This was my favorite square dancing outfits they had. PINK! Mom had silver shoes. I liked Dad's pink towel. Now the outfits are in the hands of my church's children's drama room! I'm glad they'll "live on"! :)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Vintage Grady and Peg - Circa 1977
This was my favorite square dancing outfits they had. PINK! Mom had silver shoes. I liked Dad's pink towel. Now the outfits are in the hands of my church's children's drama room! I'm glad they'll "live on"! :)
Monday, February 16, 2009
Lunesta is a gift from above
I'm actually tired. I will actually SLEEP tonight! Thank God (literally) for Lunesta. I hope I spelled it right. Actually, I don't care - it works whatever the name is! Woohoo!
I think a LOT of my problems physically can be traced back to not getting sleep. I've already dropped 5 pounds and I have done NOTHING different. I think it's just less stress on the body. Wow. I actually feel human again. :)
Anyways, I can't stay up all night - I have a schedule! Sweet dreams.....
I think a LOT of my problems physically can be traced back to not getting sleep. I've already dropped 5 pounds and I have done NOTHING different. I think it's just less stress on the body. Wow. I actually feel human again. :)
Anyways, I can't stay up all night - I have a schedule! Sweet dreams.....
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Getting Sleep
Ok, so the Lunesta is working. Now I just need to get the other person in the room on something. :)
One I get the sleeping thing going, maybe I can work on the other 1,294,394 things I need to do. If I really had my way, I'd quit work, quit church, quit DAR, quit every other activity I do, except probably Scouts. I wish I could go back to being a stay-at-home mom again and focus on that. I don't think that's ever going to happen again. Part of me is pretty sad about that. I'm just racing through life now and it's going by FAST.
I think once the flooring is fixed, maybe that'll help things. It's SO stressful having the house all torn up. Plus I stupidly started the taxes (should have left it alone for a long time) and we owe a bunch, so that leads to even more stress. I just want to give up sometimes.
One I get the sleeping thing going, maybe I can work on the other 1,294,394 things I need to do. If I really had my way, I'd quit work, quit church, quit DAR, quit every other activity I do, except probably Scouts. I wish I could go back to being a stay-at-home mom again and focus on that. I don't think that's ever going to happen again. Part of me is pretty sad about that. I'm just racing through life now and it's going by FAST.
I think once the flooring is fixed, maybe that'll help things. It's SO stressful having the house all torn up. Plus I stupidly started the taxes (should have left it alone for a long time) and we owe a bunch, so that leads to even more stress. I just want to give up sometimes.
Monday, February 09, 2009
What to do, what to do?
Why does health and taking care of yourself have to be so hard? You know, I actually like my primary doctor, been going to him for a long time, but he just isn't aggressive enough about dealing with problems. He's super conservative about giving out medicine or treatments and usually you'd think that's fine, but it takes for-freakin'-ever to get something fixed!
So then I try to go to different people and have run into THE most arrogant bunch of people. Good grief! I'm not asking anybody to baby me, I just want some help. I know I could lose weight, but good grief I don't take up two airline seats or have trouble going up the stairs or anything - I weigh more than I should. Period. Big deal! But they have trouble looking past that.
And when you get older, you start hearing horror stories about doctors blowing you off (especially if you're a woman) and you think, "well, that won't happen to me". Well, it can, and it does! I'm walking, living breathing proof! LOL I mean, come on now, the things I've personally heard and what my friends have said about what doctors say to them is frankly abusive. If you said stuff like that in a workplace, you'd be reprimanded if not fired on the spot.
But NO....it's okay because they are the (cue heavenly music) DOCTORS. The experts. Okay, fine. You know so much? Tell me what to do, and shut up. No opinions, just freakin' tell me what is WRONG with me (and I know something is) and HELP ME. I thought that's what doctors were for.
Oh well. Seriously though, I'm pondering whether to start over with a new doctor (again) or go to one of two recommended docs I've been told about. I'm so tired of the whole process, tho. I'm tired of feeling like I'm 4 years old and being reprimanded. Good grief, my parents weren't even like this to me! (well then again, I have really good parents, but you get my point). It's so ridiculous.
