i am just curious on the obvious - how is it that they (the doctors) can say this shot is safe for an unborn baby and encourages moms to do it, yet refuse to encourage having a rye or two or take a benydryl or perhaps a little heroin while the uterus is full of fetus?
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Swimming?
ok
once again my bag is packed with swimming gear for Charles and I. I sure hope she has her homework done so we can go right after school and check out this pool thing.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
a Party
I am throwing myself a party.
I've been sitting here moping about for a couple days.
my birthday is looming and I am not in the way I had hoped to be by this time of the year. I keep gaining weight. I have NO money and no job to bring money in. I have been looking for sit-down work but no one has called me yet. I wanted a shiny on my finger. My dishwasher is busted. So is my toaster and i need a mix-master and shelves. Shelves we need in the house like crazy so that Mountain can move in and have somewhre to put his stuff. My pains come and go without any warning. I.......
anyhow, I've been feeling down and writing about it is makin' it worse. So i will stop cause feeling down is also not going to make it better. Which is why I decided to throw a party for myself for my birthday!
Originally, like 8 months ago. I had planned to have a party! a big bash. I was thinking a costume party i was thinking all kinds of things. I was saving money and losing wieght and getting my excercising together to look amazing for a 40 year old woman. I was saving so I'd having money in the bank and.......Well, whatever. It hasn't worked out the way I had hoped. But I'm gonna have a party anyhow!
my stereo doens't work. I can't afford to have appies. You'll be hungry if you don't bring something. This is kinda last minute, and sort-of poorly planned. Okay, its not planned at all......but I'm doing it!
i will slap some fake eyelashes on and lots of make-up. Do my hair all up, find soemthing out of closet that still fits and celebrate my birthday! I deserve it!
I want you all to come please. I refuse to feel down any longer and I want to be surrounded by people that love me. Things will work out. I will heal - one day. and if I don't, fine. But I am not going to keep sitting here being a slave to it! I will keep doing what I have been doing and look for work. Keep sending out those resume's. Keep my excercise routine going. Eventually the pool schedule is going to match mine and I'll get to go!
but in the meantime ................... I'm having a party.
Please drop me a line and let me know if you can come
Blog On
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
November 7th
i would like to spend my 40th birthday surrounded by people that love me.
I hope I am not sitting here all alone..........
Monday, October 19, 2009
and Christmas comes Early
I just got a bill from my physio
$135 for the 3 sessions i had in the beginning of Oct.
ICBC refuses to pay for them. Even though I didn't get word, or meet with my adjuster till the 8th and of course cancelled everything from that moment on......my therapist taht had been calling my adjuster and had left messages..........adjuster not calling back. How shitty is that?!! I wouldn't have gone had I known. So now I owe money! Fudge!
so glad I have a lawyer now.
so glad to have mortgage insurance. I hate to put that into play. I never wanted to be behind on any house payments.
FuDGE! this sucks Large Ranch Animals.
Party's GAtherings
Tis' the season.
mine and Charlotte's birthday is coming. Nov. 7th. Got hers pretty much planned. It'll be fairly simple. WEnt to the dollar store and picked up make-up colours i don't already have. Tacky over dangly earrings, hair things. sister is letting us borrow her strobe light and disco ball, black-lite too I hope. I have the 7 girls invited to come for 5PM. We can get started on hair and eat and.......just go from there. I am not doing goody bags this year. They can keep the tacky earrings they wear and the hair things. That'll be their goody! I just can't afford it. as it is, the Pizza will be paid for by uncle Visa. Man I hope I can go back to work soon.
(been Looking for a desk reception job. I've tossed a couple resumes out. We'll see what happens. If I can get a desk job now, I can go back to work right away! but if I am looking at a being on my feet job or restaurant - its gonna be awhile :(
So we are celebrating Charley's 11th year on Nov. 6th. I wanted to leave the SAturday open cuz it is my 40th after all and I keep trying to think of inexpensive ways to celebrate my day. Cause I want to Celebrate! but we'll see. It might just end up being a dinner out with man and kid. Which is fine too! I like McDonalds! but I wanted that night open if I so chose to do whatever I wanted.
