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June 30, 2006
A Google Gem
It's always interesting to look at the Keyword Analysis on StatCounter to see how people get to my blog.
Someone at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia reads my blog about 100 times a day. I don't know who that is, but I'd love it if they would say hi.
But, the reason for this post is... today this little gem was typed into google and somehow the "ignoramous" ended up at my site.
"are dixie chicks lyrics taking the long way edited by walmart ?"
WHAT THE HELL?
You are kidding me right? The Dixie Chicks, whom I love, who don't back down for anyone... let SatanCo edit there lyrics? What the heck have you been smoking?
Wait a sec... What are you smoking? Can I have some? Maybe it will help me forget that Shrub is President.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 11:12 AM | Comments (5)
Guess Who's Going Home!!!!
Connor Allen
Date of Birth: April 18, 2006
2 pounds 11.2 ounces
15 inches long
June 28, 2006
5 pounds 12 ounces
19 inches long
Last night when I got home from work, I saw that I had a letter laying by my computer. It was a letter from Barbara and it had pictures of Connor in it.
I called her this morning to tell her thank you and that I was still praying for them and she told me the news.
THEY GET TO GO HOME TODAY!
He has come a long way from this:
Thank you so much for all of your prayers and good thoughts you have sent their way. But, please don't stop, because the battle is not totally over yet.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:50 AM | Comments (6)
Fight the Fights that NEED Fighting
As Martin Sheen told Michael Douglas in American President... "you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting."
I saw this link over at Gat's Family and I just had to add to her disbelief and wonderment about the priorities of our society.
I mean seriously... Don't we have more things to worry about?
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:28 AM | Comments (0)
June 28, 2006
Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out part of a Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
It's about time someone in our government stood up and did something right. They didn't throw out the entire redistricting map, but it is a small victory.
Read more about it here.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:39 AM | Comments (1)
June 27, 2006
It's A Small World
Well, I went to the dentist back in January. They told me that I had two cavities & that I had two wisdom teeth that I needed to have taken out.
If you remember my "ice pack migraine" that I had for the three days after that dentist appointment, you might understand why I never bothered to go back for them to fix the cavities.
The wisdom teeth thing really took me off guard also. In August 1990, I went to an oral surgeon in Pasadena, Texas. I went home with gauze on all FOUR corners. I went in to have an absessed molar removed from the bottom left side of my mouth. I was told that the other three pieces of gauze were from where they took out the three wisdom teeth that I had. I didn't have one on the same corner as the absessed tooth.
Last week we received an email at work from our receptionist who needed people to help cover the phones for her this past Friday because she was going to have her wisdom teeth taken out. I asked her who her surgeon was and she sent me the link to his office website.
I made an appointment. I went and got my XRays from the Dentist I had gone to in January. I called the oral surgeon from 1990 & my old orthodontist to get my records. I went to see the receptionist's surgeon today.
Flash forward 16 years and I found out that the oral surgeon from 1990 lied to me. The faxed copy of the XRay they had from 1986. I had four visible wisdom teeth at that time and I am only missing three teeth from that original XRay. The top two wisdom teeth & the asbessed tooth. I'm wondering what they did to the opposite bottom corner since I had gauze there but no teeth are missing.
I want to call that old oral surgeon back and ask them to send me the financial records for that surgery. I want to see if they really charged us for the removal of 3 wisdom teeth when they only took out 2. I'm pissed!
As I'm sitting there listening to this new oral surgeon tell me that he suggests that I have both of my wisdom teeth removed, a lightbulb goes off in my head. For the past week the little hamster in my head had been trying to figure out why this surgeon's name sounded so familiar. I asked him... do you have a relative that is a gynocologist in Houston? He said, yeah.. that's my brother.
So, one guy was my mother's gynocologist, the other is my oral surgeon. It's a small world after all.
So, August 25th at 9:10 am I will be having my two bottom wisdom teeth removed (again). They will be putting me alseep and I am supposed to have someone drive me to and from the appointment.
Anyone want to drive me home to TheCountry after the appointment?
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 10:21 PM | Comments (2)
June 26, 2006
Waste of Space Monday - GMAC
Waste of Space Monday is the superfun blog game, the brain child of Tammy of Rant & Ravin' Haven fame where we weekly highlight this week's idiots, where we share with the world why people are stupid. Kinda like Tammy's version of The Darwin Awards.
This week I elect GMAC for Waste of Space Honors.
