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Name: spinner_mom
Gender: Female
Interests: my kiddo's and dh, spinning, knitting, crocheting, reading
Expertise: my family
Occupation: Education/training
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3/16/2005
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| Well, it's been another looooong week of dr appointments, and medicines. I am tired. But I thought I'd pop on and update things before I forget all the stuff I wanna remember.  We now have an allergy dr for 13 yo dd, and here's hoping they can tell us more about whats happening, and maybe give us some ideas, or another med to help with her pains, and sleeplessness. Though the past two nights have been really good. But it might just be from sheer exhaustion that she is finally resting so well, and that's not really comforting to me at all. 
So the new health insurance plans for dh's work came in the mail this week, and for a millisecond I almost thought maybe we should sign back up for them, with all this reaction to medications, and all the extra worry, and dr visits. Until we saw the numbers!  Basically there are three plans, one for just dh and me, one for just dh and the children, or one for everybody in the family. The one for dh and me went up 53% from last year. The one covering dh and the children went up 49%. And the one covering the whole family went up 61%!!!! In ~one~ year!!!! On the family plan the deductible is so high that we'd be covering all of these dr visits that we're doing right now up to $50,000 anyway, so dd could actually even spend some time in the hospital before any insurance would kick in at all, aaaaaaand we'd still be paying nearly $1200 a month for the insurance too. Aaand there's no telling if they would toss things out saying an allergic reaction is a preexisting condition.  So nope, nope, nope, no insurance this year, that is for sure. Who has an extra $14,400 to throw away on insurance this year that doesn't cover crap? Anybody? Sheeesh!
In gardening news... those potatoes that popped up in the five gallon bucket from the little left over taters out of the garden last year... we got another three pounds of potatoes from them! Not bad for covering a bunch of golf ball size potatoes, and forgetting about them over winter. I'm going to take some of the smallest ones and set up like five five gallon buckets this year, and only put like three or four in each bucket, instead of dumping like twenty potatoes all in one bucket. Hopefully they'll all take off, and next year we'll get 20+ pounds of potatoes out of just forgetting the buckets again. LOL I'll have pictures for the garden blog shortly.
In knitting news... still making baby hats, but have been side tracked this weekend making rectangles for Handmade Afghan Project (link in the sidebar up there). Been trying to use up some of my mega stash of acrylic yarns. Man, I have sooo freakin much yarn!!!! 
Mothers Day was awesome! Spent a couple hours in Lowe's getting carpeting, and paint, and things. Now the last coat of paint is on the walls in that bedroom, and it looks just wonderful. Now we wait for the carpet to be put down, and then have the big bed moving part to do. And then we start cleaning out the next bedroom. Gah!!!! Hopefully by the holidays everything will be purged, and painted, and moved around, and finished off! I just can't wait! Now that dh sees how great the walls look in that one bedroom I'm hoping it sparks a massive 'lets paint everything' wave of motivation! LOL Oh, and we got two gallons of the final paint for the walls, and we juuuuust barely had enough to cover the room! *whew* Was that ever close! I was kicking myself for painting the inside of the closet... but it all got covered thank goodness!
And last but not least... if you don't hear from me for a few days, blame the devil!!!! Yes, the devil made me do it! Yeah, we got Diablo, and it goes live tonight, and I plan not to sleep for at least the next 24 hours. There's gonna be some monster butt kickin good time around this place tonight. Or rather at 3 freakin a.m. because they're not going live until midnight west coast time? Maybe it's central? But it's three hours after our Eastern midnight. I'm gonna be a witch doctor! /shakes voodoo stick Hee hee! Linkie!
TTYL 
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| This turns my stomach! There is another article here. The first website has a button to be able to donate to the reward fund. Right now they are only able to offer $5000 reward for any information to catch the people who butchered these animals. Somebody out there knows something! The white baby buffalo was skinned, so somebody has that pelt! Just barbaric! 
Edit: Just read that the reward is now at $45,000! Here are some links to the Legend of the White Buffalo...
http://youtu.be/HCdXXHHV7Gc
http://youtu.be/MRfmU0b-NWg
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| So good things... my fortune cookie said 'The problems of today will be buried by the sands of time' Every once in a while, fortune cookies get it right.
