**KELI**

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Registered: 07-24-2003
**KELI**
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Thu, 02-02-2006 - 10:17am

Hey you! Just wanted to drop a quick note to see how you are. I am SO thankful - got my last W2 last night so my taxes are FILED! Should have my refund next week - just in time to pay for engagement party, our rings, and the actual wedding, plus the stupid license.

Everything is a go (FINALLY). We are having friends/co-workers over on Friday the 10th for a little engagement party, then one of the guys we have gotten to be friends with is taking Mike out for a bachelor party :) Then, on the 17th we are getting married at mom's. VERY small and private ceremony by a judge. Afterward, we are going to leave Savannah with my parents and head out to a casino an hour or so away from their place. We reserved a jacuzzi suite for the night :) Cannot Wait!

SO! Things here are good. Mike worked a LOT this past week, which is REALLY nice...has already made almost $400 :) Really comes in handy this week! Stupid rent is due.

Was a relief to do my taxes - state return is enough to cover my past due on my car payments (haven't made one since Oct) and I have initiated direct deposit through work now so it will stay paid. We are going to pay off (or close to) all my credit cards so we can cut down on bills. Mike has and will be retaining possession of the cards so I can't put us in financial trouble. One more month and he will start his apprenticeship and we will be SO much better off financially - double the income - WOOHOO!!

I hope you are doing really well today - not manic but at that happy place near it :)

TTYL!
Love
T

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: th305899
Thu, 02-02-2006 - 10:55am

No, not feeling good at all...got about 3 hours of sleep...body is soooo tired...can barely stay awake...sinus issues...3 hours sleep in 4 days...omg.

Am so tired I don't know how my BP is doing...guess better. I just don't know. Need to be in bed right now, but I need to be here. Dunno why, am so not working. Not much leave time left, maybe 3 days til July 1...and i turned in my timesheet already saying i worked 8 hours today. UGH.

My rent is $300 short...Eric is working today to do an install, but the weather is BAD BAD with tornados on the way, so that's probably out...but i don't even care...landlord will either be okay with it or not...she usually is.

Really glad you are getting everything taken care of, and i know you can't wait...i'm so happy for you!

I've had so much caffeine and still am past exhausted.

I am going to start walking 2 days a week at a free gym here with a friend/coworker starting Tuesday, so that plus Topamax will help me drop some weight.

Anyway, better go.

Love you.

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In reply to: th305899
Thu, 02-02-2006 - 2:59pm

Well,

I made it thru the day, somehow! I actually am not as tired weirdly! Mood swings...

Anyway, the weather is AWFUL here...so dark its like night time...lightning and thundering...raining REALLY hard...temps in low 70s but feels cold to me. Ugh.

I am SOOOO going home, making hot dogs and tater tots and then taking a hot shower...getting in my bed...and watching tv the rest of the night and crashing early. OMG I cannot wait!!!

Need to write my landlord a note about the rent and pay that, but it can wait til tomorrow. I'm SO not going to my parents this weekend, period. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

Leaving here in 30 minutes, finally. So glad tomorrow is Friday.

Love you

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In reply to: th305899
Thu, 02-02-2006 - 4:51pm

I SO can't wait to get out of here today. I talked to the JP and finalized all the details for the 17th. Even emailed the guy directions to my moms. THEN, she gets the email I sent her and my sister and SIL...letting them know date and time etc.

OMFG! Talk about triggering. I haven't been this upset in ages. She called me at freaking work and had a tantrum that she just doesn't understand why we have to have it that day and time and why it has to be at her house (it DOESN'T have to be at her house - did that to make it easier for her to be there), and she is NEVER going to be able to get her house ready, and on and on and on and on.

I tried explaining to her why it was time (so we could get out to the Casino we are staying at early), and why I didn't want to move it to Saturday (there aren't any rooms avail at the Casino that night), and then THEN she says that she doesn't know if she can get off work and it is just so sad that she might not get to be there. WTF! She just took an entire WEEK off work because dad was fishing and she wanted to enjoy the house without him. GIVE ME A BREAK!

She had me feeling SO awful that I was on the verge of tears...at freaking work! She has a fit if we call her at work about ANYTHING! I finally told her I will talk to her about it more tonight. Lucky me.

I told Mike that it is too bad we don't already have the license...we would go do it tomorrow. Am FED UP. I wish I had never told them we were going to be getting married now.

Anywya, Mike calmed me down a LOT, so I am better. It is just awful that she called me to make me feel about about getting married. There is something so SERIOUSLY wrong with that woman.

I'll ttyl
T

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: th305899
Fri, 02-03-2006 - 8:05am

You should just scrap all those plans...go TO the JP (i know 3 couples who've done that) take whomever you wish WITH you, and do it...she just wants to complain and make it more difficult for you. Don't let her have that control...you know how she is...

I'm so sorry she did that to you like that...she wanted to upset you at work. I'm glad you finally told her to back off...

Well, I went home and rested, still a bit sleepy, but slept on and off for hours here and there, so that was much better. Am feeling much better too now that I'm on higher doses of Topamax for three days now...and it goes up again tonight to 300 mgs. So I think I will even back out again.

Going to mom's tonight...but I told them I would only stay tonight and into tomorrow afternoon...and then go home. Not doing the whole weekend thing anymore. They were okay with it, surprisingly. They know I've not been well though.

Think I'll leave around 2:30, so I can get home, get my laundry together (another reason I wanted to go, ha ha) get gas, and get there before dark...though its so much better with a newer more reliable car.

The weather still sucks here...dark and rainy and dreary through tomorrow all day...ugh. But better on Sunday, I think.

I am so sore! I must have slept harder than I thought.

Somehow, and I don't know how, I lost 10 pounds...musta been that whole ED thing I went through for two weeks...I'm eating again, thankfully. But when I start taking 300 of Topamax u know its gonna take away my appetite...I munch on pretzels during work...then eat dinner...gonna keep that up, or try to.

Probably gained a little back though when I started eating more again, so I don't wanna go back to that yo yo thing...you know how I am.

Well, I guess I better go...did nothing yesterday. Need to print budget reports and get started on reconciling...just to make the time go by really. :)

Feels better...not being manic or depressed...god, i wish it would last...maybe the new higher dose of Topa will help that...I know it does really help my cycling.

TTYL.

Love you.