GHOULIES moving towards the islands. (Page 29)

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Good morning Ghoulies.

Visit the Dr @ 11 to get the MRI results.

Visit another Dr @ 2 to see what I can do about this upper respitory crap.

Came to work, but I guess with 2 Dr appointments, I just should have stayed home.  I think I will not come back when I head off to the first appointment.

Take the day off as a mental health day. Hoping for good news from both docs!

Good Morning Ghoulies

Tuesday is here.  I am going to coffee with friends in a little while, then to work.  It will be a full day at work today, but that is good.

Ann, I hope your knee gets better fast.

Kendra, good luck at the dr. 

Robin, how goes it?

I am guessing that Jules didn't make it into the marathon?  That is tough after all the work at voting that she did.

Hey, Dee.

No, Jules didn't make it. I think she finished 4th in the voting.

Hey Ghoulies.

I had an early morning this am. I had to drive 3 hours to sample soil at a site then come home. Drive for a bunch, put dirt in jars, drive home. I live the dream!

Kendra.... report on the MRI please.

Ann, report on the knee please.

My knee hurts. It doesn't feel puffy today, but it is still bothering me. I had the heat pack on it a lot yesterday. I also started my prescription strength anti-inflammatory. Hopefully it helps.

Girl Passing on Left - 2012-08-28 8:00 PM

ironannekidd - 2012-08-26 5:27 AM

Good morning Ghoulies!

I was BEAT when I went to bed last night. It was a looooooong day.

Did get the supplies to build my kayak rack in our lower shed. I'd like to get it done this week, but with back to school, meet the teacher nights, softball practices, football practices and a scrimmage, not sure if It will get built or not. Maybe next weekend.

I think I found the culpret to my chronic knee tendonitis. I wear a lot of old running shoes around, that are stability shoes, then I have my orthotics in them. I think that may be the problem. After wearing them around on Friday my knee was killing me yesterday. Doing an incredibly steep hike yesterday morning didn't help. When I wear neutral shoes my knee doesn't bother me. I think I'm going to clean out all the stability shoes today and stop wearing them.

did any of those supplies come for Lowes??? and where are the before and after pictures of this kayak rack!?? sorry your knee is bothering you. I SWEAR by glucosamine...have I asked you before if you have tried or used it? if not have you tried it? do the running stores fit you for walking shoes? ask them if you have the time...ever since my last fitting there I have no more toe or arch pain...they worked miracles! I actually am liking running now!

Yes, the supplies did come from Lowe's

I haven't built it yet, maybe this weekend. We need to find who has our chop saw, it will make building the rack MUCH easier.

I did try glucosamine years ago. I forget why I stopped taking it though. Maybe I should try it again.

Girl Passing on Left - 2012-08-28 8:05 PM

ironannekidd - 2012-08-27 3:28 AM

Years ago I took the EMT course. This was mid 90's. I let it expire, but now I'm recertifying. Thankfully I do not have to retake the course, I don't have time for that, I can just take continuing ed credits online. I just completed my first course in about half an hour.

Minimum passing score = 70

Average score = 89

My score = 100

On to the next class.

you just never stop do you...is this for your work??? I used to do marketing for a private EMS training school here in the bay area. it is only a mile from my house ~ we provided classes for EMT, Firefighters...various classes: ACLS, PALS, CPR...so I bet I could get you a BIG discount here! and free room and board! bring your kayaks ~ im only a few blocks from the SF bay!

No, this isn't for work, this is just something I like to do. I've taken 4 of the 24 tests I need to take so far. I've gotten 1 answer wrong, and that was because I didn't mark it. I thought I had clicked on the answer but I guess I didnt'. What I would have chosen was the correct answer.

I know I won't get 100% on everything BUT I WILL TRY!

I had less than 4 hours sleep last night, so if anyone sees me sleeping under my desk later wake me in time to pick Keri up from school and go to Caleb's football scrimmage.

Keri is playing fall softball. In the spring the coach was pretty cool, he had a good bunch of girls, softball life was good. This fall he has been in a pissy mood, he has 3 new girls on the team (they played on the C team in the spring) and 2 of them have attitudes and zero work ethic.

The coach has been frequently late to practice this fall, so me, my cousin, and a dad who help with the team have started practices. The girls are all there, the coaches aren't. On Saturday practice was to start at 3:00 and the coach didn't get there until 3:40. He did send a text out at 3:15 that he'd be there by 3:30, but that doesn't do much good when you have a team full of girls there wanting to play softball.

Last night he was late, we had the girls go out and just start throwing balls around to warm up. The girl Keri was with, they were standing about 10' apart, was throwing the ball like she was going from home to second base. After the first throw Keri told her it was too hard, to slow down. The second throw hit Keri square in the bottom of her rib cage. I heard the THUNK! I ran to her and carried her off the field and put her on a bench. Another mom offered us an ice pack. I checked her out to make sure she hadn't broken a rib. I told the girl who threw the ball she needed to be careful and pay attention to how close her target was, that was it.

At 9:00 last night, as I'm getting ready for bed, the coach sends out a nasty email. He said that 1) we need to remember that these are just kids and accidents happen (fine, no problem with that)

2) he said that he has had reports of people yelling at other people's kids and that will not be tolerated. (ok, who was yelling?)

3) he said that from now on he is the only one who can start practices and the girls are not permitted to throw a ball or swing a bat before he starts practice. (I have a problem with this)

I sugar coated this, the email came off as nasty. I texted him this morning about it and he called me. He said he had several parents tell him I yelled at the girl who threw the ball to Keri. That's just not true! I told him that he only had one side to the story and it was inaccurate. I also told him it wasn't fair to punish the entire team. He said that things like that wouldn't happen if he were there. I asked him how he can guarantee that. I told him that this new rule was not in the best interest of the team. The girls show up early because they WANT to play. I asked if he'd rather have a team full of girls who show up late and don't want to play. He said that this will be the rule at least until Thursday then we could talk about it. I told him Donnie could bring Keri from now on and that Keri could play somewhere else in the spring. He said he didn't want that. I told him if he was going to punish the team because he heard one side to a story and didn't bother to find out what anyone else had to say that Keri didn't need to be on a team like that.

My cousin and I talked about it last night, after he sent the email. She said that his wife sits up on the hill above the field and every email he has sent out this fall like last nights has come after she has been to practice. She isn't a very nice woman, and she comes off as being better than everyone. She didn't come to practices in the spring. Why do people have to be like that? I will only go to games this fall, no more practices. Good thing is there are only 6 days of games in the fall.

Sorry to ramble on, the whole thing just has me worked up. I DID NOT yell at that kid. I sat on the grass last night putting the girls in a batting order because they had in inner-team scrimmage. I sat there and talked to all of them about school and anything else they wanted to talk about. It upsets me that someone would go to the coach and say things about me that just aren't true.