Oh yeah, I'm totally going there RIGHT NOW!
I LOVED/LOVE the movie BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. It's great, better than great... GENIUS. I love me some John Carpenter and when you mix up John Carpenter and Kurt Russell there's no stopping their forces!! I have seen it so many times that I didn't realize that it always felt like something was missing...until one day the wonderful fantastic husband of mine says "Did you know it was supposed to be a western?"...
Uh-huuuuuh... And then??
And how he knew this? He watches a movie and then if we have the commentary available to us, he watches that too. If it's great, he tells me it's great and we watch it together...and John Carpenter and Kurt Russell on the commentary are great... Carpenter talks about how it was SUPPOSED to be a western, but when this was made Westerns were a dead art...DEAD... They didn't come back until, some say, Unforgiven, I say blasphemy... Silverado was the rebirth of Westerns my friends... TRUST and BELIEVE... But Big Trouble... is '86... no Westerns... And that's it...
Western-era San Fransisco and BOOM! That's what missing!
So talking about this we start to Dream Cast as follows and also imagine that they change the storyline BACK to a Western!
Jack Burton: Chris Pine
Wang Chi: Will Yun Lee
Gracie Law: Amy Adams
Eddy: Bobby Lee
Egg Shen: Jackie Chan
Lo Pan: Gordon Lie
Miao Yin: Devon Aoki
and you can basically pick any three top martial arts stunt/actors as the 3 Storms :)
Have fun with that ya'll!! Cuz we sure did...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
I Know Why It's Called Amazing Spiderman...
...Cause it is! Sorry Sam... I must say, I never really like overly hyped movies...so when we went to see Spider-Man in the theater after ALL THAT HYPE, I don't know what I enjoyed less...the 2 dimensional characters, the effects heavy scenes, the mediocre acting... what? And then, to reboot a movie franchise who's body isn't even cold yet? That urked out that last movie almost as an after thought? I was against a reboot. I rejected... I didn't want any part of it... And luckily I am married to a man that has the ability to turn on a movie just for turning on a movie's sake...
Me, not so much...and he knows that...and he knows that I know he knows that...so if he sees a movie and thinks I'll like it, he'll talk me up on it...sell me on it as it were. And I was pretty sold on seeing the newer version by the weekend... and see it we did... and...WOW.. I'm just... I just... really? I didn't hate it?!?!
Three dimensional characters! ONE villain! Home made webshooters! Arc for the next film! No Mary Jane! And Peter is a smart kid and we don't just have to take someone's word for it... we are shown...he's pretty genius... he was before he got bit by the radioactive spider... I liked that his Uncle didn't die until the second act! And that his Aunt isn't a crippled, delicate OLD woman... I like Sally Field better and I like that she's got chutzpah! I liked what they did with Flash... he calmed down towards the third act. And just as I thought I was going to be pissed at Gwen Stacy showing up at the end after her dad makes Peter Parker promise not see her... she says her speech that is a tad too close to that "I TRUSTED YOU! YOU LIED TO ME!" drama pause in A LOT of flicks, she turns... "He made you promise didn't he?" I loved that they did that move!! It's so true!! Says so much about how their story will be handled or actually NOT handled because I think I read somewhere that they are actually going to bring in MJ in the next installment... eh... so anyways... I was really happy with the new Spidey franchise possibilities. I feel like this is a total revamp and that we won't be seeing the same ol shit... Although I must say, I think the part I enjoyed most about the last three films was Willem Defoe and James Franco... I know...right??
The only thing is that now I feel like Jim Caviezel in "Frequency"... I wish I didn't have to remember the Raimi version of Spiderman AND the new one... but I do...and after a while I'm gonna feel like JC with having the two memories and one a little clearer than the other because I am going to need no recollection of the other franchise, I will just about have tossed it aside like an alternate memory of a timeline that no longer exists...
Bring on more Amazing Spider Mans!! Or Spider Men?? Whichever...
Me, not so much...and he knows that...and he knows that I know he knows that...so if he sees a movie and thinks I'll like it, he'll talk me up on it...sell me on it as it were. And I was pretty sold on seeing the newer version by the weekend... and see it we did... and...WOW.. I'm just... I just... really? I didn't hate it?!?!
