Because I like to procrastinate

Ok so I was tagged to do this by Abby! I'll give it a whirl.

The rules are to tag 7 people and then post 10 random things about yourself. Well, I don't know if I know of 7 people to tag, especially since a bunch of them have already been tagged, so I'll tag a few. But here are the 10 random things:

10. I have been craving pastries lately, like danishes and turnovers.
9. There is a crepe restaurant in Lancaster that I *LOVE* and my mom and I like to go there together.
8. I bought a new vacuum yesterday and for the first time in my life I enjoyed vacuuming. We'll see what happens when the novelty of a new vacuum wears off.
7. My car DESPERATELY needs a car wash.
6. We keep our heat set at 60 degrees. It is rewarding to know that since we were willing to cover up with a blanket, we have lower heating bills.
5. I am a TERRIBLE test taker and it seems like in order to finish my post-bacc cert and master's I have to take a gazillion tests, even though my major prides itself on thinking of ways to assess without giving too many tests. :/ Yea right.
4. I love decorating with stars!
3. I love buying new books. To me it is even better than buying new clothes.
2. I love to decorate with dark woods.
1. My husband and I played Mariokart today and yesterday and usually come in first and second when we are playing. We are just that good. ;)

Ok I am going to tag:
Marialena, and Erin

1-20-09

What a historic day. It truly is wonderful. I have been waiting for this day for a long time. Welcome to the White House President Obama!

I had testing all day long, but I finished for lunch around 11:00 and was able to make it to my parents' house with two friends of mine to watch the inauguration. I was so glad to be able to see it. How wonderful.

Hope.

I've been bad! and Rambling Autobiography

I am so sorry that I haven't updated (not that you were sitting by your computers waiting for me to write). Its been a difficult couple of weeks trying to get through something emotionally, but I'm here! And I am going to write more often and they will be INTERESTING posts! I have to keep a "writer's notebook" for one of my classes and I thought that some of the topics I write about would make interesting blog posts and if you want to steal any of my themes go for it!. Today we wrote a "rambling autobiography" and I am going to duplicate it and add on to what I wrote in class. Here goes!

Rambling Autobiography

It was so hot on the day I was born that the case of soda my parents had in their car exploded! The first time I can remember playing in the snow I was playing with a neighbor boy and he threw a HUGE snowball in my face and my mom brought me inside and gave me a bubble bath and made me hot chocolate and cookies. We moved to the house I spent most of my life in when I was 4. The neighbor girl, who lived with her grandmother, made me eat dandelions so I told her that my mom didn't like her grandmother and that I wasn't allowed hanging out with her anymore. Her grandmother confronted my mom. I was once the Queen of Hearts in the play version of Alice in Wonderland. I am deathly afraid of dentists. I started camping when I was 5 weeks old and growing up went camping just about every weekend. By the time I was 17 I had been to every continental US state, plus most of Canada, and Germany. I've now been to 5 different countries outside of the US. I met my husband when I was 17 and married him 6 years later. My parents didn't find out how we met until my bridal shower because they would have killed me if they knew when I was 17, and after that I forgot they didn't know. My great-grandmother died when I was 17 and I miss her terribly. I graduated college the first time not knowing what I wanted to do and that I was destined to be a teacher. I convinced my husband to make a crazy decision once and adopt two puppies and we haven't been sane since. We bought our first house this past summer. I have had 5 surgeries. I went to my first Patriots home game this past summer and it was wonderful! That was the 6th pro-football game I have been to. I will be 25 in July and that number seems too old to consider, even though I know it isn't old. I held a newborn baby yesterday and it hurt my heart and my arms to hold her, but she was so precious and I was so happy for my friend! I could eat chocolate every day of my life and be just happy. I beat two levels in Mariokart last night. My husband brings me home a lemonade every single day.

There we go! That isn't all of my life but it is some fun things and raw things and more about me. Try writing your own! If you do write your own, post a comment and let me know so I can go read yours! And if you want to hear about anything from mine, post a comment and ask and I will write my next blog telling that story or about something. :)

Good News/ Bad News

The good news is that if it was kidney stones causing the pain it could have been two small ones that I will not have any more problems with. My pain is A LOT better. There is still a twinge today but I might feel comfortable enough to go shopping today! But they don't think this is what caused the pain. I'll get to that in a minute. They don't see anymore stones in my right kidney (CELEBRATE!).

