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The weather was absolutely fabulous today and is supposed to be for the coming week! Ayden and I ventured outside for a little while and he played while I played. Only, he ended up soaking wet from the melting snow and I ended up with a bunch of pictures I could edit when we came back in. We both had fun!
CIAO! LOVE ME!
Jay and Ayden (and sometimes myself) love the cat. Mostly I just think of him as a cat, but Jay and Ayden consider him more part of the family. Okay, I suppose that is fine.
Diesel has been a pretty low maintenance cat for the first four years of his life. We had him declawed in the front and neutered shortly after got him and haven’t been back to the vet since… until today!
Jay noticed yesterday that Diesel had been more lethargic than usual, he wasn’t chasing us like normal, coming into our bedroom at night, and crying when Jay picked him up. We pretty much decided that he needed to be taken to the vet this morning… I mean, the last thing I wanted was to have to worry about a sick cat all weekend while Jay was gone.
I dropped Ayden off and school, headed to clinic, and Jay took care of the cat. He took Diesel to the vet and they looked at him. Turned out he had some crystals blocking his urinary tract and that he would need some antibiotics to help. Vet bill… $186! Boo! I told Jay that I would be willing to pay up to $500 for any procedures that needed to be done on the cat, but after that, I didn’t think it would be worth it. Not that we could really afford the $186 either, but Jay and I both felt that we needed to give it at least one shot.
Pending this happens again, we don’t think we will do anything about it, unfortunately… at least if it happens again anytime soon. We just can’t afford it right now. Boo again! I don’t want to have to put our cat down, but… that’s life I suppose. As bad as it sounds.
Diesel still isn’t acting quite like himself, but at least now he doesn’t have a bladder the size of a baseball and has started some medication. Hoping he is feeling better by the weekend! The last thing I want to do all weekend is worry about my sick cat. And in the mean time, while Jay is gone for the next six days, I have to force feed our cat three different medications for the next week! Ugh, don’t even want to think about it! But I suppose that if it makes him feel better and we get our spunky cat back, it will all be worth it!
Poor Diesel kitty!
CIAO! LOVE ME!
So either my non romantic future hubby googled my blog (or clicked on the link in my Facebook profile) and read one of my last posts about how non romantic we are these days in our relationship, or he has just been hiding that romantic side from me for the past couple of months… because when I got home from school today this was waiting for me!
I had mentioned to him a while back that I had one one of the open heart necklaces because I really really liked them. I just didn’t imagine that I’d actually get one (at least not without having to drop some more not so subtle hints), hehe!
I LOVE IT! Now, I need to decide what to get him, any suggestions? I had previously thought about getting him an authentic Packer jersey since they just won the Super Bowl and because he doesn’t have one, or maybe a Super Bowl t-shirt and hat?! We’ll see… but he won’t be getting it until after he gets home because I want to take Ayden shopping with me and it will be easier to do that on Friday when Jay is gone so he doesn’t know what we are going for.
We rearranged our living room tonight. It looks half way the same and half way different, haha! It seems like we have more room in it now, but I’m not so sure I like how we are going to have to put our shoes now. Times like these when I wish that we had an entry way to put our shoes in before coming right into our living room. Either way, I think we’ll probably keep the living room like this until we move (whenever that may be in the next year or two). But because of rearranging the room, I pulled a muscle in my back and now my back hurts. Boo me!
It was a typical day on campus today, nothing too exciting. I have a few presentations that I need to start working on. Not looking forward to that, but I suppose, we have been in class for a few weeks now, start to get down to business!
CIAO! LOVE ME!
My friends, Kristi, Robin, and Leah, and I were all able to coordinate our schedules for two hours on Friday to hit up a Perkins for lunch… KID FREE! It was SO great to hang out with them for a little while (and have one of Perkins oh SO yummy chocolate shakes) and chat it up without having to worry about our kids. Mind you, usually when we get together with the kids they go off and play with themselves alright, but as a mom whenever your kids are around, you are ‘on’ and by that I mean, you are a mom first and foremost.
Well, as a mom, you are always a mom first and foremost when it comes to your kids… but a lunch out sans kids, let us be adult women as well without having to check on the kids every ten minutes to make sure they are okay playing. And did we need it! I love my friends SO much! They make life bearable and without them life wouldn’t be the same! And the lunch was good too!
