The BIG 3-0!!!!

Today my best friend in the whole world, my husband John, turns 30! I am so happy because I can rag on him for being old now like he's been doing to me forever. This is the eighth birthday he is having that we are celebrating together and I feel like the time have literally flown by. We decided not to do anything big for each other for our birthdays and Christmas which all fall within a month of each other so I bought him a few little things from the kids and I.

A remote control center since he can never find the remotes, hopefully they will always find their way back into their new home now. Why do men need like 5 freaking remotes anyway? A new pair of sweats since he prefers them to PJ's. A Buddha statue that is jade in color and he is holding pearls of wisdom above his head. John has wanted a Buddha forever. And....he is so going to kill me for this since he is trying to stay away from "junk".......chocolate covered almonds and cashews.

I was hoping he would be walking in the door any minute from work, yes he worked today, he never takes *his day off. But............he got an emergency service call at 4 o'clock. What in the world???? Why do emergencies always happen when he is suppose to be leaving to come home? And why is he the only electrician in the company (other than the other half of the A Team, Carl) who knows jack shit about electrical work. How did these asshats run a company before he got there, do they even own tools? They don't know how to bid jobs, they don't know how to do calculations and end up redoing half their work because they did it in the wrong size wire or whatever, and :::::drum roll::::::: they don't know how to do actual electrical work. All I can compare it to is me opening a valet service and not having a driver's license or even knowing how to drive a stinking car. Here's your sign!!!

OK this was suppose to be a Happy Birthday blog not a complain about dip shits blog, so I will end it all with an endearing John, my Big Rig, I love you more than fuzzy bunnies and I always will. Happy birthday and many many more to the best husband and father in the whole wide world!!! XOXOXO

Birthday Wrap Up!

How do you make a 13 year old boy happy? Give him a *real cell phone. Carlos has had a cell phone for a few years now, but it was a Migo. A "long range walkie talkie" according to him. Only 5 numbers could be called from it, and no one could call him. All my friends have cell phones. After hearing this for the last 2 years or so we decided this year he would graduate from the walkie talkie to a *real cell phone, and he literally spent all weekend on it. He texted, he took pictures, he texted some more, he played video games on speaker phone with friends in his room. Finally last night I told him turn the ringer down or off because I was ready to toss the thing out the window after a whooping 2 days. In any case his birthday was a hit despite the fact we celebrated it on Saturday instead of Friday because Friday was just too jam packed with things to do. He was woken up Saturday morning to a Happy Birthday ringtone on his new phone. Silly boy thught it was his alarm clock and tried turning it off, I should have had the video ready. Then for lunch his friend, my sister, 2 nieces, and all of us went to Applebee's. So all in all he was very pleased with his big ONE THREE!

FREE Dr. Pepper

Although I hate Dr. Pepper I love me some free. So enjoy.

HOW TO GET YOUR FREE DR PEPPER

1. On the Nov. 23, 2008 release date, go to www.drpepper.com

2. Register your information to receive a coupon for one free 20-oz. Dr Pepper.

3. When your coupon arrives, redeem it wherever Dr Pepper is sold.

4. Drink your Dr Pepper slowly to experience all 23 flavors. Dr's orders.
Coupons will be available for 24 hours, starting at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 23, 2008. Allow 4-6 weeks for coupon to arrive. Coupons will expire on Feb. 28, 2009. Limit one coupon per person. Full terms and conditions available at www.drpepper.com

If you are curious why they are offering free soda it has something to do with Guns R Roses and you can find out all the info here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23830713/

13, what, what?!?!?!

Thirteen years ago today I had my first child. My only son. He has grown to be a good kid. He has his moments, who doesn't, especially a 13 year old boy. He made honor roll this marking period, he ran cross country for the first time this year and did pretty darn good for never having ran before, he has his first wrestling match coming up, he has found a recent passion for reading. My little Manny is a teenager. Wow.

Night in the ER

It takes a lot to get me to a doctor. It takes a whole lot more to get me to a hospital. So you can only imagine what it took to get me to wake up my husband last night after he worked all day, to take me to the emergency room. I woke up about 1am with chest and back pains. At first they were sort of dull and achy I couldn't even really tell what hurt or where. I took Gas X thinking it was gas, I stayed sitting up for a while, nothing helped, it got worse, I even vomited.

