I decided to strike while the iron was hot. And in typing that I FINALLY understand that damn saying! Yes!
But in my case it means more about continuing to write now that I have gotten the momentum rather than being hot, sweaty and an ironworker.
I do not remember ever, ever blogging about my health or health issues. Either the physical or the emotional ones. Now, that doesn't mean I haven't it just means I don't remember it. But if you asked me I would tell you I am pretty healthy. Healthy for a short fat person anyway. I mean, my blood pressure is always low, my temp is always on the low side, my blood sugar remains level, that sort of thing. However, my ailments were mounting. First there was the flares of arthritis in my fingers. I remember clearly the first time I felt that shooting, stabbing pain in my finger. It was in 1997 when we had just moved from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile and I sort of assumed it had to do with the carrying and unpacking of boxes.
After the finger then it moved to a different finger. And occasionally, like every year or two, not anything you could really see a pattern in, my lower back would go out. Sciatica is a bitch, let me tell you. After we moved here I got sick in the fall and everyone said "oh, your body is just adjusting to all the crap in the air. Once you go through a full year you will acclimate."
This is a big fat lie. Every single spring and fall since I have been sick with all the sinus and throat stuff. And it seems to get worse every year. And this year has been the mother of all illness years. For 1 year now I have had what they call a frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) and I have done 9 months of physical therapy and have about 85 - 90% of my range of motion back. While that was going on I had the worst sciatica I have ever had kick in and I was down. It was excruciating. And before THAT healed up I started with the sinus, cough stuff.
I said to myself, "hey, let's be proactive and get this treated asap and not let it go into bronchitis like last year". This was the first of April and 4 1/2 months later and oh so many doctors and prescriptions and x-rays and finally CAT scans they finally diagnosed me with a bad sinus infection and pneumonia. I am currently on my 5th round of antibiotics along with a shit ton of other drugs. I don't like taking this stuff. I would rather keep my liver around for the rest of my hopefully long life, thank you very much. Oh, and every thing I have is an inflammatory issue. The arthritis, pneumonia, everything.
And I started doing what I do best which is to worry and project possible events in the future that could be horrible. What I was seeing is that having one health scare on top of the next and then the next before any of them could be cleared up was not boding well for the coming months. And I got determined to put myself on the top of my list and do whatever I can to get healthy.
So I talked with a friend of mine who is a nutritionist and we are working on getting my adrenals and kidneys working and my lymph moving and that seems to involve a lot of cleansing and detoxing, so far.
I am not sure how well all this is working while I am still taking the medications for the pneumonia, but I am hopefully making some good habits that will be there to kick in once the meds are finished. What it seems to entail is getting rid of the meat, dairy and gluten to get detoxed. A vegan, gluten-free diet, if you will.
I have ordered some supplements that are arriving today and once I get things going I will post some updates on what is working and what isn't. Also, I am scheduled to see the pulmonologist next week to see about biopsying the nodules in my lungs from the damn pneumonia. Which sounds scary, but if it will get rid of the coughing I have been doing since the first of April, I am all for it. This is month 5 of The Cough That Wouldn't Quit. I have become a recluse because I don't want to be annoying to others. I am so annoying to my own self with all the damn coughing. Other than the coughing, I have absolutely no energy, no stamina. I swear I get one thing done in a day and then I am wiped out. I am blaming that on running at 93% oxygen saturation for the last 4 months. Also, I am too tired to run two thoughts together. You might be shocked at how long it is taking me to just type this!
The plan is to get rid of the pneumonia and the sinus infection and the fatigue and to gain some energy, some health and good spirit. Please, wish me well and send some good thoughts my way when you can.
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Catching up. Again.
And a great good Saturday to you! It is the most gorgeous day outside. I have no idea why I am inside typing on the computer instead of hanging around outdoors.
Oh right, the flipping allergies! I pay for it each and every time I spend big chunks of time outside.
But, that is not what I want to share with you. I have things to talk about and pictures to show you. So, get up now and go pee. Go get a refill of your favorite beverage and settle in to see what you shall see. : )
First up, I saw that I was running low on Downy. Yes, I still use Downy. No, I do not feel guilty about it. When I was at the store I had to keep looking at the bottles to see which one is the same as the one I have at home because it was slightly different. So when I got home I set them next to each other to make sure I had bought the right flavor. And what else did I spy???
