Reflections

Am I loving it or what?
VA Tech… 4-0, #4 in the country. It looks like we’ll be fine until either the West Virginia game on Wednesday, October 22 (they play football on Wednesdays now?), or until we play Miami on November 1st. I don’t know how we’ll end up, but for now I’m happy.
Dallas Cowboys… 2-1, victories over the Giants and the Jets… next Sunday, we get Arizona at home (Emmitt returns to Big D). I’d hoped that Parcells would make the ‘boys better — and there’s still ways to go — but this far already? Hell, we can go 5-8 for the rest of the year, and STILL do better than last year. I’m hoping for 8-8 or better, but next year, I’m banking on the playoffs!!!

I’ve got less than a week of being medicated by anti-depressants. There was a point in the past week where I wasn’t sure I could handle it. But right now, I think I’ll be fine. On Monday (and somewhat before then, too), I had that whole “anxious feeling” in the back of my head, and in the pit of my stomach. There were times where I had to calm myself down. But I never hit a level of panic.
And by Wednesday, there were no feelings of anxiety. So, I’m guessing that I’ll have to go through the same thing once more, about a week after I stop taking any meds. But, since I got through this without too much problem, I’m confident that there’ll only be a slight adjustment period there too.
So, when is my last night of meds? This Monday night!!! And is anything interesting happening on Tuesday, my first med-free day? Ummm… let’s see… Johnny Lang at the 9:30 Club!!! What a reward!

Well, the hurricane’s gone… Isabel’s left us. So, how did things go? Ummm… not too badly.
Power went off around 6:45 on Thursday night. When I got to work the next morning (before an 8 am emergency Response Team meeting — 8 am? UGH!!), the power was back on, but the water was off. But at 9:30 the same morning, the electricity went off… and it has stayed off. But the phones worked…. for a few more hours.
Well, as of 7:30 Saturday night, still no electricity. But the water is back on there! They’re saying that the electricity should be on by morning… we’ll just have to see, huh?
At home? Power came back on at 9:50 Friday night. Water was restored sometime earlier in the day.
This has been a wierd storm with electricity being out, because while our power was out, there were people with lights on LESS than a mile away. And at work, Foxchase still has power… again less than a mile away from work!
Got lucky, though… while putting stuff back out on my balcony, I notice that a huge branch had broken off and hit the balcony over and down a floor. The only damage was a bent balcony railing, but that’s DAMN close!
As soon as electricity’s restored at work, things should be tons better! But, I’ll still have to work, and enter an order, and get things back to normal.

Isabelle’s on her way. This time tomorrow, we’ll be in the midst of the hurricane, probably without electricity, probably stuck at work.
But maybe, just maybe, this will be nothing more than a heavy downpour.
We were asked to bring in all of our furniture from the balconies. So I moved in everything except for the table.
At work, I was asked to have days of non-perishable foods. And be ready to cook on an outdoor grill. Fun, fun, fun!
Again, I surely hope that this isn’t as big as they’re saying it might be.

I’m only 2 weeks away from being off of the anti-depressants!!! For the next 12 days, I only have to take half a pill. And then I’ll be through with it all!!! I cannot wait!!!

Here goes… let’s see how well this new blogging tool works!
I’ll be moving all of my livejournal stuff to the Movable Type blogging tool very soon.