tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55342471893559547762023-06-20T06:02:43.251-07:00Dysauto WHAT?!The craziness I call life and other random tidbitsJonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-71403973291446099932010-11-24T23:05:00.000-08:002010-11-24T23:26:32.667-08:00Turkey EveWell, it would seem as if another Thanksgiving Turkey day is upon us. Funny how each year we seem so suprised that this day is upon us. Almost like we expect it somehow to NOT show up year after year. Kind of like how its suddenly Friday again. As if we suddenly expect Thursday to turn into Saturday? and just skip over Friday or something. I don't know. Anyway, I have a lot to be thankful for, yet seems I am ungrateful regularly. I have had a rough year with a lot of various different things going on in my life contributing to my rough year. Since I've had a rough year I've not taken much time to be thankful for the things that ARE going right and well in my life. Amazing how we can take several unfortunate things and suddenly we become un-thankful for the things that are going right in our lives. Like for example, a few weeks back after my long, gruling, 8 hour shift that started at 6:30am I was laid off. From a job I loved, and loved the people I worked with. I still do not know why they laid me off. Since then I have managed to find lots of time to complain and stress out about not having any money to pay for my car or health insurance. When in reality I should be grateful that I have health insurance and a great car that does get me to a job interview to bring me money. See what I mean? DOes that happen to anybody else or is it just me? I also have great family and friends to be thankful for. They always seem to show up at the right moments and often at times without even knowing I needed them. It's amazing how a good friend or family member responds without even knowing you were in need at that moment in time. Wow...this is becoming such a boring blog post I'm even boring myself. Random topic change....<br /><br />It's exactly 1:11am and I am watching the clock because I am planning to be up at 8:00 to leave by 8:15am to go for a work out with my dear friend Gretchen. Holla Gretchen Holla! Everybody say Hi to Gretchen for she is one of THE BEST Personal Trainers I know, not to mention VERY DEAR friend to my heart. We met simply because she teaches at the same Y I go to and I went to a few of her classes and we just hit it off and became good friends really fast. Last weekend her girls and I spent the majority of the weekend together and it was pure bliss. Love my adopted Vavrosky family! Moving on, so that leaves me with less than 7n hrs of sleep and a very busy turkey day tomorrow. Huh....Friday morning planning to get up early to go Black Friday Shopping with my Dad. I'd love to sleep in, but if one wants the deals one has to get up. I also know that one day I will look up and say "I miss those Black Fridays when my Dad would want to get up early and go get...." some day. I'm going to miss those moments. It has taken me a long time to recognize parts of myself that I do not like and accept that I do not like them and what and how to change to become a person I like better. It had gotten to a point where I didn't want to be with myself anymore. Yes, people it is possible to annoy yourself ;) Don't tell me I am the ONLY person who feels like that! See you're thinking now...I'll wait for you to finish thinking. You're welcome ;) One of the many things I disliked about myself was all the moments I would say, "My Dad annoys me when...." those moments were becoming closer and closer together and happening more and more. Since I've learned to let those go and think more along the lines of "I'm going to miss this" I've become much more patient with my Dad and learned to enjoy his company even when he is annoying me so thoroughly ;) I've also come to recognize that I am a very impatient person, particularly when driving. Since this self-realizing has been going on I've been much more patient with other drivers and have come to understand that maybe others feel the same way about my driving? Ask me about this and I'll deny I ever said that though ;) I've realized I'm just very impatient in general though, and I am truly trying to re-found my patience again. Random topic change again...<br />So I'm watching some silly late night poker show and had a funny relization. I know NOTHING about poker mind you, but it would seem as if this game is nothing more than a game of BS. Players put coins worth monitary values into the pot based on their cards in their hands. They all go round and round the table until suddenly soo many people give up and fold. Suddenly you could have a crappy hand and have suddenly wont several thousand dollars because everybody else around the table folded yet they had better cards than you. Funny how another player on said show just said the same thing I just said. Hand over, guy with the best hand just lost because he chose to fold. Again, I have no clue what they are playing besides Poker. <br /><br />Well seeing as how it is now 1:24am I should probably call it a night if I intend to be up on time to go get my work out in. Hope this finds all well and everybody has a great Thanksgiving with your loved ones.Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-30063659886010746092010-11-09T08:37:00.001-08:002010-11-09T08:37:45.479-08:00Tuesday again...Well, here we are on Tuesday November 7th and I am once again jobless. Yes, people I got laid off AGAIN. Why is it that every company I get work through seriously overstaff’s then lays people off? Seems that I get laid off more frequently than others because of my health conditions. Dysautonomia is just the TIP of all my health conditions. Did I mention I have no health insurance either?? Yeah, found that one out on Thursday when I went to Walmart to go pick up my insulin. Awesome…So now I have no job, and no health insurance; which means I have NO way to pay for said health insurance once I obtain it again. So Where were we? Oh yes, whinesville. So I started my OWN “Honey-Do List” which entails in no specific order, wash all laundry, go through said laundry and get rid of stuff that doesn’t fit or I no longer wear, get my room organised, scour any and all job sites to find a new job. Figure that should take me to the end of the week…then what?! Oh and am going to spend some extra time in the gym this week trying to get my workouts back on track. Speaking of workouts, today happens to be my good friend Gretchen’s 40th Birthday ;) So Happy BIG Birthday today Gretchen. Make it count you only turn 40 once baby! I wish I had something more interesting to say, but pretty much everything I have to say right now is either going to be a long a** whine, or rant….so…..until I have something nice to say I will sign off for now. Please pardon all spelling errors and typos, I may or may not have been sober last night and just don’t care right now ;)Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-13205595848296915742010-02-21T17:17:00.000-08:002010-02-21T17:38:09.615-08:00It's SundayYes, folks it's Sunday. Which means back to the grind tomorrow for most. This week has been a LONG week medically for me, my family, and friends. One day last week my Aunt's best friends husband was admitted to the hospital for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics and took them ALL week to figure it out. He was in a COMA and having seizures his reaction was so bad. Then my good friend H, was admitted again for vomiting and severe chest pain, they finally figured out it was her appendiz. On the 17th my friend E, had her FIFTH baby boy, and he is a CUTIE! Two days after that she found out her older boys Dad was diagnosed with cancer in his liver and colon; and one day this last week he went and had to get his central line placed for his chemo. Then on Thursday I slipt and fell on the ice on my front steps and I fractured my L3, and my L4 and L5 are fusing together. So I am now wearing a special back brace to help things hopefully heal correctly. And now here we are on Sunday. Wow. What a week. Still no word on the job situation. Today we went and had breakfast/brunch and went to Menards. Did you know that you can use the BLUE bag of salt for a hot water heater instead of Ice Melt? Yeah, you can. <br />You're welcome. So we bought 2 bags. After we got home Dad went out and the shoveled up the ice that the ice melt had worked on. <br /><br />Is anybody else as OBSESSED with the Olympics as I am right now? However, I HAVE had ENOUGH cross country skiing, and Biathalon. They are ALMOST the same sport. I mean seriously, how many hours of this do we need to see? Isn't it all pretty much the same thing? Oh, and as much as I like our state hockey team, I do not wish to watch the Olympic hockey games. I would rather watch them downhill ski, snowboard, ice skate, luge, bobsled those kinds of things. What are your favorite events of the Winter Olympics?<br /><br />I have some tidbits of information about choices our local government is making, but that's a whole nother post in and of itself that I will discuss later. However, I refuse to get all political about it. I will not argue for one party or another as that's not what this blog is about or for. You are welcome to disagree with me, but please be respectful. Disrespectful posts will be promptly deleted. <br /><br />I have/HAD all these things to say, but since I got hurt on Thursday all my fleeting thoughts seem to be evading me right now. My head's just been in a FOG since. I can't think, at times I can hardly formulate a thought, and I am having issues with my short term memory. I guess this is all normal with a tramautic back injury, but dang. I hope it changes SOON. Because of this I've said some really stupid stuff lately. Like, the other day my Dad and I both needed tabs, so we went to the DMV, while there I told the nice lady working there that CHRISTMAS was coming, yes you read that right I said Christmas. I meant Summer! But Christmas is what was coming out of my mouth. While trying to tell her I didn't expire until March I told her, January, June and July. I'm pretty sure my whole conversation with her was peppered with stupid inaccuracies all across the board. It's a good thing my Dad was with or she might not have let me leave for fear I was doing drugs. Oh maybe I was..Just kidding I wasn't, but I sure FELT like I was. Now tonight turning my head makes me dizzy, and my back hurts. Ok well, I might not be back for a few days because I'm hurting so much and can't hardly think. But I'll try and check in when I can. What funny things have YOU said while injured or under anesthesia?<br />P.S. PLEASEEE if you're reading will you please, I beg of you, PLEASE leave me a comment so I know who you are reading? Even if all you say is HELLO ;) Happy Monday Eve!Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-48329370096348854822010-02-18T16:13:00.000-08:002010-02-18T16:23:37.175-08:00Warning: LOTS of Whining Ahead!GRR....It's been a day. So this morning we decided we would head out and run a few errands and then go eat at a VERY famouse Italian Restaurant in St. Paul called Cosetta's. On our way out the door, I slipped and fell on the ice on the front steps. Well, needless to say my left hand is about double the size of my right hand in the fleshy part, and I'm sporting a big ol' blood blister. And my back and left leg, ugh. That's all I have to say. My lower left back hurts pretty bad. Seems as I have pulled some muscles pretty badly, possibly pinched a nerve, and have some nasty muscle bruising. So I'll be sore for a few days. They told me to ice it for 15 min. out of every hour, and come back tomorrow. Ok, so back tomorrow I will go. So needless to say pain pills, muscle relaxers and ice-packs will be my best friends for a few days. Then tonight my best friend called and told me a NASTY story about how her Mom is choosing her bf over her OWN kids, and it makes me literally sick to my stomach thinking about it. Especially for the 15 yr old involved. The 15 yr old can do literally nothing about it. Her Dad isn't any better, he's just as verbally abusive if not worse than Mom or her BF. UGH. Can I throw up now?! Then her Mom turns around and tells her that she wishes she didn't live with ANY of her kids, yet when they Don't live their she whines and cries about that too. Bi-polar anyone?!?! And everybody wonders why this kid has so many anger issues. What else?? I've been pretty obsessed with the Olympics lately. Hey, it's decent TV for 16-17 days. But SERIOUSLY, ENOUGH with the Cross-Country and Biathalon already! It's about as exciting as watching NASCAR or BAsketball. NEXT! I had more to tell you, but those thoughts seem to be fleeting me right now with the news about my friends sister, and my back pain. Now...Where did I Put those pain pills? and ice pack?Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-41285809488194799622010-02-17T23:03:00.001-08:002010-02-17T23:03:58.639-08:00Tomorrow TomorrowI will update Tomorrow..err I guess later TODAY when my brain is turned more on and I can formulate more than a thought or two.Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-49790669086643824442010-02-01T01:24:00.001-08:002010-02-01T01:34:54.239-08:00Why am I awake at 3:24am?I don't know. I have nothing of real interest to say, but thought I'd update the good ol' blog anyway since well, I am awake. When else is there to do it? During the day you say? Oh, never thought of that ;P I've spent the weekend doing much of nothing because I seem to be plauged by a serious migraine. Today the migraine was accompanied by dizziness, severe dizziness, and fluid in my ears. My Mom told me to try some allergy pills for the fluid in my ears. Can't hurt to try it? What's the worst that'll happen? So today I literally did NOTHING. I woke up around 1:00pm, and realized I was home alone so I watched Duplicity, with Julia Roberts. Good movie, but it's one of those you need to watch all the way through or you miss things, important things. Needless to say I'm going to watch it another time or two. About 3:15pm "lunch" was ready so I got up and ate. Made it as far as the couch and that was it. I can probably count the amount of times I got off the couch on both of my hands. I was just so dizzy that when I did get up, I walked funny. Walking in a straight line was OUT. OF. THE. QUESTION. As comical as it is, it became annoying so instead I just parked it on the couch and there I stayed the rest of the night until 3:00am. Hoping tomorrow will be better. I do have a chiropractor appointment at 2:00pm so hoping maybe with an adjustment my migraine will get better? I don't know. But I can hope! Spent most of the day sitting on the couch watching movies, and the Grammys and editing pictures for various photo shoots. I found a really neat program with some awesome collage ideas in it. I know Photoshop fairly well, and really like it, but this program has a few really neat fast features that Photoshop either doesn't have, or take longer to accomplish than this program does. The only downfall to the program is that it does have a yearly fee, but it is relatively in-expensive though so I think I might get it. As for now I'm watching Chocolat and hoping to wind down for sleep sometime soon. Maybe I'll post some of my pictures later, maybe I won't, ah who knows. Hope everybody had a great weekend. What did you do for excitement over the weekend? Anybody got any good ideas for migraines?Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-50504152694119097742010-01-30T13:29:00.000-08:002010-01-30T13:44:59.986-08:00The Reason In Which I ALMOST got kicked out of the funeral....HAHA! Yup, bout darn near got my booty kicked out of the funeral home! But it was hilarious. Ok maybe in a sick twisted sort of way, but really it was. Let me tell you the story first, and then YOU try and tell me it's not funny. When we first got there, My Dad and I, that is we signed the "guest book", which I don't understand, but I digress. We then went up to the front of the funeral home where the open casket sat. Let me start by telling you a lil' bit about Sr. He was a great, noble, straight shooter kind of guy. You might not like what he said, but he wasn't going to sugar coat or beat around the bush about anything. He'd tell it like it is. IF he thought it was B.S. he'd say JUST That. Whatever that's the kind of guy he was, and everybody loved him for it. He had a BIG truck that he had tricked out, and it was ALWAYS clean. He was forver tinkering with it. He had restored an old '68' Bell something..haha can't think of what it's called. Anyway, he also LOVED to fish at the cabin, and ride his motorcycle. He was that kind of guy. But had the heart of gold. Even if he didn't have the shirt to give you, he'd still give you 3. Society lost a GREAT guy on Sunday. So. We approached the casket and Sr was wearing a nice pair of blue jeans, and an awesome Harley Davidson shirt. But when you looked at Sr. himself, he looked like a wax figure. His skin looked like BABY pink, there was NOTHING natural about the color of his skin from all the make up they used on him. His hands, were an odd color too, they