Trick or Treat

Here we have Yoda and our Karate Kid getting ready to Trick or Treat. We went to my parents house because it's a nice development, and not so much traffic, also the big hills wear the little guys out quickly! We did less traveling this year than last year... although I think they still acquired the same amount of candy! The boys had so much fun!!!!!

Little Man's Halloween Party

The little man had a Halloween Party today at school, they Trick or Treated within the building, although I was completely exhausted, and still feeling really sick... with medicine side effects and all, I still had a blast! I think the little guy had just as much fun too!

What is this?

I've gone for several periods of time today without coughing... wow what a difference, and I can breathe and I even slept. Let's hope my body keeps this up. Now for my service announcement of the month. Even if you take only one type of cough pills, and even if out of the 4 variety's the 3 that you've taken in the past has you taking 2 at a time... DO NOT ASSUME it will be the same for the 4th variety. Yup I was kinda wondering why I was kinda jittery earlier today, then I checked the box to see if I had to wait 4 or 6 hours before taking my next dose... wanted to keep those nasty coughs away and the meds seemed to be working... yeah perhaps because I should have only taken one pill every 6 hours... well live and learn.

Okay really sick...

... to the point of yes I went home from work early and I'm eyeballing a day off so I can sleep, but this week is so chaotic that I'm not sure a day off will help... field trip on Wednesday morning to the pumpkin patch, my mom is having surgery to correct a heart problem on Thursday and of course Halloween trick or treating is on Friday... yikes. I've got Bronchitis now... I wish my chest would stop burning, it's very painful, a day or night of sleep, real sleep would be so nice. The Doctor gave me a stronger antibiotic, some prednisone, and cough syrup with the good stuff in it! Let's see how sick to my stomach this all makes me:) And to make sure everyone participated in my saga here at home, the hubby has a milder case of bronchitis and as we all got into the car to trek down to the Doc's, the little guy started crying and grabbing his ear, so we got a bonus trip to his doc's too... least we caught his ear infection at the very first sign of trouble! Note to all friends/fiends stay away from our plagued house!

Still Sick... and only getting worse

Well the bladder infection is gone so I suppose I'm better and worse all at the same time! I'm fairly sure I've got bronchitis now... there is searing pain in my chest when I cough, which is about every 4 to 5 minutes. I'm so sick I bailed out on going to the little guy's PKU fall festival... which was being held at a train place for kids... I feel like a bad mommy. On the other hand I'm actually wishing I could call out of work today but the carpet cleaners will be here so I really can't... maybe we will leave early! I did go to the Halloween Party yesterday, it was pouring down rain and I figured we wouldn't see many people... boy was I wrong, at least 50 children were present. I forgot my camera so when my boss e-mails me the pics I'll e-mail them home and put them up. After work I did something I've never done before I actually went through a haunted house... it was lots of fun... actually from the construction point of view my brain was kicking it into overtime... very cool, I did miss all the areas where there were strobe lights... with the heart condition I can't be near them... but all was good there by covering the eyes. I had a blast! Completely recommend putting it on the to do list at least once in your life!

Sick, sick, sick... I know how to it right

Sick 1 Sinus infection
Sick 2 Lungs infected on the verge of bronchitis
Sick 3 Bladder infection

Yeah at least I went to the doctors for the bladder infection at which point they looked at me scratched their heads and went... you do know you have a high fever and multiple swollen glands we can see by just looking at you. I was kinda wondering if I had fleas or lice... just really localized... because I can't stop scratching the base of my hairline in the back of my head... apparently the limp nodes there are so swollen that they are stretching my skin... hence the itchiness. So a day later 4 antibiotic pills later... at least fire isn't still shooting out of me when I pee... but I wish my sinus' would stop draining, I can't sleep because it's so annoying!

On the bright side tomorrow I get to go to work for something fun... the Halloween Party at Borders. I'll be a witch... I know fitting, I need to buy a broom... otherwise I'm all set! The Grandpa will be watching the boys so I'm not sure if he will drop them off for awhile or not... it would be nice. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and try to post a much more positive blurb!

artist at work

Let us see what the directions say to do next... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, uh huh, oh I see

We got two eyes, a nose... now to start on the mouth

Ah... see right here I'm just not happy with the eyes, just a little more off right here.

where and what I do at night

In case anyone was wondering I thought I might give a short account of the fun I have at night. Here is my cage... yes it literally is a cage. I have a desk... but I never use this one, I have a phone... but it does not work. I get to be a little teeny bopper with all my posters on the wall. Here is where I spend a great deal of time, usually on the floor sorting through boxes of multimedia, then securing them and finally sale pricing them if need be. After that they get moved to a library cart to go on the floor and be shelved... I usually try to pawn that job off on someone else... I have far more important things to do... see the next picture.




And this is what we do on our 10 minute breaks... we come up with things to mess with the incoming crew. This is our newest Christmas bear, his name is Chaucer. He really freaks us out... very beady little eyes and there are like 800 of them sitting around the store plotting against us... all except for this little guy, he couldn't take the pressure.




