Daily Ooo's Thursday Feb 12

[faerywings]

Happy almost Friday! Today is a good day, today will be a great day!
yes, really! *the faery mumbles, trying to convince herself*

Yesterday didn't get much better. I had a great visit with my BFF. Then I was off to do some b-day present shopping. It is impossible to shop for gifts with next to no money. I had picked out a Klutz book for my niece at Michael's and figured with the 40% off I could swing it. I am at the register and the cashier tells me that they don't accept coupons on the books. I had to put it back. I had no luck at Target or BJ's for either her or my friend's son. Then I see "steam" coming out of my muffler! It made me feel really sorry for myself. It didn't help that my period is kicking my butt.

So I get home, tired, PMSy, broke and nothing to show for it -- and then I see a tick on Scott and it just pushed me waaaay over. How am I going to deal with it this summer? I thought I handled it last year ok..... but it is too soon to be worrying about tick on the kids!

Sometimes out of all of the devastation this freaking disease is putting us through, the total "bite ya in the ass" is that we can get cured, and still get it again and again, any time we get a tick bite. No immunity.... that just sucks!

So yes, my day in a nutshell.

But today is a good day....
I am going to work at my MIL's, then I am doing the Faery-Wings business presentation at the TREP$ workshop at Cait's school. I am bringing some of my raw materials I use to make my All Natural Bug Stick (works on mosquitos, but I don't trust it on ticks or I would be making gallons of it! LOLOL) and talk to the kids about the process of making and selling, start to finish. Then if I have time, I want to give them tips on how to make their table stand out at the Craft fair/Marketplace that they do at the end of the session.

That should be fun.

And all of you- how are you? Everyone having a good day as well?
As always, I appreciate you good wishes and thoughts for my bro.

Hi ME- hope that your day slos down soons!

Sandra- I am so happy Dad is doing better!! yayaaaaaa!!!

LindaP- Hope that you are feeling better today too. Thansk for the review on book 4.

Waving to Alicia!

Dawn, you---- itchy? Never!! Oh, you said *itchy! LOLOLOL!!! And yup, that was the movie. wah!!!!

Tali- OMG, how scary!!! Please don't research on the net until you know more from your dr. I hope that this progresses very slowly or can be reversed. How did they diagnose? Any chance for a second opinion? Thinking lots of good thoughts for you (((((((hugs))))))
BTW- did you cry in Legend? I was inconsolable for hours......

Clara- I don't watch Grey's but if I ever catch them on reruns, and I see that you know I am gonna thing of you!! Yay for squishy hugs! hope that you were able to get everything accomplished that you needed to with all your three kids.

Sally- garlic and oxygen. Take care of yoursefl hon! Hope that the fam feels better soon.

xoxoxoxox to all of you!

 

[sandracvrt]

quick hi from me... don't really feel like posting again, as I just posted in my prayer thread for Daddy... have a great day everyone.

 

[Digi Designz]

hey everyone,

Good day today! only 3 more sleeps till my hunnie comes home..yipeee!

I missed him so much, being away for 2 weeks is much to long I dont want that to happen EVER again ya right. Its funny tho, in some ways it was nice that he wasnt here, I got really reconnect with myself and realize how strong and indepedant I actually am. Not that I didnt already know that I was its just sometimes I get caught up in being IN my realtionship with my partner that I forget that I am also in another really importatant realationship....with myself!

Anyways, at work today I am so glad that its almost friday and I get a long weekend this week because its family day on monday. One of the wonderful Canadian holiday's! its about time we got a day off to spend with family....I think every day should be family day tho!! no work or anyone

Sometimes I really think life is much more complicated than it needs to be KWIM? Work, spend, buy, time, eat, sleep over and over. Its like a rat race and nobody is really winning. I have really been trying to get back to "simplicity" and just 'be' in the moment. That's alot of what my mindfulness seminar talked about was being in the moment and not letting the overload of worries and thoughts control you. Being mindful is hard tho, I always have to bring it back to my breathing and really concentrate on that to stop the rush of thinking.

Anyways, now that I have totally blabbered on ....LOL

Chris - eeekkk ticks are nasty I had one once and that was enough, glad I dont have to worry about that often. Question: what is the faerywing business presentation? You may have already told everyone but Im interested to know

Sandra- have a good day hun ((HUGS))

 

[t_a_l_i]

Morning ladies. I had my first dance class last night and it was so incredibly fun. I never get out and hang out with adults without the kids, so this was such a great opportunity for me. It's put on by Ella's dance instructor, and she is a total sweetie. It was only a few of us, which was great. We did a lot of great stretches and learned ballet stations and some ballet moves and started on some jazz. Amazing workout.

I think we'll finally have time to watch I Am Legend tonight, Chris. I have heard it is pretty sad, so I'm preparing myself.

I will eventually get a 2nd opinion. I talked to my doc extensively when he diagnosed me. He did a topography of my eye, which along with all my symptoms, point directly to keratoconus. The topography shows that my eye is already coning, which is why my contacts don't fit well in my left eye. It's hard not to worry. The disease progresses differently for everyone so I'm just praying it progresses slowly for me and I never need the corneal transplant.

Sandra - I'll go check on your thread about your dad. Still praying for him.

Alicia - so glad your honey is coming home.

Chris - Big hugs sweetie. I wish I could give you one in real life. So much. I'd love to take you out for coffee/tea or something, and just hang out and talk. I can't imagine how scared seeing a tick on Scott makes you. I am so sorry you don't have immunity. I just wonder how much longer until people really start paying attention to this disease and putting some serious funding into research.

