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Our neighbors and their BIG bed

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Earlier tonight, as my husband and I were having dinner our dog started howling at the door.

We got up to investigate the noise that had startled her. It turned out that our next door neighbours were in the midst of struggling to get a brand new mattress in their front door.

They weren’t having an easy time of it. For some reason they had decided to buy a king sized bed … even though their house (identical to ours) is very small and a king sized bed will probably just about take up most of the master bedroom.

Anyway .. since they were having such a hard time getting the mattress – a latex mattress BTW, inside their house, we decided to try to give them a hand.

It’s actually a good thing that we helped because we had to lift the mattress over the upstairs banister in order to get it to the top floor. It would never have made the turn at the top of the stairs without all of us lifting it up otherwise.

So I presume that they’re now putting their new bed together. I think with all that lifting and building they’ll probably be tired enough to sleep tonight. I hope their new bed is comfortable!





Thinking about going back to work

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I’ve been feeling a lot better over the last couple of weeks.

If you’re a regular reader of this blog or perhaps my main blog you’ll probably remember that I’ve been off work on (unpaid) medical leave for almost five years due to a severe Crohn’s flare up.

During my time off my back also started to act up – probably as a result of not being as physically active as I used to be, and last year my migraines suddenly came back – really bad, with extended visual auras, 24/7 dizziness, brain fog and massive pain.

The good news is that for most of this year my Crohn’s seems to have been settling down. My back has been a lot better as well.

Then in Mid August I saw a neurologist (after having an MRI) and he suggested that I take an anti-convulsive for my migraines – yes it sounded odd to me, but the drug is supposed to help those with migraines and tada … within a day of starting the new medication (Topamax) the constant migraine that I’d had for at least three straight months started to ease off.

The new medication has lots of side effects – I feel kind of dopey, my hands and feet tingle, and everything just tilts every once is a while … but the migraines have disappeared. I’m a little headachey here and there but I think this is going to work.

If the side effects would die down and if the migraines stay away, as well as the Crohns I might either be able to return to my old nursing job in the ER or if that doesn’t suit me anymore maybe try looking for a more suitable health care career that works with health issues.

Last year I didn’t really think I’d ever return to work. Now I have new hope that I might just be back to work by the end of the year or perhaps by the start of the new year. I’d be happy if that happened!

Do you read before bed or go right to sleep?

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I imagine that I’m not the only person in the world who can’t get to sleep unless they read a book before going to bed. Ok I don’t mean a whole book – but at least a few pages before dozing off.

Are you like that? Or are you more like my husband – a person who falls asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow and if you’re not asleep within seconds you think there’s something wrong? That’s the way my husband is, anyway! I keep telling him that it apparently takes the average person 7 to 10 minutes to fall asleep when they go to bed, but if he doesn’t fall asleep within a minute or so he’s up and he thinks he has insomnia.

Me on the other had – the only time I can’t sleep (for the most part) is if I don’t have something to read before bed. If I try to go to sleep without reading I just toss and turn and lie awake for hours. Whereas if I pull out a good book – preferably a murder mystery or a horror story I can be falling asleep within a few page turns. I guess you could say reading is my sleeping pill. It’s definitely a sleep aid.

Needless to say I’m always looking around for book bargains, checking out Amazon books for new listings or to see what the tops sellers are etc.

I actually bought a Kindle in May and I stocked up on public domain books and free or “inexpensive” ebooks, so my reading list is full for a while … well … unless I see a good deal on a book from one of my favorite authors I suppose.

A traditional 10th Wedding Anniversary Gift

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Some close friends of ours will be celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary next month and we’ll be helping them celebrate by attending a party held in their honor.

Now all I need to do is figure out what to get our friends as a tenth anniversary gift ?

I spent some time online earlier today doing a little research. Did you know that a 10th wedding anniversary gift is supposed to be aluminum?

Now I know that people don’t always buy wedding anniversary gifts according to the exact anniversary a couple is celebrating – well, with the exception of the 25th (silver) and 50th (gold), but I decided to try and find a traditional 10th anniversary gift.

It didn’t take me long to come across a website called “Paper Roses”. They have a wide selection of traditional wedding gifts. Believe it or not I actually found aluminum roses. They’re really cool looking! They look quite real.

I finally settled on getting them an aluminum vase. They can use it for aluminum roses if someone else happens to get those for them, real roses or other flowers. It’s quite nice and I think they’ll like it. Best of all – it’s a traditional gift that is absolutely perfect as a 10th wedding anniversary gift. I’m sure they’ll be pleased.

Do you try to buy traditional anniversary gifts for your friends or relatives too?

I’d hate to have long commutes to work

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I was just talking with my brother in law on the phone. He’s a school teacher in the USA and even though he’s been a teacher for close to 20 years he’s been having trouble getting a permanent shop lately.

His latest job is in North Carolina. School just started this past week so he had an interesting job at his new school and new home. Now all he’s got to do is find health insurance in nc and he’ll be set.

Of course his family lives in another state so he has to travel back and forth. He’ll go home on the weekends and then on Sunday evenings he’ll drive back to NC to work for the week.

I’d hate to live away from my husband and family all week and only see them on the weekends. I don’t know how he does it. I guess that’s what you have to do to have a job these days though.

Do you have to commute long distances to work … maybe staying over in a different city during the week? If so – how do you manage?

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