11-20-10

Finally got a Thanksgiving menu planned.
Here is what we are having:

Turkey
Creamed Cheese Corn
Sweet Potatoes
Apple Stuffing
Green Bean Casserole
Macaroni & Cheese
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Cranberry Jello
Rolls
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie

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I have never made sweet potatoes
nor do I think I like them. My taste buds
may have changed since way back when I took
my first bite of them. I was in about 2nd grade
and was eating lunch in the school lunch room.
I took a big ole bite of what I thought was carrots
and it turned out to be sweet potatoes.
I don't think to this day I ever ate another
sweet potato again.
This year I will attempt for the first
time to make sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

• 2 (15 ounce) cans sweet potatoes
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Place sweet potatoes in a 10x6 inch shallow baking dish and pour orange juice over.
3. In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt; mix together and cut in margarine. Sprinkle over sweet potatoes.
4. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with marshmallows and broil until browned.

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Brown Sugar-Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows
(adapted generously from Bon Appétit, November 1994).

4 pounds red-skinned sweet potatoes (yams), peeled, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 cup packed golden brown sugar (plus a bit more to sprinkle on top)
6 tablespoons butter
1 bag marshmallows or miniature marshmallows (feel free to strike out on your own here, just ensure that when they melt the potatoes will be nicely covered – my imported marshmallows came in small bags, but I recall watching my mother wing it and dump handfuls of mallows from a bag of Kraft jet-puffed marshmallows on top of the potatoes. How I miss the wonder of jet-puffed mallows.)

Preheat oven to 375°F. Cook potatoes in a pot of cold, salted water until boiling, then simmer until tender (about 15 minutes). Mash potatoes with a hand masher. Mix in 1 cup of brown sugar and butter until butter has melted and brown sugar is completely incorporated. Arrange potatoes in 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish. Bake potatoes 20-30 minutes or until heated throughout. Top potatoes with marshmallows and return to over for 10 minutes or until marshmallows melt and begin to brown.

Yield: 8 .

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2:00pm

Today starts my Thanksgiving cleaning.
That means I thoroughly clean the house from
floor to ceiling. Maybe I can burn off this virus
or bug that I have. I have 4 days to clean
and the earlier I get it done the better
because I am doing something everyday this week.

As for our car, don't ask and I won't tell.
Let's just say by the time it's done it will
have been more than 2 weeks!

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I'm hungry. Don't this homemade
mac n cheese look good.
Might have to figure out a way to make
this also for Thanksgiving.
But, use my choice of cheese as I have
never heard of the one listed in the ingredients.
I think this would be good with some
bread crumbs mixed with a little melted butter
and sprinkled over top maybe with
some parmesan cheese mixed in it.

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Every year I use an oven bag to put my turkey in.
While I still plan on using one this year I have
been reading about brining the turkey first
which is supposed to make it super moist.
Brining is letting it marinade or soak in
liquid with kosher salt. Then you remove it
and rinse and pat dry and bake as usual.
Might even add in some liquid smoke.
Anyway here is a recipe I've been studying.

The Perfect Turkey
for those that don't have dry white wine
try apple juice instead.

6:15pm

I've been working on laundry which is
about 1 1/2 times of what it usually is due
to sickies last week. I got my bathroom cleaned
topped to bottom. It was a mess as you can
imagine with sickies.

Then I'm gonna start on a shopping list
for my Thanksgiving menu. Got my sales
ads today on my step. Really thinking about
adding homemade mac and cheese to the menu.

11-19-10

Trying to get ideas of simple things
to make for Christmas gifts using
mugs or canning jars so will be posting
recipes or pictures of interest.

Cake In A Jar
These look like small jam jars.
You could bake up some cupcakes.
Slice cupcakes. Insert slices of cupcakes
into jar and top with frosting and keep stacking
this way tip top of jar.

You could make pumpkin cupcakes
with store bought cream cheese frosting
and crumble gingersnap cookies on frosting
in between layers.

I have been saving small peanut butter jars.
I think they would be the perfect size
to make cupcake jars.