Here is a close up of Bottle A, aka the old one, the one that was already here: Spend a few minutes perusing the label, won't you?
And here is a close up of the new label. Go ahead and check it out and notice the differences.
They are both Downy. They both contain 1.84 liters. They are both lavender scented.
Here's the deal:
THE OLD ONE SAYS IT CONTAINS 78 LOADS worth of softener.
While the new one only does 72 LOADS!! ???
I took the caps off and looked at them since they are the measuring devices to know how much product they recommend. And guess what?
EXACTLY THE SAME CAP, EXACTLY THE SAME MEASUREMENT.
Anyone else confused by this?
Those dicks over at the Downy offices have done some very creative math to come up with this.
And by the by, I don't follow their recommended quantity per load. The first thing I do is to pour half the new bottle into the empty old bottle and then refill both with water and mix them well. This is following the Rule of Half. Half of any recommended amount of product will do the job just as well. Try it with your shampoo, conditioner, laundry products, liquid hand soap, etc. I promise you won't miss the other half and you just saved yourself a bunch of money and time shopping to replace these things.
In other news, the lovely and talented Miss Rachel Pie has been working with small children. And you know what that means, don't you?
She got sick! You have to have a really strong immune system to work with the wee ones, as they bring in germs like nobody's business. Anyhoo, she was S. I. C. K. She went from feeling a bit poorly to running ridiculously high fever, throwing up and sick as a dog overnight. And thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act, she is still on our insurance (at least until her next birthday). Our insurance has this great local business partnered up on it called White Glove Health
Go check out their website and see if they are near you or if you can sign up for them. Essentially, they are in business to get people well as quickly as possible and back to work. It keeps up productivitiy and that is why Mr. Big Ed's company has gotten this policy for all the insured employees.
Anyway, Miss Rachel Pie was sick as a dog and there was no way she was going to be able to sit for hours at the med clinic waiting to be seen, so we called the White Glove Health people and they sent a nurse practitioner right over. She examined Rachel Pie, she looked down her throat, in her ears, listened to her heart, asked tons of questions, you know, the same thing the med clinic doctor would have done. Then she said Rachel Pie has a sinus infection and a ear infection and prescribed medication, antibiotics, bed rest, liquids, etc.
And did Miss Nurse Practitioner then hand me a bunch of prescriptions to go fill?
No she did NOT! She reached into her Mary Poppins-style bag and brought out a bottle of antibiotics, 2 bottles of Mucinex, 2 bottles of nose spray, 1 bottle of ear drops which you will see below sitting on a box she also gave Rachel Pie called a Well-Kit.
See the Well-Kit box? With its cute little carry handle? What do you suppose is inside?
Let's look, shall we?
I spy with my little eye: cough drops, 2 packs of tylenol, 2 packs of motrin
1 can of chicken noodle soup, 1 bottle of Gator-ade, 1 pack of jell-o, 1 can of Ginger Ale
1 pack of Kleenex, 1 snack sized apple sauce, and a box of saltines.
We didn't have to go to the store. We didn't have to go stand in line at the pharmacy. We didn't have to get Rachel Pie out of bed for 24 hours, actually.
She may call herself a Nurse Practitioner but I think she might have been Florence Nightingale reincarnated. : )
And FINALLY!!!! I know, I know, first I don't blog for a month and then I go on and on f o r e v e r . . .
But this is cool, so you will want to stay tuned for this last part.
Have I ever told you about the glass ball collection I have?
Well, my mama travels to Germany a lot. She used to, anyway. We have relatives over there so she goes to visit and takes a suitcase full of Mexican food items that they can't get and refills that suitcase with lovely things for all of us. Anyhoo, she goes to some glass factory and buys these gorgeous blown glass balls. All different sizes, and colors.
And we string them up with ribbon or fishing line and hang them in the windows like sun catchers. They are just gorgeous.
Well, we moved to this house in May of 2005 and I have never found a great place to hang them in this house. So they have been sitting in a cabinet in bubble wrap, just waiting.
And you know how one thing leads to another and then another and then BAM!!!! The light bulb comes on of how to think outside the box? Well, that is what happened to me.
Why do they have to just be unused sun catchers? Why can't they be Christmas ornaments?
But what kind of tree would they really be showcased on?
