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Tuesday, 10 March 2009

  • Getting Over It!

    Well, I'm still sick... :( Working this much isn't helping. lol. working that much, you say?

    hmm...

    YES! lol. Good, since jobs aren't easy to come by, and bad because I am wore out. I think I average just over 50 hours a week right now... usually a little more. I started a second job back at Food Country again, woop woop. lol. At least I always have somewhere to fall back on, they always need help and they know I'll be as good as an employee as ever. :) I think that I will have to cut back on my  hours though. It wouldn't be so bad if it were spread out through the week, but it's been several 14 hour days in a row... I can't handle that! But we're finally paying off bills and will be able to save up some money. We were looking in to buying a house but we think that we are rushing into it a little too fast and it's not God's timing right now. I'm very disappointed but I'm sure that it's for the best. The only thing telling us that we should get a house is our greediness and intolerance of his grandmother... Maybe our lesson is to learn patience here. Lol. I don't like learning, though, I must say. =P

    I'm recovering from a nasty cold or something that I must have caught working at the office. It's not bad now, except for the cough, which is horrid! Dr Berry gave me daytime and also pm cough syrup... first time I've ever had to have any. It's not gone but it's helping. My lungs and throat are throbbing I've been coughing so hard. It's grape flavored thougha and isn't a strong flavor so it's not as nasty as I thought it would be lol!

    Dustin is looking into selling his intrepid and getting a little pick-up. Poor Katie has 200,000 miles on her, but she still runs as if she were brand new. He's worked really hard on fixing her up and taking care of her, we'll both miss her. :( But we don't want to get stuck in a pickle and have a car that needs a new engine and not get anything our of here... Maybe this way we can get a little money to go into a decent truck. Now if we can only keep money from going into the truck and putting on suicide doors and what-not. bah. lol. But that's his hobby and I can't tell him to not do something he loves to do, it makes him so proud to see something and say" I did that to MY car" who can argue with that and turn it down?

    The weather is beautiful! Sunny, warm, and spring-ish. :D I'm starting my tan, and we grilled last night, YUM!!!!

    God Bless,
    ~kG

Sunday, 16 November 2008

  • Sicko...

    The last few days, have been the worst days of my entire life... this, I truly believe, I can safely say. And it all started when... ;)

    Wednesday, I had an interview with the National fitness Center. (This is the good part, by the way, not connected to the worst part. lol) I told him I was interested in becoming a personal fitness trainer and would like to work there to just get my foot in the door, so to speak, and start learning. I will hopefully begin my training the beginning of the year. Anyway, there's a floor tech job opening in which I would be making my own hours, working off commission, talking to the personal trainers, and recruiting people to be trained by them. not bad, eh? So Chad, my interviewer, said he would get back with me after talking it over with his boss. I'm not a patient woman and I'm still awaiting his call. lol.

    Okay, now we can get to the bad part. Thursday Dustin and I decided that we wanted to make fajitas for dinner, so we stopped and got some fixings for them and we ate them for dinner. DELICIOUS! Seriously, some of the best. I ate more than my fill of them and was starting to get a little sick to my stomach. I assumed that it was only the over eating, seems completely logical lol. I went to bed thinking nothing of it. I wake up at 12, like 2 hours later, I think, feeling terrible. I wake up Dustin, "I'm going to go throw up, I need you to come with me." I'm not doing this alone, by golly. So since the two bedrooms are a mess from all of the moving (yes we finished and are in at Dustin's grandmother's) I'm tripping over everything possible. I get through the first bedroom, the hall, and then the next bedroom is the worst. There are two light switches, one at each door. I get through one door and the stupid switch won't turn on because the other one is flipped on wrong. I can't figure it out in conscious daylight, much less nauteas midnight. The feelings are getting much worse and I'm holding my mouth because the vomit is in my mouth, so I just make a mad dash in the dark, can't open the door (this house is so old, you have to turn the knob 3 times in the direction of opening or closing.). Anyway, 2 minutes later I fall in front of the toilet and it begins. 8 hours, of vomiting. I am not kidding in any way shape or form. I've never been this sick. At first it was every 15-20 minutes and I just went into the living room to lay down, hoping it was the last one. My stomach cramps were making me cry it hurt so bad, and that only made it worse.

    Around 3, I had Dustin bring in a pillow and a blanket and I slept between episodes. That's also when I starting vomiting blood. That was a first too. I was able to sleep about 25 minutes before throwing up again, thank God, and sipped on juice afterwards trying to stay somewhat hydrated. But it kept coming up too. I kept up this routing waiting until 7 came when I could go to the doctor that I work for, it's free and I certainly can't afford the ER if he can do it. I got there at 7:45 and not a soul was there. Dr berry is always there an hour early. so ten minutes later my coworker Deb comes  in. Dr berry and Jen are also out with vomiting, but nothing like mine, they only had a little.

