The old peanut butter trick....

After going to church and having a nice quiet lunch with good friends, we came home and the adults in the house tried to have an nice afternoon nap. With all my sniffling and coughing, and even with an extra hour of sleep due to the time change, I was pleased to put on my comfy pants and lay my congested head down. When I was just dozing off, my 8 year old was tearfully waking me up. "I've got gum stuck in my hair!" I really wanted to roll over and deal with it later, but I could see she was quite distressed. So, off to the computer to google "how to remove gum from hair". Almost all of the sites came up with peanut butter. So, these were tried by other desperate families...let's give it a try. As the dog lay drooling at our feet (he loves peanut butter) we smeared it in and low and behold, it did work. Some hair was pulled out but it worked. I'm surprised this happened the day before Halloween!

Lesson learned

Well, my last post was about how I was feeling fine even though I had lost my voice. Well, the cold virus turned it's ugly head and attacked. I've been battling head congestion for the last 3 days, I don't know how many kleenex's I've gone through and I'm living in my comfy pants. My voice did come back yesterday.This morning the cough started, not just a gentle cough, the all out face turn red, eyes watering, I might puke kinda cough. So, being early morning, I thought I would nip this in the bud. I found some cough/cold syrup in our bathroom cupboard, not having any proper measuring device in the bathroom and seeing as the bottle was about 1/4 full, I decided I could guestimate the 2 teaspoons I needed by taking a dose straight from the bottle. This is where that slit second decision would come back to bite me. About 40 minutes later while lying in bed, I began to feel horrible, sweaty, cold, the room was spinning and no....not nausea...and yup...I threw up. With a cold facecloth on my face in bed, I informed the girls that they would probably need to make their own lunches for school today, I could barely get out of bed without extreme dizziness. So, I have spent the morning "sleeping it off" and half watching TV. I've learnt my lesson.

Peaceful

I have come down with my first head cold of the flu/cold season. It's not the worse cold I've ever had, in fact, i feel OK. Yesterday I was at work and did a double shift, triaging people all day. Suddenly in the evening, my voice became squeaky and progessively worse, getting through the shift on decongestants. Today, it's pretty much gone. I just squeak a little and when trying to sing along to the radio...nothing comes out. It's quite disappointing!

Wilderness

Well, it's been a strange week walking to the bus. I cross over into the subdivision next to us to catch a direct bus to work. This area is developing so there is a lot of construction going on. It used to be a field where you would frequently see deer. Since the construction started, the deer sightings have dropped dramatically, not to mention their field is now a maze of houses and streets. Well, I was on my way in the dark as at 6:30 in the morning to catch my bus. Half way down the little path to the street, I hear what sounds like a cat hissing. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked around to see if I had crossed the path of a cat, maybe skunk or racoon. I wasn't looking high enough, I had scared a deer! It looked at me and took off. I'm not sure who's heart was racing more. I was glad it ran in the opposite direction! So that was Monday. Tuesdays walk was uneventful. Wednesday rolls along and I take a slightly different route as it rained on Tuesday and the path is mud, I did that once and had 18lbs of clay on my shoes by the time I made it to pavement. I went across a grassy park and while standing at the bus stop, I saw a dog running by itself down the sidewalk, hmmm, no owner or leash, but wait...that is the bushiest tail on a dog...it's not a dog...it's a fox! I don' take the bus til next week. I'll keep you posted if there are other animal sightings!

Old and Chubby

I found a good way to feel old and chubby. Go to a pool with 4 of your nieces who are in their early 20's. Man...I hope I looked like that when I was their age! First of all, all of their bathing suits material put together probably made up my one one piece bathing suit. And then the comment, 'But Aunt Janet, you've had 2 kids"...I don't remember carrying my kids on my thighs! And my supportive husband.."look around, there's a lot worse than you", translated, move aside honey, you're blockin my view.
Well, at least I could be proud of them, lookin good at the pool! If you need me, I'll be over here in the hot tub kids!