$50 cash! W00t!
I was using Blingo to look up the AAA number for towing, and I won $50!
W00t!
So maybe the new year will be a great year for me financially, if this is a 'sign' of things to come. *LOL*
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I was using Blingo to look up the AAA number for towing, and I won $50!
W00t!
So maybe the new year will be a great year for me financially, if this is a 'sign' of things to come. *LOL*
It will soon be 2008 and people will begin working on their resolutions and things they hope to do.
I don't make resolutions because it's too easy to quit and say I'll do it next year.
I just take things 1 day at a time these days.
I am just going to get up every day and keep going.
The boys and I have been hanging out and eating pizza, watching tv and stuff, and we'll watch the ball drop at midnight and then I'll probably go to bed.
But after the ball drops, ABC, after the rockin new year's eve, they are going to have some kind of special thing on about Cloverfield.
I am so very curious about this movie. I just have to know what this monster is.
I'll be going to see it as soon as I can after it comes out, I'm trying so hard not to read too many spoilers on it.
There are so many sites out there talking about it too, but one little special after the ball drops won't be a huge spoiler right?
Alrighty, off to click through new years shows again.
Have a happy one, don't drink and drive.
Call a cab or if you live throughout Florida and in Metro Atlanta, Savannah, and Metro Nashville,
you can call 1-800-AAA-HELP, and they will give you a ride home and tow your car absolutely free.
And I have no plans to go out or do anything at all.
It's really kind of boring here lately.
I suppose the teens and I will just hang out like we always do, have some sort of fun dinner and watch all the stupid shows, watch the ball drop and then go to bed.
Boring, I know.
My neck is still stiff and locked up.
It hurts. *wah*
I'm really not liking this new medicine he has me on, I can feel a major difference in how I feel.
I'm not concentrating on anything, my vision is blurry, I feel out of myself.
Ya know?
I'm just not myself, I feel lethargic, bored with everything, I honestly cannot concentrate on anything.
It sucks.
I see the doc on Friday and I have to tell him this.
It's been almost a month on these now, and it's getting worse for me.
The longer I take these, the more out of it I feel.
I don't like feeling like this, and because I don't like it, because I don't feel right, I'm unhappy, almost getting to the point of depression. I can't stay on these, I just can't.
I have to go to the store and get some food and stuff that we need, hopefully it won't rain.
It's looking pretty gloomy out there, and the weather report says some showers are going to move on through.
Should I wait till they pass before I go? Or just go and risk getting soaked on the way home?
Ba.
Not.
Dammit!
Guess what my first major purchase of 2008 is going to be?
Can you guess? No?
Well let me tell you what I get to buy. Again.
A new lawnmower.
Yay!
Isn't that fucking exciting?!
Mark mowed our neighbors lawn about 2 weeks ago, it's winter here so the grass only has to be cut like once a month now.
So he mowed their lawn and they had dumped charcoal briquets on their lawn.
Who the hell dumps charcoal on the lawn?!
So anyway, Mark was mowing their lawn and ran over the said charcoal, and when they hit the blades, they caught sparks and caused a huge rip to happen in the top of the mower.
There's a huge hole, the blades are now catching on the metal hanging down, and it's basically causing all kinds of problems, and basically, the lawnmower is a giant piece of shit now.
So yay!
I get to buy a brand new mower. This makes 3 lawnmowers in the 10 years we have lived in this house now.
I can't freaking believe this.
Bah.
Speaking of Mark, he and George went and looked at the charger, it's not in too bad of shape, but they saw a different car they liked more and would be slightly less engine work to fix.
They are going back tomorrow to look at it again and probably get it.
They didn't tell me what kind it is yet, they want to make sure they are really going to get it before they say anything.
Mark and George have gone off today to look at cars, fixer uppers.
They are talking about working on a car together whichis totally cool.
I think Mark should get in there and get dirty to appreciate owning a car more.
George found an old Charger, and so that's their first stop today.
I think it would be really cool if they got that car and fixed it up, they'd have to hunt down a lot of parts for it, have to do some shopping on the net for Dodge Charger accessories, radio dials, knobs etc.
I'm not totally sure they're going to get that one, but George said it's not in too bad of shape and they guy isn't asking much for it so, the may come back today and have that one.
Due to the teens playing Halo 3
Anyone wanna give me a score update?
It's been a super quiet, non-moving, kind of day here.
I think in all of my cleaning yesterday, I pulled a neck muscle, or slept on it crooked or something.
I have been in agony all freaking day now.
Remember how I said I stopped taking the muscle relaxers because they made me super tired and I was passing out like a narcoleptic?
Well, this neck pain is driving me up the wall, I can barely turn my head, so I took one.
Nothing.
Took another one 4 hours later.
Nothing.
I just took another one an hour ago and still, nothing.
What the freaking hell?
Did only certain pills in the bottle work or something?
Gah!
Don't you hate it when you buy the wrong shade of makeup?
Or maybe you never have, and you are secretly laughing at me for not knowing my skin shade at my age.
But anyway, I bought the wrong shade, it's way way too light, oh man, I put it on and I look dead.
Pale doesn't even begin to describe it.
But the makeup in the container and the picture, show a darker color, the name is even beige, but this is obviously ivory.
Complete mess up with the manufacturer? I think so.
I'm gonna email them the sku number and all that, and see if they'll refund me or ship me the correct one at least.
Oh well, back to the couch I go to watch them play Halo instead of the game.
Maybe I'll just fall asleep.
The hateful, hypocritical kind.
Now Kat, why would you say such a horrible thing about Ray Comfort, a man who loves god, preaches the word of god, is such a super nice Christian guy?
I'll tell you why.
On his blog, Comfort Food, Ray has some serious hatred for atheists going on.
Like deep seated pure hatred.
In this entry, he calls atheists greedy.
I'm not necessarily thinking of greedy atheists that read this blog, but families that are struggling. But if a greedy atheist runs with this, that's okay.
Ray, atheists don't go around trying to convert people to our way of thinking, we leave that nasty business to you.
We also leave the hate, the rude comments, the ignorant statements, and name calling to you as well.
Atheists do help people whenever we come across someone who needs help.
We are kind, we have morals, and we care deeply for our fellow humans, just not on the whole setting up missions to do it level.
Ray asks if we are ever stuck in a lifeboat, who we'd rather be stuck with.
who would you rather be sharing the lifeboat with--a group of starving evolutionists who believe in "survival of the fittest" and have no moral absolutes, or with a group of Christians, who love their neighbor as themselves and fear God?
No moral absolutes.
Come off it Ray.
Your absolute hatred and ignorance about atheists, shines through in every single post you write on your blog these days.
5 out of the 7 posts on his front page, are about atheists.
Is he stuck on that subject?
Does making rude, hate filled comments about atheists make him feel like a better Christian?
I could have sworn the bible said to love your neighbor as you would yourself, and to not judge lest ye be judged?
But Ray here obviously lives by a different set of standards.
He's obviously above the teachings of his lord and savior, he has his own rules and can be hateful and nasty to anyone he pleases.
Oh that's right, as long as Ray gets on his knees every night and asks the lord forgiveness for his sins, it's all good.
People often wonder why atheists have such a hard time with Christians.
It's because of the ignorant and rude comments like the ones Ray has made, that get said to us when they come knock on our door and we say no thank you, I don't believe, or we don't go to church, or whatever the case may be where a Christian and an atheist come in contact with each other.
It's not us who starts the name calling and hate speech, they do.
Just like Ray does on his blog nearly every single day, in nearly every single post.
He's some kind of Christian alright.
Not the good kind either.
One of my friends from the local forums, Jen and her husband, announced this morning they are moving to Texas.
They have to, it's a military relocation type deal.
I hate it. I have so much fun with Jen when we go out, she's such a blast, and now she's gonna be all the way over there in Texas.
Bah.
But we'll be having a huge going away get together up in Tampa before they go, so at least she and I can hang out one last time.
I'm not sure yet if we'll be doing the Ybor thing or a house party yet, but whichever they decide, I know it will be fun.
I'm really going to miss her though.
Phew.
We did some major cleaning today much to the teens disgust.
We took 3 bicycles to the curb, all of them broken in some way, and put a sign on them that said 'FREE'.
Within 15 minutes they were gone.
I wiped out two old computer hard drives, stripped them of any good and working parts like memory sticks and CPU fans.
I made the teens clean out their room after helping me break down some huge boxes and stuff, and I was surprised to find one of those chalk cues, you know the pool cue accessories?
I found it under Mark's bed. I have no idea where it came from because I don't play pool, neither of the boys play pool, so it's one of those oddities that just ends up in your house.
Maybe the wall trolls stole it from someone else, and left it in place of the sapphire ring that mysteriously went missing about 2 months ago.
I swear wall trolls exist.
You put 2 earrings down on the top of your dresser, and in the morning you only have 1.
The wall trolls steal them.
They like shiny stuff the best.
I think tomorrow I will take a rest day because I don't want to overwork my back too much because then I'll be in pain and on the couch for 3 days while I recuperate.
And I am having some side effects from the new pain med they have me on.
I stopped taking the muscle relaxer because it was causing me to just be super tired and pass out like a narcoleptic, and now the pain med is causing my vision to be blurry and my brain to be kinda foggy. It's also causing excessive thirst.
It seems the longer I take them, the more the side effects are happening.
I see him again on the 4th, so I need to tell him this stuff at that appointment.
With the new year fast approaching and my elliptical on it's way, it's time to get this house in order.
I need to get rid of all the bikes that are too small, broken, and not in use anymore, clean up the holiday decorations, and move some stuff around so I can set up the elliptical in here.
I have the perfect spot for it in mind, but it's going to take some moving of other stuff to put it there.
But it will be so perfect when I get it all situated, so I need to get cracking on this house and my plans.
I'm so excited!
The elliptical I won right before Christmas has shipped, it should be here in about a week, and it's compliments of Nordictrack.com.
I can't believe it!
It's one of their space saver elliptical machines.
It folds up so it can be stored easily when it's not in use.
This is what it looks like when it's set up.
And this is how small it can fold.
I am really excited about getting this elliptical.
I told my pain doc about it, and he was very excited about it as well. I will be able to do my physical therapy at home now. Not all of it, but they had me scheduled to use an elliptical 3 times a week, and now I can do that part of it at my own home.
And not only will it work for my PT, but I'll be losing weight too.
I'm so excited about that!
With these titanium rods in my spine, I can't do traditional sit ups or crunches etc, so keeping in shape has been rather difficult. But I'll be able to do that now and won't have to risk getting hit by cars anymore, or falling down on the pavement anymore, when going for walks every day.
I can just workout right here in my own home every single day.
I plan on keeping track of my progress on my blog, weight lost and all that.
I am just so psyched up for this!!
This is so perfect for me and I can't wait to get started!!
My niece Susan is here for the day, and we're wearing her out.
Or should I say, she's wearing us out. *LOL*
Nah, she's tons of fun to have around, we're just gonna play all day, eat some lunch, and then take a nap.
We're having a good time so far, just hanging out watching a cartoon, then we might go up to the playground.
Today was a fun day.
I had my niece Skye over all day long, we played, ate snacks, read a story book, and just had a really good time.
Then sis came over to pick us all up to do some shopping and get some dinner.
We went to Best Buy so the boys could spend their gift cards, and Mark picked out Halo 3
Yup, we've got GH3 and Rock Band now.
Rock Band is fun, we can all play it.
We can sing, play guitar, bass, and drums.
It's actually pretty fun.
I don't think we'll be making any videos of this till we all get much much better.
It's kinda tough. The singer stuff is hard. If you don't hold those notes as long as it wants, it says you failed.
Ouch man. LOL
Mark is gone to my sisters for the night, he'll be back in the morning and Susan will be spending the day with us.
Sebastian and I are hanging out playing Rock Band and eating the Chinese take-out we picked up for dinner.
We went and bought new shoes for everyone before getting the Chinese.
All 4 of the kids all got new sneakers, and are very happy. Susan and Skye picked out some Dora shoes, the boys got some new Champions.
Oh, a wicked funny about playing Rock Band.
Shahiro the kitten, absolutely hates it when anyone sings, hates it.
We sometimes will just sing to annoy her, and she tries to rip your face off.
So, Sebastian and I were playing, I was sitting down singing, and Shahiro climbed up on top of me, hissed right in my face, then stretched out all her claws as a warning to shut up.
I failed at the game because the cat made me scared...LOL
Well it's the day after xmas, recovery day for a lot of people. Sleeping, cleaning the house up after all the relatives and guests have left, dealing with all the leftovers.
