I am in...

a bum mood right now thanks to my hubby, Wyrm. I won't go into details with it cause it's a sore spot right now, but I wish there was some what that I could get my point across and be heard.

Geez it's cold. Right now it's 11 degrees outside. I just wanted some snow not freezing cold.

My sis is having some problems right now. She's been having some odd kind of dizzy spells and slurring her words. She went to her family Dr. who ordered an MRI. She called mom on Monday to tell us the results. The tests came back showing some abnormalities in her brain and she has already been set up to see a neurologist sometime in February. My poor sis is upset and scared.

Just wanted to jot something down. I wish I didn't have writer's block or whatever this funk is that I am in. I'm off to bed.

Later

It's that time of the month...

where I have been awarded my W-2s from my employer after waiting patiently. Now it's time for Uncle Sam to hold out his hand and I being the good little US citizen dutifully hand over my time and a few brain cells and file those annoying tax returns. This year I'm doing something totally different. Wyrm and I usually just head over to our tax preparers and just let them handle the hassle while we shell out about $200 of those precious dollars of our refund. Not this time. I decided to follow a link I found on my local news website about free filing for federal returns and bravely go where I have not gone before. Doing my own taxes. My eyes sincerely hate me for doing this. They are dry and really irritated. My federal returns were no problem. Whiz bang! I was done and proud of myself. Now my Kentucky state returns were not so simple. No. My state had to be difficult and cause me to have a brain meltdown. It wouldn't have been so bad if the website's software would have just simply added our state tax withholding to our KREDA. I shockingly discovered that it didn't when I got to the end and in red letters it told me that we owed the state. "What! I don't freaking think so!". Especially after so many years we have received refunds albeit small ones, but it's still money back in our pockets. After experimentation of where to put the KREDA amount and talking to an online CSR on IM (and even they couldn't help me, it had to be referred to their administrator), I decided to go with my initial idea of putting the amount in a certain area and just be done with it. In the end it came out with us getting that refund and all of my information that I typed in for the W-2s is correct. Hopefully I won't get audited. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on that one.

Later

I'm just going to...

ramble a bit here before I head off to bed for the night. I don't know what has happened to my writing mood lately. It's as if it just got up and went. The fact that I honestly don't have anything to write about doesn't help matters either.

I am really wanting to see some snow accumulation before spring gets here. It seems like all of my snow has went to Texas, Colorado, and Arizona of all places. Mind you I don't want near as much as Colorado has gotten, but a few inches will suffice.

It's off to bed for me.

Later

Yesterday was the day...

of the dreaded bankruptcy hearing. Although in actuality it really wasn't that bad, except for the fact that for the next five years my paycheck will be seriously whacked. Only myself to blame there.

Wyrm and I rose to the sound of the alarm going off at 7:00 AM. Er, scratch that. We really rose at about 7:20 AM after me hitting the snooze button twice. We left the house at 8:00 AM to a wonderful surprise of our gray skies spitting snow flurries. On our trek I was bombarded with questions concerning what would be taking place once we get there, exactly how do we get there, who do we see, where exactly do we go? Huh? How was I supposed to know? Because this was my hearing was the response. Back and forth we went until I explained to him that all I knew was what was on the papers provided to me by my lawyer's office and that wasn't much. We arrived and what seemed like just a few minutes it was already over. Good.

We then left the federal building and headed our way to the mall. Sometime earlier Wyrm had reserved a copy of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion pack collectors edition and as luck would have it yesterday was its release. The reservation was made before all of this bankruptcy was taking place so I was wondering how to pay for this without having to just forget it. Luckily after some scrounging, I managed to find some Gamestop gift cards that I had put away and forgotten about. We left that store with his game, strategy guide for his game, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow for CR without paying any money. Oops minus the $10 down. That was it. The cards completely covered everything. I was happy.

When we got home it was naptime for me. I only meant to sleep for just a couple of hours and be awake when CR came home from school, but that bed felt so good and warm after being out in the chill I ended up sleeping till around 5:00 PM. I then spent the rest of my time with him.

Yes, I am still being lax on posting. Here lately I just haven't been in a writing mood of sorts or even in a mood to sit at the computer like I normally do. All of my extra time is either coming home from work and going straight to bed or spending time with CR till late at night. I don't want to just call him a "mama's boy", but it feels good to know that he actually enjoys my company. It seems like most teens nowadays are desperate to be somewhere where their parents aren't. He's such a good kid. I'm so proud.

