A place where I will put stuff that doesn't neatly fit into any other catagories and where I will do my best to keep bad spelling and typos down to a bare minimum. :)
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
posted by Carol at
8:20 AM (Pacific)
"It's ok baby... Don't worry... It was just meat."
Its not everyday one receives an email begining with a sentence like that one.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
posted by Carol at
6:59 AM (Pacific)
Yesterday was pretty productive. I got almost everything on my list done. Yesterday was also Presidents Day. So, after finding all our documentation, hubby leaving work early and driving all the way over there, we find out that federal offices are closed for the "holiday". Big, fat, DUH. No mail, no federal offices, I think those were the only 2 businesses closed here. Even the schools were open, they were making up a snow day.
What didn't get done? 1. I still need that shower. eeeeewww. 2. The recycles are sitting in my dining room. 3. Offsprings rooms are still a mess, but thats pretty par for the course around here. 2 of the 3 of them still need to do laundry, but again, thats normal.
We called the auto insurance to see how much it will cost us to insure soon-to-be-16 year old son. Its actually affordable. I'm not ready to have a son driving. I'm not ready to be old enough to have a son old enough to drive. Its bad enough I've got two who shave or should shave. I kept looking at son#2 (13) this weekend and thinking he had a chocolate milk mustache. Upon closer investigation I find out its not chocolate milk he needs to wipe off his face, he needs to SHAVE.
Monday, February 21, 2005
posted by Carol at
9:18 AM (Pacific)
Anyone interested as to what the "To-Do" list of a Midwest Homemaker looks like?
1. Finish my laundry 2. Run the vacuum in the living and dining room 3. Tidy up my bedroom 4. Nag the offspring to tidy up theirs. 5. Nag the offspring to do their laundry 6. Find an old report card for offspring#1 as he needs a new ss card and his father is taking him to the ss office this afternoon (hopefully before it closes) to get one. 7. Sort the recycles, load in back of van, take to recycle bins 8. Possible go through the school shelf and re-organize it with the hopes of getting some sort of documentation of everything we've done,read,studied this year started. 9. Tidy up the linen closet 10. Mop the kitchen floor 11. Take a shower, wash my hair and change out of this lovely little outfit of purple flannel pj pants and Toby Keith "I love this bar" t-shirt. 12. Figure out supper, most likely going to be Sloppy Joes, pack and freeze pork chops .
eesh. That's long. But I did ab-sooo-lutely nothing yesterday but sit and watch the Daytona 500 (whooooo-hooooo!!! Go Gordon!!!) and I'll get the kids to pitch in and do some/alot of it.
Monday, February 14, 2005
posted by Carol at
2:35 PM (Pacific)
2 weeks worth of illness in my household has certainly decreased my blogging.
The kids and I have all been struck with some nasty virus that hits hard and takes its sweet time going away. I've been sick a week and every time I think my symptoms are easing and I am getting better the virus seems to strike up an attack on yet another body part. I've gone from sinus problems, to a sore throat, coughing, earache and now I seem to be getting laryngitis. Will it ever end? I despise being sick.
Valentines Day plans at our house this evening include a big, fancy supper. Steaks on the grill and a dessert of chocolate fondue. YUMMY! Plus I splurged on a bottle of REAL champagne, Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label. I'm hoping it will be good, it cost me an arm and a leg.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
posted by Carol at
3:37 PM (Pacific)
This week my hubby suffered from an excruciating bout of kidney stones and son#1 came down with the flu. So my days have been taken up with nursing my sickies through their illnesses and running herd on my healthy sons as well as trying to keep up with the schoolwork and the housework and the cooking, shopping, etc.
Yes, I did it.
I did it all.
And I did it all wearing red lipstick almost every single day.
Red lipstick!
better than a multi-vitamin, almost as good as a full night sleep.
(ok, ok, the sleep one is a streeeeach)
I know that kidney stones are almost unbearably painful. I know this because my hubby drove himself to the ER at 3am Wednesday. He is the worlds biggest baby when it comes to pain, but he is also the worlds biggest tightwad. For his pain to overcome his hatred of spending a dime,well, words fail me.
He refused the IV and he refused to let the doc do a CAT scan. So, w/o the scan the Dr. said he could not definitively say that it was kidney stones. This is despite the fact that when hubby peed in the provided cup he saw the stone. Definitive enough for us.
It was the worlds fastest ER trip. I think once they realized they weren't going to "cha-ching, cha-ching" the cash register on him, they sent him home. He was there and back in about an hour and a half. They sent him home with pain meds, instructions to drink lots of water and to go see our family doc if he wasn't feeling better by Friday.
My cheap old man is still bemoaning the fact that he even went to the ER ("It cost me several hundred dollars just to pee in a cup") and will not stop grousing about how much the bill is going to be.
*sigh*