Three dimensional characters! ONE villain! Home made webshooters! Arc for the next film! No Mary Jane! And Peter is a smart kid and we don't just have to take someone's word for it... we are shown...he's pretty genius... he was before he got bit by the radioactive spider... I liked that his Uncle didn't die until the second act! And that his Aunt isn't a crippled, delicate OLD woman... I like Sally Field better and I like that she's got chutzpah! I liked what they did with Flash... he calmed down towards the third act. And just as I thought I was going to be pissed at Gwen Stacy showing up at the end after her dad makes Peter Parker promise not see her... she says her speech that is a tad too close to that "I TRUSTED YOU! YOU LIED TO ME!" drama pause in A LOT of flicks, she turns... "He made you promise didn't he?" I loved that they did that move!! It's so true!! Says so much about how their story will be handled or actually NOT handled because I think I read somewhere that they are actually going to bring in MJ in the next installment... eh... so anyways... I was really happy with the new Spidey franchise possibilities. I feel like this is a total revamp and that we won't be seeing the same ol shit... Although I must say, I think the part I enjoyed most about the last three films was Willem Defoe and James Franco... I know...right??
The only thing is that now I feel like Jim Caviezel in "Frequency"... I wish I didn't have to remember the Raimi version of Spiderman AND the new one... but I do...and after a while I'm gonna feel like JC with having the two memories and one a little clearer than the other because I am going to need no recollection of the other franchise, I will just about have tossed it aside like an alternate memory of a timeline that no longer exists...
Bring on more Amazing Spider Mans!! Or Spider Men?? Whichever...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Justified...
jus·ti·fy
[ jústi f ]
- make something seem reasonable: to serve as an acceptable reason or excuse for something
- give somebody reason: to give somebody an acceptable reason for taking a particular action
- explain something: to give a reason or explanation why something was done
I was just talking to my boss...and realized I used this word about a bazillion times...
Why did I do that? Oh... I don't know... Maybe because I bought another Nikon... and an instant film camera...with money that I wasn't really counting on being there after I strapped my family to a budget rocket headed for our future savings goal.
We have already had most of our FUN after I put the savings money in savings. That money is "gone" now and not to be returned to...and then there's the NEW savings I set up...the 401k. Which doesn't exist. That's what I tell myself so I don't feel like I'm getting screwed out of money.
I had a nice long talk with my CPA and she and I decided that maybe after NEXT year, I will raise my deductions so I can have more money with each check. I don't like using the IRS as a savings account. I make sure that my state deductions are just enough so that I don't owe... because FUCK JERRY BROWN AND CALIFORNIA STATE TAX BULLSHIT ... that's why... Moving on...
I justify everyday the decisions I make because I want them to make sense not just to me but to the rest of my little family unit and maybe a few people outside of it. I justify that I get my hair done every 6 weeks, I justify getting our cars maintenanced often as they need it because it will save me money in the long run and they're both paid off... I justify NOT having credit card debt because I bought my house and utilities now report to credit bureaus so THERE"S my credit bitches... I had to justify my marriage to a person need not speak his name, I had to justify the move I made after high school, I justify it all...I justified not touching my deductions yet because I want a trip to New York...and then I will change it. It amazes me every time my boss lady tells me what my Gross Income is... and I laugh and I think of the person out there that might actually get to take all that home...cause that's not me. I don't get to do that. But I do get to cover my whole family on all kinds of awesome insurance plans and I do get to have a retirement fund and I do have the FSA Section 125...until next year that is.
Our payroll company is rad, the people are awesome, I do NOT like how they roll with the section 125. All of a sudden, and I mean as of last year, I have nothing but problems trying to get them to take my claims. I have re-sent so many claims it is ridiculous. Basically ending in threatening them with coming down there (all the way to upstate NY) and shaking my fist in their faces and spitting all over their keyboards on their desks with their kitties and puppies and nephews and nieces... I just had to do it again. They are trying to deny me my claim for my glasses because I really need the anti glare coating on my lenses. I already pay out of pocket for the lenses and now I want money back that is already mine from this reimbursement fund. Eff them, I could use that extra money in check and I am going to take it next year! No more Section 125 for me! I want to take my family on a vacation back east to Up State New York, so I want one more big tax return, and unless something awful happens to our house... it's ON!!!! Owning a home does that to you. It's another compartment of the brain that I didn't know I had and it's open all the time. Sitting there with the adding machine everytime a drain doesn't drain properly or a light flickers or a bug shows up out of nowhere making me wonder if I have an infestation on my hands or maybe it's just a hot day and hot days bring the bugs in the house sometimes...
If it doesn't happen next year, then I am going to take ANOTHER year to do it... but once I get my trip back east, we are taking our deductions up so I can get more money on my check...
I tell you all that I guess to tell you this...
Growing up, I remember my mom and dad fighting about money a lot... And I wouldn't change it for the world because I think it made me a more fiscally responsible person. I really do. And I think it's great that I found my awesome hubby who comes from humble means. We don't fight about money, we don't even discuss it heatedly. It's always a calm, cool, collected conversation that begins well, ends well, and boom... onto the next topic. So when I went to sell my current camera to purchase the new one, he asked me why? And not just "why?" but Why?! WHY?!? JESUS WHY?!?!?! and I thought that was odd. He has tighter wallet strings than me! He has a velcro wallet that works TOO well because he wants to be discouraged to open it ever. I thought it was weird to question me on it. I explained it was because I was just too responsible to do otherwise... And the reason I decided to get this new camera is because I really think it will be the end all be all camera for me for a really LOOOOOONG ass time. I already love it, have used it and played with it and "That's Amore"... I really thought he was joking. I really should have been a lawyer...
When I decided I wanted the instant camera so I could better fill the pages in Mary's baby book like I did for Harley's with the JoyCam Polaroids, I didn't want him thinking I would get a gadget for gadget's sake...so I justified it. And when I got it and used it and started to fill the pages immediately with these perfectly sized little photos, he got it, it clicked and we moved on. Not that he NEEDED it justified to him, but I did it anyway just to make sure...and when I said I was trying to justify the purchase of the new Nikon with the Tax money ( mind you I still have plenty to throw into savings and even maybe go to Universal Studios with the family and I don't mean the kind of trip where everyone eats out of the same box of popcorn all day and the ticket stub is your souvenir) he got kinda taken aback like, "Why do you feel the need to justify it to me?"...well I don't... not really... I guess it's just PTSD from the money fighting that my mom and dad did... the money fighting my mom did with her second husband, the money fighting my sister did with HER second husband (now ex)...
Well folks, I did it, I justified the purchase...and welcome the newest member of the family :)
Monday, February 25, 2013
Twelve Minutes 'Til The Bell Rings...
Some of my best ideas come out of me at the last minutes of the day... let's see if this is a testament to as much, shall we?
Probably not, probably going to be gobble-di-gook...but hey...what is to be expected from someone in my predicament?
I have been locked in a Bio Hazard called "Home" for about 5 days...and man is it good to be out.
I came back to work to a mole hill, but it's gone now. All gone...bye bye...
I sit and I wonder just how much "better" Choni feels now that he is on day 5 of Flu Watch 2013...
He hasn't been sick like this in about 5 years I would say. He used to get the Flu shots every year and he would get deathly ill right after. Call it what you want, it's the truth...He was that 1%. Trust and believe I kindly requested he STOP getting the damned things and just let himself get sick like a normal person. Well, he didn't sick after that...and life was good. Thing 1 must have the immune system of Bubble Boy because she just can't seem to shake the sick. She has gotten sick every year since she started school which the statistcs say is normal and American as Apple Pie...Thanks though... But no thanks just the same...
The worst thing in the whole world is when your kids get sick. You can put bandaids on a scraped knee and a pricked finger, you can pull out frikkin splinters, you can even put salves on burns, but you just can't get them better from the flu... It sucks and it's belittling as a parent. I took her to the Pediatrician and he said she was teetering between viral and bacterial infection...so wait and see... $30 bucks to get "wait and see"... Oh great...so we did... I got a presription just in case the worst hit over the weekend, but after being sick ALL week...her whole vacation from school down the tubes...she was better. It's a miracle!! Not so fast ya'll.... Then HE gets it....
I stayed home from work on Wednesday, went in for two hours on Thursday and went in from 8 to 2 on Friday all so I wouldn't drown in a mountain of paperwork and phone calls today...and I'm glad I was able too...Thanks Ma :) I didn't really see him Thursday, Friday or Saturday... except for a trip to the Urgent Care Saturday morning and then the CVS for medication of awesome sorts... Sunday afternoon, much to my surprise, he emerged :) Shaved, showered, and less death-like hue to the skin!! Yay!!!
I have done more laundry and dishes and meal preparation than I probably have in a year... We haven't had a whole weekend to ourselves in a long time and it's been even longer since I have had such domestic duties thrust upon me... Weird to sit there and have to wonder how many pairs of jeans and how many towels you can fit in your own washer...because that's how long it's been since you've done serious laundry... Funny to sit there and wonder what setting to wash the dishes on again cause it's been so long since you've had to do more than just load the thing up with dishes... Funny....
