I Should Probably Write Something...
Let's see... where to begin?
Jordan and I are busying ourselves getting ready for our favorite holiday-- Halloween. My downstairs is a complete mess. There is costume stuff everywhere as I hurry to try and finish sewing it before the month gets along too far. My coat is mostly sewn, with the exception of the velvet sleeves, which I was hoping to have embroidered. I can always NOT embroider my jacket sleeves and, instead, add a black ruffle.... I'm dreading sewing this because the stretchy black fabric with the velvet is EXTREMELY difficult to sew because it shifts terribly. My corset-vest is coming along, but it is still a far cry from being completed and I'm getting ideas on how to have that machine embroidered that as well.... This will put a kink in when that is completed if I roll with that. I'm having a terrible time with the cording I'm putting on the vest. I had to change the presser-foot to a zipper-foot and I'm still having to sew the thing 3-4 times before I'm satisfied with the look of the cording on the corset. I've already compensated by using iron-on interface instead of sewn-in, as the pattern called for. Oh, well. I haven't even started on the spats... and I'm beginning to wonder if the whole ensemble will even match when I'm finished! Hah!
Tuesday, for Cub Scouts, we're building Haunted Gingerbread Mausoleums. There is some achievement on coming up with a landscaping plan, but Jordan and I thought that, while that has fun potential, it didn't meet our standard of fun. We decided it'd be more fun to come up with a landscape plan for a gingerbread mausoleum instead. Haha. So... now we're using this weekend to bake 6-ish of those. PLUS a big crypt-type house for Jordan-- it's been about 5 years since we last made a gingerbread Haunted House for ourselves. We bought candy for that earlier this week and hit up sales-- got a steal on Wilton melty chocolate and are in the process of molding coffins, skeletons and tombstones to decorate our house with. Mehehehe. So excited!!!
We did a disc golf (or Frisbee golf) activity for scouts on the 20th. It was originally scheduled for the 13th, but it rained quite heavily earlier that week.... strange since it only rains in Arizona maybe 30 days out of the year. However, not so strange because most of our rain comes from tropical storms and hurricanes in the summer. We call it "monsoon season". It's fantastic! (Though, be advised if you ever visit Arizona in Monsoon season-- DO NOT drive across flooded roads. We use roads as washes sometimes because we get rain not-so-often... and there is always someone either new or from out-of-town who thinks "I can make it" and gets stuck. We also have the "stupid motorist law" which basically makes you, the driver, pay to get rescued from the rapid waters.)
Let's see... at work, I've been filing. I've filed so much, I've packed up 46 boxes to be archived in storage. I've also cleaned out an entire cubicle packed full of files. AND... I'm very excited about this next part... I've filed all the papers on my desk and I'm pleased to say my cubicle is, for once, CLEAN. I am only moderately disappointed there isn't anything billable to work on... but... I am aware that the company owner has been getting annoyed with all the boxes and papers everywhere in the office, so I'm a little proud of my efforts.... even if I'm not billable to any projects.
Sunday and Monday this week, I had a tummy flu I caught from Jordan. He had it the week before, and he caught it from his work. I hope I didn't give it to people at my work. It was terrible because you have this ripping headache that swallows your head and then you feel nauseated all the time. Jordan had body aches while I was so bloated I thought I was going to explode or my appendix was going to burst. Thankfully, none of those things happened. Though, I did use up 9 hours of PTO and will have to save up another month's time off to have enough for the mandatory week I have to take off at Christmas. I can never save enough PTO because I'm always taking a day off here and there for things like motorcycle accidents, broken pipes, the many sinus infections I've had this year and doctor/dentist visits. Grrr.
I don't know if I've mentioned my toothache here in LJ or not. I got a filling done and the tooth wouldn't stop hurting. Not only did the filling aggravate the tooth, but I grind my teeth terribly in my sleep when I'm stressed (and I'm stressed about getting Halloween stuff done in time, my health, my toothache, etc, etc). I went to a endodontist who gave me a steroid to take. It made me feel ucky because the pharmacist failed to tell me NOT to take ibuprofen with it... then, the ENT gave me the SAME steroid to take... Again. For my sinuses. This time, I learned not to take ibuprofen from the pharmacist. It helped a little better, didn't make my heart race... and I'm pretty certain it did nothing but make my stomach upset and reduce my immune system enough that I caught Jordan's tummy flu. If it is ever proscribed again. I'm not filling the Rx.
The solution to the tooth ache has been in making and wearing a new night guard, which helps with the teeth grinding issues I have. I had a night guard in college and I nearly ground through it. I stopped wearing it after college because I stopped grinding my teeth because I wasn't stressed anymore. Then, I got married.... but the old one wouldn't fit. They didn't have the "make your own" kind then-- it's relatively new. We bought the kit when I was ready to just tell the dentist to "KILL it and CAP it". It still aches from time-to-time, but it's tolerable for now. Whew!
I've been writing a lot of stories for the paranormal blog I write stories for from time-to-time. We're trying to get a whole month of stories for October. I'm scheduled to write four stories for October 3-6. I've three completed and will hopefully finish the fourth this weekend.
