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Dreaded Random Search Time

Yes boys and girls, it’s back to the random web searches since I am officially bored out of my mind these days. It’s the days of searches for all things bizarre like Symbol LS2208 and the like. I know, I really should find a hobby since that would be a lot healthier than these random web searches I entertain myself while bored but I can’t help it. I can remember a month ago when I’d kill for a free day and now said free days are driving me insane. Thank God school starts back this coming Monday. I’m ready to have something to do all day!

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Easy Times

Since I started at Highlands, I’ve greatly missed the days I had at my old technical school. Having to write three papers a week is for the birds I tell you. I miss the lazy days when my biggest assignment was recommended a project management software or some other online software to a pretend client since that was basically what we did in my classes at the technical college since my major had to primarily do with computers and the internet. Now, I am lucky if I have any time left in the day to browse the internet whenever I am not in school full time. I’m just trying to keep my chin up and remember that I only have two semester left after this Summer semester and I will at least have a degree to show for all of my hard work.

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Coming soon to a browser near you!

Kateness.nu as my personal domain is coming to a close. I have bigger and better dreams for a personal blog. Kateness.nu has seen me through some very troubling times and has always been there for me and in respect for the domain, I’ve decided to NOT get rid of it but implement it as a side blog. I will be posting whatever the hey I want to post here but I also have some side projects as well. I think Kateness.nu might turn over into a portfolio, web hosting site, and a blog all in one.

So what are my other projects you might ask? Well one is a weight loss blog in which I plan on documenting my journey and discussing anything and everything related to diet and exercise including side effects of diet pills and why a lifestyle change is much safer than another fad diet.

Also, I plan on opening a new and improved personal domain. I feel that a new start is what I need for my new life. I have changed in so many ways and I think I need to open up a new spot on the interwebz in order to honor the new chapter of my life. I absolutely adore married life and the livelihood of being a new step-mommy to the most amazing 10 month old (turned 10 months old TODAY) baby boy ever to grace this Earth even though I might be a little biased. Lol. I just feel like this is a step in the right direction and is much needed. I plan on getting rid of a lot of posts here as well.

Another project would be yet another domain but this domain is a place I can talk about my dorky side from television rants and raves to information on the latest games I’m addicted to like my renewed addiction to WoW!

So as you can see, Kate will be quite the busy bee so please bare with me as I transition into everything. Also, please note that I am unsure of when my personal blog will be back up but I can guarantee it will be sometime in June. I’m waiting on some more money to come through and then I will purchase the domain. I already have it picked out so that’s not the problem, lol. I have everything ready to go once I purchase the domain. So until then, I will be blogging here about whatever my little heart desires and will be taking posts from various websites!

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My Journey is just starting

One thing I am very passionate about overcoming has been my weight loss journey. I know I have pounds to lose in order for my future to begin and while it might scare me on one hand, it gives me a lot of motivation on the other. I know I can do it if I put my mind to it but the how has always been the thing that has confused me. There are so many options out there such as diet and exercise, weight loss pills, gastric bypass, and other fad diets. It is so easy to look for an easy solution that I found myself looking at alli reviews which scared the crap out of me. I don’t want to take a pill to lose weight and the fact I let my mind wander off in that direction is alarming. I want to lose my weight the old fashioned way by hard work and changing my lifestyle!

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Mommy’s dilemna

For those that don’t know, my mom has been deemed disabled since her car wreck back in 2001. She was in an on-the-job car wreck which not only ended her nursing career but also left her with a lot of health problems including chronic back pain. In fact, my mom is on a morphine patch because of the pain which means driving isn’t really an option since she is sleepy a lot and her brain is kind of fuzzy as she likes to put it. My mom hates the side effects of the patch so she goes longer than needed on changing it which she pays for but she says it makes her feel a lot better since she isn’t fuzzy and missing out on things. I love my mom to death and the fact she risks being in torturous pain just to know what’s going on and being “here” with us means a lot which is why I am helping her on her search for disability insurance. My mom has Medicare but that isn’t covering enough so we’ve been looking for a supplemental insurance especially for those that are disabled. It’s really hard because my mom isn’t retirement age so most supplemental insurances are for those that are at or above retirement age which is why we’re going the disabled route. I swear, I have a headache after looking at plan after plan and reading over premiums and deductibles and all that jazz. Why can’t insurance agencies just be up front and tell you what you need to know instead of making you go search for all of it?