So, my car insurance renews every January and July on the 29th of the month. Allstate automatically sends a letter to the lien holder of every vehicle that a policy is about to expire. They also, upon renewal, send a letter to the lien holder stating that the policy has been renewed.
So every six months... in April and October, I get a letter from GMAC stating that they don't have record of me having a valid insurance policy for my vehicle. Every six months, I have to call my poor old insurance guy and ask him to send GMAC a copy of the letter that was already sent to them showing my proof of insurance.
Every six months... in May and November, I get another letter from GMAC stating that they still don't have record of me having valid insurance for my vehicle and that if I don't get that information to them within the next 30 days they will apply their own insurance to my account and add it to my monthly payment. Again, I call my poor old insurance guy and ask him to send another letter of proof. This last phone call was done around the 15th of MAY!
Today, I called to change the address with GMAC. They told me that they still don't have proof of my insurance. I told them that the letter showing proof of renewal had been mailed to them at least 3 times. And what did they say?
"Oh, well if they mailed it, that went to another department and it takes a while for them to update the system." So I gave them the information off of my insurance verification slip that I keep in my wallet and they said they would call the agent to verify.
So, I just had to ask. "This is the same agent that I have had since I bought the car nearly four years ago. How come you couldn't call him instead of sending me two nasty letters threatening to charge me for your crappy insurance?"
Then I am told... oh well, we sent out a letter to both you and your insurance agent to call us and verify. Um, ok... well if you are going to turn around and CALL and VERIFY the information I just gave you with my AGENT... then why the HELL didn't you just CALL and VERIFY it with him in the FIRST PLACE?
Just another massive company who's left hand doesn't have a clue what (or who) the right hand is doing. The left hand is kissing up to government officials while the right hand is milking every dollar they can out of the American working class.
I hate big companies.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 07:57 AM | Comments (4)
June 24, 2006
Did That Really Come Out Of There?
Just another thing I have learned since I moved to TheCountry. Last night, MRF and his dad went hunting for WildBoar while Ma and I stayed home. We went and ate dinner and then retreated to our own RVs where we killed a few brain cells playing Chuzzle.
A little later we retreated to the patio table and I let her Candle my Ear.
I laid down and Ma stuck the ear candle thru a hole in a paper plate and then I inserted it into my ear. Then Ma took her lighter and set the candle on fire.
It creates a nice warm sensation in your ear and you can hear a crackling sound and a slight suction created by the funnel shaped candle, the smoke & the fire.
When the crackling sound stops, she blew out the fire and I sat up to take pictures as she cut the burnt part of the candle off the top into a glass bowl of water.
After cutting off the burnt part, we tapped the candle on the side of the bowl... and you would not believe all the junk, (wax & pollen) that had been sucked out of my ear, that fell out.
Then we did the other ear. Here is the final shot.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 04:47 PM | Comments (4)
June 23, 2006
Well Damn
I just got a call that my sleep study will have to be postponed until Friday night July 7th and Saturday July 8th. The technician who was going to be running the studies tonight had a death in the family and the technician who would be running the study tomorrow couldn't do both.
I really didn't want to go do this sleep study, but on the other hand, I really wanted to get it over with.
So, now... I'm at work with my suitcase packed... and I still can't fit in Becky's suitcase.
Ugh!
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 11:15 AM | Comments (2)
June 22, 2006
Zodiac Drinking
LEO (Jul 23 - Aug 22)
Drinking style: Leo likes to drink and dance -- they're often fabulous dancers, and usually pretty good drinkers as well, losing their commanding dignity and turning kittenish. Of course, they're quite aware they're darling - Leos will be Leos, after all. They generally know their limit, probably because they loathe losing self-control. When they get over-refreshed, expect flirting to ensue -- and perhaps not with the one who brought them. But Leo's not the type to break rules even when drunk, so just try to ignore it (try harder, Cancer) and expect a sheepish (and hung over) Lion to make it up to you the next day.
Hmm.. I'm not too sure that's so far off the mark.
I found this on Carrie's site, who found it on Leesa's site. I had to copy it.
Go here to get your Zodiac Drinking Style
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 05:19 PM | Comments (3)
I Wish I Could Fit
Tomorrow after work, my best friend, Becky, gets to go home, pack her suitcase and then leave Saturday morning with her husband for a week in Key West.
Tonight after work, I get to go home, pack my suitcase, and then leave work Friday afternoon for a night's stay at the hospital where I am being ordered by my new doctor, "HeadacheGuru" to undergo not one but two more sleep studies.
