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I think I'm catching up!
Jan. 28th, 2004 11:49 amToday will be spent working on my lab assignment that's due tomorrow. It shouldn't be hard. (famous last words ;o) ha!)
I continue to have pain in my lower abdomen. If it isn't better by tomorrow I'm going to call the doctor who did my colonoscopy to ask if there might be a complication or something. I'm not bleeding from there or anything, it just hurts. The place it's hurting could also be my ovary so I'm giving it another day. I've got a cyst on that ovary and it does hurt sometimes. The timing is right for that.
Sunday we finally celebrated my godmother/aunt's 80th birthday. Her birthday was January 1st, but she is in the advanced stages of emphysema and two of the family members were sick that day. Two more were in Minnesota, so we didn't do anything. That was the whole reason we rushed back from Kansas on New Year's Eve, Aunt Marge's birthday. Oh well. My mom and I spoke about it about a week ago. She said she'd taken dinner over by herself already. She thought we should all do our own thing. I was a little irritated and a lot disappointed. Still, it was a crazy week last week so I didn't do anything. Then my sister called on Saturday and said she'd had the exact conversation with mom and thought it was wrong. She had called Aunt Marge and said she and her hubby would bring dinner over on Sunday. Then she got an idea of seeing if anyone else wanted to go and she called me. I committed right away! Yay! Then she called our aunt & uncle in San Francisco, who had been in Minnesota before, and they said they'd come down. Mom also got onboard. It was a surprise for Aunt Marge as people kept arriving. We were the first unexpected guests to arrive. Aunt Marge had a plastic birthday crown on her head and a big bunch of balloons next to her. We kept collecting more chairs as people arrived so we wouldn't tip her off that more were coming. It was a success! She was glowing all evening. Yay!
Monday I worked a couple of hours in Sausalito. I had a shrink appointment at 1:30 and a chiropractic appointment at 3pm. That gave me about an hour between them. I'm trying to organize the house a little at a time. One big problem is that it's so cluttered now that there isn't any place to put things when I pick them up. The pile were being sorted and moved. Granted, they were reduced by the stuff I threw away or recycled, but I still have no place to put them. The three computer paper boxes I picked up at De Anza are all full now. I desperately need an end table next to my chair that will have a place for my laptop computer, the CDs, my lamp and my other stuff I need there. That's where I'm going to be working when I'm contract programming. Right now I've got a stack of VHS tape storage boxes my parents gave me eons ago. Over the years one of the drawers broke Lee-Roy has been peeing on the stack and I've been cleaning it up, but the wear and tear of the process has ruined the side and back of them. They need to go away.
An IKEA opened between my shrink and chiropractor last fall. My sister loves that place and I love her taste in things so I decided to use my hour to look for a solution to my end table problem. They had a lot of cool stuff there. It isn't like an ordinary store you can walk into and go directly to what you want. They've created a maze that I got lost in and all the products are organized into little demonstration rooms. There isn't one place to go for end tables. They're all over the place in settings. After circling the same area for the third time, I realized there were arrows on the floor. It clicked in my mind that if I wanted to see everything I'd have to follow their guided tour so I followed them backwards to the beginning and took the tour through the store. There were a few possibilities for my end table. The most tempting isn't the prettiest, but it would be very functional. I have to drag Eric there to see what he thinks. I did pick up one $10 thing for the rat room. It's meant for a child's room. It's a net tube about 10 inches in diameter with sections about a foot long separated by netting and a heavy plastic ring around the perimeters. It hangs from the ceiling. There are round reinforced holes into each section. It's perfect for organizing brRaticus' food, rat rags and treats. Lightweight supplies would be fine in it too. The only thing that won't work would be the heavy litter I use for the bottom of his cage. Right now his stuff is overflowing one of those boxes at my feet. There just isn't a lot of room here. I ended up being at IKEA for two hours. oops. oh well. I did some grocery shopping on the way home.
When I got home at 6pm there was a message from the unemployment department telling me to call them. They were closed. I intended to call them in the morning, but they called yesterday before I was out of bed. I was awake, just not up yet. I had checked the box that said I had begun training for new skills but didn't know I had to fill more out on the form. It wasn't very clear. She asked a bunch of questions about where and when the class was, if it would prevent me from taking a full time job (no, I'll drop if necessary) and if I was truly looking for work. I told her I was. She asked where I'd applied so far. I remembered one but couldn't remember the name of the other that I had written on the form. I told her that until last Sunday night I hadn't seen ANY jobs for the language I work with so I'd been applying for management positions though I much prefer programming to management. I asked her what if there were NO jobs I qualified for in a week? She said as long as I was looking that it would be all right. Was I looking? I assured her I was. We have a mortgage to pay! Then she asked where I was looking and I gave her the list.. CalJobs.com, Monster.com, Dice.com, BayJobs.com, and a couple more that contacted me after I registered with those; plus I had sent my resume to a few headhunters (recruiters) as well. She seemed satisfied with my answers and said she'd cut my check right away. I thanked her and mentioned my bills that were coming due. All in all, a very nice conversation.
I got connected over the phone lines with my customer in Michigan and collected the information I need to do the custom programming work he needs. I'll be doing that over the next couple of weeks in the evenings. Then I went to class. Midterm is next Tuesday!! Yikes! Lab2 is due tomorrow and I work in Sausalito from the time I can get there through engineering the class tomorrow night.
Last night I also finally got the paperwork to print for rolling my 401K over into an IRA. It's only a week late. *sigh* It wasn't my problem as it turned out. Adobe PDF reader 6.0 had a bug that caused it not to print. I got the patch and it's working. Naturally my black print cartridge is running out of ink, so it printed in gray.
As Gilda Radner always said, "It's always something."
