Our puppy Jasmine has to have surgery because of trauma she sustained by the hands of a PetSmart groomer.  If you can help please do, it you can't I understand but please post my website where ever you can.  I have 3 weeks to come up with the money to save Jasmine's paw.  She will need another surgery in May/June after her 1st birthday.  Please boycott PetSmart. Please pass the link along.

I received this large box in the mail on Wednesday.  Inside was more drugs that I could ever imagine was needed for one IVF cycle.  OMG!!!  I have boxes and boxes of hormones.  I was a bit scared of all the needles, so I put the stuff in the fridge that goes in the fridge and put the box away so I don't have to look at it.  Scary stuff that is.  

There are times I feel like I am just floating. Almost as if I'm watching someone else live my life.  I have so much going on right now I'm not sure which way to turn.  The job is the same, nothing new.  Someday I'll get a super high paying job, it'll happen.  I learn a lot at my job, especially about interactions with people.  I've learned to keep my mouth shut, because what I say is repeated. I find that sad.  So I vent to Deb when I'm frustrated. Everyone gets frustrated and everyone has the right to vent.

I can finally add color and fonts on a Mac.

YIPPEEE and I Don't use myspace anymore LOL.  OOOH PINK.

Testing.. orange.

I am up early because we are in the ne a place and I am unpacking in my head. I woke up and I am reading my email when I got one from my credit monitoring company. Last summer I had to file bankruptcy due to my ex turning our car in. 23k was put on and my score dropped. I also had just a lot of debt from our life together. I have 3 scores given to me monthly. The day I filed it was 420. Today I am over 600!!! It has been less then a year and I have "good" credit. My goal is to catch up to deb and her amazing credit. She has never paid anything late. Her score amazes me! The new apartment is great. We set the bed up and unpacked a few boxes. I set up the TiVo and we watched tv. My entire body aches. We have too much stuff and it's time to toss crap out! I hired professional cleaners for Monday and carpet cleaning. I will miss our landlord. That's the update for now. I should go unpack.

WOW has life been busy. Lets start with the most amazing thing. On Saturday Deb asked me to be her life partner. She got me a ring with a pink sapphire!! OMG!! I'm still on cloud 9 and totally freaking out. I am in shock and awe. We talked about it, but I didn't think she was serious. She pulled it off quite well I must say and she proposed by making a web page for me. I posted the link on facebook: Here it is:http://web.me.com/kathie7/Site/Our_Love.html

The ring matches the necklace she bought me for Christmas.

Second News: We are moving this weekend. We are not moving far, just a few blocks north. We are packing. I am so sick of packing. You don't realize how much crap you have until you have to put it into a box. Tonight we finished the kitchen, but I still have the rest of the clothes and the bathroom. We have our own drug store in the hall closet. Let me tell you, we have every single hair care product there is to have. I have very moody hair!

Third News: We are going to Florida this Summer for 10 days. We are going to drive down.. spend time with Chris and Jo and the fam.. and take a trip to Key West. We are going to have our ceremony in Key West next Fall so we're going to go down there to see a few places and decide. I have a special night planned for Deb.. to give her the Fort Lauderdale experience.

Fourth News: I finally have my iPHone 3G working. Not on 3G network. However, quite the challenge to get it to work. I had to have Apple replace it to day so I could have an older one with the older software. Finally.. after 4 weeks I have a working phone. I have learned a lot about this little gadget and how the software works. Genius design. I just hate any company or cell phone manufacturer who locks their phones to their service. I think if I buy the phone I should be able to go to any service I want to.

So that's the basics of what is going on. We sold our living room furniture so we moved the mattress set to the living room. It's great having a bed in the middle of the living room. You spend a lot of "together" time LOL. I can't wait though to have things setup and be in our new home.

The breeder also emailed me about the puppies. Her female is in heat now and I should have my little baby by July. I'm going with a solid black (hopefully) Shih Tzu. The one I am going with is about 4-6 pounds.

OK Seriously thats it.. time to watch the end of House. The epiphemy is about to happen.

Wow ivan blog on the go with my iPhone? This is too cool. I have a 3G iPhone now!! I love it!! Ok post more later!!

