Will I win? I mean, my child finished her antibiotic on Monday night and now has the return of a sore throat, the stomach is still rotten and is now running a low-grade fever. Can we say SCORE?!
She's cried because she'll be missing their Thanksgiving celebration and her awards assembly today along with potentially missing Thanksgiving with the family.
I feel so bad for her.
:(
ETA: It is strep. She ran another positive on rapid strep at the office. Children's version of z-pack sent her into 45 minutes of vomiting. Was on the Children's Hospital nurse's line on hold for 20+ minutes, but had a lovely and very apologetic nurse. Had a crap day at work and that translated to my getting on the people at Big Bird Rx for giving me half a prescription-- again. Snot-nosed (not literally, just in attitude) guy behind the counter said, "Well, it IS flu season." "Yes, so BUY MORE!" I didn't swear and I didn't scream, but I did let them know that having me come back-- again-- is just not working for me. I'm sure that they all talked about me when I left. It just didn't help that they confirmed twice to Hubs and once to me by phone that they had the script there and all was good. Yes, their customer service line number will be getting a phone call. I mean, it is delightful to pay full co-pay for half of the goods. I proposed otherwise and the lady thought I was a raving lunatic. Hey, they are giving me half of what they owe me. Why not give them half of what I owe them? Oh, but it doesn't work that way.
I'm too tired to bake pumpkin pies. I think I might collapse. I've been up since 4:15 AM and I'm beat. It'll be the first time that I've never had pumpkin pie on T-Day for breakfast. Maybe I can force myself. :shakes head in tirednesss:
So tired. :yawn:
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tales from the Trenches: This is something I HAVEN'T hung on a tree.
My friend Cj sent me a link to a Christmas craft. Now, I've hung some goofy things in trees. I've made things from milkweed fluff, spices, nuts and dried corn. I've used things like topiary frames as tree toppers that clearly shouldn't go into trees.
Can't imagine how you would answer, "So, how did you make this?"
Mmmm. No thank you. Once a month contact is good enough. Don't want that hangin' all over my tree. Call me picky if you want.
Yikes.
Smiles in my day:
- I had a $5.00 coupon on a $50.00 toy purchase for Target. I purchased said toy (an Our Generation wardrobe for K-'s American Girl doll). I took it back today (three times through customer service thankyouverymuch) was able to repurchase the wardrobe and get a doll outfit and I could use the coupon. Hooray for me, right? Well, they gave me a $5.00 gift card. "Another one?" The CS lady said yes. So, I went on, picked out another outfit (they said that they were on sale for 10.99 so SCORE!), went to purchase it and it came up as 13.49. Hmmm. Back to CS. (One of the three times.) Apparently, the sale from last week wasn't pulled, they honored it and I got both outfits for 4.00 (including tax) as opposed to 13.49 each. It was a lot of CS trips, but it was worth it! Between sales, coupons and the surprise gift card, I saved 25.00 between all three things. The list price on the wardrobe was 54.99. Even with the outfits, I didn't break $50.00. Now, the birthday gift is done. :)!
Have a great day!
Can't imagine how you would answer, "So, how did you make this?"
Mmmm. No thank you. Once a month contact is good enough. Don't want that hangin' all over my tree. Call me picky if you want.
Yikes.
Smiles in my day:
- I had a $5.00 coupon on a $50.00 toy purchase for Target. I purchased said toy (an Our Generation wardrobe for K-'s American Girl doll). I took it back today (three times through customer service thankyouverymuch) was able to repurchase the wardrobe and get a doll outfit and I could use the coupon. Hooray for me, right? Well, they gave me a $5.00 gift card. "Another one?" The CS lady said yes. So, I went on, picked out another outfit (they said that they were on sale for 10.99 so SCORE!), went to purchase it and it came up as 13.49. Hmmm. Back to CS. (One of the three times.) Apparently, the sale from last week wasn't pulled, they honored it and I got both outfits for 4.00 (including tax) as opposed to 13.49 each. It was a lot of CS trips, but it was worth it! Between sales, coupons and the surprise gift card, I saved 25.00 between all three things. The list price on the wardrobe was 54.99. Even with the outfits, I didn't break $50.00. Now, the birthday gift is done. :)!
