Downton Abbey Evnt

Saturday was a magical day from start to finish.  I had three lessons. Then my very best friend, Kathy came to see me!!!!  We were going to dinner and a movie during this visit!!!!  Our friend, Jenn was joining us!!!!  I was so looking forward to this for so long!!!   Jenn was coming in from about an hour away so we weren’t sure when exactly she would arrive.  We planned dinner early enough so we wouldn’t hit the dinner rush.  It was a good call. About 10 minutes after we sat down, Jenn arrived!!!!  We ordered and the visiting commenced!!!!!  We talked about everything, just everything!!!!  I was so excited and happy about this day. Then we moved on to the final event of the night!!! The movie!!!!!  Kathy had told me she wanted to see the Downton Abbey movie with me in about June.  I had seen a few episodes but not anything dedicated to it.  I said I would look at the first few to see if I would like it.  She kept telling me I would love it.  I watch the first two and was intrigued. The next thing I knew I finished season one!!!!  Whoa!!!!  Then two and so on!!!!  I simply loved it!!!!!!   I was prepared to see the movie.  When I asked Jenn if she was interested in seeing the movie with me she said she hadn’t seen any of the episodes. As far as I knew it was okay because it would be a stand alone movie.  She is now thinking of watching the entire series.  We have a concert ion our hands.

Today, Kathy and I went to Tim Horton’s for Brunch and chatted some more.  She left to go to her mom’s house.  It is on the way home for her so I am pleased that she went to visit her mom also. It was a beautiful, exhausting weekend.  I napped for about four hours today. I will be okay for sleeping tonight.  I am just so thrilled that it went well.  I did have a bad tummy yesterday but it was under control and wasn’t super bad like the previous week.  I am so glad about that.  Overall, this was worth the wait. It was worth the exhaustion and definitely worth the few days it will take to to recover.

Oh my gosh. I am heading towards the edge of the pain scale

So I have been making small monthly payments to my doctors office.  There was still a balance on the account. They had about a year ago merged with another healthcare group. Wow. I was dismissed from the office. I had no idea. I went to make a payment and get my pain pills refilled and my anxiety pills refilled.  Yeah that is how I found out.  So I paid what I owed and was loaned some of it because I didn’t have it all, the called back with the reference number  now I am waiting to see if I get reinstated or not.  I am in more pain than usual because of the no pain meds. It isn’t anything oxy type. I can’t take them as I get really bad bad headaches from them.  The top part of my back hurts most than usually and so do many of my joints.  I will see how I feel during the night.  I hope to hear by tomorrow morning.  This is nerve wracking and when the fire this wouldn’t have happened. I hope this works.  I have Tylenol and ibuprofen but they don’t do a lot but they do a bit and that is what I need right now.


I have added into my checkbook app on my phone a payment to my doctor every month.  I have two more doctors that I need to pay this month.  This checkbook app has really helped in keeping me on track with stuff. I am really pleased with it.  I have all my monthly bills listed. It is super easy to balance with the bank. It just is so good.  I am quite glad to finally find something that works.  I didn’t like any of the other ones I had tried.

Four more days until Kathy is here!!!!  We are so excited to go and see the downton abbey movie!!    Our friend, Jen is coming too.  We don’t know where we are going for dinner yet but that is okay. We will decide and let Jen know. I can’t wait to see it. It should be marvelous.  I belong to a fan page on Facebook. It is absolutely a hoot.  I had Kathy join too.  She is in love with the show as I am.  She should be as she is the one who got me completely hooked.  She said oh you will love this.  So the skeptic that I am grudgingly watched the first episode. It was interesting.  Then I watched the second and before I knew the first season was over.  I was hooked.  I binged watched all six of the seasons.  I am just so thrilled they made a movie of it.  I hope for many more!!!  From what I have seen, so so many others do to!!!!!

I do hope for some decent sleep tonight.  I have physical therapy tomorrow. I will be bringing my walker in with me to be sized. I want to have it checked so I know it isn’t causing injury to me. So many I see lean heavily bent over on their walkers and I don’t want to do that.  I don’t want to be bent over while using it. Of course I will lean on it. I just don’t want to be bent over.

I am hoping that by tomorrow morning my scripts will be filled and I will be able to pick them up and be in the regular amount of pain. Not this insane amount of pain.  Even my skin is hurting tonight. Even my skin.  Ugh.

Who Stole My Sleep???

I can’t sleep. I have dozed off and on for the last few hours but not really sleeping. I hate this part of fibro so much.  I mean, seriously!!!!  I am so exhausted all the time and then bedtime comes and I can’t sleep??  There is something wrong with that picture.  Something completely wrong. I have read Facebook and read my nook. I took my zolfran med at 2am as usual. I slept for about 45 minutes than woke up nauseous. Zolfran should have taken care of that. I went and got some bread to eat and that has helped a lot.  It absorbs the extra acid in my stomach.


Every night I get to play this game called, will I get cold or hot in the middle of the night and need to change pajamas accordingly.  I got hot and put my hair in a ponytail. Then I changed into my shorts pajamas. I tried to sleep. Still hot. Then I changed into a tank top style pajama top. Now I am fine. I go through this every night.  It is just part of the routine.  I always have the shorts and tank top pajamas near by.