This weekend is "Go to church in your PJs" day... basically, twice a year our church is televised. If you're interested in learning what Mormons talk about, check out the tele' this weekend. Twice a year the leadership of our church address the membership directly. They talk about issues people are having, they tell stories about the church's history... and they give a summary of church business if you catch the first Saturday morning address.... Here it's on around either 9am or 10am and then again in the afternoon around 1pm-- sometimes it switches times because Utah is on (stupid-time... errr) daylight savings time. This is especially exciting because I don't feel obligated to take 5 hours out of my Sunday to go to church. I can work on my costume all weekend!!!
Tomorrow is a busy day. We're going to a nephew's birthday party. We also might stop by a housewarming party for a friend. At some point this weekend, we have to mold a lot of chocolate and bake gingerbread.... I'm going to take care of laundry while I work on my costume. Eventually, since retaining wall block is on sale again, I'm going to buy some more block for the back yard, which is slowly starting to take shape. We have two trees planted and Jordan has started to slowly dig trench for some irrigation. We scrapped the idea of pavers and a fire pit (for now) going with a full grass yard because Jordan wants grass. This means I won't be spending a lot of time in the back yard 'till I get my allergies settled-- since I'm allergic to just about every weed and grass that ever existed.
We did buy, over Labor Day weekend, two kitchen cabinets for the garage. They were on sale-- they never go on sale. So, even though it dented our bank account, we did it. Though, we didn't buy ALL the cabinets we eventually want (because we didn't have that much money to spare), we did get started on the garage cabinets. We're shopping around for counter top-- leaning towards maple butcherblock. So far, we've textured and painted the garage and hung two BIG shelves on either side of the garage. We also have a single cabinet set up. I'm hoping to finish the garage so we can put some things we're storing inside the house out in the garage.
Though we settled on the motorcycle, the rest of the accident is up in the air. I was hoping to get things together to send to the lawyer last weekend, but Jordan and I have different ideas of what needs to be included in the packet-o-stuff we send to our lawyer.... he's finally agreed that more is better and is planning on getting things together so we can xerox them and send them to the lawyer. The settling on the motorbike and reimbursement for the maintenance plan on the motorbike paid off our loan on the bike. (Thank God). It's nice to have that money freed up for other things... like paying down the credit cards, paying car insurance renewals, paying HoA fees, paying doctor/dentist fees and/or working on the garage and back yard.
Not sure what else to write about.... so I'll end here because this is getting long. Here's to getting things done this weekend!!! Guess I'd better start on laundry while I eat breakfast and get to work on my costume!!
Jordan and I are busying ourselves getting ready for our favorite holiday-- Halloween. My downstairs is a complete mess. There is costume stuff everywhere as I hurry to try and finish sewing it before the month gets along too far. My coat is mostly sewn, with the exception of the velvet sleeves, which I was hoping to have embroidered. I can always NOT embroider my jacket sleeves and, instead, add a black ruffle.... I'm dreading sewing this because the stretchy black fabric with the velvet is EXTREMELY difficult to sew because it shifts terribly. My corset-vest is coming along, but it is still a far cry from being completed and I'm getting ideas on how to have that machine embroidered that as well.... This will put a kink in when that is completed if I roll with that. I'm having a terrible time with the cording I'm putting on the vest. I had to change the presser-foot to a zipper-foot and I'm still having to sew the thing 3-4 times before I'm satisfied with the look of the cording on the corset. I've already compensated by using iron-on interface instead of sewn-in, as the pattern called for. Oh, well. I haven't even started on the spats... and I'm beginning to wonder if the whole ensemble will even match when I'm finished! Hah!
Tuesday, for Cub Scouts, we're building Haunted Gingerbread Mausoleums. There is some achievement on coming up with a landscaping plan, but Jordan and I thought that, while that has fun potential, it didn't meet our standard of fun. We decided it'd be more fun to come up with a landscape plan for a gingerbread mausoleum instead. Haha. So... now we're using this weekend to bake 6-ish of those. PLUS a big crypt-type house for Jordan-- it's been about 5 years since we last made a gingerbread Haunted House for ourselves. We bought candy for that earlier this week and hit up sales-- got a steal on Wilton melty chocolate and are in the process of molding coffins, skeletons and tombstones to decorate our house with. Mehehehe. So excited!!!
We did a disc golf (or Frisbee golf) activity for scouts on the 20th. It was originally scheduled for the 13th, but it rained quite heavily earlier that week.... strange since it only rains in Arizona maybe 30 days out of the year. However, not so strange because most of our rain comes from tropical storms and hurricanes in the summer. We call it "monsoon season". It's fantastic! (Though, be advised if you ever visit Arizona in Monsoon season-- DO NOT drive across flooded roads. We use roads as washes sometimes because we get rain not-so-often... and there is always someone either new or from out-of-town who thinks "I can make it" and gets stuck. We also have the "stupid motorist law" which basically makes you, the driver, pay to get rescued from the rapid waters.)
