Our new office

We are moved in to our new office now. Yayy! We still have some finishing touches (uhh, like a counter top on our new "breakfast bar"!) and some unpacking to do, but we're having fun getting settled. A couple of our designers came up with the color scheme. The colors are a little bit off in some of the pics, but the main colors are a beautiful dark chocolate brown and a pretty light blue. Then our accent colors are BRIGHT and loud. Lime green in the kitchen and orange on our skylights. It looks great! The carpet is almost black and matches really well. They painted part of the ceiling black for a dramatic effect, too. Then the pretty light blue is in the bathrooms, too. It's pretty sweet! We've been waiting for a long time to upgrade offices and we're lucky we were able to at this point in time, too.

Here's the empty office

and a few with our desks set up :)

The private offices (one for my boss) :)

This is our very own conference room! The one we had before was hmm, basically... a closet.

Lime green kitchen (unfinished breakfast bar. It'll eventually have pretty lights hanging down and a counter top).

Mole/Lost/Move

“Mole”. I remember when James learned that word. Haha. He had lots of spots on me to find them, too. He likes to point them out. I like how his little mouth makes a little “O” shape. He’s so cute.

I went to the dermatologist today because last week one of my moles kinda swelled up and then went it went back down it was all crusty and sometimes bloody. It was nasty. Today the doctor removed it and said that what most likely happened was that some kind of pimple or wart or other bump got underneath it, and that’s why it started acting up. He removed it and then did a little cauterization. BLEH. It was quite disgusting. He numbed it so it didn’t hurt, but it was still mighty disgusting. Now I have a hole in my face for the time being that I’ve only looked at for a second because it grosses me out. Plus, I’ve had a bandaid on it all day. I asked him about a few other little ones that were on my neck and a “skin tag” that I had in my armpit for years that I’ve always had to shave around. Barf. He said he’d cut them off as a “courtesy” (in other words, I don’t have to pay), since I was there anyway. He said “we don’t numb these little ones, we just snip them”. BARRRFFF! That kind hurt but not as much as I thought. Now they kinda feel like paper cuts. So, if you see me in the next few days looking like Nelly or something with a bandaid on my face, that’s why. (Lookin’ like a foo witchyo pants on the ground!). I hope the big hole that is there right now goes away like, tomorrow.

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Anyway, I’m way excited about LOOOOSSSSTTTT. It starts in 1 week from today. I’ve been emailing back and forth with Carrisa today about it. We found an episode list for the first few. It’s from IMDB so I’m guessing it’s legit. I’m going to paste it here, so, if you’re one of those weirdos who can’t know ANNNYYYYTTTHHIINNNGGG about Lost until it airs, then close your eyes.

1. LA X (the space is intentional and is supposed to “mean” something)
2. What Kate Does (DOES! Not DID!)
3. (not named)
4. The Substitute
5. Lighthouse
6. Sundown
7. Dr. Linus
8. Recon
9. Ab Aeterno (means “since the beginning of time” and is SPOLIER!…sorta – A Richard-centric episode. Who would’ve guessed?! Haha)
Eps 10 & 11 are not named either.
12. Everybody Loves Hugo (Remind you of episode, “Everybody HATES Hugo”…??)
The rest of the episodes aren’t named yet.

I can’t wait! I wonder why they haven’t named #3 yet? Weird.

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In a few days my work office is moving from the building we’re in now to a building on the other side of downtown. It’s going to be bigger and WAY cooler looking on the inside. They just remodeled it and re-painted everything. My boss is going to have her own office (sweet!), and we’re going to have extra space and more room to grow. I can’t wait to move. I’m going to pack up all of my desk stuff tomorrow, and then we move on Thursday. I have a feeling it won’t take me long to unpack, and someone in the other office is doing my work-related responsibilities that day since we don’t know when our network will be up, so HOPEFULLY that means I just get to go home early. Yayyy!

I got glasses!

They're called "Drama Queen". Tee hee hee! :)

AHHH!

-A certain person at work is bugging the CRAP out of me. I can't wait to move offices on the 28th and maybe have an area alone-ish.

-I have a big headache.

-The (expensive) ionic foot bath I bought isn't working and I have to find a time to get in contact with the maintenance dudes who probably can't help me much more than the directions can.

-People bug me.

-The ceiling near our sliding glass door is leaking. (Must call landlord tomorrow. Oh, and the foot bath people. Oh, and the new loan officer at the bank. Oh, and probably Stephanie so I can get a MASSAGE!)

-2 of our burners on our electric stove get hot even when they're not turned on so I have to leave them unplugged and the tray below gets full of crumbs. (Add to landlord list).

-I'm hungry but I'm supposed to eat one of my SmartOnes for dinner which for some reason right now sounds equivalent to poop. That is, a SMALL portion of poop.

-I have an appointment with Mitch and my doctor on Monday. I get to take at least 2 hours out of my day so that they get to charge me to say "the pills aren't working" and for them to say "try them for another month and we'll re-evaluate". I should probably reschedule for another month from now. (Ohh, another person to call. yay! from work! While I can't think straight because SOMEONE is constantly screaming.)

-It's raining non-stop which depresses me and makes me wanna stay in bed allllll dayyyyy.

