03/30/2009

Carolina won against Oklahoma. Oklahoma looked slow and plodding, tired. I am somewhat shocked as I thought they would be it for us but we were never really behind the whole game. So we have another one to "look forward to". I'm not sure "look forward to" quite describes it as I feel rather tense watching at this stage in the tournament. Final four time next weekend. Of course, I'm glad we are in it but there is some tension about it.

I slept maybe 3 hours tonight before waking up wide awake. I slept well the last few nights and I took a nap yesterday after church so maybe I am just catching up on sleep from all those months of practically no sleep. Grayson has taken to wanting his breakfast at 4:30 a.m. and I need to get him broken of that habit. Yesterday I tried to make him go away and leave me alone but he just kept coming back and back and back until I finally got up and fed him. That shut him up but he wants tuna or else he is not happy with my menu choice. I bought a boatload of the stuff yesterday so I would have a supply for at least 7 to 10 days. Milo likes it too but sometimes he just walks away from canned food. More evidence that he is different.

I have my Wired 4 Ministry class in only 5 hours and 6 minutes. I might as well try and get a little more sleep if I can.

My hair is coming out really badly now. Doctors don't think it has to do with the craniotomy but I have started the process of investigating its cause. Don dialed the phone to the doctor's office Friday and handed me the phone. I had explained to him how upset I am over this turn of events and he wants it solved for the sake of my mental health and physical health as well. I may have to get a wig if they don't hurry up and come up with a cause and a cure. This and my eyesight deficiency are the only two things so far that have stressed me out about the aftermath of surgery. I am really upset about both but I did have blood tests Friday that may help determine if I have some sort of deficiency that might explain the hair loss. I will call later and ask that my referral to a dermatologist be done as soon as the blood test results come back. I do not want someone sitting on those results. I want to move it along.

My eyesight does not seem to me to be improving although I am sure the eye tests in early May will tell me more. I am getting so used to it now that I might not be the best judge of improvement. It really is a shadowy world on the outer perimeter of my field of vision. Bill was not in class today. We always compare the "results of the week" and he has been suffering with failing sight for longer than I have. He used to teach our class often but hasn't lately because it is too difficult to read the material in preparation. I told him about my Kindle 2 in hopes that might help but the thing is expensive and I don't know if he has the interest in it right now. The Kindle is great though. You can read for a while and if your eyes get tired, then switch it to audio and it will read to you. I am so grateful to be able to read anything, although newspapers are still difficult as the print is so small and sometimes not quite dark enough. I do work crosswords almost every day by shining a flashlight on the clues and figuring it out from there. I love doing those things if the words are not too exotic. I pretty much can do the Charlotte Observer ones in 30 to 45 minutes most days. I know even their exotic words as they repeat them time and again and I have learned them through years of working the puzzles.

Another week of trying to locate two suitable jobs to make application for. I actually got one recommendation from one of these career sites of a job delivering internal mail for a bank. Well, where did they come up with that one. I would have to carry around 25 pounds of mail at a time. I don't believe I will be applying for that one as I don't think I would last the first week. It is either items like this that I get or CPA jobs ad infinitum. I was a Credit Products Analyst in my last job and the computer systems that come up with important phrases to look for have interpreted that I am a CPA based on that acronym. I really don't enjoy weeding out all those job recommendations for which a CPA is a requirement. But I'll be back at it this afternoon or tomorrow. I'd like to get those two apps in by Wednesday afternoon but it is normally Thursday evening before I have made the grade on this. Cheryl says why not apply for some mortgage underwriting jobs. They seem to be out there in bulk but I don't have experience with mortgages. I might apply for one and just say I don't have experience but I could certainly learn. I doubt that would hold water but you never know.
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Class was good with a dynamite teacher. She is planning to do a follow-up session that lasts 2 hours. I would be interested in trying it out as well. I wish I had her delivery as I think there would be no learning disabled people if they had teachers like Carol. What a wonderful gift she has.