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at 1/19/2012

That picture frame directly across the room from me right now.. is crooked. And thus it became the title to this post as I had nothing else popping into my mind. Mental note.. fix that the next time I venture out from beneath these warm covers.

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I am hoping that before too long I can get into the habit of updating this more than once or twice a week. Right now though.. I am a very busy person. I work. I work out (three days a week). I eat. I do schoolwork. I sleep. Oh and I wrestle, feed, walk, yell at the dog too. So you know.. no time. HAHAHAH. I lie. I'm just feeling boring lately.

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The blood doctors nurse called me this morning (sidenote.. they always call on my morning to sleep in since I don't work Wednesday mornings.. how thoughtful.) The most recent round of tests came back NORMAL. See what I mean, my blood was just being difficult. So as of right now at this moment I am diagnosing myself as suffering from hypercoagulation. My blood clots too easily. I have a gene mutation. I will need to see a high risk doctor when it comes to having children. The end.

Whew, glad to close that chapter.

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I'm in the middle of my first week of meal planning. So far I have cooked three of the recipes that I had planned. This chicken cordon bleu chowder for lunch on Monday, baked honey ham sandwhich for lunch yesterday and chicken enchiladas for dinner yesterday.

Monday for dinner I just had leftovers (more on that later..). Today for lunch I had leftover chowder and for dinner I had Texas Roadhouse with a friend. =) That little pan of enchiladas is actually the smaller of two pans I ended up cooking... so I have a whole giant pan of enchiladas ready to be reheated. But they were AMAZING. I may ask permission to share the recipe with you all (it's my cousins). Regardless, so far so good on the meal planning. Almost time to sit down and look at next week.

Piston approved of the chowder. =)

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So I had leftovers on Monday because.. I did day one of week one of couch to 5k. I had originally read about this on the former Annoyed Army Wife's turned A Well-Adjusted Pessimist's blog. So when I got my iPhone in May it was an app I couldn't wait to download. Fast forward to last summer when I originally downloaded it after Rob deployed.. and then fast forward again to Monday when I did my first workout. Holy beeeeeeeeeeejesus. It was such a good workout. Only 30 minutes but I was beyond worn out.. My hips were so sore on Tuesday morning that I had to postpone the day two workout. I also had some knee pain so when I did the day two workout after dinner tonight, I did it on the elliptical instead of the treadmill. I would do this outside. But it's winter. I cringe at the thought of waiting on the dog to muster up a poop session (truth, I apologize..), thus I am not RUNNING in this. Anyway, we shall see what tomorrow brings regarding pain. This workout wasn't AS bad as I conveniently placed a magazine over the time and watched/read captions of a TV show AND listened to music. It flew a tad bit faster. Feeling better already y'all.

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Remember that weekend project? IT'S DONE. =) Haha it is so funny to me that I can classify cleaning as a weekend project. But it's the truth. Rather I spent Friday and Saturday thinking about doing it and Sunday actually doing it. Whatever, it's done. I think I consider it a project because 9 times out of 10 it involves some re-organizing re-decorating. This weekend was the same way. I ended up redoing one of the main walls in the living room. I found this awesome shelf on Craigslist for $25. And it looks perfect next to the TV. I also added some more pictures above.. it looks better Still kind of incomplete though. I guess more than anything it bothers me that the living room is a giant mesh of brown and black furniture.. with red accessories. Oye.. next place, we WILL fix that. I'm thinking all black furniture at this point. Since our bedroom set is all brown. Anyway enough of me dreaming.. here's proof of how marvelous it looks:

Oh and don't mind the blanket in the middle of the living room floor.. that's normal. It's P's naptime blanket. He has an old comforter in our bedroom at the foot of the bed.. he's just spoiled like that. But see what I mean about it looking incomplete? There is another giant picture not shown in this image but there is some awkward space between the mesh of frames and the two bigger ones. I think I have something that MIGHT fix this.. we shall see though. Oh well I am very content with how much cleaner it looks. Now if only it was not an apartment that I was renting so I wouldn't have a problem painting.. so I wouldn't have to paint back over it in six months. Okay.. enough enough.

