Just a quickie..
You'll never forget that time you ______ .
Thursday, July 9
Odds And Ends
Chantix:
Two posts down I wrote about my trouble taking Chantix. I forgot to mention my doctor saying that even if I missed a dose here and there *whistle* that I would still have the side effects. It will take a few days for it to work its way out of my system.
Parking Lot:
I have a thing about putting grocery carts into the cart corral after shopping. How much effort does it really take? Sheesh. Yesterday I went with Mr. Skittles for a quick run into Walmart. After Mr. Skittles put the stuff in the back of my car I headed to the cart corral with the cart. A guy in the next row started to leave his cart in a parking space. I said, "Do you want me to put that away for you?" He looked sheepish and said no thank you, he'd do it. And he did.
Joke From An Email:
Two dwarfs go into a bar, where they pick up two 'working girls' and take them to their separate hotel rooms.
The first dwarf, however, is unable to get an erection. His depression is made worse by the fact that, from the next room, he hears his friend shouting out cries of 'Here I come again! ONE, TWO, THREE .... UGH!' Here I come again! ONE, TWO, THREE.... UGH!' Here I come again! ONE, TWO, THREE ... UGH!' ... ALL NIGHT LONG.
In the morning, the second dwarf asks the first, 'How did it go?' The first mutters, 'It was embarrassing.. I just couldn't get an erection.'
The second dwarf shook his head. 'You think that's embarrassing? I couldn't get on the bed.
Wednesday, July 8
Side Affects
I've been taking Chantix to help me quit smoking. I've also slowly progressed into a basket case. More so than normal. My occasional(?) mood swings have increased dramatically.
The slightest mention of any word or phrase that flashes me back into childhood memories has become an everyday occurrence. Something as innocuous as a mention in an online game of someone being a "mean drunk" threw me for a loop. Mr. Skittles has become twitchy not knowing from minute to minute whether I'll be bitchy irritable or pissed um.. pissed.
My panic attacks have increased and agoraphobia has reared its ugly head again, keeping me practically housebound. I haven't even been blogging much because it means interacting with the two or three people who visit my blog.
Yesterday I visited my primary physician to discuss the insurance company not covering a med for diabetes he'd wanted me to start. While I was there I mentioned what I've been going through. He said stop the Chantix NOW. He said one of its side affects is pretty much what I've been going through.
He wants me to start the new med for diabetes first. Then he'll start me on something else for the smoking. This is so if I have any side affects again he'll know which thing it came from. In the meantime I'll still be smoking.
But maybe I can regain some semblance of sanity. At least as much as I had before Chantix.
Tuesday, July 7
Another Spin
My Heads Or Tails post is below this one but I thought of another post I could have done. One I have posted about before.
Me and Mr. Skittles are both music lovers. In fact we met in an online music file sharing chat room kind of place. Because of our shared interest we often play music we have stored on our computers while doing things like playing online games usually at Pogo.com.
One night he played a Melissa Etheridge song that caught me in the right (or wrong) kind of mood and the beat got me going. So much so that I pulled my top over my head and began spinning it in the air. (This may not be a pretty thing for someone as old as me that probably has a need for the best wrinkle cream.) Probably? Hahaha!
Here's the song. Keep your clothes on.
Monday, July 6
Saturday, July 4
Wednesday, July 1
Moose
I've posted a couple times here and there about Mr. Skittles wanting to see a real moose.
The first time this became known to me was a few years ago when we visited Yellowstone National Park. We saw a moose while driving the roads there and he pulled over, jumped out of the car and snapped a zillion pictures. Ok.. that's an exaggeration. When we were looking through the pictures later at home I said, "Dear, I think that's an elk." He was crushed.
Later that year he had a four day weekend. I Googled "best place to see a moose" and other than zoos I saw that New England, specifically New Hampshire, would be a good place. We threw stuff in the car and off we went. We drove around New Hampshire, then for good measure, we also drove around Vermont and Maine. No moose. We met a lot of people who HAD seen one, though.
Last weekend we went for a drive around Michigan. Imagine my surprise when I spotted this moose just standing there by the side of the road!!! (Shh.. Don't tell Mr. Skittles it isn't a real moose.)
My Savings Theory
I have a theory about buying things at a discount. If I have a coupon that saves me a certain amount of money then I think of that savings as free money.
Let's say I have a coupon for Best Buy. Let's say I save $50. That $50 is money I can now spend on something else. (I sure would have liked to have had a coupon like that when I bought my laptop in March!)
I bet you women will like my little savings theory. I'll give you fair warning that men do not agree or understand it. I know because I've seen Mr. Skittles roll his eyes when I try to explain it. That doesn't mean I will stop trying though. And in the meantime? I'll get some spiffy new stuff.
