Brookfield, Ill., 10:42pm - Hubby just called in; he says Ogden Avenue heading towards 294 (in LaGrange) is literally a skating rink and he is driving 5 mph. Says all of the sleet is just sticking to the local roads.
I hear the sleet hitting the windows.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Weather Update #3
Brookfield, Ill., 10:35pm - it is sleeting like a bitch!
On top of everything I have been pretty sick all evening. I don't know what it is. It just sort of hit me. So what sucks about this is that if I really AM sick tomorrow and need to call in, its going to look like I'm just not coming in because of the weather!
Blah... at the very least, if I'm still sick, I'll go in but just stay a half day.
On top of everything I have been pretty sick all evening. I don't know what it is. It just sort of hit me. So what sucks about this is that if I really AM sick tomorrow and need to call in, its going to look like I'm just not coming in because of the weather!
Blah... at the very least, if I'm still sick, I'll go in but just stay a half day.
Weather Update #2
Downtown Chicago, 3:40pm - It has stopped snowing. It must have been a momentary blurp.
I'm hoping it holds off til I get home. I'm bailing around 4:15 and my train leaves at 4:36. I then have a 10 minute walk to my car and about a 5 minute drive home.
I'm hoping it holds off til I get home. I'm bailing around 4:15 and my train leaves at 4:36. I then have a 10 minute walk to my car and about a 5 minute drive home.
Weather Update #1
Downtown Chicago, 3:15pm - It has just started snowing here. It is flaking just a bit.
Wanna see something funny?
Go to weather.com and type in 60513 for the zip code. Then click on the Hour-by-Hour forecast. This will be my life for the next day and a half. Its not looking good. Actually its looking much worse than it did last night.
The sad thing is that I will be able to make it to work tomorrow - no doubt. I'll put on my wittle boots and trudge the one mile to my train stop and take the train in. It will probably only take 10 more minutes than it normally does (assuming the train is running). So I'll be at work - yeah, it sucks! LOL!
The thing is ... perhaps the trains won't run? I guess there is a possibility for that. I don't live on an electric line though. Hmm... I wonder how a foot of ice/snow mix effects the Metra. It probably doesn't, I'm just guessing. If it does, screw it! I'm calling in sick because I refuse to drive in the stuff. Nothing I can do about it!
The sad thing is that I will be able to make it to work tomorrow - no doubt. I'll put on my wittle boots and trudge the one mile to my train stop and take the train in. It will probably only take 10 more minutes than it normally does (assuming the train is running). So I'll be at work - yeah, it sucks! LOL!
The thing is ... perhaps the trains won't run? I guess there is a possibility for that. I don't live on an electric line though. Hmm... I wonder how a foot of ice/snow mix effects the Metra. It probably doesn't, I'm just guessing. If it does, screw it! I'm calling in sick because I refuse to drive in the stuff. Nothing I can do about it!
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Bored...
So yeah, I'm pretty much done for the day here. Have all of my cases wrapped up unless someone decides to call in on their own. Umm... lets see... The cat seems to be doing better but she has some fairly serious medical issues. She has stones in her bladder and there is no way to get them out other than operating. So.... Sean is thinking about if he wants to do that or not. She's old so if we don't do it... I mean, I guess you never know. The problem with this is that she could have a blockage today, tomorrow, two months from now or two years from now. There is nothing to say that it will ever cause a problem. Or I guess that sadly, she may be too old before it becomes a problem. Anyway, the vet says that cats usually come out of these surgeries pretty good. Her age concerns me though so... like I said, he's thinking about it. Its totally his decision cause she is his cat and I'll back him up on it either way. In addition, she could also have stomach issues and he needs to decide if he wants additional tests on her to determine if these issues are there or not. Those could be the major issue so... yeah, you understand. If she was young, maybe we'd just go for it and have the surgery and see how it went. However, I'm not sure its fair to stick it to her like that in her old age -even if she doesn't act old, which she really doesn't. Anyway... we have her on medication for now, which should hopefully get rid of any infection so they can potentially operate. In the meantime she is her regular loving wonderful purry sweet little self. You really wouldn't know anything was wrong.
