The Life & Times of My First Ear Infection

To start off with, I woke up with a tiny bit of an ear ache yesterday but went ahead and made a well woman appt with my doctor for today and figured I would just mention it to him when I got there.
I went over to my friend Natalie's house for the afternoon/evening and hung out with her and her daughters. I brought home made lemonade, that seemed to be a pretty big hit and we talked about(originally we were supposed to do our sundial umbrellas) starting a Farmer's Market and doing a Craft Night and have decided the next time we hang out, we will discuss that further!



It was a really awesome time and I'm glad I've met her an Ann Louise, who I only met because of Natalie, really! They're both very interesting people that I can learn a lot from <3

I looked at the time and it was getting pretty late, and I should have been in bed soon for my morning appt with the doctor. A little after I had texted Josh to go ahead and come pick me up, I started feeling icky again. Nauseous, headachey, just plan ICK! So, we went to the After Hours Clinic in Magee. It was 9:20Pm, and they closed at 10:00Pm, we figured they would take us. We walked in there, I made sure that it wouldn't count on my insurance as an E.R visit(because that's a 150$ copay and I just do not have that kind of money!) and they explained that it would go as a regular doctor's visit, which I was happy about because that's a very small copay. Then, they told us "but we're not taking any more patients." WHAT? Are you serious? We were absolutely livid. There wasn't a sign that says they stop taking patients at a certain time or anything and I was in PAIN.
So, we went to the store and just picked up some sinus medicines and ibuprofen and I figured I'd stick it through the night. That worked, until I woke up this morning. I cancelled my appt as a well woman appt and just switched it to a regular appt because this felt like something that just couldn't be mentioned in passing.
What that After Hours clinic did not ask, was what was wrong. It took my doctor about 10 minutes to look in my ear, look in my throat, ask me some questions, tell me what I had and send my prescription off. It would have been about 9:30 by the time, had the After Hours clinic taken me. He prescribed me 2 different drops, a pain one and an antibiotic one and they seem to already be working so I'm happy. I called into work today because I just could not stand for the measly 4.5 hours that I had for a shift, but I can hardly stand going from the living room to the bathroom without having to grab onto something, so I'm taking it slow today.



Living in a small town and going to a small town doctor means that while yr supporting yr local economy, yr also sitting in agonizing pain in the 2nd waiting room because people like to talk, they like to know what's going on, how's yr family, how's yr mom, didja hear didja hear.
I'm not big on doctors, so when I go, anyone who knows about it, knows that I'm REALLY in pain. But this doctor..he was different. He'll be my OBG, for my well woman exams and my regular practice doctor as well. He didn't give me any lectures on my weight, he didn't talk about my blood pressure(because it was considerably high due to being sick) and we didn't talk about diabetes running in my family. I have never been to a doctor like that before. It was an enjoyable experience, to say that feels like the world should be blowing up right now. He prescribed me 2 different drops for my ears, one being a pain drop and one being an antibiotic and a note excuse from work for today.







PS: The good part about all of this means that I can cross number 18 off of my "24 before 24" list which was get a lady doctor! A lady doctor meaning, a doctor for my lady parts. I am calling tomorrow to reschedule my well woman check up and then a mammogram.

swear words

I could have sworn that making a scalloped skirt was on my "24 before 24" but I guess it isn't.
This skirt was SO ANNOYING to make, oh my goodness. I'm glad I made it, though. It's a nice light fabric(that I doubled up so I don't ALWAYS have to wear some sort of thick un-summery undergarment, though I normally always wear bike shorts underneath my skirts)Any way, this was an idea I've had in my head for a really long time, I just needed to find the right tutorial, and I finally did! Over on versus, is the perfect easy diy scallop skirt tutorial. At 3Am last night, I finished it. It took about 2 hours and a crap ton of patience.
I wore it to today's S.C.A.R meeting and out to lunch to a local deli w/ Josh.
Tonight I thought? I was going to grab coffee or something with a co-worker, but I don't think I am, I'll have to wait to see. I am going to do a bit of thrifting, though! I haven't been thrifting in awhile, except on my lunch break a few days ago but I had to be quick quick!
I made a really delish spaghetti dish the other day, I was super proud of it. Straight with cottage cheese, a nice side salad and garlic bread!


Last week a lady in our rescue that had been fostering some cats and an injured dog, got a letter from her landlord on her door saying that animals are not allowed, so we all scrambled trying to find homes for all of them. Thankfully, we did!
One of the kittens came to us. He's a black(and he'll probably have some gray! We see it!) sweet little thing. Olive Oyl didn't like him at first, but we're keeping them separate for right now and introducing them slowly. We were toying with the name Brutus, but we haven't mashed it yet.
Here's a blurry picture of him because he is a little wiggle worm! We're really enjoying having him in our home and can't wait to find someone who wants to make their home his forever home! He'll make someone real happy! He's very curious. I was taking a bath earlier today and he HAD to know what was going on, so I picked him up and put a little bit of water on him and he loved it. He did the same thing to Josh in the bath the other day.

this is what i did after work today

traditional new years eve pictures

last year


this year


a lot of neat things happened this year. we finally moved out on our own,i got a job, josh continued loving his job,we ate a lot of pizza, got a kitten, ordered junk online, went to texas a few times, listened to some new musics. that kind of stuff.
now we're going to eat pizza, watch a movie or something and maybe play a game of risk. no alcohol or fireworks for us tonight. we're both feeling a bit under the weather

happy new year!

Sorry for the absence!
We left for Texas on Friday morning and returned this evening! I promised Josh I wouldn't say anything online about it on the off chance that the mutual Texas friends we have in common actually read this thing, or my Facebook statuses!
Any way! We dropped Lulu off at the puppy hotel early Friday morning and set out to attack the highway and get to Paris, TX roughly around 4:30Pm! Totally did it! Even with stopping in RUSTON, LOUISIANA(home of NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL) for Chinese at our fave Louisiana Chinese buffet! So yummy! They also have perfectly shaped ice cubes which WOWS me like no other!




Any way! We met up with his mom and dad at this cute little diner called McKee's where our pregnant waitress was utterly adorable and had the most dainty little lace top on. I ordered the chicken strip basket and it comes with a huge bowl of white pepper gravy and some fries. We shot the breeze, caught up with each other and then they tell us to come over to their house for just a bit! We were very scatterbrained as to why they wanted us to do this, but we did it any way.
We get there and we all sit down and just talk and enjoy the warmth and company. THEN they tell us to go over by the Christmas tree and open the large box that is sitting next to it. So, we do and look at what they got us!

a 32" lcd hd tv! If you haven't been pals with me for very long, you wouldn't know that our little 19" lcd hd tv got stolen a few months back right out of our home! So we had been using an old tv that one of my now ex-co-workers was letting us borrow. This was SUCH a surprise and we are so so thankful for it! Thank you thank you! The picture is so crisp and amazing. Ahhhhh! I still can't believe we have one!

Last night I went to bingo with Josh's grandma, cousin and aunt. We had a lot of fun though the 4 of us didn't win a darn thing! Josh's aunt dropped his grandma and I off at his grandma's house and then Josh and I went to Applebee's to meet up with some of his old friends. It was a blast. His friends really appreciate friendship and FOOD! Which is AWESOME because one of them has got me ADDICTED to APPLEBEE'S WONTON TACOS ahhh so good!

For our lunch today we stopped at a Whataburger in Marshall, TX as a treat to ourselves!


We stopped at the strip mall in Monroe, LA and went to Target for a bit!
While we were in Paris, TX we went to PetCo and got Lulu & Olive Oyl some Christmas pressies and decided that our next animal will be a medium sized rat!
Now it's back to work tomorrow!
Hope everyone had a good good weekend!

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Phew! Half of the week is already gone. Work got really weird today. Boss man is implementing a new way to bag + better our service with the customers and it's just an awkward awful situation right now. I hope we all get used to it QUICK!
Josh picked me up from work today and had been telling me all week that he had a surprise for me when I got off of work on Wednesday. We drive to D'Lo and lo and behold we end up at the nursery! For one of my "big Christmas gifts" he let me choose whichever hanging plant that I wanted! I chose a cute little fern and it's now sitting on our kitchen counter awaiting a hanger to hang from in our kitchen! I don't have a photo of it but I will once we get everything squared away!
We also nixed the idea of watching more Daria and played Yahtzee! last night! Josh's dad got me the game last Christmas and we played a few times when we first moved in when we didn't have a TV or anything but we've sort of let games get away from us recently.

Oh and another big thing!
This marks the 2nd thing I was able to mark off of my "23 before 24" list!


It was waiting for me when we got home from the nursery! It's so great! I'm so incredibly happy with it! It's THE thing I've always wanted in my future home!
Eeee!

a series of events

Sunday I had a 6Am shift and since pretty much nobody comes in between 6Am and 8Am, I decided to whip out my yarn and crochet hook and finish up a hat I'd been working on.


This is going to be a long week, I think. We have kind of a lot to do but we're keeping it low key. Josh dropped me off at home after I got off of work and he's been back at the office since. I have some soup in the crock pot, dishes are done, macadamia nut & white chocolate chip cookies are baked, kitchen is clean and I've put some veggie and soup cans in a big bowl of hot water to soak the paper off so I can do something with them.
I really hope the soup is good. It's kind of a garbage soup I guess.
It's 2 cans of:

rinsed and drained, half a can of chicken broth, half a can of corn and 2 spoon fulls of flour to make it a bit thicker.
Cross yr fingers!

Here's a bonus picture of Lulu and her new toy, Mr Quackers JR.


