My daughter, Barb, came for the weekend! She texted late Thursday night that they were coming home early because the ISU women had lost their game and wondered if I wanted some company? Duh! What a dumb question. Told her there would be clothes in the washer with quarters under the Downy bottle when she got here and I'd be home around 5:00. Well, I was able to leave around 4:35 and just barely beat her here. (I did get the wet clothes in the dryer before she came.) She knocked on the door and asked if I was decent? Katie and Emmett were with her and needed a potty break. Katie and her dad were on their way to Madison to visit with brother Scott and his new baby. Mary was already there so Katie thought she could drop Barb off and pick her up on the way home. Emmett would be going back with Mary and Katie would have company from Dubuque to Ankeny. Worked out well for all.
I was really kinda embarrassed at the way my place looked but no one seemed to mind (except me). I had told Barbie we'd go out for supper. We did. We went to the Dubuque Mining Company. I love their burgers! We both ate well. We watched some high school boys basketball games. Saw Kyle receive an award for the all-state team. Good for him! I know Sandie is very proud of him!! It was really windy on Friday night here in Dubuque. I still have a cough that bothers a lot and I got up early in the morning to get some cough medicine and surprised the heck out of Barbie (and me) when I woke her sleeping on the sofa! She said it was so noisy in the spare bedroom that she couldn't sleep! She surprised me a little too! When I got up Saturday morning she was back in the bedroom. I started taking the snowmen off the top of the entertainment center and trying to find the boxes, etc. I let her sleep in a little bit. Barbie ran up and down those steps so many times this weekend. I'm surprised she could walk by Saturday evening! We did a lot of moving things around. I decided to get rid of some of my things (Barb and Katie are planning a garage sale some time in the future so sent some things home with them.) I had a couple of things that I just don't have room for any more and Barbie kinda liked them so . . . they found a new home. It was getting time to eat and I needed groceries so we went out to HyVee and had lunch and got groceries. The food isn't too bad!!! At least it filled our tummies. We came back and finished the living room. It looks great! Found some of my pictures and other stuff and got everything back in place.
We made pizza for supper. Actually Barbie did most of the baking! I sat and watched -- does that count for anything? We watched some more basketball. Barry Shay and Charlie Zahn were both honored during halftime for their officiating to the state. That was kinda cool. I haven't seen either of them in years so it made it interesting!!
Barb let me sleep in on Sunday. She had the bathroom all cleaned by the time I woke up. It's so nice to have a maid! She did so much over the weekend. I can't thank her enough. I didn't even feed her properly. Hopefully one of these days when she comes we can just visit and I can actually feed her a decent meal. I just can't seem to get over this flu or whatever it is I have. I'm so tired all the time and my bones hurt! If it continues I guess I'll have to go back to the doctor! I'm really tired of not feeling well . . . I just want to feel good again.
Katie texted that she'd be coming through around 1:30 p.m. We decided I better get a new shower curtain. I still had my snowmen one up, so off we went. Stopped at Shopko and didn't find anything that really thrilled me so went to Target. Found one I really liked! And since we were there decided to look for something for Charlotte for Easter. That was fun. Found her a basket and a few other goodies to put into it.
We stopped at Burger King on the way home and got something to eat. Like I said, poor Barbie didn't get a decent meal the whole time she was here. She even made muffins for breakfast!! She really got a lot done and I truly do appreciate everything she did. Katie got here around 1:30 and between the two of them they got everything drug down the steps and out to the car. Barb took a bunch of recycle stuff back for me too. I am assuming that they got home okay. Didn't get a text saying anything else. Thanks Barbie for everything!!!
Went to work today. I still don't have an office put together. The guy that was supposed to put the desks together didn't show up again. I guess the only people that are really put out are myself and Brenda. Brenda has part of her desk together, but all mine and the stuff that goes into it, etc. is still sitting in our small conference room on the second floor. I'm really getting tired of not having my stuff near by and able to do my job. We're going to try and put it together tomorrow. And it would certainly help if I felt better. My work doesn't get done if I'm not there so guess I'll just tough it out and get it done! Hopefully we get the desks back tomorrow!