 

[clarabear]

Good morning all!!

Today is a good day so far. It is Cristian's birthday and with his mom gone we are doing our best to make it cool but it is kinda hard. It was kinda funny last night. I was putting frosting on the cupcakes for him last night when I heard my dh tal;king to one of the kids asking why they were out of bed. Then he laughed and made a comment about him being dressed and everything. It ended up being Cristian and he had woken up and gotten dressed and ready for school. So I had him come downstairs to help me put sprinkles on the cupcakes. It was kinda fun. So, yesterday I asked him what he wanted for his birthday dinner and he wants Mac'n'cheese out of a box. Wow!! How easy is that?? I made lots of cupcakes so he has some for class and then I also made some for home that I put a brownie square in the middle of the cupcake. I have done this with cookie dough before but never the premade brownies so we'll see how it comes out. I also made the cupcakes in ice cream cones which my mom used to do when i was little and we always loved them. I wish I could have gone to the school to take pictures adn stuff for his mom but I have to work and so does my dh.

So, we will be getting a little break this weekend. C will be staying with his dad so it will just be me and the kids this weekend. DH thinks he's going snowboarding. It has been a weird snow year. we had a ton of snow, then it all melted and now it is back. very strange. I'm sending him to AK in April so he is trying to get ready for him and his bro to snowboard together. I wish I could find some good flights though. Everything cost $500 a piece and I have to get two of them. that is outrageous. We can fly anywhere else in the states for half that. I bet we could fly to Europe cheaper than that. It really stinks.

Chris - I am sorry you've been having so many bad days. i wish you had a situation where having a great attitude all the time would make it better or even improve or something. But I'm sure on those days when you wake up and can hardly make it out of bed all you care about is getting through the day. It really sucks that stuff like this happens to people. You know...you should move to Washington. I have never seen a tick in my life. Not to say they don't have them here...there are some in the mountains but not a lot. Have fun at the TREPS presentation.

Sandra - big hugs!!

Alicia - Yay on having your sweetie back. Being apart is so hard, especially when you aren't used to it and who wants to be used to that. But like you said there is something about spending some time alone also.

Tali - I Am Legend is pretty good. Sad, yes, but definately good. That dance class sounds fun. I really need to join a class somewhere. Don't know what yet, but something would be great. It sounds like the eye thing is something that doesn't get misdiagnosed so it will be the treatment options that may have differing opinions. I hope that it is the slowest progression ever.

To everyone else coming in later...have a fabulous day!!

 

[cellomom]

hey everyone!!

We are doing a bit better today...no one has thrown up yet here today!! yesterday afternoon, Lillian joined the sickies and then Emma said her stomach hurt, which usually means she'd throw up, but thank God, she didn't!!

I am soooo looking at the victories each day! Yesterday, I worked out even when I totally didn't want to!!!!! We were in the middle of a HEROES glut (whole first season!!) and I made them stop it so I could go work out on the bowflex!! I did it! and it felt great!!! yay!!! I also delivered all of my SU! workshop products to all of my customers, visited my mom, cleaned up a car (we didn't quite make it home before Lil got sick...ewwwwwwwwwww), cleaned up a LOT of messes...I'll leave it at that! and made dinner (soup!!), AND watched HEROES AND scrapped two and a half LOs!!

*whew*

keep looking at the bright side, dolls!! Life is what you make it! I'm wanting for mine to be victorious...although I fail all the time! even a scrapped LO can be a victory for me!!

*off of soap box now!*

love you all dearly!! off to go plan some fun things for the OScraps March secret...or is it NOT a secret anymore??????? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!

 

[katg1006]

I am soooo looking at the victories each day!

Awww my wise wise friend!! Thank you for the lift today!! Love you!

 

[LindaPete]

I'm popping in here quick during parent teacher conferences. Whew - it's been busy! No school tomorrow! I'll finally have a chance to catch up on all the goings on here on Oscraps!
The science fair is today. The little gal that I helped did a great job, her display is fabulous. No idea yet how she p[laced but she should have done well.
Mr. Wonderful is still on the road It sounded like last night was trivia night at Hooters. Yeah - sure you go there to play the trivia game All of his colleagues kept asking him if he flilrts that much when the wife is around. He's horrible - but in a good way.
Oops - parents, gotta run. Hope you are all fabulous today!

 

[petey111]

Hi all!

My friend writes a blog that I just love. It's ideally about leadership and business, but it's always so much more than that. He just has a fantastic vision on life. Sally, I really thought it might be something you might enjoy! He's actually trying to become a syndicated columnist. He's a tremendous writer I think. Sally, today's post had to do with a choir performance and I think you'll really like it.

http://galtconsulting.blogspot.com/

I'm looking forward to a day off school tomorrow. Going to get my hair done. =) Hopefully it turns out good. We are supposed to get snow too, hopefully it doesn't get too crazy.

TTYL!

 

[petey111]

Ha Linda! I just got home from conferences. Enjoy it! No one ever comes to see the librarian, so I didn't stay as long as conferences go. =)

 

[LSlycord]

Sara, thanks for passing along that blog! Fabulous!

Sally, sorry that you have so many sickies!

Chris...I wish that I could come with Tali to sit and visit with you and give you hugs in person!

Sandra, I'm off to check out your update on your dad!