had wrapped his rosary around his hands as well. Apparently he was Cathlic? The funny part was, all you could see of his rosary were the beads, they had the cross inside his hands where you couldn't see it. So when we left, I asked my Dad if he was practicing Witchcraft of some sort, or had some strange religous beliefs I was unaware of. His religious beliefs are unimportant to me, I was just curious. Had the cross part been out where it could be seen I would have known right away what it was. But I was also unaware of the fact that when they bury Catholics they bury them with a rosary in their hands. I'd had never been to a Catholic funeral before, call me naive, but I hadn't so I just simply didn't know that. Of course I felt really stupid after the fact and am glad I waited until we left to ask my Dad about it. I couldn't help myself and laugh at the fact that he looked soo much like a wax figure though. I wanted to slap the ol' man and tell him to get up and dance! Sr. had this laugh that was unmistakable and hearty. <br /><br />Moving on...<br /><br />So ya know Apple? The computer company with the apple on it? Ya, that one. So they have Imac,s Ipods, I phones, and now even an Ipad... where the hell is the Ibrator? I mean they have everything elses, but wheres the Ibrator? Talk about am multi-purpose tool. I mean they are PORTABLE. You could truly fulfill ALL your daily needs with one of those. Need I say more... No? I didn't think so.<br /><br />Well, I hope everybody is having an awesome weekend. I'm sure I'll be back at some point with more stupid craziness we call life!Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-8119054642153816972010-01-28T16:23:00.000-08:002010-01-28T16:24:15.733-08:00Funerals SUCK!There enough said! Sorry to be such a debbie downer. I'm sure I'll be back later with something more exciting to post! Hope you're all having a GREAT Thursday. As my friend Cindy says, "Happy Friday EVE."Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-68581862558737169722010-01-28T11:42:00.000-08:002010-01-28T11:55:18.656-08:00Oh what a dayOy vey! It's only quarter to two and it feels like it's already been a day. Not because it has been, more I think because of what's to come this afternoon. This afternoon from 4-8 is the wake for a good beloved family friend who suddenly passed away on Sunday afternoon. I don't particularly enjoy funerals or wakes for that matter, and I can't imagine anybody who does. IF you do, you have serious issues, no?? So...remember when I posted a few days ago about the pregnant dreams? WELL, let me tell you, I had another one the other night. They say everytime you have a dream about being pregnant somebody dies..er....I guess that's semi-true. Let me explain. The FIRST time I remember having this dream my cousin had just passed away, now more recently I've had several more of them and now a beloved family friend died. Either this dream NEEDS to go away so people stop dying, or I NEED to be pregnant. However, being pregnant requires doing a, um, certain "deed" if you will. Seeing as how I'm not currently dating anybody, that seems to be an issue in my mind. I am extremely interested in somebody, but there is sadly nothing going on between him and I at this point in time. Maybe we'll get together over the weekend. But probably not. What else am I just dying to tell you? Did I tell you I did something incredibly stupid on Monday? I was supposed to meet a new client for my photography business and completely forgot until 8:30pm. OOPS! I almost cried when I realized what I did. Turns out it worked out good because she forgot to tell me she wasn't going to be there anyway! Thank goodness. Back to this TERRIBLE HORRIBLE AWFUL memory I have. If I don't have multiple reminders of things, I tend to forget. What's that? Why don't I use a planner? Well, quite frankly because that requires remember to a) use it, or b) remember to take it with me when I leave the house. I already have a ton of stuff I have to remember to bring being a type 1 diabetic on an insulin pump, and often times I have my camera and/or laptop with me depending on where I'm going. Going for a semi-lazy weekend. There seems to be a few things looming on the horizon for plans for the weekend, but we'll see if any of them actually pan out. I'd LOVE to go shopping, but being I am currently laid off with no income coming in, shopping just won't happen. Not this weekend at least. Well, my living room is a mess and needs to get picked up so if anybody is bored and wants to come pick it up for me, feel free! Just stop on by. The mess will be here waiting for you. I promise I won't touch it if you're coming over. Heck, there might even be a beer involved. If you don't like beer, I'm sure I have something involving liquor that would appeal to you. Er, I don't think I was supposed to mention that part. Oops. Moving on. I'm off to go do something, maybe apply for a few jobs before the wake. I'm sure I'll be back later with some sort of update.Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-660773679169404452010-01-26T20:32:00.000-08:002010-01-26T20:59:16.963-08:00Lazy start and a sad ending....Busy day today. We did some running around and ran some errands that needed to get done. Did end up over at Aldi finally today and found a GREAT find. I used to have a twin bed, until we moved a few months ago. When we moved I got a queen, and gave my Dad my twin and took his queen. My room is HUGE, and his just isn't. So a twin for his is just perfect. Plus, on the rare occasion I have guests if they decide to stay they have a place to stay that isn't my Dads bed. lol. Anyway, so we were just finishing up at Aldi and went down a RANDOM aisle and saw it! A QUEEN heated mattress pad! So we asked the manager how much it was, his answer "Oh I need to get that out of my store, how's $20.00 sound?" SOLD!! The CHEAPEST one we could find was at BIG BOX Store for $100.00! YAY! So needless to say I took it. It's soo different from a heated blanket and well quite frankly it rocks! I can't wait to try it out. I freeze at night so hopefully this will help. Did I mention it has a 10 hour timer on it? AND not one, but TWO different remotes for it. So both sides of the bed can have different settings? How awesome. Soo soo excited. That alone was worth the trip over there. When I had my twin I used my heated mattress pad EVERY night, even in the summer. Yeah, I'm a freeeze baby. Dysautonomia will do that to ya. One of the things it causes is your bodies ability to control its own temperature. Therefore, causing lots of random fevers, or SEVERE cold spells. Lately I've taken to spiking fevers of almost 100 degrees. I have a doc. appointment tomorrow so I'm going to bring that up along with all my other crazy POTS issues and hope to get some answers. I heard from a reader today that taking Vitamin B may help with my energy, so I think I'm going to try that! Thanks for the tipoff! We found out tonight that a very beloved family friend passed away very unexpectedly on Sunday morning of several heart attacks. His family has been through so so much in the last 6-12 months and am very concerned for them. His grandchildren were rather close to him too as they lived with him for the last several months, and before that lived RIGHT across the street so they spent a lot of time with their Grandpa. My heart just breaks for them all. You will be missed by ALL SR. RIP!! He was SUCH a great guy. He went out of his way for me just a FEW weeks ago to help me out and I feel soo terrible that I NEVER got the chance to call and thank him, despite the fact that my Dad did SEVERAL times. Life's just so short! It's moments like these that make you remember that. The world has lost a GREAT guy. We will miss you. What else? Ugh. my kitten. She has taken to throwing up lately? Not sure what her deal is. I'm hoping it's just furballs, but I really don't know and she's only 17 months old. So off to the vet one day this week I guess. I hope it's ONLY furballs. *fingers crossed* I had a cat do that a few years ago, and it wasn't long after that that we were forced to put her down from severe kidney failure, grant it Sox was like 15-16 yrs old, but still. What else am I dying to tell you? Oh....so I had yet ANOTHER dream last night about being pregnant. I seem to keep having these ever since my cousin died back in October. I am of the parenting age, but most certainly am not planning on any kids any time soon. But I keep having these darn dreams that I am either pregnant, or breastfeeding, which really means I WAS pregnant and have since had the baby. In every dream, but one, it was a girl. Is this some sort of omen? Who should I stop sleeping with? Well, I mean..that would require that I was sleeping with somebody to START With. So now I really want to know who this supposedly baby father is just so I know who to AVOID like the plague. If I avoid him, and um the "Deed" then we should be all good. HAHA. Wow....that makes me sound like a um...angel...yeah that's it. Nothing like getting a lil' racy, huh? Moving ON.......<br /><br />So.... I have a prayer request or two also. My fellow blogger Hollie seems to be struggling a lot as of late and could really really use your prayers right now as she struggles to get through some difficult things in life, including her childrens illnesses. Oh and could you please keep a fireman from the local area in your paryers too? He was working on a local freeway and was struck from behind while cleaning up from a car fire. He never even saw the car coming, he underwent immediate surgery and seems like he will recover, but he has a VERY long recovery ahead of him. <br />Zachary....a very young man who has endured SOO SOO much. He has been battling a long battle with cancer, but he is doing remarkably well with it. However, now he is being bullied in school, and has been physically attacked and is afraid of going back to school. Not only that, but because of his long multiple hospital stays his family is suffering some serious financial setbacks and will probably lose his house he grew up in, his dad lost his job, among a host of other financial issues. Would you please keep this family in your prayers. If you have any ideas of how we could help this family I WOULD love to hear them. They have been very heavy on my heart as of late. I want to start an online auction, but need some help to do it as I don't even know where to begin. So if you have any experience with something like this, would you please let me know? I will take all the help and ideas I can get.<br /><br />Alright...before I write another novel I'm going to get going and get a few things done before the night gets much later. Hope everybody's having a good night. Happy Wednesday!Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-87653744850115202792010-01-26T00:39:00.000-08:002010-01-26T00:48:54.962-08:00The one without a titleToo tired to think of a blog title for tonights post. Been a crazy, yet lazy day if such a thing exists. I've done absolutely nothing today, haven't even left the house. We talked about going to Aldi, but decided against because I didn't feel like going any more. So I took a shower. That's IT! A shower! WOO HOO! At least I got SOMETHING accomplished today. Feeling VERY VERY stressed out right now about the whole money situation seeing as how I got laid off so abruptly last week. Going to do some serious investigation tomorrow and see what I can come up with. Hoping to get some paying customers for my photography business here soon. Need to get a MK order in too or my business will lapse. *gulp* Well, as I'm sure you already know the BIG game ended kind of sadly for us yesterday. We are not even sure the Favre will return next season :( That will be a very sad season for us. I've really only been a HUGE Fan this season because of him. He is just SOO humble, and such a team player, you just couldn't ask for a better team mate than him. So after last nights post I spiked a fever of 99.7 and hear rate of 110 bpm. Spent several hours hanging out in that area, when it finally came down to 98.6 and 93bpm. Today we're back up in the mid 90's for temps again. Earlier it was 99.5 I think?? Going to bring up lots of stuff with this POTS at my physical this week. I'm soo tired of everything going on and nobody listening to me or doing anything about it. Some days it gets so bad I feel like I can hardly function, and I have like NO energy. Like ZILCH, NONE, NADA....this is JUST NOT ME. I miss the days of popping right out of bed and having a ton of energy and being able to just go go go! I had a SMALL glimpse of the old me a week and a half ago for two days. I just POPPED out of bed and felt great on Fri. and Sat. it was AWESOME while it lasted. Not to mention the horrible horrible memory I have as of recent. So what else??? So with that I guess I am off to bed seeing as how it is 2:45am. I NEED to start getting to bed earlier so I can start getting up before 12:30-1:00pm. Tomorrow I shall talk about the NASTY weather our crazy state is experiencing.Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-31919717151414258832010-01-24T16:41:00.000-08:002010-01-24T16:57:56.556-08:00Dysauto what?!Well, after not being able to get into my blog for a while I am going to change my forum again? Forum? No, um readership yes, and maybe theme is a better word. I have since discovered I am not the only "freak" as I've been called who is sick ALL the time, and suffers from severe Dysautonomia or POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). I am VERY thankful to know that I AM not making up the crazy seemingly unrelated symptoms associated with this debilitating disease. There is a whole list of symptoms associated with this and I have almost every single one of them, yet none of them seem to make sense when associated with one another. I can feel this diseas slowly taking over my life and there is nothing I can do about it. I also deal with the complications and issues associated with Type 1 Diabetes, asthma, kidney complications, and heart issues outside of tachycardia. None of them any fun! But like anything else in life we figure out how to live and how to move on and keep on keeping on. I would like to find some way to semi manage some of the complications of this POTS. Sure beta-blockers work, but there has to be other ways of making this diseae easier to live with. I either have to control it, or let it control me. So control it, it will be. I've started thinking about a gym membership this week, hopefully working out a few times a week will help. Not sure, but I can hope, right?! I'm hoping to meet other people with this same condition to see what they do, or where to go to get help with this condition. Every doctor I see seems to think that I am making this up seeing as how none of these symptoms make any sense when associated with each other so they quickly blow me off. But I think it's time to start checking into this more, as this seems to get worse and worse over time. So.......if you know anybody with this or have any ideas I would love to hear about them. <br />P.S. My next post won't be such a debbie downer...I'm sure I'll be back to post about the outcome of the BIG game! GO VIKES!Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-31420368127185905112009-12-19T18:05:00.001-08:002009-12-19T18:17:44.269-08:00I think I have a fever....I know I know, TWO posts in just as many days. What am I thinking? I MUST have a fever. Nah...Moving on. Last night one of my best friends had a night from hell so we were on the phone until 6am this morning(Sunday). At 12 I had to get up because I had a photo shoot scheduled for 3pm; I ended up doing TWO shoots. Both turned out well I think. You'll have to wait until I get them edited and posted before you can see them though. You're Welcome. :P What else? Was hoping to go out with a friend tonight, but haven't heard from him as of yet. Tomorrow, will be spent unpacking more boxes and editing the pictures from my two shoots this weekend ;) And maybe even relaxing? Would like to go see a movie maybe, don't know. Back to work Monday for a 3.5 day work week..yay for short work weeks. Only working 1-7pm on Christmas Eve day so that'll be nice to get off early to be able to enjoy the night and them it's a 3-day weekend. YAY! Well, that about sums up my craziness I call life. Until next time....Whenever it may be ;)Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-53119739016153320092009-12-17T23:17:00.000-08:002009-12-17T23:30:55.585-08:00Um..blog much?Well, it would seem I have taken to abandoning my blog once again. Not like it matter, nobody literally nobody reads my blog anyway. I should check into that....I think my other blog is linked to others blogs so nobody knows this one exists. Anyways, been crazy busy at work. Remember the guy I don't like? Well, for some reason I seem to be developing some sort of working respect for him. Huh? Not sure what inspired this change, but the last few days have been great. I actually semi-enjoy his presence now......Eh, I don't get it either. Moving on...Let's see I have a big photo shoot over the weekend for some family I am excited about. Am working on booking some new stuff for the new year too! Including