@swenson19d - had to laugh at Kevin sitting at the door waiting to have it opened for him. We have a doggie door in your patio screen door and Hobbes happily goes in and out until he decides for whatever reason to refuse to go through it and waits and whines (to let you know it is urgent) until one of us lets him out. We are pretty sure he is just reminding us that we are his servants.
Hobbes follows me around still but he often just finds his own spot too. It depends on what else is going on. Today dh was upset about something he had done (he disconnected our cable/internet connection) and Hobbes was sure he was angry with him (bad words were flying) even though dh was paying him no notice. Hobbes as a result was glued to me for hours, followed me from room to room and wanted to be as close to me as possible.
Hobbes would love that bean bag too! We have 'dog' blankets for the couches too. A couple from Eddie Bauer that are always on the couch and then I have been buying these really soft seasonal blankets from Target for $10. Hobbes loves them and snuggles under them.
I agree with @quilteryoyo that you may have a problem getting them to sleep in their own beds now. Maybe try at least starting off with them in their own beds to allow you to get in and get comfortable before they join in... or try limiting them to where they can be on the bed?
Question on your ruggables... how does BOB work with them? Does he get tangled up with the rug cover? I am thinking about getting my own BOB... I do love the rugs!

@quilteryoyo - hope you like your new Garmin and that it gets the data it needs to be tuned to your patterns, sleep and otherwise. I like my Apple Watch and with the improvements the sleep monitoring seems better. It also sometimes thinks I am asleep when I am watching TV or working at my desk.

Arm - I see the ortho on Tuesday afternoon. It is tolerable until I move it the wrong way or try to lift something and get a jolt of pain and then aching.

I think the arm pain was masking the auto-immune tenderness/soreness. As the arm is not as sore, I have realized how much I hurt everywhere else. It comes and goes and I have had some good days and some bad days with it. I am still taking the new meds and hoping it will help in the long run.

DH's 74th birthday (!!) is Tuesday and I need to figure out something special to do/make for him. He wants to bbq steaks for dinner. I was hoping we could go out but it is up to him. We are also having the outside of your house painted this week and they are coming tomorrow to power wash it all around.

Good morning!

We have a BOB, I don't love it. I need to pick up a bunch of stuff before I turn it loose (cat food/water), mats. It also gets stuck in a particular area and I come back an hour later and it is still going in the same room. We have the Roomba.

@shanaber I hope you get some answers on your arm!

@quilteryoyo I just guessed it was anxiety, made sense based on the circumstances. I have never had any heart issues other than the occasional palpitation. I thought about making an appt but you have to word it so carefully because as soon as you mention your heart or chest pain, they send you to the ER.

This weekend was busy! I had to be up at 4:30am on Saturday to be out the door by 5am to drive 80 miles to the the aid station I was working. I didn't realize it was so remote and I ended up having to pack 10 gallons of water out to the station from the fire road. It wasn't far, maybe .25 miles, but ouchy I hurt LOL I had a blast helping, it was a tough race, 35 miles through canyons with 11K feet of climb. I saw lots of blood, puke, and tears. Our station was at the halfway point and the runners had to come down a really steep hill to us...which they promptly had to go back up...evil. I met a lot of really nice folks, no one I really clicked with. I worked till about 2pm (9hours) and then had to drive home. I barely ate and had 2 small bottles of water. There were obv no bathrooms and and the natural facilities had poison oak everywhere so I only braved it twice. I came home shoved a frozen burrito in my face, took a shower (smelled amazing from all the helping with packs and such) and was in bed and slept for 13 hours.

I woke feeling like a truck hit me Sunday but needed to get to the ranch for burn day. We had to start early b/c the wind has been picking up around 1pm. We worked on burning all the big branches that would not go through the chipper and right on schedule the wind came so we had to hurry and bury the fires. (lots of shoveling). I ran a few errands and came home smelling like bbq and tired.

This week is a big push to get our deployers out and we have a base exercise. Not looking forward to it.

Draftsman promised me an invoice last week, never got it. Need to go sign the tax stuff today. Guess I better get to it.

@CMorning99 I love the roomba bob. Yes, I have to pick up dog toys, shoes, and gather the big stuff. But it does a better job that I do. It currently runs 3 times a day. Thats how horrible the mess is! Kevin asked for a bath last night, and I happily bathed him. Today he is covered in mud... already. It does a great job with the pet fur.

