Monthly Archives: February 2007

Old Man Winter can leave now

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The next two weekends are going to be sooo busy around here. I am going to do my best to get this house as clean as possible and we need to figure out a configuration in our bedroom for our computers. Gene is going to move his computer into our bedroom as well so that he can be near me while I am bed ridden for a week. He’s going to take off work and help me out and just work from home.

The weather here lately has been rediculous. It snowed on and off almost the entire day. Of course, it was just light flurries with few bouts of hard snow so nothing really stuck. The roads are almost gauranteed to be icey in the morning, though. Oh and from now on the temperatures will slowly be rising every day until we are in the 60s by next week. I don’t believe it. I refuse to believe it until I see it. I am soooo sick of winter :( I used to love this time of year and now I officially hate it. It is the laziest time of year. I love to do yard work and I can’t do anything. I don’t even like walking outside because the cold is painful :( I am too wussy for this stuff!! It’s not supposed to get this cold in Oklahoma! Gees.

My short list of things to do before surgery:

  • Clean the entire house – deep clean. Clean bathrooms really well, vaccum entire house, clean kitchen, etc.
  • Have all of the laundry done before the day of surgery.
  • Figure out how we are going to configure or bedroom so that we can get both of our computers in there.
  • Write up meal menu for March 1st through March 9th (the days I am requesting off of work)
  • Pay all of the bills that are due (Rent, Gas, Electric, CCs)
  • Wash all of the bed sheets, blankets, pillowcases, etc.

Surgery it is!

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I am calling this morning to schedule my surgery for March 1st. Gene and I had a concert to go to on that day, a concert we have already purchased tickets for, but we are both in agreement that we need to get my knee situation taken care of ASAP. I’m really bummed that this is the second concert this year that we’ve bought tickets for and have missed. But I guess I am even more bummed that we are only 2 months into the new year and I already am having surgery and committing myself to 6 months of rehab/physical therapy. What in the world is in store for the REST of the year?? Ugh. Oh and Gene and I were wanting to take a little trip somewhere and go stay over night at a hotel or something just to get away.. but I don’t think that is going to be happening now.

Anyway, thats all really. Tonight we are going over to my mom’s house to help my sister make something for her boyfriend for Valentine’s Day. I am making some goodies for her and my mom and dad. Gene and I haven’t 100% decided on where we are going to eat on V-Day. Right now in my head I am debating between Red Lobster and TGI Fridays. I’m leaving work tomorrow at around 2ish. Gonna start our V-Day off early :) I wish I knew of a good restaurant to try that we haven’t been to yet. It’s too late to really make reservations anywhere, also.

[EDIT] I am scheduled for surgery at 10:30 AM on March 1st. I’m nervous :( Gene is going to stay with me. Hmm.. what else? Gene and I are still debating on where to eat on V-Day. We’re thinking Italian.. Lots of carbs, yumyum. Bravo!, Johnny Corino’s or Carrabas. Love ‘em all! We are going to start at the top of the list and hit up the restaurants until we hit one that actually has seating available :)

Mister Surgeon, please be nice

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Back to a boring layout again :( I tried to upload my own today but I got frustrated with the Widget plug-in and gave up. Deleted it all and went back to a template. Lame, I know. I liked the OTHER template a lot better, anyway. I need to try to find that one to download it again. I hate this template!

Anyway, tomorrow morning I have an appointment with the surgeon at 9 AM to talk about my good ol’ knee. I am actually really nervous. The optimist in me is really hoping that the MRI place read the pictures wrong and that there isn’t actually a tear in there. But in my heart I know something isn’t right because I can’t walk faster than the pace of a snail without my knee starting to feel wobbly, like it is going to give in. Ugh. Whatever happens,  I hope it lets me get my butt back to the gym and on the bike because I really, really want to get back into exercising.

Do you hate cleaning tile? Because I do

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The pain in my left knee has increased to an almost unbearable level. I called the doctor today and they have called in a prescription for me.  But the process has not been easy. I almost missed an entire day of work today, as well. It really sucks. The pain is shooting from my knee down that leg and my foot is tingly/numb. I really hope whatever they called in for me helps because the main is unbearable right now :( I just want it to be gone!