Monday, November 27, 2006
More...
So remember this past spring when I wrote about our kitty being sick with a urinary tract infection? Well, she seems to have it again. I just don't know. My husband isn't sure how old the cat is - he guesses somewhere between 14-15 years old. She was his dad's cat and when his dad passed away, he told him he would keep her. Anyway, so its all of the same symptoms as before. We really need to get her to the vet and get her a shot or something. I need to bug him about that. The thing is, she doesn't act sick, its just her many many many trips to the litter box that are even letting us know she is sick. He just loves the kitty so much and so do I. I hate to think of the worst but you sort of have to when they're this age. If anyone has any advice on any home remedies with cats and this sort of thing, let me know. Assuming we get this cleared up with medicine again, I'm guessing she's going to have to be on some kind of pill for keeps now or something. I read somewhere that once they get one of these - especially an older cat - they're pretty much prone to continue to get them.
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Yeah, its me!
Let me just tell you - it is going to be a super long boring day here at work today as it is completely dead. I guess I should thank my lucky stars but as it is, I am just sitting here! Blahhh...
So lets see... Thanksgiving weekend was pretty good. Wednesday night me and hubby drove to my parents' place. Didn't get in until 11:30pm since we lost an hour with the time change. Decided to hang out in my parents' new hot tub which is super nice and I miss already. We did a lot of that over the weekend.
Slept in some Thursday morning. Dad is always big with breakfasts so we did that. Then pretty much just hung out waiting for my sister and other relatives to arrive. My aunt and uncle had actually arrived Wednesday night as well.
So everyone eventually showed up. It turned out to be us, my parents, my grandparents, my sister, my aunt and uncle, two cousins and a girlfriend of one of my cousins. Big crew for our house. We don't usually host Thanksgiving at my parents' house so this was a first. Sort of a long story.
So... what else? Yeah so, super good food as my dad is an awesome cook. Then just sort of hung out.
Went on a long walk around my parents' property - they have close to 30 acres including a big pond. Walked back there. They get the hay baled and the guys were playing with one of the bales - they are those super huge round ones. Anyway, they tried to roll it pretty much without success. But after they did this, they were covered in hay and my husband was trying to wipe it off of his shirt when his wedding ring went flying off. Ummm... yeah. Anyway, so he says something like, "Don't panic but my ring just fell off." So I'm thinking we're going to look down and its just going to be there but no such luck. So now we are "literally" looking for a ring in a haystack. Not good. I was pretty good about keeping my cool and trying to keep things in perspective but I think deep down I was about ready to kill him - LOL! So my mom brought out scissors - yeah, scissors - to try and cut down around some of the grass and placed a phone call to a neighbor who had a metal detector. My cousin Adam was all like, "I'm going to be the one to find it." Anyway, so he was down on the ground just pulling up hand fulls of grass and believe it or not, he was the one who found it. Thank God!!! So I had told hubby that I thought he needed to get it resized before and reminded him again but I still don't think he's going to. He says it fits perfectly in the summer and its just when its cold that its loose. So... he says he will be more careful in the future but... I don't know. It had already fallen off of him once in the apartment... I'm not sure we'd get so lucky to find it a third time. Have I ever mentioned that my husband is really skinny?? ; )
So there was that excitement (remind me to tell you how my husband also lost my car keys - LOL!)... and then lots of lounging around and such.
Friday night we had our traditional pizza party. My dad makes awesome pizza. And somewhere in there we played a lot of Trivial Pursuit and CatchPhrase - it was fun!
My husband had to go back Friday evening because he had to work Saturday - bummer. Oh well... at least I got him for most of Friday too so I can't complain. Saturday the rest of the relatives left and so we were left with my four original family members and my grandparents. Its getting very difficult with my grandfather now as the whole Alzheimer thing has pretty much taken over and he doesn't know where he is or who we are, or anything like that. It can be very trying at times. Its tough on all of us - especially my grandmother - and I try to be understanding when I'm around him but sometimes... its next to impossible. Oh well.
