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The Hills and other Monday Madness

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The Hills starts tonight! woo hoo! This is my total guilty pleasure. I love the drama. I know it’s like a high school show, but I’ve been watching it since these girls were on Laguna Beach.

Only problem with the premiere being tonight is that it interferes with Paranormal State. I think i will watch PS and then catch The Hills at 11:00 tonight. I’ll be up all night, but it’s no different than me trying to catch the Olympics all week.

I also have this weird swelling directly under my left eye. Just a little spot. I can feel it. It doesn’t hurt or anything, and nothing else is wrong. It just kind of showed up out of no where. I guess I’ll give it a couple days and see if it goes away. If not, I’ll go to the dr. I hate the dr.

I joined Audible tonight. My supervisor has been bringing me in audible books on CD for a few months now. I’ve probably listened to 20 or so at work. Most are steamy romance novels, which I must admit that I am now addicted to. They are mindless listening, not too deep, have a plot and are usually pretty quick. I’ve also listened to a couple really good books by Jodi Picoult and also Nicholas Sparks classics. So, I joined to get my own account and my own books…not that I am not 100% thankful that she’s been bringing them in for me, but just so that when I finish one of hers I can start one of mine and vice versa. I listen to them pretty quick. Especially if they are good.

I still did not clean up the kitchen or do laundry…I have an aversion to dishes. I hate them…I don’t know why. And what a fool I was to think that just because I have a dishwasher, I’d not be this way about dishes…HA! I still hate to do them. I probably always will. I should have found a man who likes to do dishes or at least will get on me to do them. I think that’s half the problem…Todd doesn’t care whether they’re done or not…so why bother doing them? So stupid, I know. BTW…that’s not a picture of my dishes…similar, but not quite. LOL

I’m sitting here half watching PS, half making my lunch for tomorrow…half talking to my friend on Yahoo Instant Messenger. she has a laptop, so she can sit there and watch and talk…me, not so much. Oh well. It is a good PS though.

Lunch tomorrow will be a yummy chicken salad with berry dressing and blueberries and grapes in it. It’s loosely based on this awesome salad my little sister makes. I love it, it’s so yummy. I may get a couple things from the cafeteria at work to add to it…croutons or sunflower seeds…something like that. Should be good.

This is totally random babbling tonight lol. Todd is asleep in the living room, I’m sitting here waiting for lunch to be done and the hills to come back on at 11:00 lol

No scrappy pages lately. I haven’t had time… 🙁 Maybe Thursday I will!

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Changed the way I list layout credits

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I changed things up a bit. I wasn’t posting credits right away because it took me a while to search for the links to the kits…esp if they were freebies.

So, I’m going to just list the name of the designers and/or the store they come from…I’ll also add the name of the kit if I know it.

If you’d like a link for the sites, please leave me a comment with your email address. I won’t publish it, or will edit the address out…and I’ll email you the link or post a reply comment.

I want to give credit, but right now I’m not organized enough to have the links handy.

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We’re Too Young For This!!!

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I had to go to the pharmacy to get my husband and my scripts. He had 6 for me to pick up, plus his Lovenox shots and I had my two. It was 66.00. Good Lord! I know we’re lucky too, because we have fairly low copays for our scripts…but still. We’re in our early to mid 30’s and we’re spending over 60 dollars on prescriptions?

This is not counting the pain meds my husband is on, or the 1500mg of calcium he takes everyday or the aspirin he takes or even the iron and multivitamin.

There are plenty of people with his disease who have to take more medications than he does, so we are thankful that he’s only on what he’s on and I know it’s what’s keeping him alive and relatively clot-free, but still I didn’t think that I’d be sorting out my husband’s medications at this age.

He keeps forgetting to take his morning shot too…sometimes he forgets both the morning and night ones. Which then leaves him at risk for a clot…which usually shows up in the form of a TIA or mini stroke.

This disease is no joke. People don’t understand and they don’t get that he looks perfectly fine…maybe a little tired, but he’s really sick and it’s life threatening. And it’s also not going away, won’t get better and we don’t know if it’s hereditary.

I’m running out of things to say when people ask why we haven’t or when we’re going to have kids. I want kids. I really do, but I’m so afraid of passing this mess on to a child. What this disease does to babies and little kids is just horrible. I don’t want to risk that.

When I tell people that they look at me like I just landed from Mars. What part of babies having strokes scares the shit out of me don’t people understand? I can only handle one sick person in my life and my husband’s mind and memory are so bad that I don’t think I could even trust him to care for a child alone.

I haven’t put the idea out of my head completely. But right this moment, this is where we stand on the issue. I wish people understood my fears and the risks and would just mind their own business about it. We may change our minds later down the line. We still have some time. Who knows what the future holds.

So today I spent 66.00 at CVS and then spent 45 minutes getting the pills and shots ready for the week. Hopefully the new system will help him remember his shots. If nothing else, I will keep track of them myself and know exactly how many he’s doing in a week.

And maybe, just maybe, now that he’s back on all of his meds…he’ll start feeling a little better.

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