Finally after an hour and probably far too much debating I woke John up and he took me to the ER. They triage me and my blood pressure was 165/120. They took me back right away of course, I get all hooked up to oxygen, IV port put in, EKG, heart monitor leads, pulse/ox machine. Uh. I get baby aspirin and nitro. At that point I am really freaking out. Am I having a heart attack? I mean of course that was on my mind, that is why I came in. I get a chest x-rays, Lopressor to bring down my blood pressure because it was just staying way up there, fluids through IV, all kinds of blood tests, one called a D-dimer to check for clots and then the usual ones to check my enzymes.

Thankfully everything was normal, and after 3 hours the pain was gone. They aren't really sure what caused it at all or why my blood pressure was so high. They are thinking my chest wall was spasming for some unexplained reason, real reassuring, and it stressed me causing my blood pressure to rise. The scariest part is all this happened while I was sleeping. So anyway we finally got home like 6am this morning. Of course John heads right to work, poor guy that is exactly why I debated about even going, I knew he would sit there with me and then go to work and work all day. I am so exhausted, but feel a lot better. Now I have to force myself to call my doctor for a follow up. Did I mention I hate doctors?

Birthing

My niece Tiana spent the night a couple weeks ago and the girls love their pretend play. What little girl doesn't? Here is Amber giving birth while Tiana and Jewel are helping her out. What adorable little mama's.

Michael J Fox

I planned on napping this morning until I saw Michael J Fox was going to be on Rachel Ray. I do not ordinarily watch Rachel Ray. I used to. But these days I usually flip on the TV about 11 to catch The View's hot topics because who can turn away from a train wreck and that's about all I watch of daytime TV. I listen to a lot of music these days. Okay so anywho I am straying. Back to MJF. You do not see him too much since he semi-retired in 2000. Honestly before seeing MJF suffer from Parkinson's I never heard of such a young person having the disease. I work with the elderly and it seemed nearly every senior I worked with had it and I never gave it a second thought, ok they shook a bit, it made things a bit difficult. But seeing MJF pout it all in a completely different light.
So on Rachel Ray there were some tears around her kitchen table this morning, the main topic was Team Fox running the NYC marathon raising money for awareness for the disease and what not. There were lots of laughs, MJF is such a funny guy, when RR asked him what his advice on marriage was his answer was this: If a man says something in a forest and his wife doesn't hear him he is still wrong. MJF was one of my first crushes when I was a kid, well besides Bucky Dent. Back To the Future, Teen Wolf, Family Ties. MJF was da bomb! To see him like this is heartbreaking. Yet inspiring. He and his wife have been married a long time and we all know in Hollywood that is next to impossible add to that the fact they have faced things that normal couples have difficulties with. I miss MJF and really wish we would see him more often.

Love/Hate

Things that bother me:

Old people who think they are entitled to things just because they have lived longer than you.
People who hold job positions simply to try to boss other around, despite the fact they cannot.
Idiots who let their kids run the amok.
When people make an unnecessary amount of noise when eating.
Body odor, enough said!
The way our government is run.
How wasteful some people are.

Things that I enjoy:

Watching how carefree most children are.
Reading in total silence and getting absolutely lost in the book.
Spending time with the people I love.
Rummaging through thrift stores and finding total bargains.
Making someone see something a little differently than they did before.
Snuggling up with someone when it is cold outside.
A person helping a stranger because it's the nice thing to do and not because they were asked.
Taking a nap, anytime, anywhere, for any reason.

History's Been Made!

Consider This

From a Larry King blog.Enjoy!Obama '08!!What If... What if Obama had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter? What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee? What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards? What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married? What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard Law School? What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?(The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.) What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker? What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter? What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing ....planes? (Zorn Note -- FactCheck. org clarifies
the McCain piloting stories/rumors here and the bottom line is, "McCain did lose two Navy aircraft while piloting them. One crash was found to be be McCain's fault, the other due to an engine failure of undetermined cause. What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem? What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer distribution? You could easily add to this list.If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference. And consider the following: Educational Background:Barack Obama:Columbia University - B.A.Political Science w/ Specialization in Int'l RelationsHarvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude Joseph Biden:University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A.in Political ScienceSyracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)vs. John McCain:United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899 Sarah Palin:Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semesterNorth Idaho College - 2 semesters - general studyUniversity of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism