Thursday Thunks: You give it a title

Thursday Thunks: You give it a title

A. If you see a tornado out your window, what do you do? I say a prayer and kiss my ass goodbye.
B. A celebrity knocks on your door saying that their tour bus/limo/pedal bike broke down (you pick the transportation)... who is it and what do you do to help them? Their limo broke down. I ask them in and offer them coffee and a bite to eat hoping that help doesn't arrive too soon.
C. Brett is back on the Vikings - do you really give a crap? NOPE
D. What side of the bed do you think Bud sleeps on? He sleeps on the one closest to the door!
E. Cookie Monster eats vegetables now. Is this ok with you? Oh sure. He needs to be regular as much as the next guy.
F. All the TT's get together for coffee... which state do we meet in? NY
G. Is the town you live in famous for anything? Infamous for anything? Nope. But if it was, I so would be posting it on my blog. I try to remind somewhat anonymous to the crazies. I have kids after all.
H. Coffee flavored bubble gum - would you? Oh sure. I would have to. Plus, I am a gum addict. If I could put my two addictions together......the world would be mine.
I. So Kimber lost her fight with a granite table.... what did you ever lose a fight with? My intestines. The decided to give me problems this May and we haven't made up yet.
J. Have you ever slept beneath the stars? I did! I didn't love being eaten up alive and haven't done it since. The bugs love me.
K. School is starting up soon, or has for some, did you get a new pair of tennis shoes every year while you were in school?  No, I was lucky to get anything new.
L. What two flavors do you love that you would never want to taste at the same time? Grape and Milk. Yuck, I totally just grossed myself out.
M. If you could shave a quote into a lions fur, what would it say? Da King
N. Did you ever accidentally walk in on your parents doing the nasty? Did you ever purposely walk in on them? Ahh...no...thank God! Purposely, now why would anyone want to do this? I've been walked in on by my 5 year old sleepwalker. Not fun.

Alphabe-Thursday - Green

For more RAINBOW GREEN participants or to play along.

Here is a bracelet I made today


Here is Handsome at Chuck Cheese playing a game I was dying to play


The Mutant Horse Fly

Got Dry Mouth? OraMoist Can Help

Thanks to Family Healthy Network I was able to participate in this campaign from Quantum Health.

What I Can Tell You:

As a child about 10 years old my 7 year old sister told me one morning I had bad breath. You know how they say that we have to be careful what we say because we never know how it will affect someone? Well, this is one of those cases. Something said by an innocent child to another innocent child has affected my entire life. I always chew gum and if I talk to someone, I tend to turn away from their face as not to be so close that they will be able to smell my breath. I am fanatical about breath wash and brushing my teeth so I was really interested in this OraMoist.

I have used these before, I opened the packet and read the instructions. Take out a tablet and place it up by your palate, on the side, pink side up. It will adhere to your mouth for 3 hours. Place it on your finger and place it on your palate holding it the recommended time (a few seconds).  It is not uncomfortable or hard to talk.  I run my tongue over it, it is so smooth. There was a very subtle lemon taste and dissolves in about 2 hours for me probably because I lick it all the time.

Memory Rewind - 2006

Here is your chance to use some of those older photos you have on your computer that you may have forgotten about. Post a photo and write a story about it.

Join me and bring back a memory.

Here is Handsome at 3 years old. We were on a class trip with his Pre-school  class. He started preschool very early, much earlier than I wanted for him.  He needed to start because he needed to be around his peers for all kinds of reasons. One of them was a speech delay, low muscle tone and tantrums. Grr....here is a post from his very first day of preschool.


The poor kid is only going into first grade but has had a form of education since he is only 23 months old. Between therapists and 3 years of preschool, Kindergarten last year, summer sessions up until this year with therapists I hope he really enjoys 1st grade. I have all the confidence in the world that it will be a good year. But looking back at some of my prior posts I believe there will be at least 1 situation.

Look at that face. I just really want to protect him and make sure he stays smiling.

Vampire Kisses Series by Ellen Schreiber

Vampire Kisses 07 – Love Bites

What I Can Tell You:
As far as a young adult book goes, this is exactly what young adults are looking for. This is the 7th book in the series but the first one I have read. I do wish I had started from the beginning. The main character Raven and her sexy hot "Eric Northman" but sensitive, sweet boyfriend Alexander (which consciendently is the name of the sexy, hot, tall glass of water actor who plays Eric Northman), anyway, I digress...

Volume 7 has Raven and Alexander hanging out in his families mansion with not much to do except hang out, look hot, and wait for the moment Alexander will change her so they can be together forever. Until Sebastian, Alex's childhood friend shows up looking hot and threatening to oust Alexander and bite Raven's best friend who he has crushed on.

The main characters are likable. Raven is smart and responsible and young girls will eat this book up!

ABC Wednesday - E

Estatic



Energetic


Everlasting Love (this is a stretch)

Taking the Pen To Paper Challenge

Basically, this means I will be mailing a note card out every week instead of a quick email or Facebook blurb. Along with the note card I will send a blank note card for the recipient to use for their own use.