-I feel bad for bitchin and complaining when my life could be 1000 times worse. I need to be thankful for all of the things that are RIGHT instead of dwelling on what is NOT right. Sometimes venting is a necessity though. :(

What's new?

Ohhh, you know. Not a ton. But I thought I should post anyway.

This week I saw the eye doctor. For the last 6 - 12 months or so I've noticed my vision changing a little bit. It hasn't been a huge change, and I can see fine close up, but my distance vision was getting blurrier. I tried on Carrisa's glasses one time in church and I could see the words on the screen WAY more clearly. Anyway, I'm getting glasses in a week or two but I only have to wear them sometimes. The doc said I should wear them when I'm driving, especially at night, and if i go to the movies or something. Basically anytime I need to see far away. I won't need them at work to see the screen since my vision is fine. It was SO hard for me to pick out frames and I guess I didn't even realize that I'd have to pick them out that same day. The nice lady helped me. She was very helpful, but she was a little bit older so she might have different taste. But I think I like the ones I got as much as I'm going to like any other pair. I tried on a million of them and felt like a big dork in every single one. I'm looking forward to trying them out though, and being able to see far away if I want to! :) YAYYY. Please don't laugh behind my back. hahaha.

Today I took Ryan to the toe doctor to get a procedure done to prevent ingrown toenails in the future. He's had a history of problems with ingrown toenails, which had gotten worse after Tyler stomped his toenail off about a year ago. Anyway, I got the procedure done on one side of one of my toes when I was younger (12-ish?), and it wasn't too bad at all. Ryan got himself a bit worried about it and I kept telling him it was going to be fiiiiine. After he was done he told me and the doctor that it was "1000 times better" than he thought it was going to be. Yayyy! We'll see how he does in the next few days while he's healing up. Anyway, I watched most of the procedure and it was pretty much disgusting. But I don't really mind that stuff. The worst part was watching him do the numbing shots. I think that was the worst part for Ryan, too, because that's pretty much the only part that he could actually feel. Anyway, Blood. Toenails. Ew. Right? Bleh.

I don't know what my last update on my health was on this blog, so I'll just give a short update. So, they took me off of antibiotics which has made a big difference on how my tummy has been feeling. It was awful before, but much better now. Still not back to normal though. I need to pump myself full of probiotics. I got myself some drinkable yogurt (sounds weird but this particular brand is really good!) so that I can increase the good stuff in my belluh. :) I only did hyperbaric for 2 weeks this last time. I didn't notice any difference this time around. That's kind of why they took me off of the antibiotics. Lyme is never easy to diagnose and they don't usually say 100% sure if you have it or not. The tests aren't always clear. So, we're still pretty sure that it is Lyme but since I wasn't reacting to treatment it is possible that it was doing more harm than good. I got a Lyme book for Christmas from Nae that I have yet to read, but I'm excited to finish. :) (Did that make sense?) I found the author online - she has a blog and also a video blog on youtube. She isn't a doctor but she has lyme herself and she's done a lot of research. She's also a Christian and not only has lots of tips about lyme, but she has good advice from a biblical perspective, too. I have like at least 5 books on my "to read" list. She talks alot about detoxing so that's probably what I'm going to look into next. I'm getting one of those ionic foot baths and it has two hookups so Ryan can do it with me and get rid of his toxins, too. :) I will also need to start taking the cholostyramine powder again which is a toxin binder. I got a skin brush so that i can do dry brushing which rids toxins from your lymph system. She also suggests doing coffee enemas but that sounds SCARRRYYY! EEEEWWW. For now they have me on Plaquinel and that's it (yayy!) (er, besides BC and lexapro), but it's cut my pill intake down from like 91 to like 21 pills per week which is awesome! I haven't noticed a change yet, but we'll see. I have a doc appt in a week or two.

Seriously? Were the last 3 subjects about doctor appointments? Ugh, we're so lame and old.

Lost starts in less than 3 weeks! I'm so excited! It's the final season which sucks buuuut, hopefully our questions will finally be answered! One of the things bugging me the most so far HOW does Locke know soooo much in Season 1?! If you re-watch it, it's crazy. He knows all kinds of stuff ahead of time so it seems like he's either been there before or someone is "advising" him. WEIRD. I can't wait for the final season. 24 starts soon, too. This weekend, I think! yaayyy. It looks like a good season. I think Kiefer is supposed to be on Kimmel tonight. By the way - his eyebrows are SOOOO overplucked! (Jimmy, not Kiefer). It looks really weird. Check it out sometime.

I love my husband so much! I was just thinking today about how much he makes me laugh. It's usually stupid stuff, but he's so silly. He was really loving today. I took him to his appointment and made sure he was okay. (haha) And I think he was really thankful for that. He kept telling me thank you and giving me hugs and kisses. I love when he is happy, especially if it's partially my doing! :) He thanks me for silly things like cooking the take and bake pizza that HE went to pick up. HAHAHA! Uhhh, I just stuck it in the oven, silly.

Anyway, i know this was a really random post (and just fyi, I'm not going to re-read it or spell check, so deal with it). But, I need to go to bed soon because I'm really, really tired and it's past midnight which is late enough for my old-arse.

Goodnight!

PS - I hate, hate, hate being outbid on Ebay! It makes me SAD!