Yeah we are all fairly punchy by 5am... it seemed like a good idea at the time, yes a little twisted and demented, but I tell you what at the moment he went up, so did employee morale!

ughhhhhhhhhhh...

I have another nasty sinus infection... I knew it was coming, all the work and cleaning we have been doing in the house... but did it have too be so bad as to make me want to call into work... must go back to sleep. I suppose the beauty of working overnights is as long as I stay in the building I can clock out whenever I want and sleep, I also can wear my PJ's to work... and that is exactly what I'm doing!

Back to square one with the paint colors

Well the paint did not dry any lighter... bummer. Now I have to decide on taking a chance at not having enough paint for the entire kitchen and diluting the color with say an additional gallon of white paint or just start from scratch and pick a second color. I found two colors that aren't bad... just a pain in the butt. On the bright side my work week at Borders has ended and I can get 2 nights sleep in. My Dad also came by today and hooked the gas up to the stove... made some ravioli's, very yummy... of course anything would have tasted good since we have a working stove again!

On the down side I've been trying to find out where we stand on the Kuvan for the little guy. He will start the 6 week trial the second week of November, but we have to look forward after that time to see what we can afford. I suppose if worse comes to worse and his body accepts the meds, we can just keep going as life is now, until the meds are affordable... just is kinda crazy. I'm glad with the proper diet this can be "cured" and that he doesn't need the meds to live. Now if I can only get someone to call me back!

Life is good again

Yes a new stove, fridge and microwave... all delivered on the right day, all the correct product... only snafu was that there is a dent on the right side of the stove, but they called and let us know about it before they even came out, luckily the dent is not visible and we got an extra 10% off. On the down side I just painted part of a wall with the lighter color brown... it is a nice color but it is kinda hard to see a difference... may have to tone it down a bit! I stopped painting to see how it looks tomorrow in better light and it will dry a bit so perhaps it will tone itself down!
Pictures to follow!

New Stuff

I am awaiting the delivery of a new stove, new fridge, and new microwave... we ended up spending a tad bit less and getting the microwave... too bad Lowes did not have the good financing deal 15 days ago!!!!!

well... didn't see that one coming

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... yes our stove... DID NOT SHOW UP TODAY! Apparently the order was canceled by the computer system... what is that saying, the computer is only as smart as it's operator. So I am also wondering how between 5:15 last night and 9:15 this morning did this order magically get cancelled, because I was in Best Buy last night and talked with the warehouse guy about the delivery time, making sure he knew we'd be out of the house until about 9:15... had concerns with the little guy getting to school, wanted to make sure everything went smooth... yeah right. I'm so mad I'm past anything but laughing... pure comedy at it's finest.

Word to the wise DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM BEST BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iced Tea

Yup that's the color name of the darker color of paint that I just slapped up on the wall behind where the stove will end up tomorrow morning... if all goes well! Let me just say... I love this color... it's creamy and caramely... it looks ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sooooooooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooood, perfect with the cabinet color. Now I want to start on the tile and skip out on work... good thing Lowe's closes soon, and I can't get the luan home without the truck rental!

I'm a Zombie

Argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I worked from 5 last night to 9:30pm then went back at 11pm and worked until 8am... then I went to the gap from 3:30pm to 7:30pm, and guess what I get to go back to Borders in just under 3 hours... must find sleep. I won't be whining when I see my pay check... I do get shift diff.
Miss Lisa's b-day is today... I get some kid less time with her tomorrow, we've been trying to get into downtown Hagersbush for sometime, to check out all the little shops. The weather is supposed to be lovely, I'm looking forward to my outing!
Also not so much looking forward to but more morbidly curious as to how our stove delivery will go on Wed. We are taking bets on what will go wrong! Good news we did decide on a color scheme for the walls in the kitchen... kinda a coffee/latte theme at the suggestion of Amy the great. One wall will be a tad darker than the other three... looking forward to working on it this week... yeah in all my free time.

great karate news

So the little man went into karate class tonight and got held after class for a talk with Dad. They would like him to move out of the little dragon class into the big boys/girls class... totally cool! Now he can start on his white belt. I also found out tonight that I will be on overnights every night from now until X-mas season has passed... which works out well for our karate news. Daddy can start the white belt class with the little man, since I will be home during the evenings now and can watch the little guy. After the X-mas season I'm sure we can find a babysitter, for that hour! It will be very cool for both my guys, and then when the little guy starts next year I can join him in his white belt class! The only bummer was that I didn't get a chance to see him and tell him how proud I was tonight... gotta find something special for him tomorrow!

The little man at karate

So I wanted to get some pictures of the little man doing his best at karate, he really has come a long way in the last 4 months, we are so proud of him.





This is an Axe Kick



This is a Front Snap Kick.





This an In to Out Crescent Kick.

for the kitchen poll

Figured figured I should show a picture of the kitchen as it is now, with as much of the future appliance scheme as possible, hopefully it will help with the voting process! Please vote:)

and got away with it!

