Are These Eardrops Made of Unicorn Tears?

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Say hello to my little friend, the $110 bottle of eardrops: I spent a couple of hours last Sunday at a bowling alley that apparently hasn't been vacuumed since Nixon was President, and about halfway through the party,  I was coughing and sneezing. By Monday afternoon, I wasn't congested that much, but I felt lightheaded. The best way I could describe it was the way you feel when you first get off a merry-go-round that was spinning really fast. That feeling like something is shifting inside your head and you are powerless to stop it. Tuesday morning, the lightheadedness was worse and constant. I called my doctor's office only to learn that the next available appointment was in JULY.  I took a Claritin and tried to stick it out, but by the time I had to drive to pick up Ryan from an after-school activity, I knew I couldn't wait any longer. I dropped Ryan off at home to watch Nathan and Kaitlyn, and drove to a nearby Urgent Care.  The waiting room was surprisingly empty and I … [Read more...]

I’m just waiting on a fridge

I got picked by Mom Central to be on "Team Fridge", which means I'm getting a new Frigidaire Side-by-Side Refrigerator to review. Which, yay!  Friday afternoon I got a phone call from a man (whose name and phone number I of course forgot to take down) saying the fridge would be delivered yesterday by a local appliance store. He told me where on the appliance store's website to go to type in my invoice number and track my delivery. 8:00 AM Saturday- I get up, make coffee, boot up my laptop, go to the appliance store's website, type in my invoice number, and it tells me my fridge has not been loaded on a delivery truck yet.  No problem, it's early, right? There's a toll free number listed on the site, I call it.  Answering machine. "Please call back during regular business hours, Monday thru Friday 8-5."  Well that's just peachy. 10:00 AM Saturday- I woke up my husband and had him pull our fridge out from the wall so I could sweep and mop under it. Don't want the nice … [Read more...]

It’s A Crazy Week

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Yesterday was Nathan's 4th grade end-of-year concert. He sang and played the recorder. Tonight was Ryan's 6th grade end-of-year concert, he played the violin.  Our school district requires all 5th graders to pick either band, orchestra or choir, next year Nathan wants to be in band and play the clarinet. Today is Chris' birthday. He is in Atlanta on business. I suggested he take himself to a movie tonight but today was the main work day for the computer migration something something or other, so he didn't think he'd even be able to do that.  I called him this morning and sang Happy Birthday and Kaitlyn told him "happy birthday Daddy!". He'll be home Friday night. I took a job helping with the BlogHer conference this year, the same job I did last year- Bookstore "Wrangler". It means that my job is to pull together the information from all of the authors who would like to have their book stocked in our bookstore during the conference. I submit the orders to the bookseller and … [Read more...]