Oh well, off to do some programming and then when I need a break I'll go to Office Depot for more ink.
I continue to have pain in my lower abdomen. If it isn't better by tomorrow I'm going to call the doctor who did my colonoscopy to ask if there might be a complication or something. I'm not bleeding from there or anything, it just hurts. The place it's hurting could also be my ovary so I'm giving it another day. I've got a cyst on that ovary and it does hurt sometimes. The timing is right for that.
Sunday we finally celebrated my godmother/aunt's 80th birthday. Her birthday was January 1st, but she is in the advanced stages of emphysema and two of the family members were sick that day. Two more were in Minnesota, so we didn't do anything. That was the whole reason we rushed back from Kansas on New Year's Eve, Aunt Marge's birthday. Oh well. My mom and I spoke about it about a week ago. She said she'd taken dinner over by herself already. She thought we should all do our own thing. I was a little irritated and a lot disappointed. Still, it was a crazy week last week so I didn't do anything. Then my sister called on Saturday and said she'd had the exact conversation with mom and thought it was wrong. She had called Aunt Marge and said she and her hubby would bring dinner over on Sunday. Then she got an idea of seeing if anyone else wanted to go and she called me. I committed right away! Yay! Then she called our aunt & uncle in San Francisco, who had been in Minnesota before, and they said they'd come down. Mom also got onboard. It was a surprise for Aunt Marge as people kept arriving. We were the first unexpected guests to arrive. Aunt Marge had a plastic birthday crown on her head and a big bunch of balloons next to her. We kept collecting more chairs as people arrived so we wouldn't tip her off that more were coming. It was a success! She was glowing all evening. Yay!
Monday I worked a couple of hours in Sausalito. I had a shrink appointment at 1:30 and a chiropractic appointment at 3pm. That gave me about an hour between them. I'm trying to organize the house a little at a time. One big problem is that it's so cluttered now that there isn't any place to put things when I pick them up. The pile were being sorted and moved. Granted, they were reduced by the stuff I threw away or recycled, but I still have no place to put them. The three computer paper boxes I picked up at De Anza are all full now. I desperately need an end table next to my chair that will have a place for my laptop computer, the CDs, my lamp and my other stuff I need there. That's where I'm going to be working when I'm contract programming. Right now I've got a stack of VHS tape storage boxes my parents gave me eons ago. Over the years one of the drawers broke Lee-Roy has been peeing on the stack and I've been cleaning it up, but the wear and tear of the process has ruined the side and back of them. They need to go away.
An IKEA opened between my shrink and chiropractor last fall. My sister loves that place and I love her taste in things so I decided to use my hour to look for a solution to my end table problem. They had a lot of cool stuff there. It isn't like an ordinary store you can walk into and go directly to what you want. They've created a maze that I got lost in and all the products are organized into little demonstration rooms. There isn't one place to go for end tables. They're all over the place in settings. After circling the same area for the third time, I realized there were arrows on the floor. It clicked in my mind that if I wanted to see everything I'd have to follow their guided tour so I followed them backwards to the beginning and took the tour through the store. There were a few possibilities for my end table. The most tempting isn't the prettiest, but it would be very functional. I have to drag Eric there to see what he thinks. I did pick up one $10 thing for the rat room. It's meant for a child's room. It's a net tube about 10 inches in diameter with sections about a foot long separated by netting and a heavy plastic ring around the perimeters. It hangs from the ceiling. There are round reinforced holes into each section. It's perfect for organizing brRaticus' food, rat rags and treats. Lightweight supplies would be fine in it too. The only thing that won't work would be the heavy litter I use for the bottom of his cage. Right now his stuff is overflowing one of those boxes at my feet. There just isn't a lot of room here. I ended up being at IKEA for two hours. oops. oh well. I did some grocery shopping on the way home.
When I got home at 6pm there was a message from the unemployment department telling me to call them. They were closed. I intended to call them in the morning, but they called yesterday before I was out of bed. I was awake, just not up yet. I had checked the box that said I had begun training for new skills but didn't know I had to fill more out on the form. It wasn't very clear. She asked a bunch of questions about where and when the class was, if it would prevent me from taking a full time job (no, I'll drop if necessary) and if I was truly looking for work. I told her I was. She asked where I'd applied so far. I remembered one but couldn't remember the name of the other that I had written on the form. I told her that until last Sunday night I hadn't seen ANY jobs for the language I work with so I'd been applying for management positions though I much prefer programming to management. I asked her what if there were NO jobs I qualified for in a week? She said as long as I was looking that it would be all right. Was I looking? I assured her I was. We have a mortgage to pay! Then she asked where I was looking and I gave her the list.. CalJobs.com, Monster.com, Dice.com, BayJobs.com, and a couple more that contacted me after I registered with those; plus I had sent my resume to a few headhunters (recruiters) as well. She seemed satisfied with my answers and said she'd cut my check right away. I thanked her and mentioned my bills that were coming due. All in all, a very nice conversation.
I got connected over the phone lines with my customer in Michigan and collected the information I need to do the custom programming work he needs. I'll be doing that over the next couple of weeks in the evenings. Then I went to class. Midterm is next Tuesday!! Yikes! Lab2 is due tomorrow and I work in Sausalito from the time I can get there through engineering the class tomorrow night.
Last night I also finally got the paperwork to print for rolling my 401K over into an IRA. It's only a week late. *sigh* It wasn't my problem as it turned out. Adobe PDF reader 6.0 had a bug that caused it not to print. I got the patch and it's working. Naturally my black print cartridge is running out of ink, so it printed in gray.
As Gilda Radner always said, "It's always something."
Oh well, off to do some programming and then when I need a break I'll go to Office Depot for more ink.
