My Kind of Alarm System
When I get online in the morning,
Neal Boortz is my first stop.
While visiting my father in Atlanta in 2003 during our last PCS, he had the Boortz show on in the car one day. Once we got set up at husband's new duty station, he sent me the link to Boortz's site. I've been a huge fan since.
We used to get his show on the local AM channel, but two years ago they dropped it for some reason. I sent in my complaint, but I guess it swayed no one. I loved getting started on a house project early in the morning and listening to Boortz. I'd get so caught up in the show, I wouldn't notice how much work I was doing ha!
Anyhow, each day Boortz adds a new photo in the
Redneck Scrapbook. Some are just so ridiculous, you cannot help but laugh.
This morning, he featured
the Redneck Burglar Alarm. Very affordable and sure to deter some criminals. All others, the coroner's office can sort out lol...
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Two Words....
will explain my absence:
Strep ThroatYeah. It's been FUN, letmetellya.
We get the babies better and then it hit me last Thursday. I woke up at 4 when husband got up for work and couldn't hardly swallow my throat hurt so bad. High fever, aches, including ear ache. Shit warmed over...yep, that about sums up how I felt.
I REFUSED to go to the doc. I've been up there so much lately and I'm SICK of doctors. If I never had to see another doc as long as I lived, it'd be a day too soon.
When I was young, every year I had strep. It would scare Mother because my fever would get so high and I'd be so sick until they gave me a shot of antibiotics. I know what strep is (daughter has had it twice, including full blown Scarlet Fever with the rash) and I know it won't get better without an antibiotic. Thankfully I had an antibiotic in the cabinet and started taking it Saturday I think. They'd prescribed it several months ago and we thought it was making me nauseous, so they switched me to another. Turned out it was another med they'd given me at the same appointment that was making me sick... At any rate, I usually toss any meds the minute I stop taking it, but I never got around to tossing this out. I'm so thankful now lol, otherwise I would have been BACK to the doc and I had NO interest in going.
Yesterday was the first day I felt almost human. I washed the sheets on all the beds and did a few other things. By 7 pm I felt like crap again. I wonder why when you're sick, you'll feel better during the day but when night comes, you feel really bad again? Maybe because you've gone all day...
Husband had set up an appointment for this morning for the Explorer. Several months ago, they fixed the rear driver-side window. It just stopped working one day. Well, it was cold, so I never rolled it down after they fixed it (not smart). When we had a warm spell, I rolled it down while going to get daughter from school and half-way, it made this clanking noise. GREAT. Husband took it in for the oil change on Saturday and they had to order a new regulator for it. He made an appointment for today at 8:30 for them to replace it. They said it'd only take 30 to 45 minutes, so I planned to wait.
This morning, I wake up and don't feel so great. After taking daughter to school I get ready anyway and head up there. I'm about 10 minutes early and walk into the service department. There isn't a soul in the place except an elderly farmer. He says they are all at a meeting he was told. His appointment was at 8 and they haven't even got his truck into the bay.
GREAT.
Someone from the parts dept. comes over and takes my keys and logs me in. Husband had seen a gold Explorer on sale and wanted me to look at it while I was there. So, little guy and I bundle back up and walk outside to take a peak. YUCK. It had an ugly interior and no third row seat. Now, we don't NEED the third row seat and we rarely ever use the one we have in our current Explorer. However, with the third row seat comes the rear heating/cooling vents in the ceiling that have their own controls up front. I can adjust it from the drivers seat to make sure they aren't too hot or cold. It makes a huge difference for the babies. Without it, it's cold back there in the winter and hot in the summer - at least it was in the black Explorer we had in Alaska before Explorers had third row seats and the ceiling vents. So, great price - but no thanks. The one we have is nicer, so we'll keep it a while longer.
Son and I walk back into the service department's waiting room. I'm freezing, so I sit down and pull my long coat over my legs. The elderly farmer is sitting there too and makes small talk with little guy and I about the weather.
All of a sudden, I'm not feeling so great. I was freezing and now - a minute or two later, I feel really hot and start to sweat and my stomach feels upset. I stand up and take my coat off and feel like I'm going to either throw up or faint - or both. I sit down and the elderly farmer asks if I'm OK. I guess I turned white as a sheet or green or something. I tell him I'm OK, we're just all getting over being sick and maybe I'm not completely over it. I am thinking outloud and say I don't think I'll wait after all. I think I need to go home.
I go back to the service desk and the employees are out of their meeting and slowly returning. I tell the guy who I am and ask if we can reschedule for Friday. All I keep thinking is if I faint here - they'll call an ambulance and if I can just get home and sit down I'll be ok... It takes him a minute to reschedule, but we're finally on our way. I've never been so glad to be on my way home in my life lol.
Husband calls while I'm driving. I tell him what happened. I'd planned to wait for the truck, then go up to the installation so we could have lunch together and then get groceries on the way home. He says to go home and stay home. I didn't argue lol.
