hello tuesday

well its a freezing cold day here in nw arkansas! i am on call today, here's hoping that they don't call me out! well, we found 4 houses that fit my criteria. now if only when i call them they can email me pics so i don't have to have my mom go look at the houses for me! i also found a couple of job openings for me. hopefully they will still be available when i am ready to be up there. it would be really nice to have a job as soon as i get there. then i don't have to worry about money. my mom said that there are several factories and warehouses up there for toby to work at! woo hoo!!! now i have to figure out who to call to get my national phlebotomy license. once i have that i am ready to move, well once my tax money gets here! then i'll be ready to go. oh how i hate moving and moving 14 hours away is so difficult. we have to have a u-haul truck, trailer and car hauler. this is going to suck ass!!!!! both of my sisters and their families are moving up there also. the only difference is, is that they both are having the military move them. damn them! they don't have to do a thing. just drive there and unpack their shit. so do i want to hear them griping about this move? no, not one damn word! i am looking to get rid of a bunch of stuff that i don't need. if i don't use it, wear it, or really need it...its gone! i hate moving so i don't want to move a bunch of stuff that i reallly don't need. i have a shitload of extra kitchen stuff. (i could probably completely stock 3 kitchens!) i am going to see if my brother in law needs anything and if not, i think i will have a yard sale, or just donate it to a second hand store. i have bags and totes of clothes that i am getting rid of. i am just not keeping stuff i don't wear, the girls don't wear, or toby doesn't wear. ( he thinks he is keeping all his stuff, boy do i have news for him!!!) hopefully we can find a house that is roomy and i can let each of the girls have their own room and i can have my sewing room. that would be so nice. then i can lock myself away!!!!! well i better start checking on those houses!

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well, its saturday and paige and i played with her easy bake oven. everything is so tiny! she had fun thats all that matters, i guess! other than that i haven't done anything but lay around and play on the computer. i am trying to find houses for rent so that i know what we are looking at for when we move, here in a couple of months. here is my problem....i can't seem to find anything but really expensive houses! i know that people rent houses for less than $2000, they have to right? so then i start looking at apartments. we currently live in a huge house. so when i start to look at houses and apartments my husband reminds me of the size of our house now and what we would be going to if we moved into an apartment. he doesn't want to feel cramped! oh well. guess i'll just keep looking!

i am really bad at this!

ok, so i'm a crappy blogger. sue me! my resolution is to get on here more and keep my fans up to date on me! or at least my couple of friends that do read this! we went to my moms for christmas. it was so much fun a whole week with my sisters and the entire family!!!! we are thinking about moving up that way. its better pay for me, my family is all up there, and toby can get a full time job because my mom can babysit for us!!!! woo hoo!! sometime around halloween, i noticed a lump on my stomache. over the last few months it went from being the size of a golf ball to the size of a large grapefruit. i apparently thought that it would go away on its own or that i would just forget about it. then it started to hurt really bad and then it got really really red. so off to the emergency room i go at 4:30pm on friday, (because what dr is his right mind is going to see me on a friday!) the first nurse that sees me looks at my lump and then gives me a horrified look. does this help my anxiety? not really! then they get me back to my room and the main nurse that is going to be dealing with me askes me what the problem is, i show him my lump and askes does it hurt? this is such a stupid question! then the dr comes in and says that we have 2 options...#1 we can do a cat scan and see what is exactly in there, or #2 we can stick a needle in there and see if we can pull out any liquid! hmmmm this is a tough choice. i chose the cat scan. i had to drink this nasty red liquid and i had 2 hours to drink it in, (it took the whole 2 hours!) then they did my cat scan. when they brought me back to my room, she said that the radiologist would look at it and talk to my dr. it took 2 hours before anyone talked to me at all! the dr said that it was a large hernia! (big hole) and part of my bowel is stuck in it! fun fun! they have to do emergency surgery on it, now. so the surgeon comes in and says that i will be in the OR in 45 min. that seems like a long time until you have 2 nurses rushing around you trying to get antibiotics into you, a bag of fluid, put a catheter in you, and then get blood work! i also found out that i have a reaction to vancomyicin (an antibiotic) and benedryl! fun fun. as for the surgery, well i was sleeping for it, so i can't give you the play by play on that one! but i kinda forgot to mention to the surgeon, and the dr that it takes me a while to wake up from the sleeping meds they give you. i came out of surgery at 3am and the first sane conversation that i had was at noon! but i had visitors, i do remember a few of them, but they said that they stayed for like 30 min, but i can only recall like 5 min of their visits! then around 4 the dr came in and said that i could go home. he gave me percocets for pain, and told me to take 2 every 4 hours. (i took 1 at 10:30 today and fell asleep at 12:30, i didn't wake up till 5:30pm! i wouldn't wake up till tomorrow if i took 2!) but the dr said that everyone has a fat layer that protects their bowel. my fat layer got stuck in that hole in my tummy and was dying. (which is what was giving me the infection) had i waited another week i would have been really really sick! so they had to cut off that dead section of fat. but i have a 30% chance that the hole will reopen and he said that as soon as i feel the lump i need to come in so he can fix it. since i had an infection he couldn't put the mesh screen over the hole like he normally would. so if it reopens then he will go back in and put the mesh screen there. well i think that about sums it up! hope everyone elses new year started out better than mine!!!