Tuesday, January 31, 2006
I’m stuck on the phone with PRISM support. I called before 7:30am (I love that they’re open for East Coast customers so I can get all my PRISM issues worked on before anyone shows up for work.) So, I call at 7:20am and here I am still stuck on the phone. I’m thinking that Steve could have called me back on this, but he’s got me tied up on the phone hear with my screens all looking up stuff. So…in between him talking (mostly to himself) I’m looking up local news and typing my blog. – I’m pretty sure I felt a minor earthquake this morning about 6:30am. I had just arrived in the parking lot and turned off the car for about two minutes when I felt the whole car/ground vibrating or shaking. There were no buses around and the construction a block away doesn’t start for another hour. I called Frank and told him, and I haven’t seen any new about it yet. There was an earthquake centered not even a mile from hear the other night. – Steve is now explaining to me what changes from our latest upgrade could possibly be causing the errors I’m experiencing. I’ve been on the phone for almost 45minutes now. – I’m going to think about grocery list now…
Diapers (Almost don’t need them anymore, but still do)
Laundry detergent (big laundry spree lately with five month old dog and swamp yard)
International Delight French Vanilla Creamer and Crème Brule Creamer (I do French Vanilla, Frank is Crème Brule)
Del Monte canned corn (small cans) (Lexie and I love it)
Chunky Soup (chicken dumpling) (Mmm. My favorite to take to lunch)
Diet Cherry Coke (Mmmm…)
Dog Treats (Thumper loves ’em)
Those papers that go on the bottom of the Clorox version of the Swifer wet jet. (Thumper brings the swamp onto the linoleum multiple times a day. We stopped using the Swifer thing for a while, but now I’m in love with it again.)
8:06 and still on the phone…I’m listening to Steve talking, “Okay, I’m grabbing the first file…I printing from your system since it’s your data dictionary we’re having to live with…(typing, typing, typing, silence silence silence, more keystrokes) I’ll have to do this a different way, I’ll have to go a different direction…I need to dial into your system a different way…I’m going to have to ask you to hold a minute, I’ll be right back.” Then he sets the phone down, and I’m going to work the missing fee ticket report while a can. Back later…8:14 and he’s back talking to himself and occasionally me to let me know what he’s doing and ask me a question…”File, print…second one…set up…oh…there…(some oral clicking noise)…(small sigh)…setup (he’s now basically whispering)…OK, let me get this off our printer, hold on…(he puts the phone down on his desk)…Ok, Rachel?”, yeah, “I’ve got the printouts for everything…” And now he’s going over the relation ships between all the files in my report. I’m tuning out and I’m going to work on missing fee ticket some more.
Finally, I got of the phone with him about 9:04. I got an email response back from KGW stating no reports of earthquakes this morning and pointing out a cool website for me to look at real-time (ish) earthquake data in our area. So, I wonder what I felt?
9:21am, calling Cerner about completely different issue. This call only takes five minutes, but the issue is not resolved.
Word(s) of the day: ARCH NEMESIS TREMOR
Lexie log: She made another blockhouse last night. Different design, and still neat. This one included a cylindrical block and a funny shaped Lego on the roof. She uses a combination of old-fashioned wood blocks and shapes and the peek-a-block blocks and Legos. I took another picture and will post it later. – Lexie re-discovered corn last weekend. I took a couple bites straight from the can and offered her one and she now requests corn frequently. As long as it isn’t heated up. She likes it straight from the can (so do I). – Today I get off work at 12:00 for Lexie’s three-year exam. I’m so excited. I love doing stuff that is about her. – Grammy’s biopsy is done, and she sounded fine yesterday afternoon. Minor procedure, and although she will probably be sore, she’s still coming over to visit Lexie et. all this afternoon.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, hands free headsets for long phone, leaving work early- for it is Hell here today, and the promise of future laughter and happiness.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Monday, January 30, 2006
Scooby Dooby Doo...Where are you?
Monday, January 30, 2006
Ahhhh…another great weekend has passed. Back to the old grindstone. I posted some pictures yesterday of Lexie and Frank at the office, and Lexie building a house with blocks. – Today, Mom is having a biopsy… I have a positive feeling that everything will come out with negative, which is positive. – Early last week, while I was on the phone at my desk, my boss, Barb, put a flyer for a one day seminar on supervision on my desk in front of me. Some time early April. I hope I get to go. I really like these seminars. I used to go to a couple a year when I worked at Aetna. I’ve been to a few on team leadership.
Word(s) of the day: SPURIOUS ANOMALY
Lexie log: Saturday we visited Gramma Betty for a short time, she wasn’t feeling well. We walked Thumper around the block a couple times, then went home for a while. Lexie and I went swimming at the pool. We had a blast. We found this corner of the pool where the jet was turned up all the way, and pointing towards the surface. It was creating a pretty amazing current for a swimming pool. Lexie wore some arm floats, I would put her in front of the jet stream, she would hang on to the wall, then let go and get pushed across the pool. Like riding a mini rapids. We both just thought this was the best. After a while she got so good at it, that she could position herself so that it would spin her around in circles. We spent a good hour and a half playing in the pool. She did much better at swim on Sunday. She did better with her kicking and she went to the bottom of the pool to get a toy, twice! I started to feel a little tension a couple times when she would stop listening or paying attention, then I just reminded my self that this was for Lexie to have fun and socialize in an environment she loves, water! If she learns to swim, super, water safety, even better. In fact, I’m sure she will, I need (and perhaps Daddy too) to just relax and enjoy her enjoying. – After swim, we stopped by the house so Daddy could make the cup of coffee he missed earlier, then off to work. It was such a treat to be able to bring her and Daddy in to work with me. I think it was nicer too, that no one was here except the new network tech. I get too nervous when they’re here with everybody. The software install and subsequent application backup each take 10-15 minutes to run without intervention, so I got to take Lexie on a tour and show her my desk and spend time with her. We turned on the TV in the conference room to arena football. I got Lex a plate of crackers and water. She loved the oversized rolling chairs in the conference room. She got to see the little frogs. If I’d thought of it, she could have gone to the peds waiting room and played on the mini gym and looked at the fish tank. Next time. We took a mini-tour down to the basement, which was awesome. We wished we could peek at the super scary boiler, monster huge, but we didn’t have the key. The new tech guy (Paul), and I told Daddy and Lexie about all the creepy things with the clinic. Lexie just loved this, and when we looked into the creepy phone switch room (remember, this building has been annexed onto for the last seventy years), she was delightedly creeped out and called out, “Scooby Doo, where are you!” I loved to have her here and I wish I could bring her once a weeks. She fell asleep on the way home and napped for a couple hours. – The hardest part about Mondays is missing her.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, overtime with Lexie and Frank, movies, pillows, laughter, and happiness.