Well, so I'm trying to figure out - do I try again, or do I go to the iridologist in town? I'm tempted to go to the Indian iridologists that I've been to before years ago. I still have the sheet they gave me on what was wrong with me. It would be interesting to compare it. I really love the alternative medicine thing. I have such a high tolerance to regular medicine (it doesn't work for me) that I think I'm just one of those people that NEEDS something different. I'm getting really concerned b/c I haven't been able to give blood in several months and I've never had that problem in the 20 years I've given.
This is the time where I wish I didn't work, even part-time. I wish I had a week to focus on myself. Actually, there's always vacation, and seriously, I may have to take next week (after this) off anyways b/c of possibly getting carpet/vinyl flooring replaced. I dunno. My dream would be to have a whole week to myself to really just focus on getting healthy. You know what, I may just do it anyways....make myself go to the gym, drink tons of water, eat better. I mean, really, do I need to be alone to do that? NO! I need to incorporate that in my life anyways. *sigh*
Well, I also need to sleep - so I'm off to try....
So then I try to go to different people and have run into THE most arrogant bunch of people. Good grief! I'm not asking anybody to baby me, I just want some help. I know I could lose weight, but good grief I don't take up two airline seats or have trouble going up the stairs or anything - I weigh more than I should. Period. Big deal! But they have trouble looking past that.
And when you get older, you start hearing horror stories about doctors blowing you off (especially if you're a woman) and you think, "well, that won't happen to me". Well, it can, and it does! I'm walking, living breathing proof! LOL I mean, come on now, the things I've personally heard and what my friends have said about what doctors say to them is frankly abusive. If you said stuff like that in a workplace, you'd be reprimanded if not fired on the spot.
But NO....it's okay because they are the (cue heavenly music) DOCTORS. The experts. Okay, fine. You know so much? Tell me what to do, and shut up. No opinions, just freakin' tell me what is WRONG with me (and I know something is) and HELP ME. I thought that's what doctors were for.
Oh well. Seriously though, I'm pondering whether to start over with a new doctor (again) or go to one of two recommended docs I've been told about. I'm so tired of the whole process, tho. I'm tired of feeling like I'm 4 years old and being reprimanded. Good grief, my parents weren't even like this to me! (well then again, I have really good parents, but you get my point). It's so ridiculous.
Well, so I'm trying to figure out - do I try again, or do I go to the iridologist in town? I'm tempted to go to the Indian iridologists that I've been to before years ago. I still have the sheet they gave me on what was wrong with me. It would be interesting to compare it. I really love the alternative medicine thing. I have such a high tolerance to regular medicine (it doesn't work for me) that I think I'm just one of those people that NEEDS something different. I'm getting really concerned b/c I haven't been able to give blood in several months and I've never had that problem in the 20 years I've given.
This is the time where I wish I didn't work, even part-time. I wish I had a week to focus on myself. Actually, there's always vacation, and seriously, I may have to take next week (after this) off anyways b/c of possibly getting carpet/vinyl flooring replaced. I dunno. My dream would be to have a whole week to myself to really just focus on getting healthy. You know what, I may just do it anyways....make myself go to the gym, drink tons of water, eat better. I mean, really, do I need to be alone to do that? NO! I need to incorporate that in my life anyways. *sigh*
Well, I also need to sleep - so I'm off to try....
Dang. Up late again!
Grr! Well, the wind is sweeping down the plains and it's driving me NUTS!! It is SO freakishly windy and the house is creaking like an old barn. Good grief! Add that to my stress over getting the flooring replaced after our lovely sewer problem and yep, I'm up again. Eh.
I think I'll repost my "random things about me" from my facebook page. Reading it always makes me feel better. :)
Here it is:
1. I own 7 lava lamps.
2. I also wear lots of beads, flow-y clothes, treat animals ethically, want to save the planet, drive a VW, burn incense, used cloth diapers for my son, and use alternative medicines....and I'm a conservative Republican. I know it doesn't make sense to a lot of people, but it makes sense to me.
3. I know #2 was long but it was sort of one thing bunched together.
4. I played piccolo in the OU marching band for all 4 years of my college days and LOVED IT. I practiced for literally hours a day until my chin was numb and my fingers ached before my first audition because I wanted it SO BAD.
5. I am an only child and I love it.
6. My son is an only child and he loves it.
7. My husband (who is not an only child) is from West Virginia and got me to be a Mountaineers fan. The only time I ever rooted against them was when they played OU last year. I didn't like it that OU lost, but it softened the blow that WVU did, 'cause I really do love the 'eers!