My niece Skye is here with us today, we're just hanging out and playing.
I have a doctors appointment in a little bit, Skye is gonna stay here with the boys, and then after sis gets done working, we're all going to go out and eat stuff, and then go shopping.
I know, crazy! But the boys have gift cards to spend, and sis has things she needs to buy for her trip to Maine this weekend.
Ok, time for me to get outta here.
Later days!
The boys have had a good Christmas, they got the games they wanted, clothes, money to spend, gift cards, and the computer.
They are quite happy right now playing Call of Duty 4.
We watched our favorite holiday movie, A Christmas Story, while we ate our turkey and mashed potatoes, gravy, corn and rolls.
In all of our stockings is enough candy to rot our teeth till easter rolls around again..LOL
It's been a really nice day so far, here's hoping all of you have had a wonderful Christmas as well.
and everyone is away.
Sebastian has gone to bed, Mark is playing video games, he's rocking out, and I'm finished reading blogs, and about to go reply to emails.
It's really been a boring day and night here.
We did watch a really cool bloody movie, I'll have to write up my review after emails are taken care of.
I made dinner, cleaned the kitchen, did laundry.
Such a thrilling list of things done on Christmas eve eh?
I just have had absolutely nothing exciting to do today.
Oh yeah, I tweaked the boys new pc.
Because it's brand new, it is set up to load like everything on startup, so I cleaned up teh start up files, tweaked the services.msc of all those stupid things that don't really need to be set to automatically run, and when I rebooted, it was fast as lightening.
They are pleased.
My sister brought some gifts over for the boys after work when she dropped off Sebastian, I gave her the presents I had for the girls.
I had gotten the girls some new toys from the Learning Resources, I know they will love them.
Sis gave them each $50 to Best Buy, and some presents from Mark and Carrie, her employers. They gave the boys a ton of new clothes.
They own some surf shop clothing stores, and asked for the boys sizes.
They gave each of them 2 huge boxes of stuff. I can't wait to see what they got.
My sis gave me a necklace like the one of hers that I had been admiring and wanted to borrow it to copy it, to see if I could recreate it and make one. The matching earrings too.
Sweet!
Now I have one and I can copy the pattern to make them whenever I get the go ahead to make jewelry again.
Well I guess that's all for now.
Time to get busy on other stuff and try to entertain myself for the rest of the night.
Later days.
It's a quiet Christmas eve here at the Cooper household.
Sebastian went to work with my sister today so he can play with his friend Matthew, while she takes care of his brother Greg.
Mark is playing on the computer, Runescape again.
I'm done wrapping gifts, I have all the food ready to start cooking tomorrow.
It's a lazy quiet day.
I gave my sister her birthday card this morning, and will give her the presents for the girls when she drops off Sebastian later this afternoon.
It really is a different kind of Christmas now that the boys are older.
I feel kind of sad about it.
No little kids getting all excited, no begging to watch the Christmas movies, no begging to take a peek at the presents under the tree.
It's just so weird.
It's just not the same, and because they have changed and are no longer excited, I'm not either.
I had no Christmas spirit this year at all.
The only decorations I put up were the tree and my antique Santa pieces.
I usually go all out, hang garland, place the Christmas story books on the coffee table, all the shaped candles, the little Christmas village, the Santa wreath on the door.
But not this year.
I left them all in their boxes and just said forget it.
The boys really don't pay any attention to it anymore, so why should I do it?
I know I should have just done it anyway, but it feels so unappreciated anymore.
The boys usually always help and beg to put the stuff out.
This year they didn't.
Why do they have to grow up?
Why do they not love it as much as they did?
Maybe I'll just drag the rest of the decorations out and do it anyway.
I need to feel more in the spirit.
The only thing I hate about this time of year is that no one is around.
Hardly anyone has blogged for the last few days, no one is posting to any forums, which leaves me totally bored.
I could go tweak the boys computer, but Mark is on it.
Sebastian is playing video games on the xbox, and I'm bored.
I've started converting cds over to mp3s, just to have something to do.
I've got about 15 or so cds to convert over, I guess that will keep me occupied for awhile.
What are you doing?
Getting excited for Christmas?
The kids driving you nuts yet?
I remember when the boys were little, oh how they would go crazy by today.
They knew in just 2 more sleeps, it would be Christmas and they'd be getting lots of new toys and games to play with.
Now that they are older, honestly, Christmas isn't a big deal anymore.
It makes me kind of sad.
The more grown up they get, the less the holidays excite them.
It just isn't the same anymore.
I haven't been around all day today because I was tired.
Sunday is always my lazy day.
I use it to catch up on sleep, be a total sloth, and just chill out watching stupid movies on tv.
I spent some time today watching the new Royal Channel on youtube.
It was kinda fascinating.
The Queen approved it, and so they signed up back in October, and have been adding various videos since.
I've always been interested in the monarchy, the royal family of England, so seeing Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and the wedding of the Queen Mother in 1923 was really neat.
The Queen's first Christmas broadcast in 1957 is up there too.
It kept me busy for awhile today anyway, maybe you'll find it interesting too.
I need to get working on dinner and finishing up some things around here.
Hope you've all had a good one.
Later days.
How much weight do you all think you have gained so far this holiday season?
I've been bad so far, I know I have.
Cookies, cakes, pies, chocolates, candy canes etc.
The holidays are so hard on people with any kind of weight issues, and it's doubly frustrating when your exercise is limited to walking or a treadmill, or an elliptical.
Seeing a how I have no treadmill, and the elliptical I won will be delivered in a few weeks, walking has been my main exercise for nearly two years.
You don't burn off many calories just walking. If you did, I'd be thin as a rail by now.
I can't wait for the elliptical to get here. We are going to start organizing the house right after Christmas, get things moved around so I can make room for it.
I want to put it here in the living room where the AC, TV and stereo are.
I want it out here so it's more comfortable to use and I won't have to crank the stereo up to hear it from the laundry room.
My lower back is stiff tonight, and my right shoulder seems flared up again, so I went and laid down on my bed for a few minutes after taking a pain pill and muscle relaxer, so they could kick in faster while I rested.
I'm quite proud to say that in just two weeks, I've cut back drastically on the high dose pain pills thanks to the extended release, once a day ones the new doc prescribed.
He still gave me the high dose ones, but not nearly as many as Doc F had me taking.
That amount could have knocked a horse out cold.
The new pain doc has me taking the extended release tabs once a day, a muscle relaxer 3 times a day, and the high dose ones only as I need them for severe break through pain.
I've only had 3 days of severe pain in the last 2 weeks, so I'm so very, very happy with my new doc and how things are going.
He actually listened to me and the new plan is working a lot better.
I feel better. I'm not in a drug induced fog anymore, I can do a little bit more than I was.
Things are going good now.
But anyway, back to going to lay down.
I went in my room to stretch out and rest while waiting for the meds to kick in, and Nova the fat cat was laying on the end of the bed.
I laid down on my side of the bed, got comfortable on my pillows, and just tried to relax all my muscles down.
Nova fatty got up from the end of the bed and made her way to her usual spot near my pillows, and smooshed herself right up against my face.
We were face to face, her rubbing her head all over my face and licking my nose, purring, her paws 'kneading' into my hair, and it was just the sweetest thing.
Nova is getting older, she is 8 in people years, and just over the last 5 months or so, she has started to become a super loving kitty.
She used to hate everyone but Mark when we first got her, no one could pet her, go anywhere near her or she'd hiss and growl.
Now, she lets everyone pet her, gets excited if you reach your hand out to her, even more excited if you walk in the front door with a handful of fresh grass.
So there I was laying down being snuggled and loved by fatty no tail, and it was so comfortable and peaceful, I almost fell asleep.
I had to get up though because the boys are still up, and I hate going to bed before they do.
I hope she's still in that mood when I do go to bed.
It was really nice.
To think that going to the shopping pavilion so late in the day, was somehow going to be less busy.
Not!
The whole place was absolutely packed, every store, the whole parking lot, the sidewalks around it were just flowing over with people and kids.
Lots and lots of screaming, misbehaving children.
I had a headache within the first 10 minutes being there.
But I made my way into EB Games, got the game the boys wanted, and Mark bought Gears Of War
With his own money.
I told the both of them, if it breaks again, they'll be buying it with their own money again.
They get it finally.
Mom is not the video game replacer. If I buy it the first time, I'm not buying it a second time I they break it.
We then went into Publix and got some stuff we needed and an easy dinner, some more conditioner for my hair, and then came home.
I'm going to eat my chicken strips and watch the rest of the news, and then wrap the last bit of presents for the boys.
Oh yeah, there will be another gift card give-a-way coming soon.
A different store.
A good one.
That's all the hints you get.
Later days.
The winner is Kari of karebearcentral.com/!
I have emailed Kari for her mailing address and will mail this out on Monday morning.
Thank you everyone who entered!
The comments have been closed, 28 people entered, the winner was drawn on video!
I am uploading it to youtube right now, and very shortly, the video and winner will be posted.
Stay tuned!
I'm finishing getting ready to go out, but won't be leaving until after I do the drawing for the Walmart sucks gift card give-a-way, so no worries, I won't keep any of you who have entered waiting.
But while we're all waiting for 2:17pm to roll around, I thought I'd give you a couple more songs for the present wrapping I'm sure all you moms and dads will be finishing up this weekend.
Remember to right click and save as please.
Davey Jones - Mele Kalikimaka and
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Holiday Road
I finished wrapping the presents for my nieces and oh my bad, I lost track of the dates.
TODAY is December 22nd, not tomorrow.
TODAY is my sisters birthday.
Yikes!
They say when you get older, your memory is the first thing to go, so I confused the dates.
I have a birthday present for my sister and I'll give it to her on Monday when I see her.
Mark just got home from being out with George, and he got some money for Christmas, so when I go to EB games, he says he wants to go too.
Oy!
More video games!
Ah, I guess it's ok, it keeps them busy and off the streets, but if his grades start slipping again, off goes the xbox. He knows that now. After that last time the teacher called and said he wasn't doing his work, he knew I was serious when he came home and all the battery packs to the controllers were gone, and I had unplugged the cords and hid them.
He finished all his work the following week...LOL
Over vacation, he can get ahead, but I won't push him too hard. He'll be ahead and that's good enough.
Ok, I've rambled on enough I suppose. Time for a shower.
Later days.
I know, just 3 days to go, and I'm not totally done yet.
I have one more gift to get, I need to go to EB games today and hope they actually have it.
Yeah, I'm one of those wait till the last minute shoppers for something kinda popular amongst teens.
I see some Verizon trucks outside today.
Good!
Maybe they're finally installing the fiber optic cables needed to bring FIOS to my house.
See, when they were laying the cables this past summer, they thought this duplex was a one unit dwelling, and only laid cables for one line.
My house number was totally skipped over, so every time I called about getting FIOS, they couldn't see my house on the street maps they created. I had to convince them that this was a duplex, a two family unit dwelling, not one.
I've been arguing with them for like 7 months now over this issue.
My neighbors who share this duplex, got FIOS, and when the Verizon guy was here installing it, I went out and talked to him.
He looked at his map, and was like "Wow, sorry ma'am. Your house got skipped on the map. I'll have to go to the planners and have to get them to add it. It could take awhile."
Ugh.
I want FIOS dammit!
Don't forget, you have till a little after 2pm to enter my Walmart sucks gift card give-a-way!
You have a really good shot, there's only 27 people in it so far!
Ok, so it wasn't Santa Claus, it was a way hot UPS guy with a package for me, and inside was a Sansa Clip 1 GB MP3 Player
Yup!
It's the mp3 player I blogged about buying for myself instead of trying to save for an ipod.
A friend told me to be on the lookout for UPS, they had sent me something for xmas, so I knew something was coming but didn't know what it was.
I was totally surprised it was this!
You have to see this thing, it's so cute!
And in my fave color too. *wink*
It really is only slightly larger than a quarter, but it holds a full gig of mp3s, records voice memos or audio books, and has an FM tuner.
Very cool.
It charges through the same USB cord that you use to drag and drop, or copy files from my music folder to the player.
It only took about 30 minutes to fully charge, and I've been messing with it ever since.
I loaded about 400 mp3s on it, and there's still room for more.
I totally love it!
So thank you 'C' for the awesome gift. I think she somehow knew that even though I said I was going to buy it for myself, that my mom guilt would totally win out. *LOL*
As I said in this post, when the green snowman $20 gift card from Walmart arrived, I would be giving it away.
