He is home now

Well we are home now. He is resting comfortably finally. He is going to need surgery. He has a varicocele. Usually they don't require surgery but his is causing pain so he will need to have it fixed. One of my twins had to have his fixed also but his was aggrivated alot by all the running that Josh was doing. Jeremy also has an infection of some sort, they did some cultures and they are thinking he might have e-coli. This could also be causing more pain. He goes in to the urology surgeon on Monday so we will know more then. They gave him pain meds to control the pain so hopefully he will be comfortable. Mom is exhausted. Even though he is 22 years old and has a child of his own, I still get emotional when they are really hurt or sick. I guess that will never change.
I made chicken and dumplings tonight for dinner. I got the recipe from Tawnya, she has a journal called "food glorious food" and I took some her recipes. Tonight I made the chicken and dumplings and yummy!!!!! Thanks for a great recipe Tawnya! Tomorrow I am making the bacon cheeseburger meatloaf. The twins are home for the weekend tomorrow and they love meatloaf and they love bacon cheeseburgers so I am thinking they are going to love this meatloaf. I think I am going to also. Then on Saturday I am gong to make the chicken fried steak. I am so looking forward to these meals! I went grocery shopping and got all the things I needed for those meals today so I am all set.
I did manage to burn the hell outta my hand while I was making dinner tonight though. I was draining some of water (yea boiling water) out of the pan cuz I knew it was going to be too much liquid and I managed to pour it right on my hand. This is the first time I have had it out of ice since I did it and yes it hurts so I think I am going to have to put it back in a few.
I hope you all have a wonderful night! Thank you for your thoughts and prayers for my son.

Good Morning

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Good Morning

Good Morning Everyone,
I have not been having the best of mornings. My son is in emergency, he has been there since last night. He also went on Sunday night. He is in terrible pain and they can't figure out what is wrong with him. Last night they ended up keeping him and they are arranging a consult with a surgeon. He has had ultrasounds, MRI's and catscans and they have not found anything. His white blood cell count is very high so there is something going on. He is in ALOT of pain. I hope they find something out soon. My husband and I were up there last night and I am going to be heading back up there in just a little while. Right now it is just a waiting game. Please keep him in your prayers.
I finished my book "Message from Nam" by Danielle Steele. I liked the book but towards the end it got to the point where I just wanted to find out the end result. (which is always the same in a danielle steele book but...) so I ended up skimming though the last 50 or so pages and got to the finish. I am half way through my new book it is "Sinners" by Jackie Collins. I really like this one. I have made a deal with myself that I will finish all the stacks of books that I have around here before I buy another book or before I go get any more from the library. I am a self admited book addict. I have books that have been sitting here for years that I haven't read yet because I keep getting more . I have 8 books that I have started but not finished, not because I didn't like the book but because I bought another and started it. So I made the deal with myself to get rid of the piles. I did manage to do it with the magazines! That was another whole mess there! I think I had 20 subscriptions and then I would still buy more at the stands. Bad huh? Well they would sit and sit and sit because I had so many I just didn't know where to start and I couldn't bring myself to throw any away before I had gone through them! While I was on vacation I managed to make a huge dent in those magazines. I only have one bag left and as new ones come in I sit down with them and go though them so they are not being added to the piles. It is starting to look much better next to my bed now! Not as many piles! I also have not renewed any of the subscriptions that have come up for renewal. That was tough. I am only keeping a few. The ones I really like, Runners World and Shape. Those are the ones I am keeping. The boys love Runners World too so that is a good choice, it gets read by three people.
Well I am off to the hospital. Hopefully I will get to finish my book. And then get to work on one of the others that I have started at some point! I pinky promise I can do this!!!

Posted by Linda at 7:04 AM

OOPS

So I saw the link that you use to import your aol journal to blogger. So I did it. Only thing is, it imported it to a new journal on blogger! Oh well at least it is all saved even if it isn't on this one. I will continue on here.

Slow down!

Today has been so busy so far! I haven't had a chance to take a breath. Thankfully it has slowed down some and I can breathe for a moment! Everyone just seems to want something from me today. I should lock my office door and act like I am out for the day! Somehow I don't think that will work.