Later

Here is a "One Word Meme"...

that I found over at Tea and Bon Bons with Amy and decided to try it for myself.

You can only type one word. No explanations.
Yourself: negative
Your Partner: chaotic
Your Hair: brown
Your Mother: stability
Your Father: deceased
Your Favorite Item: photographs
Your Dream Last Night: unknown
Your Favorite Drink: milk
Your Dream Car: none
Your Dream Home: simple
The Room You Are In: living
Your Ex: unimportant
Your Fear: driving
Where You Want to be in Ten Years: accomplished
Who You Hung Out With Last Night: family
What You’re Not: extrovert
Muffins: okay
One of Your Wish List Items: monitor
Time: 12:25 AM
The Last Thing You Did: movie
What You Are Wearing: jammies
Your Favorite Weather: fall
Your Favorite Book: CSI
Last Thing You Ate: brownie
Your Life: limited
Your Mood: tired
Your Best Friend: T
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: movie
Your Car: Chevrolet
What Are You Doing At The Moment: typing
Your Summer: unlikable
Relationship Status: married
What Is On Your TV: unknown
What Is The Weather Like: cold
When Is The Last Time You Laughed: yesterday
Remember: only one word! Try it. It's harder than you think.

Will 2007...

be the year for changes for me? One thing is for certain. I am determined to change my mentality and negative way of thinking. So much so in fact that today at my therapy session was my first try with hypnosis. Yep. I'm trying hypnosis for gaining self confidence to help me with learning to drive and dealing with other people's opinions of me. That is my main holdback on alot of things that I would like to do. For some unknown reason, I am constantly being concerned about what other people think of me and the things I do. I know I shouldn't let what other people think bother me, but I do. I'm really working hard on trying to change this though.

A funny thing occurred during my session today. Here's how it went. Wyrm accompanies me during my sessions so we both entered the Dr.'s office and took seats. After the routine chit chat of how I'm doing, off go the lights and the hypnosis tryout begins. Here I am. Trying to relax and let my muscles relax, eyelids relax, and everything relax. Does it work? Not totally. I could only get so far until I became very aware of my irritating sore throat, the burning sensation in my nose (I still have this yucky crud thing going on), and every joint in my body starts aching including my problem ankle and foot. After a few minutes of trying to fight past this point in order to relax, I decided to just give up and go with it just concentrating on what the doctor was saying. So here I am trying to relax, joints aching, throat sore, burning sensation in my nose, just listening to the sound of his voice that is low and soothing and then what else do I hear? Zzzzz. Huh!? My darling husband is sitting in the chair next to me snoring. Of all things to reach my subconscious and get through that was the one and I got so tickled. Out I came of whatever state I was in (I don't think I was fully under) and started laughing. Even the doctor was laughing too. Poor hubby is sitting in the chair with his goofy grin saying, "What's going on?" I playfully slap him on his knee.

"You ding dong. You're over there snoring."

"I was snoring?" was Wyrm's astonished reply.

"Yes, you were snoring. He was supposed to be putting me under. Not you!" I answer amidst laughter.

And with that my psychologist excused us for the day making note of the awareness that I had of my joints for the next session to somehow incorporate it in. We made my appointment for the next visit and then it was off to home.

Later

If it's not one thing...

then it's another. It looks like this family is playing germball and the nasty crud bug is winning. I started with it first, then Wyrm took it Friday, and now CR has got it. He started feeling bad over the weekend, and we ended up taking him in to Multicare. This nasty URI is really going around in this area. CR's been written off from school till Wednesday. Even though I've yet to see a snowflake fall here in Kentucky I'll be glad when spring gets here. I'm really tired of the ups and downs with the temps.

While laid up this weekend, CR and I watched Lady in the Water. I was disappointed with M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, but I felt this this latest work from him was done very well. The story was interesting and the acting was well done.

I will be going back to work today since we were off Monday. Honestly I don't know what is going on with my employers. All I ever wanted was a 40 hour work week. We've went from being worked like dogs (constant overtime for pretty close to two years; Saturdays and some Sundays) to barely getting to work a full shift at night. I don't like ups and downs and constant changing. I'm one of those that has to have routine as normality.

