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Happy Birthday
Schmoo999!!!!!!!!!!
I actaully took a real vacation this summer and went to Glacier National Park in Montana the first week in August. My favorite Aunt went with me. I had a good time, but not a great time. It really bothered me that I didn't have a wonderful time and I really wondered what happened. I think I might have figured it out...
First, I'm not used to going on vacation with anyone else and 8 days was a loooong time to have someone constantly around me. I love my Aunt, but some of the time I really wanted her to just go away for an hour or two.
Second, the last two actual vacations I've gone on I went to England and I just love it there. I felt an instant connection and ease with England and with London as well. I didn't feel that connection with the park. The mountains were nice, but how often can you stare at the same mountains. Thank goodness for the occasional critter- moose, black bear, grizzly bear, mountain goat, grouse, eagle and big horn ram that we spotted. Oh, and the waterfalls here and there were quite majestic. I was blown away by the sight of snow in August.
Overall it was a good vacation, but I don't know if I will ever go back.
Ok, I didn't say anything about this before because I didn't want anyone to needlessly worry. I wasn't worried, so no one else was allowed to be either. Anywho...I went for my mammogram on June 3rd. On June 9th I got a letter from the hospital saying the radiologist needed additional views, but didn't really say why. I called my doctor, she told me to call the hospital; the hospital told me to call her.
So I went back for the additional views today. They said I have very dense breasts- "stupid" boobs- and there was a spot on the right original mammogram that they wanted to double check. They took 5 or 6 scans of the righty with a digital mammo machine today. The original mammo was not digital. I was beginning to think they were going to shove the one part of the machine clear thru my armpit at one point since the spot was higher up on my chest than in the heart of the breast tissue.
The results: everything is fine. The digital scans show no lump or anything. The spot basically disappeared (I think they squished it enough it was flattened right out). So no sonogram was needed, no more follow ups until next summer's routine mammo, and I was on my way in about an hour.
The moral of this is (the tech unofficially told me this): if you have dense breasts- get a digital mammogram. The regular ones just don't show enough.
(sorry if the "stupid boobs" crack offended anyone- it's my sick sense of humor.
- Mood:
silly
Happy Birthday Whimbley!!!!!!!!!
Thank goodness I go back on the pill tomorrow. Maybe the headache I've had for four days will finally go away once I get those hormones back in my system. I only have a period four times a year, but my head hurts the entire week each time. Sometimes it really sucks being a female.
Whimbley!!!!!!!!
I am sad about losing my last grandparent, but there is also a sense of peace and relief. Grandma said more than a year ago that she was ready to go and now her body is finally ready too. While it has been a good thing that she's lasted long enough for the great-grand kids to get to know her, it has been a dreadful form of torture for the rest of us (and probably her too) to watch her slow deterioration. At least she had been pain free us until this week.
So, while I am sad and will miss her so much~ I am also relieved that her fiery spirit will soon be free of her broken down shell of a body. Be at peace Grandma.
- Mood:
sad
Oh well, that's the big news from my neck of the woods. I'm going to go now before the next line of thunderstorms moves into the area. Hope my power stays on.
- Mood: disappointed
So! Not much has changed in the daily grind since my last post weeks ago. I'm hoping the New Year and the new President wil be able to put things on an upswing for everyone.
I have to decide this weekend if I am going to try for a new job with Aetna. It would entail working with providers and network (contract negotiators) to identify why claims are being mispaid and creating the projects to get the claims reworked after any needed system/processor education has been done. Right now I am one of the people who rework these projects, this job would be the other side of it. It is technically a promotion over the job I have now, but I doubt I would get much- if any- of a raise because I already make the median salary for that job. Do I really want more stress for no more pay?
Otherwise I've been on an emotional rollercoaster this week for no good reason. One day I'm happy and laughing, the next day (or even later that same day) I'm cursing and crying because traffic is moving too slow or some other lame reason. It's not Aunt Flo...she visited last week. I think I'm going mental or something.
My userpic...this is my favorite "friend" of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. The puppet's name is Peanut.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
- Location:home
- Mood: weird
- Music:Monty Python's Flying Circus on tv
And ancientgirl, Thank you so much for the gifts. Ragnell loves all the toys and the incense burner is beautiful. I'm sure Buddha is going to bring my good things for the New Year.
Minus one: I finally decided to decorate the plant I use as a Christmas tree only to find issues with all the strands of lights. My favorite string has a short in it somewhere so only half of it works. Darn it! I guess I'm going to Odd Lots tomorrow to buy lights. Or I may just skip it all together.
I have this week off work. Yay! I had vacation time I had to schedule before the end of the year, so here I am home all this week. Took my time on Monday coming back from Thanksgiving at Grandma's house, didn't do anything yesterday, and today I got an allergy shot and ran a few errands. Tomorrow and Friday are still up in the air. I have to decide if I'm going to even bother putting up any Christmas decorations this year so I can get it done this week if I'm doing it.
Today also was Ragnell Day! Thirteen years ago today, my sweet lovable kitty chose me to be her Mommy.
She is my sunshine.- Mood:
satisfied
Happy
Thanksgiving!!!!
- Mood: thankful
Schmoo999!!!!!
Hope you had a wonderful day.
to ME!!!
Holy crap, I can't believe I'm 40 years old!
Gotta go- have a million nad a half things to do incare the power goes back out.
Take care all!