I have started my Christmas baking!
this is the first year I will be doing Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner. Mom & Dad are going to my brothers. So I will have Sister and Wood and Mountains family. Hopefully his Mom will come! She NEVER leaves the island. but we are hoping she will and come spend Christmas with us here. His dad will be here and his familyless friend, Mr. Dude. I am excited! I love to put a party together, feed people. I Love to Feed people!
There are only so many days left till Christmas! Charley and I won't be seeing the Nutcracker this year. (we've seen it every year since she was 2) I had thought we'd see another theatre production.........I have to weigh out the importance and the future and........is there soemthing else we can do taht will mean as much and 'do' for this year. It'll be good. Maybe we'll do the christmas lights tour instead!
Aaahhh silver linings are so sparkly sometimes!
Blog On!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
I'm doing Christmas!
This year is the first year I am doing Christmas. So we have invited Mountains mom to come over from the island to celebrate it with us.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
PYREX WARNING
got this in an E-mail from my mom. she knows of the TWICE over the last couple months that this has happened. The food that was lost. The glass in my legs and feet. The near miss of Mountains eye........I won't use what I have left for cooking anymore.
I thought it was something I was doing - apparently its not
For those of you still baking and cooking in the newer pyrex, you will be interested in reading.
Got any new Pyrex dishes in your cooking utensils? This is a must read.
I Checked at Wall Mart and all the warnings are there.
About 5:30 PM there was a loud bang from the oven. Sylvia opened the oven door and the Pyrex dish had shatt ered into a million pieces. The roast beef (our first in many months) was peppered with small shards of very sharp glass. Normally,I am quick to inform Sylvia she did something stupid. However,this time she was nowhere near the stove when it blew. I shoveled the glass and the now mashed potatoes into a bucket with two putty knives. I then sucked the remains with the shop vac. I let everything cool down and then scrubbed the oven with Simple Green and some hot soapy water. It took over an hour to clean up the goo. Upon completion I ran the oven empty to see if the temperature controller was working okay. I suspected the oven got too hot and the dish simply blew. This was not the case however. The oven came up to temperature and cycled normally. We threw a disgusting frozen pizza in the oven and it cooked okay.
What is going on?
I Googled exploding Pyrex dishes and got ten million hits.
Exploding Pyrex is very common.
Here is the story.
A long, long time ago in a country we all know and love was a
company named Corning. They made Pryex dishes. The material they used is called borosilicate glass. This stuf f is indestructible.
But like everything else, the Bottom Liners had a great idea: sell the technology to another company. The Chinese discovered that using soda lime glass was almost as good as borosilicate glass and a lot cheaper. Today, Wal-Mart is the lar gest distributor of Pryex products. Corning not only sold the technology to a company called World Kitchen, they also sold the rights to the original Pyrex logo. Seamless. The consumer will never know.
Now it seems people are getting hurt using soda lime Pyrex. We
were lucky because the dish broke while the oven was closed and the damage was limited to the oven cavity. Others have been less fortunate. Some dishes explode when they are lifted from the heating rack in the oven with devastating results. Some people are heavily scarred. World Kitchen is in denial. They say that the dishes are another brand, not theirs. Contrary to their denials the victims usually have more than one of these dishes and the Pryex logo is clearly visible.
If you buy a Pryex dish beware. The label on the front says oven safe, freezer safe, microwave safe. The instructions on the back tell another story. You cannot move a soda lime Pyrex dish from the freezer to the oven and expect it to survive. The fine print goes on and on about what you are not allowed to do with the Pyrex dish. The fine print has prevented World Kitchen from being sued becaus e they have warned the consumer that their Pyrex dishes are junk from the get go. And they are the same price as the original Corning dishes. What a bunch of losers we all are for buying this crap.
