More on the Birthday

My birthday was pretty uneventful… of course that’s how it goes the older you get.  I am hoping for a fun party when I turn 40 - I have to celebrate at some point!

My siblings were all having a family reunion minus me.  They called me on speaker phone and sang happy birthday, extremely loud (I was informed later they were all drinking).  At the end of the song, someone (I think it was my brother in law) shouted/sang “How old are you now?!”, to which I sang back “Younger than you!”, because… I am, younger than all of them.  Then I spoke to each one individually.  I think the phone call was the best part of my birthday day.  I had a huge smile for a long while afterwards.

Sam picked up a few things on his way home and Chelsea made me a cake while I was at work.  That was all great too.  I am supposed to be getting away for a weekend, maybe just to Kansas City, but away will be nice.

Still not well, but I just keep hoping it will go away.

Today

… is my birthday.

hoorah?

Oy vey

This morning I spoke to the nurse, whom informed me my MRCP was normal. She then told me it was recommended I had an office visit, which means “see you in August”. This morning I figured “whatever”, I was going to schedule the visit and as of late I’ve been doing OK. This morning I felt fine and while I have had a few bouts of pain over the last two weeks I figured maybe I am getting better.

After being transferred multiple times I was told I still owed that office money. Yikes. I didn’t realize that, in the mound of medical bills theirs was overlooked. Half has been paid, but they won’t schedule an appointment until I pay up. I think they billed a little excessive since they didn’t even remove my gallbladder and the GI that did charged much less. I’m also wishing I didn’t have to pay until they fixed me, but I do understand they’d like to get paid. I hope to pay the balance later this week.

I went most of today thinking I was fine anyway, why bother making the appointment? Then about 30 minutes ago a wave of nausea hit and it’s still there. Oh yeah, I remember. I can’t seem to do anything about the nausea either, just wait it out. I think it’s better than the mind numbing cramps, but only by a little.

What’s the Password?

For some reason my wordpress password wasn’t working on my laptop.  I knew it, but with my upgrade to Firefox3 (hate it) it was making me re-enter it and it was not accepting it.

So I went to my PC and auto logged in.  I changed the password, just to be sure I knew it.  I went back to my laptop - still no go.  I clicked the “forgot password” button, my first mistake.  After many tries of unsuccessful “keys” I search… there is a bug in my version of WP and the key won’t work.  Joy.

I did find an easy fix, eventually.  I’m obviously back in and I’ll be sure not to hit the “forgot password” button again.

The Wizard of Oz is over.  Hoorah!  I didn’t get many good photos, but I have a few.

I had my MRCP on Saturday and should hear back tomorrow some time.  I suspect I will be told it all looks good.

Crazy

I started seeing my GI again because of some pressure pain I have in my upper left abdominal area following my cramping episodes.  They are rare but when it happens it’s pretty bad, I put it off for three months but decided I better see what’s causing it.

The nurse will not allow me to see the doctor or speak to him.  He’s out of the office all summer, but she will relay messages to him for me.  As angry as this makes me, I don’t want to switch doctors (yet) so I am going along with it for now.  I had a CT scan and some blood work on Friday.

She called this morning to tell me the doctor thinks it’s all due to constipation (we’ve gone down this road before) and to take over the counter meds for it.  I asked “Does constipation cause weight loss?”, she stammers “um no, not typically”.  I asked because I am still losing weight, passing the 40lbs mark this week.  She says “oh well you should see the doctor”.  Really?  Seriously?  Ya think?  However, “he won’t be in the office until August”.

Ah, what’s another 20lbs?

*gasp*

What is this?  I can reach my hosting via my ISP?  The shock!

Not that you can tell any of this from your end, but since I was unable to reach this page without jumping hoops I hadn’t given any thought to blogging.

Here I am!  Hoorah!

The Wizard of Oz started last night.  It was a “preview” and not open to the public, including me. However, as I sat in my car like I do most visits to the theater (for hours while Chelsea rehearsed) a storm blew in.  Tornado warnings and hail predicted.  I knocked on the theater door “can I please come in?”

I didn’t even want to watch the show.  I just wanted to be in the building!  The volunteer working the door said no, she was not allowed to let anyone in who wasn’t on the RSVP list.  She did call over the coordinator who explained why I wasn’t supposed to be there, but then let me stay anyway.  She told me to hang out in the lobby until everyone was seated and then I could take a seat in the back.