It has arrived!
If you want this gift card and are a US resident, please leave your name and a valid email address in the comments of this post only.
I will accept comments for 24 hours, so at 2:17pm tomorrow, Saturday December 22nd, I will close the comments, put all the names in a bowl and pick one name out to receive this gift card.
If you win, you will need to give me your mailing address.
I promise in accordance with my privacy policy, to not give away or sell your name, email address, or mailing address, to any other person or party.
I meant what I said.
Walmart will never get another penny from me, not even the ones they give me, so this is your chance to snag this $20 gift card if you shop at Walmart.
I despise Walmart for what they put me through, and the way they ruin pretty much any community they move into.
Mom and pop stores go out of business, the employees are paid minimum wage, treated poorly, and the products are made by people in extremely poor countries for slave wages.
I may have shopped there in the past because I don't have much money and needed cheap items, but enough is enough.
I can't ever justify spending more money on a company that treats it's customer and employees so poorly, and sells products made by slave wage labor.
For facts about Walmart's practices, check out Wake up Walmart.
I have really long nails, and I usually keep them bare because I suck at applying nail polish, and can't afford a manicure all the time.
My hands shake, I either apply too much and end up mucking it up, or apply too little and it looks splotchy.
I had been wanting to try those press on nail polish things.
They are real nail polish in strips, pre-cut to different sizes, and you just stick them on like stickers, but it is real nail polish.
They even smell like real nail polish.
It's very cool, but I admit I was totally skeptical.
Real nail polish already cut and you just stick them on and they last?
Riiiight.
So when I was at Walgreen's last night, I spotted the Incoco Dry Nail Appliqué was on sale.
Normally $7.99 per package, on sale for just $3.99.
I figured if they sucked, I wouldn't be out too much money.
So here's what all you get in the package and how it works.
You get an instruction card, a fingernail file with an abrasive, a soft, and a buffer side, a cuticle stick, a sample pack of other colors, 20 dry nail strips, a polish removal cloth, and a package to store the rest of your nail strips and seal with that gold tape so they don't dry out.
This is real nail polish. It will dry out if let out.
You then pick out a dry nail strip to match your nail size.
Then you remove the clear plastic cover and the backing paper, and place it on your nail starting at the base of the nail, and smoothing all the way to the tip.
Once applied and completely smooth, you bend the rest of it over the tip of your nail and run your finger downward to make it fold over your nail tip. Then with the file, you file in a downward motion to 'cut' the overhang off.
And ta da! You have gorgeous polished nails in a fraction of the time and cost.
I messed up and have a fold on my ring finger nail, but there are plenty of strips in the package, so I can just remove that one and do it again.
I have to finish all the rest of my nails anyway.
I am super impressed with these.
They were so easy to do, they didn't cost a lot, and the package says they will last up to 14 days.
I'll come back and let you know how they really held after 14 days, but so far, I think they rock!
I was asked if I would like to try out a new snack mix from Cheerios, and I said sure why not, I have teenage boys who love to snack on chips and stuff like that, so yeah, let's do it.
I received the bag above, it's an 8oz bag, retails for approximately $2.89.
It includes multi-grain cheerios, Chex pieces, pretzel pieces, triangle shaped crackers, little bread stick shaped crackers, in a cheddar seasoning.
Each 2/3 of a cup serving contains 8 grams of whole grain, and about 60 percent less fat than potato chips.
The bag says "good source of whole grain, baked not fried."
Mark who is 16, absolutely loved these, and ate almost the entire bag except for the small amount in the bowl above, that Sebastian and I shared.
This is the bad part.
When you think Cheerios, you think healthy, because regular Cheerios cereal brags that it can help lower cholesterol, so moms everywhere will see the Cheerios name and think this is healthy.
And if you actually just eat the recommended serving size of 2/3 cup, then it's not so bad.
2/3 cup is 120 calories and 30 of those are from fat.
Why?
Because Cheerios snack mix is made with hydrogenated soybean oil.
Cheerios snack mix claims that it has no trans fats, but when it's made with hydrogenated soybean oil, it DOES have trans fat.
It also contains high fructose corn syrup, which must be metabolized in the liver, and is known to cause health problems like anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy.
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So if you eat just the small 2/3 cup recommended serving size, it isn't so bad, but who actually eats snack mix in the tiny weenie recommended size?
No one.
Even 1 cup of this won't satisfy most kids or adults, and if you eat more than that, you are ingesting large amounts of trans fats and high fructose corn syrup.
I am actually surprised that Cheerios is calling this a healthy snack when it is made with hydrogenated soybean oil and high fructose corn syrup.
I feel like I've been living in the Outer Banks the last few days, and I am so sorry that I forgot to post some Christmas music.
I was reminded to do so earlier tonight, so here's some tunes to make up for the days I missed.
Please remember to right click and save as. Stealing bandwidth isn't nice.
First, as I suspected, the Walmart green snowman gift card did not arrive today as they said it would.
Par for the course. *eyeroll*
Bucky at the Wvb, tagged me for this one.
1. Wrapping or gift bags?
I wrap everything.
2. Real or artificial tree?
Fake. And Charlie Brown lovable.
3. When do you put up the tree?
During the first week of December and not a day sooner.
4. When do you take the tree down?
New years eve.
5. Do you like egg nog?
Hell no.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
A real life looking baby doll. I was like 8 or something.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Hahahahahaha! No.
8. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
The year my brother thought it was hilarious to give me a giant box full of condiments.
Yes, he actually gave me a box full of mustard, ketchup, mayo, salt, pepper, bbq sauce, chocolate syrup etc etc etc.
Shittiest gift ever. Hands down.
9. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Cards.
10. Favorite Christmas Movie?
A Christmas Story, and the Year without a Santa Claus. The Miser brothers rule.
11. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
i shop all year long when I find good deals.
12. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
A little bit of everything.
13. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Colored, non-flashing.
14. Favorite Christmas song(s)?
I really like them all. No favorite.
15. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Stay home.
16. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Yes. Dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donder and blitzen. And old rudolph too.
17. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Neither. I have Zero from TNBC.
18. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?
Morning.
19. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
That stores start selling us Christmas at Halloween.
20. Do you decorate your tree in any specific theme or color?
Nope.
21. What do you leave for Santa?
Santa is a fairy tale just like the easter bunny, tooth fairy, leprechauns, JC and so on and on. So, nothing.
22. Least favorite holiday song?
I don't think I hate any of them.
23. Favorite ornament?
I have several faves handed down from my gram, stuff my kids made etc.
24. Family tradition?
We have our own thing.
25. Ever been to Midnight Mass or late-night Christmas Eve services?
When I was a kid and had to go. I haven't been to a church for Christmas services in about 25 years.
Annd I'm not tagging anyone, do it if you like and let me know in the comments that you did.
I finally went and did the grocery shopping I needed to do, got my turkey and taters, gravy, veggies, and for dessert, I picked up a small tray of petite fours from the Publix bakery.
I got a roasting pan and more household supplies that we needed, more regular groceries as well because, school vacation is starting and they will eat me out of house and home.
Before that though, I went into Walgreen's to pick up my script, and picked up all the stocking stuffers for the boys and me too. Lots of candy, chocolates and stuff like that.
I picked up wrapping paper, tape, gift tags, and then I saw this lone box tucked way on the back of the shelf.
I reached back there and this is what I pulled out.
The whole 8 piece M&M's Mpire dark side ornament set.
Score!
Every year I buy at least 1 new ornament for our tree, and when I saw that, I bought it.
For only $5.00 too!
Double score!
They sell for around $30.00 on ebay, but the sticker said $5.00, so $5.00 is what I paid...LOL
I paid for all that stuff and then headed to Publix.
Bought a super easy dinner as well as everything else above, and came home, ate dinner, and now I'm playing catch up with blogs and emails.
I'm so stoked about those ornaments!
Later days.
My sister's forever '39' birthday, is Sunday, and I'm trying to figure out what to get her.
I have usually gotten her jewelry every year with her birthstone in it, and I thought about some nice earrings or a necklace, maybe a pearl necklace, or a ring, but I don't know her ring sizes and if I asked, she'd want to know why.
Yeah she sometimes reads my blog, usually only at work, and I know she left work for the day and doesn't have to work this weekend, so help me! LOL
I need to find her a nice gift today or tomorrow.
I have to go shopping here in a little bit, need to hit several stores for last minute stuff this weekend, so what do you get an awesome sister who is turning 39 (again hee hee *wink*)?
*I placed the order on 12/12/07, Wednesday, at 10:30am EST, paid for 1 day shipping, should have arrived on 12/14/07.
*On 12/14/07, it did not arrive.
*Carol the supervisor guaranteed me it would arrive on Monday 12/17/07.
*Carol the supervisor, refunds my $36 shipping charges.
*On 12/17/07, Monday, the computer did not arrive.
*On 12/17/07, Carol the supervisor guarantees me it will arrive by Christmas.
*On 12/18/07, Tuesday, they 'lost' my order, had to investigate. No clue on when I would actually get it.
*12/18/07, Walmart corporate guarantees me that someone from their corporate offices would call me in a few days. No one has called.
*On 12/19/07, Wednesday, at 4am, they said they had none in stock, to call and cancel it.
*I called at 6am CT, and canceled it.
*At 7:18am CT, they sent confirmation of my cancellation.
*At 7:25am CT, they sent confirmation that the green snowman gift card that was on it's way.
*At 4pm EST, the UPS guy delivers the canceled computer.
*At 6:01pm EST, Walmart.com sends a confirmation email stating the now canceled order has shipped. Includes a tracking number. It says it has shipped on 12/19/07, will arrive on 12/20/07.
*On 12/20/07 at 4:16am EST, Walmart.com sends a tracking number for the green snowman gift card (that will be given away on this blog) for UPS that says I will get it today.
*On 12/20/07, they finally take the payment from my CC, in the amount of $390.10. The original CC hold was for $421.10, they refunded $31.00 of the $36.00 1 day expedited shipping charges because it never shipped like I paid for.
*On 12/20/07, the Walmart.com order history page, says the now canceled computer will arrive on 12/20/07.
*The UPS website confirms it was delivered on 12/19/07. It states that it was shipped on 12/18/07, at 8:56pm CT, the day before I canceled it because they said they had none in stock.
If I called and canceled it at 6am CT on 12/19/07, and they confirmed it was canceled at 7:18am CT, why did they send a confirmation at 6:01pm EST, stating it had shipped that day?
If they actually shipped it on 12/18/07, how come when I called at 6am CT on 12/19/07 to cancel it, did they not know it had shipped?
Why did they tell me they had none in stock and were not going to ship, here have a gift card, when they had actually shipped it the day before?
Yes, I am very, very happy I got it, thrilled I actually got it at all after all this crap they put me through, but why tell me they didn't have any, let me cancel the order, when they had already shipped it?
They sent the shipping confirmation 2 hours after UPS dropped it off, and said I would get it today.
I don't understand how they could make so many mistakes with this order.
I don't understand why they let me cancel an order that had shipped the day before.
Why didn't they know it had shipped?
The $20.00 green snowman gift card is supposed to arrive today.
I stand by what I said, that I will never shop at a Walmart store or at Walmart.com again.
When the green snowman gift card arrives, I will take a picture of it and post it on this blog.
Anyone who wants it (US residents only, sorry) can post to the comments of that post with a valid email address. They will have 24 hours to post to those comments, after 24 hours, I will close the comments and put all the names in a bowl and draw 1 winner for the card.
The teens last day of school for Christmas break, is tomorrow.
They won't go back until January 7th.
That's like a huge break.
A way too long huge break.
They're gonna drive me crazy...LOL
I want to find a recipe and attempt to make some paella sometime. I've heard people talk about it and say it's really good, so I'm going to start searching for a good recipe. If you have one and want to share it, send me the recipe please.
I need to go to Walgreern's and pick up my script, and then go brave Publix, because in all the craziness this week, I totally forgot to go do the holiday food shopping.
Ack!
The teens have decided they want a turkey again, not a ham.
They would take a ham if I could get one from Honeybaked, but the problem with that is that the lines are always long, and if you pick it up too early, no one can resist picking at it before it's actually meal time on Christmas day.
Their hams are so good, and they have that maple sugar crusty stuff that is just so so good, I mean it, you end up picking pieces off it before the meal.
So, we'll have turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, rolls, and I need to pick up something for dessert too. Maybe one of the fancy cakes from the Publix bakery.
Sebastian is so so happy the computer is here. OMG, he was on it all night after I set it up.