The rest of the weekend was pretty low key. We had Ayden’s Green Blue and Gold cub scouts banquet on Saturday afternoon. They had swimming at a hotel in town for the boys and then supper afterwards with the oldest group of boys transferring from cub scouts to boy scouts. Ayden swam from 2-4pm and was a fish like usual! I brought my camera along and took some pictures. It felt good to get it out again. I’d really like to get outside and take some, but its been too darn cold for me!
Ayden had a bit of an attitude after swimming. He didn’t want to get out of the pool and play the other games with the boys. But after a while, he got over his temper tantrum and decided that he wanted to have fun and fun he had! I like the cub scouts and all for what it gives the boys, but I wish it didn’t involve so much parent participation. Yes, I did say that. It’s not who I am, so I don’t necessarily enjoy it. I don’t mind bringing a treat to a meeting, but I’m not the parent who will organize all of the stuff. I don’t enjoy that sort of stuff. I like soccer because I can take Ayden, watch him actively participate in something he likes for an hour and then we leave.
Actually, what I don’t like it sitting around being bored off my butt while Ayden is doing stuff. I’m not a social butterfly, I’m an introvert, so I cannot just walk up to other parents standing around and start a conversation with them like I’ve known them forever, nor do I really want to. So, like last night while Ayden was off playing with some buddies, I was bored stiff. Selfish much, yeah, I admit it, it was. And I realize that, so I just take it and let Ayden have fun. But that doesn’t mean I can’t complain about it a little bit on my blog, does it? If I really didn’t want to do it, I wouldn’t have agreed to let Ayden be in scouts. It really is a great program for kids (Although I did have a problem with them giving out badges to the kids last night who’s parents pledged money to the scouts, I mean what about the parents like us who cannot afford to pledge any money? Then Ayden doesn’t get that badge… and that I did feel guilty about, but we really cannot afford it right now.)
I saw this really cool photo effect on a blog that I frequent and I thought I would try it out at my house. It didn’t turn out perfect, but for a first shot I think it turned out pretty cool. I’d like to try it out outside at some point, maybe once it gets a little warmer. And I need to make sure that the camera tripod is super steady because all of the pictures didn’t match ‘perfectly’ like I would have liked. In any case, it was a good first attempt!
Ayden and I are at home tonight watching The Pacifier with Vin Diesel while Jay is at his grandparent’s house watching the Super Bowl on their big screen TV in high definition. Boo him! Ayden and I could have gone along, but then we would have had to drive back to Point either at like 10pm tonight with the possibility of snow on the roads (and we all know how much I love to drive with snow on the road) or leave at like 6am tomorrow morning to get back home in time for my 8am class (and no promises the roads wouldn’t have snow on them at that time either).
Reason being that we aren’t watching it at home is because we do not have local channels. As much as I don’t really care for watching football and it wouldn’t otherwise matter that we couldn’t watch the Super Bowl, but our ‘home team’ the Packers are in it and it would have been (as much as it pains me to write this) the littlest bit cool to watch it. And Jay wouldn’t have been able to drive us home tonight because he is staying over at his parent’s house because he has his first dentist appointment in 11 years tomorrow. Turns out that he is covered under his mom’s insurance for dental cleanings (and possibly more) and he is going to take advantage of it. He thinks he has at least one cavity.
If he is covered for more, he may go forward with braces, although it would be more than just your average two years of braces. Apparently he has some major jaw issues and would need jaw surgery which would result in his jaw being wired shut for like 6-8 weeks after surgery to heal and then braces. Or at least that is what they told him how many years ago when his parents decided that it would cost them too much to get it done. I don’t necessarily blame them because dental stuff is expensive, but both his brothers ended up with braces so I thought it was kind of unfair. But in any case, I’d love for him to get his teeth straightened (not that it would make me love him any more), but I know he would like it, even though he doesn’t say it. The only thing I was concerned about was the timing because I don’t really want him to have braces in our wedding photos. Yes, I just wrote that, photos I will cherish for the rest of our lives… don’t want braces ‘ruining’ that. Vain, yes. I know that people can clone them out nowadays, but it takes work and more work means more money. I suppose I shouldn’t be getting ahead of myself because he might not even be able to get any of this stuff done.