Someone asked what idea it was that I had on my mind the other night. The answer is nothing special really. Just a story that popped into my head, and I didn't have pen and paper at the time to jot it down. I've got a little bit wrote now but more than likely won't finish. I'm bad that way. I'll start something at first being really excited about it and then slack off when my confidence wanes and I feel that it just isn't really that good.

Hope that you and yours are doing well with this mild winter.

Later

Now here I said...

that with the new year I was going to try to keep up with posting, and I have already missed a couple of nights. LOL. They had me doing something different at work and when I came home I was just too tired to try to write anything. Thursday night I had to sit and wait for Wyrm till about 2:45 am. I got home just in time to put on my jammies and go to bed. Friday Wyrm woke with that ick feeling and we decided to call in and head on into Multicare before it turned into something much worse. They treated him for an upper respitory infection and ear infection. He didn't feel like driving all the way to work, drop me off, go to Multicare, and then have to pick me up at work later on in the night. Honestly I didn't blame him. My points were low so I just called in with him and while we were waiting on his prescription I got the groceries taken care of. Such it is with me since I do not know how to drive and have a problem with trying to learn. Hopefully that may change soon. We'll have to see.

CR has been enjoying school so far. He's been having homework but hasn't been bogged down with it very much. He received the movie Hotel Rwanda from his Netflix queue Friday. We watched it together and I was totally engrossed in it. This movie ended up being better than what I thought it would. So sad what those people had to go through. If you can handle the violence this is an excellent movie to watch.

Later

It's always so...

hard to go back into work after being off for the holidays. I get used to sleeping in and waking when I get ready instead of by that old alarm clock. Instead of rising with it like I was supposed to do, I kept hitting the snooze button. "Just a little more" my mind kept saying. It was so nice and warm under the covers. Sigh.

Work wasn't too bad. That guy wasn't there again last night so I got to do his job. No worries. Just doing my thing until time to go home. It was peaceful.

CR's day went alright. He seems to think that his wordprocessing class will be hard. I don't feel like it will. We'll just wait and see.

I've been spinning an idea ' round and ' round in my head yesterday. Actually my mind was whirling with the idea when I was trying to relax and go to sleep. It always seems like I get great ideas for things when I'm in bed trying to relax. Irritating. Never pen and paper handy when I need it.

Later

It's hard for me to believe...

that another year has whizzed by me. I am also surprised that I have managed to blog for a whole year even though I was somewhat lacking on posting last month. My blog is officially a year old. Let's see. Do I have resolutions for this new year? No. I usually don't make resolutions cause I rarely keep them. I do feel that changes will be made this year and hopefully for my betterment. A couple of things in store for me beginning this month will be the beginning of my bankruptcy and possibly undergoing hypnosis during my therapy sessions. More details will come later.

CR is not looking forward to going back to school, but then again what teen is after a two week holiday. This semester he will be taking Political Science, Algebra II part B, Integrated Science, and Wordprocessing. I've encouraged him to enroll in his required classes as early as possible so that during his Junior and Senior years he should have a free ride with taking just electives except for his English classes that are required for 4 years. I think he will enjoy this semester. I know I'm not looking forward to his Junior year (I actually am) cause it will mean that I am getting older.

Wyrm and I are done for holidays now. We got back our two floating holidays with the new year, but we will not get back our vacation time until July. So far though with the way work has been I don't mind going now. I know it's strange for me to say that being this time last year I was hating having to go into work. What's changed? Well, I have been trained for a different job which allows me to move around much more that I usually do, and I'm not having to deal with people as much. The drawback is that I only do this job when another person is not there. I've been doing this for the past month and a half now and work has been less stressful for me while doing this certain job. Also, an odd thing that has been going on since about November is the overtime has been cut almost completely out. I haven't worked a Saturday since the end of October and no working over during the week either. It's very strange that for the past couple of years my employers have worked us nearly to death with overtime and now BAM! right here at the holidays we are doing well to work a full 40 hour work week. Not good with my bankruptcy hearing coming up, but I shall manage somehow. I'm looking forward to having that debt that's been hanging over my head cleared in about 5years.

Seems like with the new year there are some people that are making changes in their blogs as well. Liz at North Country Fire will be moving her space to another URL and Rachel at How I See It has finally gotten disgusted with Blogger giving her issues with uploading photos and moved her blog of the same name over to Wordpress.

More posts are to come and hopefully I will be able to keep up on a regular basis.

Later

Happy New Year!

 

Happy New Year!

 

Auld Lang Syne

 Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend
And gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne