Flu Central

Hoping to post tomorrow have been down with the flu and a 102* fever. Getting ready to try some soup and toast and see how that settles. Megan had a touch of it as well. We got it from the PCA who was sick with it the last 2 days. Hoping to feel better soon. It was freaky how fast and hard it hit me.

Dropping Stuff

This is slowly getting worse for me. I am always dropping stuff and it is getting to be more often now. Last night it was a glass of ice water when I was sitting in my chair. This morning it was lunch meat or cheese I can't remember. I drop my Starbucks when I was buying that, my keys all the time, hair brush, etc. It is really getting irritating to me. I notice my right arm and shoulder is tingly almost like it is wanting to go to sleep or just waking up. It does not hurt just feels off.
Hubby said it could be carpel tunnel but there is no reason I would have that. So anyone have ideas what is going on with me? I will mention it to my Doctor when I go next week.

Prayers for Megan

As much as I love, adore, and cherish Megan I am so frustrated right now. I want to yell and scream and cry. I want to hit something or throw something to hear it shatter into millions of pieces.

Over the last few weeks Megan and learnt to make herself throw up. I am so sick of smelling like barf. I am stressed with not knowing if she has the flu and is honestly barfing or if it is just to get rid of her pills.

I have also been dealing with her fighting food. She never wants to eat anything and has lost a lot of weight. She looks fine where she is at but I do not want her to lose more weight. She will even swallow food and then within 2 minutes it is back up.

Tonight I went and gave her the final dosage of her medicine at 11 PM, she gagged at first on the liquid and the water but was fine. I then gave her the pills which she gagged and then swallowed. I gave her some water to make sure they were down and she was fine. I walked out the door and heard that sound. Urgleunkblat. All of her medicine came up I am sure as well as part of her dinner that I did get her to eat.

I will be calling the Neurologist first thing in the morning to see if her blood levels are back yet from last week. Something is going to have to change here. I can not keep dealing with barf every night and every few days as well. I am tired of having laundry non stop with barf or pee.

Oh yea I did not have help Saturday, Sunday or Monday. I loved not having people here however.... It was also a weekend when Megan decided to pee non stop. She even took her diaper off at one point and peed all over the bed. Thank the good Lord she did not have a bowel movement!I had her bedding going all weekend. I have 3 comforters for her bed and 3 sets of sheets. I was not able to keep up with it. I am sorry but having to change bedding 3 times in a day due to pee spills or barfing is making me go bonkers.

Hopefully I will have help tomorrow. I still need to get Mali's anal glands done and I need to pick up Robert's medicine at the doctors office. I also want to stop off at a Walmart and buy me a couple of flowers to plant and maybe a couple of new house plants.

Before I forget to tell you the picture is of my husband Jason and his Grandma Della. She is a lovely lady and always so gracious. She lives in California and her street is lined with these amazing purple flowering trees. The trees all smell so beautiful and they are like a dream. I guess everyone that lives there hates them because of the mess they make when the flowers fall. However to me they were lovely.

Della also has a tangerine tree in her front yard. I love to go to her house and attack the tree. I literally will eat fresh tangerines until I am sick. In the back of the house is a lemon tree and a grape fruit tree. I have not liked the lemons when I have had them and the grape fruit tree holds no interest to me. Oh but give me that sweet citrus of a tangerine and I am in bliss.

I told hubby if we ever move to California he will have to put me in the middle of an orange grove. I still remember driving home one spring or summer and I smelt this beautiful aroma. I was in heaven. I asked Jason what it was and he said it was the orange orchard to the side. He had to slow down and roll the windows down for me to inhale the aroma. How anyone could take the scent fro granted is beyond me. It truly is a gift from God.

Freebie Wednesday!

This is what I bought today along with a Sunday paper that I didn't take a picture of. What do you guess was my total cost?

Regular price is $5.99, sale price was $5.49. My price? The register took off $5.99 paying me .50 cents to buy this!

This was $3.99 my cost with coupon? FREE! It was a totally free coupon from one of my sites I belong to.

These were .89 cents each. Or for all 8 it would of been $7.12. It was a buy 2 get 2 free. I also had coupons for 4 free bars. My cost ended up being all 8 for free!

The dog food is normally .79 cents, sale price was .70 cents. I paid? Nothing! I got coupons out of the Sunday paper for these.

The ice cream was on sale with the store coupon for $1.99, the eggs with store coupon were $1.49, the butter with store coupon was $1.49 and that package of orange chicken sauce made by Panda Express? It was originally $5.99 here and was on clearance for .99 cents! It was the only orange chicken package they had left.

So my total cost for all of these items? $7.60 with tax.

Shopping and Returns

OK I had a few errands to run today and was happy that it was cooler then it has been.

My first trip was for the free Jack in the Box tacos. Megan, Rena and I each got 2 free tacos. I also bought Megan a hamburger deluxe. Amazingly she ate both tacos and the hamburger!

We then went to JCPennys to pay my credit card bill. I also looked around the store to see if there were any good buys. Clearance was 70% off the original price and Rena was able to get me an additional 20% with her former employee discount. I was happy I found 2 dresses and a pack of 3 socks for Megan. OK I am taking the dresses back. Fat women like me do not need to wear sundresses or dresses that look like a print for the 60s acid trips. I thought I could do it but uh uh uh uh no darn way.