Ahhhh…another great weekend has passed. Back to the old grindstone. I posted some pictures yesterday of Lexie and Frank at the office, and Lexie building a house with blocks. – Today, Mom is having a biopsy… I have a positive feeling that everything will come out with negative, which is positive. – Early last week, while I was on the phone at my desk, my boss, Barb, put a flyer for a one day seminar on supervision on my desk in front of me. Some time early April. I hope I get to go. I really like these seminars. I used to go to a couple a year when I worked at Aetna. I’ve been to a few on team leadership.
Word(s) of the day: SPURIOUS ANOMALY
Lexie log: Saturday we visited Gramma Betty for a short time, she wasn’t feeling well. We walked Thumper around the block a couple times, then went home for a while. Lexie and I went swimming at the pool. We had a blast. We found this corner of the pool where the jet was turned up all the way, and pointing towards the surface. It was creating a pretty amazing current for a swimming pool. Lexie wore some arm floats, I would put her in front of the jet stream, she would hang on to the wall, then let go and get pushed across the pool. Like riding a mini rapids. We both just thought this was the best. After a while she got so good at it, that she could position herself so that it would spin her around in circles. We spent a good hour and a half playing in the pool. She did much better at swim on Sunday. She did better with her kicking and she went to the bottom of the pool to get a toy, twice! I started to feel a little tension a couple times when she would stop listening or paying attention, then I just reminded my self that this was for Lexie to have fun and socialize in an environment she loves, water! If she learns to swim, super, water safety, even better. In fact, I’m sure she will, I need (and perhaps Daddy too) to just relax and enjoy her enjoying. – After swim, we stopped by the house so Daddy could make the cup of coffee he missed earlier, then off to work. It was such a treat to be able to bring her and Daddy in to work with me. I think it was nicer too, that no one was here except the new network tech. I get too nervous when they’re here with everybody. The software install and subsequent application backup each take 10-15 minutes to run without intervention, so I got to take Lexie on a tour and show her my desk and spend time with her. We turned on the TV in the conference room to arena football. I got Lex a plate of crackers and water. She loved the oversized rolling chairs in the conference room. She got to see the little frogs. If I’d thought of it, she could have gone to the peds waiting room and played on the mini gym and looked at the fish tank. Next time. We took a mini-tour down to the basement, which was awesome. We wished we could peek at the super scary boiler, monster huge, but we didn’t have the key. The new tech guy (Paul), and I told Daddy and Lexie about all the creepy things with the clinic. Lexie just loved this, and when we looked into the creepy phone switch room (remember, this building has been annexed onto for the last seventy years), she was delightedly creeped out and called out, “Scooby Doo, where are you!” I loved to have her here and I wish I could bring her once a weeks. She fell asleep on the way home and napped for a couple hours. – The hardest part about Mondays is missing her.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, overtime with Lexie and Frank, movies, pillows, laughter, and happiness.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
People say "Yo, Humpty, you're really funny lookin' ", that's all right 'cause I get things cookin'
Friday, January 27, 2006
Didn’t make it in to work yesterday. I got about a quarter mile from home, and as soon as I got up over 10 miles per hour, I heard it…The dreaded ‘thump, thump, thump’. Flat tire. Frank went out to start to put on the spare, but it was only 6:30am, dark, freezing, raining, and on a slope. I made him come in, when I found out Les Schwab didn’t open until 8:00am I called and said I wouldn’t be making it in. Frank put the spare on and took it to the tire place at 9:30am. He came home with a ¼ inch by 1 inch piece of steel that they pulled out of the tire. It looks suspiciously like something that would come from the 24 hour fitness construction I drive by every morning. The nice part about it was that I got to take care of Lexie and do some housework while he was gone. I made me wish, again, that I could be a stay at home mom. – The flip side of this is that I have to come in Sunday to do an upgrade install to our billing software. I asked the administrator and Lexie and Frank and come in with me. I think that’s neat and I’m excited about bringing them in, unfortunately, Frank seems to have taken the approach that he will be sitting around for an hour. Reminds me of the episode of Raymond we saw last night when they got to go to Italy…although my work is far from a vacation in Italy, at least it’s a new experience that he can do with Lexie and me.
Word(s) of the day: FLABBERGASTED
Lexie log: “He’s a big bear, like that. And he’s falling down, you know, like that. And he’s running, he’s running, he’s running. He’s silly.” Excerpt from Lexie speaking on Fred, the Fred Meyer bear at the Aloha store last night. I love her story telling. She talks about sharks and the kitties, mostly about Thumper. When we’re in the car, she gets excited about street lamps and thinks the tress that go by are all falling.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, swimming, Les Schwab, coffee, weekends, laughter and happiness.
Didn’t make it in to work yesterday. I got about a quarter mile from home, and as soon as I got up over 10 miles per hour, I heard it…The dreaded ‘thump, thump, thump’. Flat tire. Frank went out to start to put on the spare, but it was only 6:30am, dark, freezing, raining, and on a slope. I made him come in, when I found out Les Schwab didn’t open until 8:00am I called and said I wouldn’t be making it in. Frank put the spare on and took it to the tire place at 9:30am. He came home with a ¼ inch by 1 inch piece of steel that they pulled out of the tire. It looks suspiciously like something that would come from the 24 hour fitness construction I drive by every morning. The nice part about it was that I got to take care of Lexie and do some housework while he was gone. I made me wish, again, that I could be a stay at home mom. – The flip side of this is that I have to come in Sunday to do an upgrade install to our billing software. I asked the administrator and Lexie and Frank and come in with me. I think that’s neat and I’m excited about bringing them in, unfortunately, Frank seems to have taken the approach that he will be sitting around for an hour. Reminds me of the episode of Raymond we saw last night when they got to go to Italy…although my work is far from a vacation in Italy, at least it’s a new experience that he can do with Lexie and me.
