post Thanksgiving...

So I forgot to post on Thanksgiving and say happy Thanksgiving, big whoop! The exciting news, or sad news depending on how you look at it. I got up on 7:30am on friday to join the masses in holiday shopping. I was probably lucky we were in Sonora, not quite as busy. UNFORTUNATELY they were out of the Dual Layer DVD Burner that I wanted to get for $20, on the good side, they still had to 200gb harddrive that I wanted for $30. Though the HD isn't quite a christmas present anymore, heh, but you can't pass up that deal! Its just too good. So I'm still on the thinking end of presents for Grif. As far as presents for Bayvin go, I haven't even started. I have NO clue. I've gotten her a couple little things, but nothing big. I was thinking one of those big play Kitchens, but I'm not sure. Could get her a few more little toys, but then she's got so many little toys that I gotta get more storage boxes to sort out the crap. And she SO doesn't need anymore clothes.

Neither do I now... well shirts I always need. But I'm good on jeans. Mervyn's were having a GREAT sale on the jeans I like; Gloria Vanderbuilt - Giselle; usually $38 (though they're almost always on sale, but normally on sale for $29.99 or something) they were on sale for $21.99! So I bought one... and was gonna buy another, but instead Gottshalks was having them on sale 50% off which made they $19! AND cause I was there on the busiest freaking shopping day of the year, they were another 20% off that! And then I went out the next day and bought another pair, so I have 4 total now :) Now I just need to lose a little weight to make them fit better. Its cool cause they're stretchy, and according to them I'm almost a size 10.. but the size 12 is a little baggy... just need to lose that flab. Speaking of which...

So I'm getting referred to a back pain specialist PT person. On Wednesday they had given me Robaxin (muscle relaxer) and it didn't do jack. So I called today and they gave me Vicodin, it helps a little, but if I took more than 5/500 (every 4 hours) I'd be too loopy. So I'll give it a few days. Its also not good to be on vicodin a long while.

So my printer that I was so excited I got so cheap and was an all in one deal... well it sucks. though could be the paper, but I got this postcard paper, and when the printer does actually take it, when I try to print on the other side, the paper comes apart in the middle and it doesn't print the bottom two. Damn perforations and stuff. Gonna have to check if there's a paper setting for card stock and maybe it'll handle it better. If not I wasted money on that paper, and to use what I already did, I have to go spend more money.

I got the perfect thing for Niri's room, (second bedroom) since the litter box is in there, it smells a bit. Glade - Wisp... shoots out a little blast of scent every few seconds... can't smell the litter box at ALL, and it smells like berry bubblegum everytime you go in, its sooo nice! I got the new Glade Scented Oil Candles, candle is suppose to melt down into oil and keep it scent and of course blow out the flame and everything (berry scent as well) but haven't tried it yet.

This weekend we're going to get christmas pictures taken. Guys are black on black, Grandma and me are white shirts, black skirts, and Bayvin has this cute red Audrey Hepburn dress with a short red velvet jacket with a white fur collar and cuffs, its SO adorable! Next year we gotta go simple again, its always SO hard to match Bayvin, needs to be cute shirt and jeans, its always easy! Or go really cool and make the guys wear suits and us wear evening gowns! Yeah, that'll happen.... well Burlington Coat Factory does have really good prices on evening gowns....even suit jackets.

MRI results

No herniated discs or anything out of the ordinary cept for the mild scoliosis...

Still waiting for a phone call from the doc to have an appointment to figure out what's next. Hm, anti-inflammatories aren't working that well, still get shooting pain, the MRI was excruiating, which means I can't lay down on the floor or anything for 20 minutes, and physical therapy doesn't help, and can infact make it worse. So what is the next step?

Ugh.

Bayvin's Birthday!!

She had a GREAT day yesterday. We wanted to start out with chocolate chip pancakes, but not until I was back from the store was I informed we didn't have chocolate chips. But I got her a princess cake, princess balloons and some roses. She of course went "oh my GOSH! Are those for me?!" yep! "oh thank you mom! They're so beautiful! I love em!" She is the biggest gusher ever! She had no problem gushing over all the presents she got and saying a big thank you to everyone. It was too funny. Dave and Lesley got her a box of dressup clothes so the night ended with her changing every 5 minutes, running over to the mirror and giggling.

