Advents Corner

After much thought and saving I had the Mirena inserted today.  My insurance did not pay for any of the cost.  My doctor even wrote them a letter stating it was medically necessary because I had my tubes tied in July 2006 after the birth of my third daughter.  I had terrible periods after one year of having the tubal and they just got worst.  To the point that by the time summer of 2008 came along I was anemic from the blood loss.

My doctor suggested the Mirena but because I did not have the $586 at the moment to pay for it I started on the Nuva Ring.  I hated that thing.  Not to mention the fact that I was still having to go to the pharmacy every month for birth control.  I finally was able to call the pharmaceutical company and order the Mirena.

I wish someone would have told me a little more about the insertion process.  Of course my doctor gave me a local anathestic but that did not help.  My doctor said my uterus was set to the side and pointing down so it was a little more difficult to put in there.  I can not describe the pain and let me just say I have a high threshold for pain but this was very unexpected to say the least.  Basically what they do it take a thin plastic rod and push it through the opening of the uterus.  When you are not dilated there is no opening so they have to make their own and it fells like they are pushing their arm through you.

Anyway enough of that.  The pain is gone except for on the left side.  I was told that I would have some bleeding for 2 days and cramping for 3.  The flow is already slowing down but the cramping is still there.

OK I saw this laundry hamper and I just thought it was the coolest thing. First off I know I would not use it for a laundry hamper because there are so many more things I could do with this. Besides my house is not that big that I need to worry about wheeling my laundry from one end to the other. I could however see this to be useful for laundry if you had to go to a laundry mat or something.

I thought about all of the times me and Lani come home in the evenings and she has her paperwork for the day, lunchbox, jacket, my purse, work folders and of course the items that we picked up from the grocery store on the way home. We could just throw everything in there and make only one trip instead of two or three. Then I run into the issue of having to chase Lani down because she left out of the house on one of my trips to the car. I really think I am going to get one of these. Maybe I will ask for it for Christmas. I really like this thing the possibilities are endless.

What about the picnics or trip to the park or just trips to the store. You could just put you bags in it as you come out of the store and when you get home everything is already in it and all you have to do is wheel it into the house….perfect.

I don’t know what is going on with everything these day, insurance, taxes, mortgages, gas prices (which are better now) the rising cost of food.,….it is all just becoming too much.  We have our home insurance and our property taxes escrowed into our mortgage payment so most of the time we do not pay attention to the rates until the beginning of the year when they adjust our mortgage payment to cover the raising cost of taxes and insurance so in turn your mortgage payment goes up.

This year our property taxes when down a couple of hundred dollars but our home owners went up 100 and our flood went up 200 so at this point we are exactly where we were last year.  Florida tried to help everyone by lower our property taxes but they let the insurance companies raise their rates so it really did not help.  We are now shopping for a new home insurance company because there are some out there that really do try and keep the rates down so be on the look out for the good ones.

I got my brother the funniest shirt for Christmas.  He was famous for sometimes wearing inappropriate funny t shirts if you know what I mean.  This year for Christmas I thought I would get him a funny shirt like he used to wear but a little more on the tame side than he wore before.  It is:

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

Yankee Oscar Uniform

It took him a second but once he got I thought he was going to die laughing.  He however was a little disappointed when he put it on the next day and went out and about and he did not get one second look.  I told him he needed to shop with more intelligent people and they would get it.

Matt and I were in town the other day and the mini cooper in front of us had the most appropriate plate on it.  I do not remember the exact spelling they used but it read: IM L8 2  I’m late too.  I thought that was so funny because you know every time you are in a hurry you get behind someone that is going so slow.  I have always wanted to get one of those Private Number Plates but I can never come up with anything cleaver.  I really like the sites that point you in the right direction so you can have a very cleaver plate without putting too much of your own brain power into it.

We all get to a time in our lives where we think we are doing well and things are falling into place.  You like your job, your spouse loves his job and then all of a sudden the rug is pulled out from under both of you.  What would you do it the job you love is relocating across country and they are making it very easy to pick up and follow them but your spouse is not to excited about it?  What would you do?

I really like to cook and one of the things I wish I had done was gone to one of those culinary arts schools. I would love to be able to go to school and learn all of the neat things you can do with food. Matt tells me I should just do it but I don’t know. I have been looking around at them and found that no matter where you leave you can find a school close to you.

Maybe when we move out to California and I am looking for a career change I can try my hand at culinary arts school. I really like to cook and I love to try new recipes so think I would be great to broaden my knowledge. I don’t know if I would want to work in a restaurant or not but I think I would be awesome to be able to have the chance to. I always tell Matt that if we get rich one day and I do not have to worry about money I would like to work in a soup kitchen or something just volunteering. I guess I should just do what I want with what I have and not wait for the perfect conditions to come along because we all know if you wait for the perfect moment you will be waiting forever. Sometimes you just have to jump in and do it.