These would make great gifts to make
and send someone who is celebrating a birthday.


Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes in a Jar

Pie In A Jar

Make sure to add a plastic spoon to your gift.

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Make Your OWN Inexpensive Candy/Cookie Coating!

You can make your own candy coating to cut down on costs when making Christmas gift goodies. Walmart has their own brand of chocolate chips on sale at Christmas for approx. $1.50 or so, depending on where you live. You can use the following method with the white chocolate chips, as well.

Mix 2 tablespoons of shortening per 2 cups of chocolate chips and melt in the microwave at 30 second intervals. Stir in between. Just dip and allow to harden. This will make a perfect candy or cookie coating! Don't use the "reduced fat" shortening, or it won't come out right. Use the regular old shortening. This is a big cost cutter when you consider Wilton candy melts and the chocolate almond bark run over $3.00 per package at Walmart.

from happybirdscraftinghaven

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Toilet Paper Roll Ornament

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Cute Idea For Co-Workers...Give Cookies Wrapped To Look Like A Large Piece Of Candy

Do you need a "little something" to give to co-workers, church members or club friends? Try wrapping a couple of nice sized homemade cookies to look like a large piece of candy. I took a couple of large Snickerdoodle cookes and wrapped them snuggly in plastic Saran Wrap. Take a half sheet of printed tissue paper and place the cookies at the end of the paper. Roll the cookies up in the tissue paper, tape the back and then tie both ends with organza ribbon. Bunch up the ends with your hand and use pinking shears to cut the very top. Now fluff up the ends and add your own little embellishment. I had quite a few 3-D dimensional stickers that I picked up in the Michael's dollar bins during Christmas, so I used those. If you can find the candy striped tissue paper during Christmas, it would be really cute! Unfortunately, I only had green on hand.
by HappyBirdsCraftingHaven

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Chocolate Mint Truffles

with Chef John Mitzewich

Truffles may taste rich and decadent, but they are surprisingly easy to make at home. Try your hand at these chocolate mint truffles, the perfect gift for any chocolate lover.

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11:00am

Went over to the car lot to see what was up with
our car. The guy said he got the part in but is awaiting
for his mechanic to put it on.
He knew I was getting irritated but I didn't get upset with him. I told him he had both
our cars (one of which was our trade in) and I have
been without a car. I also told him this past weekend
there was a mishap and I didn't have a car and had
to call an ambulance to go to the hospital.
Not really the truthful story but close enough
for him to get my drift. I said I REALLY need my car
and that he needed to light a fire under his mechanic's
ass. When asked how long to install the part he
said about an hour. I told him I have not felt well
so he would see that even sick I came over to the
car lot. Then before leaving I said I would be back
over tomorrow around noon to get the car and
hopefully it was fixed and told him I was
going back home to go back to bed.
I have a raspy voice so he knows I don't feel well.
He said he would do whatever it takes if that
meant and I quote, "if he had to get his fat ass
under the dash of that car to fix it."
So hoping to have our car fixed and back home tomorrow!
Tomorrow will be 12 days they've had it!

I'm gonna go lay down. I have a doctor's appointment
next Tuesday for a checkup on my toe. And during
that appointment I'm gonna see what he can
do about all this congestion that won't go away.
Will tell him the whole family has it so maybe
he can give us something we all can take without
having to bring everyone in on different visits!

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5:20pm

Tonight's supper Cabbage Cups.
I boiled up whole cabbage leaves, drained,
then put them into bottoms of a cupcake pan.
Next spooned in corned beef hash and topped
with shredded cheese.
I then folded the leaves over the top and
inserted a toothpick to hold it together.
Then baked.
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Recently I've had a bunch of free Tic-Tacs.
Now wondering what to do with the
empty Tic Tac boxes.

-Put medicines in to carry in purse. Be sure to label.
-Refill with other small candies to have in purse.
-if your a crafter, use them to store beads.
-sewer, use them for your needles.
Or make an emergency sewing repair
kit and keep needles, thread & buttons in.
-put an eye glass repair kit in it.
-put paper clips in.
-toothpicks.
-put sugar substitute in them like Splend
to carry in purse.
-save seeds in them from the garden.
-put sinkers & fish hooks in them.
-store childs lost tooth or locks of hair in.