Harry Potter was really good, kinda scary in parts but she didn't seem to mind, she said she liked it and when I asked her if it was scary, she said just a little bit, but she liked it anyway.

Then we went to John's Incredible Pizza Place, and she had LOTS of fun, even we had fun, Grif and I went to spend tokens on the thing where the tokens slide off the edge and give you tickets. Well this one had this bucket thing that a token could slide into, if you got it in there you'd get extra tickets, and we found out if it gets full, it tips! Well the last token we had, I put it in, lands in there and tips, like almost 200 tickets spit out! It was cool! We're up to about a total of 1500 tickets (from like the last year) we're saving up to get Bayvin a good toy of some kind.
Here are some pictures

Grandma and Grandpa Scannel got her the same card :)

new look

Got a new picture and some new colors up! So I had this convo with another DJ...who has seen what I look like.
He was calling the new Ladies Night on wednesdays that we're having, cause there's 3 female DJs in a row....
he called it a threesome of female DJs...

so I said
"you dirty old man!"
he said
"I'm not old! besides, you're older than me!"
I said
"oh really?!"
"I'm only 26, how old are you?"
he said
" *blinks* oh um... someone told me you were older!"
i said
"uh huh... so how old are you so I know how offended to be"
he said
"well if you put it that way I'm not answering"
i said
"no come on, how old!"
he said
"uh....



31"

so I told him he owed me and that he needed to dedicate Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing

so he did... and even apologized on air...
Then said
"well that song was for Larke, and the mess up I made about her age... but there could be something said about choosing a song from 1975..."

he so going down...

Approved!!!

Its schedule for 8:45am on Saturday... guess I'll be up real early for Bayvin's birthday, but that'll work! I just hope it shows what's wrong, if not I'm really screwed.

so it turns out...

My MRI wasn't denied a second time, but someone seriously dropped the ball there, cause that's what I was told, also told she had to fax it twice more, well nobody else seems to know that happened, so she didn't write any notes, AND I don't remember what HER name was. But now its supposedly still in review, gonna give another check up call tomorrow.

So for Bayvin's birthday we got her a Princess CD player, Grandma and Grandpa Scannel got her a Princess Big Wheel... not sure what anyone else got her, but we'll find out on Saturday! And I can't wait to see Harry Potter, its gonna be SO good! I hope they didn't leave out too much or change anything specific ya know...

Been getting a lot of jobs lately, its getting really cool! :) I hope it keeps up like this. Some of the house I've been doing in Sonora are freaking HUGE! And incredible views, one was almost 4000 square feet and absolutely gorgeous view of some mountains and valley, unbelievable, its also selling for 991k... where's that lottery money when you need it! There's also 3 or 4 more like it being built.

denied again

So my MRI was denied again. I called up the PT guy and asked if he could send in some notation saying that HE recommends an MRI and hope that that works. They just keep saying there's not enough documentation to approve one. Hm, PT didn't work and the anti-inflammatories definitely don't work enough, so what's the option after that? The Mobic has been working less and less, (waiting to hear from the doc bout upping the dosage). But it doesn't work enough to just live on that. Its rid of pain as long as I don't over exert myself. Like cleaning up doing laundry doing dishes going on long car rides, normal stuff that I should be doing, if I do all of it I start hurting. My hips have been bothering me more and more too.

Bayvin's birthday is coming closer and closer and WE still can't think of anything to get her. She's got so many toys she doesn't play with, so hard to think of a good toy to get her. And don't want to spend too much, like getting her a motorized car or a swing set in the back... We might have to combine Christmas and Birthday or something, and get something big. So hard to decide.

so trick or treating

One of the first houses we went to, had a dog, she wanted to pet the dog more than she wanted the candy. Turned to leave and then remembered she didnt get any candy. So we continued on, the one of the few of the last houses, they had this little tiny dog, bout the size of my hand, she quickly put down her candy bag and picked up the dog! Couldn't believe how tiny the dog was. Not sure if it was a puppy but it was one of those small dogs and could have been the puppy size, but Niri is bigger than that dog was. So the next 2 houses we went to, instead of "trick or treat" it was, "do you have a dog?" But she was really cute, when she went to the door she said "I want Trick or Treat" instead of just "Trick or Treat" and she made sure to tell everyone that she was Sleeping Beauty.