Friday night I am going to redo the first of the two sleep studies. This will be the one where you get to go sleep all night and they just monitor your breathing and movements.
Last time they said I had Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Snoring Disorder. The thing is they diagnosed me with the OSA but never bothered to give me a machine or any treatments for it.
Then Saturday they will wake me up and I get to go thru the torture of reliving the second sleep study.
The last time I went thru this torture test for narcolepsy they said that the results of the test were inconclusive because I complained about being so tired from the night before and therefore the results were skewed.
I'm hoping against hope that this time it wont be so miserable, since I will have just slept all night and will already be there. But I still can't see being woken up after a 15 minute nap 5 times in 11 hours will be anything but torture.
Hopefully by 5:00pm Saturday afternoon I will be done with both sleep studies and get to drive home. Once I get home, I will probably pass out. I am going to start apologizing tonight to MRF for not being alive and with it all weekend long.
Damn, I wish I could fit in Becky's suitcase.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 01:10 PM | Comments (4)
June 20, 2006
Baby Connor
Baby Connor was two months old on Sunday. He is up to 5 pounds 4 ounces. I haven't gone back to the hospital to visit with them because I have been sick and was not going to expose them to anything that could make him sick.
Baby Connor is having his second brain surgery today at noon. Please send your thoughts and prayers to this sweet little baby. There should be one more surgery next week to install a permanent shunt and then hopefully Baby Connor will be able to finally go home not long after that.
I will update later today with any progress that I hear. His mom is mailing me pictures as the computer at the Ronald McDonald house they are staying at is giving her fits and wont let her attach the pictures to an email.
*UPDATED*
Here is the email that I received on Sunday.
Thank you all for your continued prayers for Connor! He is enjoying his first Father's Day with Richard as well as his two month birthday today. He is up to 5lbs. 4 ozs.
He is successfully breastfeeding and has a very strong will to succeed. (This is a very big deal because "statistically" children with neurological problems have a hard time learning to eat! Not Connor! He has always beat the odds though! He heard that we could possibly be home in a couple of weeks!
Please pray for him Tuesday at 12:00p.m. He has to have another brain surgery. This time they have to go in a poke a hole in between the ventricles to make them communicate. A week after this he will have his permanent shunt placed.
We love and miss you all and are very anxious for the day that we can go home!
I'M HOPING TO HEAR SOMETHING MORE TODAY. WILL UPDATE WHEN I DO.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:13 AM | Comments (6)
June 19, 2006
Father's Day in TheCountry
Yesterday, MRF and I took Sunshine to the park down the street from our where we live. This has got to be one of the cutest parks I have ever seen. It was built and funded solely by donations from the residents in October 2005.
We tried to get Sunshine to have an open mind and try out the other things around the castle, like the slides and fun mirrors and the rockwall... but all she wants to do is Swing.
After about an hour at the park I started developing a heat rash and a migraine and we went home. All three of us took a nap for a few hours and then we took Sunshine home to her mom.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:39 AM | Comments (4)
June 15, 2006
I Can't Stop
Coughing
Here we are on day 13. I woke up Friday morning, June 2nd feeling absolutely horrible. I went to my primary care physician that morning and was diagnosed with Chronic Bronchitis and and Ear Infection.
He had the nurse give me a HUGE shot of antibiotics that hurt like hell. The medicine was as thick as CoolWhip and burned like crazy. I had a knot on my rear for 4 days. Then he gave me 5 days of oral antibiotics.
I called on day 5 and said I was worse. He wrote me a prescription that I went and picked up the next day. I took it to the pharmacy last Friday and the little pharmacy out in TheCountry had to order the meds so I didn't get to pick it up until Saturday. I took the last one yesterday.
I am still coughing, coughing and coughing. I can't stop. Quite a few times I cough until I gag. I am also suffering the effects of other involuntary events that happen when I cough. My hands have been in a constant state of numbness for two weeks (thanks to my cerebral tonsil hanging out of skull and being compressed against my spinal column and brain stem every time I cough.)
I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow and get another appointment. I don't know what they can do now, but something has to give. I can't keep this up much longer.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 04:28 PM | Comments (8)
June 13, 2006
Happy Birthday Mama
June 13th.
Happy Birthday Mama. I hope you have a wonderful day. I love you.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 11:33 AM | Comments (3)
Spam Graphics
Yesterday I received an email from Mrs. Dallas K saying if I got an email called "New Graphic Site" not to open it. I'm really glad she sent that out. I didn't actually get the email from her, but I got it from someone else I don't know and quickly deleted it.
