Archive for March, 2009

March 30th, 2009

Um…Brrr

I don’t know what’s up with the thermometer on my window, but I feel like it’s way off.  It says 65 degrees, and the weatherman says it should be about 62 right now, but I am absolutely freezing.

As usual I’m wrapped up in umpteen blankets trying to keep whatever body heat I have from escaping.  I’ve got my floor heater going like crazy, and the dog is under the blanket sharing his warmth as well.  I’m tired of being so cold all the time, and I can’t wait until I’ve got my iron levels built back up enough.

For now I think I’m going to go take a nap, or at least wrap up in bed in my blankets were I can build my heat up a little faster.

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March 24th, 2009

Install My Lights Please

When Hubby gets home today I’m going to make sure he finally does something I’ve been asking him to do for weeks now.  Awhile back I decided to check out led home lighting for our kitchen. The old school fluorescent fixture in the kitchen completely died on us awhile back, so the only light I’ve had in the kitchen is the appliance bulb over the stove and a smaller fluorescent light over the kitchen sink. Needless to say I’m seriously tired of cooking in the dark.

I went out and bought some of those small led under the cabinet lights that Hubby could hang up over the bar and a new fluorescent fixture to go in the middle of the kitchen. Of course after a few weeks the led ones are still laying on the bar, and the fluorescent light hasn’t even made it out of the box yet.

I threatened that I’d hang the led ones under the cabinet/over the bar myself, but as usual he pitched a fit that I’ll do it wrong, then he’ll have to fix it. Well I wouldn’t have to do it wrong in the first place if he’d done it weeks ago like I asked! So now I think that’s exactly what I’ll do. I’ll go ahead and put them up, and then he’ll have no excuse for it. If he doesn’t like the way I did it he can fix it then. As for the main kitchen light, he’ll have to do that one though. I have health reasons why I can’t be crawling up on a ladder to install it, and I’d have no clue what I was doing messing with all the electrical stuff up there.

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March 23rd, 2009

What Is Wrong With This Place

I just spent the last hour talking to a friend of mine about a topic that really drives me nuts. He is one of those people who really seriously can’t work due to his health problems, but because South Carolina makes it so hard to get on social security disability, he’s basically stuck. He’s applied numerous times, his doctor keeps telling him he needs to be on disability, but he keeps getting turned down.

His family is supporting him and paying his medical bills while I could specifically name 2 people I know who played the system to get on disability just so they don’t have to work.  One of them even brags about how he plays the system.  He’s been reported by a few people, but nothing is ever done about it.  He keeps receiving his benefits while the people who truly need them are being turned down.

Seriously, I’m not knocking the system. Many of my friends and family members are on disability because they need to be. There are just as many people who are turned down who need the system…the type of people the system was created for. Yet there are so many people playing the system receiving benefits who don’t need them.

My SIL went through this a few years ago. She is a critical type 1 diabetic with many health problems. South Carolina refused to approve her for disability. She moved to Alabama, and her new doctor immediately pitched a fit because she was in no condition to attempt to hold down a job, and the medical bills were piling up. She was quickly able to get SIL signed up in Alabama, yet South Carolina repeatedly turned her down.

I know none of this is making any sense, and you’re probably wondering why in the world I’m going on and on about it, but there are so many of South Carolina’s government programs that drive me nuts because I feel they are being ran completely wrong. I just felt the need to vent a bit.

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March 23rd, 2009

Quitting Isn’t So Hard After All

Last week I up and decided I was finally done with cigarettes for good.  I’ve been trying to quit for quite a few years now, but my quit smoking plan never works.  I tend to make excuses until I give up on quitting.  This time I’ve been bound and determined to make quitting work.

I originally thought I’d start cutting back gradually as I searched out a new plan to quit.  I gave Hubby my pack of cigarettes, and I asked him to regulate when and how many I could have because if I’m sitting at the pc working or something I’ll chain smoke and not even realize it just because the pack is in front of me.

I normally go through about a pack a day, but by Saturday morning I realized by having Hubby hold onto the pack I had stretched 1 pack over 3 days.  From that point I just didn’t want them anymore.  I’d light one up, take a couple puffs and toss almost a whole cigarette away.  By Saturday night I started feeling sick to my stomach any time I’d even think of lighting one, and I told myself ok that’s it.  No more.  You’ve always said you didn’t have the willpower to do this cold turkey, but how do you know?  You haven’t tried.

I’m happy to say it’s been 2 days since I touched one, and honestly I’m not having the cravings I thought I’d have.  I may think about one, but then I’ll think about how nasty the last one was, what they’re doing to me, and how I just don’t need it.  The craving goes away in a matter of seconds, and I’m back to doing whatever I need to do.

I used to feel like me worrying about my health and cigarettes were totally working against me, like magnets pulling me in two different directions. Today I can finally say I’ve been without cigarettes for the first time since I started smoking, and I’m proud of myself.

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