Mi Vida Ocupada: My Busy Life!

Sickly scrappies

I am sick again.  Dang it!!!
The crap is still in my head and has also moved down to my chest :(

I scanned in a few scrappies I did this week....

This one is for Annika's album....

Going to do some homework and take it easy until later this afternoon when I have Bennett's baptism.  Wish I felt better!

Thinking of Kelly & Rob.....

Congrats to my friend Kelly and her new husband, Rob who got married today!!!!

Unfortunately I am really sick with a cold and couldn't make it to the wedding.  I thought I would try for the reception, but it is at least an hour away....and a scary night time drive.  I really wanted to be able to eat, drink and be merry but I know I wouldn't be doing myself or anyone else any good by being there :(
My itchy, red nose and eyes just can't be concealed and I am afraid I would cough up a lung over all the guests.  You get the drift....

Kelly, thinking of you and I hope you have an AWESOME honeymoon!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Icky Poo-Poo Flu....

Washing my hands 1,000,000 times a day wasn't enough, apparently.

I'll spare ya the N-A-S-T-Y details, but I DO have some suggestions to avoid mass contagion in your households, once those little sneaky germies gets inside:

• Have a "sick" bathroom.  Only the barfy/poopy person should be allowed in this bathroom.  Have Lysol on hand to spray as often as possible
• Keep sickie quarantined to his/her bedroom...no need to spread the germs all over the house!
• Replace toothbrushes immediately
• Wash all linens ASAP
• Wash, wash, wash hands!!!

I seriously hate the stomach flu!!!!!!!

1 Down, 171 To Go....

Days of school in this upcoming school year, that is!  I successfully made it through the First Day of School at both schools.  Yay! I know it is going to be a very busy and challenging year, but I am looking forward to it. It was great to return to my morning school.  The kids and I were happy to see each other.... especially after not knowing last spring whether I would be returning this Fall. I am still working on locating the students who need gifted/talented services...once that happens, I can begin my creative scheduling.  I am also trying to put my classrooms together since I never really had the chance last week.  Enough about work now!

Notice the new banner and color scheme? I love this one! I stepped away from my usual floral-motif and made a collage to commemorate some fun moments I had this summer....and yes, there were quite a few despite working summer school and having my knee surgery. 

Speaking of the knee.... I am still recovering, but making progress.  I never did post the pics of my knee, but Greta desperately wants to see them, so I might as well post it.  Click on it to make it bigger.  Sorry if this grosses you out, but there isn't much blood or anything...just shows the effed -upness inside my knee.   Pics 1, 2, 5 & 16 show scar tissue that needed to be removed.  3 & 4 show the severe arthritis, and #11 shows how out of alignment my kneecap was.  17 shows my knee cap after the lateral release procedure. No wonder I was in so much pain before!

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Dana, Kevin and Jasmine left this morning, Uncle Mike and Marisa left on Sunday morning after we all met for an early breakfast.  We had a nice time with them while they were here (as always :)  We went out to the Mall of America for a few hours on Sunday afternoon (with Rusty and Alex too) and then to Khan's Mongolian Barbeque for dinner.  On Monday us girls went swimming while the boys all went fishing.  Jasmine and I scrapped a little bit this weekend too! She made some pretty great tags for a 7-year-old!

Oh, also wanted to say Congratulations to Mandie (and Jason) who just had a healthy baby girl, Aubrionna Marie, yesterday morning.  I am sure they probably will not be able to make it to Kara and Jesse's wedding this weekend so soon after having the baby, but I hope to go visit them next week at their new house.  You wanna come with, Cass?

Stay tuned for a couple of book reviews later this week........

The best surprise!

I got the best surprise this morning....flower delivery!!!! This gorgeous and thoughtful arrangment was sent to me (along with some heavenly chocolates) from family in Chicago.  This totally made my morning. It was so unexpected!    How cute is it that it came in this giant margarita glass/vase? Thank you, Dana!! I love, love, love it!! And the chocolates are so yummy too!

