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If No One Is Home To Listen Will A Man Still Yell At The TV?

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Kind of like…if no one’s in the woods to hear, does a falling tree make a noise?

My husband was watching the news…yes, the NEWS and was screaming at the television like it was sports or something. I understand why though. Detroit’s mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been in a lot of trouble. Lots of scandals…a party and a dead stripper at the Manoogian Mansion (I LOVE that word!)…text message scandals…cheating on his wife…assaulting an officer…the list goes on and on and on. He went to jail at one point and had a tether on for the most part of the last month and has had numerous court dates! Personally, I’m tired of it all…but the hubbs…oh he LOVES it! He’s all in and gets really riled up. It’s funny to see.

So I was just curious if men also yell at the tv when no one is home to listen to them…I almost think he yells for my benefit. LOL

I finished Amazing Grace today at work and my supervisor surprised me with by loading her old ipod with a ton of books!! So, now I’m listening to Sisters by Danielle Steele. With all of those books at my fingertips, I didn’t know which one to start with!!! lol I almost needed  someone to tell me which is good and what to listen to. I started a couple others before settling on Sisters. I spent way too much time sitting there flipping through the books. I wish I could read a little synopsis or else look them up on Amazon before hand to see what they’re about. The title tells me very little. I still need to finish Dark Destiny which is on my iPod….oooh and the new Carpatheian book comes out today! I almost forgot…

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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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This is a husband rant. I love my husband but his little anal things irk the hell out of me sometimes and today he just got right under my skin with them.

He got this radio <-- for Christmas last year. He really wanted an iPod radio and this was the one my mom picked out for him. A little background about the hubs before I get into the rant. He takes *very* good care of his things…anally good care. Like he’s a leave-the-little-plastic-sticker-on-things-until-it-falls-off-on-its-own kind of guy. Which is fine, it’s his thing and usually I don’t have to deal with it. He also values his items and “protects” them like they are gold. To me, an item is an item and most things can be fixed or replaced. To him, it’s his and it’s the last one on earth. He gets really bent out of shape if someone breaks something of his. Ok, so to the rant. When I do the dishes I like to listen to music. We have an under the counter radio in the kitchen and I’ve made cd’s from my fave list on my ipod and they don’t seem to work right so I’ll listen to one cd or else I’ll bring this ipod radio in there to listen to. Shouldn’t be a problem, right? Oh…but it is! I put it on the washing machine and he doesn’t want it there because the cats can get up there. He doesn’t want it on the counter because there’s not enough room (um, there’s PLENTY of room) and I may knock it down. He doesn’t want it on the fridge because it’s too high up. The baker’s rack is too wobbly, the bathroom sink is not big enough, the toilet is well…the toilet and there’s no plug in the dining room. So today I put it in the little window we have above the sink. Guess what? Too close to water. He’s afraid I’ll ruin his precious radio. Like we can’t replace the damn thing. it’s an ITEM! Not a living being or something like that….!!! Ugh!!! Obviously he doesn’t want me using the thing, so I’m not going to anymore. It’s so irritating…all this mine/yours bullshit. We’re married fgs!! What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is yours…what happened to that. If we want to be so technical about it, the computer is mine. I bought 1/2 of it with MY money and my mom bought the rest of it for ME…not him, ME. But do I pull that card out on him? never. I’m going to be getting myself my very own little ipod radio and permanently put it in the kitchen on the baker’s rack. that way I can listen to it when I take a shower and when I do dishes and things. Screw him and his radio. I’m so done with this argument. Why would I ruin it? geez. /rant.

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