Here we go again

So Turkey day is right around the corner! Mmmm.
We're pretty traditional when it comes to Holidays here. This years menu is Turkey, asparagus, mashed potatoes, stuffing, peas (I think), my sisters very special biscuits, of course cranberry sauce and gravy, and for desert, pumpkin, peach, and coconut custard pies. Screw tradition, I want my coconut custard pie! (:

We don't decorate anything for Christmas until dessert, and dishes are done, and we take most of the month to finish. It's like tiny surprises each day.

What I'm looking forward to is baking!
I love getting messy and flour powdered with the fam damily and making dozens of different kinds of cookies! Press cookies, drop cookies, sugar cookies, roll out dough using cookie cutters... onandonandonandon!


What are your favorite cookies to make?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! And as usual

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Whimper

Okay, so, it seems it's time to pull out the credit cards, dust 'em off and hit the internet.

For some freakin' reason, my body is rebelling against me. Ever since I got off the antihistamines, I've had a crazy random pain of the day. Read: No knitting, no crocheting, no crafting of any kind. ): I'm lucky I don't pass out after putting the boys to sleep... errr, bed.

Right now, I'm being desperately amused by the show "Fact or Faked". These people take themselves waaaaay too seriously!

Back to gifts. I'm very lucky to not have to distribute very many, but I like to make things, so that it's more personal. My kids are my most difficult, especially now that they're getting older. I was never a teenaged boy, nor did I grow up with any brothers. I haven't got a clue what to do with them!
Nintendo, here I come. ):

Well, my crazy random pain today is in the area between my collarbone and neck, so I *need* to stop typing now. Good luck with your Holiday shopping!

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Ugh!

Yeah, so. Apparently the one doctor had told them he didn't want me to go home, and when I went back to the ER the next day, (Oh yes I did) He was expecting me, and admitted me.
Some kinda ugly huh? I had these huge ugly yellow welts with red outlines all over my body! Ye that's one at the corner of my eye, and the entire other eye was like a target!

Today was the first day I haven't taken some kind of antihistamine, and it was probably a bad idea. Then, because I haven't been miserable enough, boy #1 has given me his cold.

I swear, I have slept more in the past 2 weeks, than I have in the past 2 years! I have managed to get absolutely NOTHING done in these past 2 weeks. And tonight isn't going to be any different. Time for a pretty pink pill, and sleepytime! Hopefully, this next week will see me feeling better and back on track!
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Allergies.

All my life, I've been the lucky one, no allergies to anything except mosquito bites, and let's face it, it's pretty rare to *not* have an allergic reaction to a mosquito bite! About a decade ago, I found out the hard way, that I'm allergic to Morphine. Fine, I try to avoid situations that would cause me to need Morphine anyway.

Today I found out, that it's possible to get an allergic reaction to an infection. Who knew?

It all started with a painful itchy bump on my inner wrist. By the time I got home from work, I had what looked like mosquito or flea bites on my hips, and my scalp was itchy. By bedtime, one of my eyelids was swollen, and my chin was twice the size it used to be. When I woke up this morning, I could barely use my hands it hurt so much, and I had marks all over my thighs, upper arms, and my other eye was also swollen. Sooo, off to the ER we went.

Here is something you'd really like to avoid... getting Benadryl injected directly into a vein. OWOWOWOWOWOW!
I walked in the ER at @8:45 am, and didn't get to leave until nearly 2pm! Why is it some people can go in to the ER and get out in 2 hours or less, but any time I go, there are only 2 doctors, and 5 emergency emergencies?

And who's bright idea was it to make those beds so damn uncomfortable?! Like people in the ER aren't already uncomfortable enough? At least we have cable. Of course the doses of meds they gave me knocked me out, so I didn't get to enjoy most of that either.

I was trying to find a way to post this as funny, but seeing as how I'm still kinda itchy, and really sleepy, I gots nothin'!

So be careful out there, if I had gone in last night instead of trying to sleep it off, I might not have been so incredibly uncomfortable when I woke up this morning!