Acer makes an awesome computer. I got them the same one as I have, and it's just a really great computer.
The only thing I don't like is they come pre-loaded with Norton anti-virus.
It never works right, slows down your browsing etc. So I always remove it and install zone alarm and AVG.
After I did that and ran the updates for windows xp, it took me about 45 minutes to get all that stuff done, then I called him in the room and said here ya go buddy.
I should have had my camera ready because he had the biggest smile ever.
He gave me a huge hug and said thanks mom.
He set up all his favorites again, I'm going to install his Sims games, and Mark's empire game today, and I will also bookmark their school login pages so they can do their work.
Over vacation, Mark can login from home, and do all his school work and so when he goes back in January, the teacher can add on new stuff for him.
He can get totally ahead on all his school work over vacation.
He's all caught up right now, but there are about 6 hours worth of stuff he can do to get ahead.
I won't be a nag and make him sit there all day long till it's all done, but an hour a day is all he really needs.
And speaking of the computer, I will update you all on the Walmart.com shit in another post.
I really am totally confused as to what they did and why they did it the way they did.
I am so glad that things worked out today the way they did instead of how the day started.
I was so frustrated this morning, and I had been awake all night, so of course that made things more stressful.
I appreciate all the comments about how 'stuff' isn't important, that the teens love me, know I tried etc etc, and I'm not even going to bother explaining anything because I just don't think people will get 'it'.
So anyway, now that it's here, I can go ahead and take the Dell Memory sticks and add them in there so that the pc can do what it needs to do for the teens, and then I can start on the other things around the house that I have been planning on doing.
After the holidays, this house is getting a top to bottom, every nook and cranny, cleaning.
It's that time of year again, and the teens will be out of school for winter beak till the 8th I think, so all of this stuff should get done.
There are bags and boxes of items that have literally, not been opened or touched in years.
If they haven't been touched, they aren't needed items.
It's time to shrink the amount of stuff I have down to just what I actually use and need.
A full cleaning is in order.
I have so many things to do on my own pc tonight and tomorrow, I need to get cracking on it or it will never get done.
Then, I'm going to go to bed and actually sleep.
I'm wiped out.
Later days.
So the order got canceled this morning, right?
They said they canceled the order and to make up for my troubles, they were sending me a $20 gift card.
Right?
Well about 30 minutes ago, the UPS guy walks up to my door and hands us this.
Um.
It was overnighted, next day aired to my house.
But at 4am, they said they did not have the item.
At 8am, they canceled the order and said they did not have any but were expecting more on Monday.
Um.
On my order history page, it is canceled.
I have no freaking clue what the hell Walmart.com is doing.
Is it really canceled?
Is my money being refunded still?
Do I call them again and say what the hell are you people doing?
Or do I just let them wallow in their own mistakes?
I'll wait the 24-28 hours for my CC transaction to update, and if it's been refunded to me, I'll call them.
Or maybe I should wait 3-5 business days to notify them. *evil grin*
But it's here, the teens are happy, I'm happy.
Yup, I got them a new computer because theirs was broken, and Pete did send me a tower, but i was unable to get a windows xp installation to work on it, and so I'll strip it for parts. There's some good working parts in it.
Annnnnd, I won one of the ellipticals!!
W00t!
So even though today started out like total crap, it has ended totally freaking awesome!
Yay!
Whoo hoo!
Later days!
My time and inconvenience for the Walmart.com sucks situation is worth a $20 gift card.
"It will be a green card with a snowman on it ma'am."
Oh really? I am never shopping at any of your stores ever again, I was lied to, my order was 'lost', I spent 4 and a half hours on the phone trying to work out this order, and I'm not getting my item, and you think a green snowman gift card is going to make this all better?
"Ma'am, I can guarantee you the gift card will arrive on Monday, 12/24/07."
Wait, you can guarantee me that a gift card will get here on Monday that you just typed in, but you can't get a product that was ordered a week ago and you're still selling it on your site even though you don't have any, by the same day, Monday?
"No ma'am. We are trying to get more from our supplier, our hands are tied."
But you are still selling them on the site and offering 1 day shipping.
"Yes ma'am, we expect to have more by Monday."
Whatever, just cancel my damn order, clear my funds immediately, so I can attempt to get this somewhere else and pay through the nose for shipping because I will need it rushed now.
"Yes ma'am. The order is canceled, it could take 24 to 48 hours to update."
You are freaking kidding me?!
"No ma'am, it could take that long. But you will have your $20 gift card on Monday. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Hell no. I am never buying anything from walmart ever again. I'll give the damn gift card away because $20 isn't worth what I've been through, and I hate your company now.
"Sorry ma'am, is there anything else I can do for you?"
No. *click*
I hate them.
Hate.
HATE.
My really horrible experience with Walmart.com begins here, then here, and as of yesterday, here.
But here's the cliff notes.
On Wednesday December 12th, at 10:30am, I purchased a very expensive item from Walmart.com.
$359.00
The site said the item was in stock, I could pay $36 for 1 day shipping, and my item would arrive on Friday December 14th.
Total paid = $421.10
Fast forward to Friday morning, they sent an email saying they had just processed my order, obviously I wouldn't be getting it that day.
I call customer service, ask what's up.
A supervisor by the name of Carol deducts the $36 because I'm not getting it on the day promised, she tells me I'll get it Monday the 17th.
Monday the 17th arrives, no package, I call customer service again, they tell me they haven't shipped it yet, they will expedite my order, please wait 48 business hours.
Carol condescendingly assures me I will have this in time for Christmas.
Yesterday the 18th. I receive a call from them telling me they have to "investigate" my order, there is no logical reason why it has not been shipped to me.
I ask, is this item in stock?
They assure me it is but can give no estimate of it's arrival.
They tell me someone will call me in 3-5 business days with an update.
I call Walmart corporate, make a complaint, they tell me in a few business days, someone will call me back to discuss the nature of my complaint.
They take my name, phone number, address, and order number.
They promise me I will get a call from someone at corporate.
I call customer service again, ask if I can cancel my order.
They tell me no because it's in process, it will definitely be shipping to me soon.
At 4am this morning, I received this email.
Dear Kat Cooper,
Unfortunately, we have not been able to ship the item(s) shown below yet
and as a consequence, it may not arrive by the original estimated delivery
date.
Well considering my arrival date was December 14th, obviously it's not been delivered.
We apologize for any inconvenience and are working with our suppliers to fill
your order as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to
provide a revised delivery date.
We will continue to make every effort to ship this order; however, if you wish
to cancel this order, please call Customer Service at 1-800-966-6546 and we
will attempt to cancel it before it ships.
If you don't request that we cancel this order and we cannot fulfill it within
10 days, we will presume that you consent to us canceling the order and we will
cancel it at that time. You will be notified of the cancellation.
What do they mean they are working with the suppliers to get this filled?
They told me it was in stock, the website says this item is in stock, and they are still offering customers 1 day shipping.
The last day a customer can order to get it on December 24th is Thursday the 20th at 11:30pm.
But they are telling me in this email, they are working with the supplier to get it filled?
Does that sound to any of you like this item is in stock?
Yesterday, they would not let me cancel the order, they told me it was processing.
My money has been tied to this purchase for an entire week, and now they tell me I can cancel it?
With only a few days left to try and get this somewhere else?
Their website says it's in stock!
They are still selling this item on the website, yet they don't actually have any!
My credit card has had a hold on this money for a whole week, I have no idea how long it's going to take Walmart to actually cancel this and release my funds, and then how long after that, that my credit card will release the funds back to me.
I may possibly get to spend my money by New Years!
This was a Christmas present for the boys that I was going to give them early because they need it now.
Not in 10 business days if Walmart finally gets the supplier to ship more product.
And of course, they cover their butts and say they may not get any more within 10 days, and will just assume I want to cancel at that point.
I can't even call them to cancel this until 6am central time, it's only 5am here now, I have 1 week to try and get this someplace else, and no local stores have it.
I've called, I've checked online, the only other place that has this is an online store based on the west coast, Pacific coast.
I can't call them to verify they really have this until 5am Pacific time.
And that's if Walmart immediately cancels my order, and if my credit card immediately releases the hold.
It will cost me an additional $65 to get it sent by Fedex, next business day priority from this on line store.
If they even really have it.
You have absolutely no idea how livid I am.
Walmart has wasted an entire week of my time, my money, $421.10 of my money, has been held captive for a week, I have made calls to them every single day, spent over 4 and a half hours total, just sitting on hold during the last week, waiting for a rep to pick up.
Every call I made, they assured me the item was in stock.
Their own website says it's in stock.
And at 4am on December 19th, 5 days after I was originally supposed to receive this, they send me an email telling me they are sorry but I won't be getting it because they need to work with the supplier to get more of this item.
At 4am on December 19th, 7 days after I paid for it, they tell me that I can now cancel this order after being told for the last 2 days, that I could not cancel it because it was processing and would be shipping soon.
I am so furious right now.
You have no idea what kind of rage state I am in.
I've been sitting here typing this for about an hour.
I have been making sure I've gotten every detail of this straight by going over my notes I took during each and every phone call.
I may not be able to get the boys their Christmas present that I tried so hard to get.
I saved as much money as I could, I put my own Christmas present money and my earnings, and the money from Aunt Heather, together to do this, and now I may not be able to do it at all.
I am so upset right now.
I tried so hard to do this.
I was finally able to get them this really great gift for Christmas, and Walmart screwed me the hell over for an entire week!
Do you think Walmart is going to care how much of my time they have wasted?
Do you think they will care that my money has been held hostage by them for a whole week?
I don't think they will care at all.
I don't think they ever did care.
They held onto my money as long as they could because that's all they cared about.
They lied to me repeatedly, told me I would definitely have it by Christmas, it was shipping soon, wouldn't let me cancel it, assured me repeatedly this item was in stock and I would definitely be getting it.
Walmart will NEVER get another penny of my money ever again.
I will NEVER shop at any of their brick and mortar stores again.
I will NEVER shop at Walmart.com ever again.
One of the sucky things about being a single parent is you like hardly ever get gifts at Christmas, unless you buy them yourself.
My parents always send me some money, my sis usually gets me something, and a friend sometimes surprises me with a gift, but single parents usually get the stale end of the candy cane most of the time.
So we buy our own gifts, and when the boys were little, I used to sign the tag from them so they felt like they gave me a gift.
It made them very happy to watch me open a gift from them, like they somehow were responsible for getting it for me.
It made them smile and be happy, so it's one of those fond memories I have of the holidays with them. They thought it was magic that mommy got a gift from them when they had no money and didn't pick it out.
They were always excited to see what they got me. *laugh*
They would find the present under the tree and race it over to me and say "Mommy hurry open it, it's from us!"
Adorable.
As I said, my parents sent me a little bit of money for myself for xmas, but I spent it on the teens.
I combined everyone's money and mine together to get the boys the gift that Walmart.com is holding hostage. They will eventually get that whenever the hell my order gets found and shipped, and 2 more video games.
But last night I sold an ad here on my site for a nice small bit of change, and decided to treat myself to some pretty-up things because I'm a total make-up whore.
I love make-up, and Avon is starting to sell mineral make-up for way way less than those big mineral make-up companies.
A friend of mine who uses Avon, told me that their mineral make-up is actually better than Bare Escentuals, and for far less money.
I went to my Avon reps website* and logged in, clicked shop by brochure, chose the me-spree catalog, and bought myself the following.
They were having a $5 each buy 2 get 1 free sale on their line of Mark haircare, and their curly hair products are awesome, so I snatched up the following; Salon straight anti-frizz, Curl Goddess defining gel, and Curl Goddess curling mist.
A foundation brush for $5.99, and oh yeah, from the Outlet catalog, I bought a Footworks foot file for .79 cents.
Then I picked up an all over color stick for $2.99 in rosy shimmer, it's for eyeshadow, eyeliner and lips, all at once. Perfectly coordinated looks in one item. Cool.
Then I got two big color eye pencils in eggplant and classic mocha for just $3.99 each, and for $7.99, I got their Personal Match smooth mineral makeup, and for just $3.99, a Personal Match concealer stick.
Shipping was only $3 with the offer code of SHIP3.
My total was $42.73. Not bad at all.
It will ship tomorrow, and I'll have it by Saturday.
*Yes my Avon rep is a man, he is the grandfather of Kelle, one of my friends.
He and his wife sell Avon to make ends meet.
Ordering on line is easy, and they ship it anywhere right from the Avon warehouse by ground shipping.