What to do?
If you own borosilicate Pryex dishe s no fear. They have to be more than 25 years old to be sure they are indeed Corning dishes. I am not sure if the old Pryex dishes have anything stamped in them that indicates they are made by Corning. You may continue to use the soda lime dishes for holding stuff. Just do not attempt to roast or microwave with them as the hazard is very clear.
The reason the soda lime dishes let go is that over time they
develop micro-cracks. Once a few micro-cracks are present and once some liquid finds its way into the cracks you have the bomb situation. The liquid is like shoving a crowbar in the dish and pulling it apart. Super heated liquids expand rapidly and it is the super heated liquids that force the soda lime glass to shatter into tens of thousands of shards.
Since Corning no longer makes Pyrex and Sylvia proudly holds a
large collection of the soda lime Pyrex, we decided that one bomb in the kitchen is enough. The Pyrex dishes will go bye-bye in this week’s trash. I do not know what we will use for cake and pie dishes going forward . If you have some suggestions we are listening.
I strongly urge you not to use the soda lime Pyrex for the oven, stovetop or microwave. The slightest invisible crack is all it takes to have a mess and a possible injury.
As to World Kitchen: them and their cheap dishes. In case
you are wondering: World Kitchen is not a USA company.
You are not going to believe this. Last week it happened to me!!!!! I put a Pyrex casserole dish in my microwave with a little butter in the bottom to warm. It was not in there more than 10 to 15 seconds at the most when it exploded like a bomb in a million pieces all over my microwave. I mean exploded. Unbelievable! I googled and found thousands of other cases, but no where to call to complain (I wonder why). It was a cranberry colored 9X13 microwavable (supposedly) dish. I will never buy Pyrex again. We are just lucky it was contained in the micro, but still had a huge mess. I am going to forward your message to get the message out. I have had this dish for several years. It was cranberry and it had a plastic lid that you could cover it with to take places or put in the fridge. It’s my last Pyrex. There were people that had them explode as they removed them from the oven, on the table, where glass flew all over the kitchen and ruined floors, etc.
Got any new Pyrex dishes in your cooking utensils? This is a must read.
I Checked at Wall Mart and all the warnings are there.
About 5:30 PM there was a loud bang from the oven. Sylvia opened the oven door and the Pyrex dish had shatt ered into a million pieces. The roast beef (our first in many months) was peppered with small shards of very sharp glass. Normally,I am quick to inform Sylvia she did something stupid. However,this time she was nowhere near the stove when it blew. I shoveled the glass and the now mashed potatoes into a bucket with two putty knives. I then sucked the remains with the shop vac. I let everything cool down and then scrubbed the oven with Simple Green and some hot soapy water. It took over an hour to clean up the goo. Upon completion I ran the oven empty to see if the temperature controller was working okay. I suspected the oven got too hot and the dish simply blew. This was not the case however. The oven came up to temperature and cycled normally. We threw a disgusting frozen pizza in the oven and it cooked okay.
What is going on?
I Googled exploding Pyrex dishes and got ten million hits.
Exploding Pyrex is very common.
Here is the story.
A long, long time ago in a country we all know and love was a
company named Corning. They made Pryex dishes. The material they used is called borosilicate glass. This stuf f is indestructible.
But like everything else, the Bottom Liners had a great idea: sell the technology to another company. The Chinese discovered that using soda lime glass was almost as good as borosilicate glass and a lot cheaper. Today, Wal-Mart is the lar gest distributor of Pryex products. Corning not only sold the technology to a company called World Kitchen, they also sold the rights to the original Pyrex logo. Seamless. The consumer will never know.
Now it seems people are getting hurt using soda lime Pyrex. We
were lucky because the dish broke while the oven was closed and the damage was limited to the oven cavity. Others have been less fortunate. Some dishes explode when they are lifted from the heating rack in the oven with devastating results. Some people are heavily scarred. World Kitchen is in denial. They say that the dishes are another brand, not theirs. Contrary to their denials the victims usually have more than one of these dishes and the Pryex logo is clearly visible.