But not really all that funny... There was a time I knew all these things. A very different space and time when we both had jobs and Harley was the only Thing and we dropped her off for the night at Gma and Gpa's... It's "funny" how different your life gets...and not even because you "wanted" it to... but because it HAD to be different. It was forced to be different...and pretty soon you wonder... How did I do this before?? And the answer is simple... You didn't... I didn't have to clean a house and juggle a baby... I didn't have to figure that part out myself.... A crash course wasn't necessarily what I had in mind but I am now glad that I had it, and I'm glad it's over. I'm glad I got reminded I'm the Mom I'm the Wife I'm part of the equation...I'm not just here to keep the lights on and keep the water running... I'm sorry that everyone was sick... but now I'm thinking it all happened for a reason... We all got something out of it... If you want a silver lining of course...maybe I want one, because maybe I NEED one... Maybe I NEED one after seeing my poor girl lethargic on the couch for a week, after seeing the piles of paperwork on my desk, after seeing how much Choni does and how much he could use a break no matter what form it came in....
And now it's all over and I can go back to the most annoying thing being that Amazon just shipped my camera and I won't have it until next week... damn Amazon...
Probably not, probably going to be gobble-di-gook...but hey...what is to be expected from someone in my predicament?
I have been locked in a Bio Hazard called "Home" for about 5 days...and man is it good to be out.
I came back to work to a mole hill, but it's gone now. All gone...bye bye...
I sit and I wonder just how much "better" Choni feels now that he is on day 5 of Flu Watch 2013...
He hasn't been sick like this in about 5 years I would say. He used to get the Flu shots every year and he would get deathly ill right after. Call it what you want, it's the truth...He was that 1%. Trust and believe I kindly requested he STOP getting the damned things and just let himself get sick like a normal person. Well, he didn't sick after that...and life was good. Thing 1 must have the immune system of Bubble Boy because she just can't seem to shake the sick. She has gotten sick every year since she started school which the statistcs say is normal and American as Apple Pie...Thanks though... But no thanks just the same...
The worst thing in the whole world is when your kids get sick. You can put bandaids on a scraped knee and a pricked finger, you can pull out frikkin splinters, you can even put salves on burns, but you just can't get them better from the flu... It sucks and it's belittling as a parent. I took her to the Pediatrician and he said she was teetering between viral and bacterial infection...so wait and see... $30 bucks to get "wait and see"... Oh great...so we did... I got a presription just in case the worst hit over the weekend, but after being sick ALL week...her whole vacation from school down the tubes...she was better. It's a miracle!! Not so fast ya'll.... Then HE gets it....
I stayed home from work on Wednesday, went in for two hours on Thursday and went in from 8 to 2 on Friday all so I wouldn't drown in a mountain of paperwork and phone calls today...and I'm glad I was able too...Thanks Ma :) I didn't really see him Thursday, Friday or Saturday... except for a trip to the Urgent Care Saturday morning and then the CVS for medication of awesome sorts... Sunday afternoon, much to my surprise, he emerged :) Shaved, showered, and less death-like hue to the skin!! Yay!!!
I have done more laundry and dishes and meal preparation than I probably have in a year... We haven't had a whole weekend to ourselves in a long time and it's been even longer since I have had such domestic duties thrust upon me... Weird to sit there and have to wonder how many pairs of jeans and how many towels you can fit in your own washer...because that's how long it's been since you've done serious laundry... Funny to sit there and wonder what setting to wash the dishes on again cause it's been so long since you've had to do more than just load the thing up with dishes... Funny....
But not really all that funny... There was a time I knew all these things. A very different space and time when we both had jobs and Harley was the only Thing and we dropped her off for the night at Gma and Gpa's... It's "funny" how different your life gets...and not even because you "wanted" it to... but because it HAD to be different. It was forced to be different...and pretty soon you wonder... How did I do this before?? And the answer is simple... You didn't... I didn't have to clean a house and juggle a baby... I didn't have to figure that part out myself.... A crash course wasn't necessarily what I had in mind but I am now glad that I had it, and I'm glad it's over. I'm glad I got reminded I'm the Mom I'm the Wife I'm part of the equation...I'm not just here to keep the lights on and keep the water running... I'm sorry that everyone was sick... but now I'm thinking it all happened for a reason... We all got something out of it... If you want a silver lining of course...maybe I want one, because maybe I NEED one... Maybe I NEED one after seeing my poor girl lethargic on the couch for a week, after seeing the piles of paperwork on my desk, after seeing how much Choni does and how much he could use a break no matter what form it came in....
