Various Blitz-y items
Sep. 29th, 2011 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarflame1. I am suffering some kind of horrible crotch fire. It's like, a yeast infection UTI bacterial vaginosis wtf why did I google this now I think my IUD is killing me lot of bullshit. After a day of my typical home treatment for such things (suppository garlic and oral probiotics) didn't stop this spark from turning into a forest fire (wait, that sounds...whatever) I bit the bullet and went and got one of those stupid OTC things, and here we are...almost 3 days later...and this still sucks. I'm changing my clothes and washing everything in hot water really often and drinking a lot of water and SUPPOSEDLY the OTC crap can take up to 7 days to work even though it's a single dose (and let me tell you about what google has to say about the single dose OTC treatments O_O)....suffice to say I think I may have to go to THE DOCTOR. UGH do you KNOW how I feel about doctors?? Also do you know how high my annual deductible is and how tapped out our HSA is at the moment? Elise had her physical and I spent $132 on ear drops her ped was kind enough to prescribe me after looking into my poor, poor ears and I have not exactly pencilled more medical expenses into this months' budget (you know, on top of the car accident...and the flat tire we got a few days ago...)
2. That physical Elise had, was awesome. I LOVE our pediatrician SO, so much. And he is a doctor, in case you weren't picking up on that little detail, so earning my love was no easy task. He laughed so hard when he told her to walk down to the end of the hall so he could see her do it (after I told him about what her teachers had said about her walk) and she stuck out a hip, put her hand on it, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Seriously?!" He did see the "walk thing" though, and I walked out with a gastroentologist referral for Isaac, a neuro referral for Elise (because it's been awhile since she went), paperwork for the preschool and ear drops for myself. He also said Jake is the biggest five year old he's seen this decade.
3. A couple of weeks ago Cybele showed my kids, and hers, a 9/11 special. Because it was 9/11 and we're nerdy homeschoolers and the four of them were all at least 10. But it was hours long, and intense, and I'm talking about AARON. So now I am dealing with the most horrible, vivid daily conversations about how there WAS A DAYCARE in that tower, and the recorded phone call just SHUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE right there because they crashed, and the people were JUMPING FROM THE TOP OF THE BUILDING SO THEY WOULDN'T BURN, and what if that was our Dad working there that day, and he just doesn't know if he could be as brave as he had to be, and boy was he ever disgusted with Ananda and Adrian for goofing around and laughing about other things while this was on. *sigh* He's always obsessed with something horrific (the oil spill, the tsunami/nuclear disaster, the Haulocaust, the plight of factory farmed animals) so I guess in a way this is just the latest thing :/
Micro-things:
-Ananda and Aaron are really into the website where you can design your own custom converse
-Isaac is drawing elaborately and making ridiculously intricate things out of clay most of every day. He also likes sitting in front of Between the Lions with a clipboard, paper and the remote, so he can pause it and copy words down over and over, and then come show me the list when it's over
-Jake seems to be super good at math. He spends his free time doing things like writing numbers 1-100, and lists of addition problems that are almost always correct. He's the only child I've had so far that never seems to write any numeral backwards.
-we're trying to get a second car IMMEDIATELY because we're paying $600 a month for GAS with Grant commuting in the van and we figured out that even with a $150 a month payment on a used Corolla or something, we'd be saving significantly
-it was really funny tonight when my speech teacher got educated by the class on the existence of ratemyprofessor.com, the many pages of reviews for him, and the chili peppers by his name that indicate he's hot
-I read and loved Moonlight in Odessa, which is whatever you call historical fiction set in 1995. Journalistic fiction? Anyway it follows this one woman through her life in the Ukraine and just...I don't know. It was enveloping and rich and I felt I'd learned something after I was done. It's been a long time since I found a new book that was a real page turner.
I really have to STOP READING anything that isn't a textbook or assigned, for awhile.
On Monday in lit we read and then dissected a story called The Jilting of Granny Weatherall that hit me really hard at the end. I had to check out to not ball my eyes out in class.
It's time for bed, isn't it? Tomorrow's one of those "I need the van, so I have to get up at 5am" sort of days. I hope my kids appreciate continuing to get to see their friends. If not, they'll be educated about how lucky they are in a self righteous rant about it sometime soon :)
2. That physical Elise had, was awesome. I LOVE our pediatrician SO, so much. And he is a doctor, in case you weren't picking up on that little detail, so earning my love was no easy task. He laughed so hard when he told her to walk down to the end of the hall so he could see her do it (after I told him about what her teachers had said about her walk) and she stuck out a hip, put her hand on it, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Seriously?!" He did see the "walk thing" though, and I walked out with a gastroentologist referral for Isaac, a neuro referral for Elise (because it's been awhile since she went), paperwork for the preschool and ear drops for myself. He also said Jake is the biggest five year old he's seen this decade.
3. A couple of weeks ago Cybele showed my kids, and hers, a 9/11 special. Because it was 9/11 and we're nerdy homeschoolers and the four of them were all at least 10. But it was hours long, and intense, and I'm talking about AARON. So now I am dealing with the most horrible, vivid daily conversations about how there WAS A DAYCARE in that tower, and the recorded phone call just SHUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE right there because they crashed, and the people were JUMPING FROM THE TOP OF THE BUILDING SO THEY WOULDN'T BURN, and what if that was our Dad working there that day, and he just doesn't know if he could be as brave as he had to be, and boy was he ever disgusted with Ananda and Adrian for goofing around and laughing about other things while this was on. *sigh* He's always obsessed with something horrific (the oil spill, the tsunami/nuclear disaster, the Haulocaust, the plight of factory farmed animals) so I guess in a way this is just the latest thing :/
Micro-things:
-Ananda and Aaron are really into the website where you can design your own custom converse
-Isaac is drawing elaborately and making ridiculously intricate things out of clay most of every day. He also likes sitting in front of Between the Lions with a clipboard, paper and the remote, so he can pause it and copy words down over and over, and then come show me the list when it's over
-Jake seems to be super good at math. He spends his free time doing things like writing numbers 1-100, and lists of addition problems that are almost always correct. He's the only child I've had so far that never seems to write any numeral backwards.
-we're trying to get a second car IMMEDIATELY because we're paying $600 a month for GAS with Grant commuting in the van and we figured out that even with a $150 a month payment on a used Corolla or something, we'd be saving significantly
-it was really funny tonight when my speech teacher got educated by the class on the existence of ratemyprofessor.com, the many pages of reviews for him, and the chili peppers by his name that indicate he's hot
-I read and loved Moonlight in Odessa, which is whatever you call historical fiction set in 1995. Journalistic fiction? Anyway it follows this one woman through her life in the Ukraine and just...I don't know. It was enveloping and rich and I felt I'd learned something after I was done. It's been a long time since I found a new book that was a real page turner.
I really have to STOP READING anything that isn't a textbook or assigned, for awhile.
On Monday in lit we read and then dissected a story called The Jilting of Granny Weatherall that hit me really hard at the end. I had to check out to not ball my eyes out in class.
It's time for bed, isn't it? Tomorrow's one of those "I need the van, so I have to get up at 5am" sort of days. I hope my kids appreciate continuing to get to see their friends. If not, they'll be educated about how lucky they are in a self righteous rant about it sometime soon :)