I should probably get some more pictures back on this blog. Have some cute ones of Charlotte the weekend I was in Ankeny/Urbandale. Maybe next time. Spring is in the air, things have to get better all around. At least attitudes will be better (even mine).
I've watched a lot of stuff coming out of Japan. What I see is almost unbelieveable! What a disaster!! I hope I never have to live through anything like that or any of my family either.
Congratulations to Keely and Josh Baade on the birth of their son, Griffin Starr. He was born over the weekend. Keely had a few problems getting him into this world, but sounds like all is well now. God's Blessings to all!! Hope to see the newest Baade soon.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Monday, March 07, 2011
FLU
I'm tired. I can't sleep. I can't breath and I think part of me is scared! Last week they told me I had Influenza Type A. Couldn't work all week. To be truthful I wasn't capable of working. My house is an absolute mess. I could care less about eating. And it seems that all I do is take pills of some kind.
I'm short almost 30 hours on my next paycheck. That'll certainly help all the stress.
Well, today I went back to work. That's a mess. My desk/desk is sitting in the middle of the office. My monitor, keyboard and printer are in the middle of it. My CPU is sitting next to the desk. I have a chair. That's it! Oh, my phone was on the floor. My computer desk is in pieces and we haven't been able to find the guy that's to put it together. My stuff is all over the place and still in boxes. The new carpet gives off an awful odor! Turned my computer on and nothing happened. It must have taken 1/2 an hour to get to a sign-in screen. Finally it gave up completely so at the present time I have no computer in the office. A lot of work to be finished and/or started but nothing to work on. The printers aren't working, the copier doesn't work and the phones are acting up. I feel like shit! My clerk is off with some health problems so I have to be at the reception desk for her 15 minute breaks a.m. and p.m. and cover it for lunch. She was santizing the phone when I left for the doctor's office.
Oh, my doctor is off sick so I had to go to one of his associates. I guess that's okay. I coughed again for about half an hour. I now also have a sinus infection! I just want to feel better. I'm tired of being alone with all this stuff and having all the mess at the office as well. The last time I checked my computer I had lost everything -- I mean everything. All my files, my pictures, my shortcuts to the majority of my work. Please let them figure out what's wrong and give me my STUFF back! I can't loose some 20 odds years of work!
I'm on another medication. I'm not supposed to use a lot of dairy products with this one. There are also some crappy side effects. I have a medical release for tomorrow. Oh goodie, I can start all over again and try and put some order to my professional life. I wanna go home!
I'm short almost 30 hours on my next paycheck. That'll certainly help all the stress.
Well, today I went back to work. That's a mess. My desk/desk is sitting in the middle of the office. My monitor, keyboard and printer are in the middle of it. My CPU is sitting next to the desk. I have a chair. That's it! Oh, my phone was on the floor. My computer desk is in pieces and we haven't been able to find the guy that's to put it together. My stuff is all over the place and still in boxes. The new carpet gives off an awful odor! Turned my computer on and nothing happened. It must have taken 1/2 an hour to get to a sign-in screen. Finally it gave up completely so at the present time I have no computer in the office. A lot of work to be finished and/or started but nothing to work on. The printers aren't working, the copier doesn't work and the phones are acting up. I feel like shit! My clerk is off with some health problems so I have to be at the reception desk for her 15 minute breaks a.m. and p.m. and cover it for lunch. She was santizing the phone when I left for the doctor's office.
Oh, my doctor is off sick so I had to go to one of his associates. I guess that's okay. I coughed again for about half an hour. I now also have a sinus infection! I just want to feel better. I'm tired of being alone with all this stuff and having all the mess at the office as well. The last time I checked my computer I had lost everything -- I mean everything. All my files, my pictures, my shortcuts to the majority of my work. Please let them figure out what's wrong and give me my STUFF back! I can't loose some 20 odds years of work!