Okay so here is my drywall patch three days, two skims and sandings later... looks just the same as if I screwed it and taped it in place. So I'm going to the store to pick out some possible paint colors. Presently it is a creamy butter yellow... I kinda like it, had planned on doing basically the same color, but silly me I opened my mouth and asked the hubby for his input expecting - anything but green, instead I got, "how about we find a darker sage/olive color." Huh? So now I'm torn, I'm not sure how t hat would look and if it would make the kitchen look smaller, I kinda like all the bright piney looks. Of course hubby had a great point with the stainless steel appliances the whole kitchen will have a different look and feel. I dunno. Let's do a poll!

totally gross pumpkin

Guess what we just finished doing... yup making an extreme pumpkin... kinda gross, but we are totally loving it! The boys had a terrific time picking out which worms to stick in the various holes on the pumpkin. Next I think we will do the skull on a stake, then the exposed brains pumpkin... yeah having some this year!

Thank You Uncle Jon!

So the boys are having a complete fixation with cameras, and we had bought one for the little man awhile back, probably for his 3rd birthday, but he kept taking pictures of his face not anything else... I think he just liked the noises it made. Well Uncle Jon sent another one out for Christmas last year and we just set it aside knowing that eventually the day would come to be able to give them to both the boys and that day came two nights ago. The little guy was begging to use mine so while the little man was asleep hubby let the the little guy play with the red one... only problem was come bedtime he would not let it go. Yesterday when he woke up instead of coming and waking me or the little man up he went straight for the camera. Of course the little man wasn't happy about sharing, and as an avid photographer I can understand that, the picture is in the moment, and what if that moment was when they were sharing... Uncle Jon's present to the rescue and all is happy in this photo crazy household... THANX!!!!!!!

I cheated

I decided to see if I could cheat and get away with it... so far so good... this area of wall is drywall directly over horse hair slat wall so screwing these two tiny patches would have been difficult I'd have had to cut some huge chunks away and get into the horse hair plaster... uhmmmmmmmmm... no thanks, so I got some paper did an exact outline trace of the holes, cut the drywall pieces so tight that I had to literally push hard to get them in the hole,nice and snug and I used craft glue to double secure them. I'm thinking that hey they are behind the stove, not a high traffic area, no hands should encounter them, no pressure... I'm going to skim some spackle over it, let it dry, sand and see how bad it looks. Hopefully it'll be fine. I'm going to buy the remaining cabinet we need today, and hopefully get that in place this week, and start on the luan for the tile. I'll have to take some progress pics... I never do, but see I started so perhaps I'll keep it up! Off to go locate the spackle!!!!

my space vs facebook

So I went on my space a little over a year ago since some co-workers were talking it up... thought I'd see what the fuss was and see if I could find anyone from live's gone by... not so much. I joined facebook about a month ago and wow all these people are there from long long ago... it's kinda cool, maybe my space is just missed on my peeps from the good ole days.

Onward and upward with household set backs. We did receive our NEW fridge this week, I'm still miffed... more money and it's not as state of the art... on the plus side I'm not camping anymore out of a cooler, it does actually work! Now I'm making prepartions for our new? stove. I had to clean off and move a cabinet to get to 2 holes that needed to be dry walled. Working on that has sent me into an allergic fit... but it will get done! I guess once that is worked on I should drop some luan into the space between the cabinets where the stove will go and tile there... although I really wanted to start tiling in a corner not in the middle of a wall... I've got 11 days... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... yeah, well see now I'm setting the brain in motion... if I start from the foyer with full tiles... which maybe would be the smart thing, I really only have to tile a small hallway and a strip in front of the 3 foot wide cabinet to get to the stove, the luan is the easy part... so maybe not so complicated... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... sleep will elude me this week I see it already. I start midnight shifts this week... plus we will be moving 2 tons of wood pellets on Monday... yeah, maybe I should just be impressed if I get the holes completed!

Refrigerator hell

So we got our wonderful brand new, from the warehouse fridge delivered on Saturday... only the sales chic lied and sold us the floor model... dents dings and all. There ensued a battle between Best Buy and us immediately. And it was determined that we could keep fridge for as long as it took to get a replacement delivered, mostly because of the little guys PKU medical necessity... so let's add some insult to injury... after two hours the dang thing wasn't even cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! needless to say my Saturday was not very pleasant, and since the floor model was the only one in the eastern coast, we couldn't just get a new one like we were told, and since everything comparable was way out of our price range we had to settled on something slightly less advanced FOR MORE MONEY!!!! Needless to say I personally will never recommend buying something from Best Buy ever!

The new fridge arrived yesterday and yes it's nice, but I'm still just feeling totally shafted. The really sad thing is the poor delivery guys... they were totally cool, and I felt so bad for them... it's not their fault at all, they just deliver the product, so when I started asking them questions I saw their faces kinda go all screwy... I thought the one guy was going to go postal when he returned to the store!!!! Very nice guys... and I just want to say that if ever you have something delivered that isn't quite right... it's not the delivery guys fault (unless they damage your home or product), be nice to them and they will give you ways to get what you need. I will say we paid about 500.00 less then the sale price of our new fridge because they told us who to talk to and what to say!

Now wouldn't it be nice if we had the money to fill the fridge... I mean fill it to over spilling... one can hope.