Busy Week, Maddie’s Been Very Sick, New Walking Pad, No One Listens

I’m very behind in my updates as far as blogging. Last Thursday night, George and I went out to a restaurant called Yummy Pho Bac after a funeral visitation for George’s first cousins spouse, that lost a battle with cancer. This was very close to the funeral home.

I have not been drinking alcohol except for a special occasion. I count eating out as special these days. lol So I got a Singha. And it was so good. While it’s ok for women to have 1 drink per day, without harm, I feel not having any in a day helps me with weight loss, sugar control, nerve control, and gut flora biome. All a win win win win in favor of “no”. And then it’s a special treat once a week or so. I also got jasmine tea. Because I wanted it all. lol. And we had a nice relaxing meal.

Pho had been on my bucket list for the summer anyway. I know it’s crazy to want Pho in the summer but I had a craving. I’m not sure the noodles were such a good thing for me, but it was good. I noticed the spoon was so pretty.

Friday we took Mom out to eat and to get her crab legs for her birthday. Surprisingly my “never any alcohol” Mom has come to like a margarita in a salt rim glass. No worries. She only has one every now and then.

So I “did a thing”. I ordered a walking pad from Amazon during Amazon Prime week. It’s a UREVO with the handle bars on the side. It cost $100 more to get the handles but I wanted them and I use them. It was a little longer than I thought but it caught my attention on someone’s YouTube vlog that got one. It can be used under a desk but I won’t use mine that way as I like the bar and the handles. But it does fold and has wheels and can be easily moved around if needed. I got it about $150 off during prime days. So I went for it.

Once this came in I obviously had to rearrange some things in my office. It was fairly simple. I moved the bookshelf around the corner. I have faithfully used it every day since for 20 minutes. I can multi task. I call Mom, I can watch a show, or read. It has a book or iPad or phone prop for you to lean something against while walking. I don’t have to worry about the weather or not getting something done, or wasting time. Dexter was scared of it at first but he since sees what is happening and I’ve been amazed to see him sit at the end of it watching me, lol. Maddie lays in her bed beside me too. I’m enthralled and it solves the mystery of how to make myself exercise. LOL. When I retire, I may get a yoga mat, lol. I need to do a series of stretching. But we’ll see.

My office looks quite messy with the puzzle table in there. And the walking pad makes it a little cluttered, but I’m very happy with it. And I was happy not to have to get rid of my little black recliner. I like having a journal chair or reading chair (aka talk to Momma chair). I also have one in my bedroom. I’ll get the puzzle worked before fall. I can only put in a few pieces a week with this schedule of mine.

I need to redo my wall. And of course you can see the door bottom on the left side still has Dexter damage. When I retire, I’ll go over that with a brown marker or we’ll sand it and restain it or something.

But no sooner than we got this set up it was time to go–ahem – I got it set up. George figured out where the power button was. It was a witch to get out of the box and down the hall before I figure out it had wheels that unlocked. He just sat back and let me do it because he was busy doing something else and didn’t want to stop. I didn’t ask for help so he didn’t offer, but just listened to my moans and groans and let me suffer, lol. But alas he found the power button and turned it to “on”……….men.

So as I was saying Saturday we left and went to a friend’s birthday party on the lake. WE drove through some completely blinding rains.

Here’s some of George’s best buds right here. All Gibson buds in the past. They still all keep up with one another and get together on occasion.

It was very nice to get away, relax, see friends, and be beside the water. I was pretty controlled on the eating. Didn’t go wild.

Then Sunday was church, Sunday school, Publix to get what we needed to take to life group, Life Group, back to Publix to get Mom’s groceries and our groceries. Put ours on ice til we could get to Mom’s, who wanted us to stop and get a hamburger through a drive through (thus the ice) as we had groceries too. Dropped her burger and groceries off. Put her cold stuff up. Then rushed home to get our groceries up. When we got home, Maddie’s issues were worse. She had been having a bit of diarrhea or loose stools. She often does this but will bounce back and never even acts like she feels bad.

