Rischa's Rants, Raves, and Ramblings

Scrapping sale, loan papers, and hot tubs...

Joel and I met in Leesburg after he got off work today to go sign the loan paper work for the new room, flooring, etc... We also went to look at hot tubs. Fun! I can't wait until I'm chillin in my new hot tub! I could sure use a soak right now. My back is aching and I'm sore all over. I've been reading tonight about how hydrotherapy (hot tub therapy) is really good for RA, weight loss, sleep disorders, etc... I have a feeling I'll be starting a new bed time ritual once that thing gets settled in at our house. lol Yup, yup....candles, soothing music, the hum of the hot tub....I can almost feel it already!

Remember I said something about a scrap sale?! Candice is having a big sale!!! Visit www.2bscrapped.com or go straight to CANDICE'S STORE to check it out. Here's her ad:

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Speaking of scrapping.....I REALLY feel like I'm going to go into withdrawals if I don't get to scrap something soon. I have plenty of photos....just not the time to sit and work on it. I have a few minutes here and there and then I either have something else to do or get side tracked. I'm sure I can find some time to do some scrapping soon. I'll just have to make time. I don't want to forget how to do it. lol

I think I'm gonna go ahead and call it quits early tonight. As I mentioned, my back is aching and I hardly got any sleep last night. So it's bed time for me! Have a great FRIDAY!!!!!

....my Wednesday

Clever title, eh? NOT! Anyway, my Wednesday was pretty uneventful. I basically hung around the house waiting for something to happen. I took a few photos that I really liked. I was planning to show the here in my blog, but Photoshop had a SNAFU and decided to freeze on me. It's about time to do a clean-up and run Ad-Aware anyway. I haven't done that in a few days. I normally do it every day. Just been lazy I guess. Anyway, I took some photos with my 50mm lens. I really love it. It allows me to take photos in all sorts of lighting situations and with higher speeds than my other lenses. NICE! I still have yet to get out and REALLY put it to the test, but maybe soon......this weekend possibly?

Tomorrow I'm supposed to go meet Joel in Leesburg to go look at hot tubs. Ohh...that would be nice right now. I would love to go soak in a hot tub and then climb under my cools sheets and go night-night. I bet that's soooooo relaxing. *sigh* I can't wait! And apparently, as someone told Joel today, Dr. G can write a prescription for one for me and we won't have to pay sales tax on it. Hmm...works for me! He's already told me I need some sort of therapy...preferable water therapy. He asked me several times if I could get in a pool once a day. Maybe he'll go for this instead. lol I bet Joel, Kolby, and I will be useless during the first few days we have our hot tub. :-P We'll look like prunes, too. ROFL...bring it on!

My knee is doing ok tonight. It's sore and my whole right side seems to be sore, as well. My whole body is achy right now, actually. I don't know if it's from being tense all day yesterday, or what. Or from tensing up when he stuck that huge needle in my leg. OUCH! Anyway, my back has been hurting since yesterday and I woke up with a bad head ache. Excedrin made quick work of that, though. Boy do I sound pitiful right now! Someone wanna pass me some cheese to go with my whine? lol

I called Dr. G's office today to get him to fax the RX to Curascript, but they're in their Lady Lake office and won't be able to get to my file until tomorrow.....today now. Anyway, they'll do it first thing in the morning and call me when it's done. Then I can get things set up with Curascript and hopefully get the Enbrel by Friday. I'm getting more and more nervous about having to give myself a shot again. Not fun! :-( At least it isn't every day like the Kineret was! And hopefully it won't be as painful as the Humira was! That stuff was HARSH!!!

Sadly, I haven't done any scrapping at all lately. I think this RA business has sucked all of the creativity right out of me. I do have one little image to show off from some test shots I took today. It's of our clock that my parents gave us several years ago for Christmas. Here it is straight out of the camera with no editing other than adding my name...

Click on the image to view the actual size.

I suppose that's gonna be it for me tonight. The only other thing I can think about to post is that we picked up some KFC when we took back some games to Blockbuster tonight. lol See...nothing interesting. :-P So have a great Thursday!

Dr. G, Enbrel, and career decisions...

