7 posts tagged “ugh”

Sorry I haven't been around much lately. Life has gotten "interesting" as of late.

Last week was Spring Break. On Friday we left and headed to San Antonio to go to see The Alamo and Natural Bridge Caverns. It was a stressful trip. Traveling with MY kids is never relaxing. I get a twitch just thinking about it. Ugh.

We came back home Saturday night and everybody crashed out cold.

I've just been feeling TIRED these past several days.

PTO responsibilities don't leave much time for rest during school days.

Monday I got my hair thermally straightened at a salon and now it's all breaking off. YAY.

I'm going to try to do some intensive deep conditioning and protein treatments to it but I fear it's too far gone. When it's wet it just feels squishy and sticks together. Not a good sign. When it's dry it feels like straw and is VERY frizzy and broken. *cries*  I have a feeling I'm going to have to whack it off and do some sort of pixie look until it all grows out again. Suffice it to say I am DONE with color and any type of chemicals on my hair. I'm SO OVER IT. Bring on the Gray. (Not that I have any YET.) I went back to the salon and spoke to a manager and he said they couldn't (or wouldn't) refund my money because I had signed a form before the chemical service that released them from any responsibility should something happen. ( I did of course because the stylist assured me it was highly unlikely this service would cause any damage.) I am still filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and the Licensing department of Cosmetologists.

Last night we had some severe thunderstorms, hail, and high winds, (possibly a twister) and my roof sprung not one but TWO leaks. One is in my living room directly over my entertainment center, and the other is in one of the boys rooms. Water pouring out of a light fixture is not good. Unfortunately there are more storms coming today and Bart has not gotten on the roof yet to try to patch anything. Of course the storms had to come through during LOST and I missed it because the satellite was out. SUCKY.

That's about it. I'm about to go and soak in the tub and put a deep conditioning treatment on my head, wrap my head in a hot towel, and spend the day on the sofa watching Battlestar Galactica. I'm almost finished with the whole series. One more DVD of season 4.0 and then 14 episodes on the DVR from season 4.5.  I have no idea what I'll watch next.

Peace out!!!!

I'm not surprised really. Just nauseated. This means that the very medicaid that I fought so hard for may just be a thing of the past in the near future. UGH.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.

Speaking in Pennsylvania, Bush said he vetoed the bill because it was a step toward "federalizing" medicine and inappropriately expanded the program beyond its focus on helping poor children.

"I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system. I do want Republicans and Democrats to come together to support a bill that focuses on the poorer children," the president said, adding the government's policy should be to help people find private insurance. Watch Bush explain his veto »

Democrats quickly took to the floors of the Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the veto of the bill that received bipartisan support.

"I think that this is probably the most inexplicable veto in the history of the country. It is incomprehensible. It is intolerable. It's unacceptable," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, who pleaded with Republicans to help overturn the veto.

Congress sent the legislation on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, to the White House on Tuesday after the Senate voted 67-29 last week to expand the program.

It appears Congress lacks the votes to overturn Bush's veto. Though 67 votes in the 100-person Senate would suffice to override a veto, the 265-159 House vote on September 25 is short of the two-thirds majority needed. View Bush's and previous presidents' veto records »

However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would try to get the 15 additional Republican votes she said she needed to overturn Bush's veto, noting that "2-to-1 Republican voters support SCHIP and oppose the president's veto."

"It's very sad that the president has chosen to veto a bill that would provide health care to 10 million American children for the next five years. It is a value that is shared by the American people across the board," Pelosi said.

House Democrats also were quick to compare the bill's $7 billion annual cost to the money spent each month on the Iraq war.

"The president and Republicans in Congress say that we can't afford this bill, but where were the fiscal conservatives when the president demanded hundreds of billions of dollars for the war in Iraq?" asked Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois.

Some House Republicans, however, said Bush was right to veto the bill.

"The public can see that we're playing more political 'gotcha' than we are at really solving problems," said Rep. Todd Akin, R-Missouri, who said the legislation contained "all of these little hidden gizmos, among other things that we're going to provide health care to the children of illegal immigrants."

Akin also said the bill would have led to "a massive expansion of, basically, 'Hillary' socialized medicine," a reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York and her unsuccessful health care efforts as first lady in the 1990s.

