Protest

Today I found myself, along with a few other coworkers at the capitol protesting the mandatory H1N1 immunizations. Normally, this is not something I would do, but................... so many of us feel strongly about how wrong this really is. Don't know if this will change anything, but at least we tried. We have until November 30 to get the immunizations or lose our jobs. Funny how they timed this, right before the holidays. This state is the only state, so far, to make this immunization mandatory. So far. My whole problem with this is the fast that there hasn't been enough time to thoroughly study the effects and the manufacturers can not be held responsible for any adverse reactions. That in itself says a whole lot. Hubby and I have been discussing this and he finally understands my position on this. Not to mention the fact that why does a state think they have the right to force this. All health care workers practice universal precautions on a daily basis. I know everyone thinks the hand sanitizers are great but when it comes to H1N1, they don't work. H1N1 is passed by spores and the only way to kill the spores is by hand washing. Back to the basics anyway.


As for the flu shot, whatever. So I spend all winter down with numerous colds which turn into bronchitis, at least I know how I react to that.

So for now, time and prayer on this.

Blah Monday

Today seems to be shaping up to be one of those "gggrrrrr" days. Most everything is irritating me today. Did a little food shopping after work and some "me" shopping. As I was leaving work it was starting to rain, but the sun was out. The closer I got into town I noticed a very faint rainbow. It was really pretty because it was stretched over the highway. It looked like you were driving right under it. Of course, by the time I was finished shopping, the sky was dark and it was raining pretty hard. The closer I got to my house, the less it was raining. The sun has been peeking in and out, but I know the later it gets the more rain we will be getting.

Was out in the garden yesterday, during the brief dry spell we had and noticed all my basil is brown. Guess it can't tolerate any cool temps at all. The other herbs are all still ok, but I really need to get them inside to dry or freeze, and soon! No time today, maybe tomorrow, depending on the weather.

We finally got our wireless router working and hooked up, so the boys (and myself) have been having fun on the ipods with it. I discovered I can go on facebook and check my emails from work. Cool! Finally something to keep me occupied while my lady sleeps, lol. She's a nocturnal person, goes to bed around 6-7 am. I arrive at 11 am, so if she falls asleep, I don't wake her. She usually wakes up around 1pm but really isn't functioning until I'm ready to leave. Oh well, things will change when her daughter comes for her visit again. Usually she will leave me a list of things she wants done. Works for me!

I've decided tonight is going to be a tv night, no class simply because I don't feel like it. I'm where I need to be so I can afford to not study tonight, just can't let this become a habit. I feel like I just need to veg some. Spent all day Saturday home resting. Sunday I was feeling much better. Hubby decided he wanted to go visit the new wally world. Oh joy! It's ok, but I'm not a fan. We did do some food shopping while there and the prices are pretty good. Didn't buy any meat, didn't even look at the meat because a friend of mine told me their meats aren't any good. Why look then. Hubby bought new boots for the winter and then decided I needed another house plant. Like I need another one! But he got me a really pretty one, the center of all the leaves are red. Some were pink and some red, I thought for sure he would get me the pink one since everything he buys me is pink, but he chose a red one this time. I'll have to take a pic of that when I take a pic of the scarf I finished Friday.

TGIF

In a few short hours my weekend will officially start. I'm glad. I'm sick. Going to work armed with cold medicine, cough drops, hot tea, and 2 bottles of water. I plan to do what needs to be done as quickly as possible and then the rest of the weekend can be spent on the sofa in front of the tv. Not going to push myself to get things done, that's what I have the guys for, lol. I have the youngest to thank for this. He was home sick on Wednesday. But, I don't think he was that sick because when I got home he was making brownies and had done a load of laundry, lol. He did look very pale that morning so maybe he just needed some extra rest. I need some extra rest. Had an awful time sleeping last night between the sneezing and sore throat, I was up a few times. I finally got comfortable and hubby crawled in bed and moved me. Don't think I got comfortable again after that. Was up at 8 am which is very unusual for me. Had everything done and myself ready to go by 9:30 this morning. Hope this energy lasts for a few more hours.