weddings, engagement pics, and some I can't talk about on this blog ;) teehee. Yes, THOSE pics! No not those...THOSE. Yeah, those ones ;) I have some GREAT ideas I picked up while I worked at a digital photography printing press and I am SUPER excited to get to try them out. I even have a few maternity pics coming up. I LOVE shooting maternity pictures too. Oh and I need to put a small portfolio together to show perspective clients too. I need some more models...any takers? The shoot is free, I just need you to consent to letting me put them in my portfolio, and I promise no personal info. will be used or given out about who's in the pictures. Let's see what else?? My fav. blog shut down and went private recently. Do ya care? Didn't think so. I am, however, ACTUALLY thinking about getting up early on Sat. morning to trek to Waterville MN to meet another one of my FAVORITE blog writers. Check out the details on Mckmama.com. Jennifer is an AMAZING photographer, with a beautifully blooming photography business and I would just LOVE LOVE LOVE the opportunity to meet her! and work with her once or twice. She is an amazing fellow Christian, photographer, Mother, and Husband, this girl can DO IT ALL! She's having a Christmas Party at her house tomorrow night and I can't even go because I have to work until midnight :(. Every time she has amazing get togethers here in the FRozen Tundra I am unavailable. But someday SOON I WILL meet her! Next? Anybody have any floor lamps they want to get rid of? My room is soo dark and I could use the light, and take them off your hands. Your welcome. I mean thank you. So that leaves Sunday for either a)editing my pics. from Saturdays shoot, or another shoot. Anybody want any FREE pics taken on Sunday?! Saturday night I am *hoping* to go out with a friend that night. I want to get to know this person better, but there is never a "good" time to do it seems. So keep your fingers crossed for me ;) Well, off to go check out some photography stuff. I am SOO SOO EXCITED to be getting bookings and getting my business off the ground finally. I'm still taking referrals though, and if you give me referrals and they buy from me I'll give you 50% off! or even a FREE shoot! What do you think? Again, your welcome ;) I'm just nice like that. Alright, off to bed.....or shall I clean? Anybody know any good maids in my area?Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-19377502393707493612009-12-11T22:42:00.000-08:002009-12-11T22:50:33.323-08:00Umm It's Friday?And grateful I am that it IS FRIDAY! Well, technically it is now Saturday, but whatever, same thing. It's been A WEEK!! (This post will be a total hodge-podge of random thoughts because I have no ambition to form a good though process.) A VERY, VERY long week at that. Work is going crazy, and I don't know what is going to happen in the immediate future. I am getting concerned that I will not have a job after the first of the year. Can't go into details, but there are signs all around me that my company is getting ready for some lay-offs. I just HOPE I am not one of them. Had some strange health issues this week too with my back, and kidneys, and possibly appendix? Don't know. Been running a low grade fever too, but again I don't know if any of them are even related. Or if I am just soo gosh darn tired that I hurt. Ya know? Yay, I knew you would. Seems to be the season for exhaustion too. This next weekend I am so excited to have TWO photo shoots, and am hoping to line-up more. I am hoping to get some people to volunteer to let me do a FREE shoot if they'll give me a referral or two. Any takers? This weekend my Aunt J and I are going to bake dozens and dozens of cookies for the upcoming Holidays. Should be a good time. Then one of my good friends and I are going to go see the Macy's Holiday Display and then meet with lots of people for my Birthday Dinner. So overall, should be an eventful, busy, yet fun weekend. Had a rough start to my week, but seem to have found a happy solution for them me and hope it works out all okay in the end. Pardon my errors in spacing in this post, but my space key doesn't seem to want to work. Is Space Key even the right word? Oh, I don't know. So...what are you exciting weekend plans?Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-52485143099691068212009-11-30T00:08:00.000-08:002009-11-30T00:32:54.762-08:00More of the same?Well, it would seem my idea of a wonderful successful prayer blog, has quickly dissipated? Who am I kidding? I HARDLY have time to do my laundry, let alone blog and DAILY? or multiple times daily? HA! SO I'm giving my blog a TRANSFORMATION. Ya ya ya, I know. Already? Yes, already! So from now on, when I blog I will leave notes of prayer and praise at the bottom of each post, and you may pray as you see fit! Sound good? Good. Glad we agree.... Moving on. What a day! Spent 10 hrs in a car today. Went up North to get my stuff. LOTS of drive time, and well the truck...yeah it wasn't exactly BIG enough. OOPS. But we managed to get what we needed in it, and left the rest in the storage unit. It is locked and under surveillance until I figure out what to do with it. So needless to say, it's been a day! and I thought I would blog again before you thought I gave up on you. Your Welcome. So this blog will become more of a personal nature, some fleeting thoughts, some random things, some prayer, some praise, some nonsense I am sure. We will see as time tells. But with that thought, I am off to get some shut-eye before I have to get up in the morning and UNLOAD my now VERY Full truck full of ALL my wonderful possessions. I hope my brother feels MUCH better in the morning. and before I sign off.... I should mention my Uncle D went WAY above and beyond the call of duty today. For he and my Dad and I endured the long day together and they were both amazing today. I truly could not have done it without them. So if you find yourself with NOTHING to do this morning around 9-10am, feel free to drop by and help unload said truck! We'll be here. <br /><br />Prayers 11-30-09<br /><br />Carrie - This could go under both sections, but while Carrie's recent surgery was a partial success she is still struggling soo much. Please continue to pray for her and all her uncertainty that the future holds for her. And that they can continue to find a reason(s) for all her medical issues she is having.