Then this morning, I saw that Dima apparently had been hit by the same annoying spam.
This is not just spam, its a worm that has infiltrated Yahoo users mailboxes.
So, in case you get an email entitled "New Graphic Site"... DO NOT OPEN IT!
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:46 AM | Comments (1)
June 09, 2006
SPF - Fulltime Lifestyle
SPF this week is brought to you by Kristine with the help of Dictionary.com
1. ap.er.ture n.
An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.
A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a camera or telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
The diameter of such an opening, often expressed as an f-number.
The diameter of the objective of a telescope.
Because I know you're all just weirdos that read my site, your assignment isn't going to be a hole, a gap or a slit because UPPERCASE God only knows what you'll be showing me!
SPF ASSIGNMENT:
1. A wide open space.
2. Brightness
3. In the dark
Have fun SPFers because this is another, 'it's how you see it' type of assignment. Surprise me!
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I haven't been playing much lately since I have been busy either packing, moving, or enjoying that which is my new 66-mile one-way commute to work.
1. A wide open space.
This is the field across from my new residence. I've been told there is a swimming lake back there, I'll have to go check that out one weekend soon.
2. Brightness
This is the sun coming in thru the trees next to my new home. This same sun is the one that wakes me up every morning.
3. In the dark
I am completely in the dark how long I can survive without a working oven. This oven in the RV runs off of propane and burns everything I have tried to cook in it.
Our new little building on our lot was delivered yesterday. The washer and dryer should be installed this weekend. Hopefully we will have an full size stove/oven installed by next month. So until that time, this stove will be used as storage. Storage is something that I have come to realize is a precious commodity when you are "Fulltiming" it in an RV.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 11:22 AM | Comments (11)
June 07, 2006
Precursor To A Nap
Today the corporate management company that runs our office building hosted a Celebrate Summer Gelato Social. About 5 of us jumped up at 2:00 and walked over to the next building. We still had to stand in line before we got our wonderful treat of Paciugo Gelato.
I ordered a half a scoop of Italian Wedding Cake and half a scoop of Amaretto Chocolate Chip.
The only problem now is, I've heard you are supposed to take a NAP after eating Gelato. Where is my pillow?
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 02:13 PM | Comments (2)
My New Addiction
Since my move to TheCountry, I have had the pleasure of having a Starbucks (with a drive-thru) on my way to work. I have to say that I believe this is a first for me.
Last Friday I woke up feeling HORRIBLE! I called my doctor's office about 11:20 and asked if they could see me that day. 45 minutes later I was in his office getting a shot and 5 days of antibiotics. Upper Respiratory Infection & Ear Infection. Fun Times. I went back to work for the 45 minutes I needed to get to my 40 hours and then I went home and went to bed.
I didn't do much of anything at all this past weekend, which made surviving a full day at work on Monday (especially when I have nothing to do) was the closest thing to torture since the Sleep Study where "TheDrugDealer" tried to diagnose me with narcolepsy. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Oh, ok.. I'm awake, what was I saying?
Monday night, MRF drove to Dallas and we made our last big attempt to get everything in the apartment packed. We just about finished, the rest can be packed Saturday morning after the movers leave. It was after midnight before we got home. I had a horrible attack of the hiccups and I was attempting every 5 - 10 minutes to cough up a lung.
Yesterday morning, on my way to work I stopped at Starbucks. I didn't want caffeine as much as I wanted something warm to calm my throat. I ordered a Caramel Apple Cider. Oh My God. By far the best apple cider I have ever had.
I got home from work last night about 7 and MRF had dinner ready for me. We had wonderful mashed taters and chicken fried steak. After watching Clear and Present Danger I went to bed... about 10:30. Then I woke up about 1am and then I was up again at 4am. At 4, I got up, read some email, quietly looked for my VICKS and slathered it all over me and went back to bed. I slept till about 7 and unfortunately had to get up to come to work.
After another jaunt thru the Starbucks drive thru, and another Caramel Apple Cider, I am again at work. Sitting here. Someone please send me something to do.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 09:47 AM | Comments (3)
June 05, 2006
That Full Of Shit Smile
Unless of course you : fall into any category other than Rich, White & Friends of Bush.
I refuse to include Christian in that list because Shrub is the furthest thing from Christian alive.