It's finally cooled down here. The past two days were warmer than normal and the humidity was rather high. Yesterday I went to work in shorts and a tank top. Today I have long sleeves on! What a drastic change in temps. As the day wore on you could feel the humidity dropping and it cooling off some.

Read ahead for my class, so I really don't have to do anything over the weekend on it if I don't want to. Finished the scarf last night to. Now I can start something new, like finishing hubby's vest!

H1N1

On the front page of my local paper is an article about the nursing community not wanting to be forced to get the H1N1 shot. The article is here: www.registerstar.com.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who is against this. My workplace has already sent everyone a memo stating we have to recieve both shots. No shot, no job.
I've tried to explain my reasoning to my husband who thinks getting the swine flu shot is a good idea for me. He says to get it because I had the flu over the summer. My thinking is that since I had the flu over the summer, I should be immune for this flu season.
At any rate it will be intresting to see what happens with this.

Over the hump

I know yesterday was the first day of Fall, but it sure doesn't feel like it around here! Temps are close to 80 with rather high humidity, ugh!

The days just seem to be flying by lately. Two more days and the weekend will be here. Got a lot done last weekend, but not everything. Me and the youngest were pulling the goldenrod out from around the house that had the nerve to plant itself there, lol. We are both terribly allergic to it. We couldn't pull it out by the roots so I had the youngest dig it out. Hope he got all the roots to it. Then we had another serious fight with a thorn plant. Another wild one. We were digging and chipping away at the roots to that one to! We still have to get all of the roots, some are still sticking up from the hole we had to dig to get to them.

Took all the tomato plants out of the garden. And the zucchini. All that's left is hubby's okra plant, few kale plants and the onions. Next weekend I think the onions will be ready to go and then I can let hubby loose in the garden with the weedwacker. Again!

Been spending a lot of time on my class. Thought I was going along well, until I discovered I missed one whole chapter! So, had to go back and work on that one. I've started it and I'm done with it for the night. I have everything planned out for the week, reading wise. Should be done with it by this time next week. I figure if I keep up this pace I should be done by the end of the year. I hope!! That includes the final and dissertation. Then come January I can move on. I'm getting so close now that it's beginning to feel more like a chore. I don't like that, but I want to get this done and over with. It's time to get into the really good stuff, lol.


Gotta go, the oldest is making dinner and I have to supervise. This kid is known for making food so bad that it's almost inedible. I don't know what he does, but he just can't cook! So, I'm trying to teach him to make something edible. He needs all the help he can get, lol.

Thursday

Not much of anything going on here lately. Busy with work and school. Glad the temps are getting cooler. Starting to feel like Fall around here now.

This weekend we are going to take care of the garden and I need to cut back all the dead flowers around the house so I can see my mums blooming. I need to pull out the gladiola bulbs and store them for next year. And, my house plants need to come inside now to. Got a few in but that's about as far as it's gone. August seemed like it was never going to end and now September seems to be flying by.

I've gotten all caught up in class and have been able to read ahead so hopefully I can have the whole weekend to work on the outside. Then Monday will be here and it will be back to the same old routine.

Almost the weekend

I will be glad to see the weekend come. This work week has not been a good one. For a short week, it's not going fast. I think it stopped somewhere during Wednesday!

The youngest all week has been whining that he just had to go to the senior fund raiser meeting tonight. Fine, we'll go. My morning was spent doing the housekeeping and the afternoon spent doing errands and shopping for my lady. I was tired when I got home. The youngest got a haircut after school. I picked him up at hubby's station. Hubby has the nerve to ask me if I was going back to Htown again. Told him no time and had to have the kid at school by 6 pm. Left the station after 4. Came home and threw mac and cheese together for dinner, got ready to go and the youngest comes up to me and asks me if we have to go! gggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!! He suddenly decided that he didn't want to go! After I rushed to get everything done in time!