I'm on another medication. I'm not supposed to use a lot of dairy products with this one. There are also some crappy side effects. I have a medical release for tomorrow. Oh goodie, I can start all over again and try and put some order to my professional life. I wanna go home!
Friday, March 04, 2011
It's March already!
I haven't written much lately, have I? Guess there hasn't been that much to write about. Life's been pretty boring!
Actually I've spent this past week home - ill. I haven't been this sick in a long time. I've had a day or two here and there when my meds have upset me or had a bad headache but nothing like what I've experienced this week.
Last Thursday (2/24) I had a meeting in Des Moines with my Planner's group. I'm currently the co-chair. Wednesday (2/23) I had a meeting with our Program Review group at work so that was a long day plus getting up early on Thursday to get to Des Moines in a timely manner. I had already made plans to stay over with Barb and spend some time with her and Jim and his family. I got to the meeting with no problems. In fact, it was a very informative meeting. Lots of things going on with the government trying to decide if they're going to keep running or not. Whatever decision is made is going to have an impact on community action. A lot of the agencies are already making plans to cut personnel and try and continue with all services with less employees. New View hasn't really made any decisions regarding this.
After the meeting I headed out to Barb's. Actually the meeting is about 10 minutes away from her house. Really easy to get there and back. We meet at the county supervisors' offices. It's Polk County's public works building. Nice place to meet. The majority of the planners do not like going downtown (I'm one of them) so it's been working out quite well to meet there.
I was settled in for the afternoon taking a nap, when the garage door opened. It was Jim coming for lunch. His offices have moved to Ankeny and some days he picks up lunch (or raids Barb's frig) and eats at her house. He ate, I watched and we had a nice visit. Barb was making supper for all of us that evening. We had tacos! They were very good and the evening visit was as well. Charlotte is talking up a storm. I don't always understand everything she says, but it's interesting talking to her and interacting with her. She's so darn cute!! How can one person be so lucky as to have such a darling granddaughter!
Barb was losing her voice. She said she was fine just the voice thingy. It's Friday as I write this and she still hasn't completely recovered. Hopefully she will soon feel up to par!
I slept in on Friday (of course). Took a shower, checked my bank account and prepared to do some shopping. It was payday and I had to make sure that my check was in the right place. It was! I did some shopping in Ankeny. I had a great time. I picked up a new toy for Charlotte (a little musical CD player) that she had a great time with. Found some clothes for her. Jim had already got the one shirt that matched some pants so Mandy was going to take that back and find another top to match the pants. Picked up some stuff for other members of my family. Bought a few things for Barb's guest closet. I use a lot of that and noticed some things I use at home were gone or missing so re-supplied it. It's the least I can do.
Came home and took another nap. I really wanted to go to Memory Bound (my all-time favorite scrapbooking store), but I was really tired so missed it this trip. It really is an outstanding scrapbook store. I do want to get back at some scrapping. The Shoppe at Kennedy Mall has closed. I still have a couple of bags in my trunk. I think I can turn the majority of them into books for my family and friends. Going to try anyway.
Friday night was stuffed shells night at the Davis Family manor. They were great. Mandy always comes up with something that is so tasty. And I did enjoy being around Charlotte. I wished on more occasions than one that I lived closer so that I could spend more time with Charlotte as well as Barb, Jim and Mandy. I miss them all.
Petey just loves me! Or at least that's the way it always seems when I go to their house. Mandy told me she thought he intimidated me (I think maybe he does too). He's so big and friendly! I don't think he'd ever hurt any of us, but he's just BIG!! Both dogs and Boomer got all excited when we got into the house on Friday. Petey got so excited that he lost his balance and ended up with all fours going all over the place. He is a big puppy! Jim got everybody settled down and our evening began. Jim & family were heading out for Omaha the next morning. Bob was taking all the children and grandchildren to the circus the next afternoon. Check out Mandy's blog for a great picture. Sounds like they all had a great time.