Have a great day!
Monday, November 21, 2011
I feel like I've run a printing service these past few days.
The Christmas cards from Shutterfly arrived. They are delightful! They have been stuffed into envelopes, personally hand addressed, posted and are awaiting their Wednesday drop. What all went into making that happen?
I spent last weekend designing the card.
The first box came in and were wonderful. The second packet of 15 came in looking like it had been wrangled by the postal machines. Shutterfly is sending me a replacement set and apologized profusely.
With the Christmas cards, I send K-'s birthday invites.
She's having two parties this year. She's having one girl party at the house with the lovely number of 8 girls. We'll be having a second party on the evening of her birthday that is just family cake and ice cream. She'll have school the next day, so it's not like we can party like it is 1999.
Her invites are never print, cut and roll. I printed the card. We found shimmery purple and silver polka dotted backer stock, a sticker had to be put on front and some plastic flare needed attached. Since I didn't see those making it through the postal system, we hand delivered them. With what I hoped but knew wouldn't be a simple fly-by delivery, there was much jumping, singing and dancing with friends as we delivered. I still made it home in time to make dinner.
The second batch was made with a change of date and minus the flare. I had to assemble and stuff those in.
I needed to make invitations for the Ladies Christmas Tea that K- and I will be hosting at our home. Those were a simple cut and drop in, but I needed to find clip art, which was actually a full page border that I had to cut and paste, then track down a classy font I liked, figure out wording and so on and so forth. I knocked those out. Then, I pestered my sister for names and/or phone numbers since she couldn't give me addresses for her guests. (I love the White Pages online!)
Speaking of hunting addresses down, I spent time online doing that and when that failed, I tracked down my cousin to give me her brother's address.
Since my weekends are hopelessly full from now through Christmas, I was able to bang out the favors I wanted to do for K-. I made a CD to go with the theme of her party, designed, printed and assembled a CD cover, burned CD's, stuffed them, found that the glue I used wasn't adhering, did a double layer of glue, found that wasn't adhering and finally went to clear Alene's and gave them a good press in a phone book overnight. You'd be glad to know that the third gluing is holding. I divied up the hair doodles (we're Tangled themed and hair doodles seemed appropriate), had to attach those to the long note pad I bought, stuffed those into the neato make up case with a pencil, stickers and a button and we're done. She's having a taco bar and she'll be going through some of her back stocked craft kits to see what we can do with 8 girls. I found a Flynn Rider wanted poster, printed it and a few sheets of frying pans. I'll cut those out and we'll have them pin the frying pan on Flynn for a game. (So not taking credit. Go to http://www.pluckymomo.com/ for more details.)
Finally, I wanted to give a thank you to those who donated to K-'s elementary school Walkathon. I had taken a photo of her as she was doing the walk, so I flipped that through Picasa, did a quick thank you on the photo and printed those off for the people who needed them.
And I still have ink left.
Today, we tackled the grocery. We got all of the Thanksgiving necessities, dropped a load o' cash at the grocery (meat was on sale, too) and came home and unloaded it all.
K- wanted to play with E-, the neighbor, and her mom and grandma were out raking the last of the red oak leaves that just won't go away. Since grandma was raking what was technically our yard (but they are our leaves!), I went out to help.
Now, I'm tired. The start of the work week is tomorrow and it will only get busier and busier each day. Wednesday, we should be slammed.
Chicken is baking away and I must go start some wheat pilaf and steam some broccoli. Pardon me. The smell is making me mighty hungry!
Have a great day!
I spent last weekend designing the card.
The first box came in and were wonderful. The second packet of 15 came in looking like it had been wrangled by the postal machines. Shutterfly is sending me a replacement set and apologized profusely.
With the Christmas cards, I send K-'s birthday invites.
She's having two parties this year. She's having one girl party at the house with the lovely number of 8 girls. We'll be having a second party on the evening of her birthday that is just family cake and ice cream. She'll have school the next day, so it's not like we can party like it is 1999.