And now it's all over and I can go back to the most annoying thing being that Amazon just shipped my camera and I won't have it until next week... damn Amazon...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Happy....Thursday!!
Why was it that I walked into work this morning and everyone is wearing pinks and reds and/or having something on their person that resembles a heart shape??? Why? WHY???
Oh yeah, it's Valentine's Day...
Not always was I a cynical person about this man made holiday of love. I got all crazy about it once upon a time...but I was still in single digits and the biggest thing that ever happened was Darkwing Duck getting sucked into the Negaverse...
It was MANY and I mean MANY moons before I was faced with the situation of a boyfriend AND Valentine's Day happening at exactly the same time and space. And of course, it was Antonio...
Valentine's Day 2001 just so happened to fall on our 2 month anniversary (yeah, I said it, I'm a fucking girl) and I was sitting there in my mom's kitchen thinking how cool I was that I didn't put the screws to this guy and expecting a gift on our first Valentine's Day when out he comes with a gift.,...wrapped...in several sheets of gift wrap... frikkin goofball...
After the seventh layer I see a cover of a movie I knew well, thank you BBV and thought to myself "Why the HELL would I get a copy of 'The Cider House Rules'" and what added quick insult to injury was that it was a screener no less (a screener is a copy of a tape that the distribution house sends the video rental company to see if they think the movie will rent and/or how many copies you will need for your store). Then I moved my eyes to the little block letter stickers on the cover "02-14-01"... Hhhmmm...
And of course I would learn soon that my then bf was no one to trifle with opening presents, you have to open them quickly and use them soon so he can be part of the enjoyment... already loved him for that. What happened next was awesome... Popped the movie into the VCR and the sneaky little sucker took and made a montage to a Louis Armstrong song of all the cutsie romcom's we liked and some not so rom com but rom to us and it was frikkin sweet!! I watched that tape all the time and we still have it... because he since added to it of course... Mr. Genius with the VCR editing and such. It was a little rough and some tracking issues, I think you can even see the word "Play" on the top left of the screen, but of course I think it's endearing as hell!!
Now comes why that particular gift set me so far back... When we had our first state of the union conversation in the front seat of my Impala on the way back from the WB tour, he mentioned how he thought Valentine's Day was a sham... a likely story I thought. All guys think that right? Right. He goes on about how he thinks it's really lame that women create this tornado of drama and pigeon hole themselves into giving a guy one day in which to show how they feel. There are so many things he thinks are wrong with that thinking that he can't even get them out in one sentence... "Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, these things matter... Valentine's Day? One day to do something incredibly romantic? There's nothing romantic about KNOWING when you're getting something special. It should be spontaneous!" He is very big on spontaneous... VERY big... and I thought, sitting there in my old brown car with Anna Banana asleep in the back seat after a long day of walking all over some of the most famous sound stages in the world, I was listening to a steaming pile of pig shit... Of course he was saying that, he's trying to be cool.... I didn't really think he was trying to hook me at that time, I just figured he was being a guy... but again he shocks me.
Not only does he say that cheesey line that "You should expect more everday not more one day a year" but he actually acted on it and still does. Instead of waiting for Valentine's Day or the week surrounding, I will come home to something special, not everyday because that's a stamina I don't know exisits to keep coming up with something fresh and new everyday, but definitely often enough that if I was one of the people that expected something for Valentines' Day to make up for the NON special days through the year, I would sell myself short for sure.
We don't celebrate Valentine's Day since that first one...That first one was actually so special and so sincere, I don't think he could top it. Not with all the awesome I get still throughout the year... But I DID get Carnations on our anniversary last year... and that's coming up again soon...
Which is why I say "Happy Thursday" everybody.. cause it's really just Thursday to me...until the next time I go home to something "special"! OH! And don't think the special door swings one way... I give as good as I get!
Oh yeah, it's Valentine's Day...
Not always was I a cynical person about this man made holiday of love. I got all crazy about it once upon a time...but I was still in single digits and the biggest thing that ever happened was Darkwing Duck getting sucked into the Negaverse...
