what the freak!

Ok, so I have been knowing for a month that Casey will be in a Christmas play tonight but on Friday his teacher sends home a nice little note saying that they have to wear gray sweatpants and a white or gray sweat shirt, so here I am driving to everyplace imaginable in order to get the right stuff. I went to Walmart-nothing, Belks-nothing, Citi Trends-nothing, Cato-nothing, Roses-nothing, Its Fashion-hold the presses yes! but nothing in his size, Darn! I swear the girl behind the counter wanted to scream, "NO SOUP FOR YOU!" anyway she did say that another Its Fashion may have it. So, holding my breath, she calls and YES they have it in his size and they are holding the items for me. Chesapeake is a 30 minute drive and the whole way there I'm thinking "boy I hope he appreciates this foolishness driving all around town when he is an old man!"

But alas, something in my spirit arose (ha ha) and said "call the store and get the exact directions because the girl didn't sound quite sure of herself when she gave you the directions." I call and low and behold they are way on Dominion Blvd-which is accross town from the one she said they were at. No problem, I understand. I understand that most of the people I encounter on a daily basis seem to be inherently stupid but ok, I can drive just a little farther.

So I get to the register and they have the sweater and the pants waiting for me, I give the girl my debit card and she says "I can't ring you up right now." Because enquiring minds want to know I ask "why?" (tilting my head to the side) "well, my manager is on a conference call and the phone line is tied up." At that moment I felt like Mango man on SNL, "what the freak!" but against my better judgment I said "What!" and then in a condascending way I say "well, just tell your little manager that a customer has driven 30 minutes out here to purchase these items and she needs to hang the phone up so you can check me out." she walks away and the manager who couldn't have been past 22 comes out and says "I can't." At this point I am officially in "The Twilight Zone" and I said "well how long is it going to be?" this turd proceeds to tell me half an hour, but there are some nice shops a few doors down that you can window shop in and come back." OH NO SHE DIDN'T! (snap snap)

I know I was not in church but I really felt the urge to lay hands on her and speak in toungues! I told her that I could not believe that she would make a customer wait another 30 minutes after driving 30 just because she was on a conference call. So she says "well m'am, we don't have DSL we have dial up and I can't exit my conference. "It's no wonder they are closing your store because your customer service sucks! Good luck finding another job you inconsiderate trollups!" and then I walked out, ended up going to the Walmart in chesapeake found everything I needed and drove home with julian singing Christmas songs!

**F U, and the white horse you road in on** My favorite quote from the movie changeling.

Some times harshness is not acceptable but some times its what is duely required! hahahah

The Holidays

The holidays. Kinda puts me in a good and bad mood. Good mood because it is exciting running around and getting stuff for the kids then coming home and trying to find a good place to hide the massive pile of toys that in a few weeks will probably be half broken-but a little sad mood because I miss my family. Being in Va all I have is Stacy's family and I do miss mine. I kinda wish I could put them all in a bubble and keep them close.

It would be my dream to have all my close family living on the same street. Hey we can all dream right? lol

I think about my mom alot. I have not seen her since 1997 thanksgiving when I was in florida. I can't for the life of me understand why everytime I try to fly her to my house for a visit "something" always comes up. Does she realize while she is takeing care of her ailing mother that her grand children are growing up-and to this day have never even met them! That part makes me upset because I'm sure one visit could have been acheived.

But none the less I must concentrate on the ones I can see and talk to on a semi regular basis. I can't change the past, I can only concentrate on the here and now after all tomorrow isn't promised.