As if I'm not irritated enough I get a letter from my job stating that it is now mandatory for me to get both a flu shot and swine flu shot this year. No shot, no job. I will put this nicely and just say that I'm not a happy camper right now.

Going to go work on my scarf and release some tension :)

The good and bad of back to school

So nice to get up and no kids. The house was quiet.

Now for the bad.
I come home to stacks of papers needing to be filled out.
Today was the second stack from the second school.
Both kids want to tell me about their day.
At the same time. (when does this ever happen)
One kid needs supplies for a class. (news to me)
Need the supplies by Thursday. (I find out Tuesday)
Since this day is the only "free" night this week, off to town, I go. Just left there 30 minutes ago.
Get the supplies only to have said kid remember something else he needed that we didn't get.
Pull a uie and back to town we head, after being more than half way home.
Had to stop at hubby's station for gas.
Got manipulated into getting groceries for the station while in town.
It's 4 pm and grocery store closes at 5 pm.
Had to return something the oldest bought in town as well.
This store also closes at 5 pm.
Oldest then decides to spend money from return on shoes.
Unload groceries at hubby's station and leave. (I'm just exhausted by this time)
Get home and hubby calls wanting me to come back to station so he can give us sandwiches for dinner.
Not happenin pal, I'm tired!! Just did marathon shopping in record time. In total we hit 6 stores in 2 hours!


Get home today and youngest tells me he switched classes and needs more supplies for this class he switched to. gggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Told him this time he has to wait until the weekend. Period.

The oldest gave me an overview of his day. This kid never does this. For the first time, in like forever, he actually sounds excited about school. He's going to be starting a computer networking class or something like that. He's actually wanting to go to school. He graduated in June, but since he was special ed, he received an IEP diploma. Not all colleges accept that so this school has started a new program for kids that graduated from there, all between the ages of 19 and 21. They can go back and work on specific things, like the GED, passing the civil service test, etc. He wasn't going to go back but I told him it might be a good idea to try and get his ged because he might want to, years down the road, go to college. This way he will have it. I don't know what this computer thing is but he's excited about it.

We were supposed to go to Bible study tonight, but I'm so tired and behind with things, we never made it. Tomorrow the youngest has to get a haircut. School pics are on Friday. He never wanted to do a professional pic for his senior year. Ok, but I want school pics then since this is the last year I'll get pics of him in school. I have no time to take him for a haircut. The place was closed today. I don't get home from work until 3:30 now . The youngest wants to go to the senior fund raiser meeting tomorrow night at 6 pm. Me taking him for a haircut after work, grabbing something to eat on the way and then making it to school by 6 is just way to stressful for me. Hubby taking him helps. A lot.

Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be able to relax. Just a little.

End of my 3 day weekend

This about sums up how I'm feeling right about now! It's another cool day, in the mid to upper 60's. Weather man said lower to mid 70's and sun. No sun here!!

Hung some whites out, dried rather fast. Wasn't sure just how good a drying day it was going to be. End of the week is supposed to get windy. Great sheet drying day.

My plans for today were; to go to the supermarket here in town and get what I didn't get over the weekend, make tandoori chicken for dinner tonight.

What I did; rearranged all the cabinets in the kitchen, that have food in them. Rearranged the book cases. Put the dried lentils, spices, etc into their own containers, labeled them, made the tandoori chicken to marinate, cleaned off the top of the fridge, brought some hanging plants in, and made pasta salad for dinner.


Now I'm tired! Thinking about working on my knitting the rest of the night. All the laundry is folded and put away, washer loaded for tomorrow since I have to hang it out before I go to work. And tomorrow is the first day of school!! Whoo hoo!!!!!!!!!!! It's been a very long summer with the boys home. I'm hoping them going back to school will get me back into my old routine.