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Thanks again to everyone for all the well wishes:)  It means a lot! I obviously don't have anything too exciting to update about at the moment, so I'll have to share a few boring pics of my gimpiness.  By Thursday a.m, I was REALLY getting sick of staring at my elevated leg on the sofa.  Keeping this baby iced though:) 

I have come to realize that I am a very impatient patient. I am not used to being waited on and I hate being dependent on others.  I usually would rather get up and get my own water than have someone else do it for me.  Isn't that pathetic? I couldn't be a princess if I tried. LOL. I had less pain on Thursday, so I was hobbling around the house quite a bit.... which wasn't too smart, because now my knee is hurting more again and I also have a big pain in the butt.  Seriously...my right cheek is aching from supporting so much weight as I gimp around!!!

I was finally able to shower this morning (I could not have stood one more day...my hair was like a grease slick.  Not kidding either!).  This meant I was finally able to unveal my knee....as ugly as it is, I was relieved to see that there was NOT a huge incision on the outside of my knee.  Just the 3 holes from the scopes.  Pretty scary looking though! I swear, if this leg wasn't attached to my body, I wouldn't believe that it is mine...so swollen and disfigured.... and you can't even see all the bruising along the outter part of my knee in this pic.

Now that I have shared that ugly beast,  I am going to spare you the pics of the inside of my knee!

Planning to stay inside all weekend and keeping it cool.  100' is too hot for me!

On the Road to Recovery....

Just checking in so ya'll know I made it through my surgery okay!  Things are about what I expected....I am feeling quite a bit of pain, so I am popping my Vicodin every 4-6 hours and laying on the sofa with my leg elevated and iced.  They gave me this cool contraption called a cryo/cuff that is wrapped around my leg and I am constantly filling it up/draining it with ice cold water.  I feel pretty good as long as I lay here, but moving around has proven to be painful and difficult.  It is pretty effin boring, actually!!  I cannot shower or remove the cryo cuff until Friday, so I am just trying to bide the time by watching Travel Channel, etc.  I ordered a ton of books from Amazon last week that will hopefully be here today because I am longing to start a new book!

I am curious to see what my knee looks like under all the bandages....I was in recovery for a few hours, so I did not get to talk to my Dr after surgery, but he talked to my partner and let him know how things went.  They started the surgery arthroscopically, but my things looked worse inside my knee than they originally thought, so apparently they had to make a large incision on the outside of my knee to get in at my knee cap.  I knew this was possible, but I was hoping I wouldn't have to have a giant scar!  I guess I will see what it looks like in a few days :(  I got some pictures of the inside of my  knee that I will scan and post when I am up and about...I know you must all be dying to se them! LOL......

Thanks for all the well wishes...it looks like I will have plenty of time to read blogs and message boards.  Good thing for the laptop so that I can surf while laying here! 

Down for the Count

I know it has been a few days since my last post...I have been out of commission since Monday.  Its amazing how these sneaky little "bugs" catch up with you and steal away all energy and motivation! I had mentioned that this was an extremely busy week for me at work, but I was forced to take a day off on Wednesday to give myself some rest.  By Thursday I wasn't really feeling much better, but I had a project fair and the Art Gallery Event scheduled for that afternoon, and I still had about 50 projects yet to grade.  I managed to pull it all off successfully, but I sure am wiped out today!!! It will be great to sleep in tomorrow morning.  I have very little planned for the weekend....

 I woke up this morning to a freezing house...today must be the 3rd time I have had to turn the heat back on since I first shot it off in April.  It is only 40' outside, wet and dreary.  It is mid-May and I heard that the Dakotas just had a foot of snow yesterday.  Crazy!  I can imagine that this is some of the worst fishing-opener weather in a long time.

Well, thats about all for now...I must put my crazy life on hold until I can get over this cold :)

Feeling Stuffy and Groggy today

Maybe it is because it is Sunday, but I am feeling absolutely under the weather today! My house majorly needs to be cleaned, I am supposed to have dinner with the fam for Bri's bday, but I do not feel like going anywhere today!!!

I put the finishing touches on a couple of LOs this morning, like this one below from Easter, but I am even feeling too unmotivated to scrap.

Okay, pass me some Sudafed please!