Just Simply Holly

Good morning and happy Wednesday! I wish I could say I was up and at’em this morning, but I’m struggling to wake up…LOL! The trip to Baltimore went very well and we arrived safely Monday afternoon just before 4. We had a really nice evening with my step daughter, as well as her boyfriend and grandmother and everyone fell asleep fairly early…LOL! We woke up around 8 yesterday morning got some coffee, sat out on the deck for a while talking then decided that we really needed to get our stuff packed up and hit the road because we had a 500 mile trip home ahead of us!

It was much more difficult than I thought it would be to pull out of that driveway and leave the kids there. I was on the brink of tears when my husband handed me a piece of paper and said “It’s a letter from brat gurl, she told me not to give it to you until we had driven away”. By the end of the first sentence, I was crying like a baby…LOL. The first sentence read, “While we are away, please don’t leave or get rid of any of the dogs, PLEASE”…..LOL! The hubby and I haven’t been doing the best lately and the stress we’ve been under has caused a few more arguments than what we normally have, and she’s been terrified that we’re going to split up. I’ve assured her that all parents argue and that just because we’re arguing it doesn’t mean we’re doing to get a divorce, but apparently she hasn’t believed me.

She went on in the letter to tell us to “NEVER, EVER, EVER drive fast because it could lead to bad things and I don’t want bad things to happen while I’m gone” and reminded us to take care of the dogs for her, which cracked me up because she doesn’t take care of the dogs when she’s here…LOL! And she ended her letter by saying “I love you guys very much and I will probably be having too much fun to miss you…..LOL, JUST KIDDING”, which really made me laugh! It’s definitely going to be strange for these next 23 days, but I have no doubt that they’re going to have a wonderful time with their sister!

The trip home went fairly well, although we ran into a HORRIBLE storm east of Cleveland that slowed traffic on the turnpike down to under 30 MPH with limited to times of no visibility! The rain was horrible and the strong winds were mind blowing!! I managed to get a picture of the sky just before we drove into the storm as well as a picture of traffic while the rain was coming down.

Heading into the storm

During the storm

We drove through heavy rain for about half an hour, during that time traffic never went about 30 MPH except a few idiots, which added some time to the trip home, but that’s OK, we stayed safe, and to the best of my knowledge, there were no accidents from the people that refused to slow down!

The rest of the trip went safely, and fairly quickly too. But with about 20 miles left until we were home, my van started acting up. We watched the gages on the dashboard, but none of them ever fluctuated, and we eventually realized that what was going on with the van was not engine related, but transmission related. Fortunately we did make it home, but unfortunately I’m going to have to replace or repair my transmission before we make the trip back out there on the 3rd of August I’m going to go through all these coupon books that we get in the mail and see if I can find a good deal anywhere around town to get it fixed. My hubby called around last night and he found a rebuilt one for about $400, but he’d have to put it in here in the driveway and I really don’t want him to have to do that! So cross your fingers for me, or if you know of any great transmission repair shops in my area, drop me a note and let me know!

I’m just really glad that we made it home rather than breaking down on the turnpike, that would have been horrible!

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I don’t know what’s going on with me lately. I’m tired all the time, yet when I go to bed, I can’t sleep. When I do finally fall asleep, it’s almost like I can’t wake up. I’ve had a few days this week that I’ve slept later than I have in MANY years!

My poor husband, I don’t know how he’s dealt with me this week. Tuesday morning he left me a note with a couple of things he needed me to take care of by 5:00. He’d have taken care of them himself except that he was going to be working a 12 hour day and wouldn’t be home until nearly 8:00 PM. I honestly had every intention of doing what he had asked me to, I put the note in a place that I could clearly see it so that I wouldn’t forget, and guess what? I FORGOT!

I really wish it was possible to get a memory upgrade for my brain some days! No matter how many reminders I write and send myself about things, I still end up forgetting to do them!

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I have a membership at NetFlix.com, it’s just a basic membership, I get 2 movies a month for under $5. It is the perfect membership for us because we don’t always have time to watch a movie. The past few weeks/weekends have been busy ones for us and I’ve had a Harry Potter movie for over 3 weeks now that we’ve been wanting to watch, but just haven’t had the time. My husband and kids had actually seen it at the drive in last summer, but I was unable to go with them because I was extremely sick with the flu!

I hadn’t opened it, nor had my husband, and today when we finally got the time where we could watch it, my husband was none to happy with me when he seen what I had done. I meant to order Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, but I actually ordered Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. Sometimes I swear my memory is getting worse with each passing day! I was certain that I had put the latest movie in my queue. Oh well, at least it’s a movie that we all like!

