Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

First let me take care of something....

I knew it was comin', but let it slip up on me! Hope you had a great one and NO pokes or bruises! (not even the accidental kind!)

Okay. So I went to the endo yesterday. We went in Mom's car...with Mom driving, so you know how at ease I was.

NOT!

But since we made it there and back alive, I guess I can't grumble too much.

We got there a bit early and they took me right back (I really LOVE this office! Woo!) I was in there a total of 30 minutes and back out on the road with a sparkling bill of health.

My A1c in their office was a mere (and very acceptable) 6.7, down a tenth from last time, so Dr. G was mighty pleased with me. I questioned him about the readings from the new doc's (Dr. K) on cholesterol and thyroid stuff...

All my cholesterol readings were high-normals. I wasn't sure if I needed to be concerned about them or not. Dr. G says "Not." He says I have no other risk factors for high cholesterol and my blood pressure's always been good, so no worries on that account.

My thyroid readings, like I told you Wednesday, are good, even by Dr. K's lab. Dr. G, even though he's not a big fan of the ArMoUr thyroid med, said he didn't know why Dr. K had made me switch to the synthetic stuff. Also said he thought the dose Dr. K had started me on was going to be too high. And then, "We'll just have to see how it is in six weeks." No biggie. I swear, that man is one of the most laid-back docs I've ever had!! Very thorough, but laid back.

So anyhows, he tells me if I find that the new thyroid is not working, I should just go back to what I was already using. Sheesh! I'm tellin' ya, folks, I absolutely HATE when docs mess with my thyroid meds. HATE IT! Since the thyroid regulates your metabolism, it really knocks me for a loop when somebody comes along messin' with it and turns my world on its head. GAH!

Thus far, I THINK I'm doing okay with it. Although...I did have a couple hours yesterday when I was really lightheaded and such. Dunno what that was all about. So far today, I feel fine, so...*shrugs*...who knows?!?!

Oh and that reference to blue icing?? See comments in the previous post to catch up on that. Heh.

After we got out of the endo's Mom started mapping out her plan of attack for shopping me into my grave. I swear, I think she'd be pleased to have "She Met Her Maker With A Full Shopping Bag In Each Hand" engraved on my headstone!! *snicker*

She's all in a fizz over trying to pull together a wedding for my sister.

Yeah, she's planning to get married this spring. I don't wanna talk about it. Neither of us (me & sis) may survive my mama's event plannings and such. Urgha! She's an event planning maniac, my mama.

So, she wanted to go to all the fancy do-dah places and look for frou-frou flowers, ribbons, cake toppers and any other jiggy that might possibly be used for decoration. I just needed to find some ribbon and a few flowers to re-do my huge grapevine wreath to match the new paint.

She also was instructed to go to The Big Warehouse Club That Shall Remain Nameless (lest it comes up in a search or some other paranoid fear of detection I have) to get a case of motor oil for my dad. I just needed some mega-jiggies of liquid laundry soap and some Myl@nt@. Sheesh!

We stop to get a bite to eat, which is when I didn't feel so hot with the dizziness, but soon we were on the road to Shopdom Euphoria.

In case you missed this critical detail...MY MOTHER CAN SHOP ME UNDER THE TABLE. She wears me OUT with the overmuch SHOPPPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After we'd been in the Ridge Of G@rdens looking at the explosion of flora and fauna and getting lost in the fake tree department where I feared any minute a spider monkey (or just a spider) would jump out on me, Corey beeps to ask if I know that it's after 4pm.

No. I did not!! He was rather fussy with me because he had an EMT meeting to attend at 6pm. I relayed the info to Mom, who put her shopping cart in overdrive and peeled out toward the registers. She kept going on and on about how she didn't know the boys had meetings and stuff tonight. (Case had bball practice, too) Corey, little snot, kept saying, "But SHE did know about it..." as if I'd purposely undermined his get-together at the ambulance station! GAH!

I never dreamed it was so late, so I actually DIDN'T know and there'd been no opportunity to tell Mom about it because she was totally all in Event Planning Heaven and could not be reached by talk of anything other than The Event.

Sheesh. So we made it back to town with just enough time to drop Corey off, minus his uniform, which I told him to just get over already! Then we rushed home to unload and transfer stuff and get Case ready for his practice.

Tommy was home and took Casey on to the gym and I passed out on the couch. I was SO TIRED!!!!!

On the way home, I asked Mom if Daddy was actually needing that oil right now (I suspected he did because there's been a lot of work on some equipment going on) and she said yeah, and he was gonna be mad at her. So I told her that I'd drive back up there one day next week. She needs the extra space in the Explorer to haul some of them 5 foot trees outta The Fake Tree Forest anyhows. Sheesh.

Today? Today I called to get a free dialup account from the company that is currently delaying our dsl account. Found out some more info about that...seems that we're like riiiiIIIiiiight on the edge of the service area. They're trying to get us connected without doing anything physically to the lines, I think, but that may not be possible. The lady I talked to was really nice, so I didn't flip out on her, but it sure seems odd to me that the dude Tommy originally signed up with CHECKED us for availability and now they're having this problem.

Gah. So, I now have @lltEl dialup. It's actually faster than the isp I had before. At least!!

Now, I'm trying to get my email set up and that's not going very well. I think I'm gonna hafta dump Thunderbird. It's just not nearly as versatile as OutlOOk was. Maybe I'll get OE back and see if it works better on the new CPU. ???

At this point, I'm getting a bit technology-weary and sick of fooling with it. How horribly SAD to say that about this snazzy new computer!!! GAH!

Maybe, too, I just need some lunch!

Think I'll go see if the kids have that icing made yet...