Betty Crocker’s NEW Boys and Girls Cook Book, originally uploaded by ljc@flickr.A copy of my first cookbook! My first good dinner-meatloaf with mashed potatoes on top! Yeah!
Now I’m into my 5th day of this virus and Brian got it last night and couldn’t go to work today. Mine is mostly in my throat now (my head feels better), when you get that terrible tickle and almost hack up a lung-for nothing! Sean said he’d go get me the daytime cough medicine as I just took the Dm kind, which is all we had. That helped a bit, but I think the Altoids is shocking it a bit. Anyone have any good home remedies for coughing? And I tried salt water gargle and it ended up all over the mirror in the bathroom. And I’ve taken a few doses of honey too, which is soothing. The Nighttime Tylenol must be drying me out too much as I feel the worst after I’ve been up 1/2 hour or so with the coughing, etc.
Sean is doomed, I feel bad. He is still ok, though. Crossing fingers.
Update~-
Thanks for all your comments. We really appreciate them. I had Sean get a few things at the store from DayQuil to popsicles. My throat was getting sore. Seems I had the bad cough after I ate, so I’m thinking it was a bit reflux. I only did that a few hours after I got up. It seems to be moving down into my chest more. I am feeling a little something rattling around.
Brian’s going to try and get to work tomorrow. He’s at the pounding head stage. He also can’t taste anything. I was so happy that the hair on top of my head and some of my capped teeth didn’t hurt today! No kidding!
Sean rented a few DVDs, one of which was ‘Sicko’ the Michael Moore documentary about the state of the USA’s health insurance. Seems that Canadians and Brits don’t have to pay for anything health related (I guess a lot through taxes)! When Brits need medicine, they only have to pay around $10 for any size prescriptions 10 pills to 300 pills. If you can’t afford to pay, it’s free. No wonder I cried when I found out I didn’t need to have further treatment in December as the bill for the procedure I had was over 6K! We haven’t heard about how much the insurance will pay for most of it. To use the surgical suite for one hour was 4k alone. To be in recovery for less than an hour was $700. The small plastic bandage-$3 and the 2 shots of painkillers-$57 each.
Outrageous.
That’s my life for the last few days. That and hearing ‘I can’t believe you are sick and I hope you don’t make me sick.’ Bri says he has a sore throat, though I never had one, it just went right to my head. I went to bed 10 minutes after midnight on New Year’s Eve. Tylenol and Sudafed have been my pals. I haven’t been able to do much either. I did toss some finger foods in the oven on NYE for our dinner. Last night we did take-out. I do have a bit of a fever, not over 100.7 at least. The heater man came to put in a new thermostat at 10:45 on NYE! I think it’s running better. Someone turned it up to 72 last night and I was roasting in bed.
Not too much exciting around here. We’re happy there will be some new late night shows on tonight! I don’t think I’ll be taking any decorations down right away.
Take care everyone!
Seems I came down with something during the night. My head was all stopped up and I couldn’t lay down and get any rest until 4 this morning. I was around my niece who has getting sick a week ago and also around the mobs at Longwood Gardens. I took Sudafed, so hopefully it will open up my sinuses so I can take a nap soon. I didn’t even have a sore throat and did a bunch of stuff over the last few days. Bri needs to get me Sudafed that’s not expired. I rarely take the stuff.
Have a great New Year’s is I’m not on tomorrow.
Not much going on, it’s chilly and dreary. We all have the munchies too much and have that feeling we are getting the sniffles. Bri was knocking out a wall in the basement (yep) bathroom on Saturday that was blocking a combination of about 12′ of shelves I need for my holiday decorations. He’s not finished yet.
Hmmm…resolutions…the same old thing-eat healthier, exercise, lose weight. With my hobbies, I don’t make lists like my stitchy pals, I just tell myself to work on UFOs, make some Christmas ornaments and do a few charity squares.
Sunday we went to church, then to a local home center (checking out what was left of their holiday decorations- got a few) , went to Wawa for hoagies and finally food shopping. I plan to have all finger foods tomorrow for dinner and snacking.
That’s all folks and here is ‘Happy New Year’ in several languages:
| Happy New YearIn Many Languages |
| Chinese (Cantonese) Gung hay fat choy (a New Year greeting meaning, “May you become prosperous.”) Sun nien fai lok (meaning, “Happy new year”) Chinese (Mandarin) Xin nian yu kuai Danish Godt Nytår Dutch Gelukkig nieuwjaar Farsi Aide shoma mobarak French Bonne année Gaelic Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit German Gutes Neues Jahr <!– Greek Kali chronia–> Hawaiian Hauoli Makahiki Hou Hebrew Shanah tovah Hmong Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab Indonesian elamat Tahun Baru |
Italian Buon Capo d’Anno Japanese Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu Norwegian Godt Nyttår Pilipino (Tagalog) Maligayang Bagong Taon Polish Szczesliwego Nowego roku Portuguese Feliz ano novo Romanian La Multi Ani Russian S Novym Godom Spanish Feliz Año Nuevo Sudanese Wilujeng Tahun Baru Swedish Gott Nytt År Turkish Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun Welsh Blwyddyn Newydd Dda |
Don’t faint! It’s just a neglected corner near my computer desk. Not seen by many-please don’t chastise me. It holds some eBay stuff, used envelopes (I recycle), a drawing tablet for the computer (birthday gift from a month ago I have yet to try out), paper, etc. I hope to get to this soon-yeah right! It’s the hardest place to clean as someone is always parked at the computer right next to it!