It was MANY and I mean MANY moons before I was faced with the situation of a boyfriend AND Valentine's Day happening at exactly the same time and space. And of course, it was Antonio...
Valentine's Day 2001 just so happened to fall on our 2 month anniversary (yeah, I said it, I'm a fucking girl) and I was sitting there in my mom's kitchen thinking how cool I was that I didn't put the screws to this guy and expecting a gift on our first Valentine's Day when out he comes with a gift.,...wrapped...in several sheets of gift wrap... frikkin goofball...
After the seventh layer I see a cover of a movie I knew well, thank you BBV and thought to myself "Why the HELL would I get a copy of 'The Cider House Rules'" and what added quick insult to injury was that it was a screener no less (a screener is a copy of a tape that the distribution house sends the video rental company to see if they think the movie will rent and/or how many copies you will need for your store). Then I moved my eyes to the little block letter stickers on the cover "02-14-01"... Hhhmmm...
And of course I would learn soon that my then bf was no one to trifle with opening presents, you have to open them quickly and use them soon so he can be part of the enjoyment... already loved him for that. What happened next was awesome... Popped the movie into the VCR and the sneaky little sucker took and made a montage to a Louis Armstrong song of all the cutsie romcom's we liked and some not so rom com but rom to us and it was frikkin sweet!! I watched that tape all the time and we still have it... because he since added to it of course... Mr. Genius with the VCR editing and such. It was a little rough and some tracking issues, I think you can even see the word "Play" on the top left of the screen, but of course I think it's endearing as hell!!
Now comes why that particular gift set me so far back... When we had our first state of the union conversation in the front seat of my Impala on the way back from the WB tour, he mentioned how he thought Valentine's Day was a sham... a likely story I thought. All guys think that right? Right. He goes on about how he thinks it's really lame that women create this tornado of drama and pigeon hole themselves into giving a guy one day in which to show how they feel. There are so many things he thinks are wrong with that thinking that he can't even get them out in one sentence... "Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, these things matter... Valentine's Day? One day to do something incredibly romantic? There's nothing romantic about KNOWING when you're getting something special. It should be spontaneous!" He is very big on spontaneous... VERY big... and I thought, sitting there in my old brown car with Anna Banana asleep in the back seat after a long day of walking all over some of the most famous sound stages in the world, I was listening to a steaming pile of pig shit... Of course he was saying that, he's trying to be cool.... I didn't really think he was trying to hook me at that time, I just figured he was being a guy... but again he shocks me.
Not only does he say that cheesey line that "You should expect more everday not more one day a year" but he actually acted on it and still does. Instead of waiting for Valentine's Day or the week surrounding, I will come home to something special, not everyday because that's a stamina I don't know exisits to keep coming up with something fresh and new everyday, but definitely often enough that if I was one of the people that expected something for Valentines' Day to make up for the NON special days through the year, I would sell myself short for sure.
We don't celebrate Valentine's Day since that first one...That first one was actually so special and so sincere, I don't think he could top it. Not with all the awesome I get still throughout the year... But I DID get Carnations on our anniversary last year... and that's coming up again soon...
Which is why I say "Happy Thursday" everybody.. cause it's really just Thursday to me...until the next time I go home to something "special"! OH! And don't think the special door swings one way... I give as good as I get!
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
This Time Last Year...
Wow, you know what? I really should start a series called ,"This Time Last Year..." I did the birthday story for Marysu...and now I get to do the pneumonia story with HarleyQ...
More like March 5th of last year, but still...This time last year HQ was recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis. I can't believe she got it. It was just a little cough...cough syrup wasn't helping and my home remedies were getting kicked in the ass so to the dr. she went and she had bronchitis. Antibiotics and a plastic bubble later, she slowly recovered. Always having this phantom cough and sniffling ALL the time. If you don't like nails on a chalk board then I don't recommend listening to a 6 and a half year old sniffle for months... makes me shudder...truly.
Then there was the maternity leave which was awesome family time at it's greatest. Went by like a flash. On the EVE of my returning to work HQ's cough was coupling a fever that had gone on for 48 hours and was getting higher and less compromising by the hour...at 5:30pm I decided to take action and to the ER we go where we find out after 6 hours that it was walking pneumonia. Shots and antibiotics later she was a new HQ after 24 hours. She had weezing in her chest and I couldn't handle listening to that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. My poor Harleymunser was so sick... We took her to the dr for a follow up. I am not a fan of that dr.s office. And we don't go there anymore and we have been happy since we changed back to her old dr. Insurance. Sucks. Anyway, I started to feel a sinus infection coming on and I told MY dr. about her being sick so much and I couldn't stand the thought that she could be asthmatic like I was and my husband REALLY was... But he said it didn't sound like that to HIM...so GUESS what he said?