8. I've given 67 pints of blood since 1989.
9. My goal in life is to be a American Red Cross Disaster Relief Volunteer. I wish I could now but it's not practical with a little boy at home.
10. I worked for the Tulsa Drillers baseball team for two summers during college.
11. I picked my college major from a TU (Tulsa) catalog...the marketing classes sounded so interesting so there you go. The rest of my life decided.
12. I could have gotten a music scholarship from OU but I would have had to change my major to music. I was afraid it would ruin my love of music to do it as a major, so I didn't do that. I'm glad, though. My life would be totally different if I'd taken that path. Because....
13. I met my husband at Williams Telecommunications in the summer of 1990. He was an engineer and I was an intern in the marketing dept. Same floor. Same copy room. He was cute in his paisley suspenders. :) Still love him as much as I did then. Been married 17 1/2 years.
14. I really, really like Dr Pepper.
15. I work at my church's office and I love my job. I love helping people and I get paid for it!
16. I believe that money isn't everything, but it sure helps in paying the bills. :)
17. My parents have been married for over 40 years, and I'm hoping to do the same (at least!).
18. I was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany in an U.S. Army hospital. I have birth certificates in both German and English.
19. My genealogy can be traced back to Germany, Ireland and England (on my dad's side it goes back to 1605 in Liverpool).
20. On my mother's side, we have an American Revolutionary War soldier, Simon Rinehardt, who fought in the Continential Army. I'm therefore a member of the D.A.R.
21. I've just helped to start a chapter of D.A.R. in Owasso and am the Chapter Regent. You may call me Madam Regent. ;)
22. I wanted to be a cheerleader and once tried out in 6th grade at a Baptist school I went to. Didn't make it, though, and I was devastated. Then again....would I have been in the OU band later on? I think not. There you go again...the whole life path thing.
23. I love Elvis, Glenn Miller, Bon Jovi and the Bee Gees, among many others. My iPod has a really random mix of tunes!
24. I don't like it when people are condescending to me or anyone else. I want to slap them.
25. I've watched Young and the Restless since the 70s.
26. I love pink. Like, freakishly.
27. I have a pink Conair hairdryer from when I was in high school, and it still works. I really like it.
28. I know my physique could be better, but I was paid $80/hr as a plus-size model in the 90s, so there's the whole "you use what you got" deal.
29. I once got paid $50 to act in a U.S. Coast Guard training film. It was classified material so I never got to see the finished product.
30. Yeah I know I'm going on past 25, but meh.
31. I've been a member of a religious cult. Not a wild bald-headed-people-chanting-in-the-airport one, just one that didn't believe in the Trinity and was way into studying the Bible and witnessing. (Actually, Mormons are considered a cult,too, if you get picky about it....)
32. I decided to "start over" religion-wise and researched. And researched. Found that the United Methodist Church was exactly what I was looking for.
33. I know where I'm going when I die. And I'm not afraid of dying.
34. I'm (well...will be) an organ donor.
35. I believe in America. I know we'll be okay no matter what.
36. I don't believe that a government should be too large and all-powerful. I'm conservative and wish those that SAY they are actually put it into practice.
37. I don't hate liberals. (I may not agree with them, but I don't hate them.) I have my beliefs, and I respect others' beliefs and hope for the same back. I wish everyone would just get to work and shut up about it!
38. I'm weary of politics now.
39. My cat is laying on my arm right now and I'm not moving him. (Why? I don't know.)
40. I can't believe I went to 40. Yes I can. It's me.
41. I'm a big believer in the whole "Golden Rule" thing.
42. I think when you focus on the eternal, life seems easier even if there's challenges. And a lot of times, that's not as easy as it sounds.
43. I'm thankful for all of you. :)
44. I'm not going to tag anyone b/c I'm really hungry and I want to eat lunch already!
I think I'll repost my "random things about me" from my facebook page. Reading it always makes me feel better. :)
Here it is:
1. I own 7 lava lamps.
2. I also wear lots of beads, flow-y clothes, treat animals ethically, want to save the planet, drive a VW, burn incense, used cloth diapers for my son, and use alternative medicines....and I'm a conservative Republican. I know it doesn't make sense to a lot of people, but it makes sense to me.
