Tishia Lee

We just had some excitement here that we find rather comical now that it’s over and done with. First before I go into this story I have to mention that B & S and their daughter were up North for a weekend several weekends ago and when they came home they found that a raccoon had found it’s way into their house. It made it’s mark by entering the fireplace and leaving black soot all over the carpeting, on furniture & even on the wall. I didn’t mean to laugh when she told me the story because I can only imagine what a mess that was to have to clean up.

That story is even more comical now after what happened tonight.

B ordered pizza for dinner because by the time we got home from her daughter’s cheerleading practice it was late. After everyone got done eating we sent the kids outside to play (Caleb, K & one of K’s friends). As the kids came inside from playing outside they were standing by the door & the next thing we know the kids are looking down by Caleb’s foot. B and I were sitting on the couch so we couldn’t see what they were looking at. Then B leans over a little & she thought it was a big spider (like a tarantula even though we knew that wasn’t possible) because all she saw was this mound of black. Then K’s friend yells BAT. The kids scramble away from the door & then there is this bat flying towards me as I’m still sitting on the couch (I had a bit of a delayed reaction…LOL). I’m pretty sure I’ve never moved that fast in my life or screamed that loud.

Caleb dived to the floor, the girls ran downstairs & locked themselves in the bathroom. B and I are running around screaming & we take off out the front door. We stand there in her lawn with the door wide open hoping this dumb bat is going to fly back out the way it came in. Her neighbor pulls up & is laughing at us & says isn’t S getting it? B is like no S isn’t home right now. I figured he’d come over and come to the rescue. I mean hello there are 2 hysterical woman on the lawn you would think that any NORMAL man would come save us (oh yeah men AREN’T normal). But no of course not. Instead he makes a joke to B about her house being a wild kingdom.

Eventually the bat did fly out on it’s own. And now we are laughing about it but man it wasn’t funny when I was sitting there and a bat was flying at my head!

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If you read my recent post I told you about having 2 days of he** because of a virus infecting my computer. That issue got resolved and my computer worked for a little while. Today I got in about an hour worth of work and that was it. Once again I was without a working computer.

So on top of everything else I’m now about 4 days behind on work and it’s the end of the month which means it busy for me anyways because of trying to get projects completed before end of the month so I can send invoices. I’ll be pulling some all nighters the next couple days to try and get caught up. Seems how I’m still having sleep issues it won’t matter if I’m up all night working anyways.

I am currently running a backup on my system right now. Kelly told me about Mozy and for $4.95 a month I can backup unlimited amounts of data. $5.00 a month is so worth it. I don’t ever want to go through the whole virus thing again and fear the loss of all my data. Not a good feeling.

So anyways….I’m back up and running once again after about 12 hours (I went down at 10:30am and just got back up and running and it’s now 10:53pm).

Tish

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The past couple days have been heck. My computer got a virus yesterday. My anti-virus software caught it but somehow it still got installed on my computer. And get this - it was an antivirus software virus. It was crazy and a big ole mess.

Last night and this morning things weren’t looking good for software/data recovery. But thankfully B’s husband S has a total computer geek friend that builds and works on computers so he was able to help S get my computer fixed. And it was all done without me losing any software or data (thank God!!!!!). The only thing I lost was 2 days worth of work.

I did learn a very valuable lesson throughout the past couple days and this ordeal - there’s no exceptions for not backing up my computer anymore. I have too much to lose to use the excuse of not knowing how to do a system backup. I’ve never been so freaked out and sick to my stomach as I was over the last couple days. Thinking that I had lost everything was the worst feeling in the world. All I can say is thank goodness I was down here when I got the virus and had someone to help fix it. S is going to teach me how to do back ups so I can start doing them on a regular basis!

And for whatever reason this whole incident just had to happen to add to all the other stress going on in my life. When it rains it pours is so true!

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One thing that I LOVE about working from home is the freedom and flexibility it offers. I can get up and go and do whatever whenever I need to and this is one of those instances. If I had a laptop I’d be even more free than I am right now.

But anyways…

I haven’t hid the fact that I’ve been going through a lot lately and I still am. Things are going so/so. I was doing really good. Making lots of progress. Moving forward. Getting my head on straight. Feeling better…even finding joy in life once again. But I’ve had a minor set-back. I’m trying to do my best to keep my chin up, grin and bear it and work through it but it’s a lot harder than I expected it to be (I found something out Saturday night that I totally WASN’T expecting and it threw me for a loop big time!). As silly as it sounds for a 33 year old independent woman to say - I just can’t be alone right now. I don’t expect that to make sense but for my own mental sanity I just can’t be by myself.

Being a WAHM gives Me the Freedom & Flexibility I Need:

That brings me to my point of this post and back to the freedom and flexibility of working from home. Yesterday I was having a serious emotional breakdown. Worse than I’ve had in a long time and I called my best friend and told her look I can’t be myself right now I’m worried about me (doesn’t that sound kind of funny?) can Caleb and I stay with you guys for the week? She called her hubby & called me back and was like yep not a problem when ya coming…I was like right now. She was like ok great can you watch K for me this week. I was like yep no problem. It makes more sense to leave her here with Caleb and I than to send her to daycare the rest of the week anyways. Read the rest of this entry »

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is exactly what I need!!!!! Not only have the last couple days been rough because Caleb and I have both been sick with the flu I’ve just been stressed out about lots of different things and I’ve been dealing with different emotional things too. I was getting a little paranoid with both of us being sick and my dad’s wedding coming up (it’s Saturday). But I’m finally starting to feel better and back among the living. Caleb’s getting better too.

My dad called last night to let us know that we had a room at Shanty Creek Resort for both Friday and Saturday night if we wanted it (hello who would turn down an opportunity like that?). I couldn’t get excited about it last night because I felt too sick to care. But today I’m like oh yeah this is gonna be great! Shanty has a couple different resorts - Cedar River Village, Schuss Village and Summit Village, we’ll be staying at Summit Village.

We’ll get to the resort at about 5pm Friday evening so we’ll have several hours that night to hang out at the pool and relax. Then Saturday we have to get up kind of early because the wedding is at 10:00am (it’s a small ceremony on my dad’s fiancé’s property - she has a beautiful place). They aren’t having a reception so to speak - everyone will just hang out at the house and visit, etc for awhile. So we’ll probably have TONS of time to veg out at the resort Saturday afternoon/night! And then obviously check out is Sunday morning and we’ll head home after that.

Now too bad I couldn’t afford some of their spa treatments - I’d really be in 7th heaven if I could get afford to enjoy some of those experiences. I think if I had the money I’d go with the Green Sea Clay - This will soothe, stimulate and detoxify your skin and body. It contains rich concentrations of minerals and nutrient-rich algae from the sea. During the self-heating wrap, a scalp and face massage is done to enhance relaxation. Too expensive for me ($80 for 50 minutes which isn’t really that bad I just can’t afford the $80). But I’m not going to complain because 2 days in a nice resort (you bet I’ll be taking TONS of pictures…LOL) lounging by the pool and just chillin will be oh so worth it.

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