Her invites are never print, cut and roll. I printed the card. We found shimmery purple and silver polka dotted backer stock, a sticker had to be put on front and some plastic flare needed attached. Since I didn't see those making it through the postal system, we hand delivered them. With what I hoped but knew wouldn't be a simple fly-by delivery, there was much jumping, singing and dancing with friends as we delivered. I still made it home in time to make dinner.
The second batch was made with a change of date and minus the flare. I had to assemble and stuff those in.
I needed to make invitations for the Ladies Christmas Tea that K- and I will be hosting at our home. Those were a simple cut and drop in, but I needed to find clip art, which was actually a full page border that I had to cut and paste, then track down a classy font I liked, figure out wording and so on and so forth. I knocked those out. Then, I pestered my sister for names and/or phone numbers since she couldn't give me addresses for her guests. (I love the White Pages online!)
Speaking of hunting addresses down, I spent time online doing that and when that failed, I tracked down my cousin to give me her brother's address.
Since my weekends are hopelessly full from now through Christmas, I was able to bang out the favors I wanted to do for K-. I made a CD to go with the theme of her party, designed, printed and assembled a CD cover, burned CD's, stuffed them, found that the glue I used wasn't adhering, did a double layer of glue, found that wasn't adhering and finally went to clear Alene's and gave them a good press in a phone book overnight. You'd be glad to know that the third gluing is holding. I divied up the hair doodles (we're Tangled themed and hair doodles seemed appropriate), had to attach those to the long note pad I bought, stuffed those into the neato make up case with a pencil, stickers and a button and we're done. She's having a taco bar and she'll be going through some of her back stocked craft kits to see what we can do with 8 girls. I found a Flynn Rider wanted poster, printed it and a few sheets of frying pans. I'll cut those out and we'll have them pin the frying pan on Flynn for a game. (So not taking credit. Go to http://www.pluckymomo.com/ for more details.)
Finally, I wanted to give a thank you to those who donated to K-'s elementary school Walkathon. I had taken a photo of her as she was doing the walk, so I flipped that through Picasa, did a quick thank you on the photo and printed those off for the people who needed them.
And I still have ink left.
Today, we tackled the grocery. We got all of the Thanksgiving necessities, dropped a load o' cash at the grocery (meat was on sale, too) and came home and unloaded it all.
K- wanted to play with E-, the neighbor, and her mom and grandma were out raking the last of the red oak leaves that just won't go away. Since grandma was raking what was technically our yard (but they are our leaves!), I went out to help.
Now, I'm tired. The start of the work week is tomorrow and it will only get busier and busier each day. Wednesday, we should be slammed.
Chicken is baking away and I must go start some wheat pilaf and steam some broccoli. Pardon me. The smell is making me mighty hungry!
Have a great day!
Friday, November 18, 2011
Allergies and the Honor Roll
First off, I was at the Allergist's office for the hour and a half that they promised, with a bonus trip to the lab for IgE and Bee Venom RAST blood testing. (Decoding here would be great, Janeen. I know the IgE thing, but need more info on RAST.) Skin testing came up with nothing, but the doctor was concerned about the reaction I had with the bee sting, made sure I had an Epi, gave me more information on that and a disk to view about it. He was a rather lovely gentleman. That office was very busy. Allergies are a big business!
They had TV. Hooray! It was on allergy shots. Boo.
I went straight from my appointment to the school (with a mid-stop at Wendy's. Thank goodness, as Kay and I didn't get to eat anything after that.) We had the book fair today. I sold books from 2:30-6:30 PM and I'm beat.
I did have a conference with K-'s teacher. She has three A's and two B's. She's on Honor Roll! Her reading is where she needs to be (as the teacher informed me that due to the MAZE scale that they have, they can confirm whether the kids are being worked with at home. They don't doubt that we work with K-.) An interesting thing that came about from the conference was that Mrs. B- told K- to stop using Touch Math. I talked to Mrs. B- about it last week and told her that now that they are using Touch Math, K- seems to have forgotten her math facts. She said that she raises her hand all the time now and has shot so far ahead, just by her telling her to stop using it. Mrs. B- told me that if I ever see anything that comes up like that, to let her know. A major improvement happened with her work by simply talking to the teacher in the hall.
