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{April 17, 2016} It started with an explosion and ended flat

Cut off again? What’s with you Disney?

The Star Wars Dark Side Half Marathon was scheduled to start at 5am. Up at 3:15am, uck…at 10pm last night I was trying to [using the] force myself to sleep, you know me, it was hard! So, up at 3:15am, out by 3:30am and at Epcot by 4am, took some pictures and then head to corral K.

At the start of each corral, there were fireworks. By the time corral K started, it was about 5:45.

And we were off. The thing about Disney runs and something people don’t realize, there are so many people participating that it gets bottlenecked in so many places and they have characters along the way everyone wants to take pictures.

We started at Epcot, through the park, then The Boardwalk, on to Hollywood Studios, out onto the highway.

Now…here’s where the flat comes in. At mile 5, there were a bunch of us just behind the 16 minute mile pacers and they cut us off and loaded us into the bus. The only other place I have been cut off was last year at Disneyland, but that was at the 9 mile point. At least there I got in more than half, this wasn’t even fully half of the half. What’s with that?

If you don’t want us to stop and take pictures, don’t have the characters throughout the park. And maybe control the bottleneck issues.

Now, I’m not saying I wasn’t slower, I’m not saying I was better than anyone, but seriously…what was it that they had to cut off the rest of us at 730am.

I did make a friend, a fellow “cut-offer”, we rode the bus together back to the parking lot and get this..she lives around the corner from my house in Georgia! She was disappointed that she didn’t finish, this was her first race ever, she was more disappointed in the swag!

Now, we did find the bright sides…we got our medals, we were done in time to go back to our hotels and have free breakfast, take a shower and make my flight, see bright side.

I’m still kind of miffed, I’ll be fine tomorrow, maybe the next day, I’m just disappointed. I know there will be a next time and I need to train for it, something I really want to do and let’s see what comes next. Onward and upward!

A week with the family will help, don’t you think?

[I tried to post more pics, keeps failing, I’ll keep trying]

{April 16, 2016} A relatively quiet day

I know, impossible for me, right?

Well, it’s true! C’mon, after last week, I could use the break!

I got up leisurely, had breakfast, chilled out, emails, you know, not much!

About 12 I headed out to meet dither coworkers, do you remember PM, my work husband? He was there and I got to meet his two boys, so cute! CH, friend and former counselor joined us. So great catching up with them. I had to come all the way to Orlando to see them!

After lunch I went to a running store, I read hoping to find a new pair of shoes, didn’t happen, but I got some new Superfeet, the gift from the gods! They help with my heel spurs like no body’s business!

After my purchase, back to the hotel to chill out and relax and hopefully get to sleep early…the alarm is going off soon! The race starts at 5am! What was I thinking!

Can’t wait to tell you all about it tomorrow!

{April 10, 2016} A joke

I really only want to make you laugh tonight.

Did you hear about the chameleon who had trouble changing his colors?

He had…

Wait for it…

A reptile dysfunction!

Made you laugh!

{April 6, 2016} How old do they think I am!

I know there’s spam and then there’s spam.

I get a lot of junk mail, I’m sure you do too. Some is targeted and I would say spot on, even if I’m not interested.

I’m 44 years old. I’m glad it’s never too late for love. Senior singles online dating?

Seriously?

{April 5, 2016} I don’t care for football, but football movies…

That’s a different story.

I don’t know why that is. I’ve watched football games, you know I’ve even been to professional football games, but I don’t follow what’s happening half the time, it happens. I have to live with it and I’m ok with it

Now, football movies, that’s another story. Well, it’s the movie itself, but I can follow some of the game and I like watching the games, I even root and get excited. Go figure.

Some are silly, funny, others touching, serious or sad.

The other day I watched Invincible, I la la la love that movie! Tonight was Necessary Roughness. Who knows, maybe tomorrow it will be The Replacements.

There are some I still want to see, Any given Sunday and Draft Day, among others.

Any recommendations?

{April 3, 2016} It’s April 3rd, right? Not April fools day…

I know Vanessa Williams sang about the snow coming down in June, but have you actually seen it?

Well, it’s April 3rd and there was snow in the northeast. Yup, we had snow and guess what…more tomorrow, aren’t you excited!

It was crazy, I don’t know when it started, but when I looked at 7am, there was a lot of snow. It was that good for snowballs and snow people building, big, wet flakes.

Big chunks of snow were falling from the trees, heavy on the roof of the car, ker-thunk! Then strong winds whipping the snow around.

By the time we left the house, the sky was clear and bright, it looked like a beautiful winter day in January. Um…

By this evening, most of the snow was gone.

Let’s see if they get the weather right two days in a row.

{April 1, 2016} I’m not a hypochondriac, thank gawd!

Now, I don’t want something to be wrong, but it’s much better when there is a reason and you’re not just a worry-wort, extremist, hypochondriac.

