Parents arrive

The parent's have officially arrived for a month long visit to the States. They had a few issues which delayed them getting to us and I believe at that point they were exhausted. First off there were some dings on the car they had to report, not to mention the car was far larger than they expected. Then they got an optional NavSat which supposedly doesn't work properly, I'll let them worry about that one.

Eventually they finally managed to find our apartment poor Jagr did have to go searching for them a bit because I knew I had seen them go by. Oh on the bright side we managed to declare ourselves officially unpacked from the move before they got here. I was able to get up the pictures on the wall which was the last thing that really needed to be done. Approval was given on the apartment and a nod that it was an improvement on the last place.

Today's plan is I'm working a normal day although I might leave early as I have no doubt I'll still work during my 'vacation'. Next year I'm promising myself that we will go away and leave everything behind nothing no internet no email, cellphone only for emergencies but I will not be checking email like I will this time off and I will not go into the office to help finish off end of month accounting. I swear I have to be totally mad to be doing that.

I'm glad that I had set up an appointment with my G/F for Mum so that she can get some TLC, poor Mum has got a stinker of a cold which I know is not easy for her to fly with. She's in for some royal pampering I think at least 2 hours of spa like treatments so hopefully that will help to rejuvenate her a bit. Must not forget to write my G/F a thank you note for that. Nothing like a facial and massage to help things along a bit. We plan on meeting up again tonight for dinner and chatting about Friday for which I'm off so that should be nice. Course whenever my folks wake up in the morning they can probably make their way over to us as there should be someone there even if they are awake stupidly early.

Party on Sunday which should be fun and then shopping for a new table and chairs for the dinning room our current furniture just looks awful in there and is very abused at this point so will be nice to have a set of chairs and a new table.

Beyond that no real plans while they are here other than enjoying the company. I'm sure we will go out for some day trips tho so that poor Jagr can get some undisturbed sleep, although for the most part when he's tired he does sleep like the dead.

Bottomless Pit Monster Strikes Again!

This time Josie (orange tabby) could only wait until 3:00 am till she started bugging me for food. I got her out of the bedroom by trickery and it was quiet until 4:00 am when Lani (dilute calico) decided she didn't like being shut in the bedroom with me and wanted the door open again /sigh. So the door was opened and all hell broke loose. They started fighting, running into things, knocked the gate flying to the office door. We eventually gave in and fed the beast and they we finally settled down and I managed to get another 30 minutes of sleep.

What do you do with a monster that needs constant food?! Not like we don't feed her but this is insane and I know damn well 5 hours later she is going to want yet more. We have to limit her portions but oh boy is it annoying. And it seems if she doesn't get fed she starts to pick on poor Lani. What a grouch!

Settling in

Well,

Thought I would put my first post on the blog, since I'm not killing myself with overtime(or not as much!). They do call me Mustang Sally at work, cause I'm the OT king at the moment.

Nothing like pimping yourself out for mo' money.

Unpacking continues, I've managed to unpack about 6 more boxes today, after sleeping in like a bum. I am on my weekend, so I'm entitled (*sticks tongue out at Lanari*)

Josie still feels the need to want food even after I get home from work in the mornings.

Right now, she is passed out...it's hard work bellowing for meals that go into a bottomless stomach.

Unpacking to continue this week as Lanari's parents arrive from UK on Wednesday. The office is almost back to normal, though we still have more cords than equipment. Seems to be the case always. ( If I could find Murphy, I'd hang him with this stuff)

Moving sucks, but it was a necessity. Lanari described our journey the best why we had to.

I can say it's alot more quiet right now, and this new apt is SO much better.

Until next time

Interesting Hot Sauce!

Wonder what Jagr will make of this month's selection. Desert Rose definitely sounds interesting, as it has a blend of papaya and peppers should be interesting.

I managed to unpack a few boxes this weekend and even got a lot of the electronics set back up yay! That was a task and a half just to get the wiring done. But I think it's fairly cat proof now so with a bit of luck I won't have Lani damaging my wires.

Course right now those two aren't in my good books. Nothing like Josie waking me up at 4:00 to insist that it's time I got up and fed her. I shooed her away a few times till eventually at 4:30 she decides that she is going to pick on Lani and start a fight between my legs. So at that point I called it a lost cause trying to get any more sleep. I sometimes wonder if I am insane when I get here at before 6 in the morning. But I just figure it's better to be up and doing something useful than waiting around and knowing the traffic is just going to get worse and worse. As I'm off at the end of the week an extra hour won't kill me I guess.

Count down begins

We did our first load of laundry last night...what a difference it makes. Now we can wash clothes on our schedule instead of trying to work around everyone else's weee! We unpacked a couple of boxes last night and having done a couple of loads of laundry we obviously now have most of our clothes put away as well. A little bit each day and hopefully we can get a big part of it done by the weekend. It's going to take awhile to set up the computers and get everything put away just so but the living room was definitely clearer last night, I want to get that squared away because it feels so cramped right now. All the sofas and things need to move towards the window some more so that we can walk past the chairs without falling over cats boxes or the chairs.