Back to school tomorrow… not looking forward to the next couple of weekends. Next weekend is sturgeon spearing and Jay is leaving Thursday night to go home. He planned on being home until the following weekend, but because I have a late class on Wednesday night and even though we have Ayden going to the after school program, he will still need to come back to Point to pick him up because my class gets out after the after school program ends (yeah, its that late). And that means he’ll be gone for Valentine’s Day. Jay is not big on holidays (or anything romantic anymore, seven and a half years later and he’s gone all non romantic on me 364 days of the year, sometimes 365) and so I’m not expecting anything. I would like to, but I know I won’t get anything. Our relationship has been pretty lack luster lately. We’ve been getting along, no fighting or anything, but most just living together, not loving together. Going through the motions of every day and parenting together, but not really appreciating each other or what we have. So, although Valentine’s Day is mostly a Hallmark holiday, it depresses me a little bit that he doesn’t really think anything about being gone and will probably just go through it as any other day.
And then after sturgeon spearing, its state wrestling of which Jay thinks he can run off to as well. Where is my weekend away?! Especially after he will be getting almost a week! But, even though he hasn’t been working a whole lot lately, he does deserve it. I could go on an on about how lazy he has been at home each day, but I won’t vent about that right now. At this point, I know he’s going a little stir crazy and it will be good for him to get out for a few days with something to do and people to see (even if it does involve a little too much alcohol at the bar a night or two). I get out of the house now five days a week and although class may not be my all time favorite cup of tea, it is something to do. He doesn’t have that right now on most days and so I think he is getting a little bored sitting at home. I’ll let him take it.
CIAO! LOVE ME!
I had the most horrific drive to clinic yesterday, I’m talking almost having a panic attack on the way to the office. (Let’s preface this with how much I HATE driving in the winter.) I left about twenty minutes before I normally do because we had gotten some snow the night before and I wanted to give myself some extra time to get there and not having to worry about driving too fast or getting there late.
Ayden woke up before I did with a stomach ache and although I thought he probably could have gone to school, I decided to let him stay home for the day, which in turn shortened Jay’s work day because he had to come home from plowing because I had to leave for clinic. When I got home last night, Jay said that Ayden was fine pretty much all day and probably could have gone to school, but oh well… you never really know at this age just how much he doesn’t feel good and I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
My drive through town was pretty predictable… the roads were halfway decent and I didn’t get too worked up because everyone was driving pretty carefully. It was when I hit the highway that I thought I would be okay for the rest of my drive… um… or not! The highways are supposed to be clear and clear they were. Of snow that is! The roads were really good snow wise, but because it had gotten so cold the night before, once the snow was plowed off and the salt laid down, the left over water froze and so the road was covered in a thin layer of ice. I can’t stand driving on ice to begin with and in my car with my stupid butt tires its even worse.
So, there I was driving along at 55 mph (when the speed limit was 65 mph) and my car is fishtailing back and forth. The feeling of not having control over your vehicle is VERY unnerving! I slowed down to about 45-50 mph and that seemed to be okay and watched as all of the other drivers whizzed by me in the fast lane. At that point I really didn’t care, all I wanted was to make it to the clinic all right. Thankfully, my drive altogether is only about 20 miles (10 in town miles and 10 highway miles) and I made it to the office with about 15 minutes to spare.
Clinic went well yesterday! The morning flew by and we had saw our last patient at 3pm and I thought we would be going home early! I was excited because it was still in the afternoon and the sun was semi shining and so the roads were going to be good. Unfortunately, we had a hearing aid rep come in at 3pm also and we spent the next two and a half hours talking with him. Total bummer! I was totally okay with maybe a half hour, even a hour, but after that it just got LONG! Even my supervisor complained about how long he was there when he finally left. LOVE her!
I was pretty apprehensive by the time we left the office about my drive home. The sun had gone down and it had started to get colder out (well its always cold in the winter here, but even more so at night) and I didn’t want to have to drive home again on iced over roads… in the dark! To top it off, my phone, which hasn’t been holding a charge since I got it, was pretty much dead. Actually, it was dead since I couldn’t turn it back on when I got home.