I'm slowly but surely getting together everything that I need for the zine. I know it's been a super duper slow process and I have a million apologies for that but it's winter time and I'm always tired.

Suitable Pinecone Pickin'

Today we woke up and since neither of us had ANYTHING(gasp!) to do, we got ready and went to the D'LO WATER PARK. You've been there too if you've watched "O' Brother Where Are Thou"!
(This part)

So it's a very cool spot!

Here's our adventure in picture form
























That's that! If you ever find yrself this side of Mississippi, def check out the water park! There's canoeing and all sorts of stuff that happen throughout the year!

I have a tutorial coming up in just a few minutes in another entry! TUTORIAL HERE
XO

PS: Please please please keep yr fingers crossed! I found THE PERFECT standing gumball machine at the Neverending Garage Sale but they were closed today. It's sitting outside just waiting to come home with me I JUST KNOW IT! Keep yr fingers & toes crossed that they'll be open one day this week and will sell it to us! It's the perfect thing to put next to the door and what I've wanted for YEARS!!

EDIT ON SUNDAY: It's mine! On the way home from work today the lady was there and I peeped my head in and asked her how much! We're picking it up after I get off of work on Wednesday!!

weekend to do list / what we did today / blah blah blah

About half way through my shift this afternoon I decided to text Josh to see if he wanted to take Lulu for a walk when I got home. So, when I got home that's just what we did!
She's kind of new to the walking thing since we just moved into our own place a few months ago and she was used to a big back yard with plenty of roamage room, but that's just not possible with the apartment.














To-Do List For This Weekend:
1. I'd like to do this to a skirt some time this weekend
2. We also need to straighten the house up some & pick up our dirty laundry!
3. We have the police department Christmas party to go to tomorrow night
4. Go pick up my schedule before said Christmas party
5. I'd like to do something with the bland blue frame mirror we have in our bedroom
6. Wrap some gifts
7. Watch Stranger Than Fiction that we got in the mail a few days ago from Netflix
8. Wash dishes
9. Sweep & Swiffer the living room
10. Maaaaybe try to clean up the craft room some!

surprise!

take yr doggie out in the morning and look what you get!
It's already stopped and nothing stuck but it was still pretty for a little bit! I'm used to the entire state being a big snow ball being from Minnesota so it was nice while it lasted! Maybe we'll get more throughout the day. I work all day, though :( One of the managers that I work with is going on a trip to Missouri so I hope this snow fall didn't hinder their drive at all because some other states that don't normally get snow, are getting little snowies.


I straightened my hair last night and now it just looks dirty. Baby powder, ahoy! It's too cold to wash my hairs right now because I KNOW my hairs aren't dirty!
Thinking of turning on some hot water and bringing some hot chocolate to work today.
Stay warm!

Hot Cup of J....Hot Chocolate!

Aw man! I had to dig and dig in my cupboard but I KNEW that I bought a box of Hot Chocolate when it first started getting cold. Then it went up into the 80s so I said forget it and put it in the back of the cupboard until..TONIGHT!
Josh is still at the office and I feel really weird/nervous going to bed without him home so I've been keeping myself busy with crocheting projects and The Simpsons on DVD. I have SO many half projects done(1 legwarmer, 1 fingerless mitten, etc etc)that I need to finish but just haven't had the motivation here recently. Hopefully soon! *Crosses fingers*










XO! Stay warm tonight!

Oofta!

Around 547 Main Street S, has been kind of busy this week! I worked Monday-Saturday and we threw in a Christmas party for the Sheriff's Department(chock full of yummy food and an Elvis impersonator!),a few parades and decorating the house for the holidays!
Our tree is well on its way to Super Tree with an eclectic variety of ornaments and other things
as well as this lil baby we bought for it tonight:


I also vowed to not use commercial wrapping paper this year. I have a buuuunch of bingo papers and scrap fabrics that we are going to use. This is the first present under the tree! It's a present for Josh with silk fabric and a bingo paper tag!

Some ornament high lights thus far:

a kitty from http://www.flickr.com/photos/8255326@N02/ and a clay dinosaur that i made from a tutorial on scrumdillydilly which directs you to CraftZine!
ALSOOOOO
my growing gingerbread set on Flickr will be documenting the days 1-10 of our Growing Gingerbread! It says "10 days to maximum growth" so we'll see!


my hair was also in ultimate Super Bun mode today

This is what I wore to go buy the tree skirt

cardigan - thrifted
sweater underneath - thrifted
shirt underneath that - thrifted
skirt - handmade. vintage skirt w/ home made tea pot stencil
tights - thrited
converse - ebay
vintage purse - thrifted

Josh called to say he was on his way home while the timer was going so I just went ahead and answered it! :)

Onto misc stuff: I did a new blog layout today as well as some new gadgets and stuff! I'm excited to keep blogging consistently(hopefully...)
XO!