Recuperating

Well, I haven’t managed to get that second coat of paint on the wall, because “a little sore” doesn’t begin to cover it. Went to a friend’s house to work on her computer the next day, and when I got home I could barely walk. Taking it easy today… had a doctor’s appointment today (my annual “girl stuff” appointment), and stopped at Borders to say hi to everyone. Now I’m home, and I’m done. I really need to wash the dishes and do a couple of loads of laundry… my house is suffering. Poor house. Well, maybe I’ll do that after breakfast tomorrow.

Hopefully Brian won’t be too grumpy with me.

Guest room upgrade

Well, my youngest will be here in June to stay for the summer, so it’s time to start on the guest room. It’s currently rather scary, with one wall painted in pink and orange stripes (no, I didn’t do that, it came that way… along with about 50 plastic flowers nailed to the wall). I really wanted to do something different with this room, so we’re really taking the plunge and going dark. William would have loved it if we would have painted it black, but I just didn’t want to go there. Black is just… no.

We did choose a fairly dark grey for the main room color.

The grey wall in the front is my “test wall”, and I like the color a lot. It’s Behr’s “Dark Ash” (770F-5, if you’re wondering). You can see the circus wall in the background. That definitely needs to go.

This is the wall that I will be painting in the accent color (Behr’s “Rain Storm”, 530F-7). This is patched and ready for paint.

This is the first coat of the accent color. The circus wall looks really hideous now. This will definitely need another coat, since it’s over a fairly glossy white. I suppose I could have used a dark primer, but the good primer cost more than the paint. A second coat is just as easy. Oh, the paint in the picture will dry flat, the gloss is because the paint is still wet in this picture.

That other wall is going to give me nightmares. I think it’ll be the first one painted in the grey, then I won’t have to look at it anymore. All the trim in the room will be in the blue, and I’m going to paint the bed and the bookcase in blue as well. I’m thinking a light sandstone(ish) color for the curtains and bedding, but that won’t come until much later.

I’m going to try to get the second coat on this wall today, then work on it some more tomorrow. I’m aching pretty bad right now, but I hate stopping when I’m not through.

Back home.

If you have been following my posts on Facebook, I’ve been out of town since Friday, in a quaint little town called Naturita. SMALL town. Very nice people, and I enjoyed our stay. Brian had work near there, and I decided to tag along so he wouldn’t be lonely.

I have a few pictures over on Facebook that I took with my Blackberry, let me see if I can grab a few…

Cute little town, eh? Yeah, that’s it. The whole town. I was a bit bored, but I got caught up on some of my reading. The doggers and I spent quite a bit of time hanging out, too. Lots of places to take them to go running.

Oh… if you’re wanting an updated on the medical condition… there isn’t one. Every test comes back normal. Hopefully the doc will call me this week and we can figure out where to go from there.

My work - (Delivery Administrator, Kenzy Delivery)

Diagnosis Update

And the update is… we don’t know yet. Went to the doctor again today, and we’re going to get some more blood tests in 2 weeks.

*sigh*

I really hope they figure out what this is. It’s very draining.

Medical Mystery Tour

Ah, the joy of handing over yet another $20 co-pay to the doctor’s office.

In case you’re wondering, I’ve been sick. Not just sick, but seriously “not well”. Test after test, and we’re finally starting to narrow down what’s wrong, but no final results yet.

It started a few weeks ago (well, longer than that, but it just started getting bad a few weeks ago)… pain in my joints. Hips, shoulders, elbow, knees, you name it. When it got to the point where I couldn’t walk without pain anymore, I figured it would be a good idea to make a doctor’s appointment. I went in on a Friday, and had a bunch of bloodwork done to see if we could figure it out.

Monday rolls around, I’m at work, and my vision starts to go all blurry. I mean really blurry. I manage to make out the phone numbers for my boss, and call her in so I can go to the doctor again. Brian comes to work to pick me up, and it’s back to the doctor’s office (by way of the store so Brian can buy me a donut). They check my blood sugar, and it’s normal, after two donuts. Apparently it should be higher than this right after eating all that sugar. So, they’re guessing hypoglycemia, and the vision blurring was just my blood sugar dropping down to nothing. I’m supposed to “Not let that happen again”. No worries, I’ll get right on that. ;) Still in pain, the hypoglycemia is not related.