Had another good nights sleep and I'm still trying to get over how quiet it is in our new place. Bliss sheer bliss.

Josie is still very skittish, she spent the first full day with us sniffing everything and is just acting out of sorts. I did pick up some Feliway yesterday at the pet store to try and help calm her down a bit. Lani well she is just seems a happy kitty again, sleeping between the legs as per normal, although she isn't eating that well yet, but I think there is just too much for her to explore.

Are we there yet?

I'm so tired! I'm tired of being awake all night with my mind going 100 miles an hour thinking about all the things that need to get done with this move then being too damned tired the next day to do half of what was on my mental list the night before.

One more night in our current place and with a bit of luck I'll actually sleep tomorrow night. At least podcasts help somewhat to let me sleep. I'm also hurting who needs stairmasters? We surely don't with all the steps we been taking just moving boxes in and out.

So far a good portion of the kitchen has been moved as has a good portion of the office. The photos are all done off the walls, bathroom needs to be cleared out but then that's hard to do when we still need to use it hehe. Tomorrow I'll probably just get up throw stuff on and go with it till we are in.

I'm definitely wondering how we are going to get the TV in and entertainment unit. The problem being Lani and wires. Oh well I'll worry about that tomorrow I just know it's not going to fit where we would like it, I'm sure it's going to have to sit partly of the window and I don't want that. I want to keep her from behind the there and away from the wires so not sure how that is going to work at all. Might have to consider upgrading to wireless or we may have to cut down on the electronics in the room. All these things to consider. If I put the unit in front of the window that exposes all the wires behind it again and I know what that cat is like. I love her but sometimes I just want to strangle her.

I think tonight it's going to be take out time again, with most of our stuff from the kitchen in the new home cooking is a little hard plus I want everything to be clean. Course one of the first buys is going to have to be a new trash can. One that goes under the sink not enough room in there for the type we have now. Then again we have to see how crafty they are going to be getting into these cabinets. I didn't think about testing them to see how cat proof they are but worst case I'll just move everything not in cans up and away.

Tomorrow will be fun not those cats are going to be howling! I almost hope they wake up the neighbours when we move em, almost, just as a parting gift to show our love. Oh that makes me feel mean. I swear I have half imaginary conversations with that woman just telling her I don't care and good luck with the next people above them. Almost hope they have a bratty kid that's just as obnoxious as hers. Those damn kids were out after dark last night playing in the parking lot it's so freeking dangerous it's not even funny. The carparking lot is so badly lit right now it's impossible to see them especially when they ride so close to the ground on their skateboards etc. it's a wonder someone hasn't hit em yet. Their parents aught to be shot seriously, I'm just waiting for a car slow moving a they go to hit someone specially the big ass trucks that a lot of people seem to drive. They leave their crap littered all over you can barely see it half the time they just leave their bikes out over night etc. One of these days I swear, if we weren't moving I'd really be asking to talk to the parents. Who in their right mind lets these kids out after dark playing in the streets?! It's dark out you come in you stay in you are the boss. It's damn right dangerous.

Gearing up to move

Well, we are almost there, cable is being shut off today so we will be internetless and tv less for the weekend. I guess there are worse things in life. Wonder how much stuff we will get moved on our own. The apartment is littered with boxes at the moment and I'll be so happy not to have to live with our closet doors any more. Lani was thrown out on her earhole last night after repeatedly batting at the doors. At least we won't have that issue in the new place yay!

Slept far more last night than I have done in weeks I actually slept past the alarm! Not sure what got into me maybe it was the cat baiting in the middle of the night. Either way only a few more nights in the hell hole. At this point I think to myself that anywhere has to be better than our current place.

I had a yelling match the other day with another neighbour after I was honking a horn at one of the kids. I despise the kids around our apartment. The parents don't seem to care, they have no respect. I know they are kids I know they are meant to be noisy but it's not fun. Kid rolled out his toy bike thing in front of my car staring at me knowing I am sure that if I did something I was going to get yelled at. And the woman told me to talk to the parents...yeah right what parents like I'm about to go yelling at someone else to tell em how to bring up their kids. It ain't worth the pain. Mutters in frustration. I have to say would be great if there were places that you can rent where you are a 30's something couple with no intention of having kids. Although that makes me wonder if we might just end up then with a party town and I am not fond of that either late night parties are not my scene either.

Oh well once all our debt is cleared up perhaps we can find ourselves a home to rent rather than an apartment.

No more holes to endure

Ok so the daily infusions are over no more holes! The backs of my hands look more than worse for wear, and I was told that I heal quickly! Just as well I have 7 holes in the back of both my hands and 2 more at the elbows. The staff at Valley Care Medical were wonderful. The atmosphere well it's a hospital...I was stuck in PreOp for 4 hours no tv, no visitors just sitting on an very uncomfortable gurney. By the third day I had resorted to taking Jagr's laptop with me to help the time go by. Got to say that was the wisest decision only wish I had thought of that on Monday!

