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[funnygarcia]

Who's gonna run the Disneyland Half Marathon with me in September?

I just signed up! Can't wait, it was so much fun last year. This year I'm not stopping for pictures. I'm hoping to run it in under 2 1/2 hours.

That's awesome!

 

[staley7580]

Alright. I'm a convert! Nasal douching.... I'm doing it. It's gross and cool all at the same time. I like it. I got kaylee doing it to. But she inhaled, and almost died. and some came out my mouth, is that supposed to happen?

 

[funnygarcia]

Alright. I'm a convert! Nasal douching.... I'm doing it. It's gross and cool all at the same time. I like it. I got kaylee doing it to. But she inhaled, and almost died. and some came out my mouth, is that supposed to happen?

Rinsing... let's say rinsing please! I have odd memories of my grandmother's bathroom with this big red bag hanging on her shower rod, "mom what is that thing" and she explained that older generations believed in "healthy amount of cleansing all areas" .. to which my tweenage response was ewww

I attempted the sinus rinse last night and totally freaked out at the sensation. But I'm willing to try again because even the tiny bit I did manage helped, darn winter and over heated apartments make for nose stuffy crustiness.

And yep, everything in the head is connected so a bit in the mouth is normal.

Yo Alison!
I'm considering joining EMealz, torn between the original points (I have an old WW system calculator and info) or the low fat. And what really is the difference between the new plus points and the old points anyway? And wanted to know if you want the referral points before I apply.

I'm burned out on the coupon stockpile thing again. Bored of what we have and relying on ready made crap on my tired out- can't function - my hands hurt- can't put a meal together days. If I get a meal started dh can finish it, but the lack of motivation doesn't help.
My thoughts are I can use E-Mealz and still stockpile the cereal, non food, basic foods (frozen veg, canned beans, canned tomato), and any sale meats. Skipping the crap which, in the long run, will make me feel better.

 

[Albort]

You guys are evil!!

I am not old BTW!! lol! Everyone says I look like a teenager. I guess that will help me when I really am old and grey.

Everyone just calls me Pix, Pixie, or Pixster on here. I prefer Pixster or Pix

old ppl dont drive 10 sec cars... Sorry guys, Pixies still a teenager.

 

[staley7580]

Okay... Disneyland is booked and paid for. Yay! Only thing is... Now my mom and sis want to come. Yikes. I front know how I feel about it. Yes.. Yes I do. I want a peaceful trip, but how can I say anything to them. I can't. I love my mom. She does so much for us. I just don't see how she would like being at Disneyland during spring break. It's gonna be hot. And crowded.

We had Alex's birthday party yesterday at pump it up. it was awesome... Except none of his friends showed. One girl and her mom showed about half an hour into it... Then a little boy came with ten minutes left in the party! There were more toddlers then anything, but everyone had so much fun anyways. My husband had as much fun as the kids. So did his friends that came. We had grown men tearing that place up! Frelan ate about half a pizza afterwards... It was great. I spent craptons of money on it, but it was so worth it. Everyone left happy.

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

Good morning!

DBF and I went to Disneyland yesterday. It was so empty! We didn't get there till around 2:00pm and tons of people were leaving due to the rain but it cleared up soon after we got there.

We watched the new show "The Magic, the Memories and You” which is projected onto IASW. It was pretty neat but it would be hard to see yourself in the pictures.

 

[funnygarcia]

I was wondering how the pictures would look, I read some odd website about privacy concerns and rights My thought, you are at DL with thousands of other people. Eventually you WILL be in someone's picture and it will be posted on a photo site or Facebook. Don't like it? Don't go!
There is a guy who posts on Laughing place and a few other sites by the name of "dark beer". He takes pics professional for the various blogs and websites, plus he has his own smugmug site where he posts hundreds of DL pics. I was in one of his pics at DCA one year, I thought it was kinda cool!

Found out my SIL is having a boy, the boy plague continues.
Now I can haunt the thrift store and clearance racks for boy stuff, gender neutral was very challenging (and very boring!).

I plan to buy her a box of diapers each month now until June. I figure she must be barely scraping by, her dh works in construction, they qualify for SNAP .. we never qualified when the boys were little.. and we were poor! One less thing to worry over, hopefully LUVs will work for him - they are the cheapest on Amazon.