Word(s) of the day: FLABBERGASTED
Lexie log: “He’s a big bear, like that. And he’s falling down, you know, like that. And he’s running, he’s running, he’s running. He’s silly.” Excerpt from Lexie speaking on Fred, the Fred Meyer bear at the Aloha store last night. I love her story telling. She talks about sharks and the kitties, mostly about Thumper. When we’re in the car, she gets excited about street lamps and thinks the tress that go by are all falling.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, swimming, Les Schwab, coffee, weekends, laughter and happiness.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Come on feel the noise...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Taking an early break to blog this morning since it will be another busy day today. Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad. I’m pretty sure they’ve been married for a hundred years now. Isn’t that the paper anniversary or something? Mom works every other Wednesday, I can’t remember if she has this one off or not, but I hope so. – Today is the day the new network technician starts. That should be interesting. I hope he can get to organizing the backup tapes pretty soon. I’ve lost about three to four tapes in the last couple months and never could get replacements very easily from Seth. – I’m starting to settle into a nice grove here. Although, I do feel like I’m making an excessive amount of silly mistakes lately. Learning curve? Actually, I probably was just secured in my little niche of insurance accounts, and now that I’m out with my hands in darned near everything, I’m liable to trip and flounder a bit. Nothing time and experience shouldn’t handle.
Word(s) of the day: NEPTUNE
Lexie log: Monday Grammy came over and took Lexie out in the court for a tricycle ride. Yesterday when I got home, Grammy and Grandpa were there, and Lexie was laughing infectiously. She is so in love with her Grammy and when Grandpa comes over too, it’s a special treat. She is drawn towards them both. When they went to leave, Lexie said, “Don’t leave, I love you!” It made butterflies in my tummy and tears in my eyes. – I can really see a relationship develop between Lexie and Thumper. They treat each other different, like buddies or siblings, it really kind of neat. Daddy took some great pictures of them in the backyard yesterday, since we finally had a sunny day, and I’ll post a couple soon. – I made up her bed last night, and told her it was time for bed, but she refused. So I went around and turned off every light in the house, sat down next to her bed with a book and a flash light and waited. She crawled into bed, scrunched around and got comfortable, so I gave her a kiss and read the book of nursery rhymes. She was hyper the whole time and talking, so I asked her to close her eyes while I read. I looked over at one point and she had her eyes closed so tight, she was probably seeing stars. I had to sound relaxing and convince her to relax. I read Sponge Bob a couple times and some other book too. I’m really going to have to come up with a good couple of bedtime story books, longer than the ones she has right now for younger babies. After I don’t know how many readings, she finally rolled on her side and started falling asleep. I stayed quiet for a really long time, and then tried to get up. She stirred when I moved so I had to be as stealth as possible. After over an hour of putting her to bed, I finally made it to bed myself. But alas…not a half hour went by before she woke up crying and crawled into bed with us. Sooner or later we’ll get down a good bedtime routine.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, coffee and creamer, weekends, Tupperware, Advil, and lots of other stuff.
Taking an early break to blog this morning since it will be another busy day today. Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad. I’m pretty sure they’ve been married for a hundred years now. Isn’t that the paper anniversary or something? Mom works every other Wednesday, I can’t remember if she has this one off or not, but I hope so. – Today is the day the new network technician starts. That should be interesting. I hope he can get to organizing the backup tapes pretty soon. I’ve lost about three to four tapes in the last couple months and never could get replacements very easily from Seth. – I’m starting to settle into a nice grove here. Although, I do feel like I’m making an excessive amount of silly mistakes lately. Learning curve? Actually, I probably was just secured in my little niche of insurance accounts, and now that I’m out with my hands in darned near everything, I’m liable to trip and flounder a bit. Nothing time and experience shouldn’t handle.
Word(s) of the day: NEPTUNE
Lexie log: Monday Grammy came over and took Lexie out in the court for a tricycle ride. Yesterday when I got home, Grammy and Grandpa were there, and Lexie was laughing infectiously. She is so in love with her Grammy and when Grandpa comes over too, it’s a special treat. She is drawn towards them both. When they went to leave, Lexie said, “Don’t leave, I love you!” It made butterflies in my tummy and tears in my eyes. – I can really see a relationship develop between Lexie and Thumper. They treat each other different, like buddies or siblings, it really kind of neat. Daddy took some great pictures of them in the backyard yesterday, since we finally had a sunny day, and I’ll post a couple soon. – I made up her bed last night, and told her it was time for bed, but she refused. So I went around and turned off every light in the house, sat down next to her bed with a book and a flash light and waited. She crawled into bed, scrunched around and got comfortable, so I gave her a kiss and read the book of nursery rhymes. She was hyper the whole time and talking, so I asked her to close her eyes while I read. I looked over at one point and she had her eyes closed so tight, she was probably seeing stars. I had to sound relaxing and convince her to relax. I read Sponge Bob a couple times and some other book too. I’m really going to have to come up with a good couple of bedtime story books, longer than the ones she has right now for younger babies. After I don’t know how many readings, she finally rolled on her side and started falling asleep. I stayed quiet for a really long time, and then tried to get up. She stirred when I moved so I had to be as stealth as possible. After over an hour of putting her to bed, I finally made it to bed myself. But alas…not a half hour went by before she woke up crying and crawled into bed with us. Sooner or later we’ll get down a good bedtime routine.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, coffee and creamer, weekends, Tupperware, Advil, and lots of other stuff.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Went from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma, Philedelphia, Altanta, L.A.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Not much to blog about. Didn’t have the greatest Sunday. It was a little anti-climatic after swim. I have some irritability issues to work on. –I did watch a good football game.
