So bored ... again....

And, again, I shouldn't be complaining. Its dead here as I think most students have gone home for the semester so we're getting very few of those calls and emails. My email shift this morning was pretty dead. Yaawwwn... I think I'm all caught up on everything barring any surprises.

We had a "carry-in" today so I feel like all I have done today is eat. It was so yummy though. Definitely need to workout tonight although I'm not sure what the point is; I mean tomorrow night we're having Mexican!

So... I don't know. Ummm... I'm thinking about starting do some blogging on Myspace or even moving everything over there but I don't know.

I'm still looking for something fun and cool to do on the web!

Long day...

Long boring morning... don't know what the afternoon call shift will be like. Its not like I want it to be busy - far from that - but I just hate it when I feel like I'm just sitting here all day. Its normal this time of the year for this though I guess. I'm guessing most universities are finishing up their finals this week (or maybe next week?) so its not like we're getting all of the student calls we normally get.

Anyway...

I think my hubby may finally be getting back to normal. His wacky sense of humor is back anyway. He lasted a whole work day yesterday and I'm sure he will today as well. He also usually works a few hours on Saturday. This should hopefully help me finish up my Christmas shopping tomorrow while he's gone.

Umm... I still can't stop eating. Finally getting healthy and then this time of the year with all of the food. Oh well... I think I might try to go back on the South Beach Diet the first of the year. We shall see. I loved it when I was on it before and it really works! Working on planning a trip next spring so maybe I should jump start my bathing suit preparation. HA HA HA!

Thats about it for now. If its totally dead, I may be back with more later.

Health update

So hubby ended up making it at work yesterday until 2-ish and then went home and got sick again. I don't get it. No idea why it has been so much worse for him than it was for me. But anyway, at least he got in a partial work day. By the time I got home he was doing better and we even went on a Target run together. He still ate little to nothing yesterday.

Today he's still blah but went to work. Its 2:30 now and despite some general ickiness following lunch - where he actually ate a chicken sandwich - he seems to be doing much much better. So hopefully we're at the end of this whole mess.

Me, on the other hand, cannot stop eating everything in sight. I don't know what my deal is and on top of that I have cravings. Ummm... lets not go there, I'm sure its just part of the recuperation from being ill.

Anyway, now I'm probably seriously going to have to go on a diet. Lost almost six pounds and have probably gained it back by now. Hubby actually lost eight pounds. Eight pounds in four days is not good.

The sickness

So yeah... its been a long few days. Thursday afternoon and night I am going about my business when all of a sudden my stomach started to feel a bit icky. Anyway, I just thought it was your run of the mill no big deal blahness and didn't pay too much attention. Then it got ickier and then I'm puking. Uggh... I hate it when it hits you like that! So I felt better, thought it might be one of those things... and went to bed. Woke up about 2am and puked again. I'm sure you're loving reading this. So now I realize I am sick and there is no way I'm going to work on Friday. So call in on Friday when hubby gets up to leave. Right as hubby is leaving ... me running back into the bathroom for puke #3. Blah... OK, fortunately that was all as far as that part of the bathroom fun was concerned. Of course, there was all kinds of other bathroom fun to be had, but I'll take that a million times over puking my guts out any day.

So Friday and Saturday I was pretty laid up. I mean really really bad - completely out of it. Sunday morning I felt a little better, but Sunday afternoon, oddly, it was coming back. I have learned now that that apparently is the cycle for this little illness cause Sunday afternoon hubby comes down with it but it has been much much worse for him. He has lost six pounds!

So anyway, Sunday and Monday were just hellish for him. Monday he called off work which sucks because he loses a vacation day for it cause all he has is PTO. I'm lucky, I actually have a breakdown of sick and vacation days. And I'm really lucky on that too cause I actually have four weeks of vacation and two weeks of sick. Nice!

Tuesday he went into work and lasted an hour and a half. I told him that this was a 3 day illness and not a 2 1/2 day illness. He went in today and I thought he would make it thru but he only made it til like 2pm. Better than nothing I guess. I hope they're nice to him and don't dock him anymore cause we have trips planned and he doesn't get more time added until like July of next year. Oh well, I know the important thing is that he is healthy.

So yeah, that has been our life since last Thursday. And let me tell you, its boring as hell. He was bored from Friday thru Sunday and I've been bored from Sunday thru now. Trying to take as good of care of him as I can, but you know guys. I have a few things around the apartment that I know he needs and he can just help himself to the stuff. The one thing about me when I was sick, even though I felt like crap, I was in a pretty good mood and had a good attitude about it. I guess he could be worse - he's not nearly as bad as my dad when he's sick. I just want him to get better so we can get back to normal!

Wow!

If all of the owners of those "hot clubs" hadn't let her in the door ILLEGALLY in the first place, maybe this 20-year-old might not be in this position. Oh don't get my wrong... when I was under 21 we went to frat parties and got seniors to buy us beer but she goes just a wee bit beyond that ...

http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1565040,00.html

Uggghh...

The thought of having to trudge a whole mile back home thru all of that snow - in the dark - is not making me happy. Plus, its only 25 degrees right now. Errr... Oh well.. I guess I'll just have to suck it up. At least most of the sidewalks - I'm hoping - will be cleared on the way home. That was definitely not the case, of course, this morning on the walk to the train.