No personal Avon rep has to deliver it to you. It's all done through the mail now.
I love that!
I always felt kinda weird having some lady come over and show me stuff while I flipped through a catalog, or wrote down my order. I prefer to shop anytime on line in my comfy clothes ya know?
TMZ and OK Magazine, are confirming that 16 year old Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney Spears younger sister, is indeed pregnant.
Jamie Lynn did a six page interview for the magazine and talked about her pregnancy.
The father is 19 year old Casey Aldridge, whom she met at church. (HA!!!!)
Jamie Lynn has decided she is keeping the baby.
Nickelodeon who produces the Zoey 101 show, which Jamie Lynn is the star of, issued this statement;
"We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being."
It's also being reported that Britney is "frantic" over this news which she did not know until the story broke today.
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The Spears family is so entertaining.
We have the crazy Brit who stays out all night driving around LA drinking Starbucks, and either running over or talking to the paparazzi, stealing things from stores, acting nuts, and now her little sister is following in her foot steps.
This family has some serious issues.
But I thank them for the entertainment they provide almost daily.
I've started getting hooked on celeb gossip rags like Perez Hilton and TMZ, just so I can read about all the wacky doings of celebrities.
They have provided me some of the best entertainment these past few months, especially the crazy antics of Britney.
That girl be crazy!
How long till Nickelodeon cancels Zoey 101 and fires Jamie Lynn?
I mean, they are a kids television channel, supposed to be providing decent shows for kids, what kind of role model is Jamie Lynn now?
Just because she's going to step up to the plate and keep her baby, doesn't change the fact that she's a 16 year old who got knocked up by a 19 year old, does it?
Gonna kill somebody.
Walmart.com just called me, and they are "investigating" why my order has not been processed.
There is no hold, the CC has been authorized, there is no reason that they can see why my order is still sitting at pending.
Someone will call me in 3-5 business days with an update.
WTF!?!?!
3-5 business days with an update?!
OMG!
I'm so fucking pissed!
I went to my docs, they fixed the medication problem that Walgreen's wouldn't fill because of a drug interaction with something else he gave me.
I got the money order I was waiting on, just need to get to Amscot to deposit it.
Annnnnd, I am keeping my fingers and toes and everything else crossed, that I may be one of the lucky people to win an elliptical machine today.
I could so totally use that.
I could do all my working out right here at home instead of having to go for long walks around my hood that has no sidewalks, where I almost get hit by cars, where I take the risk of falling again, and I could use it for PT at home instead of having to go to a PT place and pay money I don't have for someone to tell me to work out on the elliptical for 30 minutes.
It would be awesome!
Keep your fingers crossed for me ok?
Please?!
I want it so bad.
I forgot to tell the teens to take out the trash, and the usually very late in the day garbage men had already come by 7:30am.
Now my trash will sit here till next Monday night and pile up, and stink.
Ugh.
I need to get my butt in gear and take a shower because I have a doc appointment today at 10:15am.
And I'm sitting here at almost 9am dead tired and not wanting to take a shower and go out in the cold.
I just have this feeling that things are not going to go right today and something is going to go wrong.
I have like this sense of dread hanging over me.
Need to get moving.
Later days.
That's our current temps, it's not bad at all.
I actually love it when it gets like this, my body doesn't, but I do.
It will be about 39 degrees when the boys head off for school in the morning, so I need to make sure they are wearing their hoodies when they leave.
They walk to school, and even though it's not far at all, about a 10 minute walk, Sebastian said it was cold this morning, so I know tomorrow will be cold too.
Some locals on the message board were whining about how cold it is.
They have no idea what cold really is if they've lived here their whole lives.
Last February when we went to Maine, it was 10 degrees with a wind child ranging between -10 and -20 below zero the entire week we were there.
Now that's cold.
Sebastian and I went for a walk this evening around our hood to look at lights, and I saw this cool tree a few streets over.
Not many people here decorate outside for the holidays, it does look weird decorating your super green lawn and palm trees with Christmas decorations, but at least a few of our neighbors went all out.
Ok, my kids and my sister play WoW, (world of warcraft) I don't, but the teens thought I should see this funny little creature called a Murloc.
So they made me look it up on youtube, and made me watch this video.
Holy hell is this funny.
Just thought I'd update you all on the ordering and shipping fiasco from this post I made on Friday.
The supervisor, Carol, told me it had shipped, I would receive it today.
She reversed the $36, 1 day shipping charges because obviously, it didn't ship in 1 day like it was supposed to, but yes ma'am, you will get it on Monday.
I want to show you all something.
Check this shit out. Click for bigger.
I blacked out what I bought because the teens read my blog, but do you see what it says?!
It says I should have received this between Thursday 12/13/07 and Friday 12/14/07, but oh, look over to the right hand side.
What does that say?
It says it's still processing!!!!
So, I called them back again today after checking my CC transactions, which says this is still pending, and spoke to some cranky ass bitch who yelled at me that I would get it in time for Christmas.
Hello?
That's not the point! I paid for it to arrive on a certain day, it wasn't going to, and they promised me it would arrive today, and it's not.
So where the fuck is it?!
So Carol, the supervisor, said that my order is still processing and she was going to expedite it to the ordering people, and to wait 48 business hours before expecting an answer from them on where my package is.
Ugh!!!
I am so fucking pissed!!
This hasn't been processed, it hasn't been charged, it hasn't fucking shipped, and no one at Walmart.com seems to know why my package is still fucking processing!!!
Arrrrgggghhhh!!!!
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The boys and I have always loved the Bat.
I loved the old Batman show when I was a kid, as corny as it was.
I watched very cartoon incarnation of it, every movie movie version through Keaton, Kilmer and Clooney, and the latest with Bale.
Heath Ledger is an awesome joker.
He looks menacing, sounds menacing.
He has made that role his own.
Everyone was so worried he'd try to do like Nicholson, no way, he is the joker.
He doesn't look like himself at all, doesn't sound like himself.
I can't wait for it to come out.
Summer can't get here fast enough now.
2008 is going to be a great year for movies.
I don't know how many people knew of him or his music, but I grew up listening to his beautiful songs.
My dad just sent me some of his cds a few weeks ago, and I have played them over and over.
There is one song that no matter how many times I hear it, I cry.
I can't explain it, it just gets to me and the tears start falling.
Dan Fogelberg died today at age 56 from a 3 year long battle with prostate cancer.
He died at his home in Maine with his wife Jean by his side.
The news was posted to his website this morning, and there is letter that Dan wrote about prostate cancer posted there as well.
This is that one song that gets me every time.
I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the new J.J. Abrams movie, Cloverfield, by now.
I've been following the developments on Twisted when news has come up.
We now have 5 full minutes of the movie.
It's mostly what we have seen in the trailers, but it's now in sequence and makes more sense.
Please wait for the widget to load and check it out.
One of the reasons I don't sleep well is because of my bed.
It's about 9 years old now, and super firm.
Pre-surgery, that super firm spring coil mattress worked great, my back totally needed that support, but since having the spinal fusion surgery almost 2 years ago, that super firm mattress is killing me.
I am fused from the top of my shoulder blades all the way to my tail bone.
When I lay down on my bed, my entire spine pops and snaps like someone cracking their knuckles.
It hurts when it does that.
I wake up every morning stiff and in pain.
It takes me close to an hour every morning to get loosened up and free from the pain of sleeping on that hard bed all night long.
Some nights I just sleep on the couch because come bed time, I'm already too sore to lay on that hard bed.
I laid on one of those memory foam mattress beds in a store in the mall once, and loved it.
I would love to have one of those beds for myself because it conforms to your body, supports it where it needs to be supported, and helps you get a better nights sleep.
I found a great deal on those beds at Bed in a Box, and Sebastian and I decided to have a little fun and make a commercial. Sort of.
We were just goofing around and came up with this.
It's a play on a family joke about a door, and whether or not it really is a door.
Never mind, just watch Sebastian do a little acting, and me do a little price surfing.
This is what is left of the GIANT wolf spider that was crawling across my living room floor this morning.
I was so paralyzed with fear, that I sat here in my chair and screamed until Sebastian woke up and killed it.
Yes, I am that afraid of these 8 legged critters.
They all must die.
Like this one did when Sebastian grabbed a shoe and mashed it into the carpet.
Sebastian then cleaned up the guts and flushed the spider carcass down the toilet.
Yay!
I seriously hate them.
Especially these wolf spiders.
They are so big and furry, and fast.
OMG! Are they fast.
They run at you on their back legs.
They like go into attack mode and come at you.
I'm so happy Sebastian is ok with spiders and doesn't mind getting close enough to kill them.
I actually become paralyzed with extreme fear.
I can barely breathe when I see spiders.
After that, I decided to clean out the fridge.
There were things in there that were alive and growing, stuffed way in the back in storage containers.
Good thing they were those cheap Glad ones, I just tossed every single container that looked like if I opened it, it would jump out and bite me.
You know how on the door of most refrigerators, there's that compartment with the roll-lid?
Most people put the butter sticks there, I kept ketchup packets and soy sauce packets, and marinara sauce containers from pizza and take out places in it.
For like 9 years.
I'm serious.
I read the little label on the the small tub of marinara sauce from Papa Johns pizza, and it was dated best if used by April 17th, 2004.
Um.
Yeah.
That's totally gross, and I honestly have no idea why I stuffed all those little packet thingies in there, but I did.
They are now all gone.
I'm surprised some of them didn't like blow up from being so old and fermenting or something.
Wanna know how to have some free entertainment with your video game addicted teenagers?
Keep the tv remote on your computer desk, and every so often change the channel from 3* to like 98 or something, and then watch them freak out and scream like little girly girls.
It's hysterical!
"Mom! What are you doooo-ing!? My guy is gonnnnnna diiiiiieeee!! Moooooommmm! Pleeeeease!"
Hahahahahaha!
*3 is the channel that our tv needs to be on in order to make the video game appear.
Several months ago, maybe about 5 or 6, I received many emails from blogging friends begging me to sign up under them to use the Agloco viewbar and we'd all get rich.
It was easy money baby!
Just use the viewbar, surf 5 hours a month, and make money.
Every person who emailed me, got the same reply.
No. It's an MLM, a pyramid scheme, it's the same people who did the Alladvantage thing a few years ago. Sorry, but you're not going to make any money, and I'm not going to waste my time.
We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.
So yeah, really happy I have been online for a few years now, and had done my research on the company because otherwise, I'd be sitting on some forum right now bitchin' with all the other people who wasted their time thinking they were gonna strike it rich.
I had even sent links to some of these people to show them that it was a pyramid scheme, and they still signed up and surfed for hours, one person even telling me I was going to be sorry that I didn't join up when they make their big money, they'll be laughing at me and saying I told ya so.
Who's laughing now huh?
Is it wrong of me to say I told ya so?
I'm sure it is, but I did tell you.
I tried to warn people, but oh no, the easy money deal is simply to good to pass up for some people.
The almighty, easy to make dollar, cannot be passed by some people.
There's that old saying that says, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I do feel sorry for all the people who got scammed, I really do, but it pays to do your research sometimes.
I haven't felt myself all week, and it just dawned on me why, while I was grocery shopping this afternoon.
The muscle relaxer I'm taking causes drowsiness, dizziness, and blurred vision.
I've been sleeping almost non-stop all week, lethargic, lazy, haven't wanted to do a damn thing.
And I kept changing my contact lenses because I thought they were dirty.
Nope, just the meds.
I'm gonna stop taking them and tell the doc on Tuesday that I can't take these.
I have to be able to function, and with these, I simply don't want to do a damned thing.
I hope the effects wear off soon. I hate feeling like this.
I babysat the girls this morning for a few hours, and then went shopping so I could feed the teenage garbage disposals, and picked up Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We love the HP movies and books.
Mark had gone out with George and saw Beowulf, so Sebastian and I watched HP while they were gone.
And I didn't forget to post an xmas tune today, so here ya go.
Punk Rock Christmas- Sex Pistols
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I always complain about the amount of noise the boys make when they are here.
The video game is too loud, they are bickering too loud etc.
When they go away to my sisters for the night, I'm suddenly missing the noise, and bored out of my mind.
It's a mothers curse I swear.
We long for a break from our kids and as soon as we get one, we long to have them back with us.
Oh, here's that video I tried to show you this morning, it's on myspace videos now.
Must watch if you're a DC comics fan. *wink wink*
So what am I doing tonight to entertain myself?
Well, I've done the laundry and all the dishes, cleaned the bathroom and counter tops, and baked a cake.
