Counting the days

Our vacation keeps getting closer and closer!

REALLY looking forward to being off work for TEN DAYS, and not for doctors or surgery or anything nasty.

It's been a very long 2 years.

There really isn't anything much to report this week.  It's just been a normal, relatively stress free week.  There's been a little stress at work, but it's manageable, and I will adapt.

(They've instituted quotas, and given me accounts receivable to work.  I am an expert at a/r, but have never had to meet a quota, which is absurd.  However, since our corporate-wide budget did not allow for anyone to get raises this year, they are blaming poor collections.  Like it's our fault that medicare and medicaid lowered their allowable payment percentages.)

The weather moderation continues, and we have the windows open this morning.  It was in the 60s when we woke up!  SO nice.

We'll probably have to close them later, but for now, it's nice to air out the house.

My sister and brother in law are on vacation this week, kind of taking a 50th anniversary tour of our one big family vacation in 1966.  They're currently in Colorado, and will be riding the narrow gauge trains up in Silverton and Durango, then they will go over the mountains and down the other side, and head south into New Mexico.

It's amazing, but I remember parts of that trip in 1966, even though I was only 4.

I am happy that my brother and sister have both been back to these places multiple times over the decades.  I have never gone back, partially because my ears don't work.

I have eustachian tube dysfuction.  My ears don't equalize with altitude changes, and it is very painful, and takes days to resolve.

For the same reason, I have never gone up in the Sears tower.  When I was little, we went up in the Handcock building, and the pain in my ears was terrifying.  It was the first time anything like that had happened, and it scarred me for life.

When I was 4, however, it was before my severe double ear infections that came in grammar school, and I had no problems with going up in the plane, and driving through the Rockies.

I have had my ears tested, and the ENT said that the only option was to get tubes put in, like they do for kids.  He said that it would be temporary, though, and I'd have to have the procedure re-done over and over, because the tubes eventually fall out.

Oh well.

Maybe some day they will develop a more effective and permanent procedure.

In other news, my brother is in Texas, taking his step son to college.  There's a chance he might blow through OKC on the way home.  I hope we get to see each other.  If not, though, I will be up home in a couple of weeks.

Today is all about cooking and listening to music.... Hope you have a good Sunday, too, gentle Reader.