3. I know #2 was long but it was sort of one thing bunched together.
4. I played piccolo in the OU marching band for all 4 years of my college days and LOVED IT. I practiced for literally hours a day until my chin was numb and my fingers ached before my first audition because I wanted it SO BAD.
5. I am an only child and I love it.
6. My son is an only child and he loves it.
7. My husband (who is not an only child) is from West Virginia and got me to be a Mountaineers fan. The only time I ever rooted against them was when they played OU last year. I didn't like it that OU lost, but it softened the blow that WVU did, 'cause I really do love the 'eers!
8. I've given 67 pints of blood since 1989.
9. My goal in life is to be a American Red Cross Disaster Relief Volunteer. I wish I could now but it's not practical with a little boy at home.
10. I worked for the Tulsa Drillers baseball team for two summers during college.
11. I picked my college major from a TU (Tulsa) catalog...the marketing classes sounded so interesting so there you go. The rest of my life decided.
12. I could have gotten a music scholarship from OU but I would have had to change my major to music. I was afraid it would ruin my love of music to do it as a major, so I didn't do that. I'm glad, though. My life would be totally different if I'd taken that path. Because....
13. I met my husband at Williams Telecommunications in the summer of 1990. He was an engineer and I was an intern in the marketing dept. Same floor. Same copy room. He was cute in his paisley suspenders. :) Still love him as much as I did then. Been married 17 1/2 years.
14. I really, really like Dr Pepper.
15. I work at my church's office and I love my job. I love helping people and I get paid for it!
16. I believe that money isn't everything, but it sure helps in paying the bills. :)
17. My parents have been married for over 40 years, and I'm hoping to do the same (at least!).
18. I was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany in an U.S. Army hospital. I have birth certificates in both German and English.
19. My genealogy can be traced back to Germany, Ireland and England (on my dad's side it goes back to 1605 in Liverpool).
20. On my mother's side, we have an American Revolutionary War soldier, Simon Rinehardt, who fought in the Continential Army. I'm therefore a member of the D.A.R.
21. I've just helped to start a chapter of D.A.R. in Owasso and am the Chapter Regent. You may call me Madam Regent. ;)
22. I wanted to be a cheerleader and once tried out in 6th grade at a Baptist school I went to. Didn't make it, though, and I was devastated. Then again....would I have been in the OU band later on? I think not. There you go again...the whole life path thing.
23. I love Elvis, Glenn Miller, Bon Jovi and the Bee Gees, among many others. My iPod has a really random mix of tunes!
24. I don't like it when people are condescending to me or anyone else. I want to slap them.
25. I've watched Young and the Restless since the 70s.
26. I love pink. Like, freakishly.
27. I have a pink Conair hairdryer from when I was in high school, and it still works. I really like it.
28. I know my physique could be better, but I was paid $80/hr as a plus-size model in the 90s, so there's the whole "you use what you got" deal.
29. I once got paid $50 to act in a U.S. Coast Guard training film. It was classified material so I never got to see the finished product.
30. Yeah I know I'm going on past 25, but meh.
31. I've been a member of a religious cult. Not a wild bald-headed-people-chanting-in-the-airport one, just one that didn't believe in the Trinity and was way into studying the Bible and witnessing. (Actually, Mormons are considered a cult,too, if you get picky about it....)
32. I decided to "start over" religion-wise and researched. And researched. Found that the United Methodist Church was exactly what I was looking for.
33. I know where I'm going when I die. And I'm not afraid of dying.
34. I'm (well...will be) an organ donor.
35. I believe in America. I know we'll be okay no matter what.
36. I don't believe that a government should be too large and all-powerful. I'm conservative and wish those that SAY they are actually put it into practice.
37. I don't hate liberals. (I may not agree with them, but I don't hate them.) I have my beliefs, and I respect others' beliefs and hope for the same back. I wish everyone would just get to work and shut up about it!
38. I'm weary of politics now.
39. My cat is laying on my arm right now and I'm not moving him. (Why? I don't know.)
40. I can't believe I went to 40. Yes I can. It's me.
41. I'm a big believer in the whole "Golden Rule" thing.
42. I think when you focus on the eternal, life seems easier even if there's challenges. And a lot of times, that's not as easy as it sounds.
43. I'm thankful for all of you. :)
44. I'm not going to tag anyone b/c I'm really hungry and I want to eat lunch already!
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