If you are like me, you are sick of finding out that more friends and family members are now battling the nasty disease of Cancer. What’s worse is to see those loved ones pass away due to it. So if you’ve had enough and would like to help the American Cancer Society just check out there website and you can volunteer or donate money for their Relay for Life! It doesn’t matter what kind of cancer your loved one may have or had (breast, lung, brain or Mesothelioma cancer) lets just all get together and help American Cancer Society fight cancer!
I really don’t like it when it’s hot. At least when it’s cold I can put extra clothes on, but when it’s hot there is only so much a person can take off. I did figure out one good thing for me at least when it’s hot out. I don’t feel like eating as much! It’s as if I had taken an appetite suppressant as I tend to feel like just eating fruit & popsicles.
What about you? Do you feel like eating less when it’s hot out? Or doesn’t it really matter
For the past 17 years, one of our local country music radio stations has a free concert for their fans called B93 Birthday Bash. My friend Kristen & I ended up going one year, but it was so blessed hot and since there was no way you could get close to the stage (unless you arrived way earlier than we did) I ended up deciding on passing from then on.
Well, this year the concert was held last weekend (after a good size rainstorm had gone through the night before) at the Ionia Fairgrounds which is right next to the Grand River. (I bet you know where I’m going to be going here) Well, they had everyone park where they normally park and during the concert the river quickly rose to flood stages and there sat over 1000 car in the middle of all this water and due to the height of water there was no way they could get those cars out. (Some had water up to the windows!)
Now this is where the debate starts. People who’s cars were submerged feels that the radio station should have to pay for all the damages since they were told to park there and knew there was a chance it could flood, while B93 says that people just need to contact their own car insurance companies.
On this debate I do have to go with the Radio Station. The concert goers say that the radio station should of known that it was going to flood due to the rain, well shouldn’t the concert goers of known better too? It was their choice to go to this concert. It’s not as if they were going to be out any money if they didn’t go since the tickets were FREE. To me it would be no different going to a store during a tornado watch/warning, having a tornado come and then blaming it on the store because my car got damaged.
Just another example of people trying to pass the buck in hopes of getting some money or a new car.
Can I just say I’m getting so sick of Paul being tired all the time. Over a year ago (more like 2) I finally got him to go into the doctor to see why he was always so tired. They ended up sending him off to do a sleep study and while he has a mild case of sleep apnea they didn’t think that was what was/is causing his lack of sleep.
Since then they have put him on every sleeping pill possible. Only one really seemed to work (Ambien CR) but once he said something to the doctor about how he was making food in the middle of the night and not remembering it, that his doctor took him off them and told him he couldn’t be on them anymore. (Guess to many people were cooking/driving while on them and getting seriously hurt) ;
It just stinks because that was the one pill that was able to shut his brain off as that’s why he doesn’t get a good nights sleep. He always has 2002 things going through his mind and he just lays there thinking about them all. Then when he does get to sleep, he can’t seem to get into a deep sleep.
I keep wondering if there is anything else that could help? I know he complains about the mattress so I wonder what if we ended up buying a sleep number bed if that would help him? I remember my old sales rep at Kent Rubber Supply had one and him and his wife swore by them, but at the time we didn’t want to spend that much money on a mattress. Now I wonder if we should of.
Of course I think sometimes he doesn’t get a good sleep is not only the hours he works (2pm-1am) but by the time he does get to bed the kids wake up a few hours later and it’s so hard to try and keep them quiet. I couldn’t tell you how many times I say “Shhh Daddy’s trying to sleep” ever morning!
If you or someone you know works 2nd shift, do you have a secret on how to get to sleep once you get home?
To my Dad… you’re my hero and I love you!
To all the Father’s out there…. I hope you have a wonderful day!!
If you’ve never seen Aloha Friday then here is the run down from Island Life….
In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought on Fridays I would take it easy on posting too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.
If you would like to participate, just post your own question on your blog and leave the link below. Don’t forget to visit the other participates! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!
Now on to my question of the week:
We had a guy here in west michigan who ended up doing a hit a run (Hit a person walking) and killed her. He ended up quick going home and talked his wife into going back and saying she was the one who did it and she did! The truth did end up coming and now they are both going on trial and are looking at jail. So here’s my question…. would you ever lie or take the fall for someone else?
I love Paul to death, but if he did something stupid like that there is NO WAY I would ever take the fall for him. He’s the one who screwed up and he needs to take responsibility for it. Now I have done the lying bit for him before when his work had called to force him into work and he didn’t want to go.. I would say he wasn’t here or if someone calls that I know he doesn’t want to talk to I will say he’s not home, but I think that’s been the worse me covering for him.
If you would like to read some more Aloha Friday questions or even participate, just visit An Island Life!
I can’t believe Father’s Day is this weekend already! Thankfully I already have my Dad’s gift bought and Paul’s Dad will be getting money from us, but I’m not 100% sure what we will be doing for Paul as he was going to go fishing this week with a friend, but due to the rain that got canceled.
Thankfully Mom Central has a Father’s Day Gift Guide to give me some idea’s. What’s really nice is they have the idea’s in different categories due to amounts. So if I can only afford a $25 gift I just look in that category and not feel so bad that everything I’m looking at is more than I want to spend. What would be nice to get him is a tent so we can start camping, but he keeps shooting my idea down as his friend said we can borrow theirs. So off to go look at the list again.
