Archives for 2008

August has been a long month. Last weekend we drove over to a family reunion on Jeff’s side in a small southeastern Georgia town. I’m still trying to figure out all the connections, genealogy was not something got into. That weekend brought the rains of Fay home with us. Definitely enjoying doing a whole lot of nothing over this three day weekend. College football has begun and the mania around here starts tomorrow evening with the TN/UCLA game. In the mean time, I’m enjoying my laptop and wireless connection to the fullest.

As I had mentioned before, I’ve been working pretty long hours because of circumstances related to the company I currently work for. We’re not sure if it’s the economy or what, but business just slowed down to a crawl. I knew taking a job with a startup business was a risk, but I thought it was worth it. I have always kept a resume online and get one or two pings a month. I also drop “hints’ when I can, but not many of the people I know locally need web developers. Last week, before we headed to Georgia a few things came together for me. Seems even the person I have been working for had dropped hints on my behalf and things have panned out in my favor. I will be starting a new job the 8th of September. I’ll either blog more about that here or maybe on one of my other blogs. I think I have too many blogs. The only comment I have is why is something I’ve been trying to achieve and work for so scary? Maybe it’s the starting anew, the 90 probation, having to prove myself all over and just the unknown expectations.

Megan has been working hard to get all of her certification paperwork together. She may have to figure out how to get a second dentist’s recommendation, which means she may have to do an second internship. While she waits for all of that to fall into place she’s taken a job as a cashier in a grocery store.

I’ve been working long manic hours again, so I haven’t had a lot of time for updates. I did find a new to me website for alumni of the high school I went to in Germany.

Megan has gotten all of paper work off to get her Dental Assistant certifications. I’m really proud of her. She stuck through it even though she had days when she really wanted to quit. She’s taken a job as a grocery store cashier until the paperwork is back. She’s already had one disappointing but eye opening interview that pointed out how important these certifications are.

She called me yesterday after trying on these $250+ shoes that are supposed to be great for people who are on her feet all day. Sorry, sweetie, that’s just not something I could afford to buy you – remember your birthday present? I’ve never spent that much money on shoes ever.

Anyhow, I’ve got to start another long day. Trying to also get a lot of software update, seems like every time I logged in to Word Press there’s another update.

Before I forget, I’m going to try and get my few recipes added to this blog.

Wahoo! My sister has a website and blog now.

Jeff’s been pretty sick since Friday. He had been exposed to mycoplasma pneumonia and was showing all the symptoms of it. He was feeling so bad that it didn’t take much convincing to get him to go to the doctor. The good news, it turned out to be a pretty bad case of bronchitis. Now he has a bag full of antibiotics and a sore backside from a steroid shot. He could have and should have stayed home but he went in because they are shorthanded. He forgot his lunch, but fortunately I caught him while he was on his way to drop of the prescription for cough medicine.

My normal morning routine is to feed the “boys” their can of Fancy Feast. This morning I got sliced by the can lid – bled like a stuffed pig, but it finally stopped.

Decided that I would change the air filter for the air conditioner, figured with Jeff being sick it would probably help a bit. I get down to the unit and find water dripping out of it. I try to remove the filter and it’s soaked. Hmmm, wet & musty air being circulated throughout the whole house, no wonder Jeff’s sick. So I call our AC people (we are due for our regular maintenance anyhow) and get something scheduled.

I have a follow up eye exam scheduled at 2PM – my overpriced glasses are just not right, and when you pay that much for them, they will be right or someone might be wearing them in a very uncomfortable manner. While I’m there I figured I ask about contacts, but first the glasses need to be right. Well, it turns out the technician who fitted them, didn’t quite get them right so that problem is solved. Now back to my question about contacts. I’d worn them before so that shouldn’t be a problem, but it seems that my astigmatism just might be. The first test pair actually made my vision worse. The right eye had a lens for designed to correct the astigmatism but it wasn’t quite strong enough according to the doctor. The left eye had just regular correction, maybe it needed to have the astigmatism correction too “they” pondered. Off in the other room, I heard the doctor mention, “she just may not be able to wear contacts”. He came back and did some additional measurements and told me they would have to order another trial pair for me. They wound up sending me home with the toric lens in my right eye and the regular soft lens in my left. The doctor said I should just wear them for a few hours a day to get my eyes used to wearing contacts again.

On the way home I stop off at CVS to pick up Jeff’s prescription – thought I would be nice and get it for him. So I get it and call him to let him know I did. Did I ask if it would cause any problems with his high blood pressure – nooooo. So I head back in the store, the piped in music is playing Daniel Powter’s Bad Day.