It wasn’t full at all and it was a thank you to all of the theaters volunteers over the past year.  A free show, dinner and cookies at intermission.  I thought it was very nice!  Of course I didn’t eat any of the food although those cookies sure looked good at intermission.  I did feel bad about “crashing” but sitting in my car for four hours in a storm was not my idea of fun.

The show is 3 hours with an intermission.  That’s a long time.  I go again tonight with my best friend and I don’t even want to!  My butt hurt after last night.  Plus Chelsea’s part is pretty small, it’s not as fun than if she had a big role.  I can watch her sing a million times and not get tired of it.

I can *hear* her sing most of the show.  She’s an Ozian and in the adult chorus (which is all teenagers except two adults!).  They have the chorus sit in the pit with the orchestra and sing.  I can hear her voice out of everyone (as every event we go to) so that is pretty cool.  She also gets to put the cape on the lion when he sings about being a king.  That’s her big solo part.

I am scheduled to work four performances.  I will usher, work concessions, membership table and be a lobby greeter.  I’m excited because the theater is so beautiful and so grand that I am honored to be a part of it somehow.  I am not considering having Chelsea and I volunteer together throughout the year.  It’s far but if we work at the same times it won’t be so bad.  I think it’s a great experience.

Going out of my mind…

Austin’s done with high school, but this summer seems to be the craziest yet.  Between making sure he has all of his financial aid/loans taken care of, making university appointments and Chelsea in the theater production I feel like I’m being pulled in a million directions (that’s a lot).

All of Chelsea’s rehearsals are at night.  This is good because then I can sit in Sam’s computer shop (all day alone with hardly anyone coming in or calling), but bad because I would really rather just get it over with earlier in the day.  Since it’s so far and I can’t go home, in the evening most shops downtown are closed, leaving me with little to do.  This is the last week and it will be full every evening.  Then the show starts on June 6th and she only needs to be at the theater on performance dates (typically Fri evenings and Sat/Sun afternoons).  She’s already decided she’s not doing this next year.  Partly because they are doing High School Musical (barf) and partly because she’s already burnt out.

I’ve made Austin’s life pretty easy.  Setting up appointments, filling out his paperwork even though I’ve encouraged others NOT to do this.  I got tired of nagging him and I knew he needed the money in place so I just took care of it.  The only thing he had to do was make sure he wasn’t working on the appointment days.  He didn’t do that.  For the love of God, how can a kid so smart be so irresponsible?  We’ve arranged around it, so it should be OK for now.

He got into housing, which is a relief.  We needed a deposit, which his father said he’d pay for and of course didn’t.  When I finally sent it in it was late and I was worried he wouldn’t get in.  The commute is an hour each way, which he could do but with gas prices the way they are that would get a little insane.  He’s in the brand new housing units which is great, except he needs to move in early for drumline camp and they aren’t allowing them to move in early!  I’ve emailed requesting WHY he needs to but if they deny that he will just have to commute for two weeks prior to the Aug 22nd move in date.

DNS

Well the stupid DNS isn’t fixed and it’s really a hassle for me to log on to a different network to make a post.  I can access my admin page but then not my files on my network (photos, etc).  Blah.

Right now I am sitting outside the theater waiting for Chelsea to be done with rehearsal.  They had publicity photos tonight and I had thought that everyone was getting these done, but it turned out just 5 of the cast besides the 4 main characters were chosen.  Weird!  So they will send Chelsea’s photo to our local paper to publish with a story about The Wizard of Oz that will be playing here in Omaha.

Austin’s grad party was fun and crazy (stressful).  I have photos/video but not on my laptop!  Maybe I will get another chance to post those this week.

I signed a 10 month contract with a university today to advertise in my magazine.  I’m pretty excited about that!  That’s guaranteed money for the year. Now I just need a few more like that!

High School Grads!

First: The reason I haven’t been posting is I have been unable to reach the new host with my internet connection. We had a different ISP at the shop and I could access from there, but we switched back. I think it’s fixed now, but it was the same weird deal as before; the ISP wasn’t updating it’s DNS.

Photos from graduation can be found here. I’m using a new photoblog. Can’t say if I like it or not yet.

Chelsea cried the WHOLE time, it was crazy! So there are no photos of Chelsea from yesterday. Austin’s party is this coming Saturday. I can’t wait until it’s OVER.

Another host!

Look at me, moving hosts again.  Hopefully this will be it for a while.

Busy, so no time to work on templates and such.  Sorry!

<sarcasm>I know my life is so exciting that you can’t stand me not posting.</sarcasm>

More when I can!