What's in a Name?

Hoo boy! This'll be a doosey!

I have needed to blog for some time and update my flickr site.... lol but no time....:D

So the back room in done and we are moved out. (pictures will be provided) There is a bit of lingering residue of stuff rejected by my wife's aunt I need to get but we're essentially done. I still have taxes to do and class work to catch up in and preparation for a killer vacation to come. Oh and signing up for summer semester.... Blah.... and maybe time for myself. LOL!

All these things aside an interesting thing has been observed this week. Heather my wife went in for Laproscopic surgery this last Thursday to remove an ovarian cyst. It was originally the week before but was delayed due to fever from a sinus infection. Things went great. The cyst was drained and all that went well. What was discovered that we didn't know before was Endometriosis. Don't worry she's fine and every thing's okay, but that's my point isn't it? Give it a name and it strikes horror into you.

Later I was looking up endometriosis online and Heather asked what I was looking up so I told her. She started getting panicky because her sister had endo and was prevented from having kids because of it. I calmly explained as I did before about what it was and how we were just fine and still able to have kids. After talking about it with me and a bit with my family she's okay, but this still amazes me how a name can change everything. Let me give you another example.

I was in at a routine check up for a sinus infection and the Dr. informed me besides the sinus stuff I had this and the symptoms were that ,I would get tired and the cure is to rest, and it would periodically reoccur. They call it a disease of all things which is so DUMB. Oh gosh! don't let me get ti--...zzzzzzzzzzz.

But here's the name....Mono. *gasp!* Suddenly everything jumps to mind how it totally leaves you waisted, stuck with you the rest of your life, the kissing disease, etc. etc. But just LOOK at the symptoms! how dumb and silly is that!? It's all in the Name.

Names are powerful.


So when you watch Lion King and Timon and Pumba are going off about the warthogs lack of appeal due to flatulence and the part comes in,"I gotta change in my name!""Oh what's in a name?!" You'll know.

More pictures and Update

OH! in addition it was my birthday(23 yay!) and brifely had a beard.

Time Flies when it's All Used Up

Wow yet again it has been a while. Not because I haven't wanted to add to my posts and become more regular at this, (and no, not the Metamucil kind) but because I have spent my time like the valuable cash it is. First, I work. Work used to have the option of "flexing up" meaning you could spend more time there if you wanted to. I used to only need to be there 6 hours but I generally stayed 7 unless I had a time crunch. Since the beginning of the year they upped our hours goal to be more productive so I now need to stay all 7 hours. This normally would be so bad but I'm going to college.

Secondly therefore, I have an English class which is reading intensive, writing intensive, and presentation semi intensive. My Astronomy class is some what read intensive, but a big long test assignment each week that takes 4 hours intense. Thankfully my Technology class is lightly read intensive and mildly presentation paper intense. With those two alone it stretching to strike a balance, but to add to the joy I'm remodeling and moving.

Third and finally, the room. As you can see on the pictures it was supposed to be a medium project, tare out a corner and replace a little bit of the water damaged dry wall. That went to pot when we realized since this was an addition onto the house they nailed the drywall strait to the old outside shingles.Though the ceiling/roof is attached well they basically placed the wall next to the old shingles really close and so water was being driven in with wind from the side. We needed to do it right. We tore out the old shingling down to the wood nailed to the brick for the shingles. (which we'd use to screw on the new dry wall) We tore out the corners because the wall was moving 1/2 and inch back, replaced the insulation, filled in the gap to the outside with expandy foam and siliconed the outside, used water resistant dry wall, filled in the gap now at the ceiling, remounted the heater controls, repainted, and still need to remount door and it's accompanying frame. As you can see I've been busy. Thankfully for the moving part my wonderful wife Heather has slow and stedily been packing away things for storrage and moving. She still asks me to get boxes.

So to all you loyal fans (hopefull) my appologies for the long awaited next addition but here you are! P.S. check out my Flicker site I've updated.

Okay so I Caved

SO! This is a preview of a Weirdo Wednesday. Yes This is Ki sneaking up on unsuspecting prey. Watch out BOOKS! (actually it's her randomly biting my arm)

The Rebel and Remodeling

So today we get to do some big remodeling of the room Heather and I get to move in to. We replace a corner...(DESTRUCTION Yeah baby!) with dry wall and primer it all and rip up carpet. The cool thing about the Rebel is it is a camera. A sweet SLR digital! I got it on sale at best buy with a telephoto lens to boot! and already I have pics! as you shall see. So Ki's love Thursday will have an answer here with Weirdo Wednesday. LOL but here's a fun one while Weds. comes around again.


This is why we worry about Mom sometimes. :D

Time Off?

So I decided to finally took a day off from all of the people on the phones. I used the time instead to catch up on much needed work for college!

I read 4-5 short stories that didn't seem that short. Then spent 2-3 hours doing a take home astronomy test where I had to double check my answers even though I basically knew I was right. .....must check! .....need kudos! I still have commentaries to write on those short stories and 5 chapters to read from I book I still need to get by downloading. Huzzah for going for a 4.0! and thank goodness for Saturdays!

Dishes

You know you need to do the dishes more often when you take a couple hours off the end of work to go do them and still have time in the day to do stuff.