Chilly Morning, Sleepless nights and Running Thoughts

Well I know it has been ages since my last post. But thanks to some super fun insomnia and the kids having to get up for school here i sit. Typing away and dumping everything out onto the web.

Things around here have been hectic, and as always interesting. So I will just dive in. We lost our health insurance this month so I am learning all kinds of fun things about the public health system.. I just can’t wait to take the first trip to the clinic with jim.... Thank god for books and mp3 players..

Things with BJC Mental Health are progressing for services for Mimi. We will see what the psychiatrist says on friday to see what new approach we are going to take. Un til then I am taking things day by day, and looking into some therapy for myself (I am just a weeeee bit stressed) . Chances are Mimi will be in an in home therapy program and possibly if Ladue cannot pick up the slack with her IEP a theraputic school. But we will see how things develop.

I have been working my tail off the last few weeks. When I started helping my boss with scheduling I ended up, as usual, taking things to the wire and filling in the shifts we were short handed myself. Well As of February 1 I am going back to part time. I have to be able to take care of my family and house more than I have to take care of the YMCA. So I am back to 4 hour shifts for the most part and every monday and tuesday off work so i can attend to things here. We will see how that works.

I have got to get the budget straightened out for the household. Right now I keep running the account into the negative and I am sure if that keeps up we will get booted out of the bank. So with the help of the hefty checks I will get in feburary, getting back to a schedule where I will be home to make dinner most every night, and tightening the belt to trim out the non essential costs I will be able to get things better under control. Either that or I need to win the lottery or knock over a bank... But since I cannot ever find a good getaway driver (LOL) I will work the tightened budget angle and get things back into the black. Hmmm I wonder if gypsies still buy kids... JUST KIDDING.

Of course I am also going to reduce the number of felines in the house. I have 3 altered cats that I can easily part with so I am going to work on adopting them out to help cut food costs. In March I will get Muffin and probably Biscuits spayed and place Biscuits as she has earned a nice cushy retirement. As for the kittens, we will see how things progress with them. You just never know what might happen.

Thankfully I have a family that is quite happy living on noodles, cereal and peanut butter sandwiches LOL. Well it won’t be quite that bad but we are going to cut back a lot and stop ordering delivery so darn much. January has been a killer. with me working evenings, by the time i get home from work I am to tired or stressed to make dinner, and I never find time to get to the grocery store anyway so there isnt squat to eat in this place, Sooooo I pick up the phone and call for delivery. That comes to a screeching halt after this week. This afternoon I am going to the store, getting some food so that we can have home cooked (in theory at least even if they are simple) meals instead of take out. I have to admit I am sick of pretty much every delivery place in the area.

Well lets see. Cheyenne is doing good in school. Seems to be getting more confident with her talking, not that she is ready to spout any disertations but she is using simple words and doing pretty well.

Mimi has good days and bad days. More good than bad for the most part. Now if we can just et the school work improved it will be alot smoother. But we will see how things develop with the new plan we are working on with Kathy.

Jim is... Well Jim is Jim. He is still having alot of pain. Still depressed, and still a pain in my rump LOL. But I love him and we are taking things day by day together which makes it a heck of alot easier than it would be without him. Now I just have to get him up off his arse and moving again to loose weight and get some of his mobility back. Since he stopped physical therapy he has gotten progressively worse. Not totally crippled yet but making his way in that direction. That seems pretty stupid to me since we have access to a full gym, heated pool, and all that stuff up at work.. So on my days off I am taking a cattle prod to him and getting him to come with me to work out. Even if all he does is sit on the recumbant bike and takes a nice ride I think It will do wonders for his self esteem and his legs.. So I will be dusting off the cattle prod LOL.

Well I think I have been rambling long enough for one morning.

Falla

From critters

Yea this one sums up pretty well how I feel right now LOL.

Wow.. That is a BAD Day

DON"T EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR JOB

I LOVE MY JOB . . . . . 

If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real!  Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy. 

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. 

Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she WON !

 

Hi Sue, 

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. 

Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling  down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you  to make you realize it's not so bad after all . 

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. 

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit  to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite  cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. 

It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. 

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. 

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to  itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.   Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had  happened. 

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it .  However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. 

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. 

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. 

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. 

As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter  running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. 

The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. 

 

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. 

Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." 

Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? 
May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!