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A sigh of relief

Now that the wedding is over and I have been a married woman for almost a month, I can finally sit back and relax. In fact, I can spend my days pondering about barcode scanners or whatever else my little heart desires. I have done away with the stress of wedding planning, finals, and school in general until June 8th. Even after June 8th I won’t have that much stress and it amazes me how I can sit around and do nothing and that is a-okay. I am not used to having so much free time on my hand and it’s been so nice yet so odd. I’ve spent a lot of time reading and catching up on my television. Kate has officially began her resting and relaxation period!

One project I plan on working on is fixing my blog up and getting into transition from accepting blog posts to just being an all out personal blog only! I can’t wait to have Kateness back to all Kateness and nothing else!

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I was tortured, seriously!

For a while now, I’ve had these bumps on my arms and my skin keeps breaking out over my body. It’s like chest acne but it’s always on my underarm area and sometimes on my chest area. Since I am getting married in like 10 days, I decided I should go visit my doctor about all of this. I also had a skin tag under my arm I wanted removed and was hoping she could put a stitch around it so it could easily fall off painlessly.

The bumps on my arms I’ve had for a long time and my past two doctors could never figure out what was wrong with me. They just kept putting me on antibiotics that caused me to gain weight profusely. So when my doctor took the scope/light thing they use to look in your ears, nose, and throat, I was quite surprised and feeling a little more confident about my doctor’s abilities. She actually looked into the bumps in my arms and told me I had this skin problem that causes my glands to get clogged and the itching/pain gets worse for the bumps when I get hot because my glands are so clogged that they can’t sweat. I was like holy cow, that totally makes sense! So now I have a shampoo to use on my whole body and then a lotion to put on my arms. She said the shampoo should unclog all my glands and put my skin back in tip top shape. I was very relieved because I don’t want to walk down the aisle with blotchy arms.

Next came my doctor talking about my skin tag under my arm. I seriously thought she’d put a stitch around it and then it’d just fall off on its own. Oh no, I was completely wrong. She told me she could cut it off and it wouldn’t hurt. Hey, no pain and it gets off immediately .. I’m all there. Damn, she was so wrong. It hurt so bad it’s not funny. First off, she used surgical scissors but she couldn’t get it all off with one snip so she had to go snip snip and then it was off. The first snip was painful enough but the second one about killed me. After it was cut off, blood started gushing out of the wound like someone was squeezing a lemon. That made me woozy and feeling a little sick because I didn’t want to bleed out. She put some stuff on there to make it stop bleeding but that didn’t work so she wanted to use Nitrate sticks. Holy crap, those things hurt seriously. I literally came up off the chair when she kept putting one on my wound. She had to go through five sticks before my arm would stop bleeding. Once it stopped I thought I’d have no more pain but I was wrong since she took this huge sticky bandage and covered my whole under arm. I didn’t think anything about it until we started trying to take it off five hours later. I definitely know I have a patch of no hair where the bandage was. I was crying a little when we took the bandage off but that wasn’t even the most painful part either. The most painful part was trying to get all the adhesive off that the bandage left. In fact, I still have adhesive on my arm because there was so much left on there and it didn’t want to come off. Ugh.

Hopefully since I am about to hop in the bath that all the adhesive will come off. All I know is that it hurts when your arm keeps sticking to the side of your body especially since its the under part of my arm and that is the most sensitive! I will definitely be rethinking having something else removed from my body but I do know it was worth it in the end. Now I can dance at my wedding and have fun without fearing that my skin tag will be in photos or somebody will say something about it! I now have a smooth arm and am glad! Well, I need to hop in the tub so I can go run errands with my mom. We have a lot to do so I will blog later. Until next time, later loves!