I am old enough to remember when letter writing was very important to me. After moving to Brooklyn from Millbrook after my mom passed away, and leaving all my friend, we would write long mult-page letters back and forth to tell each other what was happening in our lives. I remember the feeling of getting that letter in the mailbox and sitting down to devour 8-10 handwritten pages of information. In fact, I still have a lot of these letters in my storage/memory box.

Email, Facebook, MySpace, Texting, IM'ing have taken over where we used to write letters or even phone a friend. My birthday this year, I received over 35 greetings on Facebook but only 4 birthday cards. Weird right!!

If you plan on getting back to the personal art of writing to your friends and family, (something to be treasured for ages), check out Pear Tree Greetings, an online stationery company that loves to help people connect, whether it's via a personalized note card, Christmas Card or birth announcement.

Do you save the hand written notes you receive? I have trouble throwing personalized things away, especially letters and pictures

Here is my first note card which will be going out to my amazing friend Olga. She is beautiful person. Her heart is enormous. She and I worked together many, many years ago. I love her entire family and consider her youngest, a great friend. She is truly one of the nicest people I know. We haven't seen each other in 5 years. It is hard when she works two jobs and is taking care of her parents too! She will always hold a special place in my heart. She used to give me the most amazing gifts with little notes. One Christmas she gave me a Johnny Mathis Christmas CD because she knew that he was someone my mother loved (if you are reader of mine, you know that my mom died when I was 12). She wrote that only special people liked Johnny Mathis and that she and my mom would have been great friends.

I adore her!

Knowing her, she will write the note card I include back to me. That would be nice.

Goddess Is What Makes Me Happy?

This is so easy! What makes me happy? Being with my kids makes me happy and crazy at the same time.

These pictures of Goddess make me happy. She was a year old and the sweetest baby girl other than the 18 hours of screaming. Oh wait, that's a lie. By this time it was probably only about 6 hours of screaming and complaining that we had to endure.

Recently this photo was invited into three groups in Flickr. Funny, it has been there since 2006 yet on the same day, 3 different groups liked it.

Ruby Tuesday - The Train Engineer

Happy Ruby Tuesday...here is Goddess playing conductor and engineer to the Chuck E. Cheese train. Ignore the banshee girl hair.

Guess The Goddess Drawing!

Well, this one is easy! Can you figure it out? Dad and I got it right away.

My Birthday Celebration

Here are the few pictures I took on Friday, August 13th which was my 44th Birthday!

My husband came home bearing, a card which Goddess decorated beautifully and they all signed. He also had my favorite dinner of Steak (which he hates but always gets me a great one for the BBQ), Sweet Potatoes, red wine and this amazing cake.



It was awesome. The soft pieces of cake with the crisp layers of the chocolate. Ummm..Goddess and I shared the white chocolate pieces on the top of the cake



Even though it is blurry, I love this picture.

Umm....who is blowing out my candle? Not me!

Having to relight the candle from my 40th birthday (link to my 40th birthday party luau)because everyone needed a chance to blow it out alone. Accept me!

Health Care Issues and More

Since incurring over $20,000 in medical bills this year, I find this information very interesting. Just this Friday I had a medical company call me about I letter I sent in regards to a bill. In the letter, we are asking that the 10 medical bill companies involved in my medical stay since May work with us on a budget. We still have the house, the car, the home bills, food, two kids, and now 10 medical bills to fit into our budget. Most of the companies have worked with us. This particular billing company said that I could pay $3,000 to cover the $4,300 bill and be done with it or I could pay $250.00 a month. This sounds reasonable but if I had $3,000 sitting around, wouldn't I have health insurance? Also, $250.00 a month isn't a lot if there weren't 9 other medical bills on top of my household expenses.

We have been blessed and surprised how willing medical practices have been to work with us on payment plans and hardship adjustments.  It frustrates me when my friends complain about doctor bills and how money hungry doctors are. After working for a group of amazing doctors in my past, I know the amount of deductions insurance force on the doctors. I remember the bills going out to various insurance companies and having them  paying sometimes as little as 12% and the doctor having to write the balance off.  So while patients see an office visit show up on the bill that says, $80.00, they have no idea that the doctor gets someone as little as $22.00 for that visit depending on the contract with the insurance company.

I would love to have health insurance but wonder if  we are not in a better position considering that if we had insurance I would have already paid out $48,000 in the past 4 years to have it. So in essence we saved $28,000 by not having insurance. Crazy considering how important insurance is.

Last week I received this article in my in-box.  Heading over to Healthcare.gov for the 3rd time this year to see if there is anything new. The only person with health insurance is Handsome on NY Health Plus. While I am thankful he has it, I worry about the rest of us.

My Crazy Kids

I took them bowling on Friday, the problem is, we never made it there. There was a detour on the road and they never gave more than the original one sign. I ended up in a big horse shoe on my way back home. Oh well, an hour wasted but at least we stopped for ice cream.

Here are the kids at the creamery after I cleaned their ice cream filled faces.They were playing around that they were making "poop faces". Yup, you read that correctly. Ummm..not really sure where this came from but I can guarantee it is not from me.