Word(s) of the day: BLASÉ
Lexie log: Lexie and I got to spend some good time together this weekend. – Grammy and Gramma Betty both came to her swim lesson. I had forgotten about our swim time Saturday night until 6:02 and she hadn’t had a nap since she woke up at 8:00 that morning. I could really see the difference in her swimming the past two weeks at class. Yesterday in class, she wouldn’t kick her legs straight and swim to Teacher AJ. In fact, she jumps in and floats under water with her legs all frogged out. We decided that she misses the Saturday evening playtime and isn’t serious about listening if we don’t go.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, swimming, weekends, humor, laughter, and life.
Not much to blog about. Didn’t have the greatest Sunday. It was a little anti-climatic after swim. I have some irritability issues to work on. –I did watch a good football game.
Word(s) of the day: BLASÉ
Lexie log: Lexie and I got to spend some good time together this weekend. – Grammy and Gramma Betty both came to her swim lesson. I had forgotten about our swim time Saturday night until 6:02 and she hadn’t had a nap since she woke up at 8:00 that morning. I could really see the difference in her swimming the past two weeks at class. Yesterday in class, she wouldn’t kick her legs straight and swim to Teacher AJ. In fact, she jumps in and floats under water with her legs all frogged out. We decided that she misses the Saturday evening playtime and isn’t serious about listening if we don’t go.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, swimming, weekends, humor, laughter, and life.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
Big Ship Pon De Ocean That A Big Titanic, I like To Move It Move It, Ya Like To (MOVE IT!)
Friday, January 20, 2006
Ok, end of the week. No more Vacation for Val. Her desk is totally sabotaged for when she returns Monday, and she’s the last one in, so we’ll all be here to witness the whole thing. Let me back up a moment… Val is a comedian. She is also a practical joker. Tuesday, she called in and got Jan and pretended to be an angry elderly women, didn’t make any sense, well…just enough to look like she really was a patient, and wouldn’t let Jan put her on hold. So…Monday is payback day. The last time she played a joke on Jan, I got her back with the old mouse-ball-removal shtick. This time, everyone has chipped in and her whole desk is booby-trapped.
http://www.discoverfun.com/pranks/office.html
Word(s) of the day: SHTICK
Lexie log: Major guilt trip last night. She was super tired. When I got home from work, she was falling asleep on the floor, but she woke up and stayed up. No nap by 7:30, I want to go watch My Name Is Earl, and she is having a cow every time I try to leave her side. She wants me to watch Barney with her. I think I need to spend more time in the evenings with her. I’m so incredibly jealous of her Daddy who gets to care for her every day. I just don’t think he knows how blessed he is with this. – Last night we went to Chipotle’s to celebrate our anniversary, and while Daddy was picking up our order, Lexie and I walked Thumper around the block. – Tomorrow we go swimming, Sunday swim lesson with both grandmothers.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, soup, lotion, flowers, highlighters, laughter, puddles, and life.
Ok, end of the week. No more Vacation for Val. Her desk is totally sabotaged for when she returns Monday, and she’s the last one in, so we’ll all be here to witness the whole thing. Let me back up a moment… Val is a comedian. She is also a practical joker. Tuesday, she called in and got Jan and pretended to be an angry elderly women, didn’t make any sense, well…just enough to look like she really was a patient, and wouldn’t let Jan put her on hold. So…Monday is payback day. The last time she played a joke on Jan, I got her back with the old mouse-ball-removal shtick. This time, everyone has chipped in and her whole desk is booby-trapped.
http://www.discoverfun.com/pranks/office.html
Word(s) of the day: SHTICK
Lexie log: Major guilt trip last night. She was super tired. When I got home from work, she was falling asleep on the floor, but she woke up and stayed up. No nap by 7:30, I want to go watch My Name Is Earl, and she is having a cow every time I try to leave her side. She wants me to watch Barney with her. I think I need to spend more time in the evenings with her. I’m so incredibly jealous of her Daddy who gets to care for her every day. I just don’t think he knows how blessed he is with this. – Last night we went to Chipotle’s to celebrate our anniversary, and while Daddy was picking up our order, Lexie and I walked Thumper around the block. – Tomorrow we go swimming, Sunday swim lesson with both grandmothers.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, soup, lotion, flowers, highlighters, laughter, puddles, and life.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Happy Anniversary Baby, I've got you on my mind...
Today is Frank and my four-year anniversary. I forgot to tell him “Happy Anniversary” when I kissed him goodbye this morning, so I called on the way to work, woke him up again. He told me he told me that at midnight when he finally made it to bed, two hours after he tucked me in. – So, Val’s on vacation this week, and I got stuck queuing all the fee tickets and schedules for the week and printing out the mornings. At least Carrie’s helping with the afternoon printing. The first half hour this morning is a semi-aerobic exercise of printing, sorting, and distributing. Prints to 2D08, 2D09 (both Texas Instruments 800 dot matrix), and BOC (HP compatible photo copier, printer, scanner, fax) condensed and 10 characters/inch. Printing; internal medicine fee tickets (17), pediatric fee tickets (12), three masters schedules-one condensed on green bar continuous feed, two non-condensed on the HP compatible, two daily schedules condensed on green-bar, lab entry edit list and outside reference list (I do this daily anyway) condensed on white continuous feed, third format collection action notices and recall notices on blue five inch continuous feed non-condensed. Then these get separated and sorted to go to peds scheduling, im scheduling, peds reception, im reception, and the lab. Then I walk all over the clinic distributing these. Another thing to do today, schedule the next billing cycle (2) of statements, tomorrow transmit (via modem) cycle 4 statements which I have previously scheduled to run tonight, all the while cycle 1 sits in the job queue as I scheduled it yesterday to run the 25th. Whew? While the prints are running, I do the UNIX and Windows backups, log them, check the computer logs, and clean the tape drive. Then I’ll continue working on the spreadsheet from Hell. It has about 15 separate sheets/tabs with vertical lookups (VLOOKUP) all over the place, tons of mathematical calculations with conversion factors and CPT RVUs. The data on each tab is either pulled from year end production reports, reports I written, .csv files from Medicare, RVU files from Federal Register publication, all summarized and calculations performed on the main tab. Now I’m having troubles with the vertical lookup to the lab codes. I was about to pull my hair out Monday, yesterday I abstained completely, and today I’ll look at it again after break. Then I’ll pick up the pends from our electronic claim vendor and correct or delegate the claims for corrections. I do any batch work for adjustments, payments, or reversals that I’ve been given from credit department and business office. When that’s all done I’ll do the daily post, correct claim errors, submit electronic claims, print paper claims, pick up pends again, and if I’m lucky and there’s still time I’ll work on the missing fee ticket report. Oh, and there’s a business office meeting to discus why A/R went up so much and how to work more effectively. I’ve spent my morning break discussing my morning, now off to work and I’ll type more fun stuff at lunch.
