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Friday, November 12, 2010

11-12-10

7:00AM

Kept hearing a ton of sirens this morning.

When Tony went to work we saw a
black smoke cloud not far from here.
There was a fire somewhere on Ferris between
Cleveland Ave & Westerville Rd.
Channel 10's helicopter was hovering above
so will have to watch the noon news
to see what happened.

The pic below shows the smoke
traveling right to left.
That is not a cloud!


8:40AM

Kept Jonathan home from school again
today. He now has diarrhea
and stomach cramps from it.
Another kid didn't go to school
today from our bus stop that was
also sick. The school had told
me something was going around.
I'm thinking, thanks for sharing it!

Today I'm gonna throw 10 pounds
of chicken in a couple crock pots
and get that cooked and
bagged up for the freezer.


I'm wanting to get some meals made up in advance
to put in the freezer. This really helps
especially when you're sick and don't feel
well enough to cook or can't stand on your feet.
Have your other half pull out a freezer meal and put in the oven to bake.

No deer this year so will have the space in the
freezer to put these meals.


1. Add chicken to broccoli rice
casserole I made the other day.
This way it stretches out leftover into another meal.

2. Make chicken noodle soup
with homemade noodles.

3. Make up 2 casserole dishes
of stuffed pasta shells.
Wish I had a 3rd small crock to put
the ground meat in to cook it throughout the day
rather than standing on my feet to make it.

4. Fried cabbage, potatoes & Italian sausage.

5. Corned beef & potato cabbage cups.
Use leftover cabbage.

When making something with cabbage
you want to cook/bake it first then
freeze.

6. BBQ pork ribs & mashed potatoes.
Found a large 4.35 pound package at
Kroger yesterday when picking up
Tony's meds.
Was $10.83 marked down to $5.13
Sometime this weekend would
like to throw these in the crock with
bbq sauce then package for the freezer.

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Tonight we're gonna go check on our car.
We took it in Monday so the guy could
replace the gauge cluster.
Tuesday when there he said that didn't fix
the problem so he would send the cluster
out to get repaired. Said it should take
2-3 days. Today is day 3. I'm hoping
to have it back today or tomorrow at the latest.

The cluster gauge cluster is a very common problem
with this year of car.
It has a faulty module
on the computer board. A dealership will
will charge you $1500 to $2000 to
replace the cluster (did my research). BUT it does not
fix the problem because the new cluster
will have the same defect.
The only way to fix it is to have someone
replace something on the computer board.
This is what the car lot is doing for us
by sending it out to be repaired.
If they hadn't of done that then I read where
people on Ebay will repair them for you.
I'm being patient with the whole thing
because hey, if they are fixing it for
free, I'm all for it!

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10:15am

Got 10lbs. chicken in the crocks.
Also made up some of what I'll call
S'Mores Petit Fours.

While making them I came up with the idea
that they should make a chocolate
pop, call it Cocoa-Cola.
I've had chocolate beer and that
was awful!!

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11:45am

It's been fun around here.
Jonathan has diarrhea with stomach cramps
and now throwing up.
Oh goodie.
Will have a bunch of laundry to do this weekend.
Make sure to tell your kids not to fart
when they have diarrhea!!
Not good!


12:00pm

Well time to take my meds and
me and Jonathan are going to lay
down for a nap and get some rest.

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5:45pm

Good news, the infections didn't
go into the bone of my toe
and my toe isn't broken.
The bacterial test came back
to say I had staph and strep in
my infected toe.
Doc said to stop taking one of my meds
but continue with the other one
for another 7 days.
My toe is still very sore but seeing
a little improvement with the skin.

6:30pm

Went to check on the car.
Won't be til Monday or even Tuesday.
The guy thinks there was a delay
with it due to the Veteran's holiday
where some companies closed for the day.

Looks like I'm gonna have a jolly
happy birthday. No sooner got
back home and Christopher
threw up out in the gravel drive way.

Was supposed to go out to eat at either
Golden Coral or Hometown tomorrow
for my birthday
and we canceled that til another date.
Was supposed
to have a birthday dinner at mom's
Sunday and we canceled that also.
I still don't feel well.
Have congestion and cough.
I hate this time of year!!!!
Nothing is going right at the moment.




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