Stupid sicky

Dearest My Peeps,

Last Wednesday I started coughing for no apparent reason. I felt fine, I was just hacking like a lung was trying to escape. That was fine, at least, it wasn't too upsetting.

As the week progressed, I started feeling lousier & tireder (if that's a word) & just plain miserable. My nose is running 15 times faster than normal, which means it's sore & tender from always been blown. And I'm still coughing. A dry, hacking cough that you can hear at the other end of where I work when I come in the front door. Stupid cough. It's not getting any better.

Anyhow, tonight, I got fed up with it all. I've been annoyed with it all on a regular basis anyhow, but I finally decided enough is enough & betook myself to the hospital after work, hoping maybe they could help me. Doctor listened to me breathe, totally got some blood sample to double check that everything there was alright & sent me for x-rays. Yup. Pretty standard stuff. I endured the stupid needle for the blood (it's still sore an hour later), went to the x-ray department & went back to see the doctor again.

Apparently, I'm dying. (Don't dare stop reading here!)

*stopping for a moment to relish the suspense* Sorry. I'll continue.

Apparently I'm dying. BUT apparently so is everybody else on the planet, INCLUDING whomever I just frightened needlessly. Doctor said that it's just a cold & that there is nothing he can do for me. Try to gets lots of rest & use cough meds to see if I can't clear it up. The cough meds I was using had a warning on it to check with a doctor before using with the kind of meds the sleep clinic prescribed for sleeping. I checked with my pharmacist & she totally told me not to use it if at all possible, so I stopped. But Doctor told me tonight not to worry about it, any cough meds would suffice. I think I will take the time whilst in town tomorrow to check into a different brand to see if I can't find one that doesn't have that little warning on it, but I'm definately going to find something to use. I simply can't deal with this anymore. For one thing, I work with the public, for another it just plain hurts! MADNESS I TELL YOU *flailing* MADNESS!

However, it's 2 am, so I'm off to bed. I hope all is well out there in the land of make believe. If I scared you greatly with that bit up above, I'm sorry. It was fun though, so please don't be too angry. That's why I didn't drag it out really long. I totally would've felt too guilty.

Happy day!
Vicky Ellen
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -Charles Schulz

To The Sleep Clinic... & Beyond.

Dearest My Peeps,

You better have recognized that adapted movie quote from Toy Story in my title. I am quite proud of myself for it. I know it's a pathetic reason to be proud of myself, but I'll take what I can get.

Not too much is new. I went to the sleep clinic this week, as I'm sure you already deduced what with the title. I went to M.J's in Salisbury on Tuesday, from there to the sleep clinic on Wednesday, back to M.J's after my appointment was done on Thursday & then home again Friday. Salisbury is nearly exactly half way between Miramichi & St. John (Where the clinic is) so it was nice. I got to spend time with one of my dearest friends & I didn't have to do the whole trip from here to St. John in one go. I could have, I've done longer before, but that's not the point. One, I didn't particularly want to; two, it was an excellant way to get to see an out of town friend that I only ever see once in a long while.

Anyhow, so I went to the sleep clinic to find out why I'm always so tired. Apparently they couldn't find anything wrong. I don't have breathing problems, I don't have restless leg syndrome, they couldn't find any reason for why. But I wake up an average of 18 times an hour for no reason at all. Not necessarily enough that I'm aware I've woken up, just enough that it disrupts my sleep & keeps me from getting a good night's restful sleep. So that's why I'm so tired during the day, my night's sleep is fragmented & not helpful much at all, but they didn't see a reason for the why of it. It equals out to that I'm really only asleep for about 75 - 77% of the time that I'm in bed. No wonder I'm sleepy.

So, since she's not sure of the cause of the problem, she's not sure how to go about fixing the problem. She (the doctor being the she I'm refering to) decided that she would give me a mild sedative to help me sleep at night. I forget what it's called & how to spell it, but it starts with a T. She figures if we can get me sleeping a full night's proper amount of sleep, then maybe the daytime sleepy will get better. Basic cause and effect. I don't sleep well at night, so I'm tired during the day. This new pill thing will help me sleep properly at night, so in turn, I shouldn't be as tired during the day.