Slept in again on Saturday morning. Barb made bacon and eggs for breakfast. We headed out to the fairgrounds to a big craft fair. It was snowing (what else is new) The show was great. Found all kinds of things I would have liked to buy and did buy some. The show will be in Dubuque on April 2. Talked to a couple that will be there and they are sending me tickets to the show. They said they didn't know anyone in this area so . . . I'm getting admission tickets from them. Nice. Barb wanted to do some other shopping too, so we headed to Valley West Mall. I like that mall. We left there to go to Famous Footwear (she was looking for some shoes). Decided we should have visited Younkers when we were there so headed back. One nice thing about shopping for shoes, there's always a place to sit. By this time I was getting tired. She also found some great looking shoes!
After a great day of shopping we decided Olive Garden in Ankeny sounded good for supper. It was around 5:00 p.m. so we figured it wouldn't be too busy - so what do we know. I went in and put our names in on the list. It was an hour wait! We, along with a lot of other people, waited. We found a couple of stools at the bar and had a nice drink. It didn't take an hour to get a table but seemed like it. The meal was great. They now have a steak entree that I ordered and enjoyed very much. I'd order that again. We also had a great waitress. Headed home to watch some TV and go to bed early.
I had a date with the StudMuffin in Farmersburg for lunch! It was Tristan's first birthday party. I had called Glee the day before to let her know what the weather was like in the Des Moines area. And told her I'd let them know Sunday. I left Ankeny around 10:00 a.m. The roads were great and I figured I could get to Farmersburg for the gift opening. I didn't feel real good on Saturday night but figured it was because I was just tired. The closer I got to Dubuque the worse I felt. Finally decided I best just go home. I did take the time to wash my car (red shows the dirt a whole lot more than tan). Picked up some food and came home. I drug up some of the stuff I bought and basically crashed. I called Beth and apologized for not getting there. I wasn't sure what I had but thought it best for all of us that I not bring it into their home. We've decided to get together as soon as I'm able. I'm going to bring a pizza and the gifts. Beth will provide the house. Can't wait to see the boys!!
Monday morning came and I really felt awful. I called Tom and told him what was going on. I had a doctor's appointment at 2:00 p.m. Thought about going in before the appointment but didn't really feel well enough to do that. Our dog track grant was due by 5:00 p.m. that day. I don't know why we always wait until the last minute but that seems to be the MO of the majority of the agency. Got to the doctor and they checked a number of things out and gave me the verdict that I have Influnaza A. Wonderful! Picked up some medication that cost $90 for 10 tablets. Was told the usual - lots of fluids, lots of sleep, etc. Was not to go back to work until I was fever free. I'm still waiting for that! My boss has some problems with me being sick so I have to have a note from the doctor for everyday I'm not in the office. That extra hassle really doesn't help much when you don't feel well. My doctor is great. They faxed the information Tom needed so I could stay home and get well.
I walked an associate through the grant and we were able to get it off 3 minutes to 5. They have accepted the grant and now we wait to see if we'll be awarded anything. The awards don't come out until May.
I can't seem to get rid of this awful virus. I have coughing fits (for lack of better words). They last up to 15 minutes. My throat is very sore. I've lost my lunch (or whatever meal) more than once since this all began. I did call Tom this morning and told him I didn't feel it was good for any of us (my co-workers as well as myself) to show up at the office. I think we'll get through this. I told him where to find everything and I'm sure he can find someone to retrieve the info from my computer. I may not have a job on Monday but the damn board packet will go out. At the present I don't care - I will on Monday. I'm just tired and sick. I want to get well. I want to be able to go up and down my stairs and finish bringing my stuff up from last weekend, get groceries, do laundry and anything other than sit in this damn chair and feel crappy! Things must get better!!! Enough on that. Maybe my life isn't boring - yes it is!
My weekend is going to consist of trying to get stronger, get rid of this awful cough and get ready for another week at work! I do a little at a time and then get tired. I haven't had a full meal since getting sick. The Olive Garden was great! Eggs, toast and last night I made lasagna. What I had of it was good and it did stay in my tummy! Thank goodness!
Enjoy this post! I just re-read this and it's really not that exciting. But my life at the present.