Mr. B-, the principal, told me that K- was "Caught being good" and that she is to come down to the Principal's office tomorrow to get a prize. Her teacher turned her in for being so thoughtful and helpful. :)!!! They'll take her photo with the other children that were caught being good this month and their pictures will be posted on a bulletin board in the hall all year. HOORAY!
I'm beat, but today was a good day.
Have a great night. Smiles are above.
They had TV. Hooray! It was on allergy shots. Boo.
I went straight from my appointment to the school (with a mid-stop at Wendy's. Thank goodness, as Kay and I didn't get to eat anything after that.) We had the book fair today. I sold books from 2:30-6:30 PM and I'm beat.
I did have a conference with K-'s teacher. She has three A's and two B's. She's on Honor Roll! Her reading is where she needs to be (as the teacher informed me that due to the MAZE scale that they have, they can confirm whether the kids are being worked with at home. They don't doubt that we work with K-.) An interesting thing that came about from the conference was that Mrs. B- told K- to stop using Touch Math. I talked to Mrs. B- about it last week and told her that now that they are using Touch Math, K- seems to have forgotten her math facts. She said that she raises her hand all the time now and has shot so far ahead, just by her telling her to stop using it. Mrs. B- told me that if I ever see anything that comes up like that, to let her know. A major improvement happened with her work by simply talking to the teacher in the hall.
Mr. B-, the principal, told me that K- was "Caught being good" and that she is to come down to the Principal's office tomorrow to get a prize. Her teacher turned her in for being so thoughtful and helpful. :)!!! They'll take her photo with the other children that were caught being good this month and their pictures will be posted on a bulletin board in the hall all year. HOORAY!
I'm beat, but today was a good day.
Have a great night. Smiles are above.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Hello, Allergy doctor.
How are you this fine day? You say that you want to give me pokes to my arms and to see what bubbles up in reaction? :pushing sleeves up: Okay.
Today is the day that I find out what I'm allergic to and more importantly, get down to the details of the bee thing.
I don't like being poked.
I don't plan on watching.
I wonder if they have TV.
Today is the day that I find out what I'm allergic to and more importantly, get down to the details of the bee thing.
I don't like being poked.
I don't plan on watching.
I wonder if they have TV.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Public irritations.
Dear General Public,
When I put the air freshener in the public bathroom at work last week (bought out of my own pocket), never did I think that it would be emptied and flushed within a week. Really? I'm thinking that the little beads were flushed since I've found the evidence no where else. Is it sad that we've had to shove another in its place behind the toilet so that we don't have to smell the funk that emits, and yet, be assured that someone won't make the dumb decision again to flush them?
When I took my daughter to the shoe department at Target last night for a quick run at some holiday shoes, I had to explain to her why there were funky shoes left under her bench and no one around that seemed to have needed them. "Babe, they left their shoes behind and put on new from here. They decided that they needed a change of shoes and thought that Target should provide that to them." She was mortified. She wanted to tell the "worker" that was in the other aisle, but the damage had been done and no one was around that would have qualified for that type of shoe. Thanks for giving me yet another opportunity to teach my child that people look at things, decide that they want them and take them. Truly, the boat trailer being taken off the back of my truck while my husband was floating on a boat at the lake really didn't drive that lesson home quite enough.
As we were straightening the store, Julia found that someone decided that they had to have a $3.00 badge holder. They took the tags off and tucked them in under merchandise. Did someone steal it out of need or out of the wondering if they could get away with it? All I could say was that it wasn't putting real good energy out there for them in regard to job security.
