It's slow, but it's happening: I am reclaiming the house bit by bit. Of course, the bits are microscopic, but there is hope that we will, some day (soon?), have a clean(ish) house. I'm keeping a tight rein on the part of me that wants to go hog wild and clean ALL THE THINGS, but seriously, that way lies madness. There's just so much that needs to ( Read more... )

In desperation to discover why I keep getting this infection in my sinus cavity I looked up "recurring sinus infections" and learned a potential root cause! There was a study done, in 2005 I think, that showed a FUNGAL infection can be the root cause of bacterial sinus infections. The idea is that the fungus infection irritates the nasal passage, ( Read more... )

Recently, custardfairy has had trouble with strange men entering her home, as has another friend of mine. Those occurrences make me even more nervous about the incident I had this evening. Jason had just gotten home, so his car was parked in the driveway down by the sidewalk. The van was in it's accustomed spot pulled all the way up the driveway to the ( Read more... )

This whole tight finances thing is really pissing me off now. I keep changing to cheaper brands on stuff, looking to save pennies all over the place and it keeps biting us in the butt. Don't get me wrong, I've had some good success in generic brand food/products, but the ones that failed, failed HARD. Bad tasting food? Ok, live and learn never buy ( Read more... )

I helped a friend today update the books in her library. She's bringing it out of the dark ages and giving all the books a barcode and entering them into the computer system. At the same time, she had me evaluate the non-fiction books I was working with to see if they were worth keeping in circulation. I was looking for content and appeal as well ( Read more... )

Hee! One of Raja's daytime sleeping spots is on my robe on the floor of our closet. He's done this ever since my robe was pulled from it's hook a few weeks ago and, with it being in the closet and it not being cold enough to wear heavy terry cloth, I left it there. Michael pushed the robe out of the closet and into the main part of the room and I ( Read more... )

I've reached the point where getting a chiropractic adjustment makes me feel instantly more relaxed. I can feel the energy flow through me more easily and I just feel....GOOD. That feeling fades after an hour or so as my body gets accustomed to it's new position and realizes it's still out of alignment, but until that point it's so so nice :)

The night away last weekend did its magic and I'm still going strong, even with a bout of tonsilitis to liven things up. Michael has been whinier than ever, Justin switches between over-cuddly/must mess with people to must yell nastily at brothers without warning, and Ryan just cannot stop himself once he gets going with the silliness; and I'm ( Read more... )

Mint does not share well. I put parsley and mint in a nice sized pot and promptly watched the mint grow and spread like crazy while the parsley hid in it's little corner. Since I mostly use parsley and almost never use mint, this was not a useful situation for me. So I pulled all the mint today and discovered that sucker grows roots a mile long! ( Read more... )

Justin has always needed to be the one in control and it's even worse now that he's entered the Tweenstate. I had just told Ryan to find something else to do while he waited for Michael to finish using the computer and mentioned playing Mario (on the Wii). Which he did. Justin, who's on the laptop at the table and thus has nothing to do with the ( Read more... )