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1. St. Louis University School of Medicine

   04/20/09 18:00:43 | 0 Comments

   We spent the afternoon looking at dissected dead people. It was quite interesting. The intestines don't look like long knotty ropes like I had imagined. In fact, they look more like the kind of fungus that grows on trees, sort of fanned out like a leaf. I was pleasantly surprised that it did not smell even slightly of chemicals or anything else for that matter. We saw all the organs.

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2. Chocolate Covered Bananas with Peanut Butter Dip

   02/28/09 14:27:51 | 0 Comments

   After having sought diligently for affordable health insurance for the last several months...
   
   
   
   I have come to the conclusion that......
   
   
   
   Unless there is a miracle of God and I some how am employed by a company that offers decent health insurance...
   
   
   
   I don't have a snow ball's chance in HELL of ever getting anything that covers much of anything other than a simple fracture or accident.
   (BTW, I've never broken anything in my life)
   
   
   
   The last company I tried to get coverage through wouldn't even write me a cancer policy! I've never had cancer, nor do I have it now!
   
   
   
   Diabetes negates all forms of insurance for an otherwise healthy individual like myself.
   The best I can get is some cheesey discount card that does not guarantee payment in all cases!!!
   
   
   
   In order for me to get coverage that actually covers stuff I am going to have to pay about 800 dollars a month just for me, myself and I!!!! Yeah, that's not a typo, I said EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS PER MONTH just for myself.
   
   
   
   
   Seeing as how my weekly work hours vary GREATLY, I cannot commit to that even on a good month. Besides, if I HAD an extra 800 a month...I'd rather put it in the bank and save it instead of paying for some d@mn insurance policy that I will hardly ever use! Therefore, although I am ready, willing and able to pay for a reasonable policy (130/month range, is the best I can do without stripping my budget) I cannot locate such a policy in my price range and will now be at the mercy of charitable hospitals or organizations should I ever need to go to the hospital for anything.
   
   
   
   
   Look for my decorated coffee cans, stategically placed in gas stations, and spaghetti benefit/raffle dinner announcements should I ever need medical care! In conclusion, I have one thing to say...
   
   
   
   Go Obama!!
   
   
   
   Oh yeah, I really don't have a recipe for choco nanners with peanut butter dip...GOTCHA!!!!

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3. My ABCs

   02/23/09 18:11:56 | 0 Comments

   A - Age: 44
   
   B - Bed size: King
   
   C - Chore you hate: dusting, organizing, cleaning the carport, cleaning the backporch
   
   D - Dad's Name: I don't have a Dad anymore.
   
   E - Essential start to your day item: Energy vitamins and hot green tea, my "go juice"
   
   F - Favorite actor/actress(s): don't have one, don't watch tv
   
   G - Gold or Silver: silver
   
   H - Height: 5' 4".
   
   I - Instruments you play(ed): all of the standard band and orchestral instruments
   
   J - Job title: I have 4 jobs, my titles are as follows: Pet Nutrition Specialist, Data Collector, Merchandiser, and author...dude, I literally work 7 days a week
   
   K - Kid(s): I could use some goats to help control the weeds around here in the summer time.
   
   L - Living arrangements: in a house, in the country, with my two kids and husband
   
   M - Mum's name: I don't have a mother anymore.
   
   N - Nicknames: Bear, Baby, Carebear
   
   O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: yes, when I was 2 months old (almost died), when I had my 2 kids and once a few yrs back when I had something...dunno what, but they almost took out my appendix
   
   Q - Quotes you like: "The first shall be last and the last shall be first"...God
   
   R - Right or left handed: Right, but sometimes left too.
   
   S - Siblings: I had some of those once...I guess I still do but we dont' really get together or know each other anymore
   
   T - Time you wake up: depends, usually around 8:30am
   
   U- Vegetable you dislike: I like all veggies
   
   W - Ways you run late: taking a shower, doing housework
   
   X - X-rays you've had: ankle, teeth, chest
   
   Y - Yummy food you make: I don't have time to cook. That's my househusband's job.
   
   Z - Zodiac: Pisces. However the Zodiac Killer's symbol was a CODA sign as in written music. A coda sign means to go back to the beginning, repeat and do it again. He might have had a musical background.

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4. Health Insurance Sucks

   02/17/09 15:24:35 | 1 Comments

   Ok, I bought a health/discount insurance card thingee that covers NOTHING! I cancelled it today because it was total crap and it required that you pay up front to get the discounts. That is fine if you have large amounts of cash and can friggin prepay for your hospitalizations!!!! Now I'm back to being completely uninsured. What does it take to get REAL health insurance that actually covers something???? I'm so sick of this crap! Try putting diabetes and asthma after your name and see how far you get with insurance companies! OMG, they wouldn't even approve me for a cancer policy because I have diabetes and asthma. Exactly what is the link between diabetes and cancer, I'd like to know? Nothing! The only thing I can get approved for is an accident policy. Whatever. I've never broken a bone in my life! Oh well, if something happens to me..I guess I'll set up my coffee can at a gas station and beg for money. You guys can all come to my spaghetti dinner benefit too if I ever have to go into the hospital. Geeeesh! Sorry guys, I tried, but it looks like I'll be at the mercy of the taxpayers if I get any treatment at all for whatever might happen to me. Still looking for AFFORDABLE health insurance that isn't a friggin scam discount card!!!!! Ggggrrrr......