I went to my rheumy (rheumatologist) appointment today. Not a fun visit, but a productive one. Things pretty much went as I expected. I told him of the trouble I was having with my skin and hair on the newer of the meds we had tried for the RA. So he said I could go off of it, but our possibilities are running short as of this point. I have tried every RA drug out there with the exception of Enbrel. He had tried to reason with my insurance company and so had we on the Enbrel. He wrote me the prescription and said to try my best for that one again as he really has high hopes for this med for me and it's one of the safer meds on the market for RA sufferers. I took the RX with me with little hope. I immediately put DH, Joel, on the job of kicking the insurance company into gear for me. Apparently there was no kicking needed. They were more than happy to put me on Enbrel this time! What great news! Surprising, but GREAT! It made mine and Joel's day to hear that! We've tried for years to get me on that med! Doc G has even tried his best and his staff has fought for me, too. I have no idea what has changed, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. I have to call and get Dr. G's office to fax the RX straight to Curascript in the AM and then set up a monthly payment on my CC for them to ship it overnight to me each month. It's only going to cost us $35 a month. NOT BAD considering the price of the med. It's in the thousands I think? Not certain about that, but it's one of the pricier of all the RA meds. So that's my big news for the day. It's huge to me. I just hope it works! Prayers, chants, fingers crossed, or whatever you do to send luck is appreciated. lol

Back to my doctor visit....while I was there he aspirated my knee. Which means he took fluid out of it. It was VERY swollen and he took a huge vile full out and then gave me an injection to hopefully ease some of the pain and stiffness. At least it wasn't as swollen as last time. He took a vile and a half last time. It still hurts the same, though. Don't know what the difference is. The lab work I had done came back all positive today. So at least I know all of this medicine isn't hurting me....knock wood. They have to keep a close eye on me because of the strong meds. Mainly the Chemo med, Methotrexate. He found it so strange that I have never lost hair with Methotrexate. Especially since I always lose so much hair with the Arava. It really starts to come out when I use Arava. I wonder if it's the combination of those two, though. I bet it wouldn't be as bad if I were only on the Arava. But that isn't possible. MTX has worked for me for years when other meds haven't. You should have seen me before I was on it. Yikes! I looked horrible! Now I at least look normal with just a swollen knee. As much as I complain about my knee and other aches and pains. It has been, and could be a whole lot worse! Positivity is key. I HAVE to stay positive! I feel better when I do.

Speaking of being positive. Sorry for the pity party post last night. I guess everyone has those days. Mine was yesterday. I'm better today, though. Poor Joel hates it when I'm down. He was trying everything to cheer me up yesterday with no luck. I just kept telling him, "I'm sorry, Babe...it'll pass". He's such a good husband. I'm extremely lucky to have someone so supportive.

And now speaking of my supportive hubby....he's always been supportive of my passion....photography! He continues to tell me how I should pursue my dream of being a photographer. We went online to LSCC, and did some searching for me. Just to see what classes I would need to get an Associates. It actually isn't too scary once you break down the classes and really think about it. Some of the classes look like so much fun to me. Like, "Intro to Graphic Design", "Design & Color", "Intro to Computer Art", "Computer Layout Design 1 & 2", "Freehand Drawing 1&2", "Design Structures", "Computer Animation", "Advertising & Design", "Digital Photography", and OF COURSE, "Basic Photography". THESE are the classes I'd be taking. Joel also got on Monster.com and did a quick search of photography jobs in the area. I could go to work for Disney right now with ZERO experience. They need photographers to walk around the parks, businesses, restaurants, resorts, etc... and take photos of the families. That, to me, sounds like such a fun job. I don't think it would be ok for me to be on my feet all day at this point, but maybe in the future. Who knows! It would definitely get my foot in the door and build my resume toward my goal. I'm being optimistic right now and assuming that I won't be hobbling around on one good leg for long.

That's going to be it for me for now. I should really go prop my leg up for a while. Doc G told me to ice it and stay off of it, so I better be a good little patient and do as he says. I dunno about the ice right now...I'm already cold. lol Anyway, have a great Hump Day!

Moody

I'm in a bad mood. I've been this way most of the day. I have no idea why. I got more than enough sleep last night. I didn't really have anything to do until later in the afternoon. I went and got my lab work done, then came home. Then Joel got off at a decent time and we went to Target to get me a skirt to wear to the doctor tomorrow. I don't really have any shorts and I can't wear pants because he needs to see my knee. Anyway, we also got dinner at Chick-Fil-A (or however it's spelled). After we got home Joel was called out to work. He had been saying he would probably get a call because of all of the rain today. It poured all day long. We needed it for our grass. It's fried. Anyway, I'm in a sour mood for no apparent reason. Ok...I have reasons and I could sit here and name them all, but why spread the mood around? I'll keep it short tonight and maybe tomorrow I'll be in a brighter place and can spread my usual sunshine. Have a great Tuesday.

