A little Overboard…

There were two “probable” cases of the pig flu reported in North Alabama yesterday.  They have not even been confirmed yet but they have closed the schools…which means my daycare has also closed today and tomorrow.  We didn’t watch the news last night so I was driving to work and heard the tail end of an announcement on the radio and quickly called husband to tell him that daycare may be closed before he headed over there.  Yep,  it’s closed so husband is working from home today and will take vacation tomorrow (since I will be out of town).

People here at work are wiping down their workstations and looking for hand sanitizer.  Sometimes I think they are doing it in jest but still I think they are going a little overboard.

I don’t know the circumstances of the two probable cases here other than they are children.  Don’t know if they have recently visited Mexico or anything.

I truly don’t think this will be wide spread or at least I pray it doesn’t but the media can sure get people scared.

Things I’ve Done

I saw this over  on another blog (oranginadreams)  that I thought might be fun.  Just highlight the things you’ve done.  Here are mine……

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Tuesday Rant

As if some people’s immediate family drama wasn’t enough…some people end up marrying into the mother-load of drama, back-stabbing, bitchiness and craziness.  Not that my family has any drama really (well maybe my sister) but my husband’s family is a piece of work.  And it’s not just the siblings but their spouses too.

I’ve written before about my mother-in-law going through chemo and the fact that my husband’s sibling are showing their true colors by truly not helping where they need to be helping.  My husband of course defends them some but after yesterday and what I found out today..there isn’t that much to defend.  My MIL had chemo yesterday.  It’s an all day thing and the oldest son took her there and got her all checked in then my husband was suppose to go pick her up afterwards.  As far as we know no one came to sit with her or anything (which I personally think is sad and I’ve already told my own mother that if she ever went through that I would come sit with her whether she needed me to or not).  When husband came to get her she was not done and when she did get done it took over three hours to get her checked out of the hospital.  Husband had left his cell in the car but when they got home, no one had even called to check on her and no one was there.  He didn’t want to leave her alone but she insisted she’d be okay and he did get up very early this morning and go over and check on her.  He’s also there right now because no one is there.

Then I found out today that the crazy sister-in-law told my other sister-in-law that no one else is helping out except her husband and went on to talk about that and about a nephew who had been staying over there to help and how he was not neat and ate all the food (he’s 14, that’s what they do).  Okay this particular sister-in-law and her husband don’t work..they go to school and mostly online.  They are the ones with the most time and true he’s been very helpful even though at one point when it got really bad they both disappeared for a month because of his drug problem….husband and his older brother finally tracked them down and got them back to start helping again.  They also owe everybody money so the fact that they bitch because a 14 year old boy ate food that they might have bought (probably with food stamps) is kinda silly.  This sister-in-laws mouth is one reason I avoid her.  She runs her mouth and gets on everyone’s nerves (no wonder her husband has a drug problem)

Husband’s sister is still not helping enough and the older brother really isn’t either.  Heck sometimes I don’t think my husband is helping enough but he’s only one person.  I get so mad when he goes there to spend the night because he can’t track down anybody to help.

No matter who is helping or not….I would never say to one of my in-laws that my husband was the only one helping….That’s none of my business.  When it is needed for me to step in and help I will.  I’ve already said next time she has chemo I would go up there if no one else did and sit with her so she wouldn’t be alone.  I’m not that close to her but I would at least do that.

I don’t know…it just makes me mad how some people are and how they treat other people.

Some Layouts

Despite not being in a very creative mood today I managed to finish up some pages I had started while on my scrapbook retreat. Here are a few of the pages:

True Colors

This will pretty much be a rant post for my own benefit.  I am on my second night in a row without my husband.  He is again spending the night with his mom because he has not heard from any of his 3 siblings.  I don’t even think any of them has bothered to call to see how their own mother’s doctor appt went.

A sick parent really brings out the true colors in people.  They are either going to be there or not which is pretty sad.  After telling my own mother all the things that have happened with my husband’s siblings and mother, I have promised her I will not be that sorry a human being.

I guess I’m just a different person or was brought up different or something.  If my mom was going through chemo and needed someone to be there…I would be there.  Husband’s siblings seem like they don’t even realize what’s going on. 