I'm going to stop by the little grocery here in town and pick up milk and a few other things we need when I pick daughter up from school. I think the rest of the day, I'm just going to sit here in my cushy chair and whine about my ear aching lol. My throat feels fine now...but this darn ear ache just doesn't want to ease up. The dogs barking make me see stars, but damnit I'm NOT going to the doc lol. I have to go back around the 1st anyway...no way I'm going now and then going again then. I'm SICK of doctors.
The good news is the babies are all better and although husband was sick last week, he's feeling better too. Now, if only I can get myself feeling better, we might can go and do something fun this weekend since he has a four day weekend. We missed a gun show last weekend because I was sick...and I'm STILL mad about that. I'd planned to buy me a new pistol and now I'll have to wait until the next gun show since there isn't anywhere around here that sells the pistol I want. The gun show was my best bet on finding it...otherwise I'll wait until we visit my parents and I'll buy it down there.
OH - We did take Dakota for his second round of shots this past Saturday, February 11th. In three weeks, he'd gained almost ten pounds. He weighed in at 26.3 pounds. I missed obedience classes this past Monday night, but next Monday we'll be there. If I wait too much longer, he's going to be too big and a real handful.
We keep joking that we should have named him Jerry Lee after the German Shepherd in the old movie K-9 with Jim Belushi lol. He is a grumbler and talker like Jerry Lee was in the movie - and even talks back when scolded for chewing on something he shouldn't be chewing on. Gosh I've just got to get pictures posted. Maybe after I lay down for a little while I'll feel better and will get around to loading the software and figuring out how to transfer the photos from my new digital camera to my computer. I know it's not hard...I've just been too lazy and then too sick to do it. My baby sure is a cutie though and has fit right into our family as if he's always been with us. I'm so proud of him...and he's got such a big personality. Husband and I both can't get over how much personality he has, not to mention how vocal. Yep, I love our new baby and I'm so thankful he's a part of our family!
Ok, there's my ramble for the day - er week. Hope everyone is having a great week!!
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Healthy Family Please...
My heavens, what a time we have had with the babies being sick.
My babies were diagnosed with strep two and a half weeks ago. Daughter? She took the antibiotic and got all better. Son? Well, it's never so easy with our little guy. Starting last Thursday he had pink eye. I went to the doc and while there, doc looked at his eyes. Said they no longer give eye medication for pink eye (which I think is CRAP). Just buy OTC eye drops and it'll clear up on its own. Yeah. RIIIIIGHT.
Saturday night husband had little guy at the Urgent Care Clinic. He was so sick... The Penicillin for the strep apparently was not enough to clear up his subsequent ear infection. He was back to coughing so hard he'd throw up. The UCC doc said he probably coughed in his hands, then rubbed his eyes - eye infection. He was given a stronger antibiotic, ointment for his eyes, a steroid to reduce the inflammation in his airways and help his cough, Tylenol with codeine because his eyes hurt so bad...
He's much better today thank goodness. But, he got on the couch right after lunch and is still sleeping. My little ones have NEVER napped (even when babies), so I know he's not feeling great today to have slept this long. Unfortunately, I have to wake him here in about 15 minutes so we can go get daughter from school. Then I have to get ready to go to a FRG meeting tonight.
The new CO's wife took over, so I was going to get to be a wall flower again. She called this morning though and one of her babies is sick, so I'll be doing tonight's meeting. She's a wonderful lady and I'm happy to help, but I will be glad when this is her show and I'm just along for the ride lol.
Gosh, I'm ready for bed already lol. Come on night night time :).
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Alabama Church Burnings
Friday morning I was watching Fox News. The morning show folks on Fox and Friends aren't anything to be too excited about to begin with. They usually irritate the crap out of me. I watch because the alternative is left wing idiots on CNN. Therefore, every morning Fox News is on in my house so I can learn what the big stories of the day are.
Friday morning, the story about five Alabama church burnings was mentioned. At first, they were "black churches" but at a later update, they were "just" churches. As we now know, only one of the burned churches' congregations turned out to be predominately black.
One of the geniuses of Fox and Friends asks another, "Do they think this is a hate crime?"
Another answers, "No, they are not considering these hate crimes."
Me: STUNNED.
Five black churches?
Hate crime.
Five Jewish temples?
Hate crime.
Five mosques?
Hate crime.
All rightfully so!
"Just" five rural churches? Nah, it CAN'T be a hate crime apparently. If it is Christian houses of worship and the worshipers are white, there is no hate crime.
Hate and hate crimes come in ALL forms. White Christians CAN be victims as well as their houses of worship. I just can't understand why these aren't being investigated as such.
My thoughts and prayers are with all the congregations. May the sick person (or people) who did these crimes be caught and brought to justice quickly.
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