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5. Student Loans Suck

   02/17/09 15:15:07 | 0 Comments

   Ok, I haven't paid a dime on my student loans since I graduated in 2001. Why? Read my book, Spread the Peanut Butter Thin, and you'll know why. Ok, but now...I may be able to start paying on them. Isn't that insane?? I mean, who would have ever thought that I would be able to do that? Not me. Well, that is if they approve me for the low payment plan to cut my monthly payment in half for the next two years. Then after that the payments will go up again. We'll see what happens. My income is always sooooo friggin unstable! sighs...
   
   

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6. Unbelievable

   02/05/09 07:33:18 | 0 Comments

   My husband bought 20, count them 20 boxes of snack crackers. Why? Because they were only ten cents a box he says. He found them at a Big Lots store...(discontinued and marked down type store) Ok, just because you can easily buy 20 boxes of crackers doesn't mean you should!
   
   1. My Daughter doesn't eat crackers
   
   2. My Son only eats crackers in soup and those are the saltines or oyster crackers not SNACK crackers.
   
   3. Crackers are too high in carbohydrates from me to eat and live (blood sugar issues) and I am not a really big fan of snack crackers.
   
   Yes, ok, I bought a couple or three boxes of crackers lately, but that doesn't mean I LIKE crackers. In fact, they were kinda disgusting. They tasted like horse treats. I just needed something to hold the CHEESE I was eating...sheesh.
   
   4. "If nothing else, I'll feed them to the chickens", my husband says.
   
   5. I think he just wanted to spend money personally. Why? Cuz I told him we were going on a self imposed poverty thing until June. Self Imposed Poverty is sort of like dieting to lose weight, but this is a "diet" to save money. No buying soft drinks at work, no eating out, no buying groceries...eat everything we have in the house FIRST, then when it is all gone...then we buy more groceries...etc. We are cutting back everywhere we can on spending any money at all for any reason. This is so we can save as much money as possible. I told him to buy absolutely nothing and go nowhere...no movies, no bowling, no nothing so we can save moolah. He buys 2 bucks worth of crackers!? He better eat every last one of them.
   
   6. If he woulda found hershey bars for 10 cents a piece, that woulda been different.

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7. Evil Yogurt!

   02/04/09 17:50:21 | 0 Comments

   Ok, so I know this Activa or Activia or whatever it is called has been out on the market for awhile now ok? But, something posessed me to buy some the other day. Now from my post on Green Tea vs. Coffee you'll wonder why in the heck I bought this. I dunno why I bought it really, just thought I'd get some and check it out.
   I bought some about a week ago. I had a blueberry one for breakfast. It was like the best yogurt I'd ever tasted, seriously! So whatever, went to work, blah blah blah...came home that night, thought I'd have another one as a snack. Ate another blueberry one and 3 hours later...OMG!!!! How was I supposed to know you weren't supposed to eat more than one a day????? My daughter says they say not to eat more than 1 a day on the commercial. We haven't had television in our house since last July 2008!!! From the packaging all I got was give it 2 weeks or it's free. I figured it wouldn't do anything, at least not on day one!! I figured if you didn't eat it every day for the 2 weeks then it wouldn't have those effects. People, BEWARE!
   
   If you are looking for a good prank...break into the fridge, dump out a container of regular yogurt and put some of this bad boy yogurt in there! I can't think of anyone I despise that much right now except for maybe an inlaw or two...lol. Oh well, the inlaws all live in gated communities and crap so they can keep the riffraff like myself away from them...lol...that's prolly a good thing.
   
   
   

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8. Green Tea works for Me

   02/04/09 08:37:33 | 0 Comments

   Green tea is way better than coffee for keeping me awake with all my crazy work hours. And, it doesn't give me the jitters or send me running to the restroom, if ya know what I mean. Now don't act like you have no idea what I'm talking about on that last point. Unless you have intestines of friggin steel you know! Anyway, the key is to let your tea bags, (use 2 of them), set in your cup for several minutes before you start drinking it. And then just leave em in there while you drink it. Drink slowly. Don't boil the water either. Very important. Just bring it up to the point of boiling. The longer you let your tea bags set in your cup, the more caffeine you get. You gotta try it. I use Sencha organic green tea. And, you don't crash afterwards like those bogus energy drinks that taste like medicine. Supposedly, green tea is good for other stuff too...like losing weight...ROFL. Whatever...on that one.

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9. My Husband the Chicken Farmer

   02/02/09 22:14:26 | 0 Comments

   He sold 13 dozen eggs in the last 2 days. Some people have commented on how BIG our eggs are and on how FRESH they are. Well fresh yeah, BIG..we cheated. Some of those eggs weren't from chickens they were from our ducks/geese...lol. We've been getting about 2 dozen eggs a day and it isn't even spring yet. In fact, the day we had minus 30 wind chills they laid 27 eggs that day. Our secret is heat lamps, a radio that plays 24/7 and lights. Dang chicken house is warmer than our house, but our house stays pretty cold most of the time cuz no one likes to haul in wood and we're used to it. He is currently trying out the incubator so with any luck we'll have more birds soon.
   
   
   Tip:
   How to tell if your egg is fresh you ask? If you boil it and then try to peel it and the dang thing won't peel, it's fresh. Of course, you won't have that problem if you buy grocery store eggs. However, if you have real eggs...let em "age" for awhile so you can get the darn shells off of em.
   
   
   Recipe for omelets.
   
   1. Sit at the computer and whine that you're starving.
   
   2. Glare at your househusband who is supposed to have dinner ready when you come home from work.
   
   3. Decide that you'll make the omelet yourself.
   
   4. Ask the kids if they want an omelet.
   
   5. Celebrate when they say "no", only have to fix for myself now...YAY
   6. Cook the thing and drown it with salsa.
   
   7. Eat!

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