But this Sunday looked like a murder scene. There was diarrhea, pea, vomit in just about every room of the house. And I mean lakes of bloody diarrhea. I thought we would find her dead. But she peeked her head out from around the door as if to say, I’m so sorry, am I in trouble? Bless her. It took a while but we cleaned. I realized the groceries were still on the counter and rushed to get them up and George got in the shower so he could give her a bath. She had diarrhea all over the back sides of her legs and butt. I wanted to take her to the pet ER but George wanted us to wait for in the morning as we had a 7:30 appt with vet already for her teeth cleaning which we knew would not happen.

Since she drank water, I thought it would be ok but she lost a lot of fluids. She made it through the night but I’m not sure she wasn’t in shock. I thought we’d lost her a couple of times as she was cold and almost in a coma she was so lethargic. I kept her warm and close to me and talked to her several times through the night. By morning she had rested and was a little more perky – by perky – she lifted her head and wagged tail slightly. Once the vet saw her and gave her fluids she felt much better. She ate her morning food with meds (antibiotic and probiotics, anti nausea and b12, etc.). There was a lot in her shots she got and also in the meds. She has been great ever since. I was worried about that girl.

This week has gone by fast. It’s crunch week with quarter end. I’ve gone a week with not having the data to do the last part of it. Now my printer has acted up and not working well. Everything has to be a fiasco. And yesterday was. Now we are all further behind in our work. I told IT weeks ago. They ordered the printer and it sat downstairs for weeks without being installed. Well they went to install it yesterday and they had downgraded to a cheaper one that both me and my boss were shaking our heads at. For the level of what we need for payroll, it wouldn’t even hold half a pack of paper – you had to feed a few at a time. I think it would take the whole week to print out Tuesday payroll. I had warned them when ordering one, that I needed the same caliber of printer because of our processes up there. There’s a lot of printing. But they ordered what they wanted me to have, ignoring my advice, and we could clearly see it was not going to work. I was so angry that no one listens. I may talk a lot but sometimes I DO actually know what I’m talking about. But anyway people don’t listen. And God was looking out for me because the printer didn’t work and they couldn’t get the cheap old thing to even talk to the network. And it would reboot on its own and get stuck and freeze. So they gave up and ordered the one they should have in the first place. They sent me a copy of the Amazon order. I had been told that was very expensive and why I couldn’t have that one. I was thinking 700 or 800 or 1200 or so, but it was only like $300. lol lol lol. To invest in a decent printer to last for years in payroll, that is NOT expensive. I offered to buy the printer for the company and let them lease it from me if they could not afford it. I mean my gosh! I was also told it would arrive in August, but I saw the delivery and it’s supposed to come this coming Monday. I guess they didn’t want to have to install it til August, lol. I wish people would listen and I really would like to be told the TRUTH. Several things happened yesterday and my boss said “wow, has it not been a bad day or what?” I said, trying to be positive, “Just another day in paradise”. I was so upset at that point I didn’t want to spew like a volcano. I let everyone know the printer was not going to work and that was all I could do but let them see for it themselves. Because my words have no meaning. I’m not sure if it is because I’m a woman or beneath them or what. But wisdom won. Thank God. We’d have been from here to Friday printing out Tuesday’s payroll every week. But in the mean time I’m stuck with the old one that sounds like it’s giving birth to a cow and the rollers skips and you have to reboot it to print again. I can print some things to the big printer out front but will be back and forth wearing the carpet out and myself, but maybe I’ll get my steps in.

Whew. I’m ready for the weekend and ready for retirement! It cannot come soon enough! Gotta go to work. I took a few minutes for myself this morning as I needed it. I’m getting far too stressed out from this week and avoiding stress is supposed to be my new game. But it is what it is. At this point my health comes first. My stomach has been healing and I don’t want to go backwards.

I’m hoping to have a video Saturday. I have worked on a special video that will post mid week yesterday but because this week has been so haggard, I may not make my regularly scheduled Saturday post. I’m going to try. It’s possible. But most likely it will be posted Sunday instead. We’ll see. I let myself get messed up with this extra video. I thought we’d have had more time on the weekend but we didn’t and it took more time than I thought to edit because of all the graphics I had to create. Oh my gosh. So I’m trying to catch up. Since we had so much going on – on the weekend and Maddie sick and work and all that, I have had to do housework at night also, plus I’ve been using the exercise machine. So I’ve been burning into my sleep some too. And not much time with George. So the schedule is all whacked this week. We will see what happens.

What you all up to?