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

I was wondering how the pictures would look, I read some odd website about privacy concerns and rights My thought, you are at DL with thousands of other people. Eventually you WILL be in someone's picture and it will be posted on a photo site or Facebook. Don't like it? Don't go!
There is a guy who posts on Laughing place and a few other sites by the name of "dark beer". He takes pics professional for the various blogs and websites, plus he has his own smugmug site where he posts hundreds of DL pics. I was in one of his pics at DCA one year, I thought it was kinda cool!

Found out my SIL is having a boy, the boy plague continues.
Now I can haunt the thrift store and clearance racks for boy stuff, gender neutral was very challenging (and very boring!).

I plan to buy her a box of diapers each month now until June. I figure she must be barely scraping by, her dh works in construction, they qualify for SNAP .. we never qualified when the boys were little.. and we were poor! One less thing to worry over, hopefully LUVs will work for him - they are the cheapest on Amazon.

I read somewhere that the Photo Pass person will ask if you want to be considered for the show and you can say no if you want to. The small amount of time that each picture is shown plus the fact that they move around would make it hard to find yourself in you. There are videos on youtube already. I just like the way they project the colors and stuff on IASW.

 

[sameyeyam]

I just wanted to pop on and say a quick hello. I'm off to school. School is responsible for my absence on the disboards. My sincerest apologies, I miss chatting with you ladies!!!! I hope everyone is doing well.

Hi Christina! We miss you. Stop by to say hi every once in a while.

The devil smiley was to add emphasis on how evil you guys are! J/k I don't have any older relatives who would DIS. lol. They are all PC illiterate

Oh, we already know how evil we are, no need to explain it with pictures!


Christina!! We miss you! I'm so happy for you that you are taking classes. I hope it's going well for you

Go you ! What are you studying? I think about going back... and then I think.. would I be able to handle it? and for WHAT?
Besides, that would be way too much torture to go to the same college as my ds next year. He might smother me in my sleep!

It's a mellow day today, one boy gone, the other still sleeping and dh off to work. The apartment is clean (because I went nuts yesterday and cleaned everything, a little too nuts, ooooo burning shoulders) and I have no plans.




Okay so I'm bored.


I decided instead of a trip this year, I'm going to pay for membership at a local gym or the Y for a year. I need to do some swimming, yoga classes, etc.
And take a few mini "staycations" this year. We plan to rent a camper cabin at a state park for a week this summer - E can bring his dialysis as the cabins have electricity. Spend time at Park Point (strip of land that juts out into the harbor on Lake Superior) and other touristy things in Duluth.
Have a night at a local water park hotel, night at one of our local casinos, that kind of thing.


If LA Fitness (just a mile away) will take a one time payment and not do a monthly billing, I will go there. I read some horror stories about how hard it is to cancel membership with them. You have to send a certified letter to corporate and then they still try to auto pay from your account. Figure, don't give them my account info and they can't screw it up.
In the summer, I can walk over.

If they won't do a one time payment, will join the YMCA downtown.
Not bothering with family membership, the boys might join me in the summer a few times but realistically they would rather spend time with friends.

I know that Costco sells a 2 year 24 Hour Fitness membership for $299. No monthly fees, etc. Snap Fitness also will do a monthly with no contract and you can pay each month or you can put it on hold 2-3 months out of the year for vacations, etc.

Alright. I'm a convert! Nasal douching.... I'm doing it. It's gross and cool all at the same time. I like it. I got kaylee doing it to. But she inhaled, and almost died. and some came out my mouth, is that supposed to happen?

If your sinuses are a little stuffy, some will come out your mouth. But usually once you have cleared most of the stuff out, most will go out the nose. It works best if you breath normally. I generally hold my breath when I first start, then exhale, inhale and breath normal. It's a weird feeling to get used to at first.

Rinsing... let's say rinsing please! I have odd memories of my grandmother's bathroom with this big red bag hanging on her shower rod, "mom what is that thing" and she explained that older generations believed in "healthy amount of cleansing all areas" .. to which my tweenage response was ewww

I attempted the sinus rinse last night and totally freaked out at the sensation. But I'm willing to try again because even the tiny bit I did manage helped, darn winter and over heated apartments make for nose stuffy crustiness.

And yep, everything in the head is connected so a bit in the mouth is normal.