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This morning Tony stopped in Speedway
to get a coffee. While in there he happened to
look down and found a $10 bill on the floor!

Later on today a scrapper rolled through
the apartment complex at Tony's work.
Tony saw that he had a Mongoose biycycle
in the back of the truck and stopped him
to see if he could have it. The scrapper
sold it to him for $10.

So all in all we got a free bike.
free $10 = free bike.


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6:15pm

I finally was able to get 2 XBox 360
controllers from Ebay.
I paid $41
($35.00 + $6.00 shipping)
And the person is located in Ohio
so hoping it will get here sooner.
It saved me about $10+.
This auction had one wireless
and one wired controller.
Really wanted 2 wireless but
got what I could afford.

Microcenter has about the cheapest ones.

New
$40 wired
$50 wireless

Refurbished $25 wireless
no refurbished ones for wired so $40 new
so it would have cost $65 + tax for both wired & wireless.
or $50 + tax for 2 wireless.

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6:50pm

Still am not feeling the greatest. I don't know
what it is that is lasting this long.
I am so tired of feeling like crap.
Tonight again I feel like my head is in a vice
grip. I had Tony feel my head and he said
it felt a little warm. I'm trying really hard
to hobble along til next Tuesday morning
to see the doc. So much to do.
Saturday I'm gonna work on cleaning
house and laundry and maybe carpet cleaning
with Tony's help.
He also has plans up cleaning up the yard
of fallen leaves.
Oh and also picking up our car Saturday.
Then Sunday going to
get the rest of the stuff out of that apartment.
Which by the way Kendra please bring some
extra muscle with you like Dewaine to help
carry stuff. Tony's back hasn't been feeling to swift.
Monday me and mom are doing a little grocery
shopping to get stuff for Thanksgiving dinner.
Then Tuesday is my doctor's appointment.
Wednesday I'm gonna start making
some things for Thanksgiving and then I can
just put it in the oven Thursday to heat up.
The kids have Wed, Thurs & Fri off.
Tony has Thurs & Fri off.
Thursday we will have Thanksgiving
with my parents & in-laws.
Then Friday as a yearly tradition we
get out and decorate the Christmas tree.
I swear no rest for the weary, weak or sick!

11-18-10

9:15am

Here's the stuff we got last night
from the vacated apartment.
There's still more but have to wait
til this evening or tomorrow to show ya.
I am not currently giving anything away
other than the clothes. We basically grabbed
things that we could use.
So early Merry Christmas to those
that can use the clothes!
Oh I would like to know who likes
Hello Kitty? Anyone?

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Vera Wang Doctor Style Patent Purse

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11:30am

Just don't feel with it today so
ain't doing much of anything
til maybe later on. Feel tired and cold
so might just go lay down.
Yesterday I had been putting "vick's"
on my chest and inhaling those vapors
to help my cough and congestion.
It seems to be helping so I'll
continue it for another day.

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3:50pm

Kids are due to be home soon.
My honey just called and has to work late.
I guess they had an underground gas leak yesterday
and had to shut off the gas to a whole apartment
building for an entire day. That meant no hot water
or heat for all those people. Gas company
came out today to fix it and he has to stay
late to wait for them to finish up and go
around and make sure furnaces and
hot water heaters are lit and running.
Oh goodie.

I need to sometime soon sit down
and figure out a menu and grocery list
for Thanksgiving.
1 week before Thanksgiving and all
I have figured out is turkey, sweet potatoes
and corn, lol. A year or two ago
I started a family cookbook. In this cookbook
I have been writing down any recipes
I use for holidays or any recipes I use all the time.
So instead of searching every year for
those recipes I have them compiled in one book.

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Another thing found in this one apartment
was a bunch of Christmas mugs.
I was thinking about making Gifts in A Cup
for maintenance workers or teachers with them.
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I've seen it all.
A commercial came on for something
called Train & Play Pup.
This thing poops.