We took Lani to Great Explorations this weekend, which is a children’s hands on museum in St. Pete.  I would not call it is museum, I would say it was more like a hands on activity place.  She loved it and so did we.  Her favorite thing to do was slide down the fireman’s pole.  It was really neat.  They had different rooms with different “jobs”.  You could be a fireman, a tv personality, a musician, a vet and many other things.  She loved the fact that she could just run around without Mom and Dad telling her to come here.  It is really set up as kid friendly and they are able to just be a kid.  Also, great tree house for them to climb in.

I am thinking about getting a magnetic bracelet. I have bursitis in my right hip and it is really giving me a lot of trouble lately. I was in a car accident about 3 years ago and they told me that is what brought it on. The doctor’s told me that I would have probably gotten it when I was older but the accident made it happen faster. My foot was on the brake pedal when I was hit from behind. I have a memory mattress on my bed and that helped when I was pregnant but I am not getting much relief from it now so I guess it is time to try something else. I know a couple of people that wear them and swear by them so I guess they can’t all be wrong.

One of the girls I work with is bringing in some wholesale fashion jewelry so I do believe I am going to start my Christmas shopping. I can not believe Christmas is just right around the corner. The scary thing is Matt gets paid once a month so that means that we only have 2 paydays before Christmas. I need to get busy shopping because at this point I have not purchased one present. We are going to my Mom’s for Thanksgiving and I want to have all of their presents bought before I go so I can just bring them with me instead of having to mail them. Keep your fingers crossed.

I am very excited Matt did a memory upgrade on my big laptop and it is so much faster now. You know I have written about my eee but I have a full sized laptop too that I keep on the kitchen table. I use the big one when I do work from home or when Lani is asleep and I use the eee when I am on the sofa watching TV with Lani because she likes it when we watch Dora together.

Today we took Lani to Sunken Gardens in St. Pete.  The first thing that came to mind was we understand why they are having financial difficulties.  Don’t get me wrong it is pretty neat that you are in a lake 15 feet below street level walking around but the flowers and plants really were not that exciting.  I am sure that when it first opened it was amazing and I think it is wonderful that a man could spend 50 years of his life building and working on something for his own pleasure but it was just not my cup of tea.  We did get to sit on the rock of tranquillity so that was very exciting.  Lani did like seeing the Macaws, she even made a couple of noises to them.  I am sure in her “Macaw language” we knew exactly what they were saying.  At least now we can say that we have been to Sunken Gardens.

Now that Matt is starting to branch out with services on the Internet our ability to have credit card processing has come to the forefront of our business also so the ability to accept credit cards without paying more for the service then we make is very important.  Finding a company that would fit our small business needs was crucial, luckily we found such a company to help us expand without digging into our profit.

That is what’s wrong with me, I have H. Pylori.  My biopsy came back today and I spoke to my doctor and they have diagnosed me with H. Pylori.  Finally, after 2 months of stomach pain it has a name.  I got sick on our 3rd day in Bangkok on July 17th and my stomach has hurt everyday since then.  I was very happy to find out that all I have to do it take 2 antibiotics, twice a day for 2 weeks and I should feel better.

I had my first dose of the medications tonight and I seem to be OK.  I am a little nauseous and my head hurts but other than that I am doing OK.   I should be fine after taking the medicine so keep your fingers crossed.  All of the test they ran on me came back normal and I am sure they thought I was crazy but I kept bugging them util they did the right test.

I had a hida scan, a ct, ultrasound and a ton of blood test and they all showed nothing.  They decided to do an upper endoscopy and that was when they found that my stomach was completely messed up with chronic gastritis so they took several biopsies in different area that were irritated and they found it.

Richard Wright, one of the co-founders of Pink Floyd passed away on Monday at age 65.  After a long battle with cancer he passed away at his home in Britain.  His last album Broken China was released in 1996, which was a solo venture.

I know you might think that I am promoting this site because I “know” the person that is writing it but I am promoting this site because he is bringing out very interesting points about Sarah Palin, valid points. Here is another article published today by Gray that just takes your breath away. Can you believe Sarah Palin made rape victims pay for their own rape kits? Is this who we want in our White House?

I wanted to pass along this post from another blog, Sarah Palin banning books.   Take the time to look at it and then do your own research.  We need as much information as we can gather on the eve of what could be a dog fight election.  We are looking at more and more of our children turning voting age.  This will be my oldest daughter’s first election, she turned 18 in July.  With that in mind we could have one of the largest voter turn outs in a very long time.  Everyone is on their soap box screaming for change but we need to make sure it is the change we really need and not just simply “change”.

Here is the movie trailer for Surfer Dude. Did you know Willie Nelson is in this movie with Matthew and Woody Harrison? See how a washed up surfer dude because the latest video game.

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.. and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

The new Matthew McConaughey movie is called Surfer Dude filmed in Kauai. What a beautiful place to film a movie and catch a few waves. This is an interview he with one of the local stations via satelite from Los Angeles. Make sure you watch it to the end and find out how he decided to use his famous phrase, Alright, alright, alright.