September 22

Well, I'm still slacking because school started for the kids and school started for me and work is busy all the time now, so I apologize for not keeping up.

HOME LIFE: DH took two weeks off of work, so it was nice having him home. After all that shirt duty, it was well deserved time off. Course he was called on leave asking him to pull shirt duty for a few more days when he got back and he was pretty upset about it. I told him to take it as a compliment that they knew he could do it and wanted him in there. Turns out there was a switcheroo around the squadrons, so he had to cover between our shirt leaving and the new one coming in.

I ended up pulling something in my back though and last weekend was really bad. The 12th was my oldest's 12th birthday and I just sucked it up because he had a friend over spending the night. As soon as the friend left Saturday morning, I drove myself to urgent care. They did a urinalysis and saw bacteria and thought I might have a kidney infection, so they gave me some non-narcotic pain meds (which didn't do crap) and antibiotics (which also didn't do crap). Saturday and Sunday I was confined to the couch and then on Monday I got an appointment with the base docs. They did an Xray and found nothing and since the antibiotics hadn't done anything, they believed it was a muscle pull instead. So they gave me some muscle relaxers and some of the good pain meds (Vicodin). I slept off and on all day last Monday and Tuesday and started working half days Wednesday-Friday.

WORK LIFE: Work is BUSY BUSY BUSY! You won't hear me complain though! I worked alot of late days in the last couple of weeks just trying to catch up before the Online show. So last week I was freaked out because of my back and I had a bday order to get out, so I worked Wednesday morning and finished by 1pm and ended up getting the bday order plus 3 others done. Thursday I did all the Delights and one other customer order. Friday I had to run some errands (check post office box, pick up supplies, etcetera). I was planning on finishing up a shop order that day but by the time I got back, I was hurting from getting up and down out of the truck all morning, so I ended up not doing much of anything. Saturday I got caught up on my accounting and stuff. Then I took it easy the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday, and Monday.

I actually feel pretty good today, so I'm hoping I'll be able to get back to a normal work schedule tomorrow. The only problem is painting fabrics has me bending over them for awhile so it starts hurting. I'll just have to take it slow and easy.

The needlework show starts Wednesday and I'm all stocked up on fabrics except for the backordered ones, so I'm hoping that I have enough to complete all the orders that come in! Keeping my fingers crossed!

STITCHING LIFE: I haven't been able to stitch much lately due to working late nights and then with the backache, but I for some reason picked up my HAED yesterday and worked on it for the first time in nearly 2 years!! Here was the before pic:


Here it is after yesterday:


You can see I've completed more of the light colors rounding down and I've gone almost 1 block of 10x10. It takes forever but the detail is worth it!

I also finished my halloween heart freebie. Here it was before:


and here it is finished:


It was stitched on a Jobelan Royalty Flair.

SCHOOL LIFE:
A new chapter in my blog since I started school! I'm taking Principles of Accounting I, Principles of Marketing, and Computer Concepts. The accounting I'm finding very interesting because it's teaching me what my accounting program actually does when I use it with work! Computer Concepts is pretty easy because I'm a computer geek anyway. Marketing I find a little harder and I have to write a 1-2 page paper EVERY SINGLE week! The first one I got an A on, but the teacher hasn't graded week 2 or 3 yet. I'm anxiously awaiting my grades. So far, I've aced every quiz, assignment, and discussion that I've had to do. I'm hoping to stay that way. I'd love to have a 4.0 again for school! I love this degree I'm taking (IT) because I can do it all online. That allows me to work around my business schedule and the kids and family time and all of that! This week is week 4 already and next week is quarter midterms...ALREADY!

Well, it's my last weekend day, so I'm going to go and stitch and enjoy the rest of the evening. I believe Heroes starts tonight, so I'll be planting my happy butt down in front of the TV for the duration!