are going to do WDW Full. You go girl. I can only dream that I could do that.

Can some one clue me in on this coast to coast thing,
I thought you had to do the princess then the DL 1/2 they have in the fall?

Are you Goddess doing both the Tinkerbell and the Princess 2012??

 

[3DisneyKids]

Jo--to earn the coast to coast medal you have to do a Half in each WDW and DL. Until yesterday, the only DL half was the one in Sept. So you could to the Donald and DL Half and get the Coast to Coast. Or the Princess and the DL Half. Or the Wine & Dine and DL Half. But now there is the option to do the Tink in Jan. instead of the Sept. Half. The two races have to be in the same calendar year, though.

I am *still* considering the DL Half for this Sept. in order to get the Coast to Coast. It is MUST-HAVE bling, for sure. But Jeff really wants to do the Wine & Dine. Of course, I would love to do that race (hello, after hours party in Epcot during Food & Wine!), but that wouldn't qualify me for the coast to coast. I will say, though, that Jeff and I often get to California in January. (Well, he ALWAYS goes to Cali in January...and I could easily tag along.) So doing the Tink and then the Princess is tempting....

I have a house full of giggling girls tonight. Kel is having a bunch of girls from her gymnastics team sleepover. Love hearing those giggling voices.

 

[adsrtw]

(Sing to the tune of Baby Got Back). I have good drugs and I can not lie, you other goddesses can't deny...

Well, some reduction in swelling from the abscessed tooth. Root canal wasn't as bad as I thought, but I am sore. I have dentist anxiety thanks to a quack that my mother made me go to when I was a kid (was drilled on when I wasn't very numb). My dentist and her fabulous staff know this, so they were really trying to help me. I tuned in to an old podcast and we were golden.

I'm loopy, so maybe I can get some good sleep. No storms in the forcast for tonight, but another round tomorrow and Friday.

Night Y'all!

 

[AKASnowWhite]

I am up 2 # Nancy, and you would think that would stop me from having the 2 cookies I had for breakfast

ooof. And I had potato chips for a snack. I counted them. It wasn't pretty, but it was honest.

But Jeff really wants to do the Wine & Dine. Of course, I would love to do that race (hello, after hours party in Epcot during Food & Wine!), but that wouldn't qualify me for the coast to coast. I will say, though, that Jeff and I often get to California in January. (Well, he ALWAYS goes to Cali in January...and I could easily tag along.) So doing the Tink and then the Princess is tempting....

Stephen wants to do the Wine & Dine too. But, unless I quit my job, there is no WAY that I can do that. It's just too busy that time of year and I already take a long weekend off for both the Otherworld Adventure and for Parent's weekend (which, btw, both boys will have Parents Weekend the SAME weekend in 2011 )

(Sing to the tune of Baby Got Back). I have good drugs and I can not lie, you other goddesses can't deny...

I started washing windows yesterday. I despise washing windows. I'm not sure what really possessed me to do that, but now that I've started I feel like I need to keep rollin' on it. A few every day and I'll be done by.....well....August?

Off for a quick bike ride before heading to work and all the Easter goodies that I have to make

 

[adsrtw]

I'm completely pain free today! No pressure in my ears, none at all! Very excited, swollen but thrilled.

 

[lisaviolet]

I'm actually in favor of a 12-month school year. And not that they would necessarily go for more days, but instead of 8 weeks off in the summer, have 4 2-week breaks spread throughout the year. A 2-week break after every quarter. This would prevent that awful summer backslide that just kills elementary students. The first 6 weeks of every school year is spent getting caught back up and reviewing what they did the year before.

And it would also be great for vacations. Families could then go on vacation during different seasons instead of being relegated to Christmas and summer.

There are a few districts around the country that are doing it, but it hasn't truly caught on and I don't expect it to. In our area, since we are heavily visited by tourists in the summer, it would never fly. The area businesses need the high school students for summer help.

We have some 12 month schools here. Just a few. Money for AC for the Boards of Ed is a big deal - the older schools don't have them. And May/June/September can bring heat and humidity.

I get them in some ways but all I think about is summer memories/summer sports teams (which I guess you could still do but not with the same carefree summer abandon). Here I think you still get a month off but I don't know - loads fo thoughts.

Year round schools are big down here.


Lisa, I get Property Virgins, House Hunters, Unsellables, Selling New York (of course), My First Place, My First Sale, Income Property, the Holmes stuff, and the Divine Design lady's new show.

I haven't seen the other two you mentioned but that doesn't mean we don't have it, just that I haven't noticed it.

