Get Your Gratefulness On!!

Man I’m excited for Turkey Day this year!!!!! I am ready to eat my weight in stuffing and mashed potatoes and pie!!! We get to eat pie for breakfast!!!! I can’t wait!!!! I thought I would take a few moments and reflect on a few things I’m thankful for right now (in no particular order & FYI some of these might be quite cheezy which I know is so unlike me!!! Deal with it!!):

#1 I’m thankful for my roommate!!!! Currently my sister Jamie (Strudel) resides with me and for the 1st time EVER in my life (besides when I was living by myself) I’m not having to deal with an ounce of roommate drama!!! It is so great!!! At 1st I wasn’t sure if me & Strudel would survive as roommates but seriously it’s been great and I’m glad we’ve had this time together. So tender right?!?!



#2 I’m thankful for Johnny my Precious!! No joke- it has been a hard time lately for yours truly and Johnny has had to listen to me out right bawling my eyes out more than I’m sure he’d care to but he’s been really good to me even tho I’m sure he wants to pull his hair out!!!! We’re coming up on 9 years of Precious good times!!! So much tenderness!!!



#3 I’m thankful that Lifehouse is back in the studio recording a new album!!! They really are the soundtrack of my life and I need some new anthems!!!



#4 I’m thankful to be reunited with Marissa!!! She’s one of the few people in this world who truly gets me! Reunited and it feels so good!!!!! I am so looking forward to our visit in a couple weeks!!!!



#5 I’m thankful for the unusually warm weather we’ve been having lately. Sure 40 or 50 degrees doesn’t sound that warm to anyone not living in Idaho but it’s amazing for us! It’s getting a little chillier but still NO SNOW!!! Consequently I am thankful that I haven’t had to turn the heat on in my apartment yet!!!

#6 I’m thankful to still be employed!! In case you didn’t know I work in the Mortgage Industry and unless you live under a rock you know it’s not really the market to be working in right now. But I’m still gainfully employed and even better I still have an assistant!!! Who else is gonna get all my work done!?!?

#7 I am thankful for my DVR!!! I went 12 days with no DVR and honestly it wasn’t that bad but I am grateful to have it back! In general I’m thankful for the person who invented the DVR-there’s a special place reserved in heaven for that person I’m sure of it!!

#8 I’m thankful that gas has gone down so much lately!!! There’s a gas station that I pass every day on my way to work and every time I see the price drop lower it just fills me with warm fuzzies!! If only I could find a way to add that to my food storage!!!

#9 I’m thankful that it’s Oscar season!!! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! There’s gonna be some good movies coming out here in the next little while all leading up to the most important night of the year-Oscar Night!!!! I love it!!!



#10 I’m thankful that my man Tony Almeida will be back on 24 this season!! Now while I do think it’s lame that they killed him off and then brought him back his absence has left a whole in my heart that can not be filled!!! Altho from looking at the previews it looks like he’s a bad guy (can you blame him!!?) and you know what happens to all the bad guys in 24!! Jack Bauer snaps their necks with his legs!! I survived Tony dying once-I don’t think I can do it again! But I will get to wear my I Heart Tony t-shirt again when I watch!!!



So there you go-the top 10 things I’m thankful for right now!!!

Melissa Hively Has Voted!!!!

So I pulled the lever for Democracy today!!! Me & Strudel went downtown during lunch to do our civic duty!! Couple of things about my voting experience today:

#1 Our designated voting place was the Courthouse Rotunda. ohhhh La-ti-dah the Rotunda!! by the sounds of that I was expecting to go down there and have finger sandwiches and other such refreshments waiting for me like we were going to a garden party. Yeah right!! Turns out the Rotunda is the lobby of the courthouse and they just crammed us all in there and it smelled like crime!!!

#2 Is anyone else concerned that old folks are running these voting booths?!!? Those crazy oldies couldn't get our names right prolly cuz they didn't have their hearing aides turned up!! And we're trusting them to handle and tally up our votes?!?! I'm scared.