Sunday was church and then we immediately headed back to Chicago. I don't know how we managed it but we ended up beating back most of the traffic and our drive was pretty much smooth sailing. My sister told me all kinds of interesting and funny stories on the way back. I swear, she and her friends still live that soap opera lifestyle. Right now my sister is dating FOUR guys! Crazy!!!
So that is about it for now. I may be back with more later or maybe not. Like I said, it is DEAD around here.
Oh ... those who are wondering ... things seem to be looking way up for my friend's baby - the one triplet who has survived - she is now off of the machines and breathing on her own and taking some milk from time to time. They have been able to hold her and I just think its looking way up. So hopefully we will have nothing but good news from now on about all of that.
And ... OH YEAH... about my missing keys. So this morning my husband says he needs to grab a few things out of my car that he had left in there (we took my car over the holiday and he drove it back). So he says he would grab my spare keys - its only my car key on the keychain thankfully - and he would just bring it back when he got home. He was on his way to work and didn't want to run back inside. I said that was fine. So anyway, about an hour later he calls me and says he cannot find my key anywhere. So I'm like it probably fell out in your car or maybe its in one of your pockets or something. He says he'll look later and I'm like fine thinking no big deal, he'll find it. I tell him that I will look in my car and around the area when I leave to see if maybe he just left it there. So I go to leave and I look all over the inside of my car, under my car, near where he was parked and nothing. So I call and let him know this. So now he's freaked out so he says he will go back out to his car and look. He does and calls me back and says he can't find it. So bummer ... no idea where it is. I'm hoping its just buried in his car somewhere. The paranoid side of me worries that he left it in my car door and someone drove by and took it planning to steal my car later - ha ha! I don't know. So weird. I hope it turns up.
Later!
Let me just tell you - it is going to be a super long boring day here at work today as it is completely dead. I guess I should thank my lucky stars but as it is, I am just sitting here! Blahhh...
So lets see... Thanksgiving weekend was pretty good. Wednesday night me and hubby drove to my parents' place. Didn't get in until 11:30pm since we lost an hour with the time change. Decided to hang out in my parents' new hot tub which is super nice and I miss already. We did a lot of that over the weekend.
Slept in some Thursday morning. Dad is always big with breakfasts so we did that. Then pretty much just hung out waiting for my sister and other relatives to arrive. My aunt and uncle had actually arrived Wednesday night as well.
So everyone eventually showed up. It turned out to be us, my parents, my grandparents, my sister, my aunt and uncle, two cousins and a girlfriend of one of my cousins. Big crew for our house. We don't usually host Thanksgiving at my parents' house so this was a first. Sort of a long story.
So... what else? Yeah so, super good food as my dad is an awesome cook. Then just sort of hung out.
Went on a long walk around my parents' property - they have close to 30 acres including a big pond. Walked back there. They get the hay baled and the guys were playing with one of the bales - they are those super huge round ones. Anyway, they tried to roll it pretty much without success. But after they did this, they were covered in hay and my husband was trying to wipe it off of his shirt when his wedding ring went flying off. Ummm... yeah. Anyway, so he says something like, "Don't panic but my ring just fell off." So I'm thinking we're going to look down and its just going to be there but no such luck. So now we are "literally" looking for a ring in a haystack. Not good. I was pretty good about keeping my cool and trying to keep things in perspective but I think deep down I was about ready to kill him - LOL! So my mom brought out scissors - yeah, scissors - to try and cut down around some of the grass and placed a phone call to a neighbor who had a metal detector. My cousin Adam was all like, "I'm going to be the one to find it." Anyway, so he was down on the ground just pulling up hand fulls of grass and believe it or not, he was the one who found it. Thank God!!! So I had told hubby that I thought he needed to get it resized before and reminded him again but I still don't think he's going to. He says it fits perfectly in the summer and its just when its cold that its loose. So... he says he will be more careful in the future but... I don't know. It had already fallen off of him once in the apartment... I'm not sure we'd get so lucky to find it a third time. Have I ever mentioned that my husband is really skinny?? ; )
So there was that excitement (remind me to tell you how my husband also lost my car keys - LOL!)... and then lots of lounging around and such.