And BAM!!! I got hit with another picture on Pinterest of a gorgeous wrought iron tree with loads of space between the branches for just such baubles as my glass balls.
So, I ordered it and it arrived!
Yay!
I spent yesterday putting it together and hanging all my little glass balls, some of which are egg shaped and some are heart shaped. And here is your photo montage of this!
Here is the shipping box as it arrived and I took it to the corner of the dining room where I am going to assemble and display it.
Once I opened the shipping box, here is the box that was inside.
And when I opened the box this is what I found.
Each of the corrugated paper wrapped items had a label on it identifying what piece this is.
Once I unwrapped every piece and lined them all up in alphabetical order, way on the bottom of the box was this instruction sheet.
Here it is all put together and naked. I think it might need a skirt of some kind. What do you think? Any suggestions?
And here it is with all the beautiful balls, eggs and hearts in place.
And here are some close-ups of the ornaments. Sadly the glass reflects the light so much that they don't show up as beautiful as they truly are.
What do you think? I think it was well worth the $$ to buy a new item to showcase these beauties rather than letting them languish in a drawer. And besides, you all know how I am on a campaign to quit using the shitty quality Made-in-China Christmas lights.
As always, I am happy to get some comments and hear your thoughts.
p.s. Should I write or call the Downy Dicks to see what gives on their bottle information?
Oh right, the flipping allergies! I pay for it each and every time I spend big chunks of time outside.
But, that is not what I want to share with you. I have things to talk about and pictures to show you. So, get up now and go pee. Go get a refill of your favorite beverage and settle in to see what you shall see. : )
First up, I saw that I was running low on Downy. Yes, I still use Downy. No, I do not feel guilty about it. When I was at the store I had to keep looking at the bottles to see which one is the same as the one I have at home because it was slightly different. So when I got home I set them next to each other to make sure I had bought the right flavor. And what else did I spy???
Here is a close up of Bottle A, aka the old one, the one that was already here: Spend a few minutes perusing the label, won't you?
And here is a close up of the new label. Go ahead and check it out and notice the differences.
They are both Downy. They both contain 1.84 liters. They are both lavender scented.
Here's the deal:
THE OLD ONE SAYS IT CONTAINS 78 LOADS worth of softener.
While the new one only does 72 LOADS!! ???
I took the caps off and looked at them since they are the measuring devices to know how much product they recommend. And guess what?
EXACTLY THE SAME CAP, EXACTLY THE SAME MEASUREMENT.
Anyone else confused by this?
Those dicks over at the Downy offices have done some very creative math to come up with this.
And by the by, I don't follow their recommended quantity per load. The first thing I do is to pour half the new bottle into the empty old bottle and then refill both with water and mix them well. This is following the Rule of Half. Half of any recommended amount of product will do the job just as well. Try it with your shampoo, conditioner, laundry products, liquid hand soap, etc. I promise you won't miss the other half and you just saved yourself a bunch of money and time shopping to replace these things.
In other news, the lovely and talented Miss Rachel Pie has been working with small children. And you know what that means, don't you?
She got sick! You have to have a really strong immune system to work with the wee ones, as they bring in germs like nobody's business. Anyhoo, she was S. I. C. K. She went from feeling a bit poorly to running ridiculously high fever, throwing up and sick as a dog overnight. And thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act, she is still on our insurance (at least until her next birthday). Our insurance has this great local business partnered up on it called White Glove Health
Go check out their website and see if they are near you or if you can sign up for them. Essentially, they are in business to get people well as quickly as possible and back to work. It keeps up productivitiy and that is why Mr. Big Ed's company has gotten this policy for all the insured employees.
Anyway, Miss Rachel Pie was sick as a dog and there was no way she was going to be able to sit for hours at the med clinic waiting to be seen, so we called the White Glove Health people and they sent a nurse practitioner right over. She examined Rachel Pie, she looked down her throat, in her ears, listened to her heart, asked tons of questions, you know, the same thing the med clinic doctor would have done. Then she said Rachel Pie has a sinus infection and a ear infection and prescribed medication, antibiotics, bed rest, liquids, etc.
And did Miss Nurse Practitioner then hand me a bunch of prescriptions to go fill?
No she did NOT! She reached into her Mary Poppins-style bag and brought out a bottle of antibiotics, 2 bottles of Mucinex, 2 bottles of nose spray, 1 bottle of ear drops which you will see below sitting on a box she also gave Rachel Pie called a Well-Kit.
See the Well-Kit box? With its cute little carry handle? What do you suppose is inside?
Let's look, shall we?
I spy with my little eye: cough drops, 2 packs of tylenol, 2 packs of motrin
1 can of chicken noodle soup, 1 bottle of Gator-ade, 1 pack of jell-o, 1 can of Ginger Ale
1 pack of Kleenex, 1 snack sized apple sauce, and a box of saltines.
We didn't have to go to the store. We didn't have to go stand in line at the pharmacy. We didn't have to get Rachel Pie out of bed for 24 hours, actually.
She may call herself a Nurse Practitioner but I think she might have been Florence Nightingale reincarnated. : )
And FINALLY!!!! I know, I know, first I don't blog for a month and then I go on and on f o r e v e r . . .
But this is cool, so you will want to stay tuned for this last part.
Have I ever told you about the glass ball collection I have?
Well, my mama travels to Germany a lot. She used to, anyway. We have relatives over there so she goes to visit and takes a suitcase full of Mexican food items that they can't get and refills that suitcase with lovely things for all of us. Anyhoo, she goes to some glass factory and buys these gorgeous blown glass balls. All different sizes, and colors.
And we string them up with ribbon or fishing line and hang them in the windows like sun catchers. They are just gorgeous.
Well, we moved to this house in May of 2005 and I have never found a great place to hang them in this house. So they have been sitting in a cabinet in bubble wrap, just waiting.
And you know how one thing leads to another and then another and then BAM!!!! The light bulb comes on of how to think outside the box? Well, that is what happened to me.
Why do they have to just be unused sun catchers? Why can't they be Christmas ornaments?
But what kind of tree would they really be showcased on?
And BAM!!! I got hit with another picture on Pinterest of a gorgeous wrought iron tree with loads of space between the branches for just such baubles as my glass balls.
So, I ordered it and it arrived!
Yay!
I spent yesterday putting it together and hanging all my little glass balls, some of which are egg shaped and some are heart shaped. And here is your photo montage of this!
Here is the shipping box as it arrived and I took it to the corner of the dining room where I am going to assemble and display it.
Once I opened the shipping box, here is the box that was inside.
And when I opened the box this is what I found.
Each of the corrugated paper wrapped items had a label on it identifying what piece this is.
Once I unwrapped every piece and lined them all up in alphabetical order, way on the bottom of the box was this instruction sheet.
Here it is all put together and naked. I think it might need a skirt of some kind. What do you think? Any suggestions?
And here it is with all the beautiful balls, eggs and hearts in place.
And here are some close-ups of the ornaments. Sadly the glass reflects the light so much that they don't show up as beautiful as they truly are.
What do you think? I think it was well worth the $$ to buy a new item to showcase these beauties rather than letting them languish in a drawer. And besides, you all know how I am on a campaign to quit using the shitty quality Made-in-China Christmas lights.
As always, I am happy to get some comments and hear your thoughts.
p.s. Should I write or call the Downy Dicks to see what gives on their bottle information?
Monday, March 7, 2011
Have you missed me?
It has been more than a week since I have posted! Have you missed me? Here's what's been going on at Chez Lisa Pie:
I HAVE BEEN SICK!
Yes, I have been sick. I have had the crud for what seems like for-freaking-ever! At about day 4 I was sitting up on the couch covered in a cat blanket watching mindless t.v. because the thought of trying to lay down and then start the coughing jags was too much; and I had to turn the t.v. up louder because the damn cats were snoring and I couldn't hear anything. And you know how it goes when you hear an annoying background sound, it begins to be all you CAN hear. So I started investigating to see which one of these cats was being so darn noisy. At this point I was noticing that the snoring seemed to be in rhythm with my own personal breathing. Weird. But we are all sitting together, so whatever. Anyhoo, it took me about an hour to figure out that it was not the cats snoring, but rather it was my own personal chest wheezing!!!!! Never in my life have I ever wheezed. Not once. Even when I wanted to try and do the Muttley wheezy laugh, I had to really work for it. This was very disconcerting.
I got to about 5 or 6 days in and figured out that I was not going to get better on my own so I went to the doctor. After a not very long wait (yea!!) the doctor listened to my chest and sent me to get x-rayed.
Have you had your chesticle area x-rayed? The frontal view was not too bad. But that sideways profile view? Weeeeellll. Hmmmmmm.
Do you recall that cartoon Granny from Playboy? The one with the really long breasticles? It seems gravity is not my friend and that is the direction my own lovely breasticles are headed.
Downward.
I didn't really need to see that x-ray is what I am sayin'. A blow to my vanity.
Anyhoo . . . . . .
So I am now on all sorts of new and improved medications, inhalers and steroids. Yep, I am on the 'roids. Juiced up, as it were. Maybe these 'roids will perk up the breasticeees? That would be a nice little benefit, wouldn't it?
The doctor seemed to think this particular little viral infection would take about 3 weeks to clear out and I am about halfway there. And thank the Lord about for that! This staying home, coughing and having no energy and wheezing has not been a picnic. Or a day at the park. Or a walk in the park. Or whichever saying you like best.
What have I been doing to fill up my day while I can't sleep or talk or anything else, you might ask?
I signed up on ancestry.com and have been researching and filling up my family tree. Ooooh, I know what you are thinking, "I bet Lisa Pie has some really interesting charactersnuts in her family tree!"
Well, that my friends, is news for the next time!
I hope you and yours are all well and not wheezing, coughing, snotty, or disgusting.
p.s. to QueenB, your tea is sitting on my kitchen table just waiting for me to take it to the UPS store. You will receive it really soon!
p.p.s. Since it is already the first week of the Month again. Plan on a new tea drawing in the next few days!!
I HAVE BEEN SICK!
Yes, I have been sick. I have had the crud for what seems like for-freaking-ever! At about day 4 I was sitting up on the couch covered in a cat blanket watching mindless t.v. because the thought of trying to lay down and then start the coughing jags was too much; and I had to turn the t.v. up louder because the damn cats were snoring and I couldn't hear anything. And you know how it goes when you hear an annoying background sound, it begins to be all you CAN hear. So I started investigating to see which one of these cats was being so darn noisy. At this point I was noticing that the snoring seemed to be in rhythm with my own personal breathing. Weird. But we are all sitting together, so whatever. Anyhoo, it took me about an hour to figure out that it was not the cats snoring, but rather it was my own personal chest wheezing!!!!! Never in my life have I ever wheezed. Not once. Even when I wanted to try and do the Muttley wheezy laugh, I had to really work for it. This was very disconcerting.
I got to about 5 or 6 days in and figured out that I was not going to get better on my own so I went to the doctor. After a not very long wait (yea!!) the doctor listened to my chest and sent me to get x-rayed.
Have you had your chesticle area x-rayed? The frontal view was not too bad. But that sideways profile view? Weeeeellll. Hmmmmmm.
Do you recall that cartoon Granny from Playboy? The one with the really long breasticles? It seems gravity is not my friend and that is the direction my own lovely breasticles are headed.
Downward.
I didn't really need to see that x-ray is what I am sayin'. A blow to my vanity.
Anyhoo . . . . . .
So I am now on all sorts of new and improved medications, inhalers and steroids. Yep, I am on the 'roids. Juiced up, as it were. Maybe these 'roids will perk up the breasticeees? That would be a nice little benefit, wouldn't it?
The doctor seemed to think this particular little viral infection would take about 3 weeks to clear out and I am about halfway there. And thank the Lord about for that! This staying home, coughing and having no energy and wheezing has not been a picnic. Or a day at the park. Or a walk in the park. Or whichever saying you like best.
What have I been doing to fill up my day while I can't sleep or talk or anything else, you might ask?
I signed up on ancestry.com and have been researching and filling up my family tree. Ooooh, I know what you are thinking, "I bet Lisa Pie has some really interesting characters
Well, that my friends, is news for the next time!
I hope you and yours are all well and not wheezing, coughing, snotty, or disgusting.
p.s. to QueenB, your tea is sitting on my kitchen table just waiting for me to take it to the UPS store. You will receive it really soon!
p.p.s. Since it is already the first week of the Month again. Plan on a new tea drawing in the next few days!!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Updates, Gossip and such
I woke up this morning with my head completely stuffed up, my eyes welded shut with sand, itchy inside my ears and down my throat. All sure signs of what we lovingly call "Cedar Fever" around here. The mountain cedar is horrendous. It will be the one thing that forces me to wave the white flag and give up and move.