I'm frustrated with Winter and yet I love the cold. We hit a low in January of -25 and they closed school for extreme temperatures. Yet today it was 64 out out and it will snow on Saturday. Talk about freaky weather. Perhaps global warming is real? I'm not sure anymore about all of that.

Work is going very well. We are so busy, but I love it. I'm learning a lot about the new iMac's and their issues. Like all products none are perfect.

Deb and I found an apartment and we're moving a whopping ten blocks north LOL! It's amazing and gorgeous. We are selling our furniture and the landlord is keeping his couches and TV armoire in the living room. It's included in the rent. We learned a lesson buying furniture from Wickes. It's like Rooms to Go in Florida. Low quality for a high price. Thankfully we'll pay it off soon. We are keeping our bedroom set, I love my bed. We move end of March. The apartment is much larger then ours and includes parking as well. Our landlord is awesome.. and bonus... no screaming child next door.

We also bough ourselves a new 42" HDTV. It's so purdy. Pam got the same TV and she sold me on it. I hooked up surround sound, TIVO, and I purchased a Mac Mini for it. I love Tivo. It's so freaking cool. I can download movies and shows from the Tivo to the Mac Mini and burn them to DVD or save them on the hard drive. So I had to buy a 500 gig hard drive for the Mac Mini. That will be my project for this weekend. So we are packing and preparing for the move. We are very excited. I have loved my high rise, but it's time to go to a smaller building. This one is an 8 story and we're on the 6th floor. We have a view of Wriggleyville. That works for me. There is also a roof top deck and they let you have BBQ's on it in the Summer time. They provide the grill too!! Even better, I love to grill and have people over. The apartment is designed for entertaining.

I have two tests to take next week. I'm taking Support Essentials 10.5 and Server Essentials 10.5 I hope to pass them both. Then onward and upward towards my ACSA.

Otherwise .. I'm sick yet again. The joys of working in a school. I have another head cold. I went home early today to sleep and rest. Tomorrow though it's back to work.. with my box of tissues in hand.

What a great movie. I just learned all about fast food and how it will kill you. They even went in to how chicken nuggets were made. I have been trying to avoid all processed food as much as I can. Funny thing is most restaurants are processed foods and they just warm it up. They went into addiction and how you can get addicted to the food even though it's bad for you. Your brain will tell you that you want it. I use to eat fast food once in a while. Then it was a monthly thing. I only ate Wendy's because it was the good fast food. Then Deb looked up the burger I use to eat. 26g of fat in one burger. I've been trying to change my attitude about food and the LapBand. I am frustrated with it and it's entirely my fault. I throw up my lunch daily. I just need to eat software foods for lunch. I'm trying to change my attitude. I have 6 weeks to fit into a suit I need to wear for work. I'm determined. So we're back to the gym this week and back to exercising. We can do this. I'll blog more later.

This past week has been quite the Winter Wonderland here in Chicago. I'm not use to this weather, that is for sure. I've also been super busy at work! My job ordered the new MacBook Pro's and we all know how much I LOVE new gadgets. Well they are in the boss's office until we deploy all the computers that need to be deployed. :( So sad, because I'd love to have mine now. I'll be patient though.

On Tuesday a snow storm hit the city right at rush hour. It took Deb over two hours to get to my job to pick me up. Normally I would have just taken a bus and met her at home, but I was working late that night anyway. We went and ate dinner by my job as we're both on this Asian food kick and it still took us an hour to get home. It normally takes about ten minutes to get home. The ride to work Wednesday was cold, but otherwise uneventful.

Last weekend Deb decided she wanted to bake for her office and give everyone buckets of treats. We had a total of 25 buckets to make for her office and mine. I was covered in chocolate from head to toe and I love chocolate. We made travis mud, home made peppermint patties, cherry dream bars, and chocolate covered cherries. We had a blast doing this and our kitchen showed the evidence.

The rest of the week has been very uneventful. Just preparing for our trip to Texas on Tuesday.

I went to the Endocronoligst on Monday and she put me on Thyroid meds. This is the first time I've ever had anyone question my thyroid. I started the meds last night and also a new drug called Glumetza for my PCOS. So I hope this does help.

I started this four hours ago and forgot about it.. so I'll post it for now.

