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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Happy Birthday
to my big brother, Clint! He is 32 today. And he is a fabulous big brother! We all love you and hope you have a great day!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Enjoying my work
Here are pictures of Lucas enjoying the blankets I made for him. They weren't kidding on how much kids like them!
This weekend just won't end! Larry has a lot less room to easily move around than we thought and he's going a bit stir crazy being stuck in the house all weekend. He's always been understanding when I get like that after being stuck in the house for long periods of time, but I'm sure he'll be even better than I can imagine to me now! :)
This weekend just won't end! Larry has a lot less room to easily move around than we thought and he's going a bit stir crazy being stuck in the house all weekend. He's always been understanding when I get like that after being stuck in the house for long periods of time, but I'm sure he'll be even better than I can imagine to me now! :)
Friday, February 6, 2009
Prayers for the hubby, please!
I can't remember, but am pretty sure, I've mentioned Larry's sever migraines in the past. We have been seeing a Neurologist who specializes in this area.
At his last visit on Jan. 20, she didn't like some of the symptoms he described that he gets when he has a migraine or if he feels one about to start before the meds kick in and block it. So she has decided to have him do a 48 hr EEG to see if he is having mild seizures. When she mentioned that I told her about our nephew having seizures. And when asking my sis-in-law the details of his she informed me Larry had a great aunt who had them too. So obviously there is a family history of those as well as migraines.
So I am taking him to the doc around 4 to get him all hooked up, and he will be on the monitor all weekend. He will be required to stay home all weekend and just veg. But who wants to go out all hooked up anyway?
So please pray that he's not too uncomfortable this weekend and that the test tells us something. Preferably something good.
At his last visit on Jan. 20, she didn't like some of the symptoms he described that he gets when he has a migraine or if he feels one about to start before the meds kick in and block it. So she has decided to have him do a 48 hr EEG to see if he is having mild seizures. When she mentioned that I told her about our nephew having seizures. And when asking my sis-in-law the details of his she informed me Larry had a great aunt who had them too. So obviously there is a family history of those as well as migraines.
So I am taking him to the doc around 4 to get him all hooked up, and he will be on the monitor all weekend. He will be required to stay home all weekend and just veg. But who wants to go out all hooked up anyway?
So please pray that he's not too uncomfortable this weekend and that the test tells us something. Preferably something good.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Story
In all my retelling of the van story, I seemed to have gotten mixed up and thought I put it on here. I guess not so here it is:
On New Year's Eve we had dropped the van off early in the evening after picking up Larry's truck. He was going out of town the next day to go hunting (I stayed home due to a super-duper nasty cold). While he was gone I was going to drive his little MR2. Well when a friend took me to pick it back up, it was gone. The police found it a few days later in the condition you see. To the best of our guess and with what happened, we figure some young people decided to celebrate New Years with a different kind of "fireworks". They somehow got in to the van, found our hidden key, went for a joy ride, stole the battery (of all the things to steal. and they even tried to cut it out before wising up and just unscrewing it), and then lit the seat behind the driver seat. The windows were rolled up, so it smothered itself out, otherwise the whole thing would have burnt to a crisp.
The reason we have it back is a whole other mess. We had an insurance payment I had to pay on NYE, and every time I called to take care of it they said their computers were down due to updates, call back in a couple of hours. Well I guess when I did get one supposedly working, it really wasn't. There was some screw up and our payment was returned, causing us to supposedly not have coverage on the date it was stolen. No one found out about this till mid January after the claim was almost complete. And the person to discover first was actually me when going through records. So even though I supposedly didn't have coverage (I went to remake the payment and they told me they wouldn't except it. I had to pay a balance owed, which happened to be money to cover the grace period which is when the van was stolen, before I could set up a new policy.) They had almost completed the claim 3 weeks after the loss. But once that was brought up, I wasn't allowed to fix it. They just put a dead stop and denied it. We have spoken with a couple people who said that what they did was wrong. Weather the payment return was our fault or not, they shouldn't have gone that far with it after the mistake (which was handling all of it), to then just deny us. So we are starting the process of fighting that now...ugh.
So as you can see with all this, 2009 hasn't been my best year so far.
On New Year's Eve we had dropped the van off early in the evening after picking up Larry's truck. He was going out of town the next day to go hunting (I stayed home due to a super-duper nasty cold). While he was gone I was going to drive his little MR2. Well when a friend took me to pick it back up, it was gone. The police found it a few days later in the condition you see. To the best of our guess and with what happened, we figure some young people decided to celebrate New Years with a different kind of "fireworks". They somehow got in to the van, found our hidden key, went for a joy ride, stole the battery (of all the things to steal. and they even tried to cut it out before wising up and just unscrewing it), and then lit the seat behind the driver seat. The windows were rolled up, so it smothered itself out, otherwise the whole thing would have burnt to a crisp.
