July 28, 2008
Well I am a little nervous about my MRI/MRA tomorrow morning. I may be missing in action during the day as I will be taking a sedative and may be getting some rest after my test. My head is hurting tonight, I am getting ready to take some medication and head to bed.
I just realized the past three Mondays I have had a headache and guess what I have done?? Cleaned the tub and the shower (two separate rooms) with Comet! So going to not use that next week when I clean the tub and the shower and see if I don’t get a headache again!
Sending good thoughts to my sweet friend Lara who injured her back and wishing her a speedy recovery!! Also to my sweet friend Simone who’s kitty Moses is not doing too well. Our pets are just our babies.
July 28, 2008
I am so tired of my neighbors just sitting and passing their gossip or the need to point out how “sorry” they feel for my son because they seem to think he is “missing” out on something not going to the local high school. THEY HAVE NO idea what MY son has been through, there are just things you don’t go and just tell anyone. But they “feel sorry” for him because he doesn’t go to school and get to “release” are you serious?
My son has some learning disabilities mixed with a lot of AdHd/ADD issues. “Traditional” school was not work for him at all. I was just looking for some receipt the other day for the reunion when I came across the evaluations, testing and letters, comments from teachers, students and the letter of suicide my son wrote. There are serious factors to our decision to pull him out of school. But he still attends “public” school via online through a charter school and it is working for my son.
Yes I am exhausted, yes I could use the break, yes there are sacrifices I have been making for my son. WE are NOT forcing my son to stay home. The door is open if he wanted to go back to “traditional” school he would tell us, I have asked him several times and a few times when he has just plum wore me out I mention maybe we should put you back in school and he just about falls to pieces. He was put through HELL and back and there are things he has not even told us, he doesn’t want to go back.
It is not because he has the easy life at home. His classes hours vary each school day, some days he is attending an online class at dinner time, while most kids are at home eating their dinner. It works for him. It is a lot of work on my end keeping him on task each day when he is in school and I work hard coming up with different things to help keep him on track like rewards for good grades, getting all his work done without being told, and so on.
I talked to his intervention specialist and even she agrees this is what is best for my son and is what is working for him. His grades alone, he is an honor roll student. He passed his OGT tests the first time around! Why should I mess up a good thing just because my neighbors have “opinions”. What if it was their child or grandchild and they walked in my son’s shows would they feel that way still? I would think NOT!
They say he needs this or that. You know I don’t go around telling my neighbors what I think need to do or not do with their lives. It is none of my concern, I don’t live in their homes, frankly none of my business. They wonder why I keep to myself and in doors a lot. HMMM what do you think?
July 26, 2008
We are all home safe and sound from the reunion. Now my dad did not go and he isn’t home so he is either in Burton or at the races. We left around 5:30, my head was just banging along with the “live band” they got this year. That was interesting. They had auction and auction off prizes and it was fun bidding against my daughter, of course being the mom that I am I just did it to raise her and she ended up spending more money than me!! Evil I know! They gave away some stuff but the money is for the Reunion. Now I use to “host” or run the reunion and worked alone doing so, I had no help from hubby (mind you this is his family’s reunion). Now I started out “helping” then all of sudden it was thrown in my lap one year I showed up with food in hand and it was Oh by the way your running it today, so I did this for a total of 5 years. Three alone!
So they had a picnic basket full of items they raffled off. Guess what was inside this basket? Candles that I gave away as prizes a few years ago. How do I know this? First off I only use and buy my candles off Lara of The Sage Grove. Now at the time I first bought off her, she had a different name at that time, Old Sewn Treasures. They were Blueberry Cheesecake (still smelled good by the way). I guess someone who won a prize wasn’t a candle fan? My hubby could not believe it. As I said I only buy off Lara so I know!
Every year that I ran the reunion on my own and planned prizes and games I always gave away candles and melts. Everyone would say wow those are great and looked forward to it. I kept receipts of what I spent and would do a 50/50 drawing to try and get back some of what hubby and I spent that was not in the reunion fund to reimburse us. So last year was my last year. I spent the entire year getting ready, getting the prizes, made a gift basket and I designed and ordered magnets for 2006 and 2007 so they had a keepsake from the reunion with a cute little family related saying. Not to mention the decorations, supplies and I always put a snack out like peanuts or something in a bowl on each table. I put a lot of work into it. So last year when we did the 50/50 drawing, the $30 that was suppose to go to us to be reimbursed, his Aunt made it an appoint to take the money from me until I “proved” myself. Excuse me? Receipts? Which I kept just forgot to bring with us, but that really hurt my feelings, she knew it. As if I was trying to steal or something. I was highly hurt and offended. I was quiet the rest of the day and stepped down saying I needed a break for another part of the family to run it this year. I kept to myself how I felt. But she knew and was crying and hubby’s mom called me last year wanting me to call his aunt and say it was OK she didn’t hurt my feelings and I am sorry but I refused. She did and if she felt bad well then good, I am sorry to say. It was not her integrity that was questioned, after all I did for them. One year I tried to get them to make a cookbook. All I asked if they mailed recipes to me by a certain date, I put it together and have a keepsake family cookbook, and a copy for everyone. I had three people send them. That was it. I was just frustrated I could not get them to just be involved somehow.
