Finals are over, so bring on the body shots! Well, maybe not. This quarter I earned a 3.9 in Philosophy, a 3.9 in Organic Chemistry, and a 4.0 in Microbiology. I'm so happy to get a break from school!
During the break, Kelly and I plan on painting the bathroom. The last owner did a poor job. We've got some paint chips, but we haven't picked a color yet. I'm thinking lime green with mandarin orange trim. Kelly isn't really into citrus colors, but I'll convince him.
Kelly is feeling good, and the home care is proceeding as planned. The IV antibiotics will be done on the 31st, and hopefully the wound vac will come off next Wednesday.
Last weekend, we met Kelly's parents and some friends, Don and Renee, at the Palouse Falls. It was a lovely day, and the falls are very awe-inspiring. Below are some pics.
The group Rainbow The River BikersSpokane Community College has been enrolled in the Oxfam America Collegiate Click Drive on the Poverty Fighters website. The donations go around the world to fund micro-loans to help families in dire poverty start small businesses. Every time you click, the sponsors donate 25 cents. Click here to go to the website and "donate". Scroll down and select Spokane Community College and help my school rank higher than last year. Each computer can do two clicks per day. There are a lot of good stories to read. It really reminded me that despite the difficulties of the last year or so, we are truly blessed.
In other school news, I got back my first test score in Organic Chemistry and I aced it! WOO HOO! I was also invited to join Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of the two-year college. I qualified because I have kept my gpa above 3.6 for three quarters, with a full load. I'm very excited about it; I'll get to graduate with honor stoles!
It's my birthday. Aside from the obvious, I know it because I felt about a thousand years old when I got up this morning. Before I got up, the cats (include the new Cleo, more on her later) had dumped the trash over in search of chicken bones and commenced to running around at 4:30am. Then, while I was in the shower, one of them discovered a packet of catnip and they proceeded to spread it over the hall runner and get stoned out of their teeny tiny furry minds. Tigger was just rolling around on the pile of scattered catnip, his eyes as big as saucers.
Eventually Jakki had to get up as well and we both stomped around herding cats and righting upset trash bins. If you know what's good for you, you really don't want to get Jakki up in those wee small hours of the morning. Believe me, at 5:30am I could have SOOOO gone back to bed. Then 6:00am arrived with my sister's traditional Beatle's Birthday call. It was nice, and it's good to hear happy tidings after a monring like that.
So here I sit at my computer at work at 3:15pm daydreaming of a soft, warm bed. Today on this eleventh day of January, two thousand and six, I'm chronologically 31 years old-- but I feel just as young as the hills around me. *snore*
Long time, no post, eh? Well, Jakki and I have been pretty busy hosting Christmas and whatnot. Things went swimmingly with a free turkey from Empire Health Services. Good eats and good times. We went to a moving service on Xmas Eve at the St. Mark's Lutheran church over on the South Hill. It's a very nice church and so well attended that people sat on folding chairs in the narthex, even at an 11pm service.
In other news: Emelie got a new puppy!; He's quite well mannered and pretty big at only four months. The vet thinks he is part German Shepard, and part Great Dane. I forecast giant poops in Emelie's future.; He's a good boy, and has a very expressive face. Emelie has named him Cooper, which suits him quite well.
Ed: per instructions of my better halves, here are a few new pics--
With six inches of snow on the ground and an increasing chill in the air, we decided to give ourselves an early Christmas present. Last night we bought a dual-zone electric blanket for the bed. I hadn't used one since I was a kid in Maine and Jakki had never used one. We cranked it up, watched Dazed and Confused, and then retired to the sack. Man, was it nice!; Nothing can quite compare to slipping between preheated sheets on a cold winter's night with frost on the window panes.
In other news, I going to try to host my first video segment. It's just a short of Jakki playing with Tigger. You can view the video here (using Windows Media Player). The video is 1.46 MB.
Next weekend, we hope to put up our Christmas lights on the house, so this weekend is dedicated to chores and getting ready for Jakki's finals next week. After next week, Jakki will be out of school for nearly a month. I get a free turkey from work for the holidays, so I think Mom & Dad are going to come up and we can do Christmas at our house.
In health news, I had an appointment with my regular internist, and she said things were pretty good although she would like my blood pressure to go down a bit, it's on the high edge of normal. She doesn't want to start me on BP meds right away because they can contain sulfa which is hard on the pancreas. Hopefully when I start exercising next month my BP will go down a bit. She also had labs drawn to check my triglycerides. I haven't heard anything back from her so I'm assuming everything was good-- especially since she called me so quick after my last bout with pancreatitis.
We've got some exciting news! Dr. Holbrook just paid a visit and said the CT today showed two small pockets of fluid just under Kelly's incisions, which is not unusual. The plan is to do an ultrasound guided aspiration, a procedure that requires just some local anestetic. After that, he will be able to go home! One drain came out this morning, and the second one was just pulled out. Now the only thing left is the IV!
When Kelly gets home tomorrow, things will look a little different around the house. In the living room I did some rearranging and took out the coffee table to make more room. In the hallway I pulled up the carpet due to naughty Alice's accidents. The hardwood needs to be refinished, but it is still a change for the better.
We're just waiting for tomorrow to get here! The cats will be so glad to see Kelly!
This is an ongoing blog started back in 2003. It documents the lives and times of Kelly & Jakki Adams.