I also wanted to post that I got the Scotchbrite Tub & Tile Scrubber today and I tried it. I really like it a lot and will probably put it to good use. The pad seemed to hold quite a bit of soapy bleach so the foaming action seemed to last quite a while. It definitely had that “bleach” smell but not quite as bad as using solid bleach. I’d recommend it to anyone that HATES cleaning their tub and tile. Because I really do and it made it a hell of a lot easier.

The Greatest Soup Ever

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Two short things! Tonight when I got home I made The Greatest Potato Soup By The Greatest Woman Ever and let me tell ya, it was delicious! I will be filing this recipe away for later because man it was so good. I did change it up a bit. First, I didn’t use free-range chicken broth.. and yes I feel a little guilty about this but I’m not going to lose sleep over it! Second, I used fat-free cream cheese. Then I used Turkey Bacon. And I used dehydrated minced onion instead of onion powder. Next time I’ll probably throw in a little onion powder for good measure. May even sautee an onion beforehand to kick it up a notch. But it was delicious, nonetheless!

Next, I reinstalled WordPress. I’m starting from scratch with the absolute latest version. I am going to dive into creating my own WordPress Theme so that I can edit it and whatnot as I please.  Keep a lookout for it and please don’t get discouraged or bored with the current template :/ I promise I’m gonna work on it!

The TP, The Dollar Theatre and The ACL

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This is going to seem highly materialistic and lame but I need to vent about my toilet paper preference. See, I have always been a Charmin girl. I grew up with Charmin and my bottom has always been pretty happy with that. Toilet paper is the one thing that I will almost always buy the name brand of. I can’t go cheap on my toilet paper, ever! And when we walked the 5K for The Race For The Cure in 2006, we received coupons from Northern for their brand of tissue. Of course, I used 2 of them and bought some pretty big packages of it. I mean, its a well known brand with cute little animated old ladies on the commercial, right?

Right but it is NOT good toilet paper. Not by my standards, anyway. It doesn’t quite “ride the crack” like my Charmin does. I know that seems a little.. crazy – but it’s true! Charmin is the absolute softest toilet paper in the entire world and I want to buy hundreds of thousands of packages of it in case they ever go out of business. So, what kind of TP do you prefer? And is there anything that you always buy name brand of?

Wait.. I have more to talk about! First, Gene and I went to the dollar theatre to see Stranger Than Fiction tonight. About 3/4 into the movie, the projector flat out dies on us. So we had quite an intermission waiting for them to fix it. Did I mention that it was 50 cent movie night?? Yeahhhh. So anyway, it was a cute movie and had some pretty LOL moments. Probably wont buy it.. but it was good!

Second, I called my doctor finally today to ask about the MRI. I assumed everything was fine since they hadn’t called me about the results.. so that is why I’ve been going to the gym the last few nights. Well, apparently everything is not fine. I have a complete torn ACL and am scheduled to meet with an orthopedic surgeon next week. Not cool. Not cool AT ALL.

WordPress is giving me a coronary!

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After much browsing, I’ve come to the conclusion that I absolutely hate my website. I hate my layout. I hate my blog! I hate how the code is a humongous mess because I’ve simply been editing other people’s free templates. I’ve decided that I need to start “fresh” and learn how to make my own theme. I want to be able to utilize the Widget plug-in and I want the freedom of changing up my layout easily whenever I want. I want a 3-column layout very badly and I think the only way to really accomplish this is to start from scratch, all on my own. It’s not going to be easy because there is a lot of CSS I don’t necessarily know and there is definitely a lot of PHP that I don’t know as well :( Hmph. Not gonna be easy. I’ll try to get to work on something ASAP. Gonna have to research making your own templates as well as researching CSS and PHP. Fun times.. Expect the new layout sometime before 2008.

Gene and I went to the Gym earlier. We were there for a little over an hour. Did 40 minutes on the bike and some upper body strength equipment. Was worn out and decided to head home. Gonna have to go get a shower sometime soon.. We are both super smelly :D A boy that will lean over to kiss you when you are on a bike and sweating profusely and smelling nasty = a keeper!