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8:00pm

Didn't do too much this eve.
We decided to get the other stuff
from the vacant apartment this weekend
due to Tony being so busy at work.

Had to stop in Kroger to get me some pop.
Still looking for that darned canned
corned beef. Had employees and even the
store manager looking for it. No luck.
I did find some white cheddar cheese slices
marked down to .79 cents a pack. I got 5 packs.
2 packs for Thanksgiving's veggie, cheese, cracker & dip tray.
2 to put in freezer for Christmas dinner
& 1 to eat now.

I just turned in some of my survey points
to get a couple magazine subscriptions.
Wish they'd of had more of a selection
of magazines to choose from.
I got:
Whole Living by Martha Stewart (worth $15)
& PC World (worth $15).
And I already got 2- $25 GameStop
gift cards from them.
I still have many more points to use
for more things but will wait to see
if they ad something new and of interest.

Well last night's supper was the first actual meal
I have eaten without getting sick or an upset stomach
from since early Saturday, 3 days ago. For some
reason yesterday I couldn't sleep. I tried to lay
down and take a nap and ended up getting back up.
So you would have thought I'd of been ready for
bed later on that evening. I had a hard time
getting to sleep and didn't actually fall
asleep til about 2am!

I got to thinking about people who have a fear
of shots when I realized how many times
I have been poked in about 4 days.
5 shots for my toe, 1 IV needle,
1 needle to withdraw blood for blood work,
and another poke for checking my glucose
(blood sugar level).
That's 8 freaking times!

My biggest battle I'm dealing with at the moment
is allot of chest congestion and coughing.
I have been taking mucinex. While
that stuff is usually great, it is not working this
time around. So at the moment I'm trying to read
some home remedies because I'm ready
to try anything.
I already have a vaporizer running with
spearmint oils in it.
Another better natural oil you can use is eucalyptus.
Which I am currently looking into some
on Ebay so I can put drops into our vaporizers.

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My honey called me today from work.
He's been in and out of the one apartment
where I said they vacated and didn't take much
of anything. Anyway he said today that he noticed
that there was still a closet full of women's clothes
and wanted to know if I wanted him to bring them
home for me. I said sure. And if they don't fit or
I don't like them I can always find someone to give
them to or donate them. I really need to go through
some of my own clothes and get rid of some
and replace others.
He also found a new wedding dress new,
still packaged in a box
and another dress with a $200 price tag on it.
I said bring them home and we can sell them
on Craigslist!
He says he has to start trashing the unit
so I'll see if we can go over this evening
with a flashlight and check it out
since there still is no electric in there.

We can never figure out how people can just move
and leave pretty much everything behind.
This isn't the first nor the last time we
will see this.

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Tonight for supper I might fry up some
Italian sausage ($1.30)
1/2 head cabbage (.50 cents)
& some sliced potatoes ($1.00)

TOTAL $2.80
don't know serving amount yet.

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Now researching a green Coca-Cola bottle.

6 oz. U.S. Patient Office min contents 6 fl oz.
on bottle below Coca-Cola
... Issued 1951-1958
marked Columbus, OH on bottom.

It's possibly from 1954 since I see what looks like a 5&4 around the skirt of the bottle.

So this bottle predates the opening of the dam.
I cannot find information (without actually going to the dam itself and reading the history sign) about when work was started
on the dam and how long it took to make.


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Had a change of plans for supper.
Instead we are having breaded shrimp
(was $7.99 marked down to $2.99)
Cocktail Sauce
(marked down to .69 cents)
Bag of tater tots
($2.05)

TOTAL COST FOR SUPPER
$5.73
serves 5 @ $1.14 a serving

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This evening Tony got off work a lil early
so we were able to go to the vacated
apartment and check it out while daylight,
but had to hurry as light was getting dim in there.
Did get some stuff loaded in the truck tonight
and will try to go through it tomorrow
and show y'all.
And there was other stuff I had picked out
and set aside in the apartment and told
Tony to bring it home after work.

