Catching Up
It’s been a while since I’ve posted much of anything worth reading here, I know. I’ve been busy, what can I say! Let me see if I can recap the highlights:
My cousins, Lori & Chris, drove down to visit from Michigan the week after Christmas. It was AWESOME to get to relax and hang out, catch up, and just spend some quality time with family. They live entirely too far away, and we never get to see them enough. (although we’ve got just 48 days ’till our next Gulf Shores trip, woohoo!) We also welcomed the new year with them along with a group of friends. I think that was the longest stretch of paid time off I’ve ever had — and oh how I needed it!
January flew by without a lot of excitement. Somewhere in there we found a new home for Dallas the cat. It was kinda cool having him around sometimes; but I don’t miss him, so he’s better off where he is now.
The very first part of February I started feeling pretty crappy. Stuff has been going around the office off and on for weeks (maybe a couple months), and I’m fairly certain I picked something up from one of my coworkers. I came down with a fever and other unpleasantness (don’t make me try to spell that D word) on Friday, 1/30, which just happened to be the weekend the Shaws (Keith’s sister & family) came to stay with us for Kaylee’s gymnastics meet. Unfortunately I was down for the count — but after about 36 hours of sleep over the course of the weekend I was feeling better by Sunday. Then on Monday I had a Remicade infusion (I didn’t want to reschedule, and hadn’t had a fever since Fri), which ended up lowering my immune system even more, so whatever nasty bug I’d been fighting came back in full force. The rest of the week went by in a blur; I missed 2 days of work and worked from home that Friday, and wasn’t back to my regular self ’till about Tuesday of this week.
Which meant that I was sicker than a dog on my birthday, Saturday (2/7). NOT FUN! Oh and I also ended up helping Keith’s mom move that day. :) We came home with some extra furniture as well, though we’re still not sure what we’re doing with all of it (sofa, chaise, queen size bed, & 2 dressers).
Luckily during that time we rejoined the civilized world and had FiOS TV installed. We’ve had FiOS internet for as long as we’ve been in the house (November 2007) — but during that time we’ve been getting by with just broadcast TV. Sure, we had digital converter boxes and the picture looked great most of the time, but we only got about 6 channels, and if the wind blew you couldn’t even get NBC. (it sucked!!) Not to mention the lack of a DVR… Seriously folks, once you go DVR you never wanna go back! So anyway, the install date coincided with when I was laid up on the couch, so at least that worked out.
UNFORTUNATELY…. This week has been very difficult at work. Of course I had loads to catch up on after being out (and completely out of it) for so long. But then yesterday we had a Reduction in Force. My job is ok, but we had to let a lot of incredibly talented people go thanks to this horrible economy. Telligent’s culture is unlike any I’ve experienced before, so most of my coworkers are much more than just people I work with – they’re friends, and even extended family. It was an extremely long, difficult day. I really can’t begin to tell you how taxing it was…
So now I’m just trying to regroup, and refocus. It feels like the house went to shit while I was sick! We’ve got extra furniture out the wazoo; dirty dishes, dirty floors, dirty laundry a halogen (I think?) light bulb on the back patio that needs to be replaced, a leaking toilet that needs to be fixed… And it’s already past 1pm. :(
So I guess it’s time to get some coffee going and move!
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