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Thoughts from the treadmill

Posted on by Sherri
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I guess it’s been about a week since I posted. For five of those seven days, my eyes have been closed, as they are right now. I can type blind. I have some weird cold or flu or sinus thing that has affected my vision. Isn’t that weird? I’m not sneezy or runny, but I have enjoyed the return of the migraine, thanks to the vision problems. I think. It’s hard to tell which came first. It’s a combination of the sinus thing and the fragrance thing, as I’ve spent a lot of time around other people in the past week.

I appreciate the efforts of my SIL Rhonda to make her family as fragrance-free as possible when they came over last weekend. Brown Bootie the Daring Dachshund went to live with them, so I’m happy about that. I know they’ll take good care of her.

After their visit I was sick with a slammin’ migraine for an entire two days, but DH took care of everything and let me recover.

I felt better in time for my daughter’s choir concert. I’d have gone anyway, because she had the big solo, but I was really glad to have felt well enough for it. The concert was held in a packed auditorium, and I had a little eye tightness, but I was surprised to find I handled the fragrances quite well. Abby was angelic, the star of the show, and the other two kids were good during the concert, so it was a success.

The next day (Wednesday) I woke up feeling under the weather, and unfortunately the migraine came back. I was able to hold off the full-blown migraine yesterday by lying around with my eyes closed all. day. long. ugh. Today I woke up with energy, but still can’t see. Keep your fingers crossed for tomorrow. I’m really bored and need to do some housework.

Peace out.

Thoughts from the treadmill

Posted on by Sherri
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My laptop was out of commission yet again, only for a couple of days this time. I dropped it and snapped off the plug inside the power jack. Ordered a new cord, from one of those powerselling eBay guys. The cord cost less than the shipping, altogether about $18.

Just a couple of weeks ago I spent all day tearing down the laptop to replace the power jack, first time soldering a piece to a motherboard, and I think I might have loosened my terrible soldering job, because now the connection, even with this new cord, is a little iffy. I’d list all the other challenges I’ve had with the power cord, but I don’ wanna. Let’s just say it started with Cody the Questionable Coyote chewing the cord, and went from there.

Speaking of dogs, we’ve had a dachshund visitor for a week. She somehow ended up outside our door (looking at you, neighbor) on the first rainy night in weeks. I’m a sucker, all right? I know the dog could have found a dry place to sleep, but I didn’t want to chance it. She’s so much better behaved than Cody ever was, so the only problem is the family’s allergies.

During a naming brainstorm session, Jonah hollered out, “Brown Bootie!” Um, why that name, sweetie? “Because she’s mostly black except for her brown bootie.” (Think doberman markings.) So of COURSE I had to start calling her that. How could I not? We shortened it to B.B. for outdoor calling. Don’t want my neighbors to think I’m weird.

We made up a song for her and everything, sung to the tune of “My Buddy.” That old doll commercial, remember? Do a Youtube search. I don’t link while on the treadmill. Everything’s the same except the name and a couple of lines. We don’t work that hard.

So then the kids decided that B.B. wouldn’t do, so they decided upon Bendy, cuz she’s, like, a long-ass bendy weiner dog. Now, you might know there once was a crocodile hunter, and he had a daughter named Bindy, who had a show called “Bindy the Jungle Girl”. So (again, look it up) the song is now: Bendy the weiner dog. WeinER.

After doing a reasonable search for her real parents, I put her on Freecycle, and I have a lady coming to meet her tonight. So Brown Bootie might soon have a permanent home and, hopefully, a real dog’s name. We’ll miss her.

SSS, as we used to sign our notes in middle school. Sorry So Sloppy. That’s just how I roll in THOUGHTS FROM THE TREADMILL!!!  Mwahahaha!

I’ll shut up now.