I miss my brother terribly. We plan on visiting him in the summer and the summer can't get here soon enough. I picture us renting a huge van and just driving-no destination in mind-sitting back with my sister in law sipping coffee, taking lots of pictures and having just an all out blast. We always go to Florida but next summer we just want to do something different you know, a change of pace. I have never been to utah or out that way so it is exciting thinking about what we can do and see near by. Hey I have an idea! Maybe when I win the lottery I can move everyone close to me and we all can live down the street from each other!! Darn! girl's gotta have some dreams! lol

I'm almost at the finish line

I'm up late doing homework again and it is so hard getting everything done during the day and then getting school work done. But I don't have long to go so thinking about that makes me feel good! I should be done come this summer so I'm super oober excited. The timing works out great because by next September Julian will be heading off to kindergarten so I will be able to go back to work! I'm not worried about finding work in my Paralegal field, jobs in that field are plenty in Suffolk and starting pay is excellent.

I had to go today and get Casey's prescription for his eppi pens and then had to make an appointment for him to get his eyes checked out. Poor kid, I think he will need glasses. He has a christmas play next week so that should be fun. And julian, well he's just julian doing his own thing ha ha ha!

Tomorrow my subject shall be all about FAMILY-which should be interesting. I been thinkng about each person and I will pick one to disect lol!

I'm off to bed. Goodnight

Allergies

So last week or so Casey was at Big Bunny's (grandmas) house and Stacy was eating a mixture of nuts and gave Casey one. He ate a Brazillian nut sometimes refered to as "Monkey Toes", and maybe 10 seconds after he ate it he began to say that he didn't feel good and that he could not breath. After a minute or so he really started saying he couldn't breath and his eyes and face began to swell. Big Bunny immediately sprung to action and ran around the house seeking the elusive benedryl. She found the box of chewable benny and quickly tried to put it in Casey's mouth but because his throat was closing up he couldn't swallow it. Now aunt shannon happened to be in the kitchen and since she deals with patients who can't swallow pills sprung into action and quickly crushed the pill and mixed it with water and forced it down. A minute or two later Casey was fine and breathing well.

Now we have known since he was about 2 that he is allergic to all shellfish. No crabs, scallops, shrimp, muscles, etc. But this Brazillian nut thing was a complete surprise. He eats peanut butter on the regular so I just never thought that he would be allergic to nuts. But what I have learned is that there is a difference between Tree Nuts and ground nuts, I know right? He cannot eat any "tree nuts" but he can have ground nuts. This is alot to deal with so Iwould just assume him not eat any nuts at all. It is very scary to see your child suddenly become unresponsive and unable to breath. I can deal with alot of things but for some reasson when I see them that way I kind of panic. Stacy is really good with keeping it together but I do panic.

I really thought that if someone were to be allergic to something that it would present itself during childhood, I really didn't know that you could develop food allergies later on in life. The doctor told us when we had him seen for his reaction to shell fish that in all likelihood he would be allergic to other things that would come up later on.

So I decided-that because it is the holiday season and parents often bring goodies into the school for the class- that I would take benedryl down to the school just in case he eats something containing tree nuts that one cannot readily see-like something cooked into the treats right, well the school nurse told me that I would have to get a note from his doctor. "A note for what?" she said telling them that it is okay for me to drop the medicine off. So I said, "let me get this right, you want me to get a permission slip from the doctor's office saying "it is okay for Mrs. Harris to bring benedryl to the school?" she said, "yes." I was shocked and the nurses even chuckled when I told them what the note had to say. Needless to say I had to go to his doctor and get a note giving me-his mom-permission to drop off benedryl for my son.

does that not sound crazy to you? enough said.

If you can make it there..you'll make it anywhere..

ok. So we just got back from our trip to New York and it was nice but I would have wished to have seen more. I did manage to get on the Today Show which was wayyy cool! We also went to Timesquare and walked a bit. The Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade was awesome! I know my nephew mathew would have had a blast. I miss him.

I'm new to this blogging thing so bear with me. My sister-in-law jonnie on the other hand is a pro! She is terribly funny. and everytime I read he blogs I always end up crying.

This is my official first blog and what I intend to do is tell an autobiogrophy of sorts. Of coarse names and dates will be classified so as to protect the innocent or not, but I intend to use this as a therapeutic tool. Now how successful I will be at that is still open to interpretation. So here goes..first blog posted..I hope.