Hydrated is always an issue for me - I know I don't drink enough water, although I do drink tea and koolaid too so I do get almost enough LIQUID :P But not enough I'm sure.

I rubbed some vicks on my chest earlier. The cough came back with a vengeance :P And my chest hurts from all the coughing. I thought it might help. It has.

Hahah I appreciate the thought (of babying me) - glad to know you care. I hope I start feeling better soon. I am doing a walmart pick up for a few groceries I needed to get, did NOT feel like walking thru the store.

Yes Chelle, this is my first grandchild. Shane is 25. I honestly expected one out of him years ago but am happy to say he surprised me and it didn't happen til now :P He's always been kind of immature, so I hope he'll be more ready/prepared as he is a little older now that it is happening. My other two kids are younger than him, Katie is 22 and Nathan is 17.

Hey guys.

Got my results back from the doctors.

My pap was clear. Next one in three years. Bloods were fine. I have low B12 and they think that I could be anemic. So I need another blood test.

I have high blood pressure. Had it done again and it was lower so I need another test within a month.

Wasn’t happy the chiefs won. I detest Pat Mahomes!

Hi Luce :) I have high blood pressure. The dr advised me to get a machine for at home and check it every day. I have a medicine to take daily, and another to take if it gets over a certain number. I also have high cholesterol. Medication for that too.

Made Nathan drive me to the bank and walmart. So glad I did. I felt so sleepy in the car. Came home and ate lunch, then dozed off on the couch for an hour or so.

Awww Kat. Hopefully you at least have today off to rest!

Yes, koolaid and tea are fine, but you really need water, too :P I mean, liquid is basically what it means by water, since watermelon and cucumbers count!

I did get the living room clean! It took me like 3 hours, but I REALLY got it clean! And I filled an entire.. big Sams Club insulated bag full of the kids crap for them to put away. Oof.

Today we're going to a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese, all four of us :P It'll be fun though actually, I think!

Oh yes. Today, tomorrow, all week ;) Mid-Winter break from school here....lots of time to rest. Even tho I wanted to make it lots of time to tidy up my house. But not with me feeling this way. Four of you? Who isn't going? Have fun at the party - I always liked Chuck E Cheese

I went in and edited the GELDS and put real gelds on the thematic unit for my ECE class...noticed that NO ONE still had done any work on it :( Sent a text to one lady, as she'd texted me earlier last week asking if I could put the gelds on - I had told her I was waiting for the others to input their stuff so I could match the right gelds so I didn't think I could really just put random gelds on? Anyway, since no one had done anything I wanted real gelds on there, so i did that and texted her I did, I dunno if it helped her any (I honestly don't think it would have for what she was doing? But I guess she thought it would before...) anyway shortly after that, she texted the group saying she was putting her stuff on the document, and would submit it by 1145pm (GAH I hate night owls) and the other two ladies responded - one said they'd put their stuff in when they got home an hour later (it is like 7pm at this point) And the other lady, the one who could access the document but not edit it, asked for an email to send her stuff for someone else to put it in (totally fine by us!) So then when I woke up (I have my phone on DND from 10pm-6am) There was more texts around midnight saying she'd submitted it and the others saying thank you...

Guess I will go in and look at that later this morning to see what they put and what I can match up like I wanted to do in the first place. This is a rough draft, and the teacher will give feedback on how best to edit it for a good grade. We have another week to finish it.

I guess we'd better move back here, ladies!

Yep time for regular chats again.

The teacher I work with really likes class dojo. The other one used remind u til last year when she started using dojo too. I never used any apps with my own kids except remind when they were older

Ive never heard of Kahoot and Quizzix in fact Ive never heard of half of them lol :P I'm not around kids my son Jordan is 28

Quizziz I think is similar to kahoot, but kahoot is an online quiz game where you have a certain amount of time to answer a question and it even calculated in who answers fastest and stuff. Makes it a bit more fun for the kids than a pencil and paper quiz

Y'all know what? My ex and I talked on the phone the other day and he asked what date Nathan's graduation was, and then asked if he was getting an announcement. Uhhh duh? Of course you are? Why did he even ask that? Whatever. Sheesh lol.🙄 Maybe I should ask if he wants one of the extras for Shane and Katie now too

What a weirdo he is.