Friday night we had our traditional pizza party. My dad makes awesome pizza. And somewhere in there we played a lot of Trivial Pursuit and CatchPhrase - it was fun!
My husband had to go back Friday evening because he had to work Saturday - bummer. Oh well... at least I got him for most of Friday too so I can't complain. Saturday the rest of the relatives left and so we were left with my four original family members and my grandparents. Its getting very difficult with my grandfather now as the whole Alzheimer thing has pretty much taken over and he doesn't know where he is or who we are, or anything like that. It can be very trying at times. Its tough on all of us - especially my grandmother - and I try to be understanding when I'm around him but sometimes... its next to impossible. Oh well.
Sunday was church and then we immediately headed back to Chicago. I don't know how we managed it but we ended up beating back most of the traffic and our drive was pretty much smooth sailing. My sister told me all kinds of interesting and funny stories on the way back. I swear, she and her friends still live that soap opera lifestyle. Right now my sister is dating FOUR guys! Crazy!!!
So that is about it for now. I may be back with more later or maybe not. Like I said, it is DEAD around here.
Oh ... those who are wondering ... things seem to be looking way up for my friend's baby - the one triplet who has survived - she is now off of the machines and breathing on her own and taking some milk from time to time. They have been able to hold her and I just think its looking way up. So hopefully we will have nothing but good news from now on about all of that.
And ... OH YEAH... about my missing keys. So this morning my husband says he needs to grab a few things out of my car that he had left in there (we took my car over the holiday and he drove it back). So he says he would grab my spare keys - its only my car key on the keychain thankfully - and he would just bring it back when he got home. He was on his way to work and didn't want to run back inside. I said that was fine. So anyway, about an hour later he calls me and says he cannot find my key anywhere. So I'm like it probably fell out in your car or maybe its in one of your pockets or something. He says he'll look later and I'm like fine thinking no big deal, he'll find it. I tell him that I will look in my car and around the area when I leave to see if maybe he just left it there. So I go to leave and I look all over the inside of my car, under my car, near where he was parked and nothing. So I call and let him know this. So now he's freaked out so he says he will go back out to his car and look. He does and calls me back and says he can't find it. So bummer ... no idea where it is. I'm hoping its just buried in his car somewhere. The paranoid side of me worries that he left it in my car door and someone drove by and took it planning to steal my car later - ha ha! I don't know. So weird. I hope it turns up.
Later!
Thursday, November 09, 2006
More sad news...
It goes beyond saying that I have no idea how it feels and I especially can't even do it justice when writing about it in here. Anyway...
My friend Amanda's second baby son, Gus, has passed away - also due to complications of being premature.
Its beyond sad, and how they are able to handle this ... I have no idea.
The baby girl, Charlotte, still seems to be doing well and in Amanda's blog (she is blogging all of this so she doesn't have to make calls or mass emails - she started with mass emails) she says something about when the little girl comes home so I see that as promising.
Anyway, again, I don't know what to say. I have my Firefox set up so I see my friends blogs in the menu and can just click on them to automatically go to the latest posts. Last night I logged in and saw she had a post - my husband and I had been checking every day, several times a day - and I saw it and... I just looked at him and told him Amanda had blogged and he just looked at me and knew what I was going to say. I started to read it to him and he stopped me.
I would like to go on about this some more but I really ... don't... know... what... to... say...
Keep them in your prayers.
My friend Amanda's second baby son, Gus, has passed away - also due to complications of being premature.
Its beyond sad, and how they are able to handle this ... I have no idea.
The baby girl, Charlotte, still seems to be doing well and in Amanda's blog (she is blogging all of this so she doesn't have to make calls or mass emails - she started with mass emails) she says something about when the little girl comes home so I see that as promising.
Anyway, again, I don't know what to say. I have my Firefox set up so I see my friends blogs in the menu and can just click on them to automatically go to the latest posts. Last night I logged in and saw she had a post - my husband and I had been checking every day, several times a day - and I saw it and... I just looked at him and told him Amanda had blogged and he just looked at me and knew what I was going to say. I started to read it to him and he stopped me.
I would like to go on about this some more but I really ... don't... know... what... to... say...
Keep them in your prayers.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Britney and K-Fed to divorce???
If they can't make it, what hope is there for the rest of us!?
Auuugghhhh!!!!!!!
Auuugghhhh!!!!!!!
Don't forget to vote!
So my first time voting out in my "new" burb today. For the first time ever, I voted a straight Democratic ticket - sort of. I didn't care who it was ... Congress, dog catcher, etc!
My "sort of" comes in when I say that I did actually not vote for an actual Democrat on one race and that was for Illinois governor. In this race I voted for the Green Party candidate. Now... I have no flipping idea who this guy even is but he can't be as bad as the two jerks running as the Democrat and the Republican. So... it was a protest vote of sorts.
There is also another race, Cook County Board or something like that, where I didn't vote for either the Democrat or the Republican. That race is pissing me off as well so I just left it blank and there was no other choice.
And, then there was this weirdo ballot question on there about if the United States needed to immediately pull out of Iraq. Who got that one on the ballot? Anyway, I left that blank too. I thought it was stupid. Yeah... I don't think my vote really matters on that one.
Normally I'm not such a militant D. I have a voting philosophy in that I usually always vote for the person whether they are a Democrat or a Republican. I have voted for many Republicans over the years with no problem. So I start with 1) the person; 2) if I don't know the person then I vote for the woman if there is one (I'm so not kidding); 3) if I don't know the person and there is no woman running, then I vote for the Democrat. So you see... this straight ticket isn't my typical voting behavior. But I'm so sick of everything now. Anything and everything and anyone and everyone associated with George W. Bush! I don't care if its the freaking water district this time - the D's are getting all of my votes!
My "sort of" comes in when I say that I did actually not vote for an actual Democrat on one race and that was for Illinois governor. In this race I voted for the Green Party candidate. Now... I have no flipping idea who this guy even is but he can't be as bad as the two jerks running as the Democrat and the Republican. So... it was a protest vote of sorts.
There is also another race, Cook County Board or something like that, where I didn't vote for either the Democrat or the Republican. That race is pissing me off as well so I just left it blank and there was no other choice.
And, then there was this weirdo ballot question on there about if the United States needed to immediately pull out of Iraq. Who got that one on the ballot? Anyway, I left that blank too. I thought it was stupid. Yeah... I don't think my vote really matters on that one.
Normally I'm not such a militant D. I have a voting philosophy in that I usually always vote for the person whether they are a Democrat or a Republican. I have voted for many Republicans over the years with no problem. So I start with 1) the person; 2) if I don't know the person then I vote for the woman if there is one (I'm so not kidding); 3) if I don't know the person and there is no woman running, then I vote for the Democrat. So you see... this straight ticket isn't my typical voting behavior. But I'm so sick of everything now. Anything and everything and anyone and everyone associated with George W. Bush! I don't care if its the freaking water district this time - the D's are getting all of my votes!
Friday, November 03, 2006
A sad update
My friend emailed me today to say that one of her triplets - Jake - passed away yesterday. I gather he was not doing well from the start. I'm so very sad and especially sad for all of them. I can't imagine what it must feel like. It sounds like the girl is doing well and the other boy had a minor heart surgery but is doing well. So I'm hopeful we'll hear nothing but good news from this point on.
Anyway....
Anyway....
Thursday, November 02, 2006
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