Nearly a week later...

I know I haven't posted in days but I have been busy to say the least. Monday morning I drove hubby to the doctor. He could barely make it in the front door of their office.  10 minutes later the ambulance was coming to take him to the hospital. Doctor said he was in too much pain for him to do much and that was fine with me that he needed to go. 

Hours and hours later, we were discharged with 4 prescriptions in hand and the results of an MRI were that he had a herniated disc.  The neurologist that came and talked to us said that they don't like to jump right into doing surgery and wanted to see if he would improve with rest and the meds.

Now it is Friday and he has been bedridden since we got back. If he gets up to use the bathroom the pain starts again. And he is even having pain just being in bed sometimes.  And it gets so bad he is literally in tears.  Feel so bad for him.

He is going to the neurologist's office on Wednesday late afternoon. That is the earliest we could get!  In hind sight we both wish he would have just had the operation at this point as he'd be on the mends instead of still being down and out.  Unless there is some miracle that he is much better by Wednesday, we are going to pretty much insist on going ahead with surgery.  Not sure which way they may go. I've read there is a minor surgical procedure all the way to removing discs and fusing.  We'll find out.  Whatever he needs to make him pain free and able to get around again, he will do!  He has sworn off moving heavy furniture ever again too. I'm going to hold him to that.

So on top of going to mom's every single night for dinner and the other things I do for her, I've been doting on hubby too and trying to get some work done at the same time.  I'm working this weekend to try to get a little caught up.

I didn't have my new books for the hospital and it was quite boring but now I have them so will be toting them any time we have to be somewhere.

Another year older

Yesterday was my birthday and it was a fun day  for the most part.  I got my hair done (that was just a regularly scheduled appointment).  Then the youngest and I went down to the square and got Thai for lunch and then went shopping.  Our town square is such a quaint place with nice shops, some antique, some clothing and other sorts of shops.  I also heard from the oldest wishing me a happy birthday. In fact she got one of the dance classes she teaches to do a short video saying "Happy Birthday Mom".  It was cute!

I was also doing laundry for my mom and just didn't get the 2nd load done before taking her dinner. I also picked up dinner for hubby as his back (sciatic nerve?) has been short of crippling him in pain that he's had in different sections of his leg but mostly his calf and ankle. He's been taking Ibuprofen but that hasn't helped much.  He finally today agreed to go find a doctor to get it checked out. He's been suffering with it for nearly 2 weeks I think.  In the meantime he is trying to take it easy so he didn't think he could sit through dinner out.  So last night after taking my mom dinner and playing some cards, Stac and I went to eat at our favorite restaurant back in the square, Wild Fire.  It was very good and with how busy it was it took nearly 2 hours but I really didn't mind.  It was nice catching up on things in a relaxed atmosphere and having a glass of wine and a yummy macadamia nut encrusted shrimp dinner (I have leftovers I'm going to save for tomorrow lunch).

I also was impressed that I had over 100 friends on facebook wish me a happy birthday! :)

Tarrant

I am writing during my lunch break.  I usually have salad for lunch but as much as I like them and switch them up by adding, cheese, or croutons, or fruit, or bacon or a little bit of everything, some days I just don't feel like a salad. 

So today I made what may look like a dessert but it is actually vanilla yogurt with peanuts (for protein) and lightly drizzled chocolate topping (for antioxidant potential...let's go with that). Yum!!

For the last several days we have noticed a new critter that has taken up lodging in or near a plastic watering can that we have on a cement bench out on the back porch.  Hubby has taken several picture of it so I thought I'd share a few.  I've named it Tarrant, which I figured would be okay for male or female.  I don't know how to tell the difference but I am not interested in getting close to it either! :)

Pet Peeve

The other morning before I was headed to work I wanted to start a load of underwear as I was down to the 'ratty' ones.  Come on...you know what I'm talking about. We all have them!  And I was down to the last 2 pair!

Anyway I changed the load to 'SMALL' and forwarded the wash cycle to HAND WASH' and started the washing machine and had sorted my undies from all the dirty laundry and was just about to start throwing them in the washer.  I opened the lid, undies in hand and saw some dark clothes that hubby had put there the night before.  He was going to do a load the next morning.  So I just turned the machine off and proceeded to tell him (okay slightly yelled) that I hate when he does that.  The washer should be empty until you want to do wash. Period!  I know it should probably be no big deal but I just hate that.  He understood or at least said he did about my frustration at not being able to just do my delicates when I was getting set to do them.  He does this a lot too and it just peeves me, especially when I've sorted through everything I think needs to be washed in each pile the right size only to see some already in there.

Anyway we'll see if he keeps his word.  I guess I really shouldn't complain... at least he puts the toilet seat down. :)

Sky

Last evening when got back from mom's I looked out the back window and had to grab my camera.  The photos never do looking at the real thing justice but I tried.  Please ignore the wires, can't help those.