There was a ton of high dollar clothes in the closets
and in totes, some with tags.
If I had the space I would have brought them
home and tried to sell them on Craigslist.
The only clothing items I got was a couple
t-shirts for the boys, a jacket, a wedding dress
and another dress with tags on it for $200+.
Want to try to sell those dresses on Craigslist.

Jonathan started finding purses in the back of the closet
and I saw a CC purse. Don't know if it's real or not
so will have to give it a thorough look over.
But anyway after finding this purse I threw
any other purses into a tote and Tony
will be bringing them home tomorrow
for me to look over.
I'm not a high fashion person at all but do
know some of these purses are designer
purses and could be worth allot!!!
Don't believe me check out Ebay for CC purses.
But you gotta watch out for fake replicas of them.

I don't know what all else I got
but I'm sure I'll post it when I get through it.

Right now it's 7:00pm.
Had to also stop by Kroger for a prescription
and I had wanted a can of corned beef.
I cannot find it anywhere. You would
think it would be with other canned meat like
spam & tuna, NOT.
And to ask an employee is like asking
a wall. They have no clue what you are
talking about and keep trying to show
me the can of corned beef hash, ahhhh!

After Kroger we stopped by the car lot.
Which now has different hours posted
on the door and now closes at 6 instead of 7.

Tomorrow is it. Tony says he's going over
there on lunch and picking up the car, fixed or not.
They can give us the part whenever they
get it shipped in! Tomorrow will make
10 days they've had it!

Well, still feeling crappy.
Might take a shower here soon to try
to help the congestion
and take another mucinex.
Then off to bed to watch my show
Ghost Hunters at 9pm.
My head is feeling like it's in a vice
grip. The last couple of days been having
headaches probably due to sinuses.


Tomorrow I think I'll take mom with
me to the grocery store to help me find
some corned beef.
Then tomorrow night will make the fried
cabbage, potatoes & sausage
and the next day will use remaining
cabbage to make cabbage cups
filled with corned beef hash
topped with shredded cheese.

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8:30PM

We unloaded the stuff from the truck
tonight from the apartment.

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That CC purse is REAL!!!
OH MY GOSH!!
It is BRAND NEW!!
With all tags, storage bag AND
authenticity card!!
Wanna know the best part,
I found an identical one on Ebay.
Mine is just like this except that the
one corner is white instead of black.
I'll let you take a look see to see how
much this purse is going for used!!
or
here is another one at a larger price
and it is used also!!
Suddenly feeling light headed, literally!!

I showed the auction to Tony
and he yells to me,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
LOL!!

Also Tony said he saw a new pair
of shoes with tags and receipt from DSW
or whatever shoe place it is.
Wonder if we could take them back, lol,
and get the $30 for them???
Bought in April of this year.

I LOVE TRASH PICKING!!!

Whelp, I've done crapped my pants!
Need to go change my britches.

Nighty night!

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******KENDRA*****

We weren't going to get all the clothes
from the apartment but Tony just asked
if you would want them all he would
bag them all up.
They all are around a size small. Too small for me.
There are TONS!
Let me know ASAP because he will be in the
apartment tomorrow trashing it out!

11-16-10

9:50am

Still not feeling up to par but I was
determined to use what energy
I had to do a little shopping trip today.
I had a $6.00 coupon good on anything
at Walgreens that expired tomorrow
and didn't want it to go to waste.
My head is still in foggy mode
so didn't want to do too much
in the way of coupons and trying
to think out a big shopping list.
LOL, you need to be able
to think straight to do a large list with
sales match ups with coupons
and so on.
So I didn't do too bad with a little list.
I was trying to get some things for Thanksgiving dinner.

TOTAL BEFORE: $24.25
I PAID: $3.93
I SAVED: $20.42

1 gallon milk FREE
6 Butterfinger Candy Bars FREE
2 boxes Stove Top Stuffing FREE
3 cans Sweet Potatoes FREE

6 Two Liter Bottles Diet 7UP
.99 cents each x's 6 is $5.94
minus 3- $1.00 off 2 coupons
made the pop 6 for $2.94 or .49 cents each

Plus tax made my total $3.93

Plus the catalina machine spit
out a coupon for a free bottle of
Walgreens Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen!

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Oh yeah, and I did stop by Pep Boys
and got Tony that Jump Box/Air Compressor that I mentioned
yesterday. Now I gotta send in the rebate.
Regular Price $44.97
after pre black Friday sale & rebate: $22.49

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I wanted to show you what my honey
found and brought home last night
from a vacated apartment.
These are all brand new, never
been used items,
other than the watch/stop watch.
..I know this stuff above doesn't look like much
so let me add up how much it saved us
by just finding things!

APC Travel Adapter $80.00
Walgreens Chap-Aid 1 stick is .99 cents x's 3 is $2.97
Downy 103 ounces $10.87
Betty Crocker Cookie Mix $2.00
Kroger Bread Crumbs $1.50
Betty Crocker Muffin Mix $2.00
Stopwatch $9.00

TOTAL: $108.34!!
So hell yeah, bring on the trash pickins!!

There is still more stuff and Tony
wants to take me to check out
what was left in the apartment.
I'm thinking I get to go Christmas shopping,
LOL!
He did say there was many Disney
movies still in their cases and I told him
to put them in a box and bring them home
and hide them. We're gonna wrap them
up and give those to the kids for Christmas!

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Well I am gonna try and chill today.
I'm stubborn and feel like I should be
doing something around here when in
all actuality I should be taking it easy and resting.
I probably did too much yesterday with trying
to clean my house and do some laundry
but I couldn't stand it any longer.
After a week or more of sickies and no one
feeling like doing anything the house was
in shambles.
Last night I was feeling shaky with a queasy
stomach. Then I started getting chilled.
Took my temp and it was 100.7 degrees.
Then I blew my nose and it started a nose bleed.
So I just need to rest for most of today til this evening.
But I feel better knowing some things got done.
I am really, really hoping to get our car back
tonight and to go to that apartment to check it out.
So need to get some energy built back up by then.

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I've been trying my darndest with getting
XBox 360 controllers.
I know how much GameStop sells them for
new and used. And according to their website
they don't currently have the used in stock.
I was hoping to find something on Ebay for a lil cheaper.
I tried to win an auction on Ebay but it went
way beyond what I wanted to pay.
Still watching a few auctions which are days away.
So please, if anyone knows where I can get
wireless XBox 360 controllers within reason.
(I'm not paying a fortune for these when I got
the system for free!). At this time I'd
even settle for a cheap set of wired ones!
Don't ya just love this time of year when
you can't find certain things in stock or within a reasonable price!

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4:30pm

Looks like we won't be going to the apartment tonight.
Tony just checked on it before leaving work and the
power company turned off the electric which is
something they are not supposed to do in
an apartment complex. So hope they get it
back on in the next couple of days so we
can go check it out!

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11:40pm

I was chillin this evening and studying
some of the bottles that we found at Hoover Reservoir
this year. I told ya that I had never seen the
reservoir this low before and while walking
around the area the kids decided to start looking
for bottles. One bottle they found was an all
clear bottle with the letters Choc-Ola embossed
on it. So what I wanted to know was this bottle
there before the dam was built. It took me awhile
to finally find one of these bottles on the internet,
on Ebay, the last place I looked, lol.
I noticed that they had dated their bottle 1957
and wondered how they got that date.
Then I noticed on the bottom of their bottle
was the number 57. So I looked on the bottom
of our bottle and it says 56 so ours is
from 1956, a year earlier.
Next I looked to see when Hoover Dam was
built. I found that it was dedicated to two
brothers (Hoover) in 1955. So it is
quite possible this bottle has been
in the reservoir since 1956,
a total of 54 years!
I just think it's neat to hold a piece of history
and to be able to find out a little bit more about it
and where it came from.
Here's the history about the Choc-Ola company
if you are interested.
I have 6 more bottles to research
that were also found at Hoover.
Will let you know what I find out.

