Gearing up

The holiday season is upon us in full force. I have simplified it in the last few years to make it as stress free as possible.So this will be my last post until all the hoopla is over.
After the New Year and after I do something for my husbands 40th birthday in January I plan to start my next project. Which will be stripping the wall paper off my kitchen walls and repainting.
It is LONG overdue. Once again I will be trying to take on this redo as low cost as possible. But I want it to look fresh and updated without changing the cabinets,counter tops or flooring..... hmm we will see. But first the holidays! Everyone enjoy them and enjoy family time!

Yes, there is always something..

to be thankful for...that is. Ha bet you thought this was going to be a rant. Nah..
well maybe just a little. Actually I was just going to post how I am thankful for a huge amount of things in my life. Roof over my head,food to fill my tummy,all that jazz. But most af all I find that if I keep faith that things usually work out.

Have had a horrible fall as far as work is concerned. Yep,the paychecks ,they have been slim. It has been the worst I've seen it in 14 years. 14 years ago was when the current bosses bought the place. Just in the nick of time,I tell you. I was very close to going out to get a second job that year.I was a divorced mom with a teenager to support and it was getting scary. They came in and said if you stick with us we will help you make a living. I said "lets do it!" I commmited to working hard for them and myself and we did pretty good the last 14 years. Well until the last 3 years when the economy took a turn,but you all know about that. Even still we managed to hold our heads just above the water. This year that became harder and harder to do. And low and behold we are once again getting new owners! How is that for irony?

They are young and energetic. Full of great advertising ideas (low cost ones at that!!) and I am once again saying "lets do it" I'm a bit older now and not quite as energetic as I was 14 years ago BUT I still need to make a living for many years to come. I am hoping they can bring some new life ,new ideas, new clients to the salon. Keep your eyes open for the Day Spa on Facebook and Twitter!! Many new promotions and specials coming your way ,lol.

So yes,I continue to be thankful and also thankful that I am the thrifty type. I'm a saver and very careful with credit cards. Keep it simple and recycle,I say.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving.

I am NOT rolling up my sleeve!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r051fXtfng8

Copy the above addy and paste it to watch ,

I am an advocate of making INFORMED choices. I have been truly alarmed at the propaganda that is running rampant with this H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Watch the above video and then ask yourself if you think you should subject yourself or your loved ones to being a TEST SUBJECT to a government experiment? that is what this is folks. This has been untested and we are all the Guinea pigs. They do however know many of the side effects and they do list them on the package insert.

I will take my chances on the flu virus. At this point I am more alarmed at being exposed to people that have HAD this vaccine than to ones that haven't.

They say this vaccine is not safe for children under 6 months of age,YET they advocate it for pregnant women!!! What!!??? did I just get stupid?? LISTEN to what they are saying. Does it make sense to you? Well not to me. I am no braniac but I have the common sense to know this is a load of crap and I'm not being fed crap today or any other day.

Happy Birthday to my Baby!!

This day deserves two posts! It is the day that my beautiful daughter was brought into the world! She has turned into the most wonderful woman and I am brusting with pride every single day with her accomplishments and the type of person she has become! She has great friends in her life. She has a wonderful caring husband and she finally has a job she likes and can grow and do well at. When I gave birth to this feisty high energy little girl I knew she would contribute to this world in a positive way.

I didn't think that life would throw such obsticals in her way but she has found a way to cope with them with as much grace as she can muster.
I wish you today and always the best that life can give you.

Motivational Poem
May You Have
Poet Unknown
May you have......

Enough happiness
to keep you sweet,

Enough trials
to keep you strong,
Enough sorrow
to keep you human,

Enough hope
to keep you happy;
Enough failure
to keep you humble,

Enough success
to keep you eager,
Enough friends
to give you comfort,

Enough wealth
to meet your needs;
Enough enthusiasm
to look forward,

Enough faith
to banish depression,
Enough determination
to make each day better than yesterday.

Acne drug has a serious side effect

For the first half of this year my husband was getting sicker and sicker. They ran numerous tests on him to no avail. Everything came back negative except that he has inflamation in his body. He spent his whole day dealing with muscle aches and pains,sharp shooting pains in his wrists and ankles. And to top it off every couple days he would run a fever. Sometimes this fever would be bad enough that he would be in bed and need my help to get him up. It was very scary. I was worried that he had lupus or MS or any number of things.This started in January and went through June when I happened to stumble upon some info on the Web.We came back from a 3 day vacation where I was hoping the xtra rest might make him feel better. Instead we spent much of the vacation with him having to sit or lie down becouse he had no energy and felt so achey and weak.

When we got back in town I was more determined than ever to find out what was wrong with him.Our next step was to take him to U of M on our own dollar. Our Insurance would not cover him up there.I went on a serious web search and really just stumbled across some referances to this Acne Medication that could cause all the symptoms he was experiencing!!! I was startled and ran quickly upstairs to see what he had been taking for the cystic acne that he had been getting on his back. Low and behold it was the same medication!! OH MY GOD!! it was possibly this all along? 6 months and no doctor had thought this may have been the issue? He stopped taking it that day and withen 3 days he started feeling better. Inside of a month and a half most all his symptoms were GONE!!
The following is more information on what this medication can do to you. Be careful with medications of all types. You never know if you could be the one in a thousand or a million that has that side effect. Read your inserts!! Know what your putting in your mouth!



Minocycline induced arthritis associated with fever, livedo reticularis, and pANCA

The potential for medications to cause lupus-like illness has been recognised since 1945, when sulphadiazine was reported to cause a lupus-like syndrome.1 More than 70 drugs have since been reported as causing a lupus-like syndrome.2 The more notorious of these drugs, such as procainamide and hydralazine, are no longer in common use, but others such as anticonvulsants, isoniazid, and chlorpromazine are still widely prescribed.

Minocycline is a semisynthetic tetracycline commonly prescribed for the treatment of acne vulgaris, and occasionally prescribed as a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) for rheumatoid arthritis. Since 1992, minocycline has increasingly been recognised as a cause of several autoimmune conditions, the most commonly reported of which are a lupus-like syndrome and hepatitis.3 Serum sickness and ANCA-positive vasculitis have also been described.

Humor in a humorless situation

Saw this picture of a homeless man and had to smile. Thought I'd make a quick post. I doubt I would be able to pass this man by without giving him money for a cold one...

Count your blessings....

Frustration!!

Spent an annoying 2 hours in Michaels Craft store today... I have a project that I want to work on for some Christmas gifts. Well the place was completely changed around since last time I had been there . And for some reason REALLY busy at 1 in the afternoon on a Wednesday.. Anyway I needed 4 items of which apparently were placed in all different areas of the store. Did I mention that you could not find anyone to help you in there ? Well you couldn't. So I proceed to find 3 of the items after an hour and a half. So I go in search of the 4th. Well I finally find the area and they do not have the type of flat sided glass marbles that I needed. I needed clear ones and all they had were colored. Can't do this project without them . So by this time I was frustrated and annoyed to the point I put all the other stuff back..well left it on a front counter .

I guess I will try Joann's I'm not giving up on this yet. Day wasn't totally lost,I did find a really nice bill organizer for my desk that was on sale for half price. Then I had to force myself to get out of there before I bought a ton of baskets at half price also. I LOVE baskets...

Laundry Room Redo Revealed!

I am pretty happy with how this project turned out. My laundry room also must serve as a storage room,pantry,and place to store our file cabinet. When you live in a Condo you have to make do with a limited amount of storage.
The goal was to not spend very much money. I headed off to the Dollar store,Big Lots and K Mart to buy some storage and some baskets. The paint was left over from other projects.
So lets take a look!And I apoligize for the very small pictures. I am really unhappy with the online picture service I am useing at the moment. Not naming any names. But they will not let me save my pics at a normal size.I was able to get some pics at a good size the others are small. SOO hopefully you can still make out the awesomeness of this project!
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And a good last shot!


OK,the washer and drayer don't match but thats a whole other story! and the ceiling needs to be put in. But it's afar cry from the dull dank place it used to be. Makes me happy!
The cost was under $100.00.

Laundry Room Redo started

I took the plunge and started my laundry room project today. I started by cleaning out storage cupboards and pulling everything out of one side of the room. Washed floors vacumed,and dusted . Then I put together a five shelf storage unit that I put up against one wall and went through alot of stuff. Put some in the goodwill pile,other stuff just went in the garbage.I want to use this rack as a combination pantry,storage unit.

Next up is to paint the cupboards above the washer and dryer and then tackle the other side of the room with paint and more shelving. I am going to go really brite with the colors! I took before shots and will post before and afters when I'm done. This is a room I have been wanting to do over for a long time now.

Remember when I said this winter was going to be organization time? well I am on my way! It already looks so much better in there I almost didn't mind doing three loads of laundry this afternoon...almost.