Yes, I certainly do live the high life when I have free time away from the teens.
Tomorrow, the girls are coming over for a few hours, then I need to go shopping and see if Walgreen's ever finished filling that script of mine.
Oh joy, what fun, my weekend shall be.
I didn't forget about a holiday song for the day, I was just busy doing other stuff.
But here's a rare one for you.
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I mean it, don't order anything from Walmart.com and expect it to arrive when they say it will.
I ordered the boys a bunch of stuff for Christmas, I paid for expedited shipping.
$36.00 for expedited shipping, so the stuff would arrive TODAY.
I get up this morning, and I have an email from them saying that they just now processed my order.
I ordered this stuff on Wednesday, paid for super fast shipping, and they just now processed my order?!?!
My order may or may not arrive tomorrow, most likely on Monday.
What?!
Did they hire some New York movers to drive to their warehouse, then drive it around the country before getting here?
I'm seriously pissed off.
So, I called Walmart.com and was on hold for 47 minutes before I got to speak to a real live person.
Push 1 for customer, push 3 if you ordered on line, push 4 if there's a problem with your order.
After 47 minutes, I finally got a rep and explained to her what happened.
I purchased on Wednesday, paid for expedited shipping so the stuff would arrive today.
My order history page even says it WILL arrive TODAY, yet they just processed my order this morning.
Gah.
I explained this 3 times to the rep.
I paid for it to arrive TODAY. I expected it today, and you just processed my order.
"Ma'am, what do you want me to do?"
I want you to fix this. It says my stuff is arriving today, but now it's not, probably won't arrive till Monday, but I PAID for it to arrive TODAY.
I want my expedited shipping charges reversed dammit.
So after about 10 minutes going round and round with her, she asks me if I want a supervisor.
Um, yeah. Ya think?
So the supervisor gets on the phone, I explain it all to her, and she asks me what I want her to do.
Ugh.
I want the expedited shipping charges reversed because I PAID for it to arrive TODAY and now it's not.
My order history page even says it WILL arrive TODAY, do you see that on your screen? Do you?!
"Yes ma'am, I do see where it says it will arrive today, but that's just an estimate."
No, it's not an estimate, if it was an estimate, it would say your package is ESTIMATED to arrive today.
It says it WILL arrive today and it's not, because you just processed the order this morning, and my package will arrive on Monday.
Fix it.
"Yes ma'am. I'll reverse the expedited shipping charges."
Thank you. Oh, and when people do order from your site, it shouldn't say things like your package will arrive on such and such day, if it's an estimate, make sure it says estimate.
I paid that shipping charge because it said I will receive it today, not estimated to get it today, but will.
"Yes ma'am, I'm terribly sorry about that. I'll see what we can do to fix that."
Thank you.
I will NEVER order from them again.
Ever.
Seriously. You have to watch this.
*EDIT* The video got placed under friends only. Bummer. I knew it was too good to last.
In a matter of 3 minutes, I got over 45 spam comments.
I briefly removed the ability to comment, and may have to do it again if it starts up again.
I am just letting you all know why you may not be able to post any comments over night.
That's probably the safe way to go, just shut them off at night.
I don't want my hosting company taking my site off line because of a spam attack.
They've done it before, and I freaked out cuz my site was down, but I understand why they did it.
So anyway, I may turn comments off over night to stop the spam attack.
Later days.
I keep up on a lot of the gossip blogs, and much to my surprise, there were no celebs going into or coming out of a drug rehabilitation center this week.
Did I miss a story?
I know Britt missed her deposition for custody claiming an "anxiety attack" due to how many paparazzi were outside her home, but then last night around 2am, she went out driving and spoke to them like nothing at all was wrong.
And Amy Winehouse who needs rehab, has yet to check into one even after her mother made that very public plea to her daughter to come home and get help.
It's been boring celeb gossip week.
One of the songs the boys absolutely love listening to at Christmas is the Hanukkah song by Adam Sandler.
They laugh and laugh no matter how many times they've heard it before, so I'm passing on the giggles to you.
I'm sure you've heard it many times before, but anyway, here it is.
Hanukkah Song
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You don't need Deck the Halls or Jingle Bell Rock
Cause you can spin a dreidl with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock--both Jewish!
I've taken to watching Degrassi the next generation every morning at 9:30 on one of the local stations.
I know it's for teens, but I used to watch Degrassi Junior High, and then Degrassi High during the late 80's.
On Degrassi Junior High, the character Spike was pregnant and then gave birth to Emma.
Emma is now one of the main characters on Degrassi TNG.
I was just watching one of the episodes, and Spike was in it, getting married to Archie, or Snake as fans of DJH knew him.
It was a good flashback, I got to see other characters from when I watched like Joey, Caitlin and Liz.
Every Sunday morning, another local station plays back to back episodes of DTNG.
The boys and I have started watching those too.
I used to love Degrassi when I was growing up, so it's kinda cool to see some of the old characters from when I used to watch.
I have another xmas song for you. It's full of bad words, but totally funny.
Ho Ho F'n Ho- Monty Python
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I don't like the taste of it at all, but man, I do love those fancy espresso machines and coffee makers they sell now.
They have those pod ones, and multi cup ones.
I saw this one on some cooking show this weekend, that breed your coffee one cup at a time.
You set it on the base, and it knew the cup was there, and instantly brewed one cup of coffee.
I have no idea how that works because you have to load it with coffee and water, but the rest of the coffee grounds don't get used until you make your next cups.
It was really neat.
I want a machine that makes hot chocolate.
I want it to be like a coffee or espresso machine, all the buttons and stuff, but it makes hot chocolate.
That would be very cool.
We have this tiny little tree we absolutely love. It's covered in purple lights, all the boys decorations they made through the years, fun stuff.
So here's our little tree all decorated.
Here's our tree topper, Zero from the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin, Mario, Yukon Cornelius, and the black power ranger.
And here's another song for you.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas by Tori Amos gone baby gone
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Twisted Sister put out a Christmas cd awhile back, and I love it so I thought I'd share.
I saw mommy kissing claus gone baby gone
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Teaching infants how to roll onto their backs and stabilize themselves to float until help arrives, is crucial.
Watch this video on ISR, Infant Swimming Resources, and then ask yourself if your baby or toddler could save themselves.
If you are a parent of any age child, and you own a pool, you need to watch this and then teach your kids how to save themselves.
Any child at any age from 6 months and up, can learn this life saving technique.
We are always reading or hearing stories of how a baby fell in a pool and drowned.
They don't have to.
Seriously.
Drew Peterson, the man suspected of killing his fourth wife Stacey, has a website where you can donate money and help him defend himself against these charges.
Check out the Official Drew Peterson Defense Fund.
This is crazy.
Drew and his children risk losing their life savings, house, automobiles and may end up impoverished, all by simply defending himself against allegations.
*UPDATE*
The website has been taken down.
This day just dragged didn't it?
I'm so glad it's almost over.
Anyway, this morning, Mark's teacher called me to let me know he finished his work.
As soon as he completed it, he called her over to his desk and asked her to check it.
She did, and then he says "Can you please call my mom? She grounded me because you called on Thursday and said I didn't do it. Please Mrs. W.?"
So she called me and told me, and I told her to tell him he was un-grounded.
I heard this woo-hoo in the background. *LOL*
Yesterday after I left the new pain docs, I went straight to Walgreen's to get the new scripts filled, he added a muscle relaxer and some Ultram ER and the regular Lortabs I have been taking. The muscle relaxers give me wicked cottonmouth by the way.
The pharmacist couldn't fill the Ultram because it interacts with the muscle relaxer in some people, and causes seizures, so she said she was going to call my doc and see if he knew that and still wants me to take it.
I just checked the Walgreen's site to see it's progress, and it says it was filled yesterday and picked up.
I'm all no, I didn't pick that up, the pharm wouldn't fill it.
So I called Walgreen's and they said the computers have been malfunctioning all day and saying that every script that has been dropped off has been filled and already picked up by the customers.
The pharm clerk sounded absolutely frazzled as she said this.
I can only imagine how it's been all day having to deal with the computers saying every order was complete and picked up, while the customers stand there probably screaming, that they didn't pick it up.
She said as soon as they fill it, if they fill it, they will call me but I can expect an email saying it's ready and it won't really be ready.
On to the digital.
On February 17th, 2009, all broadcast tv will go digital.
You can find out more about it at DTV answers, and also learn about the digital converter box that you will need if you don't have cable or satellite tv already.
That's the group I fall into, no cable, no satellite tv, just an antenna on top of the tv.
Between Jan. 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, all U.S. households will be eligible to request up to two coupons, worth $40 each, to be used toward the purchase of up to two, digital-to-analog converter boxes. For more information about the converter box coupon program, call 1-888-DTV-2009 or visit ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon.
So come January, I'll be signing up for that coupon. I can't afford to buy a digital tv, so I'll be needing the converter box, and if I can get a coupon for it, all the better.
The boxes cost about $60, so getting $40 off will definitely help.
Tree time!
I have my tree out and placed where I want it, the lights are on, but no ornaments yet. I just can't seem to get in the mood to decorate at all. The tree is the only thing I have out.
Pretty darn pathetic right?
I'm going to try and get it done tomorrow.
At least finish the tree.
I was going to do some xmas shopping on line today and didn't, instead we watched Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.
It was pretty good, what I saw of it anyway. I fell asleep a few times, jolted awake, fell asleep again.
I'll have to watch it tomorrow or something and hopefully stay awake during it this time.
Every year, I usually post some songs for people to download, getting a late start on it this year, but I thought I'd start off with the rare version of Ave Maria by Soundgarden.
It's so beautiful, and I know some people have never heard it.
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Ave Maria Gone baby gone.
The climate changes are causing the runway which Santa uses to take off and deliver toys from, is melting.
He's not sure if he'll be able to make it this year.
Check it out at Green Santa.
I dumped a ton of blogs from my feed reader the other day, and I need some new ones.
The blogs I dumped, I had simply outgrown them, they no longer held my interest for various reasons.
Lately it seemed all most of them were doing was complaining about the Google spanks, or posting very specific keywords and blog posts to move themselves up in the SERPs.
Talking about poop, sex, high profile boxing matches, Hannah Montana, Britney, cold murder cases in the news etc.
And not just on one blog, but it was like a network of bloggers were all posting the same ideas and linking to each other in their posts.
Hey, I'm all for trying to make your blog move on up, but I read those blogs because I liked them as people, I liked how personal their posts were, I could relate.
I can't relate any more.
So I need some new reads, if you have a great blog that I should be reading, post it in the comments.
Just the straight link to their homepage, not a post of theirs or yours, *wink*, but a straight up homepage link to their blog.
Thanks.
I met my new pain doc today and OMG, what a difference.
I was there for close to 2 hours, he did a thorough exam, something Doc F has NEVER done.
We went over every test result, the CT scan results, the meds I was taking, what my goals are, and talked about various forms of therapy to help with the pain.
I am so incredibly impressed, unlike Doc F who never did a physical exam, just increased drugs and doses, over charged me on everything, and made me change all of my doctors.
I also learned today that Doc F had pulled the same thing with another former patient, the exact same thing.
Over charged, upped drugs and doses, then turned around and dropped her as a patient when she started asking questions, and called her a drug addict.
My new doc, I told him my goal is to get off the meds completely, find other ways to control the pain because come on, I've been on drugs for 6 years straight, my stomach is a wreck, I'm not getting any better, and the new doc was alright, let's do it.
We talked about swim therapy, and other forms of pain therapy, he can do the point injections right there at his office, he can take care of everything, and help me meet my pain management goals and get off the drugs.
So we lowered my dose and amount, he gave me a muscle relaxer to help with the lock n pop stuff that happens every time I lay down and they will also help me take less pain meds, talked about my walking and my accident, how to avoid that again, we went over everything and I really believe he's going to help me get off the pain meds without all the sickness that accompanies getting off drugs.
I am so so happy, I can't even tell you.
I'm completely exhausted, I will get to emails as soon as I can. I have like 3 days worth of emails to reply to, but things were just odd around here.
I mean this morning, Doc F's office called me and told me I owed them over $100 for office visits.
I told them to shove it up their asses.
They over billed me on every single visit, so take that $100 out of the over payments, I won't be paying them another fucking dime.
They said we'll take you to court, I said please by all means do. I'd love to go to court and show a judge what Doc F did to me, and if I could get that other former patient to go with me as like a witness to show he did the same to her, uh yeah, take me to court bitches.
I welcome it.
Then she hung up on me.