11-15-10

I spent 90% of yesterday in bed sleeping.
I still don't feel the greatest today either.
Still feeling weak and feel like
I have jelly fish legs when walking around.
My biggest worry at the moment is
that Thanksgiving is 10 days away.
I have Thanksgiving at my house.
My house looks like hell, I feel like crap,
I'm sure there is stuff I need to get
from the store. I'm already into 2- 2.5 days
of feeling like crap from the stomach virus and whose to say
when I will start feeling better.
I can say I do feel better today than yesterday.
I have a doctor's appointment in 8 days to
check up on my toe. I'm supposed to have a
follow up visit with my doctor in 2-3 days
for my illness now. I'll just wait since
I already have an appointment set up with him.

Then we're supposed to pick up our car
either today or tomorrow.
We've only had it home one day since
we bought it and it's been getting fixed since.
But like I said I'm all for the car lot
fixing it free for us! But I sure wish
they would step it up a notch.
I realize they had to send the part
out to be fixed and it's not their fault
it's taking a little longer to get it back.

I can't wait to get this hospital bill.
I'm sure it will be stupid.
We do have insurance. The last visit to the
ER back in February for diarrhea and dehydration
set me back around $600 or so.
So can't imagine what this one will be
with an ambulance ride and a cat scan.
Tony's putting our blue Trans Am
on Craigslist so hoping to get a little
money from that.

10:15am

I'm trying my best to tidy up the house
and do some laundry. I don't have much
energy but more than what I had yesterday.
No one has felt good the past couple of weeks
so everything's been piling up.

All I have eaten in the last couple
of days is 2 small pieces of cake,
a deviled egg and some doritos.
At least I was able to keep it down.
Not much to fuel the body with.
The hospital said I shouldn't eat
for 24 hours and only drink fluids.
Then for the next 24 hours eat a bland diet
like crackers and toast then resume a
normal diet after 2 days.

I did get a bunch of freezer meals
packed up and put in the freezer today.
I had them all made but they have been sitting
in the fridge and I didn't want them
to go to waste or forgotten about.

I ended up with 6 meals.
-Stuffed Pasta Shells
-Crockpot Chicken
-BBQ Pork Ribs
-Pork Ribs with Apples
-Broccoli & Rice Casserole
-Chicken Noodle Soup
.This way if we have any more mishaps
and I can't cook then hubby can pull these
from the freezer and warm up!

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3:45pm

One of the neighbors just called me.
It was the grandma to one of the kids
that my children plays with who lives about 4 houses down.
She said her grandson came running in to tell
her that there was an ambulance at our house yesterday
and she saw me taken away in the ambulance.

8:48pm

This evening I tried to eat some supper.
I managed to keep it down but my stomach
went queasy real quick. I put one of my
meds under my tongue to prevent nausea
and it seemed to work.

Tonight I took it easy.
I sat on the floor and hemmed up
6 pairs of the boys pants.
I figured I was good being as close
to the floor as possible if I got any
more dizzy spells, lol.

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I saw this cute idea for empty
Folger coffee cans.
Wish they'd make printable labels
like this for many reusable bowls
or cans. This would be great
to put baked goods in at Christmas
time and give as gifts.

Design Your Very Own Folger's Coffee Canister

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I just was able to start browsing some sales
ads today. I saw a really good deal for those looking
to get dad's, grandpa's or any man on your Christmas list.
I know mine wants one.

Pep Boys

Peak 300A Amp Jump Starter with air compressor.
Regular $44.99
Sale price this week $32.49
PLUS $10 mail in rebate
makes it $22.47 HALF PRICE!



That's pretty darn good
because a couple
years back the cheapest one I could find for my step dad was $50 and that was after shopping
around at many stores!

