game and good company

I watched a UT game tonight with my sons. Made me miss my Dad and brothers. Was such a close game I had to release the breath I had been holding when it was all over. TEXAS kicked bottom. On Christmas, I called my brothers and while talking to them, realized I had not talked to them in a couple of years. That's way weird for me. I love my brothers. How did we fall out of touch that badly? When I'm over this bug altogether, I'll invote them over. My house isn't much, but its home and I've been learning how to cook. I also have fingernails again. Last few weeks, I've been forcing myself not to bite them. It's really hard! I'm reading the doomspell trilogy by Cliff mcNish. It's a really good book. I got it for Billy for christmas and borrowed it as soon as he was done reading it. I am sooo glad he's finally taking an interest in reading. With as much trouble as he had learning to read and as much as he used to hate it, its a relief to finally be able to share books with him.
Other than that, we've just been renovating our house and working and looking for another job. It would be nice to pull our heads out of the water again. :)

Good news: only the occasional migraine lately and usually associated with being a woman. One was food, but we quickly ided the culprit (recipe below for non migraine sufferers)

It's a classic: Chicken Ittaliano. Fill pan with ittalian dressing. Put in chicken. Let sit in over 2 hours. Put in over at 325ish and cook 15 minutes per pound. It's soo delish...ALMOST worth the 3 day migraine it gave me.

And so it begins again...

3 days. Trigger: onions. Yes, I forgot again. Hubby brought me a huge hamburger and I did not even check it. Green, our cook-not really ours; he works for the convenience store down the street-but anyway, Green knows I love onions. For years, we've ordered burgers there and asked for tons of onions. He just automatically puts them on there. I grabbed it and ate it without realizing it cause my taste was off...I've been sick a week now. So, for the last 3 days, I've been in serious pain. We drove out to the cemetery to visit Dad yesterday. The construction is still a pain there & we were gone past time for my dose of Excedrin, so the ride home was awful.

On a lighter note: We grounded our teen son from his afro. Hubby decided that deciding how you look is a privilege for kids that they should only get if they are doing their job: passing school. Soooo he took the teen to a beauty parlor and had them give him a cesar. It looks sooo grown up! Now, we can see his pretty blue eyes. :) He asked for a suit to go to church in. I'm working on saving for it. Will cost about 150-200 for a suit, shoes, shirt, belt.

Teen is also talking to his bio more and more lately. I have mixed feelings about that, but I feel he's old enough to make his own decisions about his bio now. Also, his bio has grown up a lot in the last 14 years. He has a steady, honorable job and doesn't party anymore. He has lived in the same place for several years. He's finally settled.

Hubby and I started hanging out with an old friend again. A little weird cause the guy is and ex of sorts, but we were friends for years before and after, so it's cool that the 3 of us can hang. We've been friends for 14 years and He and Hubby have been friends for 20+. Been playing world of warcraft with him online, also. I have a shaddow priest lvl 49 on hydraxis. Very fun.

Randomness

I've been playing world of warcraft some lately. It's a blast.
The only migraine I've had in the last month was cycle related. This is a huge relief because I had begun to get them several times a week before I found out my triggers. I'm still having trouble most mornings with my muscles not working. Annoying, but I can work around that.
My bestfriends' daughter is in the hospital. She has been for days and I'm impatient for the call that she's alright. She is having oxygen saturation problems.
I lost my phone charger again, so I'm getting more emails from JohnAllen. When he can't call me 20 times a day to say a sentence and hang up, he emails them. Yesterday, I responded to 12 emails, all less than 2 sentences long.
The picture above is the baby in the hospital. She's my youngest goddaughter by minutes. JohnAllen and Shanah have a 1 year old son and tripplete 5 month old daughters. If GOD forbid, something happens to them, I get the house and the kids. The house and all 3 girls' first pic are above, also. I don't know how to get it to put in the middle lol