When there is an area of a store blocked off, that would mean that customers probably shouldn't go there, right? Yes, well, I guess that the block makes it more intriguing and people feel that they have the right to go there. I had some mirrors and different items on the floor and on a display case yesterday. We have a rolling library cart and I had it blocking the area that I was working in. I went to get something, came back and found two ladies walking through my mess. "Oh ladies! I'm so sorry. I had this blocked off as it is kind of dangerous back here. Is there anything that I can get for you?" "No, we were just looking." "I'm so sorry. I blocked this area off, as the items tend to grab peoples feet while they walk by. I'm so sorry that I didn't put a note on the cart." I put a note on the cart and as I was working, I had someone rolling the cart and saying at the same time, "Do you mind if I come back here?" (It was a smallish area, probably 5' x 5' at that point." "Yes, actually. Let me move these things on the floor. I have this area blocked off so that I can keep customers safe. I have a note on the cart, because I don't want anyone to fall." "OH!" :thunks to the forehead: Really? Julia battled the same problem the other day.
When we have an opening, we have a cup count. How many people had food and drink and felt the need to leave the empty cups in a display?
When people shop and leave a pile of wrapped packages visible in the back window of their car, they are begging people to break into their vehicle. STOP DOING THAT!
Folks, please stop crop dusting. I mean, really. I get that sometimes y'all might have something sneak out, but the front room stunk so bad the other day that I had to open up the door to be able to breathe. What was going on up there was air deposited by force. There are outdoor gardens. Please oh please, take that air to the great outdoors where it isn't going to linger.
I know it is difficult, but if you just put your car between the painted lines, there would be more room for the rest of us. Just sayin'.
Why yes, thank you for considering my safety when nearly backing over me in the parking lot. It's not like I was sneaking in behind you. I was there before you were.
I'm not normally this crabby. People had bugged me and I needed to let this list go.
Smiles in my day:
- K-, having a rotten stomach ache compliments of antibiotics and strep, thanked me for calling the doctor to see if there was anything we can do and said, "Mom, I'm just going to have to get used to it." Sadly, for now, that's the way it will be. I'm thinking that knowing that she's just going to have to sweat this one out means that she isn't going to obsess about it quite as much. It has fallen into the category of it-is-what-it-is.
- Hubs came home early from work because he wasn't feeling well. K- wanted to buy him a "sick prize." (He buys them for us, as I have a singing apple that he purchased for me in July.) She decided that he must have the Operation R2D2. (No, we didn't pay nearly that for it.) Sadly, he took AAA instead of AA and we have to play it tonight instead.
- My MIL had dinner for me when I picked K- up.
Have a great day!
When I put the air freshener in the public bathroom at work last week (bought out of my own pocket), never did I think that it would be emptied and flushed within a week. Really? I'm thinking that the little beads were flushed since I've found the evidence no where else. Is it sad that we've had to shove another in its place behind the toilet so that we don't have to smell the funk that emits, and yet, be assured that someone won't make the dumb decision again to flush them?
When I took my daughter to the shoe department at Target last night for a quick run at some holiday shoes, I had to explain to her why there were funky shoes left under her bench and no one around that seemed to have needed them. "Babe, they left their shoes behind and put on new from here. They decided that they needed a change of shoes and thought that Target should provide that to them." She was mortified. She wanted to tell the "worker" that was in the other aisle, but the damage had been done and no one was around that would have qualified for that type of shoe. Thanks for giving me yet another opportunity to teach my child that people look at things, decide that they want them and take them. Truly, the boat trailer being taken off the back of my truck while my husband was floating on a boat at the lake really didn't drive that lesson home quite enough.
As we were straightening the store, Julia found that someone decided that they had to have a $3.00 badge holder. They took the tags off and tucked them in under merchandise. Did someone steal it out of need or out of the wondering if they could get away with it? All I could say was that it wasn't putting real good energy out there for them in regard to job security.
When there is an area of a store blocked off, that would mean that customers probably shouldn't go there, right? Yes, well, I guess that the block makes it more intriguing and people feel that they have the right to go there. I had some mirrors and different items on the floor and on a display case yesterday. We have a rolling library cart and I had it blocking the area that I was working in. I went to get something, came back and found two ladies walking through my mess. "Oh ladies! I'm so sorry. I had this blocked off as it is kind of dangerous back here. Is there anything that I can get for you?" "No, we were just looking." "I'm so sorry. I blocked this area off, as the items tend to grab peoples feet while they walk by. I'm so sorry that I didn't put a note on the cart." I put a note on the cart and as I was working, I had someone rolling the cart and saying at the same time, "Do you mind if I come back here?" (It was a smallish area, probably 5' x 5' at that point." "Yes, actually. Let me move these things on the floor. I have this area blocked off so that I can keep customers safe. I have a note on the cart, because I don't want anyone to fall." "OH!" :thunks to the forehead: Really? Julia battled the same problem the other day.