Yo Alison!
I'm considering joining EMealz, torn between the original points (I have an old WW system calculator and info) or the low fat. And what really is the difference between the new plus points and the old points anyway? And wanted to know if you want the referral points before I apply.

I'm burned out on the coupon stockpile thing again. Bored of what we have and relying on ready made crap on my tired out- can't function - my hands hurt- can't put a meal together days. If I get a meal started dh can finish it, but the lack of motivation doesn't help.
My thoughts are I can use E-Mealz and still stockpile the cereal, non food, basic foods (frozen veg, canned beans, canned tomato), and any sale meats. Skipping the crap which, in the long run, will make me feel better.

I do exactly what you are saying for E-Mealz, stockpile many pantry items & meats. You will learn what things to stockpile. Also, I still use coupons for things that are really good sales and then substitute some of them for the E-mealz side dishes.

Right now I am on the WW new plan. I switched because my understanding is the new plan has more fresh fruits & veggies. To be honest, I don't notice much difference from the WW old plan. I figured eventually they will discontinue the old plan. I'm much happier with the WW plan then I was the low fat plan.

Anyway, I'm going to send you a PM with some info.

 

[funnygarcia]

Yesh, constant phone calls yesterday and the day before.. scheduling dh for various appointments and his dialysis social worker checking in on how the battle with the county was going.

We didn't know the county stopped his medical as of December 1st, the worker never sent anything to say it was stopped or why. (which I think is a violation of his rights?) We didn't even know until last month when he tried to get glasses and the lady at Pearl Vision said it was inactive.. uhh what? We both left messages with the worker to "fix" it, she never called us back, never sent a notice.
Unknown to us, his dialysis worker also had been calling the worker and the worker's supervisor.. and she too was not getting a response.
This week the dialysis worker chatted with dh, did some serious arguing with our clueless ditzy worker and went to another case worker (who was snippy and rude to her) to get things started again. Except this time he is under a different program and now has to pay a premium, uhhh earning less money this year but now he has to pay? How does that work?

Kidney Foundation will help out and pay the premium, but it will take awhile to get approval. We have to pay for the first 4 months (retro to December) so it doesn't get cancelled for "failure to pay" . Gee, you are going to screw him over for YOUR mistake? Thanks Ramsey county, you're just swell.

Never had problems with his medical in other counties. If we moved just 4 blocks up we would be in a different county, alas not to be, we would be in a different school district too .. a crappy one! We deal with this headache every 6 months, the boys get an awesome education. Good trade off I guess.

His other appointments are for physical therapy, his back still hurts from his fall. Our lovely doc is a take action style, other docs hand you more pain meds.. she likes to figure out other ways to fix the problem that is causing the pain. Massage, TENS unit, ultrasound, SI joint belt and exercise. Hopefully strengthen his "core" and walk without waddling because his hips hurt, which puts stress on his back and causes pain, and less stress on the knees and .. you get the picture.

His other odd new thing, he has cysts that grow on his back. They look like blackheads, raise to the surface and eww pop. Well there is one that didn't come to the surface, it tunneled under an old surgical scar. His doc poked at it, puzzled over it. She exclaimed "what the heck is that?" you can tell she was working thru the possibilities: "it's not inflamed (immuno comprised but not enough to NOT have inflammatory response) so it's not a boil. It could be a lipoma (fatty tumor) but it doesn't move like one. What the heck is it?"

So, off to a general surgeon to cut it out. Ewwwww!

And one appt call for me to go get my bosoms squished.

Too many appointments!

 

[staley7580]

The plague has hit us hard! It started Monday night with Kaylee.... 20 minutes later Julie is throwing up. A couple hours later, jazz is barfing... 2 hours to the minute Vinny starts. Ugh. The next day Alex and Frelan are at it. Then yesterday.... It hit me. Thank god every else was the by then!

 

[Princess Row]

I'm leaving for Disneyland today!

Hope everyone is doing well! I havent been able to be on much lately! Sorrrrry!

 

[sameyeyam]

Yesh, constant phone calls yesterday and the day before.. scheduling dh for various appointments and his dialysis social worker checking in on how the battle with the county was going.