One lonely week...

Mom, Nina, and Kolby have gone to GA and Joel's vacation is over, so he'll be going back to work in the morning. I'll be all alone this week. *sob*

I really enjoyed having Mom and Nina here. It had been way too long since I had seen Nina. We had a really great time Friday evening and Saturday. I hated to see the 3 of them drive off today. Friday, Joel and I thought it would be nice to take them to Gator's Dockside. First, on the way to Gators, we got to talking about Calamari. I had no idea that Calamari was fried squid! It sounded nasty to me. lol I asked what it looked like and Mom answered me. You wanna know what Mom thinks it looks like? Are you ready for this? Get ready to laugh! She said, "They look like little, fried buttholes". LMAO I'll give you a minute to stop laughing and clean the coffee off of your monitor...................................................................................................You can imagine the reaction we all had to that. ROLF I was especially surprised to hear it come out of Mom's mouth since she's the quiet sister. :-P You can tell when Mom and Nina are around each other that Mom's the lil sis. She's definitely the more reserved one. Which seems like a little sister trait to me. So anyway, back to our Friday night. Forgive me if I wrote about this already. I can't remember what I wrote about Friday night, so this might be a repeat. :-P Anyway, once we got there we got a booth right away. Somehow the conversation drifted to bugs. Can you imagine? We were those people that everyone's at their table's complaining about. We talked about spiders, roaches, and snakes. Yeah.....NOT a pleasant dinner conversation, but we didn't realize it until afterward. I saw a guy peep over the booth behind us in a passive/aggressive manner as if he wanted us to hush. I probably would have been a little ticked off if I were other patrons, too. We just didn't realize what we were doing until we were into the conversation. I mentioned that I bet everyone else is pleased with what we're talking about and we decided to shut up before we really upset someone. :-P I know...I know.....we were wrong. Oh well....we had fun. lol We were all waddling by the time we left gators because we ate so much.

Mom, Nina, and I went shopping in downtown Mt. Dora on Saturday. They have the coolest little shops. From antiques and second hand shops, to specialties and everything in between. My legs were hurting by the end of the day, but it was totally worth it. We laughed our "calamaris" off the whole day! Oh yeah.....remember I told you about the "Calamari" thing earlier? Well it turned into an inside joke after that. On our shopping venture we stopped in at The Palm Tree Grill. It's in the middle of all of the shops and was right there when we all said we were hungry. It was a good decision....they have EXCELLENT food and service! Definitely worth stopping in if you ever go through central FL. Anyway, so what do they have on their menu? Yep, you guessed it! Calamari!! So Nina decided I was going to try it. She ordered it to start us off. They brought it out and I was about to burst into laughter as soon as I saw them. I waited until the waiter walked away, of course. But then we all looked at each other and let loose. So I tried it.....The verdict? I love it! As I took my first bite I couldn't help but think of Mom's description of them, though. lol Even so, I thought they were yummy! The portion that they brought us was huge, too, so by the time we got our other food we weren't even hungry any more. But don't worry....SOMEHOW we found room for the rest of the food. lol I ordered Shrimp Diablo with Chicken Florentine on the side. I didn't know what Chicken Florentine was, but I thought if it had chicken and rice and was soup that I'd like it. I had no idea there was spinach in it. I leave the spinach eating to Popeye. I don't like that stuff. Yuck! I gave it to Nina. But at least I can say I tried it. I thought I was on a roll eating the Calamari and loving it so much. lol I can't say enough how much I enjoyed our lunch that day. I know I'll be going back to that restaurant. The Shrimp Diablo was probably some of the best shrimp I've ever had. And the marinara sauce for the Calamari and Shrimp Diablo was SO good. I wish I had their recipe for that. This place is on the corner of 2 streets and has almost floor to ceiling windows, too, so it's fun to people watch as you eat your meal. We sure got a funny show with one group walking down the road. I swear these guys MUST have lost a bet to be wearing what they had on. It was a group of guys and girls. The girls looked fairly normal, but the guys? Nope! They all had those 70's style running shorts on that are really tight and VERY short. You could tell they didn't wear short shorts a lot because you could see their tan lines from wearing longer shorts. Then they had on funny looking, 70's style T-shirts or tank tops to go with the shorts, head bands that looked like they were straight outta the disco era, and a lot of them had either really ugly hair or just really bad taste in hair styles. A couple of them had dread locks all the way down to their backsides. And their outfits didn't match at all. They were all wearing bright colors that were mismatched. I think you'd actually have to see them to picture how funny they looked. This might help tell you how funny they looked, though. The waiters an waitresses were all laughing and watching them and even called some out of the kitchen to see. I mean these people were BEGGING for attention. I only wish I could have taken a photo to show my blog readers. lol Anyway, we all had a great time and each found something to buy during our shopping venture.

