I Feel Like a Pin Cushion

So here it is the last day of 2008.  All in all it’s been a pretty decent year.  There’s been ups and downs, but I have to say that it was definitely better than last year. 

Spiritually I have grown a lot and I’m looking forward to strengthening my relationship with God over the next year.  I look forward to what He has in store for me. 

Financially things could definitely be better, but I’ve learned not to stress on our financial circumstances nearly as much as I used to.  We are going to be fine when it comes to finances and we have plenty of resources should things ever get to where we need help.

Healthwise… well I started out the year with a kick.  Lost 20 pounds in the first 6 weeks.  And then… meh.  I always tend to get off to a great start, but once I see good results, I stop.  Not sure what’s up with that, but it’s something that I plan on working on for this next year.  And really now I won’t have anymore excuses due to the fact that our apartment complex has built a gym area down by the pool.  And yes there is an Elliptical.  I’m pumped and ready to go. 

I’m also still at this very moment trying to heal from the whole deal with my ear.  In fact I just got back from the hospital a little while ago.  Thanks to the whole thing with my ear, I’ve only worked 2 full days of work over the past 2 weeks.  I went in to day for a follow up visit, only to be told that the doctor was going to numb me up (which is the worst part) and make the hole where they cut me open on Christmas Eve bigger.  Yeah… it sounds gross.  And it is gross.  I have to keep packing gauze in this hole in front of my ear so that all this nasty fluid can continue to drain out of my ear.  Whenever I get the anesthetic shots I have to take pain meds afterward because once the numbness wheres off I feel ever single place that they’ve stuck me at.  Not so nice really.  They’ve changed my antibiotics twice now.  And I have two different kinds of pain meds to choose from, Vicodin or Percocet.  I haven’t had to take the pain meds much up until today.  I popped two Percocet so that I won’t feel the effects of the shots when the numbness goes away.  I guess once all the infection is gone and I’ve healed up, I’m going to be having surgery on the area (probably in February).  They’ll remove the "pit" so that the abscess/cyst will be much less likely to reoccur again.

Tonight we are going to a New Year’s Eve party.  A couple from our church is throwing it, so I’ll get to catch up with everyone.  I’m sure most people would think that spending New Year’s Eve with people from church couldn’t possibly be a great time.  Well you’d be surprise how much fun we actually have when everyone gets together.  I’m looking forward to it.  We are going to take Mirielle so that we can start celebrating her U.S. birthday early.  Supriya is bringing a birthday cake and we’ll sing and show her a great time.

And tomorrow morning we are going to pick her up and take her out to breakfast.  I need to go out and buy her a photoalbum for her birthday.  It’s what she has been wanting.  I can’t go anywhere now though until Jacob gets home since I’m now nice and high on some Percocet.  LOL

And with that… I’m off to enjoy my unscheduled day off.  I’ve been watching the first season of Roswell on hulu.com.

I hope everyone has a blessed safe and happy new year!