I'm going to try and do some scrapping this weekend. It's also girls state basketball weekend. I enjoy watching the games on TV. Exciting!
Actually I've spent this past week home - ill. I haven't been this sick in a long time. I've had a day or two here and there when my meds have upset me or had a bad headache but nothing like what I've experienced this week.
Last Thursday (2/24) I had a meeting in Des Moines with my Planner's group. I'm currently the co-chair. Wednesday (2/23) I had a meeting with our Program Review group at work so that was a long day plus getting up early on Thursday to get to Des Moines in a timely manner. I had already made plans to stay over with Barb and spend some time with her and Jim and his family. I got to the meeting with no problems. In fact, it was a very informative meeting. Lots of things going on with the government trying to decide if they're going to keep running or not. Whatever decision is made is going to have an impact on community action. A lot of the agencies are already making plans to cut personnel and try and continue with all services with less employees. New View hasn't really made any decisions regarding this.
After the meeting I headed out to Barb's. Actually the meeting is about 10 minutes away from her house. Really easy to get there and back. We meet at the county supervisors' offices. It's Polk County's public works building. Nice place to meet. The majority of the planners do not like going downtown (I'm one of them) so it's been working out quite well to meet there.
I was settled in for the afternoon taking a nap, when the garage door opened. It was Jim coming for lunch. His offices have moved to Ankeny and some days he picks up lunch (or raids Barb's frig) and eats at her house. He ate, I watched and we had a nice visit. Barb was making supper for all of us that evening. We had tacos! They were very good and the evening visit was as well. Charlotte is talking up a storm. I don't always understand everything she says, but it's interesting talking to her and interacting with her. She's so darn cute!! How can one person be so lucky as to have such a darling granddaughter!
Barb was losing her voice. She said she was fine just the voice thingy. It's Friday as I write this and she still hasn't completely recovered. Hopefully she will soon feel up to par!
I slept in on Friday (of course). Took a shower, checked my bank account and prepared to do some shopping. It was payday and I had to make sure that my check was in the right place. It was! I did some shopping in Ankeny. I had a great time. I picked up a new toy for Charlotte (a little musical CD player) that she had a great time with. Found some clothes for her. Jim had already got the one shirt that matched some pants so Mandy was going to take that back and find another top to match the pants. Picked up some stuff for other members of my family. Bought a few things for Barb's guest closet. I use a lot of that and noticed some things I use at home were gone or missing so re-supplied it. It's the least I can do.
Came home and took another nap. I really wanted to go to Memory Bound (my all-time favorite scrapbooking store), but I was really tired so missed it this trip. It really is an outstanding scrapbook store. I do want to get back at some scrapping. The Shoppe at Kennedy Mall has closed. I still have a couple of bags in my trunk. I think I can turn the majority of them into books for my family and friends. Going to try anyway.
Friday night was stuffed shells night at the Davis Family manor. They were great. Mandy always comes up with something that is so tasty. And I did enjoy being around Charlotte. I wished on more occasions than one that I lived closer so that I could spend more time with Charlotte as well as Barb, Jim and Mandy. I miss them all.
Petey just loves me! Or at least that's the way it always seems when I go to their house. Mandy told me she thought he intimidated me (I think maybe he does too). He's so big and friendly! I don't think he'd ever hurt any of us, but he's just BIG!! Both dogs and Boomer got all excited when we got into the house on Friday. Petey got so excited that he lost his balance and ended up with all fours going all over the place. He is a big puppy! Jim got everybody settled down and our evening began. Jim & family were heading out for Omaha the next morning. Bob was taking all the children and grandchildren to the circus the next afternoon. Check out Mandy's blog for a great picture. Sounds like they all had a great time.