This morning before I headed in I tried to clear all of the snow off of my car. Well, I only got as far as the trunk and back window before I realized it was pointless and gave up. So I need to do that sometime as I'm going to have to move my car for the plows. Right now I'm parked on the side they do not plow on Fridays so either tonight or early tomorrow morning I need to move it.

Hmm... better check on those hours for plowing so I don't end up with a ticket.

Maybe...

Maybe I'll finally blog my wedding like I said I was going to months ago... relive all of the details. LOL! I want to write it all down somewhere anyway... I don't know where to start though. I should probably find my wedding book and look at the categories there. Lets see... do I have any of my old magazines around or not anymore ...?? Hmmm.... Ah hah - here is one! I thought I threw them all away ...

Ugghh... no... thats not what I want to do. What is a good site to hang at anymore? I mean, I love the Web 2.0 stuff like Flickr and things like that. MySpace is OK but I think I'm a bit too old for it. Blogger is still cool especially when you can link a bunch of stuff to it. YouTube ... its OK too but as far as I'm concerned, post your videos - I have a few simple ones up there - share with whomever and then walk away. All of this video sharing and stuff is not exciting to me.

Anyway ... still bored. I thought about leaving earlier but I decided I would stick around and leave around my regular time so I think I'll be here another hour.

No idea when hubby will be home tonight!

Save me!!

Someone save me! Isn't there anything interesting to do on the internet anymore? You know, I used to IM all freaking day long but that just isn't really an option anymore ...

Bored beyond belief!

I wish I had brought the connector thingy so I could upload the pictures I took this morning and work on them. It is DEAD here! I cleaned out the email inbox on my shift and I'm all caught up with my cases - so far - and there is like nothing going on here.

On top of this I am still not feeling well ... I think its gotten worse ... and I am just plain exhausted.

I technically have another 15 minutes left on my lunch break here. Maybe I should run to Walgreens and pick up the rest of those Xmas cards that I needed to buy. Hmmm... that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Too bad I didn't bring the rest of my list for the people I need to finish up. I'm doing a lot this year and throwing in a copy of one of our wedding pictures. Yeah, its an illegal copy of one of my professional ones and in a billfold size. I knew I wanted to include something from the wedding but I wasn't sure how to do it. I thought about getting those Xmas photo cards made or buying cards where you insert a picture or something but oh well.. just a copy. Actually I didn't even make enough copies and my printer ink is out and who knows when I will make it back over to OfficeMax to buy more. So... some of my people might not be getting a picture. Although ... I do have a bunch of engagement picture copies still left. The photog made a bunch with the URL of our proofs in case anyone wanted to buy. The intent was for me to stick them in my Thank You notes. Well... that only happened with the very last Thank You notes I sent because I was so on the ball with them and he hadn't given me these pictures yet. Our wedding was August 26, it was followed by a weeklong honeymoon. With the exception of some people who sent some gifts later, I had all of my Thank You notes mailed by September 21. My aunt was impressed. She said that was the fastest she had ever received a Thank You note after a wedding. Thats sort of what I was going for ; ) I'm so freaking competitive! LOL!

The cutest thing on the net today!

Two-month-old North American puma cub Baron (top) vies for a plush tiger with coeval puppy dog Basya in a zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk November 24, 2006. Baron was breastfed by Basya's mother, because its own mother refused to feed it. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA)

Weather Update #5

Downtown Chicago, 10:58am -- It seems to have finally tapered off but I think a bit more may still be coming. Fortunately it wasn't as bad as they predicted - not that it was all that good though.

A few thoughts...

There was a 7 car pileup at I-55 and 1st Avenue which is pretty much our exit - nice...

Hubby is in the hotel management but he doesn't manage a particular hotel. Its sort of a regional thing. So anyway, he got home late last night. We had dinner together and watched Survivor and ER on the DVR. I wasn't actually expecting him to even come home because he said he was just going to stay at the hotel overnight so he didn't have to mess with the commute. But then it wasn't so bad last night so he had come home but by 10:15 or so and watching all of that Weather Channel stuff he decided it was best to go back so he drove back around 10:30 and stayed out there which was a pretty smart move. That was when he told me how bad Ogden Avenue was.

Ummm... right now he is at an airport hotel and he says its a ghost town out there because so many flights are canceled. He says the airport is totally clear but Higgins is a mess and it took him over an hour to go somewhere earlier.

I'm still not feeling all that well but much better than last night. So I decided to come in - I pretty much was set on it anyway. So since I don't drive in this stuff, I walked. Its a mile to the train station. It was snowing hard the whole way with the wind right IN my face. By the time I got there, I was soaked and tired and grumpy. I mean its only a mile but thru the snow which is several inches deep in boots with the wind in your face and its freaking cold outside. Its not fun. Its a workout too! But somehow I made it there. Walked into the train station to buy my December monthly ticket and ewww... At some point before I got there someone must have thought it was cool to bring their wet stinky dog into the the station (Ok... if it was a service dog, fine, but those don't usually stink!) The place wreaked to the point where I did not want to stay so I went back outside and decided to wait under the roof. Yes, this was better than enduring that place. Blah...

During the train ride in it was probably snowing harder than I saw it during my walk. You could barely see some of the buildings. It was really blowing.

Anyway, because I'm always on the lookout for a good picture these days, I took my digital camera with me on the walk and I did take several pictures so maybe I'll post some. We really lucked out on not getting what was predicted.

And oh yeah and then I get here and so many people called off today. I'm not even going to get into this but ... not cool.

Anyway, that is about it for now!