Austin. Well, I don't really want to give away why it might not be a fit for us, but E and Liz and Cutie would know. Chapel Hill would not be a fit for the same reason, even though it's like 20 min from me.


I was completely and utterly swamped with job searching today! My phone rang pretty much nonstop from 8:30AM through 5PM. A lot of it was "job spam" as I posted my resume on the 'net yesterday, but I wound up with about 16 reasonable job leads from it. I have a phone screen scheduled for Thursday and two more that inquired back asking for availability. Oh yeah, and I aced two online "skills" tests.

Good for you Kat!!

Well I can guess about Austin/Chapel Hill. I'm smart like that.

The shows I ask b/c we have two different websites for HGTV so very curious. And here we have very strict laws for Canadian programming on cable stations (not the networks). For instance we have OWN but it is filled with old Canadian shows in between her programming to satisfy the requirements. So with so many HGTV shows being Canadian and geez Toronto I am forever curious.

Do you get Sarah Richardson shows? Sarah's House/Design Inc.

I ADORE Property Shop with Tatiana (Montreal). She KILLS me.

Well shoot. If it is, then I've got it all wrong! I'm UP nearly 5 pounds from the Princess

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I've written and deleted over and over. Hmmm. I guess I just want you to know that I hear your frustration.

Morning. Not a "good" one, though. Up half the night throwing up again. It is awful...like being extremely seasick...the feeling doesn't go away once you throw up. Just feel God awful for hours and hours.

I finally realized that it is my pain meds. I'm on one that I have not taken before and clearly it disagrees with me. So I called my doc last night to see if he would call in a prescription for vicodin for me since I know I tolerate that well. I explained that what I was taking was making me sick to my stomach but I have never had an issue with vicodin. And he said no! He went on to explain that all narcotic pain meds basically work the same way so if I was having a problem with one, I would have the same symptoms with others. I must have said ten times that I have been on vicodin plenty of times and never ever had an issue. (I stopped just short of saying that I LOVE it! Ha!) He just explained to take it with food or spread out my doses and blah blah. Asshat. So if my choices are the horrible nauseousness or the pain, I guess I choose the pain. *sigh* After the knee surgeon wouldn't call in vicodin, I actually called my primary care and asked him to call in something else and he said no--I had to go through my surgeon (I didn't explain that my surgeon had already said no. I said that I couldn't get in touch with my surgeon).

I'm ok now. I ate a bagel again this morning and it helps quite a bit. Yesterday I finally felt better by lunchtime.

Well crap - I guess I should trust my instincts AGAIN - over and over I do this. I was going to suggest the meds but something that you wrote made me think can't be. Jean is very sick with Tylenol 3.

OMG what a jerk E!!!

But they have to be that way Kat. With all the crap going on.

I almost had the police called on me once. I was filling Jean's meds after reconstructive knee surgery . The silly doctor crossed something out on the prescription and everyone was hmmm with it because of that. And the last one was threatening me with a police call. I was almost in tears - the feeling of not being able to get pain meds to someone in pain was so overwhelming.

I just finished telling the story to my girlfriend Judy--and she happens to have an unused bottle of vicodin in her medicine cabinet and she is bringing it over. I feel like an addict trying to score....

SCORED!!!!

My dad has been in the hospital for a few days. Rapid heartbeat. They've implanted a defibrillator and may try cardiac ablation if things don't settle down. He is antsy and wants to go home NOW! My brother has been to visit him and Mom is driving down to see him daily. We are headed that way this weekend for Easter.


Hey to everyone!

Ronda

Ronda. Hope he's doing okay.

I am SO JEALOUS and SO EXCITED about your trip.

 

[lisaviolet]

Lisa - I made an ADR at Kouzina and put a reminder on my phone to get another pic of your chairs.

How sweet of you Amiee.

A few race pics.

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OMG Ronda. Fantastic. Again your body looks so different. What a change. Good for you. Inspiring.

GREAT pace!!

Sorry to hear about your dad.

Thanks!! SAS headquarters is right down the road from me - I have two friends that work there.

Loved the pics!!


I am swamped over with responses, thank goodness! 5 phone interviews (4 tomorrow alone) and 2 in person scheduled, now, and at one point today I had 9 voicemails stacked up waiting for response.

I LOVE this. And I am so curious where all of them are.

I am, happily, no longer nauseous! OMG, what an awful feeling. And it wasn't flu-like. It was more like being sea-sick. Just awful and wouldn't go away no matter what.

Tomorrow life returns to full swing. LAX practice, softball practice, 2 soccer practices, and Kelly is having two friends sleep over.

Oh--and we have SNOW in the forecast!

Yeah!!!! Not on the snow. On the no longer nauseous.