Slept in again on Saturday morning. Barb made bacon and eggs for breakfast. We headed out to the fairgrounds to a big craft fair. It was snowing (what else is new) The show was great. Found all kinds of things I would have liked to buy and did buy some. The show will be in Dubuque on April 2. Talked to a couple that will be there and they are sending me tickets to the show. They said they didn't know anyone in this area so . . . I'm getting admission tickets from them. Nice. Barb wanted to do some other shopping too, so we headed to Valley West Mall. I like that mall. We left there to go to Famous Footwear (she was looking for some shoes). Decided we should have visited Younkers when we were there so headed back. One nice thing about shopping for shoes, there's always a place to sit. By this time I was getting tired. She also found some great looking shoes!
After a great day of shopping we decided Olive Garden in Ankeny sounded good for supper. It was around 5:00 p.m. so we figured it wouldn't be too busy - so what do we know. I went in and put our names in on the list. It was an hour wait! We, along with a lot of other people, waited. We found a couple of stools at the bar and had a nice drink. It didn't take an hour to get a table but seemed like it. The meal was great. They now have a steak entree that I ordered and enjoyed very much. I'd order that again. We also had a great waitress. Headed home to watch some TV and go to bed early.
I had a date with the StudMuffin in Farmersburg for lunch! It was Tristan's first birthday party. I had called Glee the day before to let her know what the weather was like in the Des Moines area. And told her I'd let them know Sunday. I left Ankeny around 10:00 a.m. The roads were great and I figured I could get to Farmersburg for the gift opening. I didn't feel real good on Saturday night but figured it was because I was just tired. The closer I got to Dubuque the worse I felt. Finally decided I best just go home. I did take the time to wash my car (red shows the dirt a whole lot more than tan). Picked up some food and came home. I drug up some of the stuff I bought and basically crashed. I called Beth and apologized for not getting there. I wasn't sure what I had but thought it best for all of us that I not bring it into their home. We've decided to get together as soon as I'm able. I'm going to bring a pizza and the gifts. Beth will provide the house. Can't wait to see the boys!!
Monday morning came and I really felt awful. I called Tom and told him what was going on. I had a doctor's appointment at 2:00 p.m. Thought about going in before the appointment but didn't really feel well enough to do that. Our dog track grant was due by 5:00 p.m. that day. I don't know why we always wait until the last minute but that seems to be the MO of the majority of the agency. Got to the doctor and they checked a number of things out and gave me the verdict that I have Influnaza A. Wonderful! Picked up some medication that cost $90 for 10 tablets. Was told the usual - lots of fluids, lots of sleep, etc. Was not to go back to work until I was fever free. I'm still waiting for that! My boss has some problems with me being sick so I have to have a note from the doctor for everyday I'm not in the office. That extra hassle really doesn't help much when you don't feel well. My doctor is great. They faxed the information Tom needed so I could stay home and get well.
I walked an associate through the grant and we were able to get it off 3 minutes to 5. They have accepted the grant and now we wait to see if we'll be awarded anything. The awards don't come out until May.
I can't seem to get rid of this awful virus. I have coughing fits (for lack of better words). They last up to 15 minutes. My throat is very sore. I've lost my lunch (or whatever meal) more than once since this all began. I did call Tom this morning and told him I didn't feel it was good for any of us (my co-workers as well as myself) to show up at the office. I think we'll get through this. I told him where to find everything and I'm sure he can find someone to retrieve the info from my computer. I may not have a job on Monday but the damn board packet will go out. At the present I don't care - I will on Monday. I'm just tired and sick. I want to get well. I want to be able to go up and down my stairs and finish bringing my stuff up from last weekend, get groceries, do laundry and anything other than sit in this damn chair and feel crappy! Things must get better!!! Enough on that. Maybe my life isn't boring - yes it is!
My weekend is going to consist of trying to get stronger, get rid of this awful cough and get ready for another week at work! I do a little at a time and then get tired. I haven't had a full meal since getting sick. The Olive Garden was great! Eggs, toast and last night I made lasagna. What I had of it was good and it did stay in my tummy! Thank goodness!
Enjoy this post! I just re-read this and it's really not that exciting. But my life at the present.
I'm going to try and do some scrapping this weekend. It's also girls state basketball weekend. I enjoy watching the games on TV. Exciting!
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