So this year it was his Aunt’s daughters who did the reunion. It was a western theme. They mailed flyer’s, postcards out to remind and ask for RSVP. Decorations were cute, even a dinner bell they were ringing. Lots of prizes, a gift basket raffle and a LIVE band. Hubby found out it cost $250.00 for that band and they were hoping they raised enough money to pay the band. Did anyone ask them for receipts, for proof of what they spent and did? NO! I think the band was over kill and a waste of reunion funds. It wasn’t as personal as you barely had time to visit because everything was time for that or that. There are many we didn’t get the chance to visit.
Don’t get me wrong, but I know we alone donated $30, my daugther and her boyfriend bid on stuff and spent about the same so there was $60.00 just from us, what about what everyone else did? I always had to announce like with the 50/50 drawing say it was $60.00 so 1/2 went to winner. But I had to be accountable and everyone was to know then and there. Today nothing was said about how much was raised. Not one word. So why did I have to be accountable for every nook and cranny???
All I can say is NEVER again will ever volunteer and help. And that isn’t even the half of it!!
July 25, 2008
I thought I would post this tonight as tomorrow I will be away at hubby’s family reunion. He did promise me if I was beginning to feel bad we could leave earlier than normal. So I been getting things ready. Last year I made 23 scrap layouts from pictures I took at the reunion. I am not taking any this year. I had them printed and taking them with me to show everyone.
OK I made my appointment, its Tuesday Morning (July 29th) at 10:15. My daughter is off work that day so I will go pick up one of the girls I babysit from her tutor at 9, dash home to drop her off and then head out for my test. I am going to try and wing it and not take an sedative. I think I will just close my eyes and just rest. I think they will have some music so I think I will be OK. This way hubby doesn’t have to miss work.
So for those of you who pray, I hope you can keep me in your prayers for this one!! I am quite nervous.
July 25, 2008
I am a little upset with my daughter right now. She comes home as she was all upset about work and when I suggested she keep her eye out for a new job, that she didn’t have to take that kind of crap at work (long story), not from a part time job like that, she got all on the defense. That really annoyed me. Don’t come home telling me the stuff you tell me and expect me to not get upset and suggest that maybe you should get a new job and then get all in my face about it. My head was already killing me. So I left to go for a walk up to the store as I needed deodorant and to just get away and calm down. I don’t like how she talks to me and does frankly what she feels like doing even after I ask her something. For example I am waiting on a call from the girls mom and the doctor’s office regarding my MRI/MRA’s and finalizing the scheduling. I asked her to please use her cell phone this afternoon to talk to her boyfriend or to just tell him to jump on yahoo and talk online, to not use the phone. I have a terrible headache today so I turned the a/c on to cool the house just a bit and laid down on the love seat to rest. I woke up and guess who the hell is on the phone??? My daughter. I asked her to please NOT use the phone this afternoon, I needed to keep the line open but she did what she wanted regardless. You know I am getting really annoyed with this.
Everyday she ties up my phone. We have a lot of trouble with our line as it is, and when I want to make a call I can’t. So today it was very important to me since I needed to get my MRI and MRA scheduled for her to not be on the phone and she could not even do what I asked. I don’t think I was asking for much. But I am not liking this regardless crap. She still has not even done her responsibilities around this house yet and I am tired of reminding her to do so.
July 25, 2008
Well this is one I seem to have missed and since there is not a new one posted I thought I go ahead and do the one I missed that is still showing current.
Appetizer
When was the last time you had your hair cut/trimmed? A few weeks ago
Soup
Name one thing you miss about being a child. Recess
Salad
Pick one: butter, margarine, olive oil. For cooking I have to say olive oil, more healthy
Main Course
If you could learn another language, which one would you pick, and why? German, then I would be able to talk to my friends Lara and Simone in their native language
Dessert
Finish this sentence: In 5 years I expect to be… dealing with empty nest syndrome because all my children have grown, moved on and starting their own families
Posted by Suzie Q | Filed Under Yummies
July 25, 2008
My poor hubby. Last Saturday I had called the doctor because he was just miserable with his sinuses. For the past few weeks he complained a lot and I kept saying to go and see the doctor. He wouldn’t not go so I finally made him the appointment. He did have a sinus infection and prescribed him the Z Pak. Well he is frustrated that it wasn’t taking the other symptoms away and felt his nose was very dry. We have a humidifier in our room, just one we bought at Walmart, but I got to tell you that thing just sucks. I wish we could afford one of the Air O Swiss humidifiers I found online. I really think we need a good one and love how you can have either hot or a cool mist, so we would not need separate ones for the seasons you know? I worry about germs with our older one, especially when that filter was all nasty like it was. In winter, when he has the fireplace going, I really think it gets too dry out here. So I am working on hubby in maybe getting a bigger one that just might make a difference in winter for us all, especially dad with his COPD. I know the one we have now is too small of a unit and if he still is feeling that dry at night when sleeping, it is just not doing the job it needs to do. Maybe if we had a bigger one he would not feel as dry when he wakes up in the morning and feel better. I really don’t know what else to try. He said he has this funny burnt smell every morning. I wonder if its from quitting smoking??
July 25, 2008
So I decided to check out EBay this morning because there is an expansion pack out called Family Stuff, well just items for the Sims 2 I can not seem to find. No one around here has it, and I happen to check “my EBay” area to see my hubby is watching and has bid on a plasma tv mount. Now I don’t think this is something you should look on EBay first. I think we should go out and check them out to make sure we get the right one. It really depends on the brand of your television on top of it. But I am happy to see he is actually take the first step in looking, instead of just sending me out and about while he mows the grass!!
Posted by Suzie Q | Filed Under Bulk Bin
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