Hi - This is our weekend check in to see how everyone is doing. Please post.

It's hot here hitting the 90's again, now it will stay like this. So, it's a pool weekend for sure, nice and relaxing.

Yesterday went to see the movie "Wild Hogs" it was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A must see, very good cast too.

Feeling okay, just back to waking up with those mini anxiety feelings, with papitations, jumpy tummy, shakey feeling and afraid to get out of bed. I know it makes no sense, but It happens from time to time. So, I take a klonapin right away.

So, what's up, how is everyone feeling and doing?

Hugs, Nikko

I can sleep in tomorrow YEA!
I an so jealous Nikko, we are just above 50* today. It is maybe going to be 60* by Sunday maybe 65* down off the mountain.

I have been pool shopping, but plenty of time, it will not be warm enough to swim here until June, and that will be with a solar heater...
The mountains are just so cold.

My income tax came and we got a riding garden tractor from Sears, the thing is so huge it should get a registration plate for the husband to drive to work! His car is dying....

WOrk is going fine and I have only one case on Sunday so a easy day.
Everyone enjoy the weekend.
Love ya all,
Dianne

Morning all! Still dealing with this manic phase of mine. I am not sleeping worth a hill of beans but at least the sun has been obscured by clouds the last couple of days so that I can calm down a little during the day.
The Depakote change is making me feel strange but overall I am doing okay on it. For those of you who missed it, I have to take one in the morning and two later in the day now instead of one and one. In the winter we plan on switching back to one and one.
Beyond that, Todd and I are planning to go to the dragway so he can go racing today. I hope the rain stays away long enough for him to get some good runs in!
Have a great day everyone.

Hi Nikko, Di, and Wendy.

I'm certain I answered this post last night but my computer must have froze and I lost it.

Nikko, I hear you on the anxiety and I take klnopin for mine too.

Di, I'd love your cooler temperatures minus the snow.

Wendy, I take Depakote also. Let us know it the change does for you.

I am fine. Just sore from planting my garden Thursday.

befuddled2

Tired here. I slept good but I had a stuffy nose some of the night and had to sleep without the mask. I feel better but am still having anxiety attacks from not knowing if we're going to be able to rent the new place we have been looking at for over two months. I feel all shakey, its stemming from having my car down for three days this week, I had to help hubby with the belt on the car and I messed it up, he was so mad but he finished it with more help. I hate that I am totally incompetent around cars.

Anyway I am glad to see you all are here and hanging in there. Some days that's all we can really do. I am hopeful that this long two month wait will finally be over Monday. So wish us luck, Friday I was hoping to hear from the lady but she didn't call. Oh well, no use worrying about it now right? It's too bad the kid slammed my spare wheelchair into the closet door putting a small hole in it, he had to get a long time out and we didn't get to see my Mom today because its one thing we can take away from him, like NO POOL too, that work with him.

So he better get it that you don't put holes in doors and walls. It really is bad, and hard to keep him occupied with stuff when he's wanting to go outside and is being punished and is in trouble for behaving badly. I hope that it gets better and we get to use the pool and see Granny next weekend. We always start a fresh week off fresh, even so he broke a mirror last weekend being mean about it too, full length mirror, let me tell you that was NO FUN to clean up. So he didn't get to see her last week, but that was because he was kind of down with a cold.

So far I don't have it and feel pretty good. Hope everyone's having a great weekend.

(((((group hugs)))))))

Ahhhhhhhhhh what a crappy day. The weather wasn't what is supposed to be - yet it was hot, just cloudy and we are supposed to get thunderstorms and rain over night, so maybe tomorrow will be a clear hot day for the pool.

I found myself lost today, not knowing what to do with myself. So, now I am cranky. This too shall pass. I talked with my mom for awhile, read a magazine, tried to nap, didn't work. Watched the weather. UGH

I really don't feel like doing anything. TV is crappy on Saturday night.

Mike wants me to go over his house and then maybe go out for a drink or just hang out. I just said call me later when you get home from work.

He wants to take a ride on his Harley tomorrow, last Sunday we went to Mexico on his bike. I want to go to MY pool tomorrow, not his, mine if the weather is good. So, that's another thing.

I really have to do what I want to do, which I will.

