Year In Review 2006 Part 1

Jan.

Started out depressed about my health conditions.  I have a lot of support, so it didn’t last too long.  I tried to get back on track with sleeping on a schedule and eating better, I’m still working on that.  I even started a food journal, which I think I’m going to do again.  I also updated my website for the first time in a long time.  Karen’s boyfriend at the time was injured at work, which led to Karen getting fired to leaving her job to take him to the ER.  At the end of the month, I had spleen pain which warrented an investigation.  Karen bought me a knitting loom to distract me.

Feb.

I started the month sore and dejected over the non-results of the tests for the spleen pain… the damn thing still hurts too.  I also kept getting sicker and sicker, despite being clinically ‘fine’.  Rob started working for a major home improvement chain, I stuck to my job with a major pet store chain… and still hate it.

March

One of my co-workers got promoted to being my manager and work got worse.  I made some awesome toys for my own critters (you can see them here) … and started thinking about selling them.  On the 20th I had surgery to remove a giant cyst from my right wrist.  Surgery was a great success.  I started forgetting about keeping my food log / working on sleep and all that.

April

Rob’s brother, my brother in law, who truely took the role of a brother to me, became gravely ill.  On the 3rd, we choose to let him go.  Shortly afterwards, the fighting over where to hold funerary services began.  Eventually it was decided to take him ‘home’ to Chicago, to be buried with his mother, even though it is so very far from the new life he had made with his fiancee.

Panzer, my old dog who had been living with my uncle, also came to live with us.

May

Our roommate kicked her boyfriend out, he was chatting online in an inapropriate manner with a 15 year old.  He was also watching her on her webcam, but insists that he was just talking and he talks to everyone like that… that really dirty stuff he said was just a joke with another guy… yeah, right.  I refocused on my pursuit of health.  I got the bills for my surgery and had a little fit, my spleen still hurt too. … work continued to suck… I continued to not be able to get a new job and started to think about how nice it would be to stay at home part time.  Eventually, it was decided that I just can’t handle working my current job full time and I cut back to part time.

Part 2 to come later.