Democrats denied the bill would provide coverage to illegal immigrants.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, said Tuesday that he won't schedule an override vote on SCHIP until next week or later. There is no time limit in the House on when to bring the bill up again.

Under the legislation, the program would double -- from 4 million to 8 million -- the number of children covered.

In the Senate, 18 Republicans joined all of the Democrats in voting to expand the program from its annual budget of $5 billion to $12 billion for the next five years.

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah was among those Republicans who split from the president. "It's very difficult for me to be against a man I care so much for," he told his colleagues on the Senate floor before the vote. "It's unfortunate that the president has chosen to be on what, to me, is clearly the wrong side of this issue."

A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted September 27-30 found 72 percent of those surveyed support an increase in spending on the program, with 25 percent opposed. The poll's margin of error was 3 percentage points.

Bush and many Republicans contend the program's original intent would be changed under the bill.

The program gives coverage to parents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to buy private insurance for their children. Critics have said their concern is that parents might be prompted to drop private coverage for their children to get cheaper coverage under the bill.

The veto is the fourth of Bush's presidency. After not using his veto power at all during his first four years, the president has vetoed three other bills in his second term: two on stem-cell research legislation and one on a war funding bill with a Democratic timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

Does anyone else find this completely disturbing and gross??

Don't even ASK me how I found this....tee hee.

Boy am I glad I stayed home and missed this party.

Really.

I would SO not have fit in with this crowd.

Apparently it was a biker rally that Quiet Riot was playing at...so you can imagine the class of people that were in attendance. Bart said if it weren't for all the comedic stuff he witnessed there he would have wished he hadn't gone either. The bands sucked. Even Quiet Riot. Funny I'm not surprised by that. He also said that when he went backstage to get my album signed for me the lead singer of Quiet Riot was a real asshole to him and told him they were not here to mingle, they were here to work...and then proceeded to tip back a fifth of Jack Daniels. Nice.

From what I understand most of the women were walking around topless in bikini bottoms(or thongs), and Bart said he saw more ugly tits last night than you could have shaken a stick at. LOL.  Most of the women he said he saw MIGHT HAVE looked good in the 80's during Quiet Riot's Heyday but they were long past their prime, wrinkled old bags in leather halters and thongs. I'm so glad I missed that vision of beauty. Really.

Like this fine specimen: You have to click on the image if you wanna see what it is but trust me you don't.  From what I understand there were women of this caliber all over the place. YEAH BABY! *Total Sarcasm* THANK GOD I made Bart take the CRAPPY camera...I cannot imagine how this shot would have come out on the DSLR.

I was cleaning out my underwear drawer today. Yes it's something I do from time to time to go through and weed out the ten year old bras with no support and panties who have lived long past their usefulness.  During this process I ran across this garment/contraption that I am guessing I bought to squeeze my less than perfect body in to go to a wedding several years ago. (one of those bodysuit things that squeezes all of your lumps in so you look svelte and skinny) It was an all in one piece underwear thing. Black. Underwire. Boning in the sides, and a lace up back, sort of like a corset. Seriously though it looked like a torture device. I couldn't breathe just looking at it.  SO...Smart me decides...I wanna try it on!!
(remember here that I am a "few" sizes larger than I was back then.)

So I unsnapped it, unlaced it and undid the eye hooks that hooked the bra part of it together and stuck a leg down in it. I should have known then we were going to have a problem...but NO....stupid me decides..oh it's stretchy surely I can get it on. 

So I continue to jerk on it trying to get it up so I can put the other leg in and I force the other leg down inside of it and get it up about to my waist. By this time I'm already panting, and gasping for air and the darned thing isn't laced or snapped yet!! It looks like someone has put two rubber bands around the top of my thighs and all of the "cottage cheese" stuff is sticking out underneath. But my butt is all nice and tucked in and looks high and tight!!.YUCK! When did this happen to me?? Did I EVER fit in this thing?

I suck in all of my breath and make my tummy as small as possible and reach back to try to snap a snap in the back and hear a loud ripping noise....I look down and the "rubber band" material that was holding my booty up has ripped on one side and now one butt cheek is up high and the other has fallen out. Yeah that's attractive. NOT!

