Today was another sick day for me. My dad is much worse where he has basically lost his voice. I am not bad with voice, but I feel a bit sick. I hate being sick and this year so far has been difficult for me. I am a person who never misses work, never takes vacations, and this year I have been working from home so much – it isn’t good.

Got a couple important packages today. I wanted to get my mom one of those handheld spotlights, like people who play in the woods use. Well, when she opened the box I was a bit shocked at just how huge it was. The goal was to be able to light up the place and it sure will. I also had ordered Paul something that came and they are great. Will post a picture on Saturday cause I have successfully guilted him into reading this blog and I don’t want him to see the actual thing The last package was the water guns! Nickel chewed the turtle one up so the replacement is a bag full of them!

I have been watching more documentaries today, none have been spectacular but I did watch one on Alzheimer’s. It was very sad, but good.

My mom went to the store and to get her hair cut – she wanted “real food” for dinner so we are going to cook pork chops. Yummy!! Talking about cooking, or baking rather, I haven’t done it like I used to before the “incident”. I enjoyed it so I am going to do it again this weekend. My dad has been asking for corn bread and cake for so long now and it’s time to get that bakers apron ON!!!!!!!!! Dad reads this too so he isn’t going to let me forget that I said I would make it

OK, I also will try very hard to post a vlog this weekend too. I haven’t so far, but I have some ideas. I am really going to try the raw style. What I mean by that is just some random moments, but not really cut and pasted together more like a continuous thing.

K, gonna go cook. Have a great night!!!!

I think I got what mom had and dad too. We both sound horrible and I felt really sick last night / early morning. I just got out of bed to eat a little something and now I think I am going to lay back down. I also went ahead and took an allergy pill since we have some high levels of pollen today. Even though I certainly don’t plan on going outside.

Well I am feeling no worse at the end of today so that is a good sign. I just got back inside from playing night tennis with the puppies. They have no issues, I just can’t keep up with the balls!

I watched a couple documentaries today they were pretty interesting. Can’t remember the exact titles, not really worth mentioning.

We had some stir fry for dinner, we have this all the time and as usual.

I am setting up YouTube to watch on the big TV – so exciting Wow, it looks great.

I ordered a little kiddie pool for the puppies. It should be here by Friday so we can play with it this weekend.

OK, I should put this away so I can sleep!!

I stopped at Publix on the way home because me and my dad needed milk and I managed to pick up mine with an expiration date of April 20… That is TOMORROW!! Publix had GreenWise Milk out at $5.99 a gallon that expires tomorrow. Makes me a bit sad.

Also, my mother refuses to have anything to do with this blog and she thinks all I do is talk about her. So, I asked her to help me title this blog and she had no idea what I was talking about. BUSTED!!

I thought I was going to get this done right now, but Nickel is bugging me to go play catch so I must go

Alright, they have officially had enough – well as official as they can be.

I had a meeting all day today and I am exhausted for sure. There was lots of heated discussions but really it was good because we are having issues regarding this stuff so hopefully something great comes out of it

I ordered me a couple of night stands that match my dresser, not to be used as night stands mind you, but to use as extra dresser space for sweaters Yes I have that many and I can’t stand to hang them on hangers because of the whole shoulder puff! Ha ha ha

Well, I haven’t been sleeping well lately so I think I am going to try to go to sleep a little earlier tonight. BYE!!!!

So, ever since November I have been steadily gaining weight. I was down to 143 and now I have skyrocketed up to 195…

I have been thinking of little else since Thursday to be honest. I am not happy about it, I am a little disappointed in it and most of all I am now motivated once again to get back to it. I have been taking medications that have been messing with my appetite and I think I am on the right stuff now. I have plenty of personal training sessions piled up to see someone 3 times a week for a while and that is just what I am going to do. I want to start at home on the treadmill to prevent burning out too quickly at the gym, but no later than the middle of May I should be getting to it!

Update: Regardless of which is right, my scale says I gained 40 pounds and not 50. Good news for me I guess.

Today was pretty good at work, we had a little bit of an issue to resolve this morning as soon as I got in, but I think we got it worked out now. The only bad thing about the day is that my friend at work has taken a new job and she won’t be there anymore. It is good for her though so that makes me happy

I got home to the puppies making a beeline to the gate. Luckily I was though and had it closed before they got there. Then they proceeded to herd me all the way to the house. Once I open my door, the heavy girl Penny jumped in my lap. She weighs 50 pounds I think.

I was supposed to stop at Publix and pick up something for dinner, but I was on the phone and passed right by it. Because of this new road they are building I would have had to go like 5 miles out of my way to go back I decided we could find something here to eat

I ordered new lens for my phone and they came today. I can’t wait to try them all out, should be very nice!! Now if I could just remember to post some pictures on here that would be great!!! So, let’s catch up!!

What’s today, that’s right laundry / cleaning day I got a late start today, but have already got this day going!! I finally gave in and got a second set of sheets so that I didn’t have to leave the bed unmade while I was washing the bedding. It just takes so long and the puppies are relentless when they can’t come in the room.

Loving the new TV!! I can’t seem to get it to go in screen saver mode, but other than that – pretty perfect Will add a picture to this in a bit.