When we have an opening, we have a cup count. How many people had food and drink and felt the need to leave the empty cups in a display?
When people shop and leave a pile of wrapped packages visible in the back window of their car, they are begging people to break into their vehicle. STOP DOING THAT!
Folks, please stop crop dusting. I mean, really. I get that sometimes y'all might have something sneak out, but the front room stunk so bad the other day that I had to open up the door to be able to breathe. What was going on up there was air deposited by force. There are outdoor gardens. Please oh please, take that air to the great outdoors where it isn't going to linger.
I know it is difficult, but if you just put your car between the painted lines, there would be more room for the rest of us. Just sayin'.
Why yes, thank you for considering my safety when nearly backing over me in the parking lot. It's not like I was sneaking in behind you. I was there before you were.
I'm not normally this crabby. People had bugged me and I needed to let this list go.
Smiles in my day:
- K-, having a rotten stomach ache compliments of antibiotics and strep, thanked me for calling the doctor to see if there was anything we can do and said, "Mom, I'm just going to have to get used to it." Sadly, for now, that's the way it will be. I'm thinking that knowing that she's just going to have to sweat this one out means that she isn't going to obsess about it quite as much. It has fallen into the category of it-is-what-it-is.
- Hubs came home early from work because he wasn't feeling well. K- wanted to buy him a "sick prize." (He buys them for us, as I have a singing apple that he purchased for me in July.) She decided that he must have the Operation R2D2. (No, we didn't pay nearly that for it.) Sadly, he took AAA instead of AA and we have to play it tonight instead.
- My MIL had dinner for me when I picked K- up.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tales from the Trenches: Alligator ankles
My love and I were sitting on the couch the other evening, watching TV. I saw him look over kind of weird. He reached down real slow and with one finger, rubbed on my ankle bone. He sat back up, grabbed the bottle of hand lotion he hand nearby, got a squirt, then very gently rubbed some on said ankle bone with one very delicate finger.
"Well, can you at least check my other?"
"That one's fine. The other one is rather dry."
It seems like a weird thing, but there was my husband, armed with lotion and taking care of my calloused ankle bone needs. It made me giggle and after nearly 15 years, I know that he still pays attention, even to little things.
Smiles in my day:
- I was able to talk to my brother. He phoned, told me that he's wearing (what I refer to as) a Lindsay Lohan bracelet and has a GPS strapped to his back. He's thankful to be out, spent 8 days, "Reading more of the bible than I have in 27 years."
- The neighbor made soup and had me run over (between horrible storms) to grab some to put in K-'s lunch today.
- Having K- eat a piece of bread right after taking her antibiotic seems to be helping her stomach ache.
- I stood for 8 hours straight yesterday and my foot didn't hurt at all. That, my friends, is a miracle itself.
Have a great day!
"Well, can you at least check my other?"
"That one's fine. The other one is rather dry."
It seems like a weird thing, but there was my husband, armed with lotion and taking care of my calloused ankle bone needs. It made me giggle and after nearly 15 years, I know that he still pays attention, even to little things.
Smiles in my day:
- I was able to talk to my brother. He phoned, told me that he's wearing (what I refer to as) a Lindsay Lohan bracelet and has a GPS strapped to his back. He's thankful to be out, spent 8 days, "Reading more of the bible than I have in 27 years."
- The neighbor made soup and had me run over (between horrible storms) to grab some to put in K-'s lunch today.
- Having K- eat a piece of bread right after taking her antibiotic seems to be helping her stomach ache.
- I stood for 8 hours straight yesterday and my foot didn't hurt at all. That, my friends, is a miracle itself.
Have a great day!
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