This is when I lost it yesterday ...

and started giggling.   This is the code description for when a patient is injured at home. 

Home, not otherwise specified.

Could we BE more complicated. 

Still working on it.

I'm still trying to get through my coursework.  I'm still not enjoying it very much, but I'll live.   I'm trying to have a lot of discipline and get a lot of it done, but yesterday and today, not so much.  It's hard to be disciplined every day of the week, so I have been taking some days, well, not off, but only working lightly.  Yesterday, for example, I just read part of a chapter and did 3 chapter exercises.  Today and tomorrow, I'm planning to finish chapter 6 and get a good solid start on chapter 7.  Whew, it is very hard to teach an old dog new tricks.  Meanwhile, everything else is getting put off until my daughter and I can finish this course and take our test.  The home remodeling, day trips, all kinds of things are waiting until we get done.  It's frustrating because I really want the home remodel done.   My husband has agreed to 2 one major home project done each year (which is better than none, I guess) but we have 3 more rooms to go and I am so ready to just get it done, done, done. 

Cosmo is not an old dog and he's learning new tricks all the time.  This is him trying to get me to play patty cake (pat a cake?) with him because he knows if I do, he'll get a treat.  

Finishing chapter 5.

I finished chapter 5 of my coding course the other day (I should be further along, but that's a post for another day).  While I was taking the 2-hour timed exam with lots of practical coding that I had to do (no quick answers), our internet went down for about 15 minutes, twice.  I was a little worried that I was going to need my second attempt and that maybe I didn't know the material well enough and having to also deal with the internet being down was about all I could take.  I yelled into the other room for my family to pray for me and maybe reset the router ...   My husband reset the router and it eventually worked, but while I was still waiting, my daughter walked into the room and silently laid 3 mini Snickers bars on my desk.  Ah chocolate, the help in my distress.

:-) 

Yes, I'm very dramatic this morning, but it's been that kind of week. 

Moving on to January.

Yesterday was Epiphany, also known as 3 kings day and the official end of the 12 days of Christmas.  So yesterday, the kids finally started taking the Christmas decorations down.  The whole house was decked out, so it still isn't quite done this morning, but it's mostly there.  We don't usually celebrate Epiphany but youngest son, because he loves Christmas so much, has decided that is when we un-decorate --- no sooner!  So I decided we should also have a feast, but then I had to work and didn't feel like making one when we got home.   I looked up traditional foods for this festival and found that in some places, this is the day that they have a king cake, a green, yellow and purple cake that has a plastic baby or a bean hidden in one piece so that whoever gets the special piece is the lucky one.  We ended up doing the "I'm tired and haven't felt good for several WEEKS" version, which was gluten free blueberry muffins with a huge blueberry in one of them, making that the special/lucky one.  Youngest son got it, as was fitting since we wouldn't have done any of this without his love of Christmas.  I would have taken the tree down on December 26th, because about 4:00 p.m. on December 25th I felt DONE with Christmas.

I still feel awful, my head is buzzy and stuffy and I feel like I may go into another bout of vertigo any minute.  Let me tell you, that puts a damper on everything.  I don't want to do anything.  Nevertheless, I am still working (a couple of days a week), studying my medical coding when I feel like it and can, and trying to get back on the diet and exercise bandwagon.  I made some cabbage soup the other day that was really good and hopefully, the fact that it's very low calorie and I've been eating a lot of it, will help kickstart my weight loss this year.  I've set a goal of losing 40 pounds.  I lost 30 pounds in 2019, but then gained 10 of it back during the holiday season, which is frustrating, but I'm still coming out ahead, so I'm trying to focus on that and also trying to decide whether to go to the doctor for my head buzz situation.  :-/

Mexican Cabbage Soup (I added a packet of taco seasoning).