Stuff Going On in LIfe Lately

 We have a well loved Christmas cactus that dances and sings, "Feliz Navidad".  Well it use to dance.  I pulled it out this season and it's got a hitch in it's giddy-up.  Meaning it no longer dances, it just twitches slightly.  So bizarre but then again, everything around here is bizarre.

While we were away we had the PO hold our mail.  That worked fine until it didn't.

We came home to see a very soggy box sitting on our front steps. ???  The carrier couldn't be bothered to come 2 more steps up and put this package on the covered porch?  Or better yet, leave the box under our very ample car port where they ALWAYS leave boxes??  So 2 of the 3 items got ruined as this box, from our guestimate, sat out in the elements from Dec. 23rd until Dec. 30th and got heavily rained on for at least two of those days.  So now we are fighting with the USPS to reimburse us for this loss, especially since supposedly we had a HOLD on our MAIL during this time!  We were informed at the main branch that two different carriers handle the route we are on and there is no telling which one it will be.  I guess one of them didn't get the HOLD MAIL MEMO?  The Cajun Pony Express strikes again!

We went to World Market to check out their Christmas clearance.  I splurged on this tiny wool flamingo wrapped in Christmas lights with a gold star on it's head.  It was 75% off.

It's kind of homely but I like it.  We have taken down all the Christmas decorations so this is a fun thing to have on my desk seeing as my birthday is Tuesday.

I received a birthday card this past week from cousin Sonya.  It will probably be the only card I get besides from Hubby.  Thank you for being my friend. 8-)

 My son is obsessed with sloths.  I found this calendar in World Market too but he already has a sloth calendar for 2025 so left it behind.

Anybody here old enough to remember who Larry Flint was?  They still have a Larry Flint Hustler Club downtown here. Well at least they still have a prominent sign for it still up.

I have two different credit cards hacked in December.  The only common denominator is I had one attached to an auction site I used and after that one got hacked and I got send a new card, I attached the other c/c to my account there and the same think happened. ugh.  One card had two online charges I didn't make but the other card was to a physical/brick and mortar business in Owings Mills MD(some place I have never been)and evidently I bought 3 sessions of puppy socialization classes and paid for a cat cafe experience there!  Um, NO!! lol

I contacted the people running that selling platform and they don't seem to give a flip so I'll not be buying anything there anymore.  That makes me sad as now I can't support a business that sells there.  I guess the number of complaints like this has to reach a critical mass before this selling platform takes any action.

I got another $5 "come buy something" credit at Kohl's.  The Kohl's here is crap(doesn't have anything good and is a very small store)so I guess I'll go in and "buy" another Godiva dark chocolate bar.

My hair. oh, my hair.  It is finally growing back in and I look less like a cancer patient.  I did look for a time like a character from "Orange is the New Black".  Remember the mental patient named Lolly, who stomped a guard to death and buried him in the greenhouse?

Before I dyed my hair before our trip my hair looked something like hers.

Now it's grown bit more and I have the "French Collaborator" look going on.

French women who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII were publicly shorn of their hair to make an example of them and to identify them.  Many had people holding them down and just had others hacking off their hair in chunks with scissors, which is not a good look.

Either that or I have the "Alfalfa" of Little Rascals fame "gone wrong" going on.  I have clumps of hair and cowlicks popping up all over my head.

Picture Alfalfa with 10 cowlicks.  Neither is a good look, especially on a woman.  I am hopeful that my hair gets to a "normal length" at some point.  The dermatologist told me to get some Rogaine and put it on my scalp but the hair is too long now and there is no earthly way to part it to get to my scalp.  I may have to resort to those vitamins with minoxidil in them.

Here's the last photo I took of me with "real hair" before they shaved my head for surgery in July....

My hair wasn't in great shape at that point after my 2 older children decided to stab us in the back and it was falling out in clumps from the stress they caused me.  At least it is growing back in evenly if not quick enough.

My neurologist is still playing with my tremor medications-trying to find the right balance.
The first two tries haven't worked and now she had me change my blood pressure meds to something different that has the added possibility of helping with tremors too.  I now have to take my bp 2 x a day as this new Rx is stronger and it could cause my bp to go too low and there is the real possibility of me passing out. Oh goody!  Needless to say I haven't been driving until we know how my body will react to this new med.

I did get an offer to take out a student loan from a local bank.  I think they are 44 years too late though. 8-)

We saw an Ugly  Christmas Sweater with a sloth on it but alas it was about a 10 year old Girl's size so wouldn't work for my almost 29 year old son. Did I mention that he is crazy for sloths? lol

I saw these in Kroger.  It's a brand of wontons with "Squid Game" images on the bags.  Why would that creepy show entice someone to buy their product?  Marketing......It's beyond me.

And of course the obligatory discarded dental picks we saw on our trip....

That one was in South Carolina and I'll spare you from all the others we encountered in GA, AL. MS, NC and VA(and of course LA).  I now have so many photos of these nasty things I could fill a book with them.  For the love of god, please stop throwing these things on the ground and find a trash can people!  It's really not that difficult a task.

Last Friday on our outing to Kroger, we stopped at Aldi while in that city.  While I waited in the car while Hubby ran in to pick something up, I noticed snow falling sporadically.  It didn't amount to anything and by the time we drove out of their parking lot, it had changed over to rain.  And this new front moving in has shifted well South of us so no more snow here, just bitter cold.  Well bitter for people who have never lived in the North. ;-)

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Random Stuff Lately

Here's a bunch of stuff, nothing substantial enough for it's own post............