I seriously wonder why men think this kind of stuff is sexy. Seeing a woman have to go through all of that to cinch and tuck their bodies into something like that is like false advertising if you ask me. Because for sure when it does come off (after a struggle I'm sure) all of the stuff you had cinched in and tucked up would be "released" and gravity and all of the other forces of nature would take their course. RIGHT?

Speaking of forces of nature...I seriously think I am having some major hormonal issues. I can go from sweet, and loving to mean and hateful in 2.1 seconds flat. Faster if you are a man. I know it is all hormonal imbalance and   I am in the process of doing a trial of progesterone cream to see if that will help some with the hormonal issues. I have also recently started taking really good vitamins too , and the best part is that the vitamins are formulated for women and have beneficial herbs in them to help "balance" the "forces of nature".

The next time I clean out my underwear drawer I will for sure skip "trying on" of anything that looks painful or dangerous in any way. That's just too hard on my ego. *sigh*

A few weeks ago we took Aaron to a new Psychiatrist. This is my child who has ADHD and OCD as well as mild Autism. For the past two years he has tried every kind of stimulant medication on the market for his ADHD to no avail. They all made his behavior worse and aggravated his OCD to the point that he picked the skin on his fingertips until they bled and he had no fingerprints left. Obviously we needed to try something else.

The new doctor took him off of the stimulant meds and placed him on Strattera(sp?). Almost overnight the child started eating and sleeping again and the skin picking stopped, but he became very angry.(and the behavior is still not any better) So after two weeks we added Risperdal which is an antipsychotic recently approved for the treatment of agression in Autism. The Risperdal has only made things worse and now he is getting in trouble again at school...*sigh*  Yesterday he flipped the bird to some poor kid in his class and told him he was going to "kill him". Nice. Really nice. Imagine how that makes me look as a parent to his teacher!

I have a call in to the Psychiatrist right now to see what he wants to do about this. I think we are going to have to take him off the Risperdal. Of course the prescription cost me 250 bucks without insurance and now the kid can't even take it...that's just great. Anyone need some Risperdal?? I'll sell it cheap..(totally kidding on that)

Anyways...I wonder what expensive drug they'll try him on now? Hell...the Straterra is over 120 bucks as it is so when I got his last prescriptions filled for the month I spent nearly 400 bucks....I hate that we don't have insurance...it would cost nearly 1000.00 for our entire family to get health insurance. Yeah...that's affordable..NOT!

Have you seen those ads on TV for Weight Watchers?

The ones where they say: Be an After, Stay an After...

Well...3 years ago I went to Weight Watchers weighing in at nearly two hundred pounds. I had gained lots of weight with both of my pregnancies but even more with the twins since I was on bedrest so much...

I hated myself, I hated the way I looked...I had a hard time going out in public, I wouldn't talk to anyone..and worst of all because of the way I felt about myself I wouldn't allow my husband to touch me...(He was very understanding and always told me that he thought I was beautiful no matter what and he loved me for what was inside not what was on the outside...)

It took me a year but I lost over 50 pounds on weight watchers...I felt FANTABULOUS when I reached my goal weight..

Fast forward 3 years and I have gained back almost 30 pounds...

Why?

Not enough exercise

Too many twinkies...

You get the picture..

It creeps back up FAST...

Strangely enough I can still wear all of my same clothes that I wore nearly 30 pounds ago! (no they do not have elastic waists!)

So..because I want to be an AFTER again..this coming thursday morning I am going back to Weight Watchers...

I have already found my local meeting...dug out my old Lifetime Membership Card...and prepared myself for that dreaded "weigh in"...

I have also called my personal trainer at Gold's Gym and cued her up for Thursday as well...I told her I wanted to do a "boot camp" for the next 6 weeks...Whip me into shape baby!!

Of course I am nervous...I don't want to believe that I am as heavy as I am..but I also don't want to ignore it and have it end up back to two hundred again..or more..

It's time to take action my friends...

My big brother is getting married in May and I want to show up at his wedding and be the skinniest bitch there..(of course I mean that in the nicest way..)