Just GUESS???
After all the problem and the sick and the holy shit... He told me to give her Benadryl... Just one dose of old school Benadryl, even generic CVS, Equate, UP and UP, whatever is fine... Just one dose before bed... see what happens...
AND DON'T THAT BEAT ALL?!?! IT FUCKIN WORKED!!!
Yep, it was THAT exciting. After one week, her cough was gone...
And, not to forget to mention. He was telling me that I should be doing the same thing!?!?!
Love. My. PA.
Not even a Dr. A PA... Love him... I tried it on my and I will tell you what... I have taken them ALL! Everything that ends in D... all of it. I have taken shit I can't even PRONOUNCE! I can feel the sinus infections come on and they come on like a bastard. The only time I haven't had any sinus flux is when I'm pregnant (so not a reason to do it again on purpose and not possible anymore anyways hehehe).
Harley was doing SO well in fact that I was down to honing in on the symptoms so early I would give her a Benadryl the night I would notice SOMETHING and then POW!!! Muhfucker's HISTORY!!
It's horrible when something is so simple and so wrong with your kids and when someone gives you a simple answer for what you feel is a simple question it's exciting! Especially when I used the same advice for me and I am able to knock out my symptoms now with a simple pink and white pill that I can get OTC for 4.99 a bottle for the generic shit,... Harley started to get a cough and I thought "Oh, that doens't sound allergy related"... silly me. Cough syrup didn't work for shit and when I gave her the Benadryl what the hell do you think happened? I got so used to her being ok over the past few months.. MONTHS!! that I forgot about the Benadryl...
Lesson learned: This Time Last Year I was learning how awesome old school Benadryl can really be !!!
Harley has surely escaped more horribly sicknesses due to her allergies NOT getting out of hand and I am so loving my Dr for it!!!
Which reminds me, I need to add Benadryl to my shopping list!
More like March 5th of last year, but still...This time last year HQ was recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis. I can't believe she got it. It was just a little cough...cough syrup wasn't helping and my home remedies were getting kicked in the ass so to the dr. she went and she had bronchitis. Antibiotics and a plastic bubble later, she slowly recovered. Always having this phantom cough and sniffling ALL the time. If you don't like nails on a chalk board then I don't recommend listening to a 6 and a half year old sniffle for months... makes me shudder...truly.
Then there was the maternity leave which was awesome family time at it's greatest. Went by like a flash. On the EVE of my returning to work HQ's cough was coupling a fever that had gone on for 48 hours and was getting higher and less compromising by the hour...at 5:30pm I decided to take action and to the ER we go where we find out after 6 hours that it was walking pneumonia. Shots and antibiotics later she was a new HQ after 24 hours. She had weezing in her chest and I couldn't handle listening to that I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. My poor Harleymunser was so sick... We took her to the dr for a follow up. I am not a fan of that dr.s office. And we don't go there anymore and we have been happy since we changed back to her old dr. Insurance. Sucks. Anyway, I started to feel a sinus infection coming on and I told MY dr. about her being sick so much and I couldn't stand the thought that she could be asthmatic like I was and my husband REALLY was... But he said it didn't sound like that to HIM...so GUESS what he said?
Just GUESS???
After all the problem and the sick and the holy shit... He told me to give her Benadryl... Just one dose of old school Benadryl, even generic CVS, Equate, UP and UP, whatever is fine... Just one dose before bed... see what happens...
AND DON'T THAT BEAT ALL?!?! IT FUCKIN WORKED!!!
Yep, it was THAT exciting. After one week, her cough was gone...
And, not to forget to mention. He was telling me that I should be doing the same thing!?!?!
Love. My. PA.
Not even a Dr. A PA... Love him... I tried it on my and I will tell you what... I have taken them ALL! Everything that ends in D... all of it. I have taken shit I can't even PRONOUNCE! I can feel the sinus infections come on and they come on like a bastard. The only time I haven't had any sinus flux is when I'm pregnant (so not a reason to do it again on purpose and not possible anymore anyways hehehe).
Harley was doing SO well in fact that I was down to honing in on the symptoms so early I would give her a Benadryl the night I would notice SOMETHING and then POW!!! Muhfucker's HISTORY!!
It's horrible when something is so simple and so wrong with your kids and when someone gives you a simple answer for what you feel is a simple question it's exciting! Especially when I used the same advice for me and I am able to knock out my symptoms now with a simple pink and white pill that I can get OTC for 4.99 a bottle for the generic shit,... Harley started to get a cough and I thought "Oh, that doens't sound allergy related"... silly me. Cough syrup didn't work for shit and when I gave her the Benadryl what the hell do you think happened? I got so used to her being ok over the past few months.. MONTHS!! that I forgot about the Benadryl...
Lesson learned: This Time Last Year I was learning how awesome old school Benadryl can really be !!!
Harley has surely escaped more horribly sicknesses due to her allergies NOT getting out of hand and I am so loving my Dr for it!!!
Which reminds me, I need to add Benadryl to my shopping list!
...I KNEW IT!!!!....
Blogger chick that I love so much for all the reasons we are so drastically different just as much as we are alike on so many things finally did it...she blogged about her pictures she takes for her blog. I knew it was going to come one day because she was so heavily into film photography at one point and now it's the expression of the photos along with the words that move her blog... I love that reading her blog sometimes is more like "reading" ... more like osmosis if you will...
I was sitting here thinking that it must be something awesome...awesome-ER than my camera...my meesely little Nikon 3100 that I got in red cause I could dammit... and then I see the filters on the pictures and before I had Instagram I was completely in AWE by the filters on these photos and the moments she captured... And then the blog hits and she talks about ALL of it! I can't believe myself and how fast I soaked it all up like a slurpee in August... **SLURP** done gone and all comprehended and accounted for.
I KNEW IT... I just did... I knew that she used her damn iPhone... top of the line awesome sauce iPhone that fits everywhere... and I knew it. I knew it because of the sheer amount of accessability demanded from the pictures she took... I just knew. And now I know, next year when I get my new phone, I am getting either an iPhone or a badass camera phone... but probably...iPhone... I am still getting my point n shoot Nikon Coolpix P520 ( in red because I can) to take the place of my DSLR which we WILL in fact be keeping because a) we are getting $$ back from the IRS and b) Choni can use it in his ventures. Also I was only really selling so I could justify the purchase for my name is Ebeneza Scrooge, you may know my great great great grand uncle...
Fantastic news as that is, I am going to want something point and shootable that takes great pictures and then I'm going to want something that takes great video and then I'm going to want something with a great zoom feature and it just all pointed to P250...Also getting a Fuji instax mini. I have been putting that purchase off since the goddamned thing came to the market and I'm doing it now... and it comes in yellow... But someday very soon, it will be just me and my iPhone...taking the video and pictures that mold and shape our lives. Because it's not about the tools you use on the photos but the passion with which you take them... disagree all you want... I'll just mock you... heehee.
I was sitting here thinking that it must be something awesome...awesome-ER than my camera...my meesely little Nikon 3100 that I got in red cause I could dammit... and then I see the filters on the pictures and before I had Instagram I was completely in AWE by the filters on these photos and the moments she captured... And then the blog hits and she talks about ALL of it! I can't believe myself and how fast I soaked it all up like a slurpee in August... **SLURP** done gone and all comprehended and accounted for.
I KNEW IT... I just did... I knew that she used her damn iPhone... top of the line awesome sauce iPhone that fits everywhere... and I knew it. I knew it because of the sheer amount of accessability demanded from the pictures she took... I just knew. And now I know, next year when I get my new phone, I am getting either an iPhone or a badass camera phone... but probably...iPhone... I am still getting my point n shoot Nikon Coolpix P520 ( in red because I can) to take the place of my DSLR which we WILL in fact be keeping because a) we are getting $$ back from the IRS and b) Choni can use it in his ventures. Also I was only really selling so I could justify the purchase for my name is Ebeneza Scrooge, you may know my great great great grand uncle...
Fantastic news as that is, I am going to want something point and shootable that takes great pictures and then I'm going to want something that takes great video and then I'm going to want something with a great zoom feature and it just all pointed to P250...Also getting a Fuji instax mini. I have been putting that purchase off since the goddamned thing came to the market and I'm doing it now... and it comes in yellow... But someday very soon, it will be just me and my iPhone...taking the video and pictures that mold and shape our lives. Because it's not about the tools you use on the photos but the passion with which you take them... disagree all you want... I'll just mock you... heehee.
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