*  About that "Eat for Free" Deal at OSJL, here is a pic of the signage I snapped............

I may have to go back for some of that grapeseed oil, salt and energy drinks for Ex-College Boy.


*  I know KIM will find this hard to believe but..............

I did NOT dip into this pond with lots of coins in it at the amusement park we took eldest and GF to last month.
Ok, so Hubs threatened me if I DARED to even think of reaching into that pond. lolz


*  This house down the street was sold and the folks who bought it totally reconfigured it, tripled the size of the garage and then re-sided it.

  It went from a washed out Ivory to this Blue.  I think Urspo would call this Prussian Blue?


*  I've been getting some interesting spam comments lately.  If they don't leave website links I have put a few through just for the amusement level.
Here are some I didn't put through because they go on the advertise a website, but some of this is comic gold I tell ya! lololz

"The author is known by common history of Patsy but large number of misspell the following.  Montana is her birth point.  Dispatching is just how I support my in addiction to it's something I really like.  Her husband doesn't like it the way she does but what she really likes doing is ballet and these days she has time in order to on issues......"

"Greetings. The authors name is Santiago Vos but he doesn't like people today use his full logo.   Colorado is her birth place but she can have to move one day or just one more.  He is really fond of body building and now he has time to battle new facts.  Meter reading is my employment now but soon I am on mine...."

"I want to have to introduce myself to you, I am Kristy Magdaleno.  To climb is the things I do obtain.  Indiana is where he as well as the wife live and his family loves it.  In her professional life is actually an interviewer......"

"Hello dear visitor.  I'm Valentin.  My wife. i choose to exist in New York and I've everything when I need at this juncture.  Auditing has been his employment for your time.  Acting is the hobby she is never going to stop doing..."

"Nice fulfill you, my name is Jaime and my wife doesn't take pleasure in at.  Montana is her birth place but could have to hold one day or another......"

Hubs finally got his room emptied enough that he could go order carpet for that room.  I told him to get something in stock so we weren't waiting a month+ for the rug to come in before we could get this scheduled to be installed.
Here's what he got...a nondescript brown/tan thing... and it's getting installed on Friday.
Now he is under a deadline to get the room painted and of course it's going to be the worst temps of the Summer here the next 4 days.  I hope he doesn't ask me to help him paint since he refuses to put an a/c in his room.  That will show him......lolz


*  I noticed something when we got those boxes of cereal on Thursday for .48¢ each.............

Box Tops for Education have gone bye bye!  Or rather, they have gone digital/electronic.
No more clipping box tops.  Now you scan the thing and you have an smartphone app account.
Bad news for those of us who clipped BTFE and sold them on eBay.  *sad face*

*  The garden is starting to produce frequently now...........

While the cauliflower is done and the broccoli is almost finished, the tomatoes are ramping up.
No yellow squash this year(the one squash that formed withered on the vine)and only a few cukes.
This colander weighed in at 61.8 ounces of yummy veggies.  A green tomato because a storm this week knocked it off the vine.

Maybe I'll hit the farm later this week(after the heat breaks)and get a load of tomatoes to can if the prices are reasonable.  I've got to dig out my quart canning jars to see how much I can put up without having to buy jars.


*  The morning glory vines have taken over the deck railing and the back garden..........

And the shot of the other end of the deck.

*  I finally had my appointment at the HS Clinic down at Hershey Medical.  It went well.  They classified me at Stage II right now(of course I stopped flaring the week before the appointment....isn't that how it always goes?  Your symptoms get better right before you see a doctor. lol

Anyway, I don't qualify for a clinical trial they have going now since I'm not Stage III(sigh)but the doc did put me on Humira.  Boy was THAT an ordeal getting my insurance to pay for it!  Much too long of a story but the Cliff notes are I was on the phone with insurance, prescription plan and their specialty pharmacy for TWO FREAKING HOURS, each one telling me to call the other to get answers.
I got approval and with the Humira card as well my $50 co-pay went down to $5 per month so that was a big win.  Once I am on Medicare at age 65 costs will be much higher, if I am still on this drug.  At present, depending on which Part D Rx plan you opt into(and pay for)Humira could run me $700 a month but that's a can better kicked down the road 4.5 years and we'll deal with it at that point in time.

*  Speaking of Hershey Medical.........this is what I spied leaving the building............

One of those nasty used dental picks in the flower bed(it's the green blurb in the photo).  Honestly, I see these things everywhere!!  At the nasty dirty Weis(PMITA)Markets parking lot at the store West of here, in the handicapped parking spot at my Rite-Aid.....just about every place I go.  Come on!, have a little class people!  If you insist on flossing in public at least throw your nasty ass pick in a garbage can.


*  From the annuals of  "how to waste your money", I got this great offer *cough* in the Sunday paper recently..............

A Disney themed duffle bag.  18"x12"x9" with officially licensed Disney art for the extra low price of $129.95 + sales tax adn $14.99 shipping.
I am no fan of Disney to begin with but you could just speed down the interstate and throw fist fulls of dollar bills out your car's window instead of paying that sort of money for that sort of item. 8-)

*  I need to sit down for a few hours and clean out my inbox.  I also need to sit down and start writing posts about my road trips.

 Good Gawd I just realized I am TWO years behind since I haven't posted about the trip out West two Summers ago.....Geez!

*  And to close here is a meme I got a chuckle out of and posted on Facebook last week.  I am an equal opportunity hater when it comes to politicians and their parties so don't go getting all pissy at me if you are Clinton lover.  . ;-)

And that's a wrap for Sunday.  I am off to organize my pantry/stockpile.
What are you up to today?


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