Well, I hope tomorrow is a better day. I think I am having some anxiety, so maybe I am better off alone tonight.

Hugs to all....................Nikko

Hi Pam and Nikko, again.

Pam, I hope that you get the good news on the apartment Monday that you've been awaiting for awhile now.

Nikko, you should have a good tan by now?

Saturday I cleaned, shopped, and washed clothes. Then I won a game of scrabble with a friend. I'm trying to let my neighbor I have the crush on make the next move.

befuddled2

Thanks befuddled2, I really appreciate your thinking of me, you're right I have been waiting for a long time now, I think two months is long enough. I remember being at the end of last month, I wanted to be moving now. Like be there for May and get settled while Jackie was still in school. I am decided though if she doesn't give me an answer I am calling down to her boss on the first because that is the last day we can go to give him notice that gets us out of here by June 1st. It's all so depressing I am trying to just not think about it.

But it will work out, I believe that.

That sounds great about how your weekend went so far, that is awesome you got to play scrabble with Doug finally, I bet that was fun. I have been house cleaning thanks to Jackie. And one other noteworth mention is that he took my chin strap I need to sleep with and it's gone, hidden away making me go one night, soon to be two without the benefit os a good night's sleep. I am really frustrated with myself for not taking it with the mask and hose which I took away.

I thought to myself, "He's only messing with the hose and mask, chinny will be there at bedtime sitting on the bed..." WRONG! and he refuses to show us where he hid it. I think I have an idea of where and it will require moving three bean bag chair, HUGE ones, a wheelchair, a professional sized garbage can and a bicycle, but it he tossed it in the walk in closet then I have to find it. I can't think of anywhere else to look. We were up looking around the house frantically for almost an hour. Still couldn't find it.

Still I gave up and am asking him this morning to get it for me, and that only he knows where it is...I just hope it didn't go out with garbage this morning. I didn't notice it in there, but if he did it that way I will never find it. And need a new one so either way I am going to the medical place I need to go to in order to get a new chin strap. I hope its just about ten bucks, I really don't need some elaborate thing, just a basic functioning velcro fastening chin strap.

That stinks about your weather Nikko, I am sorry that you were feeling so 'wretched' last night. I hate nights like that, though I have been having them and anxiety myself. My car's water pump got done so all is much better here except for the big question Yes or NO to our application to move into this gorgeous place I want in so very badly. I hope you have a great day today, you need a good day after having so much pain emotionally this month. (((((hugs)))) Hang in there and make some time to pamper yourself somehow, that always makes me feel better, even if it's just painting my nails and taking a bath.

I hope everyone else is doing well this weekend, I feel okay, but still fighting that monkey on my back of anxiety and depression. But having my son here is making it bearable. We had a devil of a laugh yesterday over something silly. Goes something like this, he wanted tuna and forces me into making it for him, as he is hanging off of my neck while I am draining the water out the last bit of metal on the can still attached snaps and a big stinky shot of tuna water gets Jackie in the side of the face, we're both stunned and silent for the first few moments, water dripping off his face and onto my shirt, and then we look at each other and crack up, then he got the q-tips and said loudly, "Ear, ear, tuna ear..." and it was so funny, just imagine that, how can you be cranky when you've got an angel like mine to keep life interesting?

Hi Pam,

That is funny what Jackie said about ear, ear, tuna ear. Btw, I played scrabble with another friend and not my neighbor Doug. I'm sure if Doug is interested in me that he is wondering who I had over last night though. My friend that was over last night that I played scrabble with and I are just friends and nothing else.

befuddled2

Well, here I am agsin, a day late and a dollar short . Today is Sunday...yesterday went by fast, I got up, took my pain meds and went back to bed until they took effect...My hubby finally got me up a little after 11! We went out to at noon, and I took my husband to my hairdresser to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. He did a great job, much better than the barber shop, that uses an electric razor to do most of the cutting! My guy is a stylist and it cost the same as what he paid for the other cut! He'll be going there from now on!Then we went out for a late brunch.

Today, I'm excited, we're going to see my son and his famiy - we get to see my cutie patutie Grandson! He changes everytime we see him!

The weather could be better, but at least it's not too cold or pouring rain!

Enjoy the rest of the week-end, you all!