Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

nothing much to tell.... well, yeah, there are a few things, but really... no time!

let's do a rush-blab update, shall we? *gah!*

• the title for the 'trep got kicked. long, disgusting sorry-g'ment-people kinda story, but it got re-sent with hopefully no further costs to us... we'll have to wait and see, but hopefully, it'll be here tomorrow barring any further infuriation from our lovely state capitol workers. GRRR!

  and to top it all off? the thing runs so unbelievably well!! it's so tight... no rattles and squeaks, etc.. it starts like *snap* that and just runs like a dream to be a '97-'96-'94 'trep w/leather interior and all that jazz. lol i'm driving the plateless, registrationless, insuranceless thing to get prescriptions today. *hmph!* (it's just down the road here, thankfully, but PLEASE, LORD let that title be here tomorrow!)

• me health stuff: the on-again-off-again intestinal stuff is still going on. i dunno what to make of it. i thought maybe it was a bug of some sort, but now since i have major m a j o r sore muscles all down my left side like i've been walking around carrying weights or something? i'm thinking maybe stress? but i didn't think anything was bothering me that much really. *sigh* i just know i'm tired of this sick stomach thing. very not fun!

  in other news.... i went off my anti-depression med about a month ago, too. i hadn't told anyone til last week. when i told tommy he goes, you're kidding. well, with all that's been going on lately? [tax bill, vehicles dying, etc] you're doing fantastic! hm. my husband doesn't often say things like that. lol. but he's right. for the first time in about 12 years, i am without any sort of anti-depression medication. wooo-hoo!

  oh wait. well, i am on this one med that's technically an anti-dep, but i take it to help me sleep. so maybe i fibbed a little. but let's just be happy 'bout this, uhkay? ;)

  most of the meds i take have as a side effect fatigue and worse. and i just got so sick of being so tired! all. the. time!!! some of them daggone things i can only go without a day or two til i feel it... b i g t i m e as in stiff joints and such. y'know... some meds you just gotta have. unfortunately. but i was determined to see if i couldn't do without something... so i stopped the anti-dep med.

  anyhow... there's that tidbit for you. it may be that sometime down the road, i'll need to go back on them again, and that's okay. i've been on so many different ones trying to find one that would work for me, you'd die if i started to list them... some of them i can't even remember! so i have felt blessed that God 'sent' this one that worked so well for me and helped me get back to where i could function.

  um... more tidbit.

• tax thingie: finally got that all straightened out. turns out we will owe, but it's lots less than i'd feared. thank God! i called and talked to the lady who'd sent the letter and she was so nice. that's what i get for making a mountain out of a mole hill. [*ahem* to some certain peoples out there who are also being worry warts these days?] granted, it's no small amount... we will have to set it up in payments, but again, it's nothing like the thousands i was imagining. praise the Lord!

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new stuff
• church: we went to a new church sunday. my parents have been going to evening services there for a couple of months i think. we all enjoyed it very much and after so much emptyness and disappointment in church services today? it was a really nice surprise and a great blessing. you don't realize how much you miss going to church, i mean really going to church til you finally get to go again after a long period of time. is this the place for us? i don't know, but for now, we'll enjoy the blessings the Lord gives us there til He gives us other instructions. for now, i'm just hoping and praying that we can all draw close to Him.
• more vehicle? more headpain: tommy just purchased a "new" (to him) truck. you know the poor man has been without a 'work truck' since getting rid of that sad ol' jeep j-10 back when corey got his 'stang.

  and yeah, it was pretty bad when he had to do a job out of the exploder... what a mess! so he traded the old gokart trailer and $125 for this '91 ford f150 pickup.

  seems to be an okay truck. the insides aren't trashed and the motor's good. it did need some work though since it'd been sitting for a long time. this is the nicest truck he's had, poor guy, but for what he uses them for, it's all he needs, too. the thing that's bugging me is why do we need yet another vehicle right now that we can't (as of yet) drive? gah!!!

  we take the exploder tomorrow to have the tranny looked at... or taken out or something. anyhow, it's gonna be torn down, so that we'll then have NO legal vehicles (until that title gets here for the 'trep and that truck? it's a standard!)

  maybe i have more stress than i realized...

• speak up, i can't see you: my monitor is about to die! it's been trying to crap out on me for months, but it's getting really bad now. i can't even explain what it does other than looking like it has some sort of electronic interference (when it doesn't) and the windows curling around so that you can't see the top or bottom and getting all distorted. (means you can't click the tabs or icons!) for the longest time, even though the edges were distorted, you could still click them, but now they're SO distorted that you can't even see them. it's like they're curled all the way around like when you roll paper around a pencil. anyhow... dunno what we'll do about that. i've priced some flat panels online, but that's still gonna be outta reach. i may be stuck with some old piece of crud from the dumpster again. (i did tell ya'll that other dumpster monitor blew up, right? mm-hm)

again, instead of a neat little topic specific post, you've gotten a big long blab, but folks, that seems to be the only way i can operate. oh, for a nice compact little thought with no rabbit trails! *pththt*

looks like another weekend of chaos and the usual stuff. *sigh* i'd love to spend the whole thing in a hot tub soaking my stiff, achy muscles!

hope you have very peaceful, blessed weekend (and think of me while you do it! lol!)

blessings---