    To try and shorten this story, lol, I get out of there 30 minutes later with a Phenergan shot in my butt (wow, that hurt like the dickens!), 8 phenergan gel tubes to help with nausea and put me to sleep, and instructions that if I'm not better by noon, call and Dr. Berry will have to put in an IV. I'd lost almost 5 pounds already. I started running a fever later but it was gone by the end of the day. And had I not been vomiting I would have noticed the body aches, but I got them later too. And... I think that I have a 6-pack for abs now. lol. I've been so sore from it all that it's hurt even to breathe. Lol, then I got the hiccups. Go figure. =P

    I started eating again yesterday afternoon, I've been chugging as much gatorade as I can hold, and sleeping. ALOT of sleeping. I finally could take it anymore and got up to put some clothes away today, and not even 10 minutes later I was dizzy and exhausted.

    I'm just glad that I'm getting better. And although it's not been the best way, I've jump-started my weight-loss so since I have to eat veggies and fruit no to get strength back, maybe I'll loose some more. :D

    Okay, i'll type more later. but keep my in your prayers, I'm on the mend. and if this is the new flu that's going around this year, then wow... it's gonna be a doozie. oO
    God Bless,
    ~kG

Thursday, 30 October 2008

  • New Car

    Dustin and I bought a new car yesterday. Well, actually Monday... or Tues. umm, it's a little unclear as to when we ACTUALLY bought it. lol! 

    We went Monday to Morristown just to glance at some cars that I might be interested in. Mine has been broken since the day we got back from our honeymoon and we've been sharing a car since. It's been working out but it's not easy. We stopped and I found a Nissan Sentra that I really liked. A 2006. We test drove it and I loved it. We went to a few other places and we had one more place in mind to go. We were walking around (with a salesman, of course) Dustin asked me about a PT Cruiser. They had 5-6 Demo models at the lot. 2008, used but like 20,000 miles. I thought about it, and I decided that even though I'd never thought about it, I really liked the car. We test drove one and I LOVED it. Much more than the Sentra. We though that it would be a great deal and we wanted something as new as we could afford; we've had terrible luck with used cars. They took us in to put us in the system and do a credit check, we wanted to go home and think about it before we made a huge decision like that.

    They, of course, wanted us to take it. They made us a deal: we sign all of the papers, and they'll sign one stating that if we change our mind, we can bring it back the next day and the papers will be shredded, no problem. Well who can pass up that deal? We did it. We took it home thinking that we would do it. The insurance was going to be 600 for 6 months. That was the biggest hindrance. Dustin came home from work the next morning (6 AM) and told me that he thought we should take it back. If I wanted to keep it, he said he would do everything in his power to make sure that we could afford it. But, it's going to be hard. On the way back I stopped at the old grocery store that I used to work at to see if he'd hire me for the holidays but it pretty much said there wasn't much to hire for right now. We explained to the salesmen our definite regret but we didn't want to commit to something we couldn't afford. They naturally tried to bring it down and we kept saying no. Finally they offered it from 13,500 to 10,000. Payments at 229/month.  We decided to come back before they closed and we'd think about it. We left and we prayed and talked about it, and decided that it's what we need. Maybe God it providing for us...?

    We took it, resigned some papers. Yesterday we called the insurance to add it, and also we still needed to put me on as his wife instead of a driver. Thanks to Jesus, the insurance dropped 50%. 50%!!!! We both shed a tear or tow and prayed to thank Him. It was truly a blessing.

    2 weeks ago a Christian radio station K-Love had a pledge drive. I felt that since we haven't tithed, we should pledge 20 a month. The next day Dustin wanted to make it 40. We talked and decided that if we left it to God, he will provide. And look at what's happened already. I'm amazed. I can't say that I've ever experienced anything big from God and nothing that's ever required much of faith. He's amazing, and He's providing for us every step of the way.

    What's even more amazing, on the way to return the car, I asked Dustin, knowing that they'd try and lower the price, what the lowest price would have to be- he said he didn't really know. He asked me, and I answered the same, but something in both of our heads (we didn't find out 'till afterwards) was saying 10,000. We just had no idea what God was working out for us...

    God Bless!!
    ~kG

Saturday, 25 October 2008

Friday, 24 October 2008

  • Hallowcon

    Dustin and I are currently in Chattanooga, TN for his birthday present. There is a costume party thingy-majiggy that he's never been able to go to so we decided to go for his early birthday gift. He loves costuming and I've finally got him out of Star Wars costumes. We are a pirate couple. :)

    Hubby took me to eat at Cheddar's on Wednesday and the mall. Since my birthday he's tried to get me to go shopping several times but I never see anything that I've really liked... under $30, anyway. lol! So, after class yesterday we were in the commons and we found some cute clothes on sale. He bought me a shirt, a sweater dress, and a pencil skirt. He wasn't supposed to get the skirt for me, but I think that he liked it more than I did!!! I love my husband, he's so thoughtful and good to me. The BEST.

    I've got my wedding pics up here now, there's high speed on the internet here at the hotel. lol. For the reletives... Grandma and aunt Karen, I'm looking into different places to print off 8x10s. They will be on their way soon- I promise!

    ~kG

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