It's a great theory. I just hope it works. It might help if I didn't have a mouse in my room. It's not exactly that I'm scared of mice, but I can't sleep in the dark if I keep hearing noises & that stupid mouse keeps making noises. I need to be able to see what's making the noise. It's hard to see much with my glasses off, but I definately feel safer with the light on. This means it's harder to fall asleep. Oh well, Daddy gave me some poison to put down the other week; I prefer a trap, but I'll take what I can get. Then Mum met my mouse last night. We were watching a movie & it kept running across the floor just within her line of vision. So Daddy took the poison & covered one end with peanut butter, to make it more attractive, becuase the poison by itself is obviously not working.

Last year I had one. The poison didn't work at all. The mouse trap with peanut butter on it was what worked. So I'm going to get a mousetrap today & the dollar store & Daddy is going to set it up for me. I mean, what if the mouse eats the poison & runs back through whatever hole that it uses to get from inside the walls back into my room & THEN dies? My room, & then the house, would slowly start to stink from the smell of decaying rodent. With a trap, Daddy can dispose of it properly & it won't stay around smelling up my house. Stupid mouse. I wish I was allowed a cat. That would sort of the mouse no time flat. Honestly. Stupid mouse.

Anyhow, I have to go get ready for work. I don't work till 5, but Mum works at 3 & I told her that I'd take her to work. That way she doesn't have to try to find a way in. I get off at 12:15 & she at 12, so we can travel together both ways. Tomorrow I work at 2, so that would put her to work for approximately 1:30, so since she doesn't start till 3:30, she's going to get Daddy to take her down. She'll have been working 9 days straight by the end of her go (she switched up with a coworker that needed the weekend, just to be nice) so she doesn't want to spend more time than is necessary there. She's going to be exhausted when she's done as it is. Not to mention that she works till midnight Sunday night & then again at 9 am Monday morning. Oh what fun. *strong sarcasm*

So I'm going to stop babbling for the time being & take off for now. I hope that you're all having a super day. Cheers! Be safe! I'll try to be back sooner next time. Try being the key work in that sentence.

Vicky Ellen
" If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war."-Belva Lockwood

Quotey Quotedey Quotes!

Dearest My Peeps,

Dudes. Not too much is new. Pat totally came up tonight for awhile. He said that he enjoyed himself too. I'm glad. I was rather worried he wouldn't, in spite that I knew it was a stupid worry. We totally went up to the Irving for a minute, so I could get some halls & he could get something to eat & he got to meet Effie. Then we came back here for a few minutes, then we went to church. It went crazy longer than normal, it's generally out by 8:30, maybe 9. But it was 9:30 before we got back home. They hung around singing/praying & such after the preaching.

Anyhow, then when we came back home Mum totally invited Pat to stay & play some scrabble. IT was great. He totally won too and it was his first time ever playing. Then we went downstairs for a bit; I totally downloaded the new iTunes 7.0.2 to my computer (it prompted me to when I opened it) and then Pat totally authorized my computer to play the music bought with his iTunes account! I'm stoked; that was really super awesome of him! It basically means that if he buys music in iTunes, he can send it to me & I can play it. I can't use his account to buy anything, which is good. I know I wouldn't even if I could, but the temptation would be there. It's just much easier to keep temptation entirely out of the way, rather than having to resist it all the time.

But then, I don't go into the iTunes store very much anyway. I don't have an account set up because my credit card is crazy over the limit. I still make all my payments, but that's not the point. I can't use it, so I won't set up the account. I'd totally try to use it way too much if I had the account set up. But you CAN get prepaid cards for iTunes. So I'm considering investing in some of those. I'd still have to set up the account, but I wouldn't have to use my credit card to pay for the stuff. That'd be totally wicked! However, I'm just going to try to pay my credit card off first instead. The whole "keep temptation from being a temptation" thing again.