Oh yeah, and me and Bayvin

New Pictures!

Bayvin on Halloween

Our House during the day

Our House at night

AND I got a new hair! Oh yeah and I dyed it a little darker.

Happy Halloween!!!

*sings* Doing the money dance, doing the money dance *sung to the tune of, doing the happy dance, from Basketball*
Did a tour for a house in Modesto on saturday, freaking HUGE house - 3700 sqft.
Doing a tour today (freaking Halloween and I'm working, woohoo!!) for forrent.com which means I won't see the money til december, from geting $380 bucks in December will be NICE!
Got at LEAST 2 tours to do next week up in Sonora!
money money money MONAAAY!

Oh yeah and its Halloween... I'll post pictures later.

The Perfect Sleeping Beauty

I finally fixed the dress for Bayvin. She's perfect for it!

stupid people

So my MRI request was denied:
"There is no documentation of a trial of physical therapy and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs".
In my records was "Going to Physical Therapy, samples of Mobic, 7.5mg given."

So they obviously didn't read that part, and they faxed my initial visit notes, but some how they didn't read them or it wasn't enough, and just said "no". That is where the stupid medical groups just suck ass. So my doc's office is suppose to be getting notes from the PT place about how its not working they recommend an MRI.

So since i'm out of mobic, my back is hurting pretty bad, but I got tours today and stuff, I called the doc to see if I could continue taking Mobic and if they could get a prescription for me. If they can then I have to WALK to Safeway. Its like a mile way. The Jeep has a flat tire so Grif had to take my car.

In other news, Grif flew to LA today for work and won't be back til late. Its his first time and I definitely think that's a good step in the right direction.

Think we're gonna be trying to go to Wisconsin in April or May, should have two free tickets by then. Grif keeps saying Disney World.. but uh, Wisconsin is MUCH cheaper hehe.

oh yeah

Totally forgot to mention I thought I had broken my foot. I jammed it in a chair, and thought no biggy, but then it started going black and blue below the toe area, so I thought oh crap I broke something. But no, still hurts though. It was really really stiff, and I couldn't curl my toes in any direction. Still can't "curl" the toes up, but down works okie, just always achy.... always have to have pain somewhere huh.

so... and stuff

Well, went to PT yesterday, had me do this one exercise, on my back, knees bent and you're suppose to take one leg cross it over the other and pull the knee towards the opposite shoulder. My hips went NUTS. They hurt in the joint like they needed to pop or something and then the pain would shoot to my knee. Well obviously they had me stop it and then another one of the PT people tried to help me work out the pain, seemed to help. Think main problem was that I forgot to take my anti-inflammatory. Well because of the shooting pain the PT guy said I should probably call my doc and get an MRI schedule cause it was sounding more like a disc problem then just scoliosis. He said next session (tomorrow) he's gonna put me on this traction machine that's suppose to stretch the spine or something in hopes to eleviate some of the pain, usually do it for herniated discs and stuff.

I had a tour on saturday and 2 yesterday. Bayvin was gone all weekend, it was kind of a nice break, but I missed her so much!

We're trying to figure out what to do for Bayvin's birthday (Nov. 19th). Harry Potter comes out on the 18th, so we're thinking we'll take her to it, though it does seem kinda scary, but she liked the 3rd one. She seems the previews and really wants to see it.

Other good news, I'm half way done with christmas shopping. only need to get 12 more people gifts. So maybe not quite half way. I got 8 people presents hehe. Been starting early so we can get everybody a little something :)

so missing a post

Ok, so I KNOW that I am missing a post, cause I went on and on about how the PT guy hurt me. Was shoving his elbow into my hip in hopes to work out the kinks, so my butt was sore all day saturday.

Oh and I mentioned what happened to Nya.
We had to spend $220 bucks to find out that her leg bone is shattered right above the knee joint. The vet had only ever seen something like that when a dog was hit by a car. No clue how she was able to do this, but we spent $220 to find out there's nothing we can do, cept maybe later cut off the part of the leg that stopped growing. So even more money there.

I've got a tour to do possibly friday and couple tours to do next week for sure. Wish I could be getting more work though!

Saw New Doc

And that's about it. She put me on Mobic. Free samples too, that's always good. Said to make an appt with her after physical therapy is done, and see how it worked out, if it doesn't, then a MRI will happen. She was more concerned with needing an MRI because of the shooting pain I am having.