I had charged it the entire night before, talked on it a whole five minutes that morning to call Ayden’s school and Jay and it was blinking low battery to me by 10am. At that point I turned it off so I might have a slim chance of getting a five second phone call in if I needed it on my drive home for any emergencies. Turns out it wouldn’t have worked anyways. But back to the drive home- it was fine. The roads in town were better than in the morning, still not perfect, but fine for winter roads in town and the traffic wasn’t too bad. The highway was pretty much perfect, but it had gotten really windy out so I still only drove about 60 mph home just in case I happened upon any icy patches, I didn’t want to spin out at 70 mph. Made it home safely, yeah!
Because of the impending blizzard that the southern part of the state was supposed to get last night, UW Madison closed its campus for today around supper time last night and since all of my classes are with the Madison students, that meant a snow day for me! It was pretty fabulous too because Wednesdays are my LONG days and I so needed to have this Wednesday off. Okay, so I didn’t really, but they do get really long and I didn’t want to sit through another class with the third years this week. They are really starting to get under my skin, well only a few of them and only at certain moments. And because we have two classes with them this semester, I feel like I need to compete with them and do better than them. I know that I don’t have to, but sometimes I feel that way. I constantly hear two of them talking about how they read all of the articles and such and it drives me nuts! Who has that much time on their hands?! Oh, that’s right, they don’t work or have kids, guess then you would, huh?! Yeah, I’m a little jealous, but even if I didn’t work or have Ayden, I probably still wouldn’t read them. I think I’m more jealous that they have the ambition to read them and I don’t.
Since I had most of the day off today (I went in to work for a little while), Jay and I ventured to the cellphone place to tell them about our phone problems (his hasn’t been keeping a charge either). We were in a contract with Alltel and when we found out that Verizon had bought out Alltel, we were excited with the fact that we would be switched to Verizon. Guess again! Apparently some other company, Element Mobile, had bought out the Alltel franchise or whatever in our area and a few of the surrounding areas and we would be switched to them. That is all fine and dandy and Jay and I were excited because we were going to be getting an upgraded phone that would work with their new 3G network and it would be free, even better!
Well, it took forever for us to finally get the phones in the mail after multiple phone calls. The actual switch over went fine, but then anywhere we travelled to we were in roaming. Fine again I suppose because we have free roaming. The phones were slightly better than our older ones and the internet worked faster on them. But, my phone does not hold a charge to save its life. I have to charge it EVERY night and it usually only lasts until 4 or 5pm and that’s if I don’t talk on it at all during the day. I tried using the old battery from my last phone and that didn’t work either (apparently even though it fits in my phone, the new batteries are made for the new phones and old batteries won’t work well at all). The last straw was yesterday when my phone only made it until about 10am after a full nights charge.
Jay’s phone started out holding a charge pretty well and he talked on his morning than I talked on mine, but then recently it started acting like mine. While we had the day off together, we ventured into Element Mobile and got in line with the rest of the ‘complainers’. (I met the sweetest old lady who was having the worst luck with them!) We waited for probably 15-20 minutes before it was our turn and during that time, I think a half dozen people came and got in line after us.
Apparently the store we went to didn’t have any replacement batteries in stock and couldn’t give us new phones because they had to give them to customers who hadn’t been upgraded like we were already. We were told we could get another house charger or car charger to have around to charge our phones, but that we would have to wait a month or so to come back in and get new phones that would hold a charge. I understood about others needing to be upgraded first, kind of… they gave us a $50 credit on our next bill, okay I’ll take that for now. We’re supposed to ‘just deal with our cheap crappy phones that don’t hold a charge’ for the next month, ugh! Looks like I’ll be taking my charger with me EVERYWHERE for the next month.
I told Jay that we will be patient for this month and then go in a month from now and get our new phones whether they like it or not… or get out of our contract. I will only be patient for SO long! My previous phone could go at least three, maybe four days, between charging times and I could talk on it multiple times during that time frame! I would like that back please (and thank you)! We are unfortunately in contract with Element Mobile until next December and at this point don’t have the extra money to pay to get out of our contract. Jay thinks we will probably leave them at that time and find a different carrier. At this point in time, the only gripe I have with them is that my new phone won’t hold a charge and they won’t replace it or the batter right now. Nothing else changed as far as our bill goes and won’t until December. And other than being in roaming more often and the internet not working quite as fast in roaming, the new 3G network is A LOT faster than before we were switched. I suppose only time will tell.
CIAO! LOVE ME!