Other good things... I've already had my Mothers Day dinner out. Usually I do not ever ever ever go out to dinner on Mothers Day, because places are just packed full, and there are long waits, and you get moved along quickly so the waitresses get good turnover and tips. So this past Sunday dh suggested dinner out, and I jumped at it. It had been a looong two nights with oldest dd being sick, and just everything going wrong lately, and I've been sooo freakin tired, so dinner out was just what I needed. And the kiddo's always looooooove to go into the nice sit down restaurants. (We shall keep it between ourselves that Denny's is not really a great sit down restaurant. LOL But I got french toast and that was excellent at 9 pm at night! )
More good news... it's rained every afternoon for three days now. My garden is looking fabulous, and I have to do hardly anything to keep it going, besides a little weeding, if the rain keeps coming. In the next two or three days I want to get out there and dump my five gallon potato bucket though. The plant on the top is done. I wanna see what I've got. If it did any good I'm going to get three or four more buckets, and really divide up the wee little taters better this year, just putting a small layer of cover on them. Then next year we might end up with a big ol bumper crop.
In knitting and crocheting... I have gotten two more little sweater vests made up. Here's the link to Bev's patterns, the newborn size, and the preemie size.
And in the best good news... by the middle of next week the one bedroom should be finished, and the girls can move all their stuff in there, and put up their posters! Yaaaayyy! Then we get to clean out the other bedroom totally, and do it all again! I am thinking by the end of the summer all three bedrooms are going to be totally junk free, and redone with paint, and carpets.
Well, I guess I'm going to go and clean off parts of my desk now. Yeah, it's nine thirty at night, but I was up really late last night with 13 yo dd, and then had to get up at 3 am, and again at 5 am, and now my sleep is all wacky, so I probably won't pass out til 1 a.m. or something. 13 yo dd called me to the couch earlier, because her legs and back were hurting so bad, and I was rubbing her back and reading my book, and poof, I fell asleep for two hours! It means nothing to these people to tell them, 'if I fall asleep you need to wake me up!' They just walked around all quiet like, and put a blanket over me, and I wake up drooling just in time to dole out meds! Sheeesh! But the sleep did me a world of good.
TTYL
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| Things are driving me buggy... and then I realized, it must be the pms. LMBO. So yesterday I was reading news on the net, and came across and article about Florida tomato farmers. It's not worth it to pick the crops this year. Thousands of pounds of tomatoes are going to *rot* in the fields, because there is a huge flow of tomatoes coming from Mexico this year, and they were going for around $20-$24 a crate last year, but the price has dropped to $4-$8 a crate this year! One farmer said he couldn't even get a dollar a crate for his crop, and it isn't economical pay for crop workers to come pick, and then only make as much as you have to pay out... so they're letting the crop of perfectly good food rot where it grows! And my heart aches! I mean.... yay for cheap tomato prices and all, but you would think some company somewhere would make an offer to turn all that extra crop into ketchup, or canned goods of *~some kind~*!!! Heck, at $4 dollar a crate I would go and pick a pickup truck full and do my damnedest to preserve, or dehydrate, a few hundred pounds of them!!!! Wouldn't you? I guess me not being able to get any of my tomato seeds to sprout very big before going kaput this year, isn't going to harm our tomato intake one bit. We'll just buy em, instead of grow em.
Then today at the mailbox we got a letter from the house insurance company. Only freaky because just a few weeks ago dh was talking something about sinkholes, and I mentioned that if it's a terribly dry year again the water table is gonna be low, and then kablam, here's a letter saying that we will no longer be covered for any damage due to sinkholes, unless we carry extra coverage, and we'd have to pay for a survey for that also. They say we'd still be covered for any other collapse though... just not if it's a collapse because of sinkholes. Sooooo freaky. It's like... what doo they knooooww??? *insert twilight zone music*
In wanting to do weird stuff news.... I suggested to dh the other day that I was going to start painting things. I had a Grand Idea!!! Every time we go to the store I want to get a little pint of paint. Different colors. Like start with light purple, and blue. And I'm going to come home and just put some on the walls here and there. And then every couple of weeks when we go shopping pick up another little can of paint of a different color, and dob more on there. Yellows, and peaches, and green. Just here and there. And then in about three or four months the walls will be all modge podge, and colorful! I said, remember when we were young, and we wanted to paint our bedrooms and had to get approval from our parents, and we were like, 'ok, but when *I* grow up *I'm* using spray paint in *my* house! It'll be wiiiild!', and I asked dh, what ever happened to that line of thinking? And he says, 'it would lower the real estate value! *gasp* We've turned into our parents! So, I think I've hit my mid life crisis, and I wanna color my walls modge podge. Yeah, I'll take pics.
