I somehow managed to make it through Thanksgiving and a trip to Arizona with a great sum of my time spent in a Hospital or hospital-like places without getting sick, but NOW all of a sudden my body is choosing to revolt on me just 3 days before Christmas. Sweet! I spent all day yesterday trying to fight off this damn cold with major doses of vitamin C and Zicam swabs until one of my FB (FaceBook) friends informed me that the Zicam swabs were pulled from the market due to people losing their sense of smell. Lovely. I switched over to the rapid melt tabs instead but they taste awful and the directions clearly say not to chew or swallow and also not to eat or drink anything for 15 minutes. Does licking my own butt to get the taste out of my mouth count? Yuck! In spite of my best efforts to zap my cold right away, I think I am now beyond the let's wait and see if this passes stage. I woke this morning at 2:30 with my usual illness-induced insomnia (combined with a sore throat and a stuffy nose) but at least it gave me some quiet time to blog in peace. I'm hoping that this is one of those quick bugs that will be gone in a few days. Christmas is no fun sick!
Grandpa Conrad went home yesterday! After a week in the hospital and 3 weeks in rehab, he is finally back home with Grandma Dee and doing well. How's that for a Christmas gift?
The other night as we were setting up Monopoly, Binny said, "I want to be the garbage can!" Huh? Oh, you mean the thimble.
Thursday night is our big Holiday party here and of course I'm no where near ready. I still have cleaning to do, groceries to buy, presents to wrap, cookie gift boxes to assemble and decorations to hang.
My Holiday cards finally arrived! This year I decided to make my own card using Photoshop and decided to go bigger than usual and chose 5X7 cards. I figured I could save myself some money by not ordering the pre-made photo cards and just pay for prints and use my own envelopes. Then I realized that 5x7 prints cost quite a bit more than 4x6 prints, like a dollar- fifty more! After that expensive realization, I did a quick Google search and found a site that prints 5x7s for 12 cents a piece, plus they give new customers 50 free! My cards ended up costing me just $12 even with the $10 charge for shipping and handling. The quality was exactly as I had hoped and way better than Walgreens.
If you missed out on my cookie and peaches giveaway last week, you have another chance to win some home made cookies. Not from me Silly, didn't you see the list of things I have to do yet before Thursday? Another giveaway or infecting my blog readers is not on the list (Secret Mom Thoughts, your cookies are safe as I packed and shipped them before I started my sneeze fest.) but my bloggy friend Wild Child is hosting a cookie giveaway on her blog, Naked Opinions. She is offering up a tinful of the most beautiful Springerle cookies I have ever seen. In all honesty I have never actually seen a Springerle cookie other than in the Martha Stewart cookie issue a few years back but I just assumed they were way too much work to make so I never even considered making them myself. Perhaps next year a day of cookie baking with friends sharing our favorite recipes would be in order. What do you think Wild Child? With you and your Springerle molds and me and my double boiler we could really crank out the Holiday treats. Anyhow, hop on over to Wild Child's blog and sign up for her giveaway!
That's it for me today. I'm off to blow my nose and clean bathrooms...
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10 comments:
OH NO! Go get some garlic pills pronto! They work wonders on the immune system!
btw, my daughters been using zycam (sp?) for years and she still smells. (you know what i mean, lol)
Gosh, hope you feel better soon!
GARLIC! GARLIC!!
I've gotten some really nice homemade cards this year.
Have a great day!
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Sending you healing energy!!
Sorry about your cold. Great news that Grandpa came home. Good luck on Thursday. I'm starting to stress about ours on Friday.
Feel better! I spent several days being sick, then felt better and ran out and grabbed something to eat - and got food poisoning :P
Hopefully you'll do better!
Fingers crossed for a healthy holiday ;)
I am so with you on the Christmas card thing. I haven't purchased actual "cards" in years. Most years if I'm lucky my prints only cost me shipping.
Just keep chanting - "I can't get sick. I can't get sick." Or you could give in and get sick. Call everyone and cancel the party - no decorating or cooking etc.
Happy Random!
I know I shouldn't laugh at RK's comment but I did. That's the kind of thing that happens to me. :D
Get well soon. I'm really pleased to hear that Grandpa is back home, that's the best Christmas present of all!
A bottle of red wine may be all the meds you need!
Oh, thanks for the shout out! Glad to hear about Grandpa Conrad. That is the best Christmas present!
I'm thinking maybe we should try a day of treat making next year. Maybe we could do a double blog giveaway with both our treats. Hahaha!
You have a good Christmas if I don't catch you on-line till well after the festivities.
Thanks for the link for the cards. I want to go with someone else next year. I'm tired of my cards being too dark and cut off!!!
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