Word(s) of the day: ITINERARY
Lexie log: She is such an angel. Lexie, Daddy and I played catch for about an hour last night. She is getting pretty good at catching a ball smaller than a baseball, and her overhand throw is excellent. Daddy teaches like a seasoned baseball coach. – She is still interested in watching home movies, a fact that oddly enough, weirds out her Grammy. She has watched about five or six DVDs now. She is particularly interested in birthday parties, outings (Newport, Rose Garden, Salmon Springs). So, I asked Carrie and she says that kids love themselves at this age and it is fascinating to watch themselves. I agree with this and also think that she is grappling with weather or not she has a memory of the event. I also wonder if it might even help her remember her childhood more. No matter, by the end of the evening we were tossing the ball back and forth with Shark Tale playing in the background. – I’m pretty sure I keep forgetting to blog Lexie’s adoration of the moon. Granted it’s been raining her since November, but every once in a while we’ll get a clear night, and if we go out in it, Lexie is fascinated by the moon. She talks to it saying, “Hello Moon!” and then when we go back in the house she says, “Come on, Moon! Come on inside! Let’s go, come on inside.” She exclaims, “I love you moon!” When Grammy was over Monday, we all went on a walk with Thumper, and Lexie picked up a moon rock, meaning it was light colored and looked like a full moon. – Last night we got her a Kid’s cuisine meal at Albertsons and she went up to this adorable older couple and showed them her meal and told them she was having chicken nuggets. The next person she came across she told that she loved them and she’d see them later. She is super friendly and the opposite of shy. When we go through drive through, bank or fast food or gas station, she insists that her window be down too, she greets and talks to the person at the window. On the rare occasion the person doesn’t notice or respond, she is disappointed and Daddy tells her it is just because they are so busy. – Next Sunday Grammy is going to pick up Gramma Betty and drive her to Lexie’s swim lesson.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Kagome, Mom and Dad, instant coffee, yogurt cheerios, couch time with Lexie, and happiness.
Word(s) of the day: ITINERARY
Lexie log: She is such an angel. Lexie, Daddy and I played catch for about an hour last night. She is getting pretty good at catching a ball smaller than a baseball, and her overhand throw is excellent. Daddy teaches like a seasoned baseball coach. – She is still interested in watching home movies, a fact that oddly enough, weirds out her Grammy. She has watched about five or six DVDs now. She is particularly interested in birthday parties, outings (Newport, Rose Garden, Salmon Springs). So, I asked Carrie and she says that kids love themselves at this age and it is fascinating to watch themselves. I agree with this and also think that she is grappling with weather or not she has a memory of the event. I also wonder if it might even help her remember her childhood more. No matter, by the end of the evening we were tossing the ball back and forth with Shark Tale playing in the background. – I’m pretty sure I keep forgetting to blog Lexie’s adoration of the moon. Granted it’s been raining her since November, but every once in a while we’ll get a clear night, and if we go out in it, Lexie is fascinated by the moon. She talks to it saying, “Hello Moon!” and then when we go back in the house she says, “Come on, Moon! Come on inside! Let’s go, come on inside.” She exclaims, “I love you moon!” When Grammy was over Monday, we all went on a walk with Thumper, and Lexie picked up a moon rock, meaning it was light colored and looked like a full moon. – Last night we got her a Kid’s cuisine meal at Albertsons and she went up to this adorable older couple and showed them her meal and told them she was having chicken nuggets. The next person she came across she told that she loved them and she’d see them later. She is super friendly and the opposite of shy. When we go through drive through, bank or fast food or gas station, she insists that her window be down too, she greets and talks to the person at the window. On the rare occasion the person doesn’t notice or respond, she is disappointed and Daddy tells her it is just because they are so busy. – Next Sunday Grammy is going to pick up Gramma Betty and drive her to Lexie’s swim lesson.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Kagome, Mom and Dad, instant coffee, yogurt cheerios, couch time with Lexie, and happiness.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Monday, January 16, 2006
I’ve got to get on the ball and put some more pictures up here. We’ve been remiss in the photo department lately. – Thumper is doing a number on my neck/shoulder. I can’t wait until he is trained and doesn’t pull the leash. We’re trying to walk him everyday, but I can’t go very far by myself. I tried Saturday to walk him, but didn’t get very far. I insisted on trying to teach him not to pull by stopping every time he pulled and telling him, “No pull.” Too puppy for that now. Yesterday I woke up with a super sore neck and shoulder. When we went to Gramma Betty’s, we walked him again, Frank and I, and I showed him (Frank) how if anyone is in front of him, he pulls. – Lana brought cookies in to work today, and Jan and Cherri are going to get chips and salsa. I’m telling you, this place is snackville. It is so hard to eat healthy around here. – I’m eavesdropping on a conversation between Barb, Lynette and Bill the pharmacist. Apparently someone tried to break in again this weekend. They just recently started keeping the downstairs bathroom, near reception, locked. I have heard a couple instances where Rigo (Security) or Ron (Central Supply) has had to ‘evict’ someone from the bathroom. They finally had it locked (key available at reception to patient’s only) when Rigo busted in on someone cooking their heroin in there. Strange neighborhood. – This week I start the PTC relay training. Instead of swimming at the gym, I’m going to focus on distance and hill climbing. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my beginning goal. Two miles afterwork. Then I’ll try to get up in the mornings again, I just don’t get enough sleep when I workout in the morning.
