Migraine Mania

Last night I can honestly say that I had truly experienced all that a migraine has to offer. I have had severely bad headaches in the past; however, the one I had last night was probably one of the worst, if not THE worst, headache I have ever had in my life. I have always thought whenever I've had a really bad headache, "Is this a migraine? I wonder what a mirgraine would feel like. Maybe this is, maybe this isn't." Last night there was no question. I knew. Even in a room with all the lights off, the TV was much too bright for my headache.

Usually I hate the pain "scale" doctors and nurses will use to ask us how bad the pain we are feeling. I think this is because I am absolutely horrible at estimating anything to do with numbers. I am always way off. Plus, I always think that I could be in worse pain, I am sure, so how could I give this pain a 10? I think some of the nurses put some confusion into this, too, because I think some ask you to rate the pain based on, "Is this the worst pain you've ever felt?", while others ask you to just rate the pain itself. At any rate, last night I gave my pain a number. I know, I know. You are probably surprised at this. Ray laughed when, out of the dead quiet room, I told him that I thought this was an 8. I have to revise that now and say that it might have been a 9. I'm not sure I could ever give anything a 10, because as I said before, there is probably always some worse pain to be felt. But this puppy sure deserved the 8-9 rating it received. I think it acheived its rating status partly due to the fact that I hadn't taken anything for it until it was much too late. That is a problem of mine that, after 29 years, it's still hard for me to learn. I hate taking meds and I am very bad about taking them. Last night I finally gave in and asked Ray to get me some Tylenol. He asked me how many I wanted, and I told him 17. He asked me again how many I wanted, so I asked him how many I was allowed to have. He said, "Probably three." So three it was.

After a good night's sleep, it feels A LOT better, yet it is still lingering around at a much lower pain rating.

United 93

Two nights ago, Ray and I watched the movie United 93. If you have not watched this movie, I recommend it; however, I must warn you that if you are emotional as I am you will cry. There were two things that really made me lose it. The first thing was seeing the footage of the planes hitting the towers. This actually surprised me because I knew what was going to happen. I had seen it so many times before over the years, yet the moment the planes struck the towers, I lost it. Perhaps it has something to do with what caused me to lose it, reason number two: Here you see all these people talking on the phone, making plans, not realizing that soon their lives would be over. Yes, it happens everyday; most people have no idea when they will die. We all make plans, call our families, and tell them we're on our way home, and some of us don't make it. But I knew these people were about to die, and that affected me. It really put things in perpective how special our "today" moments are, how special "now" is to us, how precious our life is.

Today we remember the lives of those lost that day and remember how important today is in our own lives. Hug someone you love and tell them how much you love them. You never know if that will be the last time you ever talk to them again.

Freecycle

Not sure if any of you have ever heard of this, but Freecycle is a group of people with things that they don't want that they offer to others for free. It is also a place where people that want or need certain things can go to try to find them. Go to the website: Freecycle and then you can click on your region of the US on the left hand side. Tthat link will bring you to another page of states within that region listed in alphabetical by state and then by cities within the state that are available. In order to receive emails from your city's group, you must be a member of Yahoo and join that city's Freecycle Yahoo group, but it is worth it.

Anywho, just wanted to pass on this info that I had come across to share the knowledge.

I promise, more pics coming soon.

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I Hate UPS!!

OK, so yeah, I haven't blogged in a while. Its been crazy. Grace started school on Aug. 14th, I started school on Aug. 21st. In between that, we went for a visit up at Eglin AFB and and a visit up at Tallahassee. Then we had a Tropical Storm that was supposed to make it to hurricane strength, but then it widdled down to nothing and syked us out. So, in a nutshell, I've been busy!

Ok, so why do I hate UPS, you may be asking? That is the title of my blog today, thanks for noticing. Well, thanks to my scholarship and financial aid, I have enough money leftover to buy a laptop. Ray has been inundated with paperwork and is usually on the computer every night to work on it. I am taking an English class, which of course, requires you to write. Yes, I can handwrite a paper, however, due to technological advances, teachers now require you to type these papers before handing them in. This creates a dilema. How does both Ray and Gabbi use one computer the same way? Answer: They don't. They get a new one.

So, we order a laptop from Dell. Great! Shipping date originally was going to be 8/31. They build it earlier, ship it out on Saturday and I am due to receive it Tuesday. I even get an automated call from UPS saying the delivery date was updated and I would be receiving the package on Tuesday, 8/29. Fantastic! I am, as they say in Cali, stoked. Ernesto freaks everyone out and everything shuts down Tuesday so, there goes that delivery date. No problem, I can handle that, not UPS' fault. No biggie. However, the status all day said it was, "OUT FOR DELIVERY" until about 5:30pm, when it said, "THE PACKAGE WAS LEFT IN A UPS FACILITY CAUSING THIS DELAY;FORWARDED TO THE FACILITY IN THE DESTINATION CITY"

Wednesday comes, no package. Status according to UPS, "THE PACKAGE IS DELAYED DUE TO EMERGENCY CONDITIONS BEYOND UPS' CONTROL"....not sure which emergency conditions they were talking about.

Thursday comes, Oh I get a package from UPS, but it is the free printer I got with the laptop, which was not shipped out until Wednesday morning and I received that already. Ugh. Yet, still no laptop. Today's status message was the same as Tuesday....it was left or something like that.

Friday comes, Gabbi's mad at UPS. I called them, however, you cannot call the center that delivers your packages directly, so I have to call the general number. They tell me they can have the center call me back, but that can be anytime between now and 7pm. Yikes. Well, they actually called about 11am and said that the package is on the truck and will be delivered today. Yippee....but we'll see about that.

Well, thanks for listening to me complain. I know you looked here for some pics. I tricked you. Sorry. But I feel better now, if that means anything. =)