@shanaber bob has no problem with the rugs. The living room rug is the extra thick padding and it has to put a little more effort in to getting over it in certain areas. But I never have to help it. It also is fine with the standard thickness rug pad. The rugs are very secure against the pad. Kevin likes to dig it upside down and chew the padding. I have to put cayenne pepper on it. ugh puppies. I washed the living room rug twice. It is easier to handle after being washed a few times. The bedroom one needs washed but is under the bed and dresser, im not up to fighting it just yet.

EtA We have the doggie door to the back in the storm door, but Kevin thinks he needs out front, just in case walkers want to meet him.

Sandy keeps bring me a chew toy to nibble, then I throw it... Shes feeding me. haha!

@swenson19d Love the rainbow. That cloud does look sort of tornado-ish. I'm glad it didn't touch down any closer to you. They are so destructive. I didn't hear about the accident. So sad. It's a little funny about your drunk male classmate. Sounds like you made a good decision to ignore him. LOL Good luck with everything today.

@swenson19d - I have to say I was doom-scrolling the weather for Ardmore to see if you were safe. it is so scary that it came so close to you! The rainbow is pretty though... did the dogs react any differently?
I did see the news on the 6 HS girls - so very sad and I can't imagine what their parents are going through. Have you heard anything on what caused it? I was thinking weather related but haven't really seen anything.
I love that Kevin needs to be out front in case walkers want to meet him! If we had a fenced front yard I am pretty sure that would be Hobbes too!

@cmorning99 - the race support sounds intense but fun. Hope the draftsman gets back to you!

I saw the ortho late yesterday afternoon. Not great news but not unexpected. He is sure that I have a complete tear of the long head of my biceps tendon and I need another MRI to confirm (waiting for them to coordinate the scheduling with the PM technician). Assuming it is confirmed I will likely be scheduled for arthroscopic surgery. In the meantime I am not allowed to lift anything and he said only light personal care - no cleaning, no cooking, no gardening, etc.. even offered to write me a note if needed 😁 The good news is I can run, as long as there is 'no pain'. I still have bruising and he thinks the tear is still angry so nothing that will make it any angrier.
We are puppy sitting Beaux the Vizsla puppy for a week the 1st week of April and hopefully I can manage it without doing any more damage.

It is really, really hot here these few days (over 90F already). We are having out house painted outside and they have wrapped all the windows and doors in plastic except the garage. They also wrapped the air-conditioner condenser. The house stays reasonably comfortable during the day but has been so hot in the evenings. I would never turn the air on at this point, just open the windows is typically enough but we can't, so tonight dh took all the plastic off the condenser and we turned the air on... hopefully we will sleep tonight! It should be cooler by the weekend.

My weight is up 3lbs and seems to be pretty stable there. I am hoping getting in some walks and runs when I can will keep it under control until I can get the arm sorted and back to my regular routine.

@shanaber Sorry to hear your diagnosis, but maybe with the surgery it will be fixed "better" and won't happen again anytime soon. It is so hard to not be able to lift and do things you are used to doing. You'll have to do all things with Beaux with your other arm so he doesn't pull it. I would think that would not be good. I hope you can get the MRI and surgery soon. It's good that you can run and walk at least. I hope you were able to sleep better with the AC on.

@Avidkeo Nice to see you back after some busy days. I've not been eating like I should either. I keep saying I need to do better and try, but then the daycare has extra food at lunch that sometimes looks really good, so I cave. Some day......

I take my Holter monitor off today and mail it to TX. It will probably be another two weeks before I get the results. I've actually felt almost normal for the last few days. It will probably start acting up worse as soon as the monitor is off. I just hope it caught whatever is going on and we can do something about it, easily....unless it has decided to fix itself.

That's so sad @swenson19d .

Good morning!

We have had network issues all week so I have been doing the bare minimum and finally catching up today.

@shanaber I am glad you got some answers on your arm and you are 1 step closer to hopefully resolving the pain.

@quilteryoyo The waiting is the hardest part!

Just a few things this week. I got my bloodwork back on my hormones. My DHEA-S is low - I looked and it is produced by the adrenal glands and is susceptible to stress and poor diet. The other low was the Thyroid hormone that has a T in it...can't remember. Again stress and diet. No meds for now since they are not extremely low. I was told I need to work on my stress and eat better. Oh and exercise more as that stimulates the DHEA-S. I feel like they know me LOL The Doctor pretty much said I am burned out and need to recharge. Recheck in 6-12 months if I am still tired.

We had court this week. The motion to dismiss the judge was denied. Also denied was the request to have an out of county mental health doctor evaluate. I looked and I know at least 2 of the 3 doctors are local. Interestingly the shrink that adopted one of mom's dogs was assigned to the case. We "should" have the reports by 26 April.