I got my hair cut today.  Heather BT did it. My hair was hurting.  These past few days have not been my best.  When I get a flare up of irritable bowel, I generally also get more of a headache too and it is harder to brush my hair because it hurts to do so.  The last three days my hair has hurt. I could feel every strand of hair on my head and they hurt.  I asked her to cut my hair. I needed it done anyways it wasn’t like out of the blue. I just hadn’t decided when to cut it or how I wanted it done. She cut about five inches off. It feels better now and it doesn’t hurt as much.  Hopefully by noon it will be even better.

I have one lesson planned for today. Victoria.  She is 19 and beautiful.  She sings so lovely and is a really nice person too.  I just love her.  All the littler students love her too.  She is a good role model for them.  Quinn is playing volleyball for her school.  This is exciting too as she is finally in a grade where she can play on team sports at her school.  I am so excited for her to have this opportunity to do this.

I have opened up more availability for students at Takelessons.  I had a new student but then something happened in the family and she can’t start lessons. I am disappointed but I know I will get something else soon.  I am looking into different ways to market myself as a teacher. It is interesting to be a member of this one group on Facebook that talks about the marketing yourself. I haven’t listen to all of it but I will tomorrow and finish up on Tuesday.

That’s about all for tonight. It is now 3:15 am.  I am going to try to get some more sleep!!!!

Back Home Again

I was at my beautiful Ellers these last four days.  H, R, and A were there. We had a good time.  We had some chuckles and some smiles. We also had N get mad at all of us and storm out for a couple of days.  She is going to do what she is going to do.  I want to tell her that everything will be okay but she is going to have to figure it out herself the hard way as many of us have in the past. I unfortunately came home with my irritable bowel syndrome in full swing so today has not been my best day but I am better than earlier, of which I am grateful for. I missed my Peony as you can imagine.  She is one of the loves in my life. I had no lessons today. Both Joe and Ava needed to reschedule which was a good thing. A really good thing. Ava is a pianist who recently start several months ago and Joe is a saxophonist who I have had for the last few years. I have a good amount of students now.  I may be able to handle one more but not more than that. With fibromyalgia I can only work about five hours a week. It keeps me involved enough to help pay bills and make me happy.

My favorite season is upon us. I love fall. Simply love it.  It is the best season of all.  I don’t ache as much as I do in the high humidity or the super cold. I love the turning of the leaves. It is nice enough to breathe and my asthma isn’t so bad either.  Time for tea at night when reading in my room.

So I hope this is a nice weekend to hang out and teach a few lessons and read.

Friday!!!!!!!

It is so hard to believe September is among us already.  Summer was rather stressful.  Things did get worked out of which I am so glad!!  I do hope the fall is much less stress and so far so good.  I have a pretty full schedule for lessons right now.  I no longer miss the 60 lessons a week I used to teach.  I have come to accept the part time I can do. This has taken many years to accept.  I know my limits.  Kathy is coming in a couple of weeks!!!  I can’t wait.  We are going to see the Downton Abbey movie as we are both big fans of the show.

Currently I am in physical therapy.  It is for balance this round.  I don’t have very good balance at all.  I feel like I am going to fall when I walk to far without my walker or coming downstairs. I also need better posture which will help with the not falling.  Tuesday I nearly fell.  It was so scary.  I had to pause and decide if I needed help.  I was okay I just took it slower to get to the car.  I will say the pt is kicking my butt.  I am rather sore by the end of the night on pt days.  It is working on muscles I forgot I have!!!  That is good though.  I am not sure how long I have for pt. I figure my therapist will tell me when I am done.  She is an expert after all.  Heather BT says she has noticed I walk better and seem to be more confident.  I am glad.

Monday I am heading to be with my friends kids for a few days.  She needs to be out of town so I am going to be there. You know how it is when your a mom, you have a short list of who you trust to take care of your kids.  Well I am happy to be on her short list.  I love her kids.  I know I will have H and R. I am not sure about T and A.  A has been doing a lot of babysitting for his brother’s roommate.  He has a toddler and A watches her while he works.  I really enjoy the kids company.  H and I get into some really interesting conversations. R is quieter and is an excellent artist.  H is an excellent artist too.  He likes graffiti art.  She likes all types of art.  I will come home on Wednesday just in time for lessons!!!!!

It is time to pull Christmas music out again.  Sammy came and took care of that.  I have redone the vocal music drawers.  I have everything divided by genre then alphabetical.  It is so much easier to find stuff now!!!!  I was going to do this with the piano music but I have nine file cabinet drawers of piano music so yeah not gonna do that.  I just want Christmas at this point separated.

It is getting chiller out now.  I don’t mind.  We no longer have central air.  It died four years ago.  We do have a portable a/c unit that we put on the kitchen counter.  We also have an attic fan. I have a window fan in my window which also really helps.  Overall we tend to stay pretty okay.  I have been aching more lately but I think that is due to the physical therapy.  I am not totally sure but by bedtime, especially if I have to fill the dishwasher, I am pretty sore.  My headaches are still there like they were three years ago.  I have now had a headache everyday since March of 2003.  My bad headaches aren’t quite as often but I still get them. I now have cyclical vomiting syndrome. Basically I feel like I am going to throw up all the time.  I am on two different meds for that.  They help control most of it.

I am not sure what is up this weekend.  I plan to read and go on Facebook.  I check on my peeps that way.