Full weekend...wait it was only Wednesday!

So it's been a full week in three days =]. I was a big girl on Monday, I rode the Frontrunner into SL with Dean, met Kimberly (co-worker) on the train and at the SL station we found our bus that dropped us off 1 block from our office. Can't beat that! Okay, we could have beat it if the train had actually been on time, getting me to my training on time and not 20 min late >/. All was good though since I was just 1 out of 4 missing and the other 3 were later than me =]. We are updating our complete billing system so we all have day long trainings, with tests at the end. I just checked my email and I PASSED! Yay! I honestly didn't know if I would or not, my body is not normally up (for the DAY) at 6am and sitting in an all day training. By the time class was over I was trying to remember what they were telling me you used where since half the job functions - I don't do! Training was supposed to last until 5pm; however, there were only 5 of us in class and we all kept up pretty well. Training was over at TWO and than we had a quick review - and I mean QUICK less than 2 min....and than they gave us the test. I was the second one done and as I sat there watching the others and their MILE LONG answers, I seriously wondered if the Epic Trainer was going to be jived cuz his wife didn't pass. No he wasn't my trainer and now he can hold his head up =]. Lol, he texted me at like 1:15 pm - our break - wanting to know how it was going...."good, just a couple more things left to learn and than the test"...."okay, so you think you'll be done by 4:30?"...that's not a me question but sure! He he he he he, I texted him back 45 min later saying "I'm DONE!". That received an instant phone call....ha ha ha...."with TRAINING?" "yep", "seriously?""YES". My boss even wondered when I showed up downstairs looking for a place to work for the next hour until I met Dean for the train. But I tell ya, my poor little brain doesn't like to have me decide it isn't sick anymore >.<....around 3pm, once the pressure was off, I started to CRASH. I sat at the desk behind reception staring at my screen having to really think - first, because function keys at the office are different than at home- AHHH - and second, my brain was literally mush. I made myself stay awake until 9:30...very difficulty - and than got up and ran carpool the next morning. >.< before ="],">.>

Oh yeah >] Friday is PUT UP CHRISTMAS!!!!!! rawr...love love. Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. I think people can usually tell since I own mmm...30 nativities. Christmas music - the right music - can bring such a calming feeling to me that you can often find me randomly listening at any time of the year.... especially if I need calming. I love to sit in a dark room with soft christmas music and just stare at the christmas tree...it's beautiful, it's peaceful, *sigh. Enough with all this random blogging business, I need to get to bed if I'm going to be up to tell my son goodbye in the morning. To any out there reading this, I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving, filled with the people you love and hope that you may look around and know that you have a lot to be thankful for. Paix.

Early Sunday Morning

After our long week, everyone is in bed but me. The house is cold but quiet :). We got some good things accomplished today. Saturday is our only day to get anything done: laundry, shopping, chores, I'm sure it runs that way at your home also. We smashed the majority of our cans and Dean (with Anthony driving) took our 2 garbage cans and one small container full up to Ogden to the recycling center. Thankfully the price of aluminum has gone back up and it wasn't a trip wasted. It took us all summer to fill up those two cans...help from a single bachelor neighbor is nice too, but his drinking roommates have moved out so unless he has a party...I think we are stuck with our own. I keep telling the boys and Olivia to do this on a regular basis...with aluminum returning to good price, it's atleast money every month if they can get enough cans to fill the big cans.

I re-arranged parts of my kitchen today. Things were bothering me and when I don't feel good - not stuck in bed, just sick but ignoring it :) - I rearrange things. I like things better now, things won't be falling on my head or falling behind the drawer now. =] Also, they are a little more earthquake organized by having the non-heavy items on the top. My family room is still my most hated room and I'm sure will be until I can convince Dean and my pocketbook that we need new carpet. Wait....Dean knows, it's the pocketbook we have to convince. Home Depot is installing at like 47 cents labor per sq foot or something like that...I just need to have the time to know the size we need and remember to keep Home Depot on speed dial for carpet remnants. Lots to do, little time and money to do it in....ain't that the way the cookie crumbles? Paix

Facing Fears

It's been a very long, short week. Everyone in my house has a malady of some kind. I have Bronchitis/Pluresy again, Ben has strep again, Olivia has tonsilitis, and Anthony swallows a frog every morning and evening, and Dean is stressed over the top which is bringing his normal stress things around (we won't mention them so he doesn't get upset :] ). Sunday, the kids stayed home from church, Dean came home from meetings and ran Ben to Wee Care who ran the tests that said no strep, and than I went in time to teach Relief Society. Honestly? I've been teaching for awhile, just different classes but Relief Society is always scary to me. I think it's the fact that its filled with old ladies who know everything and might question or contradict what I'm saying. I doped myself up with 3 of my anxiety pills and went to teach. The lesson was on the Holy Ghost and I aimed it mainly at recognizing and understanding the Holy Ghost. Nobody asked a hard question, the sisters participated with some great comments and I am free for another month. *phew

Ben has missed school the entire week so far. He's stayed in bed pretty much the majority of the day each day which tells me that there is definately something wrong. Dean took him to our family physican today who thinks that he DOES have strep and put him on antibiotics - I hope he feels better in the morning...I shudder to think how much homework that kid is going to have >.<.

We have started watching the holiday shows on Hallmark. I love them - have most of them taped and am excited when they have new ones each year. As we were enjoying one of the new shows (Call me Mrs Miracle) I got a lovely kink in my back, under my right shoulder blade. I hate those, can't get them to go away without major acrobatics. Anyways, it started at about 9 and after 30 min and it still shooting me with sharp pains, I was getting worried. I went upstairs and used my inhaler, 10 min later I texted Dean and he said he was on his way home. Needless to say, after using my steriod inhaler, dowining ibu 800, and 2 Formula 303 (my natural muscle relaxant), Dean took me to the ER. I have to tell you, I hate Dr's, have ever since I was an infant (long story..ask later) so to me, going to the ER is embarrassing. I don't know why I feel that way but I do. Dean doesn't trust Davis Hospital (me niether) so he ran me up to the U of U. We got there about 10:25pm and left at 3am. Thankfully my pain had lessened considerably but they ran tests just to be sure, lol my insurance is gonna scream >]. End of year lets run as many tests as possible.... they x-rayed my lungs (no pnuemonia), they ran an EKG (no heartattack), and my vampire nurse pulled 7 vials of blood from me (no blood clots). Thankfully, all my results were good news and my sats (oxygen levels) were better so they prescribed me an antibiotic and steriod to clear out my lungs and sinuses. See? embarrassing, nothing wrong - yes, I can hear you, better safe than sorry. So, I am announcing to my overweight, always achey, dormant body that its time for it to wake up and shape up cuz the dr says it's fine! (sadly, it rarely listens to me =/) My friend from HS is lending me her hubby's South Beach Diet Cookbook to look through and hopefully be successful with. I went visiting teaching tonight, a mother and her adult daughter who is recently divorced (the daughter). She decided earlier this year to do the "boot camp" workout. She did it with her sister and now they continue on their own using their own equipment. She looks amazing! I seriously think she's dropped atleast 3 sizes. Now, to find my motivation - ugh.

Tomorrow I don't get my usual routine, its go into work day...drop off, pick up work, get trained on the two Epic modules that my team has learned without me, get my ID scanned for the bus, have lunch with the hubby (=] ) and than back to normal= carpool, errands, work...hate Thursdays. We've purchased Disney's A Christmas Carol and are anxiously awaiting to have all of us together to watch it - here's hoping that it's the highlight of my Thursday. Paix