And that shit-eating grin is just him thinking to himself, and we are going to eavesdrop on all your conversations to ensure tolerance and respect.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 02:07 PM | Comments (4)
June 01, 2006
I'm Still Here
About 4pm yesterday I received an email asking if I was still alive. Saying that 6 days without a post must be a record for me.
So, I thought I better jump in here and say that I'm still kicking.
It has been a very long and winding road full of many many minutes sitting behind the steering wheel of my car.
Last Thursday night, MRF met me at my apartment and we went to eat dinner and loaded up my car with all of the stuff in my apartment that would be taking up residence at my parent's house.
The next day I called the storage shed to find out when they would be open to do paperwork and they said they would only be there on Saturday. So instead of leaving straight for my parent's house, I went to TheCountry, spent the night and then MRF went with me on Saturday to fill out the paperwork for the storage shed and then on to my parents house. We had a nice visit with my parents and grandparents and came back up to TheCountry on Sunday.
Monday, we loaded up my car with a load of stuff and took it to the storage shed, and then went back and loaded the car again with stuff and took it home. Monday night, my computer and my clothes officially moved to TheCountry.
I'm not completely moved out of my apartment yet, the movers are coming Saturday the 10th. After I get my deposit back I will delve into the bassakward ways of Barbie & Ken (my landlords) and why I am so glad to be out of there.
Tuesday morning was my first morning to experience the pleasure of driving to work from TheCountry in morning Dallas traffic. It wasn't too bad. I didn't go very early because instead of going to work I had an extra 30 minutes to get to the doctor's office. I got to my old apartment in time to pick up my MRIs that I had forgotten and pack a couple of boxes.
I visited with the HeadacheGuru's assistant for about 20 minutes. She told me that my new MRI from a couple of weeks ago had shown that my cerebellar tonsils had fallen another 2mm. She was going to send my old MRIs back to the neurologic radiologist and have them compare them some more.
We decided to continue the Zonegran and Namenda and we are changing my Lexapro to Cymbalta. She said the Lexapro could possibly be helping to keep the weight on me. I have been stuck at a plateau on the weight loss scene for a couple of weeks.
She also wants to send me to another sleep study. The first one showed obstructive sleep apnea, but "TheDrugDealer" never did anything about it so they want to re-test for that. I'm guessing that they will probably be calling to reschedule my nerve conduction study too.
One day last week when I was unable to continue with work due to computer problems, I set up a spreadsheet with all the $ that I have been charged or that I have spent that is in direct relation to "TheDrugDealer." The mileage between work and all my doctors appointments, my prescriptions, my co-pays, the 128.75 missed hours of work, the entire quarter of culinary school tution that I lost after having to leave school... unable to function on all the drugs.
Also included in this figure is my moving expenses (last December), my rent (December - June) and utilities. While in school I was living in "DaGhetto" which was considered student housing. My rent, utilities, etc., were all paid by student loans. When I had to drop out of school, I had to move... and I had to come up with money for rent and utilities on a monthly basis.
I took all this dollar figure (over $16,000) and my medical records to my mother and she is looking into seeing if we have a malpractice case. The fact that she had me on 17 medications at the same time should be enough to hear a resounding YES!
Traffic driving to work yesterday was about the same as it was on Tuesday, even though I left home about 25 minutes later. Today, I left 34 minutes earlier than I did on Wednesday (9 minutes earlier than Tuesday)... and today I did NOT stop at Starbucks... and I only got to work 12 minutes earlier. Traffic today SUCKED! I swear Dallas people can't drive worth shit, especially when it rains. What really ticks me off is you will have a cluster of cars and then a gap where there is no one for like 1/2 a mile. What the hell is that car in the front doing? NO GAPS PEOPLE!
Still complaining when I got to work, H said "well those people at the front of the cluster didn't know you were in a hurry." True. I completely agree with that. Because in order for them to know that I was in a hurry... they would have to come to the realization that they aren't :
The Only Freaking Person On The Road!
On the work front, H and I are still waiting for our reviews that we thought we were supposed to have two weeks ago. I started working on contracts yesterday that have end dates of 12/02/2006. How is it possible that I am already seeing DECEMBER? This year has gone way too freaking fast.
Tonight, MRF is meeting me at my old apartment and we are going to make a mad rush to try to finish packing up my stuff. I really do not want to have to worry about packing a little every night after work next week.
I hate that we had such a good assignment for WBW this week, but my scanner and pictures are all packed. I will try not to be such a stranger, but until the move is officially over on June 12th, I may be hiding under the umbrella.
Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at 11:18 AM | Comments (3)