Let's see... at work, I've been filing. I've filed so much, I've packed up 46 boxes to be archived in storage. I've also cleaned out an entire cubicle packed full of files. AND... I'm very excited about this next part... I've filed all the papers on my desk and I'm pleased to say my cubicle is, for once, CLEAN. I am only moderately disappointed there isn't anything billable to work on... but... I am aware that the company owner has been getting annoyed with all the boxes and papers everywhere in the office, so I'm a little proud of my efforts.... even if I'm not billable to any projects.
Sunday and Monday this week, I had a tummy flu I caught from Jordan. He had it the week before, and he caught it from his work. I hope I didn't give it to people at my work. It was terrible because you have this ripping headache that swallows your head and then you feel nauseated all the time. Jordan had body aches while I was so bloated I thought I was going to explode or my appendix was going to burst. Thankfully, none of those things happened. Though, I did use up 9 hours of PTO and will have to save up another month's time off to have enough for the mandatory week I have to take off at Christmas. I can never save enough PTO because I'm always taking a day off here and there for things like motorcycle accidents, broken pipes, the many sinus infections I've had this year and doctor/dentist visits. Grrr.
I don't know if I've mentioned my toothache here in LJ or not. I got a filling done and the tooth wouldn't stop hurting. Not only did the filling aggravate the tooth, but I grind my teeth terribly in my sleep when I'm stressed (and I'm stressed about getting Halloween stuff done in time, my health, my toothache, etc, etc). I went to a endodontist who gave me a steroid to take. It made me feel ucky because the pharmacist failed to tell me NOT to take ibuprofen with it... then, the ENT gave me the SAME steroid to take... Again. For my sinuses. This time, I learned not to take ibuprofen from the pharmacist. It helped a little better, didn't make my heart race... and I'm pretty certain it did nothing but make my stomach upset and reduce my immune system enough that I caught Jordan's tummy flu. If it is ever proscribed again. I'm not filling the Rx.
The solution to the tooth ache has been in making and wearing a new night guard, which helps with the teeth grinding issues I have. I had a night guard in college and I nearly ground through it. I stopped wearing it after college because I stopped grinding my teeth because I wasn't stressed anymore. Then, I got married.... but the old one wouldn't fit. They didn't have the "make your own" kind then-- it's relatively new. We bought the kit when I was ready to just tell the dentist to "KILL it and CAP it". It still aches from time-to-time, but it's tolerable for now. Whew!
I've been writing a lot of stories for the paranormal blog I write stories for from time-to-time. We're trying to get a whole month of stories for October. I'm scheduled to write four stories for October 3-6. I've three completed and will hopefully finish the fourth this weekend.
This weekend is "Go to church in your PJs" day... basically, twice a year our church is televised. If you're interested in learning what Mormons talk about, check out the tele' this weekend. Twice a year the leadership of our church address the membership directly. They talk about issues people are having, they tell stories about the church's history... and they give a summary of church business if you catch the first Saturday morning address.... Here it's on around either 9am or 10am and then again in the afternoon around 1pm-- sometimes it switches times because Utah is on (stupid-time... errr) daylight savings time. This is especially exciting because I don't feel obligated to take 5 hours out of my Sunday to go to church. I can work on my costume all weekend!!!
Tomorrow is a busy day. We're going to a nephew's birthday party. We also might stop by a housewarming party for a friend. At some point this weekend, we have to mold a lot of chocolate and bake gingerbread.... I'm going to take care of laundry while I work on my costume. Eventually, since retaining wall block is on sale again, I'm going to buy some more block for the back yard, which is slowly starting to take shape. We have two trees planted and Jordan has started to slowly dig trench for some irrigation. We scrapped the idea of pavers and a fire pit (for now) going with a full grass yard because Jordan wants grass. This means I won't be spending a lot of time in the back yard 'till I get my allergies settled-- since I'm allergic to just about every weed and grass that ever existed.
We did buy, over Labor Day weekend, two kitchen cabinets for the garage. They were on sale-- they never go on sale. So, even though it dented our bank account, we did it. Though, we didn't buy ALL the cabinets we eventually want (because we didn't have that much money to spare), we did get started on the garage cabinets. We're shopping around for counter top-- leaning towards maple butcherblock. So far, we've textured and painted the garage and hung two BIG shelves on either side of the garage. We also have a single cabinet set up. I'm hoping to finish the garage so we can put some things we're storing inside the house out in the garage.
Though we settled on the motorcycle, the rest of the accident is up in the air. I was hoping to get things together to send to the lawyer last weekend, but Jordan and I have different ideas of what needs to be included in the packet-o-stuff we send to our lawyer.... he's finally agreed that more is better and is planning on getting things together so we can xerox them and send them to the lawyer. The settling on the motorbike and reimbursement for the maintenance plan on the motorbike paid off our loan on the bike. (Thank God). It's nice to have that money freed up for other things... like paying down the credit cards, paying car insurance renewals, paying HoA fees, paying doctor/dentist fees and/or working on the garage and back yard.
Not sure what else to write about.... so I'll end here because this is getting long. Here's to getting things done this weekend!!! Guess I'd better start on laundry while I eat breakfast and get to work on my costume!!