User talk:TheEileen/Mar 2010
March 2010
30 Mar 2010
Updated the list and only the one change in the wiki. So tired and stressed since I had only two weeks between the training and an outside auditor visit at work. Too much to do, too much stress. I just came home and vegged if I did anything. That weekend I spent nearly five hours over my needlework which a small voice in my brain kept reminding me meant days of extreme pain in my right hand but I was just in this groove of "can concentrate on this and think of nothing else". Which was good except, as usual, the little voice was right. Owy all the rest of the week. I still need to call the repair guy.
23 Mar 2010
No update as I was in Denver on training and no good access. There was one pathetic little computer in a room with a keyboard from 1982 as far as I could tell. One of the few things about the hotel that wasn't good. Loew's in Denver - we had a snowstorm on Tuesday and the power went out. No heat or hot water for about 18 hours. Thank goodness that *I* had done my exercise right after class and showered. I was at the nearby mall eating dinner when it all happened. By the time we were out of class the next day it was all fine. I had a good training, learned good stuff. The travel wasn't too horrible, but I was so happy to have a complete quiet weekend to myself. Oh, the toilet in my master bath started leaking. Again. But, at least I figured it out this time on the very first day AND I could use the nice newly put in other toilet. I need to call the repair guy.
18 Mar 2010
Updated list and wiki. One project posted; no other movement. Was too darned tired on Tuesday and apparently as well yesterday. Sigh. Work has been sucking the life out of me and I had three other non-DP board things going on in the last five days. Whew. And the time change. </whine off>
The weather turned cold but clear - the mountain was stunning to look at driving home tonight. Probably because I got it at sunset, leaving work about an hour later than normal to deal with everything. I am on travel for training next week, so have to get stuff prepped for me being gone. I had an absolute sick headache on Monday, not quite but verging on migraine-y. Nausea with movement, light sensitivity (not my norm) but the pain in the head did NOT stay on one side, so not quite, as I say. Once I felt better, I felt so much better, huzzah. Unfortunately many of my friends are sick. Bum.
I had the bathroom finished off and the gods of timing were with me for once as the night before the contractor was to come, my toilet started leaking so I got it fixed the very next day with no extra "coming emergently" charge. The big money news and bad money news is that our home owners association has to do an assessment to make up a perceived shortfall in our reserves. I say perceived because in comparison to all the HOAs in the vicinity, we have the most, but now that we got annexed to a different city, they have different rules/laws and we are all scrambling. $5000 due by June. JUNE. The president, vice-president and secretary were not happy to be the bearer of the bad news, particularly since this means that the repairs to her house that the secretary had been planning and saving for are now scrapped as all that money has to go to the assessment. Our Prez said that he knows our pain since he and his wife have spent the last two weeks trying to figure out how they can do this in the timeframe. She may have to go back to work temporarily (she retired but now may have to un-retire). Yoicks. I keep looking at my finances, and I think I'm basically going to have to denude my savings also. I've been good at keeping at that but this is apparently the emergency it is for. Sigh. I was rather hoping to take a nice trip later this year or next, I so wanted to go to England and visit old friends (and maybe see some DPers!) but that's completely out now for some time. Oh well, I have a house and a job and that is a lot more than many people have. I am quite grateful that this is the (fingers crossed) worst of my problems.
Okay, gotta motor.
09 Mar 2010
Updated list and wiki. Three projects moved. None posted. Vol II I have to think about. It went through F2 but it appears that if I wipe out the F2 pages (and must figure that out), I can send it back. Is it worth it to have someone else make this fix or do I cut my losses, do the fix as I did for Vol I and do the example and such for Vol III? I was going to try to do this at work at lunch, but the simple fact is that I'm never not working now. I will take a break and take a walk. Or do my yoga! Yay! but if I'm at the desk, I'm constantly trying to keep up with all that is coming in and the expectations and demands.
Very busy very hard very tired. I revisited the fibromyalgia info since I realized upon talking to one nurse that it had been years since I checked the literature. It turns out I had remembered one thing incorrectly but most of it I had. I still don't quite make the definition, but I'm okay with that (ha!). For one thing, I have sudden sharp pains that are more neurological (my nerves get overexcited and just fire off) rather than the constant ache. But for right now I am definitely getting the fatigue and sleep that doesn't make me feel rested. Darn it.
We had a bit of snow last night and apparently will get a little bit more in the next few days. This happens every few years, these odd little flurries in March. Kinda cool since it looks pretty but melts quickly and causes no real problems with driving or ice. Okay, tired and going to bed.
02 Mar 2010
Updated list and wiki. One project moved. None posted. I did the Ibsen Vol II instructions, update, and example. Since none of Vol II had metrical, it was easy. I now need to check out Vol. III. I wanted to F1->F1 but I misunderstood what that was. I think it will honestly be easier to have Vol II go through F2, which I will now release it to. :grin:
There is a little bit left of the work on the bathroom and I thought I'd put it off for several weeks, but instead I think I'll try for next week. The trees have bloomed, and it is claw-my-eyes-out time again. Yes, the nerve in my foot stopped fluctuating today just as the problem with my eyes increased. Hmmmm. So, long story short, I had a nerve start firing off - I could interrupt the firing if I hit the area but it only lasted so long. From 11pm to 3am I couldn't sleep and go so angry and frustrated I was really slapping the heck out of my foot and managed to burst a blood vessel in my finger. OW! So between those two things, I was up with only about 4hours sleep. Then the next night (last night), it started up again just as I got into bed. (Well, it fired very intermittently during the day, but as soon as I lay down, it started up again, going off every 2-3 minutes. I figured out after a bit that it always pulsed 9 times and then faded for a count of five. So, I gritted my teeth and said "I can last through 9 pulses" which actually helped a fair bit. But I was angry with my body the first night and petulantly sad the second. I always turn four years old when I'm underslept.
I've been doing my weights and my yoga better than in a while and I do feel better too. Except for the itchy, itchy, itchy eyes. It's always something, isn't it!?
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