The bad news is actually in two parts. The first part is that there is still a stone in my kidney, but it is in my left kidney. When I say still I mean that when I started I had multiple stones in both kidneys. This stone is old, but there. It is about 4 cm (anything above 5 they operate on), but they don't think it will move for a while... it is at the bottom of my kidney and has to travel up.

There are two parts to this bad news, and the second part is what is probably causing my pain. They found a cyst on my right ovary that might have partially ruptured, causing the pain. I have an appt today to have an ultrasound done to look at it a little closer and find out about it.

What I am thankful about is that this is all being found now, instead of a month from now. On January 12th I start an INSANE semester of school, and they told us up front that we need to have our surgeries and everything taken care of before the semester starts because if we miss more than one day of classes then we will be removed from the classes that semester and would have to retake them. So if any surgery has to happen I will push for it to be done within the next week or two at the most. Lets hope it doesn't come to that.

Continued prayers would be fantastic!

Nothing has changed

Nothing has really changed, except I might feel a little worse than I did yesterday. I hurt when I move, but when I'm sitting still, like right now, I don't hurt. But walking around, shifting my weight, or putting any type of strain or pressure on my right side hurts. Jeff is off work tonight so if it gets worse then at least I have a ride to the ER, but we are really hoping that I just stay this way or get better between now and Monday. If nothing has changed by Monday I will get my CT scan done, (provided the pregnancy tests results came back negative... I still haven't heart, but I'm very doubtful that they would be positive), and then find out what is going on and if it is a stone, then I will probably be scheduling surgery. I'll keep you updated. Please keep me in your prayers. I don't really want to go into the emotions that I'm feeling right now so I'm pushing them away and just concentrating on how I physically feel. If I go into my emotions then I get very upset and angry and cry because this is just a lot to deal with. I've been very angry about this, and angry with God for making me go through this again. I really need prayers for my emotions and my physical state as well.

We had an earthquake!

We had an earthquake last night!!! Actually, the earthquake was in the neighboring county but it was strong enough that we felt it here. It was a 3.3 on the Richter scale. It shook the whole house! The ornaments on the tree were shaking like crazy! The dogs went absolutely NUTS! They were sleeping and when it started they went absolutely crazy. Running around barking, not quite sure at who or where to bark. The news said it was at 12:04am, and it lasted for about 30 seconds. I thought it was a huge truck going by at first, but unless they are delivery trucks, trucks aren't allowed in our neighborhood. then I was thinking that maybe it could have been someone's house blowing up or an oil tank or something, but when it lasted for a while I knew it was an earthquake. This was the first one I actually felt! I've slept through all the other ones we've ever had.

I need prayers

I might have another kidney stone. I was supposed to have dr's appt and CT scan done today but neither happened. Here is why:

I drove down to have the CT scan done and go to my appt, and they didn't want to do the CT scan until they knew for sure whether or not I was pregnant. I went and had bloodwork done and then sat in the waiting room waiting for my results. An hour and a half went by waiting for the results, and by then it was too late to go to the dr's and I had to schedule an appointment for Monday morning. The tech that was waiting for my results so she could take me to do my CT scan came out and told me the machine broke and they had to send my blood over to the hospital to their machine for the test and it would be another hour at least, but that if I was still going to get a CT scan that day, that I would need to go to the hospital also and get it done there because they were closing too and they don't have weekend hours. Well, I am going to go back Monday before my appt and get the CT scan and then go to my appt. So I know nothing. In the meantime, they gave me a pain Rx if I need it, and they said if the pain gets too bad that I should go to the ER.

The thing about my last appointment was that he didn't do a CT or ultrasound or xray to see my kidneys for sure, so he didn't know 100% that I didn't have a stone, but since there were no red blood cells in my urine sample he didn't think I had a stone. Well today I started to feel sore in that area so I am nervous and want it checked out. I think it is a stone, but what throws me is that I really only feel the pain when I am walking or shifting my weight and using that side (my right side). Otherwise, like right now, when I'm sitting still I don't really have pain... and that doesn't seem like a stone because stone pain never goes away. The thing I think is that it might not yet be moving, but it might be in an area that is causing pain if I move around on that side.

I really need prayers, both for my emotional state and my health. I am so frustrated and upset right now for many reason. The biggest reason is that I'm dealing with this AGAIN, and 4 days after I was told I was clear. I am so tired of going through this, both physically and emotionally and I just want to have a normal life. Also because I sat in the waiting room for an hour and a half and found absolutely nothing out because I couldn't have anything done or see the dr.

This is going to be a really long weekend. :(