We didn't know the county stopped his medical as of December 1st, the worker never sent anything to say it was stopped or why. (which I think is a violation of his rights?) We didn't even know until last month when he tried to get glasses and the lady at Pearl Vision said it was inactive.. uhh what? We both left messages with the worker to "fix" it, she never called us back, never sent a notice.
Unknown to us, his dialysis worker also had been calling the worker and the worker's supervisor.. and she too was not getting a response.
This week the dialysis worker chatted with dh, did some serious arguing with our clueless ditzy worker and went to another case worker (who was snippy and rude to her) to get things started again. Except this time he is under a different program and now has to pay a premium, uhhh earning less money this year but now he has to pay? How does that work?

Kidney Foundation will help out and pay the premium, but it will take awhile to get approval. We have to pay for the first 4 months (retro to December) so it doesn't get cancelled for "failure to pay" . Gee, you are going to screw him over for YOUR mistake? Thanks Ramsey county, you're just swell.

Never had problems with his medical in other counties. If we moved just 4 blocks up we would be in a different county, alas not to be, we would be in a different school district too .. a crappy one! We deal with this headache every 6 months, the boys get an awesome education. Good trade off I guess.

His other appointments are for physical therapy, his back still hurts from his fall. Our lovely doc is a take action style, other docs hand you more pain meds.. she likes to figure out other ways to fix the problem that is causing the pain. Massage, TENS unit, ultrasound, SI joint belt and exercise. Hopefully strengthen his "core" and walk without waddling because his hips hurt, which puts stress on his back and causes pain, and less stress on the knees and .. you get the picture.

His other odd new thing, he has cysts that grow on his back. They look like blackheads, raise to the surface and eww pop. Well there is one that didn't come to the surface, it tunneled under an old surgical scar. His doc poked at it, puzzled over it. She exclaimed "what the heck is that?" you can tell she was working thru the possibilities: "it's not inflamed (immuno comprised but not enough to NOT have inflammatory response) so it's not a boil. It could be a lipoma (fatty tumor) but it doesn't move like one. What the heck is it?"

So, off to a general surgeon to cut it out. Ewwwww!

And one appt call for me to go get my bosoms squished.

Too many appointments!

Well I sure hope they get things figured out. That sucks that they just cut it off and didn't even tell you. GRRR! Enjoy your bosom squash...or as I tell them..."I don't care if you have to drive a loaded dump truck over it to flatten it for a good picture, have at it!".

The plague has hit us hard! It started Monday night with Kaylee.... 20 minutes later Julie is throwing up. A couple hours later, jazz is barfing... 2 hours to the minute Vinny starts. Ugh. The next day Alex and Frelan are at it. Then yesterday.... It hit me. Thank god every else was the by then!

(There, I think I covered all 7 of you). Hope the ickies are over soon.

I'm leaving for Disneyland today!

Hope everyone is doing well! I havent been able to be on much lately! Sorrrrry!

Excited for you! Bummed for me! Have fun though! I would love to go to DL, it's just not in the budget this year though.

 

[funnygarcia]

The case worker is an idiot, it's mind boggling.
Okay, all that calling her and leaving messages (and uhh one nasty one from me heh heh), the dialysis social worker trying to get an answer from her or a supervisor. She finally sends two letters, the first says I am being cut off MA because I "didn't submit any medical bills to meet my spend down.." hmm, didn't even know I had a spend down and when did that change because I didn't have one before? And she still didn't answer me on if the boys still qualify and if she would transfer me to another state program. Sigh.. so I'm filling out papers for myself to get into the state program before my current file closes...no gaps.. I don't trust her to do it in a timely manner.

The other letter made me wanna smack some sense into her!

You see she had sent 6 month renewal packet, you have to send it in by a certain date or the benefits stop.
I sent it back on time.
Now, if a worker doesn't enter the info on time, the system will automatically generate a letter "your benefits will stop on... due to failure of not completing renewal.. blah blah blah".
Here is the screwy part.. we never got a letter.

Today's letter states "we are still processing your new application from 12/1, we have 60 days to process in cases of disability"

Problems:
It wasn't an initial application, it was a renewal.
The 60 day clause is to give new clients time to prove disability, he's been disabled since 1996.
She doesn't even acknowledge that his case is being transferred to a new worker, new program.

She totally screwed up something in the system which is preventing the standard letters to print. Leaving us in limbo land of the clueless, head beating on wall and deranged.