The reason we have it back is a whole other mess. We had an insurance payment I had to pay on NYE, and every time I called to take care of it they said their computers were down due to updates, call back in a couple of hours. Well I guess when I did get one supposedly working, it really wasn't. There was some screw up and our payment was returned, causing us to supposedly not have coverage on the date it was stolen. No one found out about this till mid January after the claim was almost complete. And the person to discover first was actually me when going through records. So even though I supposedly didn't have coverage (I went to remake the payment and they told me they wouldn't except it. I had to pay a balance owed, which happened to be money to cover the grace period which is when the van was stolen, before I could set up a new policy.) They had almost completed the claim 3 weeks after the loss. But once that was brought up, I wasn't allowed to fix it. They just put a dead stop and denied it. We have spoken with a couple people who said that what they did was wrong. Weather the payment return was our fault or not, they shouldn't have gone that far with it after the mistake (which was handling all of it), to then just deny us. So we are starting the process of fighting that now...ugh.
So as you can see with all this, 2009 hasn't been my best year so far.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Results
Here are pictures of our van after it was returned to us. It was a silver with light grey interior. For those of you who know me well, you know I take VERY good care of my cars. Other than it needing to be washed and vacuumed, my car looked brand new before it was taken. The only dents on the outside were from a hail storm Lori and I were in. And there was only about 5 small ones of those on the hood. The tow company put a large one on the rear and scrapped up the rear passenger side. So sad, took some mean people only minutes to ruin something I had kept nice for just over 2 years.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Photo 2/2
Can you believe it's already February? January seemed long, but it still seems like February got her quick. So here is my February photo:
This is a picture of Charisse, Lorelli, Chevy, and Sylvia (Lori's father- and mother-in-law) in the hospital waiting room waiting on Lucas to make his arrival on 7/17/08.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Need Advice!
So I'm really wanting/needing to get a job. And I need some help figuring out what to do. I'm really not comfortable leaving my daughter home alone yet, so I would prefer a job that I can work from home with or one that will work with her school schedule.
I cringe at the idea of going into sales, such as Mary Kay, Papered Chef, and so on. I just am not good at trying to convince someone they should buy something from me. I love to buy the stuff myself, but am not the kind of person who can attract people and get them to make a purchase from me.
I have done child care and I know I can easily get back into it with my experience, but I'm keeping that as a last resort. I feel that fewer and fewer centers are in it to take care of children as much as they are to get money. I also end up burning up all my patience on other peoples' children leaving me little to none for my own family...very unfair.
I have also done substituting, but due to keeping boundaries, I prefer not to sub in my children's school district. This limits the age I can teach to high schoolers. And being in these large districts I've discovered that I don't care for teaching the older kids unless I can get a fine arts class. The vulgarity and disrespect I get is more than I can handle. School districts are too scared to be sued for anything and everything anymore that the kids get away with pretty much anything. (I miss subing in the country school in East TX. I loved going there).
So that's where I stand. Anyone have any suggestions? I could really use the help!!
*Dusty gave me a fabulous idea, but it reminded me of some limitations I forgot to mention. Due to the tumor I had, I now have some balance issues. I often stumble. I can usually keep myself from falling, but it does leave problems of spilling. I'm no where near as bad as I use to be, but when allergies flare so does this problem. Also, a side effect from the removal of the tumor is my left hand will be put in a position when holding/carrying things that causes it to shake uncontrollably. This may better explain my help on ideas. Thank you so much for yours Dusty!!*
I cringe at the idea of going into sales, such as Mary Kay, Papered Chef, and so on. I just am not good at trying to convince someone they should buy something from me. I love to buy the stuff myself, but am not the kind of person who can attract people and get them to make a purchase from me.
I have done child care and I know I can easily get back into it with my experience, but I'm keeping that as a last resort. I feel that fewer and fewer centers are in it to take care of children as much as they are to get money. I also end up burning up all my patience on other peoples' children leaving me little to none for my own family...very unfair.
I have also done substituting, but due to keeping boundaries, I prefer not to sub in my children's school district. This limits the age I can teach to high schoolers. And being in these large districts I've discovered that I don't care for teaching the older kids unless I can get a fine arts class. The vulgarity and disrespect I get is more than I can handle. School districts are too scared to be sued for anything and everything anymore that the kids get away with pretty much anything. (I miss subing in the country school in East TX. I loved going there).
So that's where I stand. Anyone have any suggestions? I could really use the help!!
*Dusty gave me a fabulous idea, but it reminded me of some limitations I forgot to mention. Due to the tumor I had, I now have some balance issues. I often stumble. I can usually keep myself from falling, but it does leave problems of spilling. I'm no where near as bad as I use to be, but when allergies flare so does this problem. Also, a side effect from the removal of the tumor is my left hand will be put in a position when holding/carrying things that causes it to shake uncontrollably. This may better explain my help on ideas. Thank you so much for yours Dusty!!*
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