If you buy a Pryex dish beware. The label on the front says oven safe, freezer safe, microwave safe. The instructions on the back tell another story. You cannot move a soda lime Pyrex dish from the freezer to the oven and expect it to survive. The fine print goes on and on about what you are not allowed to do with the Pyrex dish. The fine print has prevented World Kitchen from being sued becaus e they have warned the consumer that their Pyrex dishes are junk from the get go. And they are the same price as the original Corning dishes. What a bunch of losers we all are for buying this crap.
What to do?
If you own borosilicate Pryex dishe s no fear. They have to be more than 25 years old to be sure they are indeed Corning dishes. I am not sure if the old Pryex dishes have anything stamped in them that indicates they are made by Corning. You may continue to use the soda lime dishes for holding stuff. Just do not attempt to roast or microwave with them as the hazard is very clear.
The reason the soda lime dishes let go is that over time they
develop micro-cracks. Once a few micro-cracks are present and once some liquid finds its way into the cracks you have the bomb situation. The liquid is like shoving a crowbar in the dish and pulling it apart. Super heated liquids expand rapidly and it is the super heated liquids that force the soda lime glass to shatter into tens of thousands of shards.
Since Corning no longer makes Pyrex and Sylvia proudly holds a
large collection of the soda lime Pyrex, we decided that one bomb in the kitchen is enough. The Pyrex dishes will go bye-bye in this week’s trash. I do not know what we will use for cake and pie dishes going forward . If you have some suggestions we are listening.
I strongly urge you not to use the soda lime Pyrex for the oven, stovetop or microwave. The slightest invisible crack is all it takes to have a mess and a possible injury.
As to World Kitchen: them and their cheap dishes. In case
you are wondering: World Kitchen is not a USA company.
You are not going to believe this. Last week it happened to me!!!!! I put a Pyrex casserole dish in my microwave with a little butter in the bottom to warm. It was not in there more than 10 to 15 seconds at the most when it exploded like a bomb in a million pieces all over my microwave. I mean exploded. Unbelievable! I googled and found thousands of other cases, but no where to call to complain (I wonder why). It was a cranberry colored 9X13 microwavable (supposedly) dish. I will never buy Pyrex again. We are just lucky it was contained in the micro, but still had a huge mess. I am going to forward your message to get the message out. I have had this dish for several years. It was cranberry and it had a plastic lid that you could cover it with to take places or put in the fridge. It’s my last Pyrex. There were people that had them explode as they removed them from the oven, on the table, where glass flew all over the kitchen and ruined floors, etc.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Painting
I wanted yellow walls in my kitchen, but alas. I must come to terms with the fact that pale yellow walls will clash with my kitchen counters. *sigh*
I'll have to take a pic and post it.
i need colour help............
Discipline
yesterday morning - trying to get Charlotte out the door. It was a good morning. we don't generally have the same issues we did in elementary. WE actually have an easier nicer time getting ready so much earlier than we ever did for elementary school. Wierd I know! but this morning......i walked past her room to see she was still just sitting there. ARG! so I remind her to get her socks on.....her room is disgusting! as she is fumbling around trying to find socks, she can't find any, i have the time to really soak up the disgusting room.
clothes as a carpet, not one surface without stuff on it, used kleenex on the floor, hamper turned on its side, dishes, bed covers all a kimble and the topper......a smelly pig cage and Hay - Yes Hay covering EVERYTHING! (typical pre-teen room really) however........... I lose it. Go into the loud voice of GET YOUR SOCKS ON and MAYBE IF YOUR ROOM WAS MORE ORGANIZED YOU'D BE ABLE TO FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.