I really like blogger. I am finding all kinds of new journals and also some that I had lost track of over time and am really happy to have found them again! I really like the way some of them are "dressed up" too. I still can't seem to figure out how to get a background on mine. I went to one of the sites and did what it told me to do but when I tried it, it told me there was something wrong with it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get a background in? I thought I was pretty good at this compter journaling thing but when faced with a new venue I guess I am not as good as I thought!

Tonight I am going to start packing for the San Francisco trip. If not packing at least figuring out what it is we need to take with us. I need to find out what the temperture is going to be like while we are there. I know I will have to take all my running gear but that has to be carried on in my carry on. If I put it in my luggage and the luggage gets lost I will be screwed for running the marathon. I would never be able to break in a pair of shoes fast enough to run 26.2 miles in them without getting blisters. Not that that won't happen anyways but it would be more likely with new shoes. I know that we also have an indoor pool where we are staying so I better take a suit too. I won't be able to go in a hot tub after the marathon so if they have one there I better go in the few days before the marathon. After the marathon it is all ice baths for the next few days! We are going to be going to Santa Cruz for a day. I can't wait to go there. I loved it there last time I went and I didn't get to really enjoy it then since I had all five of the kids with me and that was ten years ago so they were all little. I am looking forward to the whole trip....fishermans warf, pier 39, alcatraz! And Seafood!!! I remember how good the seafood was there. Oh I can't wait. Only four more work days and I will be able to go!

Well I guess I better end my break and go back to work. Have a great day!

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Well I finally got it fixed! For some reason I did not have a tab that said layouts, it said template. When I would click on it, it would tell me that I need to upgrade to layouts but when I clicked on it it wouldn't do anything. For some reason when I got home and tried it at home it let me do it on this computer. Who knows! But it is fixed and i am happy!

Help

Can someone please help me with a problem I am having with my blog. I am trying to add a different background and it tells me I need to click on the layouts link in my dashboard. But I don't have a layouts link, I have a template link. I also want to add a list of journals I read and it tells me I have to add the layouts feature to my blog. When I try to do that it won't let me. It won't change from templates to layouts. ????

Hello everyone!

Well my trip was so much fun! We left early Thursday morning, at 5:30am, it felt like I was going to work. I knew I wasn't and I drove right past the exit that I would normally get off of to go to work so I just waved as we went on by! It took us 12 hours to get there but we made it with no problems. We only had to stop two times to get gas. Once we got there we had to get our tent and things set up. It was dark by that point. We all sat around the campfire and talked and had a few drinks. It was relaxing and we all got to catch up with each other lives.

Friday I didn't feel so good when I got up (I think those drinks and a day of not eating much had gotten to me) so I kinda just sat around for a bit. I had some cereal and around noon my husband decided that I needed a bloody mary to lift my spirits. Yum. That helped. We went to the ARCA race on Friday afternoon and it was really good. After the race we decided to go walk around the camp ground and see what kind of trouble everyone was getting into. There was a band at one of the campsites that hundreds of people had gathered around to listen to. We stayed till 11pm when they quit playing. What a great band they were. We went and sat around the campfire again for awhile before going to sleep. I slept like a log that night!

Saturday morning we all got up early and made a huge breakfast. It was so yummy! We played dice for awhile and then went walking around to all the vendor booths and bought some new tshirts and things. The Craftsmens truck race was Saturday afternoon and it was a GREAT race. It was a great finish. My husband (Mark) won the pool on that one and he was very happy about that. Saturday night Linda's husband (colin) made shrimp boil. There was shrimp, spicy sasague and corn in a huge pot and you just boiled it all together. It was so good! I think after we ate we all kinda fell into a food coma!

Sunday we made a huge breakfast again. Sunday is the big race and we all put the names of all the drivers into a pot and pick names. We each had seven drivers. Linda (Linda is my girlfriend that lives in florida, she used to live here in michigan but she moved when we were in 7th grade but we have remained friends since that time) won the money for that one! Lucky girl. That race was awesome. It was not dominted by any one person for the whole race and I like it when it is competitive. Tony Stewart ended up winning the race.

Monday morning we got up early to start home. It was a long drive and i was glad to be home. Today I am back to work. Looking forward to leaving next wednesday for San Francisco! I can't wait for that trip.

I will post some pictures tonight after I get them uploaded!