#3 They make you listen to and watch this little tutorial on how to punch your voting card!! People is it really that difficult!??! If you can't figure that out on your own then I don't want you voting!!! And after you hand in your ballot they announce your name & that you have voted! It's kind of exciting!!!

#4 Before we went to perform our civic duty I played Sister Suffragette from Mary Poppins for us as I thought it an appropriate anthem for the afternoon's events!!!

Cast off the shackles of yesterday!
Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!
Our daughters' daughters will adore us
And they'll sing in grateful chorus
"Well done, Sister Suffragette!"

And of course I took a picture of us!!!



Sister Suffragettes indeed!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween everybody!!!!! Everyone at my office is all dressed up and we've pretty much done no work all day!! It's been so great!!! Here's a pic of me in my fabulous costume!!! I was born in the wrong time period-I totally should have been born in the 1920's!!! Look how well I pull this look off!!!!



And this chick Rachelle dressed up as Flavor Flav!!! It was crapping hilarious!!!! She has been in character all day!!!!



Seriously tho this wig is startin to hurt my head!!! Good thing It's time to go home for the day so I can get out of this get up!!!! I'll be posting more pics later on!!!

Update On That Update!!

So remember that one time I said i was all better from my throat nonsense? Yeah not so much!!!! I had to go back to the doctor the other day cuz apparently I'm not all better. I have to do another round of antibiotics but thankfully it's a different kind cuz my tummy can't handle those other ones anymore!! So after I finish this round of meds if it's still not all the way gone then I'm gonna have to go see and Ear, Nose & Throat specialist and they're prolly gonna want to take my tonsils out!! People I can not deal with that!!!! All I can think of is how horrible it was when i had to get my wisdom teeth out and how the anesthesia made me so sick after words and I was puking everywhere but since my mouth was swollen it made having to puke all that much more awful!!! I really don't wanna have to do that again!! Everyone better start praying and (as Jon says) do a little jig for me in hopes that it doesn't come to that!!! It sure is hard being me!!!

Since I'm Sure You're Dying For An Update!!!

Just in case you wanted to know I'm all better from my nonsense of last week!!! I just took my last antibiotic, the bruise from my IV is just about gone, and I've had no further reactions from the Iodine they pumped in me!!! Thank goodness!!! Those pills I was on were not good to me!!! I've pretty much had an upset stomach for the last week and a 1/2 and having to lay on my stomach a bunch in my Yoga class was not helping!!! But i'm all better now and so help me if I have to deal with another throat related issue I'm yanking those tonsils right out!!!!

Just Another Manic Monday!!!!

