Wednesday......... where has the week gone? Let's see Dentist on Monday, Tuesday the CTO was in the office, today, working hard. I have decided to take off the 2 days after 4th of July which will give me a 5 day break! Woohoo!

Pain is a little achy today.. hands, fingers and wrists, while the shoulders aren't perfect either. Took the naproxen today to feel better. Hope it won't harm me.

Brought my new vacuum cleaner in to the office and fellow employee John has helped me get the handle on correctly. I have a vacuum cleaner..... but I did feel silly standing in the parking lot with my vacuum cleaner. Well, I get to take it hone and use it but tomorrow I have to bring in my desktop computer so that I can connect to the company network. I am having a problem getting it to connect.

TGIF is the acronym of the day!! It has been a long day with nothing working. I wound up keeping busy but boy it was tough. At lunch I went to get lunch for a coworker who couldn't get out because of meetings. So, off I went to Wendy's and went in and ordered our lunches. While waiting for the food to be prepared, the rain started coming down in buckets outside!! So bad that you couldn't see anything further than a foot away. There I sat at Wendy's waiting for it to stop..... didn't happen! So finally I just said the heck with it and out I went with 2 huge beverages and a bag of food that had a container of chili in it. The bag got wet and ripped and the chili went flying. I got soaked as I went back in and ordered another chili!! By the time I got back to work I looked like a drenched rat............. TGIF

Much better day today. Slept fairly well and woke with less pain. My age has lowered some!

I am starting to get used to my new cubicle. Moved about 2 weeks ago. The only problem I have is the noise over here. People take their conference calls using speakerphone and it is very annoying. Some of them have very loud voices, so when they talk they seem like they are right in front of me! Headphones are going to be the norm, I think. I have been listening to CNN live on my headphones lateley but the closer we come to elections, I will have to find something else to listen to!

I have requested the Thursday and Friday after the 4th off from work. Let's see if I get it. I know we have regression testing then, but I could use 5 days off at home.

Better night sleep. Still wake up every couple of hours but went back to sleep after. I turned the TV off, but I don't think that made a difference.

Was in a lot of pain when I awoke this morning so the first thing I did was take a Naproxen... in fact 2 of them. The pain eased up enough to get moving after a half hour or so.

More changes at work.......for the good? I don't know for sure, but we will just have to go with the flow.

Nothing else going on....... hopefully this will get more exciting once I start feeling better.

It was an achy weekend. For some reason I felt about 80 years old all weekend. Got my nails done on Saturday, did some shopping and then went home. Unpacked, straightened the kitchen and then tried to take a nap to see if I felt better. Couldn't sleep. Saturday night I was up until about 2:30 am because I couldn't sleep and then woke every hour. Didn't go anywhere at all Sunday..... never left the house and got very little accomplished. Tried a nap in the afternoon, but to no avail. Tried to sleep last night with the same problem! Geez!!!! So my eyes are a little droopy today. This can't be because of my trip. I didn't have a time change and it wasn't too stressful. The only stress part was my kids..... but what else is new. I don't figure much will change in that area.

Lowered my steroids this weekend and maybe that is the reason for the aches. I am just going to smile and keep plugging along!

First Post of living to be 65

First post of the new blog! Yes, 65 is the new beginning... so much to figure out, so many decisions, so many aches and pains! Isn't it great? At 65 I find that I am the oldest full time employee in this building. Not something I enjoy, but most people here don't realize how old I really am! So, the first thing I had to do a few months ago was sign up for Medicare.... I don't plan on using it yet.............but they say I need to sign up for it anyway. I don't plan on retiring........but there certainly days that I sure would love to. The aches and pains are telling me so. PMR started about a year ago. They say only a year or year and a half............ so hopefully I am on the downside. I just returned from a visit to my older sister...... she is 12 years older than me and between the two of us, there were a lot of moans and groans when we tried to get up from a chair, or some 'ugghhh' when getting in and out of the car. And the biggest feat of all........ try to clasp the bra in back...........oww, oww, oww! So if you have an ache or pain to tell us about............ here is the place!!

More Work

A new day and more changes at work. Lost another to a different division so there are only 2 of us left in this department. More work, but still working.

Woke this morning to a hand that won't close. Hopefully it will correct itself by the middle of the day. Working at a computer all day should exercise it enough to get it moving. Is this arthritis or part of the PMR?

It's Friday! I will try to get my energy up to do a bunch of things this weekend. Wouldn't that be great. That patio needs a lot of work and I would love to start on that.... or maybe the spare room. I want to collect books to give away. Hand don't fail me now!!