In my research I have fallen in love with the Newfoundland. They are just amazing dogs. Living in Chicago and on the lake this is the perfect dog for us. I have contacted a few breeders and have received such warm words and advice. We do need to find an apartment that allows big dogs though, so that is the challenge.

OK More later.

Oprah had a show on yesterday about Sex and female sexuality. The Dr. on the show, who is here in Chicago, spoke about how women take control now. We make all the decisions and we decide everything. This in turn infantizes the man and makes him dependent on the woman. Thus making him less attractive to the woman. I never realized that women do this!! OMG. I was so guilty of this. I kept track of everything. I handled everything. Money.. bills.. the house the dogs.. where everything was.. all his crap all my crap. No wonder I got so burnt out! In this relationship I play the other part.. I must have made the change subconsciously because I don't remember even making this change. Deb pays the bills, controls the money, handles everything. I love it. I love having the person in my life that handles it all for me. It doesn't make me feel less of a person. I am still very much head strong and controlling, just not in my relationship. I don't want to think about money.. deal with a bill or anything. However, if she needs to discuss finances I'm very open to it. I will discuss it and come up with a plan or whatever it is. We have very open discussions about money and we live on a budget. I needed this and I think everyone does.

The other thing in this episode was that mot women can go a long time without sex. She said it's something else on our "to do" list. The man shows a little of affection and if the woman responds, he thinks it's sex right away and that puts pressure on her. One of the homework assignments was to kiss for 10 seconds and not have sex. It takes the pressure off the woman to have sex and she'll naturally want it. Also, most women who have a low sex drive is because of hormone levels and that after you have children or as you get older you don't realize the hormone issue.

So why am I blogging about all this. I know a lot of women and I think everyone should watch this episode. I found part of it on you tube. It was a great show to watch and very educational. Women have it tough. I man can get turned on in 3-5 minutes and a woman takes 13-20. Imagine two women!

Deb and I joined the YMCA last week. Today we are going for a beginners Yoga class. I have always wondered what Yoga was. I guess today I will find out.

My head cold has moved down to my chest so now I cough. I'm taking medicine, but every time I start this it turns to Bronchitis. Deb did find a new doctor for us as a primary who has late hours. I haven't seen him yet but she has.

Halloween was nothing exciting. I decided that there is a need for plus size costumes that are not slutty. Hello, no one wants to see THAT much of me in PUBLIC. Lets make it a witch and we'll put size 24 on the package. When you open it up, you are lucky if it's a size 14. Maybe next year I'll dress up, but not this year. Plus I was still feeling sick so it was best for me to stay home. The kids did do a parade at school this year. I was asked to take photos and they used a lot of mine on the website!!

Yesterday we went to China town to get Nicole a birthday present. She knows what it is! We went to the fake purse store. I did good.. I got he a nice D&B for $20. We stopped at a place for dinner and it was by far the best Chinese food I've ever had. It wasn't greasy and Americanized. I'm not much of a fan of Chinese food.

Today we are finishing my bedroom project! I took all our clothes out and got rid of the larger sizes. I condensed our closets into one since we share our sweaters. My closet is changed to storage only. We can finally have a place for all this crap I've been wanting to put away.

I'm thinking of starting a section on here about iPhones. Kat's tips and tricks LOL. I find this little gadget just amazing. Since I unlocked mine I can do themes. I put a Windows Vista theme on there just to be funny. It looks and acts like Vista, except it doesn't crash! Have you seen the new Mac/PC Commercials? PC is putting all this money into advertising and nothing into "Fix Vista" pile! I don't deal to much with Vista, but when the kids have it I say good luck. I have it on my laptop under VMWARE, and it's OK, but I just don't like it. I don't like the way it looks. I think it's hysterical of the features they stole from Apple. (Gadgets LOL) So I'm now learning Linux. I have it installed on my laptop so I'm dual booted. From there.. I have no idea what I am doing. Back to the iPhone. I learned you can take screen shots if you press the top and home button at the same time. I just posted my Windows Vista one under iPhone pics. I have a Dallas Cowboys theme as well. I also got Picture messaging application so I can receive pic messages. It works too!

OK enough tech stuff.. gotta make sure deb is up.