This one time (yesterday) I woke up with what I thought was the strep AGAIN!!! already I’m agitated cuz I can not deal with that crap again!!! Not to mention that the last time I had it they had talked about maybe needing to get my tonsils taken out if I keep getting it like that. Ummm no thanks I’m good! I try looking at my throat in the mirror with a flashlight but it’s so swollen I can barely open my mouth and every time I swallowed I wanted to die!! On top of that I was having some difficulty breathing. Just walking across the room totally made me winded-please I’m not that out of shape!!! So I soldiered on and went to work and everyone could tell I was not feeling well. Steer clear folks!!! So at 11:00 I went over to my doctor’s office to get checked out thinking they’d shove some antibiotics down my throat and send me on my way. WRONG!!! the Physician’s assistant checks me out and has the nurse do a swab for strep-which I had never had before cuz it’s always been so bad they could just look at me and know I had the strep. I could do without having another one of those throat swabs!! Totally almost hurled!! So that comes back negative. The PA has the doctor come in and look at me and he decides that prolly I have an infection or something in my tonsils and that I need to go get a CT scan to check things out. And then I hear some nonsensical talk about maybe having to put a needle in my throat to drain out the infection. Ummmmm yeah that can NOT happen!! so they send me on my way to go get a CT scan. I get over to the place and have to put these wretched scrubs on-I was lookin hot I’m sure!! they get everything situated-which took forever-and get me in the CT machine, start my IV, and tell me what’s gonna be going down. they have to inject you with Iodine for the scan and the nurse said it feels really warm going in blah blah blah but that’s normal. She said if I start feeling sick or itchy or can’t breathe or anything to let them know right away cuz that means I’m prolly allergic to the iodine. Yeah turns out I am!!! They inject it all in me and as soon as she finished I could not breathe!!! Panic!!!! They pull me out of the machine and sit me up and the doctor runs over and they give me something to counteract that and then I thought I was going to hurl!!! And even better I broke out in some hives on my face and neck-now if that’s not hot I don’t know what is!!!! I’m of course panicking cuz I can’t breath and think I’m going to hurl which I’m sure would have felt great with my sore throat!! And then at 1st they said they didn’t get the scan done in time before I wigged out so then I felt bad for some reason and kept apologizing-like it’s my fault!! Please!!! after they get me situated I start getting really tired from the meds they gave me-great!! so they made me lay in there for a bit and then said they needed to keep me there for another hour so they could watch me. so they move me to another room and just laid there kinda dozing in and out. I had to call Jenny to come pick me up cuz they wouldn’t let me drive. Good grief!! so after that I had to head back over to the doc’s office to figure out what they wanna do with me. at this point I’m thinking “there better be something really wrong with me after all this!!!” they decided to leave my IV port in just in case the doc wanted to give my IV antibiotics so there I am wandering around town with an IV shoved in my arm!!! I get back over to the doc’s office and the PA has yet ANOTHER doc come in and look at my throat but since it’s so swollen and hurts like nobody’s business he decides that we should numb the back of my throat so he can look at it better without me wanting to junk punch him!! so they lay me down and spray this stuff in the back of my throat and it was DISGUSTING!!!! I shot straight up and again almost blew chunks!! So nast!! He looks at my throat again and then it turns out that they were able to get my scan done before I wigged out so in the end I had an abscess on my tonsil which had caused this big infection and that left un treated would either cause my throat to close up (which it was on its way to doing anyway) or could even travel up into my brain. Good grief!!! so they give me these massive antibiotic pills to take and a steroid shot-right above my butt nevermind and it hurts like nobody’s business and still does! Oh and right before I left I’m all “oh did you guys wanna take out this IV I’ve been carrying around!?!” don’t worry that it’s totally bruised now. I finally got to go home close to 5:00-I was spent!! What a day right?!?!

So there’s my story!!!!! How were all of your days!?!?!?

Worst Date Ever!!!

This is in response to the "Question of The Day" on my sister Kristy's blog:

This wasn't so much a bad date because of something my date did, but becuase i'm a raging idiot!!!! here you go: this one time when I was at the college we had this group date going and the guy that was my date didn’t have a car (that’s kinda loserish but most people at the college didn’t have cars) so I went to go pick him up and the street where his apartment building was wasn’t lit like at all and it’s night so it’s totally dark. I had never been over there before either. So I can see that there’s a set of stairs you have to go down and then walk up to the building. Well I couldn’t see how many steps there were or how far apart they were or anything-all I could see was where they started and where they stopped so what did I do? I decided that the smartest thing to do was to just take a big flying leap over the stairs and avoid them all together!! Genius right!?! So that’s just what I did!!! Kinda got a sort of running start and took a flying leap over the stairs!!! Totally cleared the stairs (go me!!!) but when I landed my ankle totally snapped!! I heard this awful crunching sound and it hurt let me tell you!! I was like “oh sh!t!!!!” 1st I tried just walking it off but that wasn’t happening and I didn’t want to have to tell him that I needed to cancel cuz I was retarded!! So I sucked it up and soldiered on with the date. I walked up 3 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS to his apartment and then back down and then had to drive. We went bowling and it took me forever to get up and bowl and somehow by the end of the night he found out that I had hurt my ankle so I had to tell him what happened. It was a long night and totally embarrassing!!!! And i was on crutches for like the next week!! Lovely!!

Feel free to share your bad date stories!!!!