Is this thing on?

Yeah, so my name is Ang, and apparently I have a blog... which involves me actually sitting down and writing at some point and time! Let's just pretend that I get an A for effort. It's been a crazy week and a half 3 1/2 weeks around mi casa. I don't even know where to start, so to make me feel more in control, here's a list.

* Computer totally crashed and burned, not once but twice now! Not a happy girl. Lucky hubs is bored out of his mind and I found the system disks.

* Hubs back is still way out of wack. Let's do the math here ladies 8 percocets daily x 27 days= a whole heck of a lot of pain meds. Hubs doesn't do pain med well... but if he doesn't take it he can't move. Today the DR tells us that he's killing his stomach, liver, and kidney's (how the heck do you pluralize that?!?)....hello captain obvious, but yet your nurse basically yells at me when I let her know that he skips doses every now and then, just to see if he can 'handle the pain'.... let's quit putting a band-aid over the problem, and just fix it.

* Calling a lawyer tomarrow. BWC doesn't want to cover any treatment for herniated disc... they think it's a pre-existing condition. grrr. Also scheduling apt. w/ surgeon for consult.

* Finding "presents" of the liquid variety in odd places.

* Have unburied my house, atleast the 1st floor! Now, to tackle my bedroom before donation day Thursday. Only having one closet in the house stinks.

* Counting down days till vacation...14... which I didn't know that I had any coming to me. Suprise, Suprise, Suprise. Use 'em or Loose 'em. Aye Aye captian.

* It snowed today!!! Bring it on. Plus hot chocolate.

* Miracle of all miracles, I have sucessfully kept a balanced checkbook for 5 days. I've avoided shut-down mode.

* Have made paper chains, attended parades, saw Santa, practiced w/ our youth for their 1st play, drank countless cups of hot cocoa, read the Christmas story to Mikey many times, and watched countless Christmas cartoons.



When I feel overwhelmed, I go into shut-down mode, hence my dissapearing from la la land. Now that I've done my list I feel more in control, not so overwhelmed, and I can now comence w/ my blog w/o feeling like a total failure at it.

Black Friday

If a store is starting it's door-buster sales at midnight on Thanksgiving, it's going to be a mad house. As a matter of fact, the special $10 off coupons for the 1st 500 customers will be gone long before you hit that front door. I'm just saying. Not that I'd know or anything. Can I just say that I love my MIL?

WTC??!

Yesterday at work we came to a sad realization, radio stations have started to switch over to Christmas music. all.the.time. Hello? Can we make it through Thanksgiving first? (I love Christmas music, but by pete, wait till after Thursday!!) Sadly, this music has propelled me headlong into a funk. A big one. Please pray for me if you're the prayer type. Thanks.

Just lurking

It's been a crazy week here in the E household! Hubs back is still hurting, and unfortunately I was told today by the ortho neuro doc that since relief has been minimal w/ the pain meds and muscle relaxers that probably nothing would do any better, so hopefully workers comp will OK the epidural pain meds. Either that or he's going to go stir crazy in the meantime and take me w/ him.

I find myself discouraged at the fact that money is going to be tight w/ only one income, that I often forget about all of the blessings that we do have, and I'm really trying to focus on those things.

It seems like around the Holidays I get so stressed out about the whole visiting family issues that hubs and I have, so this year even though I'm sad that we can't travel for Thanksgiving, I am thankful that I have to slow down, relax, and enjoy the holiday.

Tonight things got too quiet in our house, after a struggle over a little boy wanting to eat chicken nuggets over what I cooked You know, the kind of silence that you actually get up to go investigate. First thing I notice is that the halloween candy bag is in the middle of the kitchen floor. So I sneak up the stairs amd find him eating suckers in his bed, because "i like em more than your food". Yep.

Heaven Help Us.

I always dread when my cell phone rings while I'm at work. It's hard wired into my mom brain somewhere I think. Wednesday I was fiddling w/ my new work cell on mine and the dr's way to the nursing facility about 45 minutes away when I realized that I had missed a call from an unknown number, since it wasn't attached to any name in my phonebook I didn't worry too much when I checked the voice mail that was left. I should have been. It was Shawn's boss letting me know that at that moment that he was being loaded up into an ambulance and that I should get to the hospital. He hates to even go to the dr at all, so I knew it was a bad sign that he was actually agreeing to go w/ a squad.

My hubby is a big guy. To see him in tears when I got to the ER Wednesday, spoke volumes to me. After a lot of pain med that really did no good, x-rays, and an MRI it's been determined that he has a herniated disc in his lower back. Not good. at. all. Right now they're trying to avoid surgery, but honestly I'm not sure that it's a good thing. His nerves are still being pinched as evidenced by some of the manifestations that is going on. They're talking about doing an epidural of steroids staight into the spinal column. He can't move very well at all, and can't do a lot of basic things like shower by himself, get dressed, or lift the toilet seat up. Please keep us in your prayers, for his quick healing!

WFMW: The Backwards Edition!

Shannon has flip flopped how we normally do "Works for Me Wednesday", and is encouraging us to ASK a question rather than GIVE a helpful little nugget of 'wisdom'.

Today, while sitting in the ER w/ hubs, I was thinking about this and picked something that I think that I need to hear from others, and also can be quite fun for us as well.

I've been in a spiritual rut lately. Even though I'm busy w/ my childrens ministry, I have found myself not being ministered to, and have rather neglected my relationship w/ my Abba. So, what I'm asking from you ladies today, is how do you refresh yourself when you find yourself in this position, and what is your favorite Bible verse that you find yourself going back to over and over again?

Shopping w/ Hubs

Give me super-mega Wally World w/ a 3 year old any most days, and I can handle it. The thought of going into the black hole w/ my hubby makes me hypervenilate just a little though. It's just not pretty. Not only am I subjected to the areas that I stay away from, but we end up coming out w/ things like an egg carrier for camping (wtc?!?). Which broke the first time we oppened it and haven't even used. So w/ reluctance I went w/ him to exchange photo paper and ink the other day. We decided to pick up candy for tonight, and while I'm doing the practical "most candy for the least price" thing, hubs throws a bag of Hershey candy bars in.... did I really need to tell him that this will not last through 2 days in my sight before Halloween, or that it'd take a small fortune to buy enough? But, by sweetness, he was actually doing it as a peace offering nice gesture for me! I'm happy to report that there's 3 2 candy bars left :)