But I have a client who is due in 2 days and the last thing she needs is someone coughing and wheezing all over the delivery room, so I trotted on down to the Med Clinic this morning. I say "trotted" and it was really more of a hobble with my bad knees. Anyhoo, I saw a very nice doctor person and after lengthy examinations and conversations he agreed with my self-diagnosis of Cedar Fever and arthritis of the knee bones. So I am taking steroids. I am on the 'roids, the juice, the stuff. I wonder if I am going to bulk up and go postal?
This very nice doctor person also told me I need to do water aerobics and other water exercises to not stress my joints. In order to do that, I think I might need to get myself a pool. Wait till I spring this on Mr. Big Ed. Ha!
Then I went and stood in line f o r e v e r at Walgreen's only to find out they are so backed up it will be hours and hours until my 'roids are ready to be picked up. So I came home and waited a long while and went back and got back into the interminable line in order to pick up my drugs. Due to having insurance I "saved" $125.00 on one of the prescriptions. Saved $125. off of the regular price. Shocking, isn't it? Do you know what was in that particular bottle?
Six little tiny pills.
That's all. Six.
Hmmmmppphh. The next time I have money to invest in anything it should probably go to the pharmaceutical people that are hosing the general public.
Did y'all see Survivor last night? o. m. g. !!!! It was a shocker. Two stupid twit girls told Jeff that they wanted to quit. They were tired. They were hungry. They were wet. They were just worn out. Big fat whiners is what they are. Then if you watched online when those two wieners showed up at the Ponderosa, which is what they call the accomodations for the jury members, the other people there were flabbergasted and highly pissed that they themselves were voted out and wanted to be playing the game and now can't.
I found it interesting that they let them stay at the Ponderosa and continue on the jury. Seems like they should be booted and bring back the last 2 people before to be on the jury. Whatever.
Oh! And I found this little tidbit online. Celebrity Rehab 4 is coming in January and the cast has been announced. It is as follows:
Janice Dickinson (who didn't see this coming?)
Leif Garrett (former teen heart throb and current druggie)
Rachel Uchitel (claim to fame is being one of Tiger Woods' women)
Eric Roberts (yep, another train wreck)
Jeremy London (this is the Party of 5 twin, not the Dazed and Confused one)
Jason Wahler (I have no clue)
Jason Davis (his claim to celebrity is being a socialite, whatever that means)
Frankie Lons (again, I have no clue)
Looks like Celebrity Rehab is going to be a bit of a misnomer, kind of like Dancing with the Stars was this season. Down the tubes with another show, I guess.
Off to make some more hot tea with honey, drink another Emergen-C and carefully swallow a $25.00 pill. Hope you are feeling great in your neck of the woods!
But I have a client who is due in 2 days and the last thing she needs is someone coughing and wheezing all over the delivery room, so I trotted on down to the Med Clinic this morning. I say "trotted" and it was really more of a hobble with my bad knees. Anyhoo, I saw a very nice doctor person and after lengthy examinations and conversations he agreed with my self-diagnosis of Cedar Fever and arthritis of the knee bones. So I am taking steroids. I am on the 'roids, the juice, the stuff. I wonder if I am going to bulk up and go postal?
This very nice doctor person also told me I need to do water aerobics and other water exercises to not stress my joints. In order to do that, I think I might need to get myself a pool. Wait till I spring this on Mr. Big Ed. Ha!
Then I went and stood in line f o r e v e r at Walgreen's only to find out they are so backed up it will be hours and hours until my 'roids are ready to be picked up. So I came home and waited a long while and went back and got back into the interminable line in order to pick up my drugs. Due to having insurance I "saved" $125.00 on one of the prescriptions. Saved $125. off of the regular price. Shocking, isn't it? Do you know what was in that particular bottle?
Six little tiny pills.
That's all. Six.
Hmmmmppphh. The next time I have money to invest in anything it should probably go to the pharmaceutical people that are hosing the general public.
Did y'all see Survivor last night? o. m. g. !!!! It was a shocker. Two stupid twit girls told Jeff that they wanted to quit. They were tired. They were hungry. They were wet. They were just worn out. Big fat whiners is what they are. Then if you watched online when those two wieners showed up at the Ponderosa, which is what they call the accomodations for the jury members, the other people there were flabbergasted and highly pissed that they themselves were voted out and wanted to be playing the game and now can't.