Eh, hang up, I'm still not paying you anymore money, you can sue me for it.
But then I came home and had been paid by 2 different places, that's totally awesome.
I love getting paid. *LOL*
I know I haven't been around all day, but I was on the phone with various people all morning, taking care of stuff, and then meeting my new doc. The day started off bad and turned excellent.
Can't complain about that at all.
Last night was one of the hardest nights I've ever had with Sebastian.
I feel so much for him, and there's nothing I can do.
He got that 'awesome' new Big Brother Jimi, and things were going so well.
I was thrilled Sebastian finally had a Big with goals, was athletic, wanted to do fun things with Sebastian.
I was proud of everything he wanted to accomplish.
He was making a positive change in Sebastian.
Jimi has goals and dreams of being a fireman, he went through fire training academy, and worked, but through it all, he kept in contact with Sebastian.
Jimi had hoped that once he finished training, he'd get a job at the local fire department.
That didn't happen.
This is a young man who needs to work, has huge plans for his life, so when he got a job offer to do construction and be on the fire department in Puerto Rico, he took it.
Last night Sebastian got an email that said Jimi was going to New York for Christmas, would be back in January, they would hang out a few final times, and then in February, he was leaving for Puerto Rico for a year.
*crush*
Sebastian got up from checking his email, I could see something was wrong, he went to the bathroom and cried.
I tried to go in, and he said through sniffles he was "taking a poop mom, leave me alone."
He came out and sat next to Mark on the couch, he laid his head on Mark's shoulder, he was trying so hard to hold it all in, then he got up and went to his room.
Mark followed, and I jumped on his email.
I read the words that devastated him.
"I'm leaving for Puerto Rico for a year in February buddy, it's the only work I could get. I promise to see you in January, we'll hang out. I'll always write to you."
I went in to his room, he was huddled under his blankets, sobbing as quietly as he could.
Mark looked at me and said "Mom, it's not fair."
I know, it's so not fair.
His last Big was a complete asshole. Dave never made any time for him, he was always working, he would spend 30 minutes once a month with him, never did anything other than go eat.
Jimi was awesome, they played sports, road bikes, they made plans for their futures together.
Jimi was a guy I was proud to have around him, he was making such a huge difference.
And now he's leaving for a whole year.
I crawled into Sebastian's bed with him, threw my arms around him, and he just cried and cried. "What's wrong with me mom? How come no one wants to spend time with me? Did I do something wrong?"
"Dave never wanted to spend any time with me, treated me like I was dirt. I tried with Jimi mom, I played basketball and road bikes, I did fun stuff with him. Why do they always leave me mom?"
*crush*
I just held onto him and let him cry, told him it wasn't his fault, he's a great kid. Jimi has to work, he has goals.
I'm positive that when Jimi signed up to be a Big, he had every intention of being here, he was trying so hard to get a job with the local fire station, he applied at the fire departments in 4 towns around us, but he's young, and only just graduated fire training, has no experience, they won't hire him.
He needs to work and get experience, and that work and experience is in Puerto Rico.
It's a terrible shame. I feel just awful.
Sebastian is blaming himself no matter what I tell him, he thinks people don't like him.
My son's heart is broken, he's absolutely crushed. He can't understand why his Big's keep leaving him.
I told him it wasn't his fault, he's such an awesome kid, but all he sees is people leave him.
I told him Jimi will stay in touch, he'll keep emailing him, and Sebastian said "Mom, if I wanted a pen pal, I could get one of those at school through their cross country pen pal program. I wanted a Big, like Mark and George. They have been together 10 years mom. What is wrong with me?!
He just cried and cried, so hurt inside, and I can't find the words to comfort him.
Back in the 1940's, Disney teamed up with various companies and did public service announcements, and some sex education films.
This is the menstruation story.
Enjoy!
First of all, I'm so happy that Kat's having me as a guest! (Love the blog!)
As she said, I have a new novel out 'Waiting to Surface'
Though it's fiction, it's based pretty closely on my life - and tells how I became a single mom like so many of you. I thought I'd tell you a little bit about the story behind the book. At the time the events in Waiting to Surface occurred I was the features director of Self Magazine. My husband was sculptor whose work had been bought by a lot museums and major collectors. We had been married for ten years and had a six year old daughter. My husband had gone down to Florida to visit a friend. He was depressed and we were going thru a rocky period.
Anyway, I was sitting in my office on an August morning when the police in Florida called to tell me my husband had disappeared without a trace. At the time, they thought he had probably drowned. There were indications that he was suicidal. But it was totally baffling to them and to me that they couldn't find his body. The coast guard had scoured the shore by helicopter and found nothing. At first I was of course in total shock but it didn't seem possible that this was all I would find out.
Within a couple of days, the police changed their minds. They believed a body would have washed up and that my husband was alive someplace. The coast guard totally disagreed and said that because of the tides that night if he had gone out just 100 yards, his body would have been washed out to sea. I hired a private detective who came to believe that he had died either accidentally or intentionally but that his body would never be found.
To me the hardest part was coming to accept that I would never really know what happened that night.
Though Waiting to Surface is a very personal story everyone has to deal with uncertainty in their lives to some degree. Every time you send your child out into the world or kiss someone goodbye you don't know what will happen. Learning to live and be happy despite is a big issue for so many of us. So here's my question to all of you: How do you all deal with the uncertainty in your lives????
I woke up with a wicked lower based headache today, it feels like my skull isn't on right.
Like it needs to crack, but it won't.
If I turn my head, it makes this pop n' lock kind of feeling, but it's not cracking, and it still hurts.
I think I slept on it funny.
So we're just having a lazy day, watching movies on 44, The One
Mark and I are having teen/school issues. All we do is argue anymore it seems.
I'm tired of the one word answers, the eye rolling, the bs'ing me about school and shit.
He just has to get a freaking half credit and he'll be fine, and that half credit consists of completing 2 freaking assignments.
You'd think we were asking him to pull out his own teeth with a pair of pliers.
Why the hell do teenagers have to be such pains in the ass?
The colleges are starting to come around and recruit students, help them plan for their futures, help them set up and get TuitionWise student loans or pell grants etc, and he has absolutely no interest in any of it.
He has zero interest in school or college, graduating, nothing that he should be doing.
All he wants to do is play video games, so I took them away completely.
He is not allowed to touch the xbox again. Not until there's a major improvement in his grades and his attitude.
Yes, I am the most hated and mean mommy ever right now.
You should have seen the look I got when I grounded him until his grades come up.
If eye looks were daggers, I would have been stabbed a million times.
Have you ever had to work with people who are just nasty?
I don't mean nasty in a dirty, smelly way, or nasty in a dirty joke telling way, but nasty in a they are mean way.
I've worked with some people who believe they are above everyone else, that they know everything, they talk down to others, and feel they have every right to do this.
They go out of their way to tell you they've been doing the job longer than you, they know more about a subject than you, they can read better than you, just really snobby behavior.
I can't freaking stand it.
Know it alls, snobs, sarcastic, scathing. They claim they just tell it like it is, but what it really is is just mean.
It's like adult bullying.
Actually, I can't even call them adults because they don't behave like adults, they behave like playground bullies.
I try to keep a positive outlook on things, I rant and complain when I have to, just like everyone else, but I do try to keep the positivity flowing as best I can.
I don't know what it is about these kinds of people.
Even when they say mean things to me, I blow it off and stay positive.
I do think about it, but I don't dwell on it.
I was thinking about it just now, and so I figured I'd ask all of you, how do you handle adult bullies?
How do you deal with people who go out of their way to put others down?
I've read a ton of reviews about Palmolive Oxy Plus, and they all say, even their own website, that it does NOT leave a residue.
"I like that the liquid suds up quickly and produces copious amounts of cleaning bubbles."
It's far, far too many bubbles.
"There is no filmy residue or spots left on the dishes."
Yes there is. Tons of it.
And what the hell is with so much lather??
Dear god, it's like a bubble bath for my dishes.
I don't fill my sink with water and dish soap. I use a dish stick. You fill the dish stick with the soap, and scrub the dishes, there should not be this much soap.
See look, dish stick and excessive lather.
This is the side of the sink I actually wash the dishes in. There should not be this much lather when using the dish stick.
This is the clean silverware.
**
I have to rinse these, and rinse, and rinse and rinse.
I have to scrub them with my hands to get all the soap off.
They feel super slimy unless I use my fingers to rub off every trace of soap.
Just rinsing them so they visually have no soap on them, does not mean they have no soap.
If you don't scrub them with your hands until the slimy soap feeling is gone, the next time you eat, you will taste soap.
This applies to bowls, all the silverware, cups, plates, pots, pans, everything.
No residue my ass.
I'm seriously not impressed. If I had my receipt, I'd ask for my money back.
** My sink is not dirty. This house was built in the mid 70's, these are the original porcelain sinks. They are stained with rust and scratches everywhere.
I'm a Fly Lady, I shine my sink every time I do dishes.
Sure, it may take me a few days to actually do my dishes sometimes, but I clean the sink every single time.
Those stains drive me nuts.
I'd kill for a stainless steel sink.
I just finished writing out, addressing, and stamping my Christmas card list.
You still have time to get a card from me, they will all be mailed out on Monday, so if you want a card, just shoot me an email clicking the handy button at the top of my sidebar, and include your name, address, and zip code, (really important) and a link to your blog so I know who you are.
As per the terms of my privacy policy, your name and address or email, will never be shared or sold, only used for the sole purpose of me sending you a card during the holidays.
Have you ever watched Skunk Fu?
I watch this cartoon every Saturday morning, I absolutely love it.
It's just so funny, the colors are vivid, the sound quality of the voices are great.
The ninja monkeys are so awesome. They crack me up!
But my favorite character is Panda.
The wise old and zen Panda Bear with the little oriental mustache.
He's awesome.
"No Skunk, you must treat you invited guest as you would treat those you call family."
Om.
I am proud to announce that My Single Mom Life will have a new guest author, her name is Emily Listfield.
She runs a site under her name, Emily Listfield.com, and is an established author of about a half dozen books, her most recent is called Waiting to Surface: A Novel
Emily sent me a copy a few days ago, and I dug right into it. I am a few chapters in, and very interested in seeing where the story goes.
The book is based on the real-life disappearance of Emily's husband, and her new struggles in life to raise her daughter and find her missing husband.
It's fascinating so far, gripping, and a mystery waiting to unfold.
From reading some other reviews, she keeps you guessing until the very last page.
I am so happy to have Emily join me here, and I hope that you will all welcome her and enjoy her posts right along with me.
We have decided to hold off on the surgery for 3 more months, we'll decide then.
For now we are going to try some steroid injections right into the spinal column.
At least I think he said steroids.
Something about pain inhibitors directly on the locations with the problems.
At the end of this month, I'll be going in for those shots, and I also need to go back to physical therapy to work on the hip and leg issues because they are weak, maybe PT will help those.
I'm so tired now.
I just want to go to bed.
Riding around all day makes me super tired, and I had to sit and wait for almost an hour because some lady was on her cell phone, talking full blast about a car accident with her lawyer, and she kept interrupting the staff for stuff.
I gotta shake off this tiredness and figure out dinner. The natives are already restless.
I'm up, I need to get in the shower now that the water has heated back up.
The teens have left for school, they have all their stuff, homework, keys in case I'm not back yet, a quick breakfast.
I have all my stuff together and ready to go, just need to make a photocopy of the reports.
I'm ready, mostly.
Kind of nerve wracking.
I find out today if I'll be having that surgery.
Tonight when I get home, I will have Superbad 
I hear it's incredibly funny. I'll watch it first, then let the boys see it if it's not too bad.
It'll be a nice distraction from any bad news and bad moods.
What bad moods?
Teenager bad moods.
Mark is in a funk again, barely speaking to me and I haven't even done anything except ask him how his day was at school.
Uh, yeah, o-k buddy. Chill out.
Teens. *sigh*
Did you ever use Check N' Go of Florida, to get a payday advance loan before September 30, 2001?
If you did, you should have gotten a notice by mail, notifying you of the class action lawsuit.
The plaintiffs are suing because the interest on the loan exceeded the maximum amount allowed under Florida law.
The Net Settlement Fund will be calculated for distribution on a pro rata basis to all Class Members who submit a Valid Claim Form. The maximum amount an individual Class Member can receive under the Settlement is the total fees paid plus 10%. If there is insufficient money in the Net Settlement Fund to pay every Class Member who submitted a Valid Claim Form 110% , the pro rata share will be between 19% and 110% of the total amount of fees paid.