Kinda pissed at ebay. They suspended my account, because of shill bidding. Like I'd do that, its totally stupid. But they figured me and a few others were doing it on the night of the auction we had at The Cape Radio, we raised over $1600 for katrina victims. Not much in the scheme of things, but it'll help I'm sure. I keep emailing them, telling them to shove it up their ass and unsuspend my account, but damn bastards won't get back to me. But had someone email me saying I had to sign something that said "i did it but i won't do it again" and they'd unsuspend my account. I once again told them to shove it. And then they asked for me to give feedback on how well the guy that told me to sign that damn thing did. Well I haven't filled it out, cause the guy did jack shit. Ugh!

So had my first appoitnment

Physical Therapy.
Nareej will be my physical therapist, had me do this light exercises and I'm suposed to do them once a day. No biggy, cept for the fact of laying on my back on a hard surfaces hurts my butt bones. He had heard stuff that Dr. Cronin was a good doc, well I told him she may be, but her office sucks ass. But he and the nurse at the OBGYN said that Dr. Lisa Hunt was a good doc, the nurse even used to work at the office or something. on the PLUS side of that, got another free sample of seasonale, so in 2 months I save 50 bucks! Damn 3 month birth control costs, but so worth it!

Got a webdesign job! so in about 3 weeks I'll have $700 from that, plus a possible nother one for a Corvette club. Only be like $250 but still money. Waiting for another guy to call back about 2 tours. Thinkin maybe he won't know, that'll suck, but could get lucky. Been making my tours in CD for the lady in Sonora, but I should have charged her more, maybe her 12 CDs for $20, of 4 different properties, nice money, for me it was relatively easy, but Grif was like, its seriously expensive to get it done at Kinko's so you should have charged more. Guess next time I'll tell her it was a little more work than I thought and it'l be $30 for 12... but always makes me feel bad. I know I need to charge more, but I had money and I want to make sure I get it and not have people go else where, ya know?

Bayvin is gonna be Sleeping Beauty for Halloween. I wanted her to be a pirate, there was the cutest little kid pirate costume. But no, at first it was Tinkerbell, but then she decided Sleeping Beauty. When she tried on the dress, she was shaking she was so excited and happy. It was too funny.

Nya seems to be a three legged dog. Dunno if it'll be permanent, but she attacks Niri and Nox just fine, so she must not care that the other leg doesn't work.

At least she's doing good!

She's just adorable. Pictures were taken by Grandpa Scotty.

got a new doc.

My new doctor is effective Oct 1st, and I have an appt with her Oct 4th. We'll see how this works out.

My first physical therapy appointment is on thursday the 29th. I also have my annual woman visit that day too. So that's fun, at least the laying on the table with legs up is first, just incase I get really hurt at physical therapy. Either way both are gonna hurt.


Oh I haven't posted on this thing yet. On Sunday, Nya came in one dog door and didn't come in the other, Grif went to find out where she was, found her at the bottom of the stairs right inside one dog door and she was whimpering. He asked her to come and she hopped for a second and then fell to the floor. We decided to give it a couple hours see what was going on if she would get up again. Didn't seem to be her hip area, more like her knee was hurting. After about 2 hours we took her to the vet. The vet is open on sundays but the visit costs more, i found that a bit odd; $10 more. They wanted to take x-rays and charge $70 per and they wanted 3. We said no way, what our are options... well you can give her aspirin and she might just get better on her own, some dogs live just fine with 3 legs.

So Nya Lemon (new middle name) seems to be doing better, she went out both dog doors already, though decided to come back INSIDE to go poop. She's hopping along fine, but still spends most of her time on the floor. Even wrestled with Niri.

The strangest thing. Nya was laying on the floor, head and body facing AWAY from Niri, all of a sudden, Nya stood up and whipped around to attack Niri. Full PROOF that dogs and cats definitely DO communicate. Niri obviously said something to get Nya's attention. Just too funny.

So not sure if Nya broke something or tore a tendon, with either of those the x-rays would have told us how much more we needed to spend. Her leg is still pretty limp, so won't step on it, but seems to move it a little, so not sure, maybe could still be a sprained knee or pulled muscle or something.