Katrina’s Birthday List

For all you people driving me nuts; here is Nina’s birthday list. Oh and YES her birthday is on the 19th. We will wait until Friday (the 20th) to have some cake though… Guess which kind? Van/Van like every year LOL!

The Practical

  1. strawberry toothpaste (yes she asked for toothpaste)
  2. pajamas
  3. slippers (not the fuzzy hot kind)
  4. comforter (not the quilt kind – they feel yucky) On a side note if I ever ask for a comforter I prefer the quilt kind.
  5. bed frame – having her bed on the floor evidently “creeps me out”
  6. flash light – guess sometimes she tries to trip on her way to the stairs in the middle of the night
  7. fan – she gets hot in her room sometimes :)

The Crafty

  1. Needles
  2. Thread
  3. Buttons
  4. Book about sewing/art (as  in sewing art, not as in art  or sewing, don’t ask me I just wrote the list)
  5. Cloth

The Fun

  1. Dog bed
  2. Dog collar (small because it would be for choco)
  3. MP3 Player
  4. telescope – I might have to get her one this Christmas if I can’t for her bday… She has asked for one for a long time.
  5. Science kits (use your imagination
  6. balloons (water – twisty – regular, she likes them all)
  7. stencils
  8. Pogo Stick – she loves these things used to play with one in gym all the time
  9. Kid dart board – soft tip and doesn’t make noise
  10. bean bag chair

The best part about this kid? You can’t buy her something that she won’t like. Well OK if you buy her a Barbie she will totally know you don’t know her at all, but she will love it anyway… Because she knows you don’t have to give her anything, and she likes the thought anyway… :)




Websites

Here are my newest adds to my favorites list…

1. www.goalforit.com – chore charts for the kids with customizable rewards (and cool stickers), to do lists, goal trackers, and you can make a chore chart for you too. All on the pc, no messy printouts! :)

2. http://www.healthvault.com/websites/MayoClinic-MayoClinicHealthManager.html – keeps track of all of your health records, easily prints information for you to take to the doctor, and even reminds you if you need shots. No more trying to remember what medication you were on five years ago.




What I do before I go to bed…

Just got out of classes (yes it is 10:00 PM), and I was doing my nightly stuff. I haven’t mentioned it on here yet, but I quit smoking again… I am now doing my nightly stuff. So here is what I do before I go to bed.

I go to MyPyramid and log what I ate today (menu planner). It lets me know what I need to eat more of and less of. Now, let me tell you I have been doing doing really good and loosing weight (more than with any diet that I have done), until this quit smoking thing. Guess I need to buy carrots or something.  The good part? Dust quit too! He has gained ten pounds! (He is underweight to that is GOOD.)

Then I run over and make sure that Nina has been doing her spelling games. (Last year with everything we tried she still didn’t do well. Using these games she has been getting at least a 80%) WEIRD

Then I go to Heaven’s schooland log her hours and make sure that there isn’t anything I need to print for “tomorrow” as well as to check my kmail to be sure that none of the teachers need anything from me.

Then I go to my school and check my email, and depending on how tired I am, I check what is going on in my classes. (More often I do it in the morning.) Then I check my NORMAL email. (I reply sometimes, and sometimes I don’t… Depends on how tired I am

Depending on if anyone had anything to do with a doctor, dentist or whatever I then go enter that information in my family’s health manager. I then decide if I am gonna go play my silly games or not.

Last I decide what I am gonna read before I go to sleep. (Tonight? Forensics Under Fire by Fisher.)

What did I do today? Laundry, dishes, bathed all 6 dogs, bathed both cats (they made friends with a skunk the other night), watched my lectures, read some of my work for classes, helped Katrina with her math homework, ran to town, and on on on…

Good Night :)




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Teen Drama….

I just gotta see if I am completely wrong in this, or if I am just slightly wrong. I am sick of teen drama, and it has only been going on for a day. A while back Heaven got into an argument with one of her “friends” a little background is needed here I think.

This friend has been on the “you can’t have anything to do with” list several times. #1 time, the friend and Heaven were sharing passwords (yes a mistake), and the friend emailed nasty things to a different friend. I know this as I had a keylogger program (as well as logged everything else), and it wasn’t sent from our computer. The second friend in question is never allowed to talk to Heaven again. I don’t blame the parents, but Heaven didn’t do it. This was a few years ago, so we are talking sending nasty stuff to a 13 or 14 year old boy.

#2 Ever seen mean girls? This “friend” made a call to a girls house and left a message that the girl was pregnant. Even though with caller ID, they knew who had made the call, this friend said Heaven did it.

#3 We picked Heaven up from the movies one time and this “friend” was there, and was on drugs. The kind where you chew on your own face, some sort of speed.

Now this newest drama. The “friend” got mad at Heaven because she was jealous of a different friend Heaven had. They both acted immature about it (my daughter as well). The “friend” was saying things like “you are so poor your clothes never fit” (I laughed after all my mom just spent $500 on Heaven’s cloths), “at least my parents are together” and anything else mean she could think to say. This was all on text message, and yes I read the text message. My daughter did something silly, because she was mad. She broke a DVD that she had borrowed from this “friend.”

