Heavy thinking day...

When you have a very important decision to make, and you have been given a "few weeks" to decide, how do you distract yourself? I am currently trying television, and a program that I love. "The Closer", I had to start 4 times before I even was listening to it.

The question is this: my doctor has urged me to have a pump inplanted in my gut around to my spine that would give medication. I have argued about this surgery for years. The whole thing just makes me ill. This past weekend I spoke with someone who has recently (March) had it done, and that was helpful. But it also brought up some questions. YIKES!!!

So, chocolate has helped alot. I will not talk about how much I ate last week (down at my second house, my Aunt's in Richmond), but let's just say that the M&M business is making lots of money off my purchases. Books and magazines helped. I finished one book that was outstanding, and then had a few mags to keep up with. The computer helped ALOT. My addiction with Webkinz was fed big time. I was able to play with my little cousins (the ones that got me started), and I ended up showing some stuff to them that they had not found. Their Mom also told me that they only play with theirs when I am there. And that they wanted to come over early each day, not to see Nana or my Mom, they "just wanted to play with Tracey". That made me feel great.

I am leaning toward having this surgery, but man, I really dread it. But, enough of that. For those who wondered or emailed to check, my pelvis is not fully healed yet, and a big amount of the pain is gone.

It was driving me nuts not to be able to post here, but as is normal for me, I forgot my password. Had to re-set it, so now I am back.

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I got the itunes thing fixed. Yay! Everything is all fixed and I can begin to get used to my new laptop. It is fun. Having only gotten a sprint card to give me high speed Internet in April, it is still a bit odd for me to be able to be on the computer before 5 PM, I usually waited til after business hours just in case doctors needed to call or other business. So when the phone rings and I am on the computer, it still startles me.

We leave for Myrtle Beach in a couple of weeks. I am so excited I could bust. We are planning what to take (food is top priority, travelling food, we will get the rest when we are down there). It has been in the mid 90s here with the humidity putting it at about 107, so who knows what it will be like there. Of course it is kind of backwards here, as this is August weather, so who knows what the rest of the summer will be like.

I have been fortunate enough to have wonderful opportunities lately. The Redskins Beach Blitz, the coming vacation to the Beach, getting a new ipod, and I also got DVR with High Def. I can't wait til football season, can't wait anyway, but really can't wait because I have heard that is when I will love the High Def. the most.

Anyway, I tape stuff all the time so that when my body switches the days from nights (this happens regularly), I have stuff to watch. I also have a subscription to Netflix which I usually catch up on during the weekend. This past weekend I watched "Untraceable" (scary in the fact that that could REALLY occur, if someone was that messed up), "27 Dresses", and half of "P.S. I love you". Good weekend, topped off by the season opener of the Lifetime Show "Army Wives". If you have not watched it, you really should. Sundays at 10, at least here near DC. It is awesome! And I completely was bowled over by the ending of the opener.

So, I figured I would come up with a way to occupy my time further in the middle of the night when I am up. I started this blog. It is proving quite helpful in making me see the good things in my life while everything else seems SO WRONG. But this is not the place for that discussion.

Suffice it to stay that I may not be blogging a year from now. My dexterity is getting bad quickly, so I may be here on earth, just unable to type.

One other great thing happened today and it is only Noon. Actually two things. An old friend that I had been trying to find for years (we went to college together over 10 years ago) found me!!! That is wonderful (hi David, if you ever find this). And I got a very nice comment offering help with the aforementioned itunes problem (kudos Tanner).

I hope that all of you have a great day and that you are able to stay cool and safe (for those who are suffering from flooding).

Until tomorrow...

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I got a new laptop a few weeks ago. Nice...Windows XP, I had heard horror stories about Vista. But some things are just so complicated to get switched over. For instance, iTunes. I got an IPOD a few months ago, and have had great fun putting more songs on it than I will ever listen to.

But guess what? When you change computers, there is some complicated process that you have to go through to get itunes to recognize you as the owner of the machine, because, though it downloads your library, you do not have access to it. So, when I plugged in my ipod, it took away all the songs I had ever purchased and all the other stuff. How annoying.

Supposedly tomorrow a family member is going to fix that. He found on itunes exactly how to do that. I will let you know if it works.

I had chinese food tonight. Yum! Dad's idea, though since Vietnam he cannot stand any of it. But sweet and sour chicken hits the spot every time.

My cousin came to visit today, and we laughed shared stories, talked about when we were little at Grandma's. Recently she was visiting someone and their home was very warm, that brought back memories to her of sleeping upstairs at my Grandparents' old farm house in the summer laying on top of the sheets in the blazing upper bedroom, hoping you could fall asleep, arms and legs stretched so far apart, hoping for any blast of breeze.

It was in the 90s here today, with the humidity making it well over 100. Yikes! Others told me, thank goodness I did not have to go out.

Well, ya'll have a good night.