We have another round of inspections going this week on the property. Sniffing for rare pollen and another for them tell me we have sand and it soaks up water. I have not heard from the draftsman for another week after he told me he would have the invoice and contract to me the day I talked to him. I am going to send him some more info and give him 1 more out. I asked DH what he thinks we should do if he ditches us too. Keep with the custom build? Go with a pre planned home? Screw it all? LOL

I had a long talk with a friend about PD. She is really good with people. She said he is all about power and he feels powerless against me and so he is trying to bully and intimidate me. It is interesting b/c he has all the power according to the county. She also said it was interesting he was throwing out that he would pay so much for me to move the driveway, she wonders if he is having money issues and so he feels he needs to brag? exaggerate? Her recommendation was just to stay away from him and not engage. She said she would better mark our front boundry...it already has a good fence but mom offset it a bit from the actual property line. I might have someone go down there at some point and put a fence right on the line when I redo fencing. If he gets uppity, I will just tell him that I am increase security based off of what happened.

I am getting a new Amn. She is evidently difficult. She takes a lot of time off of work due to her child. She is married but seems to have lots of appts for kid that only she can do and "can't" work late. I have always struggled with that. The military specifically says you need to have childcare but at the same time they say family first. She has already sent me a list of appts for every day of the week next week. I was really looking forward to not dealing with that again. I guess she is so disgruntled she is talking about getting out in Oct.

I better get back to it.

@swenson19d Mallory has a lot to put up with! She seems very good natured.

I was reading about the accident you mentioned. Seems like just a young inexperienced driver who rolled through a stop light following another car. Terrible. My friends from high school and I are meeting up for our annual get together this weekend and so I was thinking about all the times our little group of friends nearly had tragedies. My best female friend nearly killed my high school boyfriend (off and on - we both dated him at one point or another) - flipped a dodge diplomat end over end down a ravine and into the branches of a tree! They were both wearing seatbelts and so came out nearly unscathed, except that his arm went through the windshield and severed an artery just above the elbow. He still has a big keloid scar. Just being a dumb kid driving recklessly on a country road, but they could so easily have been one of those news stories. Then there was the time he was car surfing with another friend and jammed on the brakes and the friend went over the hood!

My husband’s teen story has to do with a sleepover. He was the only one of his friends with a car and his mom told him he had to be in by 10 pm and not leave his friend’s house after that. Well, long about three am, the group of boys decides they want snacks and nothing in the house will do, they have to go to the all night convenience store. They don’t want to wake the friend’s parents so they put the car in neutral and roll it down the driveway (not realizing that without power steering it’s much harder to turn) and directly into the brick mailbox surround, scratching the bumper and flattening the mailbox. Well, after that, they figured they were in huge trouble no matter what so they got sandwiches and slurpees and instead of going home drove around at high speeds - at which point my husband lost control of the car, it went airborne, and ended up upside down with the front end smashed into a tree. They kick themselves free of the wreckage and are standing there looking at the totaled car. His friend says, “Well, at least I don’t think anyone is going to notice the bumper.”

Good lord, it’s a miracle any of us are alive today. God be with all dumb kids everywhere and keep them safe!

@swenson19d - Mallory/Tilly is adorable and it looks like both Kevin and Sandy think she is great. I love how gentle they are with her! They'll all be hanging out and sleeping together (in your bed! LOL) soon.
I hope the driver is ok after the hear attack. I am sure he is devastated even knowing it was not his fault. It has to still hurt.
We all did dumb things as kids... I have a couple - my best friend in HS and I went on a double date to the drive-in with her mom's car. The idea was she and her date would ride in the trunk and my date and I would drive in so we only had to pay half (you paid by person not by car). The only problem was she got in the trunk with the keys and we couldn't get them out. I had to hike to a pay phone and call her mom to come with a spare key to get them out. We also did lots of crazy driving (not me - I didn't drive until I was almost 18!) on the mountain roads. I guess I was lucky that my friends were good drivers as we never crashed.

@rheddmobile - my brothers used to love car surfing on the snow packed roads. Fortunately they never got hurt but they had friends who did, from getting spun off into trees and bushes.

@CMorning99 - stress can really mess with your body! Hope you can find a way to make it less stressful but it is tough with all you have going on.
I am sorry you are getting a difficult Amn. I am shocked that she would even think that a schedule like that would be at all ok. There is not a business that I know of that would put up with that kind of time-off demand, even if her child has some special need or issue she really needs to figure out a balance with her job requirements.