~Update-I actually started to tidy this up! Yes!
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And last week’s topic was ‘light’ and here is my sorry attempt to take outdoor photos on the 27th at Longwood Gardens of multiple lights-only one tree of dozens!
Boy oh boy was it crowded at Longwood Gardens today! We lasted almost 2 hours in the mob, but we mainly went to see the lights, the new children’s garden and the main Christmas display-which we did. My mom is out for a visit and joined us and both Sean and her tried out their new cameras. Here are a few of the 79 shots (wow, I know). I’ll do a slideshow probably tomorrow.
Mom and Sean in the new children’s garden:
Dianne outside children’s garden
The Conservatory decorated for Christmas
A fountain in the children’s garden
Sunshine stained glass window in children’s garden
Gorgeous tablescape with a wintery theme (for Zoey!)
Some of the magnificent lights outside
We’ve all been sleeping in late over the last few days. Staying up until 1-2 is not good for the breadwinner of the family (he is off this week), and it kind of messes up his schedule.
Yesterday turned out to be a gloomy, rainy day. I did get dressed to go shopping and right after I put my boots on, the heavens opened up! Bri and I ran down to McDonald’s a little later to grab a quick dinner and the woman taking the order sounded so different than the usual people working there. Bri got in two orders and the woman said to ‘check the screen’ for the total and that was that. We got up to the pick-up window and the young man there said the woman was on a phone line taking orders for them from North Dakota! Is that weird or what? I think our McDs has so many people working there that use English as their second language, many of the orders are messed up-it’s happened to us a lot lately. We had to add to the order and then forgot a few things as it was.
It cleared up a bit and Bri took me to Peebles department store around 7:30 and I got a few things for 75% off-a Cardinal bird salt (that I wanted) and pepper set and a matching creamer and sugar. We went to Big Lots and their stuff was more picked over.
When I got home I finally watched James Taylor’s ‘One Man Band’ DVD-the show Bri and me saw him perform last October at the Tower Theater. It was up close and personal and a nice way to spend an evening.
Sean and I will probably head over to Longwood Gardens in the late afternoon. My pass expires today (I will probably renew it) and of course the Christmas display is still up. They also have a new children’s garden with special effects like steam and hopping streams of water, just to name a few things. I’ve been watching them build it all year.
Have a great rest of the day!
The big day is finally here-well half over. My pot roasts are in the oven and I decided to take a breather. I wanted to see if my friend Barbara was home from the hospital with her new baby, and she was briefly and had to go back again until his blood levels are normal. He’s a precious baby!
I also wanted to upload some Christmas Eve photos. My nephew was hamming it up last night for us all and most are silly shots. My niece had her hair cut shorter and now has Shirley Temple ringlets-so sweet!
We went out to dinner up the road from my mom first. We sat next to a loud table of about 20 which put a damper on our meal. We couldn’t hardly talk to each other and my mom has had hearing issues for a few years and I almost had to shout to her. I noticed one of the owners came and talked to them (like to see how everything was doing), I bet they were getting complaints. It was like a noisy cafeteria in there instead of a nice restaurant. Mom, Sean and I had lobster tail (mom and I had surf and turf) and Jim had chicken and Brian had flounder. The food is really good!
We headed over to my brother’s and visited for an hour. He really did himself proud with the decorations inside and out. Then we went back to mom’s and we opened gifts. She cried when she saw her HP digital camera and printer bundle. She really wanted something special and I am glad I could make her happy. She is suppose to come here today for dinner.
We went to a beautiful midnight mass service in Delaware. The alter and music were truly divine. We hit the sack about 2 am and I was up with the cat at 8:15 and remembered to do the guy’s stockings at 9 am. I am a bit bushed.
My main gift was an emerald necklace in it’s natural form! It’s cool. I’ll have to have Bri take a photo of it. He saw it in a magazine ad while he was waiting on me when I had my procedure done. He also got me a photo frame that is a slideshow of your digital photos. Neat! Sean got me a Celtic cross stitch book, the Sarah Brightman DVD of her Vegas show, and lovely postcards of Pennsylvania (in a book form).
Sean’s main gift was a HP digital camera and he was totally surprised! Yeah! Bri’s main gift was a West Bend coffee/ cappuccino/espresso ‘station’.
I hope you are having splendid days. OX
Christmas cookies:7 layer bars, chocolate chips, coconut cherry, orange macadamia, apricot walnut bars, fudge tarts, Rum raisin cheesecake bars, lemon bars, Russian teacakes and peanut caramel bars (that really didn’t turn out, but they are good).
Then: me and my girl
Sean, Tori and Mom
Ta-da! It’s Kenny and Bri!
WordPress is giving us the ‘snow’ effect for about a week. : )
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