<br /><br />Hannah Grace Crumby - this sweet young soul is struggling in ways even Adult's don't handle with half the "grace" she is. This poor baby has suffered soo much, and now a massive stroke that may very well end her life. Please pray for a MIRACLE as this is her only hope.<br /><br />Peyton- She too has suffered a stroke at the young age of 35ish. She has made many small steps forward, and a few back. Please continue to pray for her strength as she continues to awaken from her coma. As well as her husband who is trying his best to not only advocate for her, but take care of there children and work as well.<br /><br />Cripe Family - This family is AMAZING. In soo many ways. All 4 of them have some sort of chronic health condition. Daniell (mom) was told she would not be alive to celebrate Christmas with her family because her cancer had metastasized so badly. Just a few short weeks ago, she found out she was PREGNANT! Suprise! Her Husband is a type 1 diabetic, and now found out their son is also. Their daughter, has several chronic conditions as well. Please keep this family and there uncertainty in your prayers. They need it.<br /><br />Gerwer Family - This AMAZING mother is a mother of BEAUTIFUL Quads and is opening her own online Baby boutique! If you would just keep her in your prayers that she not only florishes, but is successful so she can continue to stay home with her babies while making a lil' income as well as serving us all! <br /><br />Unnamed FAmily - They are really struggling with their daughter and all the issues her mental health has caused. This family is in desperate need of help, but every avenue they have tried, has only failed them. For privacy reasons I cannot say much more, but they need as many prayers as they can get before this situation gets worse.<br /><br />Klopp Quads- she is going into her 26th week of pregnancy with her quads! Please pray that they continue to "cook" for several more weeks. <br /><br />Unnamed Source - Is suffering from some strange symptoms that not only seem to persist, but are gradually getting worse. The doctors continue to tell her that nothing is wrong, but she knows something is wrong. Please pray that they find out what it is before it gets worse.<br /><br />Praise <br /><br />I am FINALLY feeling like I am on the road to recovery from this nasty bout of pneumonia I've been dealing with, and my kidney infection is gone too. <br /><br />Stellan - His latest Abalation in Boston was a 100% success and could not have gotten better news. The hope is that Stellan will remain SVT free for the REST OF HIS LIFE!! God is GOOD!<br /><br />Sweet Emily is starting to feel better after her bout with Flu type A.<br /><br />That a friend of mine's son is doing so much better that he is able to return to work this week after being off work for several weeks.Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534247189355954776.post-57923010952699641822009-11-07T00:29:00.001-08:002009-11-07T00:38:09.751-08:00Praise and Prayers for 11-6-09The majority of this blog will include Prayers and Praise from the days events. However, there will occassionally be a personal blog by myself or even a guest poster at times. I hope to make this blog a central location that people can come to when needing prayers. Feel free to e-mail me a PRAISE or PRAYERS needed. It can be as general or as specific as you'd like. If you'd like to remain annonymous please tell me so ;) However, negativity will NOT be tolerated. I will close reader comments off to annonymous posters if this becomes an issue. Please do not force me to make that decision. I believe remaining annonymous will allow some people to come to ask for prayers that would not do so otherwise. SO....feel free to start sending me your requests or praises. <br /><br />Joni<br /><br />Prayers :<br /><br />Roxanna and Joey - Joey is in the ICU on a venatilator, and sedated. Her latest post asked people to pray for a miracle and for whatever it is they so choose. I have been following him for several years, and this is by far the worst I have EVER seen him. <br /><br />Fort Hood- Enough said.<br /><br />Everybody affected by the Sedona, AZ Sweat Lodge tragedy - For those familes of the deceased as well as the victims who have survived, and those who continue to seek.<br /><br />Tiffany's Uncle - they have been told he has mere weeks to months to live. Please pray for peace for her Uncle as well as the family who is preparing for the loss of yet another family member. This family has been through so much already.<br /><br />Carrie - She has been in and out of the hospital for a LONG time now and they are still not sure what is causing all of her medical issues. She too has been through soo much and could use some good news, or some relief even if temporary.<br /><br />Em - she has a mitochondiral issue and is struggling every day to stay here with her family.<br /><br />Praise<br /><br />My friends Son will be released from the hospial tomorrow and is doing much better. Thank you for those of you who prayed for him.Jonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175171461996268039noreply@blogger.com0