I got all ready to go for a run today and never made it out the door. I did my warmup, some core work and yoga and then good caught in a call back loop with the radiology dept about the MRI. They need a form from the cardiologist and said it was faxed to him on Wednesday. When I called to get a status, the woman asked who was working on it when I first called, I have no idea... well she can't find out anything w/o knowing that but I should call the cardiologist office and follow up with them. Cardiologist office did not receive any fax... so I called radiology back hoping to confirm the fax number they used and was again told they can't help me w/o knowing who was initially working on it. I lost my cool and told them that I was told to call back to get status and she never said ask for 'xxxx' and that having me call all over and back and forth was ridiculous. Oh and you can't just call you have to get in a queue and leave your number and they call you back so I was waiting and waiting, rinse and repeat. At the end of all of it I had no status, no name to get a status from but they did re-fax the form to the confirmed number I provided them. I was hoping to hear back that they had the completed form and I could schedule the MRI, but nope... Hopefully Monday. All these people are also part of the same group and work out of the same office building... they could have walked the form over to the other office gotten the signature and been done with it.
Dd had an interesting comment I didn't think of too... she said shame on them for not updating my medical record with the information from the calls - it all should have been right there it they had done it correctly.

@shanaber It is so frustrating trying to deal with different entities that make you the go between....and, of course, it is no one's fault that things weren't done properly - or always the other person. I hope you get it all straightened out tomorrow and I agree with DD, it should have been documented as to who you spoke with.

@swenson19d I'm glad Mallory is fitting into the family so well. Did DH give an explanation as to why he was gone so long? Maybe bigfoot sighting or alien abduction? I hope you get some answers from the hip doctor on Thursday.

Good afternoon!

It is chilly and RAINY here today! I think we are only going to get about .5 inch but I will take it.

@quilteryoyo What a sweet girl! Glad everyone seems to like her.

Weekend was pretty quiet. Black cat had his chemo and B vitamin shot. He lost .2kg though in the last month or so. He is still pretty thin so that is a lot for him. We are going to break out the baby scale tonight to track him just incase his cancer is coming back. Which reminds me, I still need to find an oncologist for him, preferably not 3 hours away. Grey cat is hanging in there, I don't know how.

DH and I have been binge watching the original Knight Rider season 1, it is hilarious what they considered high tech.

My to do list is never ending it seems. Find an oncologist, figure out our draftsman...still nothing, I need the car detailed because it got hit with heavy hard water and has horrible water spots. I need to start thinking bout my vacation in May and getting the trailer ready. I wish I could hire this consulting company to run my life too...the property split is the only thing I am not stressed about.

Well, best get back to it.

I’m hanging out at the docs. So what better time to chat/update.

Pup & daycare
I think it went well. They didn’t seem to be traumatized by going. Everyone loves Kevin. Sandy wouldn’t play much. Just hung out with the caregiver. I’m not surprised. I got a good bit done and refused to let myself clean or on social media.

I have a cough. I wonder if they’ll think I have covid. Dh took steroids for his and is better. I’m roughing it out with NyQuil and antihistamines.

Baby cat Mallory
She might be tater tot. She had a vet visit the other day and got poo med. vet thinks it looks like geraridia. She was just over 2 pounds when I brought her home on a Friday. She was 3.4 by Tuesday. Vet says she’s older than 12 weeks but younger than 16. She is still scrawny. Poor thing. She’s doing all though. She enjoyed the day without dogs playing with bear and cat toys.

How is everyone doing? Not falling apart physically? Eating better?

I don’t shave anymore and am exam shorts. My legs are very hairy and very bruised from the dogs. Haha! Oh well. I never judge patients on clinicals so sure he won’t be heartbroken or notice.

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@swenson19d I hope your doctor's visit went okay. I'm glad the dogs did okay at doggie daycare and that Mallory is going well. I'm doing okay, just super busy, as always. Physically, I'm doing okay if I don't overdo it...well, I have developed tennis elbow in my left arm. I'm trying icing it at night. It doesn't hurt playing tennis, but mostly when I pick something up with my arm extended. Sometime, picking up the older kids and changing their diapers makes it hurt. I'm trying to figure out how to do that without making it hurt, but haven't found it yet. As for eating...nope. Not eating better. I'll get there. At least I'm not gaining any weight at the moment.

I have had tennis elbow. It takes a long time to heal. I wore a brace for months and it helped relieve the tension on the tendon. Dh had it and did the brace and a steroid injection. The steroid was just once and IDK if it helped or not. The braces are less than 10$.

Doc visit went well.
I have a steroid injection scheduled the 8th in the right SI joint. Thank goodness. That thing has been killing me for years.

I had a whole post replying to everyone. Don't know what I did with it or what MFP did with it. I will re-enter it tomorrow when I am not so tired...