Tuesday, June 30
Monday, June 29
Heads Or Tails #97
You can play this at Heads Or Tails!
The theme/prompt for THIS week, June 30, is:
HEADS - "Tool"
Make any kind of post using "Tool" as your theme/prompt.
When you go to counseling one of the first things you are taught to use are your TOOLS. Identify your support people. Make a game plan for what to do when you feel stressed. Etc. etc. etc. (That means I've forgotten some.)Another helpful TOOL is to quit being so hard on yourself. OK. This one I have trouble with. A Lot.
Me and Mr. Skittles went off on a little road trip a few days ago. You can read WHY we did in the post below this one, but while you're here I'll keep going with what I wanted to say. We were following Michigan's west coast shoreline and doing so meant we went through some areas with beaches and people swimming. As we passed through one nice community I said to Mr. Skittles, "Nothing here for us fat people to do." Because it was a swimming, tanning, frolicking in the water community.
Well, that comment made me start thinking. Why couldn't I go there and swim and tan and frolic in the water??? Because I'm fat? Because I would offend people if I showed up in shorts or God forbid a swimsuit??? Yeah. Pretty much. But wouldn't that be the other people's problem then? Because THEY would be offended by ME? If I'm offensive though then maybe I shouldn't do those things.
I think I think too much. But I won't be going swimming.
I hoped I could have found the real spoof made of this song. I couldn't though so this karaoke version will have to do.
Sunday, June 28
Weather
Me and Mr. Skittles made an impromptu decision Friday afternoon to pack some things, grab the dog, fill my car with gas and take off. We'd been itching to do a trip like this since the last one in April, but thought the idea would have to sit on the back burner for a while. Finances and all.
But something happened Thursday..
I was home alone with the pets. Mr. Skittles coming home from work was still a couple hours away. At my computer with my back to the window the first hint I had of bad weather coming was the sound of strong wind outside. I turned around and saw how black the sky had gotten.
I know people who've been in tornadoes say it sounded like a train. This wind sounded like a muted train.. or a far away one. As the rain started pelting the window I got up and went to the sliding glass doors in the living room.
Some of the dark clouds were so low I felt like I could reach up and touch them. What really caught my attention though was some rotation I saw in the clouds. I almost expected to see a tornado funnel drop right down on top of where I live. I thought I was maybe overreacting and came back to my desk.
From the bedroom, where I'd left the TV turned on tuned to CNN, I heard the unmistakable sound of a weather warning. I turned on the TV in the computer room and found a local channel and saw a tornado warning had been issued for my county and that a tornado had been sighted one county over.
I've never been home alone in a situation like this. I was scared shitless. As the siren here started blaring, I grabbed the handset phone, my cigarettes and lighter and my dog and went into the walk-in closet in the bedroom. I tried calling Mr. Skittles at work but got his voice mail. I was shaking so badly I don't know how I dialed the numbers.
I called my DIL. I saw my cluttered (but organized) walk-in closet had too many things in it that could become treacherous to me and my dog should something come ripping through, so I moved us to the bathroom. I sat my fat ass down in the bathtub as I was telling my DIL what was going on. DIL, who lives across the state, found weather news for my area and kept me updated concerning what was going on and where it was going on.
Sure I was a sissy baby. Yes, I was still safe and alive after it was over. But the whole thing shook me up more than I can say. I was still shaken when not too much later the news broke about Michael Jackson's death.
So.. Friday afternoon me and Mr. Skittles are sitting here doing insignificant things on our computers when the thought hit me. Life can be so short. Why waste it thinking "One day we should..."
We just spent two days on a road trip up and down and around here in Michigan, traveling just a tad over 1000 miles. We simply enjoyed the sights .. and enjoyed being together.
Thursday, June 25
Tuesday, June 23
Monday, June 22
Heads Or Tails #96
You can play this at Heads Or Tails!
TAILS - "Summertime memory"Since this is TAILS week our summertime memory needs to be a real memory of ours. It can be a childhood memory, a memory from teens years or later. It can even be from last week.
I remember warm summer days at my grandmother's house, sitting on the porch swatting flies.. and snapping beans together. She would later can these to eat through the winter months.The tradition continued when me and my kids would sit in the kitchen doing the same thing and for the same reason. I would also can tomatoes, zucchini, jams, and fruit.
It's been years and years since I've done any canning. The main reason being I've lived in apartments and the kitchens are so small. I recently got the fever for it though and this past weekend me and Mr. Skittles went out and bought jars of all sizes. We stopped at a local veggie store spent some money and the last two days we canned strawberry jam, applesauce, zucchini. I have green beans on the stove as I type. We will get tomatoes when they come in season.
So this is my summertime memory. Recreating with Mr. Skittles some older summertime memories.
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