Once we got home and I was able to sit down, I started feeling the effects of being on my leg for so long. MAN did they hurt! I'm pretty sore today and have spent the day in the bed to pay for it. Still, though....totally worth it for a memorable day. I know I'm probably leaving some of the fun out, but I can't type for too much longer. I took some Tylenol PM around midnight and they'll be kicking in any second now. Since I stayed in bed for most of the day I knew I wouldn't be sleepy unless I took something. I don't feel like being up all night.

Oh...one more thing. I got my hair cut before Mom left this morning. She cut layers into it. There's so much hair gone now and it feels MUCH lighter! I know it'll feel better this summer. It's still long, but not down to my "Calamari" any more. LMBO

Alrighty...that's it for now! Have a great Monday!

Houseguests...

As anyone that visits my blog often will tell you, I blog every night for the most part. Occasionally I'll miss a night here and there when I fall asleep early or I'm not feeling well, like last night. I hope I haven't made anyone worry about me too much. I'm ok. Just the RA acting up. I've been hurting a lot lately, so I called and made an early appointment for Tuesday. My doctor is always good about fitting me in when I feel I need to see him even though he's VERY busy. There are only 2 rheumies in our area and a lot of elderly people. And I've been to the other rheumy.....he's no good compared to doctor G. Anyway, I'm hoping he can do something for me and you'll be seeing less skipping of the blog entries.

I have house guests, as the title mentions, this weekend. My mom and aunt, Nina, have come down from GA and SC to visit and pick up Kolby to take back to GA for a couple or few weeks. I hadn't seen Nina in years, so it was so nice to see her again. I've really missed her. She lives in South Carolina.

We took Nina and Mom to Gators Dockside for dinner tonight. It was soooo good! I love that place. I got my usual "Gator-tizer", the Buffalo Shrimp with blue cheese dressing. And then FRIED shrimp. lol Yeah.....I blew the diet. I had been so good all day. I had Cheerios in fat free, lactose free milk, 2 apples, and a half of a ham sandwich all day until dinner. And for my drinks for the day I only had diet drinks and water, so ZERO calories until dinner. Oh well....maybe tomorrow will be better. Wait...no....we're grilling bratwurst on the grill tomorrow with season fries. lol I better be EXTRA good all day tomorrow to make up for tomorrow's dinner, too. :-P

We've had an eventful week this past week. First there was the fan in the garage that caught fire. Then there's this one that I haven't mentioned.....the family of spiders that came in under the door (I'm guessing) after the heavy rains lately. Yep...I was going to be brave and kill the ONE spider I saw. So I take a can of hair spray, like my exterminator had told me to for spiders, and sprayed this hug, ugly spider. Well....as soon as I did that, I saw all of these MANY, MANY BABIES run everywhere!!!!!!!!! NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went screaming into the bedroom for Joel. Keep in mind that this is at 3 AM in the morning! He gets up and I'm steadily telling him what's going on. He told me to slow down and let him wipe his eyes and wake up. lol I said, "No time for that!" There are tons of SPIDERS in the kitchen! He knows that means I'm EXTREMELY freaked out because they're my worst nightmare. So he goes in there spider-busting. I stood on the stool on the bar pointing out little spots (babies) moving on the floor while he stomped them. Then, he found the daddy spider and killed him, too. THERE WAS A WHOLE SPIDER FAMILY IN OUR KITCHEN! YUCK! (lol A spider commercial just came on tv...how ironic, eh?) So after that little experience I was so flipped out I stayed up until around 6 AM that morning before calming down enough to sleep. I didn't go back into the kitchen until around lunch time that day. And I was scared to then! But I had to feed the kiddo. lol Joel was sweet enough to stay up with me and play fetch for what I needed out of the kitchen. :-P Ain't he a sweetheart?! And now for the 3rd nightmare for the week.....

Yesterday we were waiting for the appraiser to come out and appraise our home. Well, about 5 minutes before she gets here, Kolby and I go into the garage for something. Kolby turns around and looks at me and says, "Mom, don't panic.....it's not poisonous". Now that alone would freak anyone out. I grab him and back back into the house and say, "what!?" He says, "It's a snake, but it's not a poisonous one....don't worry". LMAO.....Yeah...right! Standing in the doorway, he points it out to me. This sucker was LOOOOOOONG! I watched him slither out of the garage and just sort of hang out right there outside the garage. Probably waiting on us to leave so he could get back into the shaded, cool garage. lol Nope! Joel went out there, grabbed the hoe, and scooted him out the garage door the rest of the way and shut the door. Then he goes out the front door and he's curled up right in front of the front door beside one of my flower pots!! Yikes! He could have easily slid under the door because we had a little gap under it. So Joel scoots him away from the door with the hoe again, careful not to hurt him because Kolby's watching and loves snakes, reptiles, and other creepy things like that. (He wants to be a herpetologist) Kolby begs him not to kill him. And Kolby has been telling us that there was a snake in the bushes around the A/C unit outside. So those bushes are gonna have to come outta there. We might let the creepy thing live, but we don't have to provide the habitat!! Our neighbor said he's gonna kill it. I hope Kolby doesn't find out about it. So anyway, that's our excitement for the week. lol Joel picked a good week to be off work. For all 3 of those experiences, if he hadn't been here I don't know what I'd have done! Don't forget that he's the one that was up in the middle of the night and walked out to find the fan on fire and the garage filled with smoke! Yep....our guardian angels have been working overtime this week! Thank God!

Ok...that's it for now. My head is pounding and I have stuff to do before bed. It's already 1:30, so I better wrap it up. Have a great Saturday!!

A quick post and I'm off to bed....

I'm not feeling well, so I'm just posting a layout I did with one of Candice's newest kits and then going to bed. It's of Kiwi and Skittles, my first two sugar gliders. They're mates for life. They click to each other all of the time. Which is a sign of affection for gliders. It's so sweet. Skittles is only showing part of her nose and her fluffy tail in this one, but she's there, too. Kiwi's the one posing for the camera like the little ham that he's always been. lol

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Kit used: Candice Wong's new "My Little Princess" kit, stitches from her "Gilly's Raggedy Old Bunny" kit, and Distressed Season Stamp is also by Candice. All available at www.2bscrapped.com

Sorry for the short post. More tomorrow maybe.....we'll see. Have a great Thursday!!

Your opinion?

I finished the layout of Kristy's daughter, Madison. She is SO ADORABLE! I really enjoyed working with this photo. It's a great one! I actually did two layouts for it. They're the same except for the photo. On one of the photos I used the color photo and the other I changed to black/white and erased the black and white layer to reveal her beautiful blue eyes. Here's the layout with the color photo. I bumped up the color a little bit to make it really pop.

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I TOLD you it was an adorable photo! That look on her face is just priceless! And now the other one with the selective color. Only the eyes are in color...

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Joel likes the selective color one best. I think the selective color photo would be best in a black frame all by itself and the color one is best for the layout. That's just me, though. I love B/W photos and would usually go for B/W any day. This one I'm just not sure about, though. Of course, the final decision is Kristy's. I'll send her both of them and let her do with them what she wants. :-) Anyway....what do you all think?

The Credits: The kit is by Michelle Coleman and is called Emma's Sundress. The frame is by Meredith Fenwick. Font is Resurrection.

I started reading Freestyle last night and I REALLY like it already. It has some very cool ideas and cuts right to the chase. No long boring stories about why the book was written or "how to read this book" junk. lol The ideas to go along with the images and how it's done. Just what I was hoping it would be like! :-) I can't wait to dig a little deeper into it.

I didn't have the greatest day today with my RA. I was sore and in pain from the moment I woke up. I actually woke up during the night groaning in my sleep and had this awful pain from laying on my arm and shoulder....which I always do, but it seemed like it took forever to just uncurl my arm. My joint was frozen. I usually don't have that much trouble with anything besides my knees, but today was definitely different. Oh well....maybe tomorrow will be different.

We had the bug guy come out again today. He wasn't due for another month, but I called to tell them about our little bug problem in the garage. While we were cleaning we saw those little earwig things in lots of the boxes. YUCK! Those things are awfully creepy! When we first moved here there was an earwig problem, but after we had the house sprayed back then we hadn't had a problem except in the garage. Sometimes we leave the garage door cracked so it won't be so hot in there. I guess that's how they get in there.

That's about it for today. I'm off to beddy bye! Have a great Wednesday!

7 Years ago today.....

....I became Mrs. Joel Allen Heape Jr. We were married in my hometown of Tignall, GA in the church I grew up going to called, Tignall Baptist. Rev. Dale Fincher officiated. It was a beautiful ceremony. Mostly thanks to my mom and her friend's coordination and decoration efforts. The reception was wonderful. The gymnasium was draped in white, with white lights and greenery everywhere and maroon colored balloons to match the color of the bridesmaids dresses. The night before after our rehearsal we had a yummy dinner at a beautiful bed and breakfast, thanks to my MIL's plans and efforts. The bed and breakfast actually has a history in my family, but that's a different story. Anyway, that was the first time I had ever had crawfish e'touffe...lol Love at first taste. :-P Okay, okay......I'm sure my little stroll down memory lane won't be as special to my blog readers as it is to me, so enough of that. Today was our 7th wedding anniversary, though, so it was a darn special day for us. We didn't have any special plans, really. We thought we might go out to dinner, but it was rainy and we weren't much in the mood for going out. We had re-heated vegetable soup at home instead. lol

My lens arrived today and I took some test photos with it. Kolby actually let me take some photos of him!! Granted, it was only him peeking out from under the covers, but I think they'll be really cute. I'm hoping that we'll be able to go somewhere like a park or something this week so I can really give it a good work-out. I'll post my test shots as soon as I upload them to my computer. So far, though, I really like what I see. :-)

I also received my new book! The one that I've been wanting for a long time.....Freestyle! It was back in stock, so I went ahead and ordered it. All 3 stores that carried it were out until last week. That's how popular it is. Hopefully it'll teach me how to think "outside the box" a little more with my layouts. LOL....It's funny....all your life you're taught to stay between the lines. But when it comes to art or any other creative thinking.....it's "think outside the lines" that works! When I took my photography courses, that's what the instructor told us. To think outside the box. I have a hard time with that. I'm a bit of a perfectionist.....which really messes me up in a lot of ways. I spend twice as long doing things like writing emails, blog entries, doing layouts, cleaning up, etc... I guess that's why I never have enough time to get all the things done that I really want to do. Actually, I think everyone has that problem for one reason or another. Mine is perfectionism. You wouldn't know it to see some aspects of my life, though. :-P (Housekeeping comes to mind) lol

I did a layout yesterday. It was with some old photos that I found on a disk. Here it is....

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These are some old photos of me, Kolby (DS), and Joel. (DH) I went through some old disks to find them. We had a blast tubing that day. Helen, GA is one of the most beautiful towns I've ever seen. I love it there.

Credits: Kelly Shults' "Good Times" kit.
Font: Rx-ZeroZero

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I started working on another layout for Kristy of Madison, too. I didn't get done with it yet, though. I kept getting interrupted, so I quit until I can have some free time.

My knee is still pretty swollen and painful. I wish I had better news there, but oh well....I'm still hoping I'll go into another remission any time now. It's been swollen since December, so it's been a while. I haven't even been able to work out much the last week or so with it this size. Thankfully, though, I'm off of the prednisone all together, so hopefully I'll be able to drop a few pounds just being off of that stuff! That's what made me gain in the first place! Grrr...I won't go on those again unless I absolutely have to.

And with that I think I'll end this entry. I'm sitting on the bed with my laptop in my lap and my legs have fallen asleep. lol Have a great Tuesday!

Happy Father's Day!

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Just a simple layout I made for my blog for Father's Day to all the dads out there. (especially mine & Joel)

Credits:

Candice Wong's "In the Garden" Alpha and kit. Ribbon is from her "Catch Me If You Can" kit. And the stitches are from her "Gilly's Raggedy Old Bunny" kit. All are available at 2BScrapped.
Font is AnniesPlainPrint

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I hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Ours has been busy already. We're finishing the last of cleaning out the garage. It actually is looking really nice in there now. We could fit a vehicle in it. lol That's a huge deal compared to what it was before. Maybe by tomorrow it will be completely empty and ready for paint.

OMG.....As I was writing that last sentence about the garage Joel went out to the garage to get something. There was a stench of smoke and it looked really smokey out there. The fan was running still from earlier when we were in there. Apparently it got too hot! We WONT be using that fan again! And from now on won't leave fans on unattended!!! It's the middle of the night. Joel usually isn't up at this hour. He just happens to be tonight. I can't imagine what would have happened if he hadn't gone out there! :-o That's really a scary thought! I'm a bit freaked out by that right now. I'm certainly not tired any more!!

Well...I had something else I was about to talk about, but can't remember now what it was. lol Oh well....Have a great Father's Day everyone!