And now I wonder, should I cancel my appt on Monday and rescheduled it when I know it will be covered as preventive care under my other program? I can't figure out if I actually have a $300 spend down or not.
If it was something serious, I would just go..

There has to be a better way!

E's PT appt was interesting, he has some exercises to try and they will have a TENS unit for him next week. The doc had a student today, it was odd and awkward but he spoke up and moved the appt along when she faltered a bit. She was good with showing the exercises, not so great with history and initial work up.

Later I did some shopping, clearance hunting at Macy's was awesome! They gave me 20% off for wearing red, goes through Sunday I think? I paid $13 for a wacoal bra $5 for an adorable baby sweater for my newphew -to-be, all cotton zip up and has skulls woven in instead of typical diamond pattern. Got a bigger size so it will fit in the fall. But I really had to rack my brain to figure out sizes for a baby born in June, what size in fall? winter? It's been way too long since I bought baby clothes for my boys (and don't plan to buy any soon!)

 

[eatmypixiedust]

old ppl dont drive 10 sec cars... Sorry guys, Pixies still a teenager.

If I had a 10 second car I would have a suspended license and would be in so much trouble!

I wish I was a teenager! LOL

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

TGIF!

My sister got engaged last night! I'm so happy for her. Plus I'm excited to help her plan a wedding! And throw her a bridal shower and batchlorette party.

The last time I got to do this stuff was like 8 years ago for my then BFF and we were only 20 so we didn't get to go out and party for her batchlorette party.

 

[sameyeyam]

Congrast to Moto's sister! Have fun planning!!!

 

[eatmypixiedust]

TGIF!

My sister got engaged last night! I'm so happy for her. Plus I'm excited to help her plan a wedding! And throw her a bridal shower and batchlorette party.

The last time I got to do this stuff was like 8 years ago for my then BFF and we were only 20 so we didn't get to go out and party for her batchlorette party.

Awww.congrats! That's really cool! I saw it on your mom's FB

 

[tinkermell]

Howdy Hyenas!

Well it is time for my check-in! LOL!

Tried to catch up a bit.

Sarah, That is cool about your sister! When is she getting married?

Welcome to Princess Row/Chelle!

Megan, When are you going to DL?

Pix, So how is life?

Ali, How are you feeling? Are the aches and pains gone?

Bernice, You are a good aunt, to stock up diapers for your DB and SIL's new baby boy.

Life around here is busy. I have been blinging up tee shirts for the ladies trip. I am down to my last seven shirts. The end of the week, I will be going up to see my sister. She is not doing good now.

Take care all!

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Howdy Hyenas!

Well it is time for my check-in! LOL!

Tried to catch up a bit.

Sarah, That is cool about your sister! When is she getting married?

Welcome to Princess Row/Chelle!

Megan, When are you going to DL?

Pix, So how is life?

Ali, How are you feeling? Are the aches and pains gone?

Bernice, You are a good aunt, to stock up diapers for your DB and SIL's new baby boy.

Life around here is busy. I have been blinging up tee shirts for the ladies trip. I am down to my last seven shirts. The end of the week, I will be going up to see my sister. She is not doing good now.

Take care all!

Hi Mel!

How are you? You are a powerhouse with all the work you are doing for the ladies trip! That's really cool!

I'm doing good. I have been a bit busy. I now have 2 hip hop classes every week and I've been working out at the gym, hanging with friends and family. I'm trying not to think about Valentine's Day but it doesn't bother me as much anymore. I followed some suggestions given to me and I made al ist of of all the positive things that I have accomplished and of the positive things that are in my life. I was also told that Valentine's Day is a time for flower shops and candy shops to earn more money and for people to splurge and empty their wallets. I was told that rocky relationships are the ones that usually have this false "hope" that everything will be better on this day and that it will somehow make the relationship better. It leads to one having high expectations, which leads to disappointment. I was told that healthy relationships don't care or put a lot of emphasis on this day.

Sorry, not trying to make it sound like I am putting down this day but am just sharing what I was informed. It did help though.

I'm glad I have hip hop tonight. When I am in class I just zone out and block out and don't think of other things. It's also fun for me and is a great activity to do.

Plus my co-workers put treats on my desk and I keep staring at it but am hesititant to eat it. If I end up caving and eating them, then the hip hop class will help me to feel less guilty!!