His younger brother has been helpful for the most part since he has no job but he has an addiction that will sometimes make him disappear.  We didn’t here from them for over a month until finally they were able to track him down and tell him they needed help.  He’s been there ever since that so I hope the fact that my husband is there now doesn’t mean they’ve disappeared again.  Husband’s older brother just seems to want to tell people what they need to do.  I think he may have stayed there overnight once.  I just know it struck me wrong that night husbands mother cried and asked if he would call Medicare for her because all the brother would do is TELL HER WANT SHE NEEDED to do….not realizing she needed his help.  And his sister…now there is a piece of work.  She’d always been so close to her mom and now…..she leaves her 14 year old son there to help and she feels that is her contribution.  Or she claims she has to work…she’s a waitress who works only a couple nights a week…..but I’ll bet if she wanted to go to the beach she would be able to get off.

When my mother-in-law was in the hospital she seemed to get more attention from all the children but now that she is out and going through the hard part of cancer….they just don’t get it.  She needs them….and they are not there.

And of course this makes me mad because my husband has to take more on both financially and  time wise.  It’s not that I don’t want him to not help his mother..it’s that I’m mad because his siblings are sorry sacks of poo!

I brought my child to work….

Today was “Bring your Child to Work Day”.  They went all out and had a big to-do with Helicopters, Fire Trucks, Demo of Police Dogs etc on the parade field but my child was really too young for all that so I waited to bring him to my office until the afternoon..after naptime.  I actually ended up waking him up from his nap because I wanted to get to the office before the little reception they had planned for for the children of our office.  He started out very grumpy and I thought to myself this might be a mistake especially after his melt-down yesterday over me opening up his drink and taking a sip (that one lasted about 10 minutes of total screaming and crying).  I would have died if we had another one of those days in front of all my co-workers.  Of course I know they all understand because their children have been 3 but still……

But my fears were not realized.  He actually was very well behaved (most times) and we didn’t end up leaving till past my usual going home time.  He loved walking around the building and riding the elevators.  Everyone he met gave him candy and even a stuffed dog.  Plus he got a goody bag at the reception filled with candy and a plastic watch which he had to wear home.  He actually begged me later for us to go back….go figure…I never cry and beg to go back to work….hum?  Maybe they should start offering me candy and treats…..?

I think his afternoon wore him out though.  I’m on my own tonight since husband went to stay at his sick moms.  Little boy was very cooperative in getting his bath and actually said he was ready for bed.  Only down side was….our potty training was shot to heck today…oh well….start fresh tomorrow.

A day to myself….oh my!

Friday’s weather is suppose to be beautiful and it is my day off from work.  I am so looking forward to a day to myself and I have BIG plans.

I don’t plan on shopping

or take the critters to the vet

or run much needed errands

or organize my closet

or get things ready for a yard sale

or switch out my seasonal clothes

or laundry

or clean house….

I’m going to SCRAPBOOK!  Yeah me! 

I have been looking forward to a day to myself ever since I got back from my scrapbook retreat.  I started so many projects that I couldn’t quiet get completely finished and have really wanted to do that. True I probably need to do all the above things as well but frankly I’m just not going to….

I stopped at Hobby Lobby on my way home yesterday to pick up some paper that was on sale and some supplies I thought I might need.  As much paper as I have, I discovered on the retreat that I frankly did not have enough or enough variety.  Hopefully, my friend at work whose neighbor I ordered some Close to my Heart supplies from will bring me my order tomorrow so I can play with those supplies as well.

So let’s just hope husband doesn’t decide to take the day off or little boy doesn’t have to stay home from daycare so I can have the whole day to myself to do what I want to do for once…..I need one.

Potty Training Update

After a weekend of asking him every hour to an hour and 1/2  if he had to potty and letting him wear big boy pants, little boy actually has done pretty good with the potty training this week.  Monday, the pastor at the church told me as I was walking out how excited the teachers were on how well he did Monday and that we must being something right and yesterday the teacher who had been fussing at me every day told me he was dry all day and praised on how well he was doing.

Not to say he hasn’t had his share of “accidents” because he has and #2 is something he’s not telling us about but overall….consistency is paying off.