Headaches and Such

So I've had this crazy headache since two Sundays ago. So crazy that it wasn't letting me sleep, and wasn't responding to Ibuprofin at all. Fortunately, I found Aleeve on Thursday and it works like a charm, and even more fortunately, my roommate happens to have some 500 mg's of Naproxen (the major component of Aleeve) leftover from having her wisdom teeth pulled, which she has graciously offered to me in my discomfort. And it's been an okay week; I just pop another pill as soon as I feel the one before wearing off.

The problem is I don't like being dependent on modern medicine, and I don't want to jack up my system with these things. So tonight I plan to go cold turkey. I haven't had the drugs since 9:30 this morning, and I'm still doing pretty good at 9:30 at night, with a slight bout of pain around 5pm, andI'm going to try to get through the night without the darn things. Good luck to me.

(I don't foresee this experiment working past midnight, but at least I now have documented evidence that I did try to get off the drugs.)

Water Cooler Reflections

God, thank you that I have a never ending supply of cold water at my fingertips all day long. Because there are millions of people who don't have the luxury of water.

Just something I thought about today when I went to get a fourth refill from the cooler.

Eureka! I've found it!

The one other good thing about winter. (The first is that you get to break out the cute long sleeved shirts and layer all the clothes you want, but that gets old back in October.)

The only other good thing is that in winter, when you go play soccer at 10:10pm, you get to wear long sleeve shirts under your t-shirt, and I just love the look of long sleeves with shorts and shin guards. Especially on boys. It's really hot on boys. (Especially my favorite German player who seemed to make that his trademark (gosh, I miss the World Cup).)

Oh, geez

Why do I fall in love so fast? So easily?

Why?!?!

I've only known it for about a half an hour, but I am so in love with Adobe Photoshop Elements that I'll probably be pulling a Juliet when my thirty day trial is up and it leaves my computer forever.

Until tax return day, that is.

It's SUMMERTIME!!!!!!!!

Bye, bye winter. Bye, bye rain. Shine down, sun, at 105 degrees if you must!


I loves it.


More exciting news: On Saturday we rearranged our bedroom and living room in our apartment. Our beds are now what I like to call infirmary style, side by side along one wall. It's kind of like being at camp again. Same people involved, too.

Other, other exciting news: On that same Saturday, while I was in a cleaning/organizing frenzy and doing all my laundry I accidentally washed my 2 gig, soft cover, cute burnt orange colored, perfect little jump drive in my jacket pocket. I was horrified; that little guy is the best jump drive that's ever happened to me! When I held it up, I could see the water that had pooled inside the case, slowly drowning the little drive. BUT, I decided not to throw it away, and set it upside down in case the water would drain. AND IT DID. And I just tried it in my work computer about half an hour ago, AND IT STILL WORKS! It's even got the files I already had on it still working.

What a happy day for me!

January is National Scrapbook Month

I was so proud at myself for not spending so much money on food this month, until I realized I'm just using all that extra money to buy new scrapbooking supplies. Seems like every few days I find myself at Michael's, picking up something else. Thank goodness for those 40% off coupons that come every month!

This is the amazing item I picked up today. Deja Views chipboard letters in awesome colors (the picture doesn't do it justice), adhesive backings (so you can use the peel off backing as letters in another project), and there's over 200 pieces! Only $4.99, but I used my coupon on it and spent $3.22, or something like that. A-mazing.

Some exciting news: I submitted a layout to Creating Keepsakes, and I got an e-mail on Monday from one of the editors. They want to use it in the June issue! Hip hip hooray! I'll finally be published! It's not how I expected to get there, with my vast writing passions, but hey, what can you do?

Rainy Days and Dodgeball

Just a side thought, since it's raining a storm out there: When we were little,my brother and sister and I would sing that song, "Rain, rain, go away, come again another day..." and,well, you know the rest. But at the end of it, though, we would tack on a "Na, na, na, na fishsticks." Why? I have no explanation, other than that we were weird little kids. Anyway, just wanted to share that since it was stuck in my head tonight, fishsticks and all.

BREAKING NEWS: Michael and Jessica are having a kid! Yippee!

Other random thoughts: These kind of rainy nights make me want to stay up all night typing away at a mystery novel. However, since these are the only times I ever get a hankering to write a mystery novel, it seems unlikely to happen. (And there's no way I'm reading a mystery novel on a night like this.)

Anyway, so today we had a little team ball tournament for the youth venture kiddos, and ha! Our junior high team kicked butt! It was good afternoon fun for all.

Ahhh... look at them being all gangsta.

Powering up before the big game.

Ready, set, DODGE!

The sideline crew

And finally, John Shippam. He spent the game referee-ing. And by referee-ing I do mean rolling/throwing pennies across the court at us. Here, he is being gutsy by shooting his cell phone across the floor through ten jumping boys.