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Monthly Archives: February 2015

I Had to Quit Shopping for My Health

23 Monday Feb 2015

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Abdominal Therapy, Castor Oil, Chiropractor, CNM, Digestive Health, Gallbladder, Gallstones, health, Herbalist, Homeopathic, Nutritionist, Old People, physician, shoes, shopping, spanx, surgery, Whole Foods

I’ve quit shopping. No, not grocery shopping (though I really wish I could) or household goods. I have had to put my general shopaholic/drunk shopping tendencies on hold.  Since the beginning of the year I haven’t purchased any of the unnecessary (but fun) purchases I normally would. No jeans, shoes, boots, blouses, dresses, or even Spanx (gasp! I love all things Spanx).  I’ve blocked all my daily coupon emails from Ann Taylor and Banana Republic. I fight the urge to browse Gilt.com and Fab.com in search of random items that bring me joy when I can expect them at my front door in a few days.

The reason I had to stop spending money on frivolous goods is not to save money (that would be a good reason to continue my disciplined habits). Instead money has been reallocated to a variety of health practitioners and supplements… and some of these folks aren’t covered by insurance and they aren’t cheap.  Continue reading →

Did I Ever Tell You About That Time…? A Throwback Thursday Story

20 Friday Feb 2015

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Black Eyed Peas, buffalo ny, Concerts, Fergie, Forgot, Good Times, Hard Knock Life, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Memories, Syracuse University, Throwback Thursday

In the honor of the trend known as “throwback Thursday”, I thought I’d do better than just a picture, but actually share a story…

A couple of summers ago Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z were coming to town, and being that I love me some JT and Jay-Z independently, I knew I had to be there for their combo show. I landed some sweet seats thanks to a pre-sale, and I was pumped to have a night out at a concert that was sure to be amazeballs. Continue reading →

Why Going To The Doctor Is Such A Pain In The Ass

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Blood work, Doctor Office, doctors, EOB, Flexible Spending Accounts, FSA, Health Insurance, Imbeciles, Lab, Medical attention, mental health, Pharmacy, Prescription, Radiology, Sickness, urgent care, Verification, Waiting Room

“It’s going around” is something you will hear over and over again for these spectacular winter months. You, your kids, your coworkers, the strangers at the gym your sharing the free weights with; they are all getting sick. I wrote a post about my seemingly constant sickness a couple of weeks ago.

There is a point that you reach that requires more than some Tylenol or DayQuil, and you must go to the doctor. To me, this is such a pain in the ass I have to be on my deathbed before I want to seek medical attention. Let me tell you why…

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WTF Wednesday: An Easy Way To Get Yourself Unfriended

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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asking for money, bullshit, Facebook, gofundme, honeymoon registry, i need a vacation too, not interested, payout, rant

There are lots of people I’m friends with on Facebook that I don’t communicate with. I have blocked seeing them from my newsfeed because while I don’t mind considering them a “friend”, I haven’t found anything they’ve shared worthy of taking a chance the Facebook algorithm brings them to my newsfeed.

Today I received the following invitation to an event “Our Honeymoon Registry”. Oh yes, a honeymoon registry…and here is the description of the event: Continue reading →

Three Times In One Month? You Have Got To Be Kidding Me.

07 Saturday Feb 2015

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Clorox, cold, fever, flu, medication, sick, stomach bug, urgent care, virus

Three times in one month? It’s just too much. I can’t handle it. I’m used to once a year, maybe twice, but never three times in a month. My body is tired and what I would really like is to sleep, but can I? Nope. Instead I’m kept awake by a nose that won’t stop running, wheezy lungs and a toddler across the hall with a cough so bad it sounds like he can’t catch his breathe. Continue reading →

10 Ways Dogs and Toddlers are Alike

04 Wednesday Feb 2015

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dogs, Lists, love, toddlers

If you have either a dog or a toddler you are well aware that these two dependents are adorable and loving while also being incredibly demanding. When you have them both, you begin to realize they are two peas in the pain-in-the-ass pod.

1. Neither of them can tell you what it is they need to stop whining. You must go through a list of all the things you know they like until you name something that makes them jump up and down in excitement.

2. They will shit on the floor. After they shit on the floor they come running to you, stand there in silence and look at you with big sorrowful eyes because they know they did something wrong. Continue reading →

A New One for the Bucket List

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

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baltimore, bucket list, Buffalo Bills, Eagles, Europe, friends, gameday, NFL, philadelphia, Ravens, Redskins, super bowl, Washington

A lot of people have a bucket list, a list of things they’d like to do before the “kick the bucket”. Mine has only really consisted of going to Europe and going on the field on gameday at a Buffalo Bills home game. The latter was accomplished last year and it was AWESOME.

As I was watching the Super Bowl yesterday with the hubby and a bunch of friends, I came up with my new bucket list item to add. It’s going to be something that we have to work at through the years, and will cost some money, but I think will be worth it.

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On the field with the hubby

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