Back in late 1999 and 2000, I was working and had taken out a payday loan. It is a vicious cycle, I would never tell anyone to do a payday loan without thoroughly researching the company you get it through.
Some of them have fees which are so high, it keeps you in the cycle of constantly paying back the loan, and taking it back out again, and again, and again.
So I had taken out payday loans from 3/10/2000 to 11/6/2000. The fees started out at $16.00, and by November 6th 2000, the fees had increased to $32.50.
From March to November, I paid $530.00 in fees that exceeded the maximum allowed by Florida law, making me part of the class.
So I may get all my fees back plus 10%, or somewhere between 19% and 110% of my actual fees, when it settles.
Cool.
I knew they were screwing me, but I was trapped in the never ending cycle.
I've been busy all morning taking care of things for tomorrow's appointment with my surgeon.
I have all the films, typed reports, etc. My sis is getting direct driving directions because the last time mapquest gave us some really stupid ones and we ended up in that traffic nightmare.
I finally have a new pain management doc, he's going to need Doc M to fax him the results after the appointment so he can do the best type of job for me, and concerning the broken iliac screw, the damaged discs, he needs as much information as possible.
I need to do the whole Veet thing because they are gonna do the full body x-rays and exam. I must be hair free...*LOL*
He's totally gonna notice what I did to my leg, I'm gonna have to tell him how it happened. No clue what he'll say about that.
I watched like the most powerful and dark film I have ever seen, last night. I wrote up my review, definitely not for everyone, it still has me shaken this morning.
I need to get busy helping Sebastian with one of his assignments from school. They need the parents to type out some stuff, so I need to do that and put it on the zip drive for him to take to school tomorrow.
I need to eat some lunch and get busy.
Later days!
I had an absolutely fun filled day with Susan, just what I needed.
She always comes dressed so cute, all in pink today.
A cute pink striped sweater because it was cold this morning, cute little pink type golf shoes, a pink long sleeve shirt under her sweater, and a cheery pink disposition.
Just what Aunty Kat needed.
She asked me about 100 times about my "boo-boo", how I got it, the curb that did it to me was mean, where was the curb, did it hurt, does it hurt, and did I need more band-aids.
I think it freaked her out a bit, it is rather ugly looking.
She wanted to touch it so I let her touch it and help me apply more staphaseptic throughout the day to keep it clean and not get infected.
We went outside, we ate lunch, we played party, tea party, and birthday party.
She helped me load the washer, unload it and load them into the dryer, she helped me change the sheets on my bed, feed the kitties, and have birthday parties for the kitties.
I love having her here so much, she just cheers me up and makes me smile.
It's exhausting, but so much fun.
Then the boys came home and had some fun teaching Susan the Bob Dole joke.
What is that?
It's like this, no matter what anyone asks you, the answer is Bob Dole.
So the teens and I taught her how to do it so she could do it to mommy and daddy tonight.
Susan just laughed and laughed, she has no idea why it's funny, but I know her dad gets the joke, he has done it to his friends, so he'll find it wicked funny.
When my sis showed up, she asked, "Susan, how was your day? Were you a good girl?"
Susan: "Bob Dole."
Sis:: "What the hell?" *hysterical laughter*
Mark: "Susan, what color is the sky?"
Susan: "Bob Dole."
Hahahahah!
We taught her good. Her dad is gonna roll with laughter.
Susan was horrified at the sight of my "boo-boo" and proceeded to stick about 20 band-aids on it. (Ow ow ow)
She's helping me with laundry, and feeding the kitties, and even helping decorate for xmas.
Well sorta, she's 4, not quite ornament hanging capable yet.
After I had my little meltdown, I went and made a fast easy dinner and the teens and I watched a movie while I laid on the couch with an ice pack.
The swelling has gone down quite a bit, it still hurts pretty bad, but I think if it were broken, I wouldn't be able to put any pressure on it at all. I can at least tippy toe on my right leg.
My ankle is a bit swollen still, but that's ok, sprains I can deal with.
I now have my ankle in an ace bandage, and I put gauze and staphaseptic on the road rash and cuts on my knee and shin.
It was just a bad day ya know?
They happen sometimes, and a little meltdown here and there on my blog keeps me from exploding at the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.
Tomorrow I'm having my niece Susan spend the day with me. She's not feeling too great, getting over a cold, and my sis has to work and sick kids can't go to school, so she can come play with Aunty Kat all day. She can be my helper.
I have crayons and paper, stickers, doll babies and a baby sling she can carry her babies around in.
Susan loves to help around the house, so I figure she can help me take care of the kitties, and I'll let her do some "cleaning". My sister said that Susan absolutely loves to help out, she likes cleaning, give her a paper towel with some windex sprayed on it, and she'll go around cleaning all the surfaces.
I would never make her do any real cleaning, but she loves to help and I'm sort of sore, so she'll feel like she's helping me.
I have some money to give her too. She is always finding those random pennies or quarters that fall in the couch or on the carpet and asking if she can have them, and the other day at Walgreen's when the cashier gave me my change, all she had were half dollars and the gold dollar coins.
I usually save those, but I'll give those to Susan as a little reward for helping me all day.
She likes to play nurse and doctor, so I'll let her cover me in band-aids too, and then she'll really feel like she's helping me.
Seriously, today has not been a good day.
My leg is still in wicked pain, I have not gone to the ER to have it looked at, I can't really go, I have way too much to do and I'm screwing things up left and right because there's too much to do!
I take the jobs I get very seriously, sure I do them from home, but they are jobs and I treat them as such.
I try to do my best at all times, and today I screwed up big time.
I made a big mistake, and I know better, I knew not to do it, things were totally chaotic, my mind was on my job and my leg.
I was attempting to do it all like I do every other day, and I screwed up.
I mis-typed something and messed up.
No amount of explaining what happened seems to be sufficient.
It was entirely my fault, my mind was attempting to take care of business as usual, and I mis-typed some names and really just screwed it up.
I answer emails constantly from people requesting help on the forums, I answer them, I forward them to the people they need to go to, I help people with forum issues on 2 different forums, I help people with their work, I help people with their amazon affiliate accounts, blogs, hosting, I am constantly sitting here answering emails helping people, and I screwed up because I'm in pain and stressed out!
Yes I'm being hard on myself because I know better than to type what I typed, my mind was taking care of the job, and my fingers typed something else.
You know I don't mind helping people, I do it all day, all night long, I don't mind it, but today was just hectic, I am in pain, on the verge of tears because a friend got reprimanded for MY mistake and it's not right.
I was just trying to help like I do all the time, help people with the stuff they need to do, answer the questions they have because no one else replies to emails, and I screwed up.
I don't expect much, I do what's requested of me, I do what needs to be done, but ya know, an answer to my message on this issue would be nice because I'm sitting here feeling absolutely horrible about it knowing my friend got reprimanded, yet nothing at all has been said to me, the cause of the issue.
It was my mistake. I was doing way too much. I should have simply said I'm not on the clock today and just rested my leg, but I sat here and tried to keep up with it all anyway.
I don't want any pity, that's not what this is, I'm just venting because I screwed up, my fault, it should be addressed to me, I caused it.
Sometimes I can't do it all and mistakes happen.
I go for walks nearly every single day, it's part of my PT to strengthen my back and leg muscles.
Well I was sick for the last week, so no walking.
I just went for my walk and on my way back, my leg gave out. I felt it buckle underneath me, and I came crashing down on my right knee and shin.
It hurts like you would not fucking believe. OMG.
I don't think I broke or fractured it, but I'm pretty sure I twisted my ankle up nice. It's starting to swell up too.
I'm not going to the ER unless I can't walk on it later. I'm gonna stick this out as long as I can, if it gets worse looking, I'll go.
And yes I know my bathroom is fucking disgusting, I haven't been able to clean it for a week.
On November 28th, I posted about the Today Shows coverage of the beauty pageant queen who said she was sabotaged with pepper spray, and how they made it like one of the top news stories that day.
Police now say there's absolutely no evidence of pepper spray in her clothing.
"Police probing the alleged sabotage of Miss Puerto Rico Universe Ingrid Marie Rivera's clothing during the Nov. 23 competition said tests showed no traces of capsicum, the pepper spray's active ingredient, Reuters reported."
"I guess she has a lot of explaining to do," police spokesman Stephen Alvarez said on Saturday.
"Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo said his department now would focus it's investigation on whether anyone lied to his detectives, which would be a felony."
So the beauty queen lied?
Do you get depressed and overly tired in the winter months?
Like a sense of dread, severe boredom, nothing makes you happy?
You end up staying awake all night, sleeping all day, not getting anything done, you call it the winter blues?
It may be S.A.D. seasonal affective disorder.
I'm not a doctor, just someone who used to go through this very badly when I lived up north.
I would be absolutely miserable all winter long.
The short daylight hours, the long, long dark nights, absolutely miserable.
I would sleep off and on most of the day. If the boys who were small toddlers then, took naps, so did I.
I'd actually force a family nap because I needed the sleep, I just didn't want to be awake.
I would have every blind and curtain open during the day, attempting to get as much light in the house as possible, I would leave lights on all night, I would do anything I could to see sunshine, but up north, blah, there hardly was any.
The skies were always gray, snowy, gloomy, and inside, I was the same.
I had bad miserable thoughts, gained weight, I had no energy.
70-80% of S.A.D. people are women.
It's most prominent in people who live in increased latitudes, northern areas.
If I had known then about light therapy boxes, I probably would have tried one.
Since moving here to Florida, I haven't experienced the "winter blues" again.
It's sunny here all the time, even in winter.
We don't have those gray gloomy skies, we are not trapped in our houses by snow, just opening a single window's blinds, lets in so much sun, I don't feel the blues like I did up north.
I'm posting this because I have a friend who I think may be suffering the winter blues or S.A.D. She's become increasingly depressed, is tired all the time, sleeping all day, no energy or will to do anything, feeling like she's in a funk but can't figure out why.
I know she won't go see a doctor about it, but maybe if she just tries light therapy on her own, a few minutes a day to start in the morning, maybe it will help her.
I'm no doctor, already said that, but I mean it, she's freaking stubborn and hates doctors and hospitals, she won't go see one about this.
I just want her to feel better, it's not just some funk, it actually has a name that fits it's symptoms.
I emailed her a few links about it, I hope she at least checks it out and looks into a light box.
It might help her.
My friend Leslie emailed me about the 2007 Worldwide Candle Lighting which takes place this Sunday December 9th at 7pm your time.
At 7pm where ever you live, light a candle in remembrance of the children who have died.
Held annually the second Sunday in December, this year December 9, The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor children in a way that transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries.
I have a few friends who have lost children, so I'll be lighting a candle in honor of all of them, and for "Busy Lizzy", Leslie's daughter.
A tragic accident took her far too soon. I think about her and her family often, my heart broke the day I heard the news. I can only imagine the grief a parent feels at losing a child, and so by joining Leslie and my other friends in lighting a candle on Sunday night, I will honor and remember each child and the light they each held and brought into the lives of those who knew them.
Join us Sunday night at 7pm and light a candle to honor their memory.
I'm attempting to get to things, emails, work, home and family, all of it.
It totally sucks being sick and not have someone else here to pick up the slack when I'm down.
I'm really trying here.
I'm like in a wicked fog, my eyes are blurry, my hands are shaky, just blah.
I need to figure out dinner and all that good stuff. I think the boys are tired of eating cereal for dinner for the last few days.
I'm so freaking over the google stuff. My god people, let it go.
You and a ton of other people lost your page rank. Whoopdie doo!
The rules are the rules ya know?
If you did paid links, you broke the rules. Boycott, scream, kick, rant and rave, it is what it is and you can make a choice.
Admit you did wrong, remove or nofollow the links, or keep doing whatever it is you want to do on your blog and live with it.
That's all you can do.
All this OMG this sucks whatever shall do stuff, is wearing so super thin, I'm starting to get uber cranky about it.
And I swear, if people start adding links to their relevant content to their sites in my comment field, I'll strip it out faster than they could type it in.
If you have relevant content, email it to me, don't spam my comment box with it like a spammer does.
Yes, I am sorta cranky, why do you ask?
Y'all don't mind if I just take a bunch of Nyquil and come back later when I can actually breathe right?
Good cuz that's what I'm doing.
Ugh. My whole damn head feels like a balloon filled with mucus.
Later days.
I have a cold, I just want to sleep.
I'll be off an on. as I feel better.
Sending the teens out for Nyquil.
I can't take it anymore.