Word(s) of the day: OSTENTATIOUS
Saturday I had taken a super tired Lexie on a Thumper walk. She was excited to go and insisted upon stepping on all the railroad ties and creative cement lawn borders she could get to. She started collecting rocks and came home with too palm sized (for her, hand sized) ornamental rocks. She was very pleased with them and kept telling Daddy how cool they were. At one point, she slipped on a railroad tie bordering the Shadow Wood community pool, and went to the sidewalk. She refuses to drop whatever she’s carrying, and so gets scratches and bruises around her pinky knuckles and wrist. I’m looking forward to more walks with her and Thumper, especially when the weather improves and he stops pulling. – Lexie did awesome in swim. She is definitely the best in her class. We could tell the Teacher A.J. is pushing her to see if she’s ready for the next class yet. When he has her swim to him, he keeps backing up to see how far she can go. She is well over halfway across now. When it’s time to ‘U-turn’ off the wall, he guides the other kids, holding them, but now with Lexie he stands back and let’s her try on her own. She almost did it yesterday. She jumps in, turns around, but still heads for AJ until he reminds her about the wall, then she swims for the wall, reaches up and pulls herself out and up onto the wall. I’m excited about her improvement, but I’m a little nervous about how she will react to a new teacher. She is just smitten with AJ. We didn’t swim Saturday night, I wasn’t feeling very well, but I missed it incredibly.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, coffee, weekends, swim, 24-hour fitness, coupons, and life.
I’ve got to get on the ball and put some more pictures up here. We’ve been remiss in the photo department lately. – Thumper is doing a number on my neck/shoulder. I can’t wait until he is trained and doesn’t pull the leash. We’re trying to walk him everyday, but I can’t go very far by myself. I tried Saturday to walk him, but didn’t get very far. I insisted on trying to teach him not to pull by stopping every time he pulled and telling him, “No pull.” Too puppy for that now. Yesterday I woke up with a super sore neck and shoulder. When we went to Gramma Betty’s, we walked him again, Frank and I, and I showed him (Frank) how if anyone is in front of him, he pulls. – Lana brought cookies in to work today, and Jan and Cherri are going to get chips and salsa. I’m telling you, this place is snackville. It is so hard to eat healthy around here. – I’m eavesdropping on a conversation between Barb, Lynette and Bill the pharmacist. Apparently someone tried to break in again this weekend. They just recently started keeping the downstairs bathroom, near reception, locked. I have heard a couple instances where Rigo (Security) or Ron (Central Supply) has had to ‘evict’ someone from the bathroom. They finally had it locked (key available at reception to patient’s only) when Rigo busted in on someone cooking their heroin in there. Strange neighborhood. – This week I start the PTC relay training. Instead of swimming at the gym, I’m going to focus on distance and hill climbing. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my beginning goal. Two miles afterwork. Then I’ll try to get up in the mornings again, I just don’t get enough sleep when I workout in the morning.
Word(s) of the day: OSTENTATIOUS
Saturday I had taken a super tired Lexie on a Thumper walk. She was excited to go and insisted upon stepping on all the railroad ties and creative cement lawn borders she could get to. She started collecting rocks and came home with too palm sized (for her, hand sized) ornamental rocks. She was very pleased with them and kept telling Daddy how cool they were. At one point, she slipped on a railroad tie bordering the Shadow Wood community pool, and went to the sidewalk. She refuses to drop whatever she’s carrying, and so gets scratches and bruises around her pinky knuckles and wrist. I’m looking forward to more walks with her and Thumper, especially when the weather improves and he stops pulling. – Lexie did awesome in swim. She is definitely the best in her class. We could tell the Teacher A.J. is pushing her to see if she’s ready for the next class yet. When he has her swim to him, he keeps backing up to see how far she can go. She is well over halfway across now. When it’s time to ‘U-turn’ off the wall, he guides the other kids, holding them, but now with Lexie he stands back and let’s her try on her own. She almost did it yesterday. She jumps in, turns around, but still heads for AJ until he reminds her about the wall, then she swims for the wall, reaches up and pulls herself out and up onto the wall. I’m excited about her improvement, but I’m a little nervous about how she will react to a new teacher. She is just smitten with AJ. We didn’t swim Saturday night, I wasn’t feeling very well, but I missed it incredibly.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, coffee, weekends, swim, 24-hour fitness, coupons, and life.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Hey -- Man you talkin' back to me? Take him out. You gotta keep 'em separated.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Spooky Oooky, Friday the 13th. Besides the near accidents on the highway twice on the way to work, and the irritability and pain that come free of charge with PMS, it’s pretty normal Friday. – The local radio station, Charlie 97.1 FM, is doing a contest type dealy where you submit 15 songs and if they choose your list, they play it on a Friday at 3:00pm and change the station name to your name. Here is the list I submitted this morning;
Word(s) of the day: iPOD
Lexie log: When I got home yesterday, she had fallen asleep with her Daddy holding her on the couch. I scooped her up and took a nap with her in our room. I woke up about an hour later as she was squirming out of bed, and lay still listening to her slippered feet pad around the room, trying to decide whether to wake me, or take advantage of all both parents being asleep. We could hear Daddy snoring in the living room on the couch. She finally decided on leaving me asleep (so she thought) and wandered through the house. I listened to her shuffle around the house enjoying the silence. I loved to listen to her move around and talk to herself and Thumper. Then she finally woke Daddy up and then came back into the room and started playing with Tiki, who was curled up in my arms above my pillow. I woke up and she said hi to me and gave me a big hug and told me she loved me. – Right now Daddy just had Lexie call me, she’s whispering in the phone to me that she farted and that she loves me. Now they’re talking about the birds at the feeder, scaring away the Starlings, and griping about the cat’s sleeping on the bed and covering it in fur. No I can hear Lexie and Chikita. Lexie is saying, “There’s Cheeeeta, Momma!” and Chikita is purring and meowing. Lexie is just talking away. She says, “…like that” and, “…like this” at the end of almost every sentence. She talks a lot about what the cats and Thumper do, and she loves to give me an extensive narrative when I come home from work about what went on during the day. I absolutely love it. – I wish that her medical insurance still covered well care visits. I really want to take her in for her 3yr physical, but it will cost a little over $200.00. Maybe her pediatrician’s office will take a payment plan. – Last night she wanted to watch a movie of herself again. I stuck one in our DVD player and it would play. Totally freaked me out and had me in tears. It played in the DVD R player, so I’m not sure what happened, but I copied it to VHS as it played. I don’t know why, but I’m so terrified of loosing these movies. I wish it didn’t take so long to make backup copies. I think I’ll put them all on VHS too, since this happened. They are so much fun to watch, even Lexie likes to look at them now.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, movies, and life.
