3 posts tagged “car”

Well, I know it's still way too early in the day to call it, but things have let up a ton already, and I'm thinking positive about the rest of the day.

Craig reminded me that he has Thursday off and we can take the car to the mechanics then.  That would be preferable since he's the one who saw where the leak is.  My errand can wait til Thursday too.

As for Jasmine, she nom'd the hell out of her special hot cereal, ate a nice sized salad from the garden, easily took all her meds, had a grape for dessert, and then started chewing up the towel to let me know she wanted down.  She seems not just fine, but really good.  She must've just got caught up on the hard floor over night and been sore and frazzled from sliding around.  I'll have to block that off a little better.

Back to work.

Craig woke me early this morning to let me know that after *MANY* hours of labor, Anne had a baby girl.  My heart is overflowing with joy for her!  I haven't heard her name or any stats yet, but it's good just to know all are well, especailly after a long labor!  Hopefully Anne is getting a little rest after all that effort!

I couldn't get back to sleep thanks to an ear infection.  I felt it coming on yesterday, and it's hurting pretty bad today, from mid neck all the way up to my temple.

It's just as well I get an early start to my day.  I'm going to try to make my brain do a double shift today, since Craig has Thursday, Friday and Monday off.  I get paid hourly, so if I want to take those days off, I either take a chunk out of my next paycheck, or I make up the time elsewhere.

I'm worried about Jasmine.  Craig found her in a corner of the back room this morning.  That's usually a sign that the end is nigh, but in Jasmine's case, it could also mean she stumbled onto the slippery floor, lost her footing, and after much sliding around, wound up in a far corner.  I'm nervous, but when I fed them, she chowed down, and in my experience, when an animal is ready to go, they don't want to eat.  Her balance is a little off, but she still managed her way to the water bowl after eating too, so the lost-her-footing scenario seems more likely.  Still worried though, and painfully aware of the inevitable.

Some time today I should run one quick errand, and then drop my car off at the mechanics.  I'm losing brake fluid.  I really need to run an errand, but I'm nervous about driving it too, so I'm thinking I may just find some way to do without the errand, and head straight for the mechanics.  Fortunately, they're just down the street, so I can drop the car off and walk home.  I should've done that last week, but it was way too blasted hot and I was painfully sunburned.

Ah, Monday.  Starting the week full-force this time, right from the get-go, eh?  I'd better get some breakfast and jump in the game, before I get run over and left behind.

I'm supposed to be out having Thai for lunch right now with Craig and Dave, but my car is acting up and I didn't trust it would behave for the 30 minute drive in, especially when my cell phone needs a charge ...you know how those things work.  So, while I finish my homemade, not-Thai lunch, I figure I'll jot some good things down.

My allergies are so not an issue right now for the first time ever.  I had one really bad night Sunday night, but then I ate like crap all weekend and forgot to take my supplements, so first evidence does seem to indicate this change in diet is for the better.  I haven't been really strict about this eating to fight inflammation thing, but I have made small changes and I'm very aware when I'm eating something bad for me or when I could be eating something better rather, which is a good change. 

Basically, I'm eating loads of produce and taking a few select vitamins.  Those are the only consistant (except for this weekend) changes I've made in the past week, but they appear to be working very well.  The books I read both recommended extra vitamin C and E, and I've been taking the C, but the E I ordered just came in the mail today, so I'll start that too.  I also ordered an antioxidant complex I'm excited to try.  It's a blend of plant antioxidants, including grape seed extract, green tea extract, quercetin, tumeric and rosemary extract.  Those first three things listed were recommended frequently in the anti-inflammatory books I just read, so I'm hoping this knocks out the bit of occasional congestion that is currently what's left my spring time allergies.

I even groomed my bunnies this past week, dusted, cleaned cages, worked for a bit in the yard, ...no problems with allergies.  If this is my solution and the end to that chapter in my life, I may just have a hallelulah breakdown.  And from a neopagan, that's a whole hell of a lot of joy!

Also making me happy this week is my new work setup.  My husband put an extra monitor on my system, so now I can run the software on one monitor, and document it on the other.  This makes things sooooo much easier!  I squee.

I have a huge personal goal for myself on this documentation project.  There are three main manuals they say are the minimum they need to roll out the next version of the software.  I want to have those manuals ready to go before I leave for Ireland.  There's very little chance that anyone else is likely to be ready to roll out the software that soon, but if I have my share done, I can vacation without thinking about work for even a fraction of a second.  It's a hell of a lot of work, and planning it out, I even have 8 hour days planned for my weekends, but what would it hurt really to dig in and try?  It would be more awesome than I can express to meet that goal, but even coming close is worth shooting for.

Well, I guess I should get back to it then.  Miles to go before I sleep, and all that.