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Category: thoughts

  • my computer works!

    It’s Sunday night, and while most of the country is basking in this long weekend, I am preparing for another day of work tomorrow. In case you’re wondering, it isn’t too fun to have a job where you are forced to work holidays and weekends. So it’s almost my bedtime, but I just wanted to write something, because we got so much accomplished this weekend.

    First of all, I am so excited that my computer is working again, thanks to my brother-in-law Scott. What happened was what they call a “logical failure” of the hard drive. Nothing physically wrong, but the computer no longer recognized it. So I paid $99 for this program from Prosoft Engineering, ran it overnight, and most of my files were recovered and are now stored on my external hard drive, aka the thing that I should have used weeks ago, BEFORE all this happened. Sigh.

    Anyway, it’s a bittersweet ending because although the files were recovered, they lost their file names. There is also a lot of COMPLETE JUNK that I had no idea had made its way onto my hard drive that I have to sift through to find the files I’m looking for. And unfortunately, some of the files were “corrupted,” including the presentation I worked so hard on.

    When I turned on my computer today it was like it was brand new. I had to reinstall all my programs and set up my system profile and internet bookmarks again. It’s kind of cool to start fresh, in a way, but also kind of annoying.

    As for the other stuff we did this weekend, I was going to tell you about it now but I’m getting too tired. So I’ll tell you about it tomorrow, or the next day if I’m feeling lazy. But the living room, kitchen, and utility room are looking great, and I can’t wait to share pictures with you!

  • give me a break

    Ugh, so I have lots of posts swarming around in my head to share with you, but since my computer isn’t working (I’m using my husband’s which I’m not used to and doesn’t have my pictures on it), we’re STILL not at home and probably won’t be for a couple more days (and even then we have to get the house in order; it’s a complete wreck now), and I’m trying to keep up with work, triathlon training, and church stuff, I’m just going to go ahead and give myself the rest of the week off from the blog. Hopefully by next week things will be more orderly around here and I can get back to normal posts instead of whining ones. Of course, I might change my mind. Either way, stay tuned. I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat already.

  • why i wish i could have stayed home today

    Getting out of bed this morning around 4:30 a.m. was beyond hard. It was dark and stormy outside, and both of our dogs, scared, were pushed up next to our legs. David was softly snoring next to me. Our bed has never felt more comfortable.

    But I dragged myself out, and was even able to leave the house on time; I was so proud of myself! It was steadily raining, but as I exited the freeway to make the turn into the park and ride, I realized that this was no ordinary April shower. All the cars pulled over to the side of the road with their lights blinking was the first thing to clue me in. When I got to the intersection to turn left under the freeway, I saw a car that had attempted to pass the high water, and failed. It was halfway under. Because I am so smart, I decided to opt out of that route, and I did a U-turn at the next light instead.

    I made it to the park and ride only ten minutes late, but then I spent 15 minutes waiting for the bus only to find out that NONE of them had showed up, not even the earliest. I was not about to wait around indefinitely (cancer doesn’t get flooded in, people, my patients need me!), so I got back in my truck. I had to take a veeeeery roundabout route to get back onto the freeway, because high water was all over the place. The rest of the journey wasn’t bad, just a little slow. I was late to report, which throws me off, but I got everything sorted out.

    Soon enough, I got an email from David telling me that my sister-in-law is in labor! As if I needed another reason to wish I wasn’t at work. Between work and church the next two days, I don’t know how I’m going to make it to the hospital – but I must! Scott and Vanessa aren’t just our siblings (in-law), they are two of our best friends.

    I just hope the medical center doesn’t flood, stranding me here!

  • shoo fly

    The other day there was a fly buzzing around in our bathroom. My first reaction was to be annoyed and swat at it, but then I remembered the scene in The Hiding Place where Corrie is locked up in solitary confinement for weeks and comes to regard the ants in the cell as her friends. She was just grateful to have a living being nearby, no matter how diminuitive. So I started to think of the fly as my companion, and it made me less annoyed.

    Today, I saw the fly’s smushed body on the bathroom floor. I was sad. Just a few days ago he was happily buzzing around.

    When I told David this story he admitted to me that he was the one who killed the fly. He apologized to me, saying that he didn’t know he was killing my friend. I guess I forgive him.

  • case of the mondays

    Well my original goal was to finish my list of goals last night so as to post it bright and early this morning, but when 8 p.m. rolled around and I was still searching online for inspiration and yawning quite a bit I decided to put it off until today.

    Then I had about a 20 minute lull at work this morning where I thought I would be able to finish it, until I got slammed with orders to give blood and chemo, and a patient is pulling her NG tube out, and needed a CT scan, and oh by the way we have a new admission for you! and I remembered that, right, today is Monday. Nothing happens in an orderly way.

    I ended up leaving work an hour and a half late, and right now I’m just so happy to be home, and that Dancing With the Stars is on. I’ve been looking forward to it all day, and I know that’s kind of pathetic but it’s so nice to have SOMETHING good to look forward to on a Monday, and by the way have I mentioned how much I love Shawn Johnson? She is just the cutest.

    So if it’s OK with you, and it better be, I’m just going to sit here and be a bum tonight. I’ll do my best to post my list tomorrow!