I paid my credit card and told the lady I needed to pay five on my bill. She thought I was paying five hundred! I said no five dollars! That it was a little bill. Wow can not imagine spending that at JCPennys. *Wait yes I can and it would be fun!*

Next stop was Walmart for a return. I had another couple of items to return but I misplaced my receipt for now. I took back a hand brace that hubby bought and got back $12.99. I love to do his returns!

Final stop was Winco. I spent way more time in that place then I meant to. They had cantaloupes on sale 3/99 cents! I got nectarines for 99 cents as well. Laundry soap on sale and a lot of different fruits and veges. Bananas, onions, grapes, etc. I also bought me two Java Monsters and used my coupons on them. I have still not had Starbucks Carmel Macchitos in a while now. I really do miss those but hey I am learning to do without!

After spending way to much time in Winco it was time to go home! Yippie! My hernia at this point was really hurting me and lifting the stroller in and out of the van was hard this final time. Thank you Lord for my AC in the van!

I did stop and pick up my mail. I got the weekly ads as well as an envelope from Psttt. It has a coupon for a free Fiber One yogurt four pack and then 10 or so coupons for $1.35 off four packs. I gave Rena a couple of the coupons to try the yogurt. I will pick it up tomorrow so I can review it.

Tonight for dinner I am making sub sandwiches. I will used Tillamook cheese, lettuce, onions, cucumbers, deli sliced ham, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard. I will cut up one of the cantaloupes for dinner as well.

Last night for dinner I baked Oscar Mayer All Beef hot dogs and made a pack of Hamburger Helper Three Cheese Lasagna without the meat. I know I am weird but I love Hamburger Helper with no meat.

Tomorrow I am going to take Mali into Bonney Lake and get her anal glands excreted. I am going to also stop off at the Dr's. office and pick up Roberts Straterra. I will make a return to Target and if I find my Walmart receipt I will return the couple of items I have here as well. Mali will have to behave and sit in the van on her own. I will not be taking Megan tomorrow, it is faster to not have to deal with her.

I am not sure what else to blog or what else is new with me. Oh yes I do. I stopped off at The Salvation Army today but it was a bust. I was hoping to find a few dresses for Megan but nothing inspired me. I am thinking once school starts back up I will have more patience to look at stuff.

Ultimate Carrot Cake

1 box of carrot cake mix
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 8 ox can crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1.2 cup coconut
1/2 cup raisins
Heat oven to 350*, grease and flour pans or spray bottoms only with non stick spray. *Ooops*
In a large bowl beat cake mix. water, eggs and pineapple for 30 seconds on low, then medium for 2 minutes. Stir in nuts, coconut and raisins. Pour into pans.
Bake 8 inch rounds 36 to 40 minutes, 9 inch rounds 29 to 36 minutes, 13 X 9 inch 37 to 43 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes. For rounds run a knife along the side of pans to loosen cake, remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely 1 hour and then frost and eat!
I will take a picture of the finished cake when it is done. However right now it is still cooking but the batter was so nummers!

Sunday

I just love that cute face! I mean who could resist that lil nose and cute eyes?
Jason and Robert are working today for a few hours. Megan is sleeping and I am sad. I am not sure what happened it just came over me. I want to sit down and cry. I was fine the morning and then boom!
The heat wave has passed AMEN! I am sorry but I am not used to 108* in Washington. I love to have all the windows and front and back doors open with a lovely breeze flowing through. No a/c running, no heater running just the wind.
Saturday night I took a package of frozen burritos and laid them in my 10X13 glass pan along with left over rice. I then added a can of green enchilada sauce, olives, and cheese. I baked it at 350* for about an hour or so. Talk about yummers! I added a dollop of sour cream to my serving and enjoyed.
Friday night I made pot stickers, rice, and Chung King Chicken Chow Mien. I was not as happy with the pot sticker sauce this time. It did not really have much of a taste. Hubby had me put the chow mien over his rice and then I tried it that way as well. It really was good. I even got the chow mien on clearance at Target for $2.30. The rice was $2.00 for the 2 packages I used. I paid $5.99 for the pot stickers but only used 1/4 of the package so it was $1.50 worth of cost. Dinner was $5.80 for hubby and me with left overs the next morning for hubby, and the rice for dinner that night! Talk about frugal!
I am going to make a carrot cake in a little bit. Yes it is from a box just because that is what I have here to use up. I am going to start baking cakes from scratch when all the packages of cake mix are gone. I will shred carrots so the cake is healthier! I am also going to make cheese sticks today, as well as zucchini bread made with yellow squash! I am in a cooking mode in case you could not tell.
I am not sure what I will make for dinner as of yet. It is funny how cooking nice meals at home makes a much happier hubby! He even made French Toast for us all the morning. It was a fair trade being I had the duty of a nasty poopy diaper to change! I think I might just do hotdogs today. It will be simple and easy to do. I can make home made macaroni and cheese to go with it even. Hey I now have dinner planned!