Like.. freaking men LOL.

What's everyone doing this weekend?

Tomorrow I'm picking 6 teenagers up from school, taking them to the bowling alley and then to Sams Club to pick up pizza. They'll be coming over our house after to play games and stuff, it's Stephen and Seans birthdays :P

Then Saturday Iz and I are doing a girl scout cookie booth while Lily (and El, because I won't be there and she needs a ride and a helper) do storytime at the library, and Sunday is girl scout Sunday at church so we have to go LOL

Yeah I never liked paper and pencil quizzes in school :P that's cool that it calculates which kid was fastest at answering the questions ALL men are weirdos LOL

Mieke sounds like you have a hectic but fun weekend ahead hope you enjoy it with 6 teenagers lol :P

I'm gonna be having a chilled relaxing weekend catching up with my series Quantico on the Disney channel and maybe order a Chinese as me and Darren have a 7 month old puppy that we could'nt just put in his crate and go out and leave him he would howl the house down LOL :P

Why are you hosting other kids birthday parties? LOL I'm sure everyone will have fun!

Me, I'll be sitting around the house doing school work most likely, as its supposed to rain again. No yard work for me, now that I feel better, its rain rain rain and more rain....so no going out to trim all the crap out of the terrace and graveyard. I might mow the front CLOVER patch tomorrow after school..its super thick and tall now. sheesh. If I don't do school work, I'll do house work, shopping and read for fun!

Not hosting, just driving. :P

Lily is hosting because they're both her friends haha.

Yeah it's been so wet and rainy here too. At this point, I'm hoping to see some April flowers :P

If it's happening at you r house you are hosting lol Even if technically Lily is. But I guess it's only partly happening at your house. I get it tho. I was always happy to have the kids over at my house for whatever reason, that way I knew what they were doing!!!

I supppppose.

Ugh I think the transmission in the van is going.. or gone? Right now I don't feel comfortable driving it, at any rate.

Though it did it for the first time like two weeks ago, and only on one part of one hill... I told Alex about it the second time and he was in the car with me and he goes "I think you just forgot that it needs more power to go up hill" like excuse me bitch I've been driving longer than you have and I'm not an idiot.

Then he said it's just not shifting right and to lift my foot off the gas and it'll fix it. Well, that's not true either. And then today all of a sudden it started doing it even on flats and.. yeah. I just don't feel comfortable driving it.

But also that sounds like a really expensive fix and we don't have that, either :/

Eeek yea I would be worried about driving the van too. My jeep once did something similar to that - it didn't want to take off/speed up, flat road or not but it DID go once it got going, but it was something to do with the fuel injection system, we found out - but instead of fixing it, Ryan sold that Jeep back to the dealership and got a new Jeep - and then we were both annoyed (they encouraged us to do that, they had been trying to buy back older Jeeps to sell used, they told us it would take over a week for the shop to even look at it to make certain that is what it was and then more time to fix it) - because we had forgot we had the 5 year plan where it was still under warranty. UGH. Oh well.

Now I don't have a Jeep at all, because the Mister decided after the divorce (Jeep was in his name, he was driving it) that he wanted a new car - and now he has a LEASED vehicle. Ugh. Whatever. Your money not mine. (I think I mentioned this before - but I was very surprised because he was always the "I don't want a leased vehicle, if I am paying money I will own it before) - eh. Whatever dude.

[Edit] 1030am Amazing how it only takes one sentence to remind me why I really want to get a mortgage in my own name. And to make me realize I should do it even if the payment goes up. Sigh

[Edit] 1220pm Wth? I have a charge for $11.99 for Amazon prime. But I don't have Amazon prime. Even that Amazon website says so. It says it will give me a free 30 day trial!! And the Amazon website also says Amazon prime is $14.99 ??? To be safe I deleted my card off Amazon. And will call the bank later!!

Also, while balancing the checkbook/bank account, I realized my refund had gone through. I completely forgot to contact financial aid...I got an email the other day saying I'd get a refund of $1300+ ...the total is the exact amount from DECAL scholarships and I was going to ask about that...because I was told by the lady I talked to in the beginning that that amount would be applied to my tuition and I'd get charged less student loans. Looks like that didn't happen, and the student loan will be the larger amount instead. sigh you know what tho? I am not going to argue. I can use the excess funds in my bank account to help with the mortgage crap I have going on.

Yeah, I'm not driving it. Took the car today, Alex had to drive El and Lily to the library. Alex was like "it's the transmission" and didn't think about anything else "Well then you'll need a new car it'll be cheaper" NO IT WON"T. I literally had three nightmares last night about it like.. urgh.

I said 'but what if it's the spark plugs" and he was like "I just replaced them!" but uh.. he didn't, that was the old van and that was four years ago now :P He said he thinks it may be though, now that he looked at it this morning, and so he ordered spark plugs and some kind of coil thing.. so only $170 instead of.. a ton.

Hopefully that's the problem!

And ugh... MEN! Amazon can't tell you what the charge is for? But yeah, that's weird! I'd also contact amazon and see what it's for, they should be able to tell you. Whoo for refund, that's nice at least? But arghhhhhh, no one ever knows anything, it's so annoying. :(

I have no idea how to contact amazon? I rarely use it, except when I get a gift card, or its the only place I can find something I need to buy. the listing on the bank app says "amazon prime"

MMM well. A new car might be cheaper on repairs ;) But not necessarily cheaper to get. Maybe just a "new" used car? But hey, if spark plugs fix it, thats even better!

The major reasons I'm not too worried about student loan costs is

1. Its a small amount. So this one was like around 2k. So even if each semester I take a 2k-ish loan, that is only 10k total student loan debt.
2. I found out before I really even started going to school that there is a grant or something that if I get hired at a title 1 public school (every elementary school in my county) and work there for 5 years (I've already been employed as a para for 7-9 years so staying 5 years shouldn't be a problem) then I can get 80% of my student loans paid off by the grant or whatever it is. I just don't want to get in trouble for taking money and using it for whatever, when it is supposed to be school expenses covered - but based on things I've read, "expenses" can cover just about anything from gas for my car, to a new laptop, to food to eat while I'm headed to class, or whatever...so.... I'm not TOO concerned, but like, you know? Just don't want to get in trouble for taking money I didn't need to cover expenses. Which is why I was so concerned with asking how to make sure I didn't take more student loans than I needed to to cover tuition and all that.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/foresight/hubgateway

Expenses could be basically anything, yeah.

And nope.. falling apart used cars would cost more than $4k, and they'd still need repairs. So even if it needed a BRAND NEW transmission and couldn't be rebuilt, it'd be cheaper to just fix it. Especially since we basically rebuilt everything else last year.

Oh yeah you did didn't you? Lots of repairs last year....

Thanks (Amazon) So it says I don't have an Amazon prime account. It also says my last transaction was in Dec (the books I bought with a gift card and my debit card which is why my card was on the account...) Nothing that was charged in March ....

And then the chat isn't giving me the right option to ask the right question. Ugh and it won't go backwards either. Dumb thing

Hmm found something that said it could be (digital services, such as...) kindle unlimited. But my kindle unlimited usually gets charged AS KindleUnltd* and last two months was 12.83. Before that it was 11.99 tho. Hm... (its transaction dates varies between the 7th and the 10th so the timing is right..) And as I said, amazon itself is saying my last transaction was in Dec - shouldn't kindle show up as a transaction on amazon if it was being charged thru them? Also shouldn't it say kindle instead of prime? :P

[edit] 745 am (gotta love the time change) Good Morning!

115pm I have ... picked up and vaccumed my bedroom, the hallway and the living room. I have washed almost ALL of the dishes (1 sinkload left, plus I need to start the dishwasher AFTER Nathan brings out whatever dishes he has in his rooms) I have done one load of laundry and have 2 more to do. I also plan to clean off the counters/table