Happy 4th of July!!

Another busy weekend of hopefully fun is upon us!!

Saturday we are going out to a friends ranch for an early 4th BBQ.  Then on Sunday we have the Volunteer Fire Departments 4th of July Celebration!  We are having a big BBQ, carnival games, a slip and slide for the kids, a cake auction, a 50/50 raffle and more.  The night will end with a HUGE fireworks display!  It should be a lot of fun, but it will be a lot of work too - LOL.

My parents got in for a visit on Wednesday evening from Florida.  They brought me tons of fresh fruit and veggies too!  I put up a bunch of peppers and onions in the freezer already.  We have pineapple and watermelon in the dehydrator right now.  I have boxes and boxes of fresh tomatoes!!  I plan on putting some of them up in the freezer too as they hit the peak of ripeness.  Oh and fresh cantaloupe and watermelons are just begging to be eaten.  I love it!!

Have a happy, safe, and fun 4th of July everyone!!

Bow Days!

This weekend we were part of Bow Days!!

Bow Days are the annual celebration of the founding of our town.  Medicine Bow is now 101 years old!  On Friday we had a community BBQ; Saturday was packed with a parade, games, and a street dance; and Saturday and Sunday was the Fast Draw Competition.  Needless to say we have been busy!

On Thursday I did all of the shopping for the BBQ.  Then on Friday I baked fresh rhubarb coffee cakes, got everything prepped and set up for the BBQ, and helped with the event itself.  Saturday early in the morning we helped get the games set up.  Then my husband and I were both in the parade.  He rode as Mayor and I drove a firetruck!  After that we whipped tons of whipped cream and I manned the booth to cream the Mayor!  A good old fashioned pie throw to raise money for the volunteer fire departments 4th of July fireworks.  We cleaned up after the games and pies then we went home and cleaned up to head to the street dance.  A local live band played and a good time was had by all.  Sunday we went off to church then headed over to watch some of the Fast Draw.  Now we are trying to recuperate some before the madness begins again next week...

The Flood is Receding!!

The water is going down!  I can't believe how happy I am about that simple fact.  Today we are going to attempt to help our friends retrieve the items that we couldn't get out when we had to emergency evacuate their house.  At the highest point the water reached almost up to the windows on their trailer which means that the water was about 4 feet high out there for quite a while.  They are going to rent another place here in town, but this time it is going to be one in town and not out on a ranch.  I am really glad that they were able to find another place here and that they will not be moving. 

Simple blessings in life seem so much more vivid in times of difficulty.

Flooding

Sorry that I have been missing in action again...
We are having major flooding here in our small town.  I have been out trying to help in any way I can with things since early Wednesday morning .  Keep us in your thoughts and prayers as the water keeps rising here and we still have not reached our projected high water even yet.

Back to the Grindstone

Now that my EMT class is over for the most part.  (I still need to schedule and take the NREMT test sometime in the near future.)  It is time to get back to looking for freelance work and more permanent work if possible.  I started looking for freelance work again last week.  Wow, the amount of work available as a freelance writer sure has decreased in the last few months while I was out of the market.  The price per article seems to have really went down too.  I know that we are in an economic slump and all but sheesh people still deserve to be paid a somewhat reasonable fee for quality work!  I have already gotten a few jobs though and have bids out on many many more... So, I am hoping for the best.  It would be wonderful if I could find enough work to be able to just stay home and do it at my own pace.  I really think that would be the best possible situation due to my health issues and so that I can still do my EMT work.

It is OVER!!

I can not tell you how happy I am to be able to say that!!  EMT class is over!!  No more driving, and no more stressing about the tests.  I passed without problem and am now just waiting for my certification card to come in.  Oh well I guess I have a little more driving and stressing to do as I am going to take the National Registry testing.  Not sure when that will be though...

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!  I hope that your Saturday didn't involve snow like mine did!!

May Already?

I can not believe that 1/3 of 2010 has already come and gone... Where has the time gone??

EMT class finishes up at the end of the month.  It all seems to still be going OK so hopefully no problems with me getting my card.  I start my mandatory ER time next week.  I will be doing two 12 hour shifts.  I am really hoping that they go smoothly!

Still not feeling great.  Actually at this point I think I would settle for just not feeling downright crappy.  I have been running an unexplained low grade fever for over a week.  I finish my latest round of antibiotics this evening though so hopefully getting off of them helps improve how I feel.  Sad isn't it that everything that "cures" something also makes me more miserable in some other way.  Hopefully this latest round of antibiotics did indeed kick that respiratory junk out, but I am not holding my breath that it did.  The more I study up on Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome the more I realize just how many of my health problems are related.  Connective tissue is everywhere from holding together joints, to skin, to nerves, to all  of the organs especially lungs and digestive tract.  Realizing that because my connective tissue is defective makes my body defective doesn't make the pain any less but it does help me to understand that this isn't something that I can control which opens a whole new can of worms to deal with emotionally of course. 

I have an appointment to see the Rheumatologist on the 14th.  I am debating whether or not to cancel.  In a way I want to go and to just spill everything out to her, but in another way I don't want to go because she doesn't listen to me or really do anything that helps.  She shoots down every idea that I have found based on my research and just throws another medication at me that makes me worse.  I need for her to realize just how bad things are getting...

In other news we had snow again last evening... I don't think that Spring is coming to Wyoming... I am beginning to wonder if Summer is ever going to come either!