I only just went in a few weeks ago and cleaned it myself. It killed me, it hurt, so I ended up spending 2 1/2 days instead of one! I removed stuff and then for it to look.........
she starts yelling back and being incredibly mouthy. So I go to slap her across the face. She said soemthing that was WaaaaaY out of line - now I missed, which was fine cuz I didn't really aim all to good anyhow. i don't want to smack my kid. But she, She fought Back! She fought back in such a way that she didn't miss!
As I quickly responded and showed her I am bigger and much, much stronger and I missed on Purpose........ i held my anger back. I held her little wrists together cutting the circulation off and stared into her dilated pupils, you will Not Ever hit me Again! Do you understand?!
So is this the direction its going in? What are my next years going to be like? She will be 11 in a few weeks.
Our evening went fine as I explained to her at the dinner table, Mountain present, what was going to happen now. I told Mountain, she was responding in the same way she was being treated. he was furious, saying she needs a spanking. Good thing he wasn't home. ( I had explained all of this earlier to him when she wasn't around), that he can't spank her. First of all, she stopped responding to spanking YEARS ago. Second, he is a man and she is nearly 11 starting puberty, third, you are Not her blood. and If she goes to school and mentions it - it could be construed as assault.
So i calmly told her as long as her room looks like that I don't want to see it. Her door can stay closed and she can stay in there. Grounded? no. She can come out any time she wants, but she doens't get to do anything in the rest of the house....like watch T.V. I told her if she wants me to kiss her good night her bedroom door has to be able to be open or I won't be come in.
She made some comment about how I dont care. I looked her in the eye and said no. Its not that I don't care. It's that I care too much. Mountain and I worked really hard to give you the room you wanted. I worked really hard a few weeks ago to organize it and when I see how it looks........it hurts me. It hurts my heart. So don't care? no Charlotte. I have to make myself not care, I have to work at it, cuz my demon is just that; I care so much it consumes me. So keeping your door closed and not getting on you about your room is my way of protecting my heart.
I told her I guess its time for me to realize that if you choose to live like that i guess you're old enough to decide, but I don't have to see it.
she cleaned her room right after supper last night
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Whisky & Auggy
my girl cat is a slut!
she keeps trying to "nurse" off the boy cat's Penis
WHAT THE HELL!
cut it out you guys!!
A Rusty Screw
No I am not talking about old sex
I am referring to how my body feels today.
Like when you twist something metal only to find out its rusted in places, so it moves and then doens't so much. Then it moves slowly till you hit a good spot again and it feels like its fine, then back to the rusty spot and you have to force it........
yah - thats how my body feels today
Spine - back - pelvis
I'll bundle myself up in something warm that'll help I am sure
Blog On
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
no more physio
so I haven't been to physio in a week.
My pelvis is achy and for some wacked out reason my neck and left shoulder are pinchy. Did I sleep funny?
I need to be stretched.
I am actively looking for job options to serving. very little standing or walking....hmmmm
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Monday, October 05, 2009
HELP
I need inexpensive Ideas for Charley's 11th birthday that is a month away!!
last year it was the pool.
the year before that - disaster
i had thought a Costume party on Halloween would be cool, but 2 of her friends are stealing her thunder.
my brain hurts too much to be creative...........
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Thursday, October 01, 2009
why do I feel Freaked out?
Hi Krisit,
Sorry I have not responded until now. I was out of the office for a
couple of days and have returned to find Dr. ********'s report. I will
be sending Dr. ******** a copy and will need to set up an appointment
with you so we can review it further. Are you available next Thursday,
October 8th, I am available in the morning or afternoon, whatever works
better for you. Let me know, thanks.
Lisa P******
Sorry I have not responded until now. I was out of the office for a
couple of days and have returned to find Dr. ********'s report. I will
be sending Dr. ******** a copy and will need to set up an appointment
with you so we can review it further. Are you available next Thursday,
October 8th, I am available in the morning or afternoon, whatever works
better for you. Let me know, thanks.
Lisa P******
Review it with me? Why does she need to review it with me? Is she gonna tell me the doctor found Cancer? ACK!