Painting of Ceilings

Well, David started painting the Kitchen ceiling and he finished half the Kitchen with 2 coats, the other half has not received its first coat as yet.  He has now started on the living room ceiling and 1/3 has received its second coat, another 1/3 has received its first coat with the 2/3 awaiting its first coat.  He has started hanging the screen door on the back porch but we need to go buy some spacer pieces the length (height) of the doorway to finish.  He has arranged for someone to come out next week to install the other 2 screen doors.  The doors have gotten use to using the dog door in the new screen door so I won't have to go out to finish letting them outside. YEAH.

Painting

Well this past weekend, David finished painting the Living Room walls.  Now we just need to do the ceiling, baseboards, and crown molding.  Last week he had started painting the Kitchen ceiling, painted about half of the ceiling with one coat and we have not touched it since. At least the Living room walls were done.  The living room is already starting to look better.

Painting, Cleaning, Quilting, etc

So, we finally decided on a color for the kitchen.  David is now working on finishing at least the walls in the living room.  He has patched up all the spots that needed fixing in the living room.  He has also started putting the first coat on the ceiling in the kitchen.

I have been cleaning the DVD bookcase, dusted it from top to bottom, reorganized and decorated.  Working on cleaning up the kitchen.

I am hoping to get the dining room cleaned up so David can paint the ceiling.  He wants it cleaned up so he can paint the whole room, I want it cleaned up so he can paint the ceiling and I can start back to working on my quilts.

This past weekend, Xander helped clean up and sorting for donating a lot of clothes to Hannah Homes/Kings Ranch.  I have found a few more items to donate next month.

Xander is enjoying his drum lessons.  The last few weeks I have been taking Xander to Tuscaloosa for his Drum lessons, we grab lunch right before his lessons.  While we are gone, David has been using the quiet time to study (or as quiet as the time can be with 2 dogs that constantly want in or out when someone is home).  He seems to be able to accomplish a lot of what he wants/needs to get done while we are gone, at least more than he would in the same amount of time when we are all at home on the weekends.

Smart phones

This morning, my phone decided that the passcode I have been using is incorrect.  I tried everything.  I ended up calling Verizon's support to have them walk me through doing a hard reset.  While waiting for the phone to come back up and verify that it was working, I mentioned that my husband had told me that lately, at some point during the night my phone would reboot itself several times, with no pattern to the length of time between reboots.  She asked if I had any other problems and I told it will tell me that it is low on space but when you go and actually look it still has plenty of space.  She looked it up and said the space issue was a software issue but for some reason they never fixed the problem they just released a new version of the phone.  The rebooting issue she said was due to the batteries on smartphones are only made to last about a year. I don't have a house phone so my cell stays on 24/7 and I do a shut down/restart every so often, which means my battery won't last they typical life span they are supposed to have. She asked me if I wanted to order a new battery since my phone is 2 years old.  I told her I was debating on getting new phones anyways, and that I would wait and see what we decide to do about the phones.

On Results

Well, last Wednesday I went to the specialist for the second mammogram (they did an ultrasound mammogram).  She did not see what the first mammogram saw, but she saw something else, so she sent me for a another mammogram.  Well yesterday I went in for the ultrasound on my bladder, I should mention that when I woke up on Monday, it was painful to bend over. Well the ultrasound did not show any reason that there would be blood in my urine, but they looked where I was experiencing pain and found a 2 cm cyst on my ovaries.  My OB-GYN did a quick little biopsy on it and hope to get the results back soon.  I then went down to have the 3rd mammogram (they did an ultrasound mammogram), they saw cyst clusters, so they sent me for the 4th mammogram (compression) and found something that they then sent me back to the specialist to see.  I walked directly over to her office and once she looked them over, she said she didn't think it was anything to worry about but that she was sending me over for a biopsy on my breast and that my appointment was in the next hour.  I was at the hospital for all these appointments from 8:30 until around 3:15.  Needless to say I did not make it into work.  I will find out the results of the biopsy on Monday.  Praying that like 2 years ago, it turns out to be nothing.

New Year

David ended 2012 and began 2013 with illnesses.  Thanksgiving weekend he developed the stomach bug that was going round. The week before Christmas, we took him to the Doc in the Box cause he was coughing and driving us nuts.  He was diagnosed with the flu and spent the next 10 days in bed for most of that time. New Year, he says his ear is bothering him, so back to the Doc in the Box.  He has a ear infection.

I go to see my Doctors for my annuals.  1st Doctor, said there was some blood in my urine   I go to see my next Doctor, she said there is blood in my urine and wants to do an ultrasound on my bladder.  Also, my mammogram came back and sending to see another Doctor for an ultrasound mammogram.  I saw this Doctor today.  She doesn't see the lump that they are showing in one view but they are showing in another view, but she is seeing a small cyst in another location.  She is sending to a Diagnostic Center next week, on the same day I am going in for the ultrasound on my bladder, to have a compression mammogram done.

Needless to say, I am a bit nervous.  2 years ago, just days before Christmas, they saw something, they could not schedule me in to do all these same tests until after Christmas, and then ended up doing a biopsy and said it was just fatty tissue, nothing to worry about.  

I didn't  say anything at the time to anyone in my family because I did not want to cause anyone any worries at Christmas for something that may (and did) turn out to be nothing.  I was told by everyone that they were not happy that I had not shared my worries with them.  I tried to explain that, with all the other things that have happened to our extended family over the years, that I wanted to let everyone have a good Christmas without this cloud over there heads, that waiting until after the holiday, it would still be there.  Now I find myself back in this holding pattern and thinking I should wait, but knowing that I will hear many complaints if I wait.  I don't have an excuse about not wanting to ruin anyone's holiday. 

I have always been emotional about giving any kind of bad news over the phone.  I  start thinking about it and crying and then no one can understand and causes them more worry, but they don't want to hear the news in an e-mail or text, cause it is too impersonal, whereas then at least I can get the information to them without crying.  Perfect example - when my son was 15 months old we took him to the Doctor and was sent to a specialist within 2 hours of seeing the first Doctor.  By the time I had stopped at the bank to get cash for parking at the specialists office and driven to their office and checked in.  They had already reviewed the test results and were waiting for me to walk in the door to tell me that we were being admitted to Children's hospital for surgery, that my son had developed a bone infection in his wrist and since he had not eaten anything that day, they could do the surgery that night.  I called my husband at work and all he could understand was the location of the doctors office that I was sitting in and he left and came to find out what I was trying to tell him over the phone.  He ended up having to tell my parents because every time I would get out 2 words, the tears would just start pouring and I couldn't talk about it. 

Christmas

We put the tree up.  I was late getting it up.

 David actually started painting the room before I got the tree up.  The wall behind the tree is the new color and the other side is the old.  It totally changes the room.  Once I have some free time and David finishes the walls, he gets to start the ceiling and then we both will work on repainting the baseboards and crown molding.  I am sick of all the white so the baseboards and crown molding is going to be a dark brown when I finish.