Hey guys - bad storm just came through. We got lucky, others in area did not. The pictures look horrible (nothing like Kat's experience this weekend though). No official touchdowns, but several funnel clouds spotted.

Sighing. Amiee. I don't know how you all do it.

 

[lisaviolet]

Remember Me!!!

Sorry I have been MIA, been busy, very busy

I did the 6.3 mile run on Saturday and I have not done anything else.
BUTTERPANTS!!
But hey, its good to take a week off right? I hope!

Ronda, so about your dad.
Great pace for your race and I have the pics. It looked hot in the pics.

Happy Wednesday All
.
EE, good luck at the dentist.

IF I HEAR THAT CRAP FROM YOUR MOUTH ONE MORE TIME MISSY!!!!!!!!!

How you go from 6.3 to that in the same thought process is .

Oh, I'm definitely giving it serious consideration. Very serious. Super serious. I.want.that.medal. (she says in her best Veruca Salt voice )

I.want.to.watch.you.get.that.medal.

Jo--to earn the coast to coast medal you have to do a Half in each WDW and DL. Until yesterday, the only DL half was the one in Sept. So you could to the Donald and DL Half and get the Coast to Coast. Or the Princess and the DL Half. Or the Wine & Dine and DL Half. But now there is the option to do the Tink in Jan. instead of the Sept. Half. The two races have to be in the same calendar year, though.

I am *still* considering the DL Half for this Sept. in order to get the Coast to Coast. It is MUST-HAVE bling, for sure. But Jeff really wants to do the Wine & Dine. Of course, I would love to do that race (hello, after hours party in Epcot during Food & Wine!), but that wouldn't qualify me for the coast to coast. I will say, though, that Jeff and I often get to California in January. (Well, he ALWAYS goes to Cali in January...and I could easily tag along.) So doing the Tink and then the Princess is tempting....

I have a house full of giggling girls tonight. Kel is having a bunch of girls from her gymnastics team sleepover. Love hearing those giggling voices.

I can't wait to you guys decide.

I have dentist anxiety thanks to a quack that my mother made me go to when I was a kid (was drilled on when I wasn't very numb).
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Night Y'all!

ummm maybe he's a cousin of my dentist who used to drill with NOTHING. Yes nothing=no numbing no freezing. N-O-T-H-I-N-G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Which I think makes my mom the quack. She took us there like lambs to a slaughter and still does it with nothing.

Amiee. Good to hear it went well.

ooof. And I had potato chips for a snack. I counted them. It wasn't pretty, but it was honest.



Stephen wants to do the Wine & Dine too. But, unless I quit my job, there is no WAY that I can do that. It's just too busy that time of year and I already take a long weekend off for both the Otherworld Adventure and for Parent's weekend (which, btw, both boys will have Parents Weekend the SAME weekend in 2011 )






I started washing windows yesterday. I despise washing windows. I'm not sure what really possessed me to do that, but now that I've started I feel like I need to keep rollin' on it. A few every day and I'll be done by.....well....August?

Off for a quick bike ride before heading to work and all the Easter goodies that I have to make

Don't you JUST HATE it when you wash windows and a pesky streak travels.

I'm completely pain free today! No pressure in my ears, none at all! Very excited, swollen but thrilled.

Yeah Amiee.

 

[lisaviolet]

I SO wanted to get in the car and just drive this weekend. BUT I couldn't find one place that had great weather. Bummocks. But Mom could get called in for her surgery any minute now. Any minute for the last month. So I know it can't be this weekend so I was going to drive the stress away. LOVE a road trip.

But holy bad weather people.

NYC - NO. Boston - NO. Chicago - JUST OKAY. Washington - pretty good but I had my doubts Jean would drive that far. I even checked PIT-MCO for WDW. WDW 90 and sunny.

Oh well - we have crap weather here.

OH LOOK by coincidence they are doing the weather and all of sudden the SUN will be out here but no warm - 62 on Saturdayis the highest . Love weather forecasting.

 

[adsrtw]

Catching a few minutes of my son's game then off to a work dinner. The opposing team seems older and they are hammering the ball.

 

[adsrtw]

Lisa - I'm ready to move. Storms late tonight and up to 5 inches of rain starting tomorrow afternoon. It is sunny for now.

 

[AKASnowWhite]

I've written and deleted over and over. Hmmm. I guess I just want you to know that I hear your frustration.

and it is frustration. I'm not thrilled with where I am, but I'm ok with it. Just not okay with the upward trend. Does that make sense?

I SO wanted to get in the car and just drive this weekend. BUT I couldn't find one place that had great weather.

bah. Stupid mother nature <flips the bird>