Spent Saturday shopping in one of my favorite stores. Hubby's too! It takes about 45 minutes to get there so we don't go often. Last time I was there was the beginning of summer and it was really hot in there. I avoid stores that are just as hot inside as outside. Bought a lot of canned goods there. Little bit of indian food. They are starting to get yarn back in, so.................couldn't resist. Hubby looked, but didn't say anything. We ended up being gone most of the afternoon, which made him late to work. Oh well.


Went to church Sunday and then did the rest of the food shopping in town. Took the oldest with me, we hit 4 stores. We didn't get home until about 6 pm last night. It's been a long, tiring weekend. Today I haven't gone anywhere. Feels good to just sit home. Wish I could learn to just sit home and do nothing though.

Do not want a repeat of yesterday

The only way to describe yesterday was bad, bad, bad.......... Did not sleep well the night before so that made getting up that much harder. To many body aches.

As soon as I walk in the door my lady's phone is ringing. It's work. Wanting to know if I could do a few hours in the evening for this case that has been haunting me since it opened. Originally, I was going to take it, then changed my mind. Every time someone calls off, I get called to cover. I don't know what happened but I opened my mouth and said I would do it. Didn't give it much thought throughout the day. As I was ready to leave, they called again and gave me the details and directions. Ok. The directions had me really confused, so I tried finding the road on map quest. No luck. Pulled out my map of the county and it was on there. Knew where the road was. Ok, looking better. Call hubby and tell him I need gas and asked him to make me a sandwich because I have less than an hour before I have to leave again. Get out in the car and it won't start. Give it a few minutes and still nothing. I'm thinking maybe I flooded it. Wait some more, nothing. Ok. Call hubby and tell him I need to borrow the truck. Call work and tell them I'll be late. Put the windows up in the car, turn the key and the darn thing starts! Well, just going to wait for hubby. Don't trust the car now. Really don't want to get stuck in this persons driveway all night either. So I take the truck. Find the house and everything ok. The driveway is steep and windy. Never occurred to me that I have to drive back down that driveway in the dark. Later it occurred to me that I should have turned the truck around. The night went by ok, except the guy was back breaking! Very, very uncooperative. His son was there helping me. Glad he was, don't think my back would have made it if he wasn't. Go to leave and I realize it's really dark out there. Slowly back the truck down the driveway. Stopped every few minutes to make sure I was on the driveway and not the lawn. I get close to the end and all of a sudden I can't move. I'm stuck. Stick it in drive, nothing. Reverse, nothing. Oh, crap! I look out the driver side window and realize I had gone into the lawn. Problem was, it was raised up about 2 feet from the road. The bottom of the truck is caught. First I start to panic. Calling someone is no good. Then I consider walking back to the house and telling him I'm stuck. Can't get a tow truck around here at night. Then it hits me. The truck has 4 wheel drive. Say a more desperate prayer this time and put it in 4 wheel low. Nothing. Ok. If 4 wheel high doesn't work, I have no idea what I'm going to do. Put it in and the truck jumps. Put it in drive and I get myself off the hump and back onto the driveway. Then I have to inch it out to the road. Really wasn't sure where the driveway ended and the road began, but I did it. Glad it was a dark, lonely back road. Thanked God all the way home and that's when I decided I'm not going back there. Ever again!! Sometimes when you have a hard time doing something, I firmly believe that you shouldn't do it. Last night was one of those times.

Got a good look at the truck this morning and it has weeds and stuff hanging underneath it, lol! I did tell hubby last night what happened, he just kind of grinned. I'm not so sure he really understood what I was saying. All he kept saying was to go home and go to bed. As if!


This morning I'm moving very slowly and painfully. It's going to be a long day. Didn't get much sleep last night because I hurt so bad. Just couldn't relax much. By the time I did it was time to get up. Hopefully my lady won't be in a mood do get anything accomplished and my body can rest some. This work day just can't go fast enough for me!