I found it interesting that they let them stay at the Ponderosa and continue on the jury. Seems like they should be booted and bring back the last 2 people before to be on the jury. Whatever.
Oh! And I found this little tidbit online. Celebrity Rehab 4 is coming in January and the cast has been announced. It is as follows:
Janice Dickinson (who didn't see this coming?)
Leif Garrett (former teen heart throb and current druggie)
Rachel Uchitel (claim to fame is being one of Tiger Woods' women)
Eric Roberts (yep, another train wreck)
Jeremy London (this is the Party of 5 twin, not the Dazed and Confused one)
Jason Wahler (I have no clue)
Jason Davis (his claim to celebrity is being a socialite, whatever that means)
Frankie Lons (again, I have no clue)
Looks like Celebrity Rehab is going to be a bit of a misnomer, kind of like Dancing with the Stars was this season. Down the tubes with another show, I guess.
Off to make some more hot tea with honey, drink another Emergen-C and carefully swallow a $25.00 pill. Hope you are feeling great in your neck of the woods!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Exciting Trip to my Favorite Store!
So I went shopping the other day. I went to my very favorite store to wander the aisles and kill time.
Walgreens!
I ask you, what better way to while away an hour waiting on a prescription? I bet there is no other place on earth where you can:
1. Get a prescription
2. Buy 5 t-shirts for $10.
3. Get movie sized boxes of candy
4. Cosmetics
5. Take your printer cartridges to get refilled
6. Get film developed
7. Buy an invalid potty chair
8. Eat a pint of ice cream
9. Beer and cigarettes
And Walgreens is so compact. It's not like going to Target where you know it's going to be a long haul to do every aisle. And you know how much I love Target, but it's just not the same as Walgreens.
Anyhoo, I was at Walgreens and I headed straight for the Halloween aisles. I love all the Halloween stuff! And of course I ended up perusing the Halloween candy and here is a smattering of what I saw.
Do you see that? It is caramel apple flavored candy corn. Well, it that wasn't exciting enough, there is this.
These were just caramel, no apple.
At the end of that row there were the bags of assortment. All sorts of different Halloween shaped candy corn flavored things.
Next there were the Indian corn that we all know and love.
And who doesn't love the pumpkins??
This bag appeared to be regular traditional candy corn and the more exotic Indian corn mixed together. Very fall/Autumn but not specific to Halloween.
This is what I chose to take home with me; the much larger bag of original candy corn. And then I looked down the row a bit and what did I spy?
This is a marshmallow candy corn with candy corn covering. Essentially it is a large Peep covered with melty candy corn like frosting!!! OMG!
Guess who took one of those home? I sure did. You bet your booties! I haven't eaten it yet. I was kind of saving it for when I was really craving Halloween candy. But I will be sure to report back on how delicious and yummy it is.
One last thing, at the end of the aisle they have what is known in the industry as "end caps". Yes, I am hip to the jargon. And in the said end cap they were promoting an item I have never seen before. Let me show it to you.
Saline nose wipes. Wouldn't this just be a wet nap for your nose? Well, according to Achooz this is a necessary item that I didn't realize I couldn't live another day without.
Not only is this completely unnecessary but it looks really weird hanging with all the Halloween stuff!
I hope you enjoyed your trip down a Walgreens aisle with me. Come back soon and we will do it again.
Walgreens!
I ask you, what better way to while away an hour waiting on a prescription? I bet there is no other place on earth where you can:
1. Get a prescription
2. Buy 5 t-shirts for $10.
3. Get movie sized boxes of candy
4. Cosmetics
5. Take your printer cartridges to get refilled
6. Get film developed
7. Buy an invalid potty chair
8. Eat a pint of ice cream
9. Beer and cigarettes
And Walgreens is so compact. It's not like going to Target where you know it's going to be a long haul to do every aisle. And you know how much I love Target, but it's just not the same as Walgreens.
Anyhoo, I was at Walgreens and I headed straight for the Halloween aisles. I love all the Halloween stuff! And of course I ended up perusing the Halloween candy and here is a smattering of what I saw.
Do you see that? It is caramel apple flavored candy corn. Well, it that wasn't exciting enough, there is this.
These were just caramel, no apple.
At the end of that row there were the bags of assortment. All sorts of different Halloween shaped candy corn flavored things.
