wavesoflife

2009 was very unremarkable. I didn’t accomplish much of anything. Joe and I visited his family in Missouri in the summer. I reread the Wheel of Time series and the Harry Potter series, along with many other books. I found a stray cat by the road who passed away a week later and left me pretty devestated.

We got a new kitten in August: a grey female who we named Luna. She’s turning into a gorgeous long hair car.

I didn’t do a whole lot of cross-stitching this past year. I was in a lot of pain over the summer. I finally started getting back into it last month. I’ve watched a lot of TV this past year.

This year I want to:

• eat healthier (lose weight)
• exercise
• keep the house clean
• start writing a novel
• spend more time working on my websites

I hope to enjoy life more and not live in a daze so much. I always feel like I’m floating outside this world, in my own bubble.

Today I turned 30. Joe and I are off work today and tomorrow, which makes a nice 4-day weekend. I spent the afternoon playing WoW. We went to eat at Red Lobster with my parents, brother, sister-in-law, and niece. We ordered the lobster nachos for an appetizer. I had snow crab legs, salad with ranch, and a baked potato. Afterwards we went to my parents house for cake and ice cream and looked at some old photos. Now I’m going to play WoW again.

Tomorrow Joe and I are going to Red Robin to use my free burger coupon.

It’s been almost two months since I last posted. Nothing too exciting has been happening. I’ve been playing a lot of World of Warcraft, reading, and watching TV. I’m still getting over bronchitis. I started back on Prozac several weeks ago. I just finished the newest Wheel of Time book today, which was awesome even with a different author. I’m about to start reading 6 Robin Cook books I bought but never actually read (they were mostly from the Book Market).

Work is depressing. I don’t want to work with clients anymore, but there’s not really any internal work for me to do at the moment. We’re no longer getting yearly raises since the company is losing money. We didn’t get a holiday bonus last year and I really doubt we will this year.

I’ve been off my gluten-free diet for awhile. I don’t think I should be off of it, but it’s expensive and pasta is cheaper than salads. Plus, I wanted to eat bread products. Gluteny-bread. I don’t think gluten-free bread and dessert products are for me either. Carbs in general make me feel bad. If we can get our money under control, I’d like to go back on a low-carb diet. Winter is always tough in terms of money, with the propane and all that. We can’t get on one of those monthly payment plans and we have to pre-pay for any since we were late once paying. It costs about $320 for three months’ worth. Both these past two years we’ve run out before spring and had to suffer through several cold weeks before the weather warmed up. At least this year we were able to buy some before the end of October.

In good news, Luna is still adorable. She’s getting bigger, of course, but is still full of energy and plays all the time. She comes up to me wanting attention several times a day.

I have been feeling not that great lately. Last week I couldn’t really sleep because of the pain in my side. I had mentioned it to my doctor in May and she said if it still bothered me, she could send me to a physical therapist. Yeah, that worked out so well for my hip (I ended up with pain in my knees instead). It went away for a little while but came back recently and had been spasming most of the night, sometimes without me even moving. It’s eased up a little bit the past two days.

I finally got Ambien CR approved last week and took that for a few days. Then I tried not taking it for a few days and ended up not able to sleep. Part of it may have been rebound insomnia, but most of it was pain. Then not sleeping kicked off my fibromyalgia pain and I could barely walk the past couple days. I took Ambien the past two nights so got some sleep, but I can’t be taking it every night. It makes me depressed. So OTC sleep aids don’t work, Ambien doesn’t keep me asleep, Lunesta makes my asthma worse, Ambien CR makes me depressed and Sonata doesn’t work. *sigh*.

There was a stray cat in our yard on Monday. It looked several months old. It was friendly and came over to us. Joe had to leave for work (this was at 7 am…he woke me up to tell me). I tried to pick it up twice but got all scratched up as a result. He wouldn’t come near me after the second time and I haven’t seen him since (it has been raining each morning since anyway). I feel bad that I couldn’t hold on to him and bring him inside (he was very much a boy). And I felt bad that I chased him away by trying to pick him up, when he came near me to be petted.

I’ve started on a gluten-free diet. Since starting Savella, I’ve been feeling noticeably sick after eating foods with wheat in them. It’s happened before the Savella, but only occasionally. Now it’s every time. I started last Friday and accidently (and a few times on purpose) ate wheat since then, although I’ve managed to avoid it yesterday and today.

Tonight Joe and I upgraded our cell phones. We bought got LG Xenons (black) and we also upgraded to finally add a data plan.

It’s awesome! We last tried a data plan about 5 years ago. Wow, what a difference. Back then it took almost several minutes to connect to a website. It so wasn’t worth it. I can now browse the web anywhere!

The phones are really nice so far. They have touch screens and a pull-out keyboard. They were $50 each for upgrades, so not too pricey. I ordered a hot pink case (shell) for mine. I was torn between that color and lime green.