View Pep Boys Ad

11-14-10

11:15am

Yesterday starting around 5:30pm
the stomach virus hit me like a ton
of bricks. The stomach virus has been going around
the school. I spent the next 5 1/2 hours
in the bathroom throwing up and having
diarrhea. I'd try to lay down in bed.
I was sooooo thirsty!! But every time I would
even sip warm bottled water I had to run
to the bathroom with throwing up and diarrhea.
Then came the chills. I didn't feel like I had a temperature
but I was shivering so bad.
Then it got to the point that when I had to get up
from bed and run to the bathroom
that once using the bathroom I started sweating
so bad. I would get sweat pouring off me
and would use a cold towel to cool down.
It would drain me so bad I would end up laying
down on the bathroom floor. Then that would pass
and I'd get the chills again and was able to get up
and go back to bed. It got to the point that every time
I had to get up to run to the bathroom, and we're talking
about every 10 minutes for 5 1/2 hours,
I was getting really bad dizzy spells and felt like
I was about to black out every time I got up.
Now mind you Tony wasn't home for a couple
hours due to birthday shopping and didn't realize
how severe I had gotten. They had gotten the stomach virus
and threw up a few times and that was it!
And figured I had the same and it would pass
as quickly as it did in them. I had the kids call
him and tell him to come home.
He came home and knew something was wrong
and called my mom. Mom was out of town near
Toledo attending a family wedding.
She wanted him to take me to the ER right away
for fear of dehydration. You just don't know how
thirsty one gets when dehydrated!! That's all I
wanted was water to drink! But knew if I drank
it, it wouldn't stay down.
So we decided that he would get the kids ready
and go to the ER. I got out of bed and damn neart
blacked out in the hallway. I lost all energy
and pretty much fell to the floor and laid there.
It felt like someone had kicked my legs out
from under me and I just dropped.
I started sweating really bad
and vomiting once again in the hall.
I said I am to the point I can't even stand up and walk
to the truck to go to the hospital.
So Tony ended up calling 911. Which was a big
fiasco because we live right between the township
and city fire department. They never know who
to dispatch out! I had this problem before when a kid
in the neighborhood got hit by a car.
Anyway he'd call 911 and whoever answered must of
transferred his call to someone else.
And that someone else did not pick up the phone.
He kept calling back trying to explain this
to them. It's ridiculous trying to call 911!!
Anyway somehow he got through and
they sent an ambulance out from station 24.
It's about 11:30pm and I was thankful they
didn't have blaring sirens coming down our street,
just lights. By that time I was on the couch when they
came in. They came in asked questions and took vitals.
I kept hearing them say my heartbeat wasn't right
and asking if I had heart problems which scared
the crap outta me! They got me into the ambulance
and starting an immediate IV which they had dripping into
me so fast that it made my body cold and shivering.
Then they hooked me up to a heart monitor.
I don't know anything about numbers with reading
the heart beats but they kept saying it was 150
and it was really high. They had put an oxygen
thing up my nose also. And put some kind
of medicine in my IV for nausea.
I remember the guy riding in the back of the ambulance
asking me things and then he asked my birthday.
I said I'll be 40 tomorrow and he said something
about it just turned midnight so happy birthday.

I ended up with about 3-4 IV bags to replenish my fluids
due to bad dehydration.
I had a cat scan, blood work, different meds. They gave me some potassium saying it was low. They wanted my heartbeat
to get down to a normal rate and stay there before
releasing me. It was down to around 115 to 120 before I left.

What had happened was that I did get the stomach
virus like everyone else BUT mine was more severe
because I was already dealing with an infection in
my toe and taking antibiotics for it.

It's killing me to lay around when I have so much to do.
My house is wiped out but it'll have to wait.
I did do some laundry earlier this week
so are hoping to have enough for everyone to get by
on for the next couple of days.
It's just weird how fast this crap hit when earlier
yesterday I didn't feel too bad to help clean up the yard
and work on some freezer meals. It was when I was making
supper for the boys that it hit suddenly
and went downhill from there.

Well I have to go lay back down.
I feel like someone has sucked the energy
out of me! I try to get up and move around but
within about 5 minutes I'm drained.

Tony should be home soon.
He went to Kroger to get me 4 prescription medicines.
And I still have my medicine to take for the
infection in my foot.
It's now 1:40. That should tell you something
since it has taken me this long, on and off,
of trying to write this (2 hours 25 mins).

I wanted to write this before everyone
wanted to call or come over wishing
me a happy birthday. Just treat it like another
day because I really don't feel well enough
to talk on the phone long or have visitors
or do much of anything else!!