It happens, right? You feel like crap and you hope it’s not just in your head so you don’t sound like the whiney baby you feel like. And I’m not talking about a cold, go for it, be a baby when you have a cold, you deserve it, you feel like crud and you can whine about it.

I’ve had a few major instances where I was worried it was all in my head. Kidney stones are a big one, you can’t figure out what the pain is and you want it to go away and it won’t and you hate the idea of going to the doctor for a little back pain. Mine was the size of a dime the last time, so I am now perfectly fine going to the doctor when I think it might be a stone, I would like to keep my kidneys, thank you.

Another big one I might have told you about, my heel spurs. It hurt every time I put my feet on the floor, I was doing a lot of walking, racing, running, so I thought it might just be sore feet, but when I saw the x-ray and the thing trying to make its way out of my foot via my heel and to know there was a solution…ahhh.

Today, again, I found out I’m not completely nvts-nuts! I had the extraction on Monday that I told you about and it hurt, just like the surgeon said it would, but it continued to get worse. I needed the pain meds every four hours, no question, every four hours, the pain was crazy. I told the surgeon one of the things I was worried about was dry sockets, which I had when I had a wisdom tooth removed once.

I tried to explain what a wisdom tooth was to EJS, that it doesn’t make you smarter, ha ha. So, when I had the wisdom tooth removed years ago, the blood didn’t quite clot correctly so you get food and air in the hole that’s left. Well, the pain got really bad yesterday, every morning I have woken up almost screaming, I live with two cats, what do they care? Except when I was crying they did try to cheer me up with cold noses on my face and rubbing their heads under my chin, it helps a little, except for the cold wed nose thing.

My jaw started to get swollen and really tender to the touch, I’ve been icing for days and it’s frustrating. I was supposed to have a follow up appointment on Monday, but I changed it for today and I’m glad I did!

I have an infection and dry socket, go me! I told you, when I do something, I like to go all the way! He gave me a syringe that I can irrigate the tooth out, get anything out that might be in there, more heavy duty ibuprofen, some amoxicillin for the infection and a heavy duty rinse that tastes like peppermint, but makes everything else taste like blech.

So, it wasn’t my imagination, I am looking like a chipmunk for a reason, thank goodness! It’s something!

There was an episode of The Golden Girls where Dorothy wasn’t feeling well and no one could tell her why and she felt like she was going crazy. Then she found out she had a disease and the relief was overwhelming and that’s how I felt, I’m not crazy, there’s something wrong and the pain in excruciating because there is something wrong. [I threw that in there in honor of my friend SD, he la la la loves The Golden Girls!]

Now, I’m taking my meds and hopefully can sleep tonight and I’m on my way to a full recovery. My advice…take care of your teeth! You only got one mouth people!

Off to la la land with an ice pack in hand! Good night!

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{March 31, 2016} What? Is that the window open?

No…can’t be! It is!

But how is this possible? It’s March 31st, Spring has been here for over ten days and some then it’s been cold and windy and a bit rainy here and there, especially the last few days.

It was 40 degrees yesterday and the day before and the day before and today…65, huh? Mmmmm…

I opened all the windows that I could…one I can’t open and the others, well, let’s just say the holes in the screens won’t keep bugs or people out.

But…it was lovely to have the breeze blowing, the curtains open, the cats sitting in the window enjoying the sun and breeze, hear the sounds of the wind, people, traffic, a lovely Spring day, sigh.

Taking a chance leaving the window open tonight, I love sleeping that way, fingers crossed it feels this good in the morning.

Sweet Spring dreams to you.

{March 30, 2016} Ugh…the side effects

How do people get addicted?

I understand how people can get addicted to some drugs, I know, the euphoric side effects and what have you.

But I took oxycodine for pain medication and let me tell you, that one, first pill was also my last! It felt great, a short time after I took the pill, the nice warm sensation, I stated to get sleepy and then…it hit.

The nausea, it was horrible! I know I’ve told you that I’m nauseous all the time, but this took it to a whole new level, it was horrible and didn’t subside for a few hours.

Not to worry…I’m ok and if they could make that a side effect of a lot of drugs, I’m more talking about the bad stuff, there might be a lot less people getting addicted.

Count me in! Blech!

{March 29, 2016} What exactly are they doing up there?!

I know I live in a basement apartment, but come on! This is ridiculous!

It’s like I’m sleeping in my parents basement. Ok, so technically, this is the basement apartment in a converted house, now full of apartments, but I don’t make nearly as much noise as those people upstairs. It’s not possible!

I think I’ve told you before that sometimes they share my insomnia, I hear them walking around. That’s nothing new, I lived in an apartment with walls so thin, I could hear my neighbor brushing his teeth.

But this…there’s crashing and running and falling and I don’t know what else. It’s one thing when it’s daytime, that’s when I vacuum and do whatever, I even chalked up ask the noise this weekend because it was the weekend, I know there was a party by the music, ok, but it’s after 11pm, it’s been going on for a while and just now, crash, run, crash. Really?

What exactly are they doing up there?!

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