A Day in the life of me Day 361

1/5/2012


Today was really simple.  I didn't end up going to bed until about 6am.  I just couldn't seem to sleep.  And of course it's an early morning for Nico.  She wanted up around 8.  I almost fell down the stairs trying to take her out this morning.  That was a little scary.  I took back upstairs and Jacob ended up taking care of her for awhile.  She curled up to me for a bit, but then wanted to play.  Jacob got up to work and took her with him.  I guess after awhile she wanted to be with me and I woke up to her curling up to me again.  She is so loving.  I think I figured out why I felt so weird yesterday.  When I went to take my meds last night, I found that Thursday nights was already gone, therefore, I must've taken a double dose of everything.  All of my meds make me dizzy and tired.  I'm thinking that's what happened.  We'll never know, but I hope that's why.  I've done a little laundry and gone on a walk with Jacob and the puppy and that's about all I've done today.  We watched 3-4 episodes of Grey's anatomy.  He normally doesn't like to watch multiples of one show, (but I can binge on a show that I love), but at the end of the first episode, you had to watch the next one b/c it left you hanging.  You would've thought that it was the end of the season for every episode we watched tonight, the last one was, but the others weren't.  That's a sign of a good show though.  I need to go finish my laundry.  I'm letting Jacob sleep with the window open tonight because it is that nice out.  Who would've thought on January 5th that it would be this nice.  It's supposed to be about 60 for the next 2-3 days.  Alright, I'm gonna stop rambling.  We'll see what tomorrow brings!

A Day in the life of me Day 362

1/4/2012

Today was a somewhat productive.  I slept some and played with Nico.  About 3pm, I went to see if Jacob was done with his work for the day.  He was almost done, so I sat on the floor with the dog and waited for him.  He kept asking me if I was ok and how my seizures were.  I kept telling him I was fine and I hadn't had any seizures.  He told me that my head kept bobbing and asked if I would stop.  I could somewhat feel it, but I felt like something was wrong.  I took a shower and Jacob laid on the bed and played with the dog.  He asked me if I was ok a few times while I was in the shower.  I guess I kept bobbing and moving my head weird.  I then had a headache.  I don't know what was wrong, but about 30-45 min after my shower, it finally went away.  We then went to pick up my meds and head to the post office.  We took a bus from the stop in front of the pharmacy and went to the post and dropped things off and headed to the grocery store.  across the street from the grocery store is a cheap cinema.  I am going to have to give it a try!  It may be small and cheap, but it's still something that we could walk to.  3-3.50 a show is within our budget.  
Before we left, Jacob put Nico in her cage, which was upstairs and we heard her going nuts.  I told him maybe that she was doing that because she was upstairs.  He brought her downstairs thinking that she would calm down and go to sleep when we left.  She was so loud and making noises that we hadn't ever heard from her, that we were almost afraid to leave her.  She kept clawing at her cage and being so loud that I was afraid that someone might hear her and call somebody on us.  She made it sound like we were having dog fights or something.  If that gives you any idea to how loud and crazy she sounded.  We think that she was doing this just b/c we hadn't left her alone for probably at least a month.  Hopefully she was just acting out and she won't do this anymore.  Anywho.  I'm ready for bed and hoping that I sleep well tonight.  Sleep well friends!  We'll see what tomorrow brings!

A Day in the life of me Day 363

1/3/2012

Today seemed really long and I accomplished absolutely nothing.  I woke up with Nico around 9:30am.  Normally that's not a big deal, but we didn't go to bed until 5am.  I then tossed and turned all night (well, for about 4hrs).  After I took her out, I was going to feed her and put her back to bed, she decided to run upstairs and curl up to Jacob.  I was going to just climb in bed and go to sleep, but she then wanted to play.  I brought her downstairs after closing the bedroom door and fed her and we curled up on the couch and went back to sleep.  Hours later we both had to potty and we both ate and went back to sleep around 1pm.  I watched a little bit of netflix in there.  When I woke up next, I looked at the clock and realized Jacob still wasn't up and it was after 3pm!  I quickly went upstairs in fear that he would be mad at me for not waking him sooner.  Thankfully he wasn't, he instead started talking about some dream he had with 3 RV's and his mom.  Totally tuned him out after that.  That was pretty much the extent of my day.  We watched Zookeeper.  It was pretty good.  I thought about doing other things, but for some reason, I have just been so tired today.  I guess I will stop talking about my boring life and go for now.  Hopefully I'll go to the store and buy food tomorrow!  We have food, I just would like some veggies and fresh fruit!  I also like to have more of an option of what I eat other than, "this is the last thing of meat.  What should we do with it?  And I guess we should go to the store soon."  type of thing.  We're not there yet, but I just have this itch to have some more healthy options.  This is my year to regain my health!  I want to be down a few pounds when I go in for a follow up in a month.  Here's hoping.  Wish me luck!  Here's looking at tomorrow.