Happy to report that mom is finally starting to really feel better. I wasn’t too worried, but she was pretty concerned about feeling bad for so long (a week).

I am not sure what we are doing for dinner, we haven’t really been cooking too much lately.

I have got to finish this room so that I can get that desk done and installed. Plus I am pretty sick of seeing all this crap everywhere. I added to it with the new TV so that doesn’t help

K, gonna get back at it – will check back in later.

Wrapped up with the laundry. I didn’t finish, didn’t do the bed sheets, but that’s OK. I can do that anytime during the week.

I am in need of more dresser space and I can’t figure out what I want to do. Yet more issues with this room

Had a good day over all and I think I am going to call it quits and watch a little TV and then take Nickel and Dime outside to play catch. He is talking to me like crazy to go play

Today Samantha is getting married. We have not had any issues so far today, I don’t think that she is stressed so that is all that matters. I wish I was feeling a little bit more productive because I know I didn’t help her as much as I should have or that I wanted to I should say. I know she understands, but still.

She is fixing to get in the shower and get her hair dry so that I can straighten it. Then we are going to the church and getting this thing done!!

K, so I am going to get it going now

So, we were a little late getting to the church and I backed into someone right in front of the building oh yeah and it was in Carlos’ truck. I felt horrible, still do.

It was supposed to start at 15:00, but I am pretty sure she was down the aisle at like 16:20! Oh well, next time we will do better

After we went for some food at a local mexican place. It was pretty good and I think everyone had a great time.

Carlos, Stacy, Jeff, and Paul all came out to the house after and helped me hang my new TV and get it all set up. I am super happy with it and can not wait to get to bed to watch it

Alright, I am going to call it quits tonight and will most likely make a page specific to the wedding or maybe just the photos. Goodnight all

I am so very happy that it is Friday.  Normally it doesn’t bother me, you know like the whole boo it’s Monday, but today I welcome it

I am working on a huge spreadsheet at work and it is just so slow, I can’t stand it.

I found a new plugin for my picture galleries that is almost exactly what I want. I am hoping that Paul might be able to mess with it and make it perfect I am a little shocked that what I want to do with my pictures isn’t the default way to handle galleries, but oh well.

The dogs came in wet this morning, it was drizzling just a little bit so I think really they were wet from running in the woods. Anyway, one of the puppies thinks drying off is a game and wants to attack you and the towel and the other one is deathly afraid of it. Isn’t that crazy, what dog is afraid of getting dried off, most of them LOVE it. So, that’s what I had to do before I left this morning. Just another day Penny dog is old enough to not get soaked if she can help it, but she NEVER turns down a toweling off

I brought my parents taxes so that I could do them during lunch, so let me get at it. And DONE!!!

Also went ahead and got another Google Voice phone number to use for work.

Couple of updates: Samantha’s rehearsal went fine but tomorrow is gonna be a hard day. Grabbed dinner with Carlos and our cousin Jeff and his wife Stacy and swapped vehicles with him. Then got home to a disaster with these crazy puppies…

I left my old flip flops out and was so worried that he would chew on them, forgetting that my brand new flip flops were under my desk. Well, guess which ones he got??????? That’s right, the brand new ones that I haven’t even put on yet. $50 chew toy for the beast.

OK so now I am relaxing and just wanted to wrap this up and get it actually posted today

I got all kinds of stuffs today!!!!!! I picked up my new TV and my speakers were delivered I got my new flip flops, dog toy, clock, and bed sheets!!!

I had a couple doctor appointments and had to run by my other office to reset my work password. I never go there so it was nice to see it again. It has changed an amazing amount over there, new people have moved into the complex and across the street there are a couple of housing developments going up. Crazy growth in the area.

I played with the puppies, got a little more exercise today because it was a little cooler out and now they are recharging. I played in the dark once, they have no issues with it, but I can’t see what I am doing. I just need them to be so tired they SLEEP!!!

Well my mom isn’t feeling better yet. She isn’t horrible, like she doesn’t have a fever or anything, she just sounds horrible and has a bad cough. We will see if she feels better tomorrow afternoon, if not I am not sure what she will want to do, maybe go to the doctor again or something.

Completely off the wall here, but I downloaded a ton of pictures to use as desktop wallpapers and now I have them cycling and it just makes me so happy I have so many and they are mostly city pictures, makes me wanna travel!

Also, I have been having the craziest dreams lately. They are so strange it is a little hard for me to remember them, but I remember enough to know it is strange but can’t explain it to anyone. Not sure how many people remember their dreams, but I almost always have some clue as to what mine were about.

Alright, it is getting kinda late and now I am going to get some sleep

I came home early to take my mom to the doctor or hospital to get an X-ray because she thinks that she might have pneumonia despite the fact that she went to the doctor the other day… When I got home she changed her mind because she remembered that the doctor did check her breathing really well so she feels a little better about not having it. So, she faked me out thinking I was going to need to take her – but better not to have to do it

I just got out of going to the store because my sister is coming over to see mom – SCORE!!!!

I am going to work some more on the site today, I added a map to the trip page here: All the Trips

OK, I am done for the night, I am gonna wrap this up and chill in the bed