Off to see my primary care doctor that afternoon, and after checking some more blood test results, he determines that I’m hypothyroid as well. There’s a pill for that, but you have to take it forever. Yay. Still in pain, possibly related to the hypothyroid. On the plus side, being diagnosed with hypothyroid explains the following symptoms I’ve had for ages:

• Fatigue
• Sluggishness
• Increased sensitivity to cold
• Elevated blood cholesterol level
• Unexplained weight gain/difficulty losing weight
• Muscle aches, tenderness and stiffness
• Pain, stiffness or swelling in your joints
• Tendonitis
• Muscle weakness
• Brittle fingernails
• Coarse, dry hair
• Depression
• Memory loss
• Irritability
• Difficulty concentrating
• Infertility/miscarriage

Quite the list, eh? And I thought I was just getting old or something. Hopefully, this is what’s causing the pain, because that means we’re on the road to making it better.

Oh… my doctor put me on a six day course of prednisone to see if that helped the pain… had a bad reaction to that. That was lovely. Missed three days of work recovering from that one. I’ve also stepped down from my full time position at the bookstore, because I can’t stand up for that long anymore. The pain gets worse at the day progresses, and usually by about 3ish I’m in so much pain I just want to go home, take a vicodin, and go to bed.

I sure hope they figure this one out, because I’m really getting tired of it.

First post of the new year?

Damn, I’m falling behind. It’s been a bit chaotic around here, with the holidays and all, but things are finally starting to calm down.

I’m still trying to get the business off the ground. I have repaired a grand total of ONE computer, but I totally kicked its butt and cleaned off the half dozen virii it was infected with, all data saved. Happy me.

My computer wasn’t so fortunate. I bought a new motherboard (dead RAID controller), power supply (the old one was making funny noises), and case (because this one is just dead sexy). Everything is up and running just fine, but I was unable to salvage the OS/data from the drives. I currently have it set up as two separate drives, and (other than the annoyance of having two separate drives) is working just peachy. I had a current backup in place on our server, so all of my pictures, music, documents, and my World of Warcraft configuration were safe and sound. It took me the better part of two days to get everything set up the way I wanted it, and now it’s running just how I like it. So of course, I’m going to partition the main hard drive and install Windows 7 beta on the other partition. Of course I can’t just leave well enough alone, you should know me better than that by now.

On the joys of home ownership: plumbing sucks. After two days of drains getting progressively more and more backed up (and stinky!), we finally called in a professional who fixed it in an hour. Apparently the sewer drain pipe under the house had come apart and was draining sewage right there under the house. ICK!!! Brave man that he was, the plumber crawled under the house, reattached the pipe, and restored our drainage… all for the low, low price of $97. You couldn’t get me to climb under a house with a crawl space filled with sewage for that price. Maybe not for any price! Anyway, it’s all fixed up, cleaned up, and smelling … well, not like sewage anymore. Whew.

Other than that, things are going relatively well. Brian is not liking his new job much, and my current full-time job is at a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy… but we’re doing ok. Bills are getting paid, the animals are all happy, we still have the internet. I wish we had more hours in the day, but other than that… yeah, it’s not bad.

Here’s hoping it stays that way.

So, I lied…

Pictures were not forthcoming when I said they’d be. So, I need to upload a few on Thursday when I have some time off to take pictures.

My computer is dead, the RAID controller on the motherboard is no longer recognizing my hard drive. I still have a laptop (or two) to stay online, and I can play World of Warcraft on the one I’m using right now. That is, if I set it up with a keyboard and mouse. Too hard to play with a laptop keyboard… I can’t even type very well on it! Ah well.

A new motherboard is on the way from Newegg.com, and it looks like I may be up and running before the weekend is over.

So… pictures on Thursday, computers fixed on Friday or Saturday, then back to work on Sunday. I think I have Tuesday off, but I’m working (closing) Christmas Eve. I volunteered, because everyone else has small children at home and I figured they’d be better off at home with their kids. So does that make me nice or a sucker? I’m hoping the former, but leaning to the latter.