Next there were the Indian corn that we all know and love.
And who doesn't love the pumpkins??
This bag appeared to be regular traditional candy corn and the more exotic Indian corn mixed together. Very fall/Autumn but not specific to Halloween.
This is what I chose to take home with me; the much larger bag of original candy corn. And then I looked down the row a bit and what did I spy?
This is a marshmallow candy corn with candy corn covering. Essentially it is a large Peep covered with melty candy corn like frosting!!! OMG!
Guess who took one of those home? I sure did. You bet your booties! I haven't eaten it yet. I was kind of saving it for when I was really craving Halloween candy. But I will be sure to report back on how delicious and yummy it is.
One last thing, at the end of the aisle they have what is known in the industry as "end caps". Yes, I am hip to the jargon. And in the said end cap they were promoting an item I have never seen before. Let me show it to you.
Saline nose wipes. Wouldn't this just be a wet nap for your nose? Well, according to Achooz this is a necessary item that I didn't realize I couldn't live another day without.
Not only is this completely unnecessary but it looks really weird hanging with all the Halloween stuff!
I hope you enjoyed your trip down a Walgreens aisle with me. Come back soon and we will do it again.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Whining. Again.
Okay, I hate whiners worse than most anybody. Whiners are annoying as all get out and whining makes me want to smack the dogwater right out of you. You will NEVER get what you want from me if you whine your request at me. NEVER. Could I be any more clear on this topic?
And yet, I am feeling pretty whiney around here. Let me 'splain. Sunday night when I was getting ready for bed I noticed that I was just not feeling great. There was the sinus thing, the sneezing thing and a bit of a scratchy throat thing. Uh Oh.
I woke up Monday feeling bad. Feeling like my sinuses were trying to kill me, to do me in, to rub me out, to lay waste to me. So I started with the emergen-c, lots of hot tea, Claritin, advil, Similisan homeopathic sinus spray and then I brought out the Big Guns.
Vick's VapoRub. That is my Go-To-Guy. I don't care what is wrong with you, Vick's will make you feel better. It is warm, soothing, moisturizing, long-lasting, and just the best. Mr. Big Ed claims he doesn't have to use it, he just can be near me and get all the Vick's action he wants.
Did you know that Vick's VapoRub has it's own website? Neither did I. Well, it does. And there is a ton of good info on that site. Did you know that Vick's makes its own little personal steamer/vaporizer apparatus? Looks much better than the bowl of hot water with some Vick's in it and a towel over my head that I currently use. I might have to see if Walgreen's carries this awesome little appliance and for how much.
But, back to the whining part of this. When I don't feel good I become Whiney McWhinerstone, Queen Whiney McWhiney Pants, Count Whine-ula of Whine-sylvania. And what does Mr. Big Ed become? He becomes Mr. Come Home Late and Keep His Distance, that's what he becomes. So instead of saying "Oh poor baby, I am so sorry you feel bad, what can I bring you?" He says lame-ass shit like "Stay away, you probably have the Swine Flu. A guy at my office has the Swine Flu." To which I said "Stay away from the damn office then!" Ha!
Have I mentioned that Mr. Big Ed is EXTREMELY suggestable? Have I ever mentioned that Mr. Big Ed is a bit of a hypochondriac? All you have to do is mention something casually in conversation and the next thing you know he has it. And he has it worse than every. other. person. on the planet. Who has EVER had it. Oh, how that man does suffer! And, oh how that man does love to whine when he's suffering! Guess how much sympathy Mr. Big Whiney Ass Hypochondriac Ed gets from me? Especially after his triflin' ass has ignored me during my travails. Sara, notice the new use of triflin'? Have you noticed how triflin' just seems to always have an "ass" right after? Triflin' ass just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?
I have been on the CDC website scoping out Swine Flu symptoms (just to make sure that Mr. Big Ed is not right) and I don't think I have it. I don't have fever, chills, vomiting and several other symptoms listed. What I do have is sinus pressure, sneezing, nose-blowing, that gross coughing you just can't clear your throat thing, dry itchy eyes and, no, nothing else. I think that's it. It's enough.
So I am whining and making my tea and wearing my Vick's and wishing someone would just want to come over and hold me and say Oh Poor Baby for a while. And I thought I would share all this with you.
You're welcome.
Thanks for listening and I will try not to whine too much more.
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