Now I have stayed out of it, after all other than to tell Heaven this “friend” isn’t a friend, and she needs to stay away from all contact with her, I figure it is up to Heaven to do whatever needs to be done. So I am on myspace today, I know shocker, Heaven’s grandfather messaged me, so I was responding, and guess who contacts me? (I am generally friends with Heaven’s friends, as I monitor them to a degree so I know what is going on.) Anyway, she pretends to be her mother, and tells me I need to punish Heaven as well as pay for the movie.

Convo: her – hi, my mom would like to have a little talk with you. hi this is (insert name), I would really appreciate if you would disaplin your daughter for trashing the movie (insert name) bought. She let Heaven borrow it the day she bought it. So if you would please drop twenty dollars off in the mail box or a new one. Thanks (Discipline was spelled that way.)

Me: You have to take that up with Heaven. I am not involved, and I am not getting involved. Nor am I going to pay any money for her actions, you will have to get Heaven to pay for her own actions.

Her: she is your daughter

Me: She is close enough to being an adult, that unless it is very important it is up to her to take care of her own problems.

Her: i payed thirty dollars for (name here) to have that movie.

Me: Listen if you want to talk to me about it give me a call; (my phone number). I am not going to have this conversation on myspace.

So I thought about it, and thought about it. I called the mom. Did I mention I don’t like her even a little bit? No, well I don’t. So I called, talked to her and asked her if everything was taken care of with the movie. Now it is from the phone so I am giving generals not exact words as I can’t remember the exact words. She basically tells me, no but she isn’t going to push it. Tells me basically what a pain in the rear my daughter is, and that it was a movie the entire family would enjoy and the money came out of her pocket for the money… So I just say ok, ok, ok… After all I am not calling to get into a fight with this woman, I have done that before.

(The “friend” was calling every fifteen minutes because Heaven and her were in a fight, it was on the caller ID, Dustin had to work. It was a couple of years ago. So I called back to ask the “friend” to quit calling, as it was interrupting the sleep of the family. The mother answered the phone. I asked to talk to the “friend” to which the mother said, “do you know what time it is?” To which I said yes, but that the daughter was calling over and over and I was calling to ask her to stop, as Heaven had asked her to stop without success. She tells me her daughter is asleep and there is NO way she is making the calls. To which I tell her I have caller ID and the last call was a couple of minutes ago. She tells me “fine, I will take care of my daughter, you take care of yours.” end of convo) So nope I don’t like this woman.

To end: I have no intention of paying for the movie, making Heaven pay for the movie, or for Heaven to be in trouble for the movie. She knows she acted immaturely, which is all being in trouble would be for. However, since she knows and is appologetic I am not doing it. I realize that in a small way it is wrong of me, as I feel the way I do because of my own immature behavior, after all I don’t like these people.

Any words of wisdom out there? Am I so wrong, I should do some other course of action, or am I just wrong but you don’t blame me? Oh, one other thing the reason for the fight in which she kept calling that night? She told Heaven I was a slut, and I slept with everyone in town. I didn’t really care, as I know that isn’t true, so I actually kind of thought it was funny. However, Heaven was pissed and told her to never talk to her again.

OH, and Heaven has to block her from her cell, block her from her email, myspace and so forth. I am sick of this girl. She is a druggy (I know for sure, as she asked my daughter via text messages I have read several times), she is a bad person (not only the above, but she is willing to lie to someone older than her about her age so they will date her, last one was 24, also read the text messages), and so on… I am sick of the girl, and hope that Heaven has finally had enough too.




My Learning Curve…

I watched my senator (Barrasso) today on a little “town hall” type thing, and the other guy that does this “against the public option” thing today. They were doing this thing with doctors, and essentially the doctors were complaining about the reduced amount of money they get from medicare. (BTW, can’t remember the guy that does this stuff with my senator, but he made a lot of valid points even though he is against what I want. Barrasso didn’t have anything to say that I thought was good.) However, because of the other guys inability to understand life, I still don’t like him.

So it makes me wonder, what is that cost (reimbursement)? I did a tiny research to find something, and plan on doing more later. I was not able to find the answers yet. However, it just so happens that I got an “explanation of benefits” for Katrina’s kidcare today. I am thinking the difference is most likely there, but perhaps medicare is a bit more? *Unsure… So you tell me what do you think?

Katrina had a mole removed from her head. The doctor did a good job. It took about 20 minutes to talk to us, remove it, and send us out the door. They gave her a bit of whatever they use so that you don’t feel it, and used this little thing with a hole cut in it, and it looked like they “razor” cut it off. In addition they sent it in to be sure it wasn’t cancerous. (It wasn’t.)

Here is the cost:

Office Lab - Charges, 195.00; Discount, 4.00; Blue Cross Blue Shield 191.00
Office Visit – Charges, 73.00; Discount, 17.00; /BCBS 51.00
Office Medical Care – Charges, 209.00; Discount, 35.00; BCBS 174.00

TOTAL – Charges, 477.00; Discount, 56.00; BCBS, 416.00; Copay, 5.00

I have to say if that is even close to what medicare pays for services (although, many of the copays are higher) the doctors aren’t being reasonable, in my opinion. Of course I don’t know what they pay, as I can’t seem to find that information…

One of the things that I will give credit for from the dude that does the little talk show with Barrasso: The standard of care for some things are to high (example used: bump on the head almost always equals an MRI, when it isn’t really something that should always be done). He really does make some excellent points. However, I would use the same points FOR the public option rather than against them…

Anyway, I can’t wait for whatever is going to happen to finally happen. The soaps that call themselves politics are hurting my head. I have taken several classes, and read so many books about politics (and interest groups) that I am starting to fall into the idea that we need major reform in these areas. People and VOTES are what our system is supposed to be about, not CORPORATIONS and MONEY… I hope I live to see the day when that reform is made. No I don’t want mob rule, but I certainly want our politicians doing that which they are elected to do, or at least put every effort into it… :)




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Internet

The internet is such an amazing thing, I get emails all the time on various different things. Every once in a while I address the thought here. However, I have to say the most amazing to me is when I get one from some with experience with AutoImmune Hemolytic Anemia. I just received such an email today. Imagine my thrill at hearing that someone had 17 years without any symptoms. SEVENTEEN YEARS, while that is by no means a guarantee for my daughter, it does give a certain amount of hope.

So for the other email updates on Heaven. She went to hemotologist this last Tuesday, and she still has the antogen (I think that is the word), and thus needs to stay on the MP6 (mercaptopurine). 75 MG 5 days a week and 100 MG 2 times a week. However, she is staying pretty stable. Also she gets to go down to a blood draw a month. So all in all pretty good news. She also takes a generic form of bactrim, and Lexapro

I guess that is all that is new… :)




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Republican & Democrat – Health Care Debate Help

We need at least one republican that has legitimate talks for or against health care. Really either way as long as the stupid talking points are dropped and REAL ones are brought up it doesn’t matter. (If there is one, I haven’t found it yet.)

Stupid arguments are:

1) Rationed Care: We already have rationed care. (You know from denials from health insurance companies, not getting care for not having the money and so on.)

2) Killing Old People: A Living Will isn’t “killing” people, it allows them to make end of life choices. AND this service is OPTIONAL.

3) Putting someone between you and your doctor. IF someone has health insurance their insurance company is between them and their doctor. IF they don’t have insurance the cost of whatever they need is between the doctor and the patient.

(There are more, but those are the major stupid ones.)

Now Democrats here is your chewing. Talking about the protesters in the way that has been done (for the most part) is stupid. If they are a grassroots type thing or not is redundant. The fact is they are still people who either don’t understand or agree. Even the STUPID questions that I listed deserved to be answered. Show some class and bring up legitimate talks. There are REAL issues on both sides.

Now as everyone know I at least want a public option but I am FOR single payer. Even though this is where I sit on the issues there are questions that still need to be sorted through. For instance a conservative wanting to throw in limited federal government has a point, is there a way that a STATE (even if only partial) run system would be better? Is this an issue that some compromise can be accomplished? Heck I have NO IDEA, and with the current talks that aren’t even REAL talking points I don’t even hear opinions on it.

The cost issue (no matter what you look at) is still an issue as we are dealing with as these are estimates. Are there plans on what to do if they are higher than expected? What if the prices don’t go down as they should, is there some ideas on how to work through this possible (yet improbable) issue? No Idea, I keep hearing quotes based in projections done by insurance companies (conflict of interest mean anything to anyone?) I would add to this issue that simply saying it will cost more isn’t good enough. Economics says that in time it should reduce costs, so please don’t make that one. Rather explain what should happen, and why it is that way.

Those are just a couple of the questions that I can think of right now. Anyway, there are questions that those against the idea should talk about. Let me tell you when I hear the stupid arguments I am assuming one of two things 1) The person making the argument is stupid, 2) the person making the argument thinks I am stupid. Neither of these work.

You know why people say that Palin lost the election for McCain? It wasn’t that she is stupid (although, many people do feel that way.) It was that she made deliberate hate speech. She incited violence, and she was completely irresponsible with the life of another human.

The amount of people who believe the government is hiding aliens is insane, or the amount of people who believe in the “New World Order” astounds me. However, these people believe they are fighting for something, and the fact they believe this stuff (although some facts of the New World Order is on track and that is why I think so many people fall for it), makes me think they are a bit unstable. This is the audience you are playing to. Thus you are inciting violence with this nonsense talk. Make real arguments, rather than play on the fears of people that are “off” as you are playing a dangerous game in which you are asking for someone to get hurt.

Also, republicans tell me HOW you are planning on making insurance work for the people rather than their bottom line?

I am all for free speech. However, I am against hate speech… Think, and attempt to win on issues rather than non issues in the long run it will serve you better.

Oh and while I am at it there is a difference between opinion and fact. That needs to be pointed out more by our media..




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