Spooky Oooky, Friday the 13th. Besides the near accidents on the highway twice on the way to work, and the irritability and pain that come free of charge with PMS, it’s pretty normal Friday. – The local radio station, Charlie 97.1 FM, is doing a contest type dealy where you submit 15 songs and if they choose your list, they play it on a Friday at 3:00pm and change the station name to your name. Here is the list I submitted this morning;
- Going the Distance-Cake
- Listen to What the Man Said-Paul MCCartney
- Cantaloop-US3
- Santeria-Sublime
- A change (would do you good) – Sheryl Crow
- Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt
- Eruption – Van Halen
- Me and Julio Down by the schoolyard – Paul Simon
- You Sexy thing – Hot Chocolate?
- My cat’s name is Maceo
- Baby did a Bad Bad thing – Chris Isaak
- 2Wicky - Hooverphonic
- theme to Bonanza
- Jive Talkin’ – Bee Gees
- Butterfly – Dave Mathews
Word(s) of the day: iPOD
Lexie log: When I got home yesterday, she had fallen asleep with her Daddy holding her on the couch. I scooped her up and took a nap with her in our room. I woke up about an hour later as she was squirming out of bed, and lay still listening to her slippered feet pad around the room, trying to decide whether to wake me, or take advantage of all both parents being asleep. We could hear Daddy snoring in the living room on the couch. She finally decided on leaving me asleep (so she thought) and wandered through the house. I listened to her shuffle around the house enjoying the silence. I loved to listen to her move around and talk to herself and Thumper. Then she finally woke Daddy up and then came back into the room and started playing with Tiki, who was curled up in my arms above my pillow. I woke up and she said hi to me and gave me a big hug and told me she loved me. – Right now Daddy just had Lexie call me, she’s whispering in the phone to me that she farted and that she loves me. Now they’re talking about the birds at the feeder, scaring away the Starlings, and griping about the cat’s sleeping on the bed and covering it in fur. No I can hear Lexie and Chikita. Lexie is saying, “There’s Cheeeeta, Momma!” and Chikita is purring and meowing. Lexie is just talking away. She says, “…like that” and, “…like this” at the end of almost every sentence. She talks a lot about what the cats and Thumper do, and she loves to give me an extensive narrative when I come home from work about what went on during the day. I absolutely love it. – I wish that her medical insurance still covered well care visits. I really want to take her in for her 3yr physical, but it will cost a little over $200.00. Maybe her pediatrician’s office will take a payment plan. – Last night she wanted to watch a movie of herself again. I stuck one in our DVD player and it would play. Totally freaked me out and had me in tears. It played in the DVD R player, so I’m not sure what happened, but I copied it to VHS as it played. I don’t know why, but I’m so terrified of loosing these movies. I wish it didn’t take so long to make backup copies. I think I’ll put them all on VHS too, since this happened. They are so much fun to watch, even Lexie likes to look at them now.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, movies, and life.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
I don't wanna work, I want to bang on the drum all day...
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Busy, busy, busy. Combining data analysis, fee/RVU projects with Tech Lead job is a mess when it comes to year-end. I was busy enough last couple years with my job, but combine month end with and code updates with that, and I can’t come up for air. – People crying at work yesterday. I told the auditors specifically that if admin authorized OT, that it would have to bring A/R down for the year-end, but it went up by almost $100 grand. I personally feel that work put in (not payments posted, but outstanding claims worked) doesn’t show on the books for about two months, but I don’t know how to effectively sell that concept to management yet. Anyway, I’ve got my sideways jaw that I always get when I need a vacation. – Interesting change in work; a lot of what I do now involves reading charts and learning more about coding, this is a good thing. On top of that, since Carrie is a coder now, we have a continual dialogue regarding charts she’s reviewing and very interesting, sometimes ghastly, medical information. I get the fun task researching diagnosis and procedures on some of the online resources, as she looks them up in the coding books. Things like determining if the prostate is part of the urinary or reproductive system or the correct procedure for thrombectomy of a renal vein by incision (46083). This part of the job is much more interesting to me and is quite a plus.
Word(s) of the day: ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
Lexie log: Oh my little angel. She was so cute at Thumper’s first obedience class last night. She was telling the other puppies, “No bite!” and, “No bark!” and following the instructor around in the ‘ring’. – I’m a little upset right not. I feel so rushed at lunch and I know there were a whole bunch of really neat things that Lexie has done this week that I’m forgetting right now. I do remember that she asked to see a home movie with her in it again and I put in one from 2004 where she’s dancing in front of the TV. She danced to it and I recorded (on video) her dancing to her own video. Hmmm. I’m sure as things quiet down I’ll be able to remember more, but it’s frustrating. We do spend about 15-20 minutes everyday when I get home from work where she sits on my lap and we talk and play.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Lexie’s phone messages at work, Mom and Dad, Advil prescription strength, eggs, calmer days, and weekends.
Busy, busy, busy. Combining data analysis, fee/RVU projects with Tech Lead job is a mess when it comes to year-end. I was busy enough last couple years with my job, but combine month end with and code updates with that, and I can’t come up for air. – People crying at work yesterday. I told the auditors specifically that if admin authorized OT, that it would have to bring A/R down for the year-end, but it went up by almost $100 grand. I personally feel that work put in (not payments posted, but outstanding claims worked) doesn’t show on the books for about two months, but I don’t know how to effectively sell that concept to management yet. Anyway, I’ve got my sideways jaw that I always get when I need a vacation. – Interesting change in work; a lot of what I do now involves reading charts and learning more about coding, this is a good thing. On top of that, since Carrie is a coder now, we have a continual dialogue regarding charts she’s reviewing and very interesting, sometimes ghastly, medical information. I get the fun task researching diagnosis and procedures on some of the online resources, as she looks them up in the coding books. Things like determining if the prostate is part of the urinary or reproductive system or the correct procedure for thrombectomy of a renal vein by incision (46083). This part of the job is much more interesting to me and is quite a plus.
Word(s) of the day: ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
Lexie log: Oh my little angel. She was so cute at Thumper’s first obedience class last night. She was telling the other puppies, “No bite!” and, “No bark!” and following the instructor around in the ‘ring’. – I’m a little upset right not. I feel so rushed at lunch and I know there were a whole bunch of really neat things that Lexie has done this week that I’m forgetting right now. I do remember that she asked to see a home movie with her in it again and I put in one from 2004 where she’s dancing in front of the TV. She danced to it and I recorded (on video) her dancing to her own video. Hmmm. I’m sure as things quiet down I’ll be able to remember more, but it’s frustrating. We do spend about 15-20 minutes everyday when I get home from work where she sits on my lap and we talk and play.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Lexie’s phone messages at work, Mom and Dad, Advil prescription strength, eggs, calmer days, and weekends.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Yeah, It's our motto! What's a motto? Nothin'! What's-a-motto with you?!
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
I’m on the phone with Frank right now, and he’s talking about Thumper doing an obstacle course, racing over barrier fences and through small areas super fast. It sounds great. We’re talking about taking him to a course and seeing if he likes to run obstacle. That would be a great family activity.
Word(s) of the day: HAKUNA MATATA
Lexie log: She played and played with Grammy yesterday. They were both beat by the time Grammy went home. Lexie fell out eating dinner, and never finished her meal. Daddy made her a sandwich later.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, pot stickers, Mom and Dad, Lexie’s kitchen set, Frank’s super sandwiches, and life.
I’m on the phone with Frank right now, and he’s talking about Thumper doing an obstacle course, racing over barrier fences and through small areas super fast. It sounds great. We’re talking about taking him to a course and seeing if he likes to run obstacle. That would be a great family activity.
Word(s) of the day: HAKUNA MATATA
Lexie log: She played and played with Grammy yesterday. They were both beat by the time Grammy went home. Lexie fell out eating dinner, and never finished her meal. Daddy made her a sandwich later.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, pot stickers, Mom and Dad, Lexie’s kitchen set, Frank’s super sandwiches, and life.
Monday, January 09, 2006
Somebody's knocking on the door, Somebody's ringing the bell...
Monday, January 9, 2006
Keeping a little short today as this is crunch week. – Saturday we took our time getting up in the morning, went to GI Joes and got boot for Lexie, a hat for me, and shoes for Frank. – Yesterday we had dinner with my parents to Celebrate Frank’s birthday.
Word(s) of the day: GRANOLA
Lexie log: We started our Saturday night swim again. I sure did miss it. I’m having my Monday melancholies again. It’s so nice to spend time with her on the weekends. She had missed swim so much, that even after two hours I had to carry her out screaming. When I first wanted to leave I asked her and she kept telling me, “Two minutes, two minutes.” Funny girl. We laughed and giggled and played in the water. We also saw two other little swimmers have close call accident with the slide. One little boy actually even broke his goggles when he fell and hit his head on the edge of the slide, freaked me out. – She was really excited to go to swim Sunday also. There are three new people in her class, all boys, and two parents still in the water. She did really well, and Teacher AJ let her swim halfway across the pool. I really think it’s just a matter of her listening and following instructions now. Of course, she was tired, hungry and excited, so following instructions during this class was almost impossible. Still, she had a blast, which is the number one priority. She’ll be a strong swimmer. – She really enjoyed being with Grammy and Grandpa at the Happy Panda. She just talked and talked away, and ate chow mien noodles. When we got home she told them, “I love you guys”. How sweet. She fell asleep watching a movie, so Daddy took her into bed, she came running back out to give me a hug, then ran back into bed, for a minute of two. If she doesn’t fall asleep immediately, she’s up, so off we go again. We added all the battery operated do-hickies to her kitchen, and she boiled strawberries (pretend) and made Daddy a tomato sandwich. I finally headed off to bed shortly after 10:00pm listening to Daddy talk on the phone and Lexie re-watching Jonah, a Veggie Tales story. I drifted off to sleep again, after Daddy finally got her to go to bed in her room, then woke up to her crawling into bed in between us.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, sleeping in, peace and harmony, and life.
Keeping a little short today as this is crunch week. – Saturday we took our time getting up in the morning, went to GI Joes and got boot for Lexie, a hat for me, and shoes for Frank. – Yesterday we had dinner with my parents to Celebrate Frank’s birthday.
Word(s) of the day: GRANOLA
Lexie log: We started our Saturday night swim again. I sure did miss it. I’m having my Monday melancholies again. It’s so nice to spend time with her on the weekends. She had missed swim so much, that even after two hours I had to carry her out screaming. When I first wanted to leave I asked her and she kept telling me, “Two minutes, two minutes.” Funny girl. We laughed and giggled and played in the water. We also saw two other little swimmers have close call accident with the slide. One little boy actually even broke his goggles when he fell and hit his head on the edge of the slide, freaked me out. – She was really excited to go to swim Sunday also. There are three new people in her class, all boys, and two parents still in the water. She did really well, and Teacher AJ let her swim halfway across the pool. I really think it’s just a matter of her listening and following instructions now. Of course, she was tired, hungry and excited, so following instructions during this class was almost impossible. Still, she had a blast, which is the number one priority. She’ll be a strong swimmer. – She really enjoyed being with Grammy and Grandpa at the Happy Panda. She just talked and talked away, and ate chow mien noodles. When we got home she told them, “I love you guys”. How sweet. She fell asleep watching a movie, so Daddy took her into bed, she came running back out to give me a hug, then ran back into bed, for a minute of two. If she doesn’t fall asleep immediately, she’s up, so off we go again. We added all the battery operated do-hickies to her kitchen, and she boiled strawberries (pretend) and made Daddy a tomato sandwich. I finally headed off to bed shortly after 10:00pm listening to Daddy talk on the phone and Lexie re-watching Jonah, a Veggie Tales story. I drifted off to sleep again, after Daddy finally got her to go to bed in her room, then woke up to her crawling into bed in between us.
Today I’m grateful for Frank and Lexie, Mom and Dad, weekends, sleeping in, peace and harmony, and life.
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