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Turkey Day!

I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving and had a great meal.  We just finished ours up.  Harold’s turkey was tender and juicy.  I went back for 2nds (my portions are small) even though I shouldn’t have and knew I won’t be able to finish it.  I was letting my taste buds overrule my better judgment…..grin..but it is turkey day, so why not?

We are just having a quiet day at home.  It is Harold’s birthday.  So I also made him his upside down pineapple cake that he loves along with our pumpkin pie.  I got him a dvd on the Colt’s Superbowl season, a few xbox games & a drill bit set.

I’m feeling better on breathing….still not fully normal.  Still going through a bit of tissue…which sucks.  But I’m not using as much meds.  =)

We finally got our bedroom set!  Holy cow, I’m so glad that this came when I was home.  I have no idea how Harold would’ve handled it on his own.  It was on 2 pallets (that luckily the driver was nice enough to keep), 6 pieces with the total weight of 1500#…icks.  One piece was 175#.  We unloaded the semi on the driveway during some big wind gusts, brought the pieces in, while they were downstairs unpacked them….holy cow…we now have 6 bags of Styrofoam and 6 huge bundles of cardboard.  Of course, it now needs to stay in the garage until next week, since it is too damn windy to put it outside, and since trash day was yesterday…..lol  It took us longer to clean up after the trash then it did to put it together.  But we didn’t find any damage to the set….which amazed us.

We got it together.  Not many pieces and easy to figure out, just heavy. The bedroom seems empty with only 1 dresser……..lol  And even though I have empty the other dressers and took things from the closet shelves, we still have some drawer room….very cool.  The clothes move took me less time then I thought it would.

Holy cow, that bed is higher then I thought it would be.  With the mattress, it comes to my hip, luckily the bed came with a step stool.  But it nice as hell not to be sleeping on a mattress on the floor.  =)  It is so nice to finally have our bedroom put together.

Bed set 1

Bed set 2

Dresser

I called and talked to my family today.  I always have to pester them on the holidays………lol….even though I’m seeing them in less then a week.

I’m starting to stress…..we have work that we need to do for our business, I have work to do with my job, plus get ready for payroll that needs to be ordered Sunday/Monday, pack, balance our books, put my tree up, get the xmas cards done and my nails….icks…freak out time.  I will be starting full steam ahead tomorrow.  Which I need to start off with going to the gym since it has been a week…between being sick and then waiting on a delivery for 2 days…gggrrr I’m not happy about that, especially since I won’t be going to the gym the 3-14th….not good.

Trying to stay out of the office most of the day and moved my laptop to the living room.  I’m going to close this and work on moving some pictures around on my hard drive.  =)

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Happy Birthday Harold!!!

Happy Birthday Harold!!!

Sick & Icky

This is getting old.  Supposedly our bedroom set is out for delivery…..any time after 1pm.  We’ve gotten the bedroom ready by removing everything that we could and putting the new mattress up against the wall.  I just want it get here so I can get our bedroom back together.

It was nice to be able to wake up without my back wanting to spaz out.  I did actually get some sleep last night. It was still rough with the breathing issues. I’m tired of not being able to breathe correctly, I hate the upset tummy that sinus issues gives me, I hate the horrible breath I have regardless of mints and mouthwash, I hate that my ears feel plugged and the constant tireness….yes, I am bitching because I’m miserable.

We should’ve gone to the gym, but I don’t want to go if I can’t do my 30 on the treadmill without dieing.  Plus, I really wanted to get things together for the delivery.  I bet if we had gone to the gym, it would’ve gotten here earlier.  =( I hope to feel much better for it tomorrow.
We got the old set in the other room, it is very tight, but the cats like it….more beds to sleep on.  Of course that bed is now covered with sheets due to all the cat hair it will attrack…icks.

Damn….I wish they would get here.  I hate waiting on others, it really messes up my plans…at least my focus.

A few days ago, one of the blogs that I read posted this article, more on the lighter (yet serious side) of women imagery :

First lady got back

Then on a sad note, an article on how the military still does not actually address domestic violence : Despite Army’s Assurances, Violence at Home   I remember growing up that you could always tell when it was pay day on post.  People were drinking more and there were more family fights.  =(

Happy Birthday!

HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!

I hope you enjoy it.  =)

Love ya!

Life

Well, I’ve kind of been a funk last few days.  I’ve been getting my daily work done, but it has been a struggle to do anything else.  I need to focus, when I don’t focus or get side tracked I don’t get things done and then it stresses me out.  That is something that I’ve learn in my years of management.  If I’m called away from my project, I do what I need to do, then go back to work.  It was and is the only way to get things done in a timely manner.  I was doing good until yesterday….then it became a struggle and it isn’t like I don’t have things to do.

I did clean out of my flash drives, since I have a new travel hard drive. Which is great, now I don’t have to worry about forgetting to put something on the flash drives before traveling.  I got around to getting the xmas cards out…..need to start writing up the holiday letter.  I need to get them started this weekend….especially since I leave on Dec 3 until the 12th visiting family. So I need to get my tree up on Dec 1st with payroll and then get my nails done on the 2nd and get packed….icks

We were suppose to get our new bedroom set this coming Monday, but that got changed until Dec 7th. =(  That sucks.  I won’t be home to help, so I feel horrible.  I do want get the dressers moved to the other room before I go…it will help me feel better about it.

Harold has been sick all week, so I’ve been going to the gym by myself.   It has been weird, but I have been still improving my distance on the treadmill.

A few days ago I posted a link to the story about a WWII vet talking about the slave camps of the Nazi that he was forced in as a POW.  Well, his story let the brother of one the men know what actually happened to him :  After 63 years, vet learns of brother’s death in Nazi slave camp