What Did You Do Today?

[DianaB]

I need to get busy cleaning today. My blood sugar is causing me problems because the doctor changed my meds when they really didn't need changed. I'm not sure what she's thinking. Talk to you later!

[Lindsey]

Oh no, can you ask for them to be changed back?

I am painting today! Hopefully by the end of this weekend I'll have most of the painting done for the renovation. Scott needs to fill in holes and cracks in the plywood floor and then he can lay our new flooring! It's all coming along!

I'm also priming and painting the antique dresser we got for the baby's room. The drawers are painted a robin's egg blue right now, but we want to go with neutral colors so I'm going to paint it all white (the rest is white now, but needs a fresh coat!)

[DianaB]

I'm not sure what is going to happen with the meds. For one they are really, really expensive and we have nothing to help with that.......and she knows that. Two.....I'm suppose to double my dose but I'm having problems with going low so I've actually cut the dose in half. I'm not too happy with her at.the moment!

Glen cut his hand pretty bad on Friday and had several stitches. On Saturday his thumb will pull in but won't straighten back out. He contacted the doctor and now we have an appointment at Wichita this afternoon. I'll let you know how things go .

When it rains, it pours!!

[Lindsey]

Diana, I'd go to another doctor for another opinion! She doesn't seem to be doing what works for you!

I hope everything is okay with Glen's hand!

Speaking of Wichita, I was just in a meeting about a half hour ago and one guy was talking about someone who used to work here and he would pronounce Wichita as "wi-cheetah" and he had to be corrected every time, but never said it right. Then our new American import started talking about Wichita and whenever he said the name (correctly), people in the meeting kept saying 'You mean, wi-cheetah" lololol it's been a silly morning around here. Our CFL (Canada's NFL) team won the Grey Cup last night and those of us who are even at work today are not really at the top of our game haha

Over the weekend, I managed to get most of the painting done, and Scott started laying the new flooring. My body is paying for it now and my hips and back are aching quite badly. We went to Scott's boss's house last night on the far end of the city to watch the big game, and I drove us home later. We didn't get home until after 11 pm, and I had been awake at 5 am that morning because of hip pain, so it was a loooooong day for me! I could barely get out of bed for work this morning! It will be an early night tonight!

[Janet]

You're right....when it rains, it does pour it seems. I sure hope you can get your meds straightened out or like Lindsey said...maybe another Dr. Poor Glen, stitches can't be fun. Keep us posted.

[DianaB]

We're at the a special surgery place for hands and Glen's about to go into surgery. He cut two tendons and they have to be reattached. His thumb quit moving back and was numb......so here we are. It's out patient so we'll be home later.

[Janet]

Today we had a 2-hour delay for....are ya ready?.....it was so cold. It was like -4 and not a whole lot better 2 hours later. When I was in grade school and jr/sr high, we didn't have 2-hour delays. I'll probably sound like my mom and dad, but I remember walking knee deep in snow across the ice house property to get to the jr high and it was about 2 miles from my house. We only missed school if there was a blizzard and the description back then was much different from what it is today. These kids today have it so easy it's unbelievable. They'll just go home and play outside.

Didn't go in to the office today either. With a 2-hour delay and being a Thursday (courthouse closes at noon) I would get there around 11 and leave at 12 so my boss said it was fine for me to stay home and stay warm so....I did.

[Lindsey]

That's nice to be able to just relax and stay warm!!

Yikes!!! If I was lucky, my mom would drive me to school when it was -40. I still walked to school when it was -30 lol. Buses generally don't run here past -40 though, so kids either miss a day of school or their parents have to drive them in at that point.

It has been FREAKING COLD here for the past week or two. Windchills have been around -45 to -48 in the mornings. This week warmed up slightly to about -35 in the mornings. It's ridiculous! I had to walk to the dentist and back(5 minutes from my office) twice in the last two weeks, and I could not feel my face or ears! Next week I have to walk to my Obstetrician's office, so hopefully it's a little warmer! This is the sort of weather we normally get in January, and this has been going on since November!

[Gina]

That is very cold Janet, wow ! But you are right today everyone is babied big time, I remember as a little girl walking in knee high school to get to school which was about a 10 min walk. Back then if you remember we had to wear dresses no pants but they did make an exception when you got to school you had to remove pants.

Glad you got the day off I didn't know that you work in an office to. Lindsey why do you have to walk ? It's very cold by you to. When is your due date ? Well ladies stay warm it's cold here to.


I had dental surgery today long story short I needed implants done back in Oct but bone still not ready so I had bone grafted in another area. Never a dull moment.

[Janet]

You're right Gina....I do remember wearing long pants under my dresses and taking them and my boots off at school. We had these compartments in grade school called cubbies that we put our things in and we hung our coats above the cubbie. Wow...haven't thought of that in forever. We always walked to school. From our house to the elementary was about a 15 minute walk if you didn't slack and to the jr high it was about a 20 minute walk or more. We learned where to walk so that the wind didn't hit us quite as bad. Now in Senior high, we had to ride the bus, until I got my license.

[DianaB]

I can't believe the cold weather we've been having! We got a little snow........a little. Bummer!

We lived too far from the school to walk when it was bad. My Mom or a neighbor would take turns driving us but when it was nice we walked.

[Janet]

We've got quite a bit of snow and well...I don't like it as you do...lol Don't like driving in the stuff or shoveling my driveway. Oh well....spring is coming.....soon I hope

[DianaB]

Jaci came over today and helped me get the tree decorated. It was hard to get much done because Ali is grumpy getting in teeth. I just don't seem in the mood to get much done. Jaci also carried so many boxes of stuff up and now I have them all over everywhere as well.

[Janet]

I'm not in the mood either Diana. I went to Lafayette yesterday in hopes of getting some shopping done after having a manicure, but didn't happen. Enjoyed the manicure, but then afterwards I went and picked up some dog food for Joey and then went home. Too many people out.

After I got home Rick and I went to Frankfort and bought Ricky a couple of things and well...I guess we're done shopping. Still haven't gotten a tree up or any decorations other than Christmas cards we've received. At this late date, don't think we'll get any decorating done...to much work for just a few days.

We've had so much rain that the snow is gone now and we have flooding all over Indiana. Some places worse than others of course. This weather is crazy because we also had thunderstorm warnings and tornado warning in southern Indiana.

Maybe next year will be better.

[Janet]

Today is another frigid cold day. It's 1:00 PM and the temp is 2. Heat wave....lol. We had a two hour delay for school this morning. At 7 it was -10, at 9 it was -14 so the delay wasn't a big help. It does help to be able to have daylight, but either way it's no big deal to me. I can see the drifts just as well with the headlights.

The cold is to continue through next week with more snow. If you all check my FB page I posted weather info for what is forecast for the next couple weeks. We'll see how accurate it will be. Hope it's totally wrong...lol. I'm so ready for warm sunshine and warm temps.