Out of My Head

Spring

Spring is here! Most people love the season. I would, except for my weather-triggered migraines :) This past weekend was HORRID! I was in Friday for shots, and back in on Monday. They pulled out all the stops and gave me Toradol and a cortisone shot...4 shots!!!! Good thing I have a big target area I guess. Anyway, today is the first day that I feel like doing much of anything. The peach tree by the garage is in full bloom. That's one of the things that attracted me to this little place...I always wanted a peach tree. Hubby has been doing some work out in the yard so that homey sort of thing is coming together.

We heard yesterday that one of my daughter's classmates was killed-one of his "friends" ran him down - alcohol was involved of course. My son knew him too - it is a small school system. I just don't understand why kids think they need to be drinking. It is just so sad-such a waste of a young person's life.

One of the members of our church is having his 101st birthday party this evening...so we will be celebrating his life, and mourning another.

I was going to tie this all together into something profound, but I can't.

Spring is here

Sorry...

that I haven't posted in awhile.

This week has been pretty good. Monday we drove down to Kansas to visit with friends and exchange bunnies. Even though it was a long drive there & back I really did well-no major mig to mess things up. We even got a little lost on the back roads but we got to see a lot of the countryside and Gale & I both really enjoyed it.

The rest of the week has been kind of a blur...it scares me sometimes how fast the time goes by. I must be getting old :)

Yesterday we went to Omaha so I could get a shot. There have been storms coming and going all week so my head hasn't been the best. I found out that Dr Kirchner's wife had passed away. It was very sudden and unexpected-he just found her dead in bed one morning. Nothing like that happening to someone to make you appreciate life, even though it isn't quite what you had planned it to be. So, tell everyone that you love how much you do, since life is such a fleeting, fragile thing and none of us know how long we have.

Saturday

Well, wouldn't you know it...I complain about weekend migraines and they aren't bothering me as much this time. Of course there is the very real chance that I will get thru the weekend-all the visiting and traveling, etc and then totally crash on Monday. I'm sure most of you understand what I'm talking about. I'm not going to worry about it anyway, I'm just going to take a little something to try & head off the one I feel coming on and get thru the day. My parents won't be here until this evening, so I can probably take a little nap. I groomed a big dog this AM, just an all over kennel clip, for a special client...the guy who suggested I stop working for someone else & open my own shop several years ago. This was at 6 AM or so at a convenience store where I had stopped for something to drink on my commute to Lincoln. Bear in mind I was waking up with migraines, injecting imitrex and popping a Vicodin and then driving an hour to work, hoping that it would all kick in by the time I got there. No wonder his idea sounded so good! Anyway, the shop didn't last long cuz the migs never went away and just got worse, but I still had clients that I groomed for and they refer new ones to me now & then. Anyway, I woke up without a migraine this morning, "Anna" got her haircut, and I got a $14 tip so all is pretty good in my little world right now. I went and bought some fat pants...I'm not going to lose all this weight overnight, and I figured that I probably shouldn't go to Amanda's concert or Dan's graduation in sweatpants. So, I feel pretty good about having something to wear now. It's pretty sad that buying fat pants can make me feel good, but I'm pretty easy to please. Hubby brought home flowers for me last night, too..no special occasion, just because. So that may have something to do with my good mood too ;)

Anyhow, it's a beautiful sunny day, not hot or humid enough to trigger my migraines, so I will be out with the bunnies. There will be more on that too-we have had quite a few various critters over the years. Now we are concentrating on showing rabbits. We got some many, MANY years ago for the kids to show, then discovered that we enjoyed it more than they did. Now we are working on 3 breeds- Polish, Silver and Lionheads. You can see some of them here:

www.webspawner.com/users/glcritters

well, I have dog hair to clean up and rabbit pans to clean, so I guess I'd better close this for now.

~hugs~

Welcome to my "Out of My Mind" blog

Welcome!

I have to admit, when Teri asked me if I would like to do a blog I figured no one would be interested...my life is pretty dull. But then I realized that I have been feeling the need to reach out in some way and maybe this is one of God's little nudges. So, here goes-

My name is Lynne, AKA "goatgal" cuz I used to raise the critters. I'm 42, happily married for half my life TO my better half, Gale. We have 2 kids; Amanda, 20 and a sophomore in collge and Dan, 18, who will be graduating from high school in May! (wow, do I feel old now!!)

I am currently on disability; mostly for migraines but also depression and a couple other "little" things. I also struggle with obesity, cuz hey- it's hard to feel like exercising when there's a railroad spike in your temple. But I need to start doing something, even if it's just walking the dog. Ya'll remind me of that, OK? I am on a medication, Lyrica, that has really helped me...I still have as many migraines, but the severity is usually less and my tryptan, Zomig, seems to work better.

Although I can't hold a "regular" job, I groom dogs here at home. Just a few and around my migraines-my clients all understand that I may have to cancel at the last minute. I've been grooming for 18 years now, and am a member of the National Dog Groomer's Association of America. I'm also certified for Pet Care by the American Boarding Kennel Association. I've worked as a veterinary assistant, waitress, cook, motel housekeeping-I even did a stint as a librarian assistant when I was at college. You might guess correctly that it was REALLY HARD for me to let go of the working thing...I still struggle with it. But I've come to accept that this is part of God's plan for me and I go from there :)

Well, I would write more but we are in the middle of a tornado watch, so my head isn't the best right now. We live in SE Nebraska-not really by choice, but ya gotta live somewhere! So, let's see how this blogging thing goes...take care!