Nothing personal

I've gotten 2 complaints that I don't write anything personal anymore. There are many reasons for this. First, I just haven't been feeling like a person. Lately, everything that happens to me seems to be medical. Second, although many of you are old friends from my old blog, it feels like writing to a new friend right now.
So, here a few personal things
1. My son's hair is crazy! I have real fine, thin hair. He inherited his biofather's thick, course hair. We have endless talks on how to manage it, which he basically ignores, so his hair is getting more mangy. It's really time for a hair cut. He usually only gets a trim, but its time to cut off about 3 inches. It has become such a problem that biodad who wakes me for nothing, woke me this afternoon before shopping to make sure he got the right stuff so the kids hair doesn't go feral.
2. My husband got a job offer he couldn't pass up. I think he was wanting to get back to work anyway. Last night, I stayed up all night to make sure his laundry was done and that everything was ready for him to go to work this morning. I'm sure I did the laundry wrong. I did laundry right all my life-then I met hubby. As soon as I met him, doing laundry right was a thing of the past. He was smart enough this morning not to complain. me+being nice+no sleep=tip toe or loose your feet! The weird thing is I enjoy doing these little things for him. There is something intimate about taking care of the person who takes care of you. I sang little songs while I took care of getting his things prepared for the day. It was nice.
3. I have a theory. If the mama (my husband) is working, and I am not, that makes me the Mama, right?

And we all fall down....well, at least I do

I feel bruised and battered. I keep loosing my footing when my knee shoots pain through my body. The other night, I was stepping out of our room to go to the back room and my knee went weak. I tipped over and landed weird on the door and IT FELL OFF THE HINGES! I was laughing too hard to get up for a few minutes. I broke the door with my butt! I walk like a drunk when my legs are not working. I bump into walls and chairs. If you have ever worked out so much that all your muscles are stiff as boards and sore the next day, you know what I go through each day, working the stiff out of them. It sometimes takes all day, then I sleep and mess them up again. So yesterday, I was forcing my legs to take me to the bathroom and I staggered into a door knob. now, I have a perfectly round bruise on my side. Looks like I'm molding. haha
The good news is: after several experiments, I have found that cooked onions do not cause migraines. This is a relief because I can not live without onions!! I'm seriously an onionholic! I have been since my last post without a migraine! I am enjoying the reprieve. I'm stopped up a lot, but I love my chocolate milk for breakfast every morning, so it's all good :)

Today's Migraine Trigger: Being a woman

It has to be because I have not eaten anything on "THE LIST" and I have been keeping vampiric hours to avoid being touched by the Evil Day Star (reference to my favorite book of all time). I have been awake for 2 days because when I lay down, I get sea sick-weird because I don't have an eardrum andtherefore, cannot get sea sick, or so they tell me, but migraines make me sea sick, just like paddleboats did when I was younger, back when I did have eardrums. Plus, if I lay on one side, my legs and hips hurt and jerk. If I lay on the other side, I can hear the fan and it slices my brain as it spins. This would be understandable if it were an industrial sized fan, but its a baby fan; smaller than a dinner plateand usually very quiet, but when I have a migraine, it becomes a jet engine.
This morning, I took a dose of excederine migraine and suffered, asking my hubby every 10 or so minutes if it was time to take more. The third time I asked, he says, "look at the clock," and hands me the clock. It's been 53 minutes. By now, I've kept Hubby awake over 20 hours. I sit quietly behind the laptop computer, not using it, just hiding behind it from the fan. At this point, he evil thing is blowing wind into my face and it feels like pellets being thrown at me. Everytime I lean my head out and open my mouth, Hubby say, "no, it's not tim, yet," so I go back to my hiding. When he finally lets me take my second dose, it's ot long before the fan's evil cousin, cell phone rings and sets off explosions in my head. The call triggers time to go mode, so I drag my bottom out of bed (might as well, I'm not sleeping) and we go. One step out of the nice, dark house triggersa full blown explosion of pain. I suddenly cannot see because the evil day star has sent lazer beams down and incenerated my entire brain! I am frozen in place. Hubby says, "come on, we're on a schedule." I tell him, "I'd love to go, but I can't see." Tears are streaming down my cheeks. It hurts so bad! Then, in front of everyone, my hubby takes my arm and leads me to the car. and puts me gently in like I'm helpless. I love him for taking care of me, but I hate that I can not be totally independant. I hold my eyes the whole way and by the time we arrive, I'm hurting so bad hat I'm shaking. I hurry in to get out of the Evil Day Star's reach. Within minutes, my headache slows to a stabbing throb. An hour later, its barely there, lurking behind the Excederine wall, waiing for a break or crack to come back through. The good news is, Hubby is working again. :)