On the brighter side... McDonald's has a new pie out for summer. Strawberry cream something or other. I've had three in the past two days! It's kind of like their holiday custard pies, except one side is the creamy filling, and one side is the strawberry filling. We're calling them crack pies. They are just that addicting!!!! If you haven't had one yet, I suggest staying far away from them. Ok ok, if you ~really~ want to try one, just order four! Trust me. Just order four. Cept for @godfatherofgreenbay... get twelve! I am strictly trying to save you gas money there, because I know you live like 60 miles from McD's. LOL
In knitting news... I'm working on booties and mittens. Hands and feet, feet and hands. Oh, and I got a new crocheting pattern I want to give a whirl also, from one of my Yahoo friends. It's a circle in a square pattern. Her whole blog is just fabulous, so if you're in to all kinds of crafting, from paper stuff, to crochet, to making wooden blocks, it's a great blog to get lots of ideas from!
And that's all for now because the dishes are calling, and I am finally ankle deep in some home school paperwork. Don't worry, as the week wears on the paperwork will get deeper and deeeeeper, and then boom it'll all work out. Best news ever though! There was a printer sale, so dh spared me the pain of having to hand feed a few hundred pieces of paper, one by one, through my old printer that broke down about mid February, just to get all of this years home school files printed out. *whew* It would have taken me about three days to get that done. Now it should only take about three hours! Hee hee!
TTYL
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| Man, I feel like I've been away from the computer forever, and it's just been a couple of days. 13 yo dd hasn't been feeling well, so I haven't been on to read anywhere, or get my email, or scope the Youtubes, or anything!!! I feel like I'm so far behind on everything, but really I can see I haven't missed much. Makes me wonder if I could go a week... or a month... and I'd check back in, and everybody would be droning on, and on, and on, as if nothing has changed.
In around the house news... things are droning on, and on, and on. We've been planning another BIG thing for the past three or four months now, and it's also taking a lot of my time and energy. There is just so much to do, and figure out, and good golly I'm getting old! Ya ever figure by the time you get into your forties life would be so settled??? I'm beginning to see that maybe all the way into my eighties, if I have the good fortune to make it that far, nothing will ever be all set and done. Everything is always changing! But if I throw all my energy at this for the next three or four months maybe I can just settle again for a good long while.
In home schooly stuff... I thought I would be hip deep in the paperwork part of it by now, but because of 13 yo dd being sick I've done nothing!!!! I feel like crap for not trying to at least get a start on it. But I guess it'll still be there next week, and the week after, eh. What I really need is a couple of days in a room with no distractions, and nobody pawing at me to do this, that, and all the other, and I could just quickly focus on it, and be finished. But instead it's going to be a long drawn out thing with hundreds of interruptions, and ups, and downs. Nothing can ever be easy.
In good book news... I am now sucked into book two of the Hunger Games! In even better news, I've sucked oldest ds in to it also. Took a week of talking to him, and then IMing him online on how to get his Amazon account set back up, and how to get his Kindle going on his iTouch again. And wah-lah he's reading books again! Devouring them even! LOL I need to figure out a way to send him recommendations through Amazon. I know I saw something like that somewhere before. I guess I could just make a list of links and email him. But he only checks his email like twice a week. Bugger. But at least he's doing something besides endless game playing!
And that's about all I have time for. 13 yo dd is up, and I need to get her meds, and get some chicken broth in her, and set up her foot soak. Sucks having two messed up toes, and no rest. I hate it when the kiddo's feel like crap, and don't smile for days. Anyway...
TTYL
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