A Day in the life of me Day 364

1/2/2012:
Today was my brother, Dale's birthday.  Not really being in contact with that part of my family(not for the lack of trying), I posted him a Happy Birthday message via Facebook.  I haven't done a whole lot today.  I was able to accomplish 3 loads of laundry yesterday and today I just watched Netflix.  I got Jacob X Men: First Class on blu-ray, for Christmas and since we had been sick, I didn't want to watch it until I knew that I wasn't going to fall asleep during it.  It was so awesome!  It was a kick ass movie!  That was my exciting day!  Yay for me!  Let's see what tomorrow brings! 

A Day in the life of me Day 365

I was on a blog recently, I don't remember who's blog it was, but I do remember a great idea for  a project.  She suggested that you write something in a notebook or anything of your choosing, each day, for 365 days.  After that, you then read it or share it and see what your life was like for 1 whole year!  I think this is a project I am going to try out.  I am going to start it on here and try to eventually convert it to a notebook.  Hopefully this will be fun for me and whomever decides to eventually read this!  So, here we go...
1/1/2012:
My day started off ok.  Jacob, myself and our 6 month old puppy, Nico, stayed at a friend's house for New Year's.  We left there around 11am and came home and went back to sleep on the couches.  People kept giving the puppy things she normally doesn't have and therefore she was pretty sick.  Poor baby!  All I really did was sleep and catch up on some blog reading and try to start this back up again.  Hopefully I can keep this up and maybe actually get somebody interested in my blog.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  2012 is going to be a great year!  This past year has been a rough one, but I see this year being a totally awesome one!  I have done a lot of soul searching and a lot of learning about how I can use my love for arts and crafts and my talents in that area, this past year!  I have learned so much and I am going to see what I can do this year!
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/22527246091/standalone 
Here's some tunes!  Have a good one!

New puppy

I can't believe that it has been so long since my last post. So much has happened since then.
I ended up getting my Disability and Social Security the first time around! That is very rare, especially someone as young as I am. I am very thankful for it! I can now spend time doing things that I enjoy and not worry about endangering other people and their children in the process!
Last Thursday evening, September 22, 2011, my boyfriend, Jacob and I got a new 3 month old black pug! She was almost completely potty trained! Yay for us! We got lucky with that one. We named her Nico! She is so cute and cuddly! I feel like a pet mommy now! She follows us everywhere. It is so nice to have somebody else in the house with me, other than Jacob. We moved the first weekend in July! That was so stressful, but very worth it! We love our new place and we are allowed pets here! I am so thankful for our new little friend.
I just realized that this switched fonts on me without me doing anything. oh, well. I have learned to make cards and am loving it to death! I have learned to not spend all day watching videos on techniques and reading blogs on them all the time and start to implement them myself. I am definitely having fun doing that! I have learned so much and absolutely love it!
I now want to start a fund or some sort of foundation thing for Epilepsy! So many people are affected by it and so many people are uneducated about it and freak out when they see someone have a seizure! I know that even though I have talked to Jacob's family about it over the last almost 6 years and they've seen many and I've talked to friends about it, they still always freak out and just make things worse for me. Everyone always seems to think that they need to be in your face to make things better and that just makes me feel like I'm being suffocated. I tried to talk to a friend about how I felt and some new things that I had found out and all she told me was that I needed to find some sort of support group. I read that you should talk to your friends about them and that sort of thing and that's all I was doing. I was really hurt! I can't believe she treated me that way! I digress. I have started ordering on sale items that I can make and sell to help start gathering money for this cause! I am excited to do this. I just hope things work out. I might start out doing it for a foundation already set up and in the mean time, set mine up. That would be neat!
Anywho. I guess that's enough for now. Not that anyone's reading this anyways. But, my puppy finally laid down for a nap, and I think I will try and catch a few zzz's! All of my med's make me tired and dizzy. The dizziness has gotten better, but, I still find myself tired all the time. I'm still dizzy all the time, but at least I'm not falling over like I was before. Thank God for small favors! Ok, I said I was going to go and now I will. Have a good one!
Melissa