Did you buy your Father’s Day gift yet? If not, and you need some idea’s just check out Mom Central’s Father’s Day Gift Guide!
We have been the frugal kind where if we don’t need something, then we don’t buy it. (Ok.. there are some things we have bought and didn’t need, who doesn’t but I’m taking bigger ticket purchases) When we first moved into our house we thought we needed patio furniture and ended up getting a table & chair set from our friends parents who were moving and no longer needed it. Well, it didn’t stay here to long as it had a glass top and the top ended up breaking.
Our hopes of this year is to start entertaining more (once the mosquitoes go away) and I’m thinking if we do end up buying some new patio furniture, do you have to buy the patio furniture covers too? Of course it probably depends on what kind you buy, but how do you know if you need a cover for your patio furniture or not?
As you can see by my previous post we once again will be heading down to the Orlando area this upcoming year. I always assumed that we would just do Disney like he have the past couple years, but now Paul and I are rethinking things due to having some of our friends tell us that Sea World, Busch Gardens and Universal Studio’s are fun as well and we should really do those. So now I’m not sure where to go.
Yes, we have done Disney, but we honestly have never done it all yet and I’m sure we could go all 6/7 days there and not get bored, but by looking at the other websites they look like fun too.
So here is my question for my readers. If you were going to the orlando area with a 4 & 6 year old, where would you go? Is Busch Garden more for the bigger kids? (Katie is only 37″ right now)
Any advice on ANY of the parks would be greatly appreciated!
I’m so excited since I just heard back from the owner of Srub Jay Villa (the vacation rental we stayed in this past February when we went to Disney) and his home is available for next February when we will be going! We had only rented from one other owner down there before and this house (layout, furniture and pool) was so much nicer even though both homes were in the same development. (Sandy Ridge)
If you are heading down to Disney and are debating on where to stay (On site or off) I’ll just give you some of my reasons why we enjoy staying off site.
The first time Paul and I went to Disney it was the first year we were married and we ended up staying at the All Star Resorts since they were the cheapest and was in our price range. While it was nice having the magic of Disney all the time, I just remember the rooms being on the small side. It was fine for it just being Paul and I, but thinking of having 2 little kids in the room with us just made me claustrophobic.
Since every year my parents end up renting a condo in Orange Beach and I know how nice it is to have that extra room I started looking for a house, villa or condo to rent. Our first year we didn’t do so hot as we ended up getting scammed by Jorge Gomez (You can read all about that here) but we did end up finding a nice 2 story house for less money that we were happy with. Then last year we were going to try and book it again, but because I was booking in advance (the last time it was a couple weeks before we went down) she wasn’t able to match the price from the year before so we decided to start shopping around.
After looking through tons of houses on all the vacation rental by owner sites (vrbo, homeaway) and contacting quite a few owners we ended up deciding on Scrub Jay Villa. I can honestly say I was a little nervous about the whole thing before we got down there thanks to the scam from the year prior, but once we got to the house and the key did end up working everything just went perfectly!
The house was so much nicer as there wasn’t stains on the carpet, nothing was broken (one of the blinds were broken in the previous house) and the layout was so nice as 3 out of 4 bedrooms were away from the living room. So we could stay up at night watching tv and we wouldn’t be keeping the kids up, but yet they were close enough where if they yelled for us we could hear them.
What was really funny was that the countertop in the kitchen was the exact same as ours at home and the carpet was the same carpet that is in Kevin’s bedroom! So it honestly made it feel like home away from home. The kitchen had pretty much everything you would need! All I had to do was go to the grocery store to get some food in the house while Paul and the kids enjoyed swimming in the pool!
The pool and spa was so relaxing. The first couple days I’ll admit the water was a little chilly, but that was just do the cooler than normal temps in Florida. Once we put the solar cover on and the weather got warmer the pool warmed right up and we all enjoyed going swimming. Especially me as there are no neighbors in the back yard (just woods) and the houses next to us didn’t have anyone in them as well, so I didn’t have to worry about anyone seeing me in my swimsuit. ~wink~
The big bonuses of why I would rather stay in a house/villa/condo over staying on site is because with houses not only do you have LOTS more room, but you have a full kitchen (not just a microwave and dorm size refrigerator) where you can make meals and save some money and also a washer & dryer so when your clothes get dirty you can just throw them in the wash, therefor not having to pack as many clothes!
For those who don’t know where Sandy Ridge is, we just LOVE the location! It’s actually in Davenport which I’m sure scares some people away because it sounds far, but it’s honestly only 10 minutes away (just the next exit) from the Disney exit on I-4! What’s nice and the reason we are thrilled with that location is you don’t have to deal with all the stop and go traffic like you do with 192. There is only 2 red lights between the house & I-4! Even though mile wise those condos/houses/villas might be closer, time wise they could be the same if not better! I will admit that once you do get off at the Disney exit to get to the magic kingdom’s parking lot can take another 10 minutes due to the slow speed limits on site.
All I know is after staying in a home off site and having the extra room and privacy for the same price or cheaper than staying on site or even in a hotel I know what we always will be doing from now on!