I've started to mostly just babble senselessly though. I only mostly came on to post a cool quote again. I might just start posting cool quotes that I find, rather than babbling at my poor dear peeps like I do. I dunno though, it just seems kinda mean to only post a quote. You get all excited becuase you see that I posted & then it's just some stupid quote. Well no, it wouldn't be a stupid quote, but that's not the point at all. I might just start having several at the end of each post, rather than just one too. I dunno for sure yet. We'll see.

Anyhow, to really stop babbling senselessly, happy day! Have a great one! Cheers! Be safe! Watch the mooses!

Vicky Ellen

"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." & "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least." & "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." -Eugene V. Debs

Various things of randomness

Dearest My Peeps,
I've been coughing & wheezing all day. It's disgusting. It's the first time in ages that I've woken up congested. It's horrible. Ah well, I've been sitting around doing nothing for a while now & the resting up some helped a bit. Well, helped a lot actually. I'm feeling much better now. It's great.

I suppose it must have been a combination of going to much/tired/slightly virusy. I dunno, but I sure hope I'm not sick. I can't afford to miss work. At least my schedule this week isn't like 5 days right in a row. I work one day, off the next all week long.

Anyhow, I'm headed out for now. I'm going to go finish putting away my clothes & get to bed. I want to not be yucky tomorrow, so I can get to church in the morning. And then Pat's totally coming up for a bit tomorrow night, going to church with me & maybe coming up to the house for a while, so I should have my couch cleaned off so it can be utilized. I mostly just blogged because I found a totally awesome quote that I didn't want to lose, so I blogged to have a place to put it.

Cheers! Be safe!
Vicky Ellen
"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need." - Will Rogers

It's baaaaaccccckkkkkkk!!!!

Dearest My Peeps,
The title totally has eery music playing with it, just in case you didn't hear it when you read it. It's totally there. Winter has returned. Well, it's definately trying to return. It rained most of the day, it wasn't really cold. After dark the temperature dropped to the negative degrees & the rain thankfully stopped. But my car was still all wet, so the doors totally froze shut. ARGH! I had to get my coworker's drive to open it for me. I was totally tugging on it with both hands as hard as I could & I could NOT get it to open. The lad got out, tugged once, MAYBE twice & it popped right open. STupid door. I felt like such a blonde.

Not that I am blonde anymore. I totally got my hair dyed dark red. I'm thinking about going brighter red next time, but for now, I like it. I've always wanted red hair. I suppose, if I'd had it, I'd have hated it, but that's okay. I've always had red tints; it actually was starting to look copper if the light hit it right before I got it dyed. But I wanted red hair entirely, not sorta red that everybody calls brown.

Everything else is peachy keen. I definately need to get a portable hair-dryer. To be specific a chargeable one that doesn't need a plug in. Because the next step after door frozen shut is door frozen open. Stupid door.

Anyhow, I'm headed out. I'm going to clean my room up a bit Patrick is coming over for a bit on Sunday & nobody is allowed to see my room in the state that it's in, except like my immediate family. Even if he weren't coming over, I'd still have to clean; I've been finding bug carcasses again. I mean, carcasses are definately way better than live bugs, but I don't like bugs period. Dead or alive. Creepy things. If I didn't know better, I'd almost think God had created something entirely useless. But I'm sure they have their uses, even if the uses are entirely only to remind me that earth is not my permanant home. That's still a use.

And I need to get a couple of mouse traps. I think I've been hearing them in the walls again. I had one last winter. Daddy put down poison (forbid me to touch it, as if I'd want to anyway!) & a couple of traps with peanut butter on them. After a week or so I was standing upstairs & over a room and I heard this loud snap. I was talking to Daddy at the time and I was all like, "I bet I know what that was!" He didn't believe me, but when I came to my room 2 minutes later, sure enough, there was a mouse in the mouse trap. Poor mouse. Ah well, it's the stupid things own fault. If it has to exist, it needs to exist in such a way that I don't learn of it's existance. Very similar too spiders. If I don't know they're there, great. Once I do, I won't rest until they're dead & can't touch me. Scary monster beasts!

So I'm really going to go this time. Happy day!
Vicky Ellen
"There is not enough time for all the nothing that we want to do." -Bill Watterson