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Oy Vei!

So, suddenly it's October, and I realize that I barely did a thing since January about knitting. *SIGH*
I did finish a project that was *supposed* to be done last fall/winter, but, well, we won't go into my life last fall.


Now I have a whole pile of things to accomplish in too small an amount of time. Including 3 sweaters, a bunch of plushies, and stars and snowflakes. (I love making those, fast and easy, and terribly cute!) I'm hoping to find the glowy yarn again this year for the stars, simply because I think it's awesome that your crocheted stars glow at night. (:

I've already started 2 of the sweaters, one of which is really easy, so I hope it goes fast. One of the plushie patterns is killing me. I don't believe for a minute that the picture of the completed project, came from the pattern given for it! Bastids!

Thankfully the series I'm reading hit a dull book, so I've been able to get some stuff done (: (crazy! Just crazy!)

I *reallyreallyreally* want to make this...

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/marvin_plushie

Well, I guess that'll just have to wait 'till after the Holidays. ):

Time to start thinking gifts folks! And as usual...

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Irresponsibility

I have so many pet peeves, I could start a zoo!

When you shop, and you bring your child, please watch said child, either by actually keeping your eyes on them, or by restraining them in some way.

One woman was so busy arguing the price of an item, that was clearly marked on the shelf, that she wasn't watching her 3 or 4 year old when she took a candy bar from the shelf and started stomping on it... When it was good and mashed she handed it to her mother, who promptly yelled "NO" and put it on the shelf. My only idea, is maybe the kid thought by destroying it, mom would have to buy it. Unfortunately 4 year olds aren't too good at putting actions to words.



And here's a giggle!

A customer had 2 re-usable bags, and was very insistent that I know he had them, and how important he thought it was to reduce the amount of paper and plastic "shopping sacks" as he called them.
Then I watched him scan his items...

A whole refrigerated chicken,
in a plastic produce bag.

A bunch of bananas,
in a plastic produce bag.

A bunch of carrots,
in a plastic produce bag.

And... I kid you not...

A quart of milk,

you guessed it ~
in a plastic produce bag!

Every single item he bought, was wrapped in a plastic produce bag! Yes folks, the bag you carry it home in is evil, but the rest of them are fine. LOL!

The cat is outta the bag folks, and as usual,

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Head shakin'

Now, this may sound sad to some, but I can't imagine ever being surprised about anything. Things, behaviors, they used to surprise me, but now I just expect it. (:

Tis the season for planting mums. We sell quite a lot of them. The other day, a woman walked in carrying one, and asked me to ring her up for 6 more, and could someone come help her load them into her car? So I called the cart kid.

I rang up all her mums, and he showed up, and I explained what was needed, and he said, "Sure! Is your car already there, or should I wait by the display?" She turned to him and said, "No, it's there. Grab that and let's go." (Talking about the plant she had carried in) REALLY? Could you be a bit more rude? Only 2 people took offense.

And this is a rule that I never quite understood...

We have 4 U-scan registers. When I help a customer, I need to commandeer one of them. And it never fails. If there are no customers on the machines, and I take one to use, someone will invariably walk up and try to use *that* one.

*sigh*

Another customer had rung up all her groceries, and then her credit card wouldn't work, she carried her stuff over to me, and said, "I need to run home for some money, I'll leave these here, but I'm taking the chicken home, because it needs to be refrigerated." Really? Umm, no.

On a life note. Son #2 is looking to flunk out of school. IQ of 120 something, and he's failing. GRRRR!

I'm terribly disappointed in SYFY this season. They've completely ruined my Friday nights, SGU is not as good as it was last season, and I truly, truly, hate wrestling. ): I'm not a channel surfer, I hate having to switch channels all the time. I used to pop on 29 and be entertained all night long, now, I have to go to shows on other stations then back, then another station for 2 shows, and back, it's annoying.

Oh well, It's not my biggest complaint in life, but it is one of the more annoying ones. (: So as usual...

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