This time every year I get sick!

It seems this time every year I end up sick, right around or near Valentine’s Day!  I guess that is just the set time for my body or just when flu season kicks in again?  Saturday was the worst day for me.  I had a hard enough time crawling in and out of bed trying to make it to the bathroom, barely able to keep liquids down, just wasn’t fun.  I have aches and pains all over, even today.  I am able to keep fluids down and I have a small appetite and I am pushing fluids more than solids at the moment.  Now I am all congested!  So something definitely just has to work its way through.  I just put a lasagna together for the family for dinner, well all but dad, he won’t eat that.  I have to make him something else.

Speaking of dad, guess what up and died?  His laptop!  This makes the 4th computer this man has gone though.  He spilled his coffee in it at one point this weekend, although he says he didn’t, first you can smell the burnt coffee and the keys have the splash marks all over it and down into it.  Even the mouse pad area has it.  I messed around with it today and yep its down on the inside.  Fried the sucker he did!  Now he is pouting.  Well I am not buying another one.  Let him cut back on his driving (gas expense) for a month and buy one himself.  This morning oh man was he a trip!  It’s going to be a long week.  I told him over and over, at least one hundred times NOT to eat and play at the same time and he didn’t listen.  He doesn’t care.  Well maybe let him buy one.  He said maybe one of his friends has an extra computer so I told him today if he comes home with a desktop style, its going in his ROOM!  Not out there!  I don’t have room for another desk with the kitty castle and my baker’s rack and stuff.  I am not having a computer desk in the middle of the room either.   So that is fine if he is lucky and a friend has one for him, but it will go in his room, like it or not!

What was he thinking??

My hubby I am so beyond frustrated with him.  I am trying to figure out why in the heck he never changed his number of dependents claimed at work for tax purposes?  He didn’t change them since we first got married!   Hello!  When our President did the tax decrease this past year and they took less out to help stimulate the economy that should of been a red flag.  I said something several times to him did he listen?  NO!  Even though he made  way less than previous years, we are talking about 30% less here, we are going to have to pay this year anyhow because he didn’t change that number!  For hours I sat last night and used two different programs, which now I don’t trust either one because both came up with two different amounts and not just a few dollars off.  I told him for this year I think we need someone to do our taxes for us.  I have a little income I need to claim as well which isn’t the issue in paying taxes. I have mine put away to cover it.  We still would get back from the state, its just the federal return.   What was he thinking??  Now he is all in a mood, hey I didn’t do it, it was something he did or didn’t do, not me!  So why do I have to take his moody comments about it?   I mean his son is 22 as of this month we haven’t been able to claim in in how many years?  Then there is the change with my daughter we can’t claim her either, that is a difference of two right there!    I don’t feel I should have to ride his ass on this stuff!  I assumed he was being responsible, he is the head of the house here!  I can’t do it for him!   I am not going to sit and stress over it either, I don’t feel I should have too!  I want so much to just yell at him but do you know what that would do?  Cause a huge argument between us!  So I can’t, nope I have to sit back and be the good wife and not say a word about it, if I did I be accused of not being supportive!  Not going there!  Just not going there!

Guess what tomorrow is?

Guess what tomorrow is?  The third of the month, sigh!  That means my morning will start with waking up, walking out to the living room and seeing dad’s checkbook, pen, and car payment book on my desk, him looking at me and then looking at his watch!  Its the same routine in the morning on the 3rd of each month.  Banks open at nine just so you know was what I was told has he said goodnight just now.  ARGH.  What is his point.  What would he do should I decide to sleep until 10?  Honestly!  It just doesn’t make for a good start to my day.  No good morning, no chance to get my cup of coffee.  He will even stand over me while I pay his bills.  I sit and bite my tongue and I just want to scream, dad why don’t you go and watch one of the tvs in the house, pick one, the one here in the living room, or better yet, how about the one in your bedroom until I am finished!  It would be so nice to be able to come out hear a good morning, how did you sleep once in a while.  Let me get my cup of coffee and have a minute to just sit.  My mornings are never like that, but the third of the month is just more tense in the mornings.  I mean I have not worked out of the home in years and when I did, even then I didn’t have a boss breathing down my neck like that.  I certainly don’t need it now.

He upset me at dinner tonight.  I give him heads up that I am dishing his dinner up for him, you think he could stop playing on the laptop and get the pillow he uses on his lap for his plate to sit on ready? No!  Its the same thing every night, I have to stand and wait on him.  Can you tell I am frustrated tonight?

I had to pick up my daughter tonight from work.  Hubby is sick.  It snowed so I had to clean the car off, warm it up to go get here.  Did I get a thank you?  NO!  What the heck was that?  She can ramble on about her evening and talk about weeks coming, but not simply say thanks for the ride mom?  She thanks hubby, but not me!  OH yeah nice warm car as she walks out of work, has it made huh!

Raskal is such a cutie, he just came over and put his paw on my arm and meowed at me.  It’s almost bed time!  He has been sleeping with hubby and I again!  Last night he hogged my pillow until 3 in the morning the little brat!  He just came over again.  Its like he is saying, come on mom lets go to bed, I am tired! LOL

Well that is gonna have to wait!

Awe man, the  back shower is leaking again, the knobs and the shower head!  It is just never ending with being a home owner isn’t it?  I miss the days of renting, where we just called the owner and said something needed fixing.  Unfortunately this is going to have to wait.  Since the only way to shut the water off is the main outside and being the temperatures are so cold and all, this will have to be something we have taken care of come spring time.  Its just little drips leaking at the moment, so not going to let anyone use the back shower anymore so that way it doesn’t get any worse.  I tell ya!  The timing just never the right time.  Of course when it was fixed what three years ago under the home warranty they just put a crap cheap set in, but I been eyeballing a nice Grohe shower faucet set I like!  I wonder if we be able to put the style of the one I like but not sure, since there is two separate knobs now and this would be one knob set up.  But it sure looks nice!

Hubby isn’t feeling well, his sinuses again.  Every time they bother him he will say to me he is going to start smoking again because of this funny smell he can smell and when he smoked he didn’t smell it then.  Generally when he gets that smell congestion follows!  He sent me a text message this morning wondering if I was going to make my soup today.  Awe wasn’t that cute, so I ran up to the store and got all I need to make a batch of soup, and grabbed the meat for the week.  Grabbed a few things I get for dad and the kids for the week, then I always forget me.  I never know what I am going to want?  For lunch today I just had a peanut butter sandwich!

I still have to fold the load of towels, and debating if I should use up those apples tonight and make a cobbler.  I like to turn the oven on around dinner time to warm up the house a little bit.  Last night I made a batch of cookies.  Just helps with a little extra heat and a treat for everyone at the same time.

Was just one of those just go back to bed days!

Yesterday was just one of those, just go back to bed days.  It started out not so good and just seemed steady on that path.  My dad left to go get his Humira shot, which the doctor had some at the office to give him, and he came home all in a mood and yelling at me that I didn’t follow through with his prescription order.  He said the nurse said she sent it three times.  Well apparently the letter I typed up with all the information on it for them she didn’t read, because once she phone in the script, she was suppose to call to let me know, so I could then call the mail order department of his insurance carrier and process the order and give them the payment information.  He was just having a fit and very demanding.  I got frustrated and teary eyed and said I am one person, I can only do so much, as I was just doing paperwork for hubby for our new insurance plan, as they change plans every flipping year.  When I called they said first the script was faxed to the wrong department (I never gave fax information to doctor, they said only to call direct and that was the information I gave them) and that more information from the doctor was required and they didn’t receive it to get prior authorization for the three month supply, then tells me they just faxed it at 8:09 that morning, will process then call me back to get the order set up and mail out Monday.  THEN I get a call they denied it.  I was so mad, it wasn’t funny.  For this they want him to do  month to month co-pays, okay that is fine, then why did they tell us to go the mail order and get three months for one month copay in the first place?  This wasn’t our idea to begin with, but theirs.  They wanted him to do mail order month to month, and this would of required over night shipping because has to stay refrigerated and again why should that expense be there when we can just get it locally?  Oh did I chew out some behind!

Then my dad goes to make his lunch (left over chili) and complains about the purple bowl still in the refrigerator.  Seriously was it hurting him?  No.  So I didn’t toss what ever was inside yet.  He demanded I empty it.  Last time I checked this is still OUR house, not his.  That didn’t help matters.  I wanted to take the bowl and toss it across the flipping house and say, there, is that better now?  THEN he complained to me about something else and my daughter was shocked to hear how he was talking to me.  Her mouth just about hit the floor.

So I got the house all clean and tidy.  When I get this frustrated and upset I take it out on the house cleaning wise!  I tossed in some lemon berry twist melts in my melter and it just made everything better.  Something about that scent just made the day level out after that.

My son’s big day is coming up in June, and I been looking for some announcements.  I emailed his advisor for school colors because I forget already, so I can order them, and seen the sweetest baby girl announcements!  Awe!  Sometimes I wish I could be back at that stage of things, have a baby.  I really do!  I just love babies.  I just can’t get over that my baby is graduating this year.  OH guess what came in the mail today?  My son made honor roll!  How about that!  They sent us a beautiful honor roll certificate and my son was so proud of himself.  We are so proud.  Had we not pulled him out of traditional school, this would of never happened.  To see him light up like he did this evening, priceless!

Raskal is doing better.  We hope he continues too.  He so cute, when he is hungry he cries at me.  Not hubby or anyone else, just me and I will ask him if he is hungry, and he will lick his lips, its just the sweetest thing.  We are trying to get him to drink more, we bought one of those water bottles this evening like you use for hamsters to see if he will take to it.  I don’t know if he will.  We even put low fat milk in a bowl like the vet suggested, and he won’t drink it, but if I give to him on a spoon he will!  Go figure!   He plays in the water more than he drinks.  The only other thing we can do, is give him some wet food and the vet said to put salt on it, and I don’t want to do that.   Salt, that can’t be good for him!

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