OFF OF HERE I GO. =)

Always,

Amanda

That picture frame directly across the room from me right now.. is crooked. And thus it became the title to this post as I had nothing else...

at 1/10/2012

at 1/05/2012

Two days ago I was excited for 2012 and what it may or may not have in store for me and my little family. Even my 2012 horoscope reflected some GREAT things...

"Communication plays a vital role in your romantic life, especially during the first half of the year. If you let your words drip like honey, you'll be amazed at how many opportunities for love open up. This year, you're being tested to only speak and think from a place of love, rather than one of fear and paranoia. When you jump to conclusions and react accordingly, you're bound to create serious damage to your love life."

Source: Yahoo.

How true is this? The first half of the year my hubby will remain deployed... so all we have to stay close is communication. Since it is a deployment.. I have to keep my fears out of the conversation, just like my horoscope says and refrain from doing my natural first instinct... jump to conclusions. Let's just say the first part pretty much nailed it. As did the second part...

"Get all your writing and other important correspondence finished before June, because the second half of 2012 could have you consumed in a hunt for a new home."

Source: Yahoo.

Once Rob returns home we will be off to the next adventure. Which will include a new home IN THE SECOND HALF. Goodness.. pretty right on this year. =)

And then Tuesday morning happened...

When I got to my car to head to work, I did what I almost always do... go to the trunk to get a bottle of water out (hey I live on the third floor! I'm not lugging that shit all the way up there...) to drink with my breakfast on my drive in.. oh hey surprise.. key won't open trunk. In fact the lock was stuck in the opposite direction of open. And the lever inside the car you ask? When you pulled it nothing happened.. it was like nothing was connected to the lever. Greattttt... As a result. I had to get up today (on my morning off mind you!) to drive my car to the auto shop and meet up with my Mom to borrow a car (since hubby's car is dead as a door nail battery wise.. oops.) On Friday I will pay nearly $200 to get my car out of ~~jail~~ the shop. Not exactly a positive start. Buuuuuut, that's not all...

The Friday before Christmas I went in to see a blood doctor about my hypercoagulation disorder (blood clots too much/easily). I had gotten some blood work done at my primary doctor and she had referred me to this guy to look over some of the things that had popped up. The general moral of the story is I have an inherited mutation from either my Dad or Mom's side (both have a history of blood clotting) that obviously makes my blood clot easily. This will become a factor when Rob and I go to start a family. I will have to be on blood thinners and more than likely see a high-risk doctor. Okay, not that bad. We can handle that. I also tested positive for this Lupus Anticoag (not to be confused with the cancer...). Which is something to be concerned about if you test positive for it more than once and have a miscarriage and a blood clot. Obviously I haven't had the last two. So he ran some more blood work on me before I left that day to see if I tested for it again. Then he sent me on my way with no follow up appointment or anything. Today I got a phone call from a nurse/someone in his office saying that my blood work came back and I tested negative for the Lupus Anticoag (yay!!!) but some other things had shown up that he wants me to come back in and get further testing done on. That's it. That's all they said. When they called to schedule she said he wanted me to come in as soon as possible. I set up an appoint for Friday at 1. And I get to play the waiting/guessing game until then. I may or not be super stressed out about this as I have zero idea what he saw that has him concerned..

And one last thing while we discuss this fantastic start to 2012... Rob is set to be done with his enlistment in 2014. Which leaves us with just under 2 years when he gets back this year. The other day the possibility of another deployment within that 2 year period came up.. this time not to the relatively safe Kuwait, but it would be to somewhere far more dangerous. Like Afghanistan. I'm trying not to think about this as this is the military. One day we could be preparing for another deployment and the next we are headed to a non-deployable unit. But lets face it, I can't help it.

So far no good 2012.

I'm hoping things start looking better..

Like tomorrow.

Anyway, hope everyone else is having a fantastic start to this crazy year. Tomorrow it's supposed to be like 60 degrees. I'm pumped. Minus the fact I will be inside working all but two hours of daylight time. Being an adult sucks some times. =)

Two days ago I was excited for 2012 and what it may or may not have in store for me and my little family. Even my 2012 horoscope reflected ...

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I just realized.

Developments.

You better shape up 2012.