I actually enjoyed the hospital food. No really it wasn't bad. I mean how far wrong can you go with a sandwich and it was made to order so really it was pretty good. I told them there thank you but no offense I really hope I don't have to do this again any time soon hehe.

So the good news is I am now able to drive without the eyepatch. That's a huge relief although I was very careful driving I wasn't comfortable with it. It's amazing you can take your eyes so easily for granted yet when you have difficulty it's one of the most devastating in my opinion. You loose a lot of freedom. I hope I can go another 12 years without another incident.

I can honestly say I am grateful right now that I've started this blog. It's giving me a chance to put down my thoughts save them and well a venting point. A chance to sort out my emotions after all this isn't what you really want to hear at the end of the day. But on the other hand there are people far worse off than you are, so life isn't all that bad. Besides which I'm improving that has to be a good thing.

Ah well day after tomorrow and we get those keys hopefully things will start moving in a better direction. I saw some noise issues with some residents in our new place. I am not sure how it will be I just hope it's an improvement on where we are now, I can't see it being any worse.

Treatment been given a green flag

Looks like my blood test came back just fine. So I will be off to the hospital this afternoon and they will be pumping me full of steroids. Joy! The steroids should shut down my immune system somewhat. This effectively should help to stem the attack on my nervous system. I'm so not looking forward to this but at the same time I hope that it stops any damage going on now. Definitely starting to wonder how much damage I appear to have had so far from all of this. I have been reading and I didn't think about what may have happened that I don't know about. It's not until it hits the area of the brain that is noticeable that half the time you can tell.

I also have to say the more I read about the drugs the more I should rethink and possibly start taking them. We shall see I will definitely be talking with the Dr. more about this. So far I've been lucky and if I can slow this down it may not be a bad thing. Anyway I'll post about how I'm feeling after the treatment today. Hopefully I won't get any of the side effects and I'll be good to go to work tomorrow. I know that they will understand it if I am suffering a bit if I don't come in I just don't want to let em down.

The evil of podcasting

So due to my bad influences Jagr is now also hooked on podcasts. I succeeded in my evil plan mwhahah. Anyway he was busy downloading a bunch yesterday and I had the audacity to call him this morning interrupting him listening to Billi! If you haven't Billibub Baddings is a must listen to cast. Tee you have an amazing sense of humour but be careful my poor husband almost had an accident yesterday listening to you. Links for Billi and the Singing Sword are at the bottom of the page. Jagr also downloaded JC Hutchins and Scott Siegler among others, I think I have him hooked. To all of you podcasters out there thank you! Thank you for the hours of entertainment.

Back to the old ways

I guess that new traffic pattern wasn't working at 880 and 92 because this morning it was back to the way it was. Talk about confusing! I have to admit I didn't like the changes they had made it was pretty terrifying to drive. I'm grateful I didn't have an accident there to be sure.

So now my eyesight is back to almost normal yay! Just in time for the move. It's definitely a relief to know it's almost normal again. Just one of those things I hope I'll only have to live with from time to time.

Count down to the move is still on 7 days and we pick up the keys. Then it will be all go from that point until we are out of where we are now. Love the irony of them asking us to recommend where we live now to friends and family. Not a chance! Never in a millions years, think twice about moving to Ironwood seriously! Place is a nightmare and they are now seriously overcharging on the rent those apartments are not worth it unless you have no other choice. I don't object to the maintenance crew I just hate the management and the place is just so noisy it's not even funny.

Newly Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis

So yesterday I was diagnosed with MS. I wasn't surprised this has been on the cards so I guess I didn't really react too much when I was told. To an extent I am relieved because now I can start to focus on preventing further exacerbations. At least right now it's not seeming to progress and get much worse so this I can definitely live with. They are going to be putting me on a steroid course to help alleviate the current symptoms. Course trying to get any information from my insurance company is like pulling teeth so I have no idea if this treatment will be covered or not, they weren't exactly helpful in the matter. But either way I'd like to be able to see better so I will go ahead and be damned and we will figure out the costs later.

I have decided for now not to take any of the other drugs. Having spoken with the Dr. and done my own research I may go another 15 years for all I know without another attack and I really don't want to be taking them if that is the case. So now I just have to tolerate 3 days of intravenous steroids should take 4 hours a piece and I have to be done by 6. I am going to do it in the afternoon so that I can work in the morning get in a good 6 hours of work and then leave early and go get the treatments. Going to be a very long day but maybe I can take a nap while I'm being dosed.

Right now I'm just a bit fatigued but at least my strength and reflexes seem ok. Next few weeks are going to be insane tho! Between treatments for the MS and then gearing up to move. And the actual move then I have more follow up appointments and then Mum and Dad show up! I'm actually not planning much of anything for when they are here tho, mostly because I know we will have stuff that needs to be done and I don't want to overdo things either.

My boss is being brilliant about this and is very supportive so I don't have to worry too much there with all this time off I keep having to have. I have been trying as much as possible to keep my hours normal, although I am listening to my body and not pushing myself.

Got to say I'm not looking forward to being hooked up for 4 hours for these drugs, yeesh that's a long time to be sitting with a needle stuck in my arm!