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I love my hubby, I really do! He’s a great man who really does put up with my many different sides and mood swings! Take this morning, for instance. He decided to be nice and let me sleep in since he “Oh so rudely” woke me up shortly after 5:00 AM yesterday morning. Now, normally this would be a VERY nice thing! But this morning he failed to realize that some how one of the dogs had managed to get my glasses off my desk and that all three of them were using my glasses as their newest chew toy.

So, whether I want to or not, I have no choice but to purchase new glasses ASAP! I can’t afford them right now, but hopefully can get them at some point in the next week. Fortunately I do still have my last pair and can wear them for driving and stuff. But the prescription is very different from those and my newest ones, so I foresee MAJOR headaches until I can replace them.

On top of waking up to finding the dogs chewing on my glasses I also discovered that my computer would not start. We still haven’t figured out what the problem was, it took 5 tries before it finally did start. So to say the least, it wasn’t the best of mornings at all. I have a horrible headache and a TON of homework to do and all I want to do is take a nap…LOL!

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I almost forgot to tell you what my sneaky teenage son did this morning, or what he tried to get away with…LOL!  It’s obvious that it’s almost time for Christmas break from school, he’s really been a bear about getting up and going to school, and it’s been even worse on the days this week that his sisters school was delayed and his school wasn’t.  But this morning was the kicker of them all.  No school delays this morning, everyone was going on time!  I left the house at 7:00 to take my daughter to where she gets on the bus, making sure that my son was completely ready in case his bus came before I got back, which he was.  On my way back after I got my daughter on her bus, I could see that my sons bus was sitting outside our house with the yellow lights flashing.  It sat and sat and sat for what seemed like forever, but the red lights never came on.  I pulled in the driveway and came into the house to see what was going on.  By this point it had been about 3-5 minutes since the bus first stopped and turned on it’s yellow flashing lights.  My son was no where to be seen, so I yelled for him.  He was using the restroom and said he never seen the bus, so he assumed that the bus must have pulled up when he went to use the restroom.  I’m like UH, NO, not unless you peed for five minutes…LOL!  I’m positive that he thought I’d just let him stay home, but he couldn’t have thought more wrong!  Yes, the roads were a bit crappy because we were getting some light drizzle/freezing rain, but I don’t care what it was going to take, that little turkey was going to school, PERIOD!  I tell you, I’m REALLY not liking this teenage stuff!  This kid wants to argue everything anymore, and it’s driving his father and I up a wall!

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Have you ever had one of those mornings that makes you think you’d be better off going back to bed? I tell you, I’m at that point right now, and I’ve only been up an hour! I was sitting here drinking my coffee and watching the news when out of the blue I had a chunk of something in my mouth. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what it was, so I grabbed a tissue and spit it out. Imagine my surprise when I discovered I had lost one of my fillings. Now mind you, this isn’t just any filling, this is a tooth that had a major filling done less than 2 years ago.

I know that I’m not a dentist, but I did question my dentist when I realized he had put one of the newer white fillings in the tooth, rather than the traditional silver filling material. He assured me that this was how they did things “these days” and that I didn’t need to worry, it would last as long, if not longer, than the traditional silver fillings do. I guess he didn’t know what he was talking about, did he?

I could have dealt with this missing filling except for one thing, the pain from the filling falling out and the cavity being exposed made it impossible for me to drink my coffee. Now, I’m not one to make a big deal out of dental pain, but when it prevents me from drinking my morning coffee, then we have a major problem. Thankfully my hubby is the wonderful, sweet, kind and loving person he is, because this poor guy headed into town and went to the 24 hour pharmacy that was open and found a product that I had just recently heard about called Dentemp OS.

I heard about Dentemp OS from a friend who recently lost a filling. Her dentist was unable to get her an appointment until the following day and suggested this product to her for a temporary fix. She was very impressed with Dentemp OS, she said that it not only stopped the pain from having an exposed cavity, but it also allowed her to function as if the filling were still there until she went to the dentist the next day.

My husband “volunteered” to run to the 24 hour pharmacy and see if they carried Dentemp OS, and fortunately they did! So far I am very pleasantly surprised! It really does provide fast, temporary relief from the pain and discomfort, it’s ready to use right from it’s packaging and requires no mixing. I have another 10 minutes to wait, but according to what it says, you can eat on it within 30 minutes from the time it sets. It definitely is a wonderful temporary dental repair and a product that I’m going to make sure I always have in my medicine cabinet!

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I can’t remember if I talked about this or not, but the day after we moved in here my hubby was getting his computer set up. Everything was connected and he pushed the button to power up his computer. It appeared as if everything was going to be OK, the screen came on and everything was loading. Out of the middle of nowhere I could smell what I thought was melting or burning plastic. The next thing we knew, his computer monitor went blank. Over the past week he’s been trying different things to get it running again, he even did a power supply repair that we thought was actually going to fix it, but it didn’t. I think he’s finally given up and decided that he’s either going to have to take it to the shop and see if they can fix it, or just replace it!

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