Man is it ever warm here today. I dug all of my rosebushes and flowers to move them to the other house. I can't believe how out of shape I became over the winter. I used to be able to work in the yard all day now digging 20 some plants has me breathless and exhausted.
Christopher (via my mother) has bought me a rose bush twice every year that we've been here - Mother's Day and my birthday. They've got to come with me. I also have these maple leaf looking plants that spread low to the ground with purplish green foliage and spike up little white flowers mid-summer. Decided I better take those too. I was going to dig the yucca plant but after seven years, it's grown to about five feet in diameter. I think I'll leave it for someone else to enjoy : )
I quit the prozac after the second day because it made me even more sick. I was encouraged to keep on it because the side effects "should" disappear or lessen over time. I don't have time to be even more sick while waiting for something to start working correctly.
Todd is working over at the new house today while I do some more things around here. I think once we finally get everything moved, cleaned, and settled in I'll feel a whole lot better mentally and physically. I'm a highstrung person when everything is going along flawlessly and a total nutjob when things aren't going well. Control freaks such as myself should stay out of real estate transactions. I never did figure out who had control of the whole deal but it sure wasn't us. As late as yesterday afternoon we were still playing the on again/off again game. I was freaking out and Todd was coming unhinged. Now it's officially on so the real work begins and I can now begin freaking out about getting everything done on time.
I finally went to the doctor yesterday. It's got to the point where I am eating tylenol, aspirin, naproxen sodium, etc. like candy. Every day I have either a horrible headache or my ear hurts. I cruise out to the clinic thinking it'll be a ten minute discussion with the doctor, a prescription and I'm on my merry way. Not. I've gained weight which is way out of the ordinary for me and my thyroid felt big I guess. He decided I need a thyroid test. This involved about $80 of my hard earned money and half my blood supply. I called back today for the test results and my thyroid function is normal. That's good but not so good in that I still have no idea if something other than stress and computer use is causing my head to hurt so bad.
He told me that there had been clinical trials that proved that Prozac was effective in treating PMDD and migraines in women but they couldn't market it under the Prozac name. Apparently most women associated the drug name with mental illness/depression so they changed the name to Sarafem and made it more expensive. I could get the Sarafem or I could get the same thing (Prozac) and save a few bucks. I don't care what it's name is or what else it treats. If it'll tame these headaches then give it to me. I took the first pill this morning. Throughout the day I could feel a lot of tension building up in my neck and forehead which usually signals a headache is coming. When I didn't have a headache by 5pm I thought maybe it was really working. No such luck... by 8pm I had that someone-took-a-board-to-my-head thing going on again. When used for treating depression it takes a few days to work so maybe that's the case here too. I sure hope so.
Al teases me incessantly about stressing too much over nothing but I have a lot of good reasons to be stressed out this week. Someone broke into our Boston office and several others in our building over the weekend. My boss was out of town so my coworker called me early Monday morning when she discovered it. I can't imagine the fear she must've felt seeing our door kicked in. We have over a dozen computers but all the burglars took was an old 386 laptop from a closet. A broken laptop at that. Idiots. Spent the good part of Monday dealing with that. We were broke into virtually as well when someone hacked into our "sacrifical lamb" box that sits outside our firewall. No real damage there either... just an added aggravation to deal with. In addition, this house buying deal just keeps dragging on. We were supposed to close tomorrow and start moving any time after that. Now they're saying Friday at the earliest. I've packed all I can at this point and am about to go whacko with all these boxes piled around. Todd's frustration level is even starting to register and believe me, it takes a helluva lot to shake him up. If we make it through this week, we'll surely make it through anything.
One of the first things we have to do when we move is have a gas line ran to the kitchen for my stove. I was looking on eHow to see how hard (dangerous) it is to have this done when I came across the instructions for changing a lightbulb. There's a link off of that page for "how to boil water". Okay, I'm thinking if you need directions on either of these things, you should be in a home where someone will handle the electricity/scalding water chores for you.
Todd hates the time change. I *love* it! Of course I'm an outdoors type of person and I love the idea of actually having some daylight left over when I get home from work. It always amazes me how many people don't like the extra hour.
Looking through the Menard's ad this morning as I've done every Sunday since we agreed to buy the house. It's not as much fun since we learned it's going to take every cent we have just to close the loan. Any improvements we want to make are going to have to wait. I keep trying to convince Todd that we should sell my car and get something more reasonable that way we'd have more money each month for the house. I really love my car but it was purchased to make an extraordinarily long road trip more comfortable. Our road tripping days are over for now so I could get by with something much less expensive or even no car at all. Can't convince him of it though... he's stubborn as a mule sometimes.