Quick lunch blog

Gotta work tonight so I thought I'd just stop in during my lunch and write a quick blog.  I couldn't decide what I wanted for lunch.  Ever have one of those days?  Usually right after grocery shopping when you have so many goodies that you don't know what to have?

Well I just had one of those moments so I made up a combination salad bowl. Salad, grapes, and potato salad. Yum!

We just put the A/C on in the house (duh where else would we put it on). LOL  It is early in the day for us to do that but the humidity has been really thick all day. Even this morning I felt like it was harder to walk with how humid it was.  I don't breath quite a easily when it is humid either. Nice walk - but pretty drenched in sweat by the time I was done. 

Post 1001

Yesterday was my 1000th post to this blog..go me!!  LOL  Only took YEARS! 

Anyway it was a great day off.  I got up only 10 minutes later than usual for my walk so that I could have a full day to enjoy.  I was the only one walking for most of the walk.  I figured everyone was taking off for the holiday but then I saw a few of the regulars.  I think everyone may have just started out a little later today.

This morning I dragged out the sewing machine to shorten the straps on a top that I like that was way long and last year I'd just have hubby tie a shoelace in the back holding the two straps together to shorten it a little.  Anyway I cut each strap and shortened it by about 4 inches and then sewed the two ends together. I actually remembered how to use the sewing machine and it turned out just fine.  No more tieing anything on the back.

After fixing my top so that it fits nicely that I'm going to finally wear tomorrow, I took a video for my jewelry blog and Facebook page to promote the Paparazzi jewelry that I love which is always fun to do.  I just usually don't have a lot of time to spend on promoting it. 

I was thinking hubby and I would go see a movie today but he's been having some problems with nerve pain in one of his legs and didn't think he could sit that long very well so we scratched that idea and went out and had Mexican for lunch instead.

Then I did my nails (something else I never have time to do) and got some reading done.  I also received the next book in the series which is great and timely as I will be done the book I'm on within the next day or two.

So all in all a nice, fun, day off!

Getting dark...

It is only 8:00PM but it is getting dark already. Well it is raining out too now, so that makes it a little darker than what it would be, but still.  I hate that it is getting darker earlier.  I know it is inevitable since it is September now but I just love the light versus the dark.

I wonder if the Notre Dame/ U.T football game got rained out.  It looked like it was going to be pretty well packed in there.  Well I don't know if the game is going on or not. Guess I'll find out in the news tonight if they tell a score. It started raining while we were at my mom's house.  First it started and stopped less than  30 seconds later.  It was the fastest rain shower that I ever experienced!  Then after about 5 minutes it really started pouring and didn't let up for a while, about 20 minutes I'd say. 

We keep getting evening showers from the East coming off the gulf coast from all the disturbances going on out that way.  I don't mind the rain. It means less lawn watering.

We got Sonic tonight for dinner and usually it is fresh and always good.  Someone was overcooking things tonight! My boneless chicken wings were a bit tough (as in over cooked) and my onion rings were just this side of burnt!  And beyond crunchy, so I only had a few of them. Hubby's burger was falling apart a bit too and on the dry side. Mom didn't seem to mind her hamburger and fries, so guess they were okay. Not sure if they had a new cook or what.  It was disappointing.  Hopefully next time it will be back to the norm. 

Looking forward to being OFF tomorrow.  Yippee!!

Holiday weekend

Here's to a holiday weekend, what many consider the last weekend of Summer, although not technically so.  I do have off on Monday so maybe hubby & I will do something together. 

I did finish the first book of the Arcana Chronicles and am just starting the second one.  I like this series pretty well but not quite as much as the ones I just read (and am waiting for the next one to come out in paperback). The oldest told me that the next book in this Chronicles series is a little smoother, easier to follow than the first one. We'll see. I enjoyed the first one enough to keep going. 

Going to be another work weekend but that is fine. At least I have Monday off and then it will be a short week.

Not much else to write about. Off to go do a little bit of reading.

September already?

I can't believe it. It is September already!  The month of celebration for us. Birthdays and wedding anniversaries...and my oldest just had her 2nd year wedding anniversary. She is so happy and that makes me very happy!

I didn't realize it had been so long since I blogged but between working and my books arriving, I've not had much idle time as idle time was used up sleeping or eating.  LOL.  I am enjoying the new book series The Arcana Chronicles that the oldest recommended. Guess she is making a 'reader' out of me after all.  I really used to hate reading...could never get the urge to read and never found a book that really kept my interest. I guess it all started with the required reading for school and after that left a sour taste in my mind, that made reading become near the bottom of my 'least favorite' things to do.

I also think it goes a little deeper than that.  I remember as a kid growing up, my mom was always reading in the rocking chair in the living room. Every time I saw her reading I was wondering how she could just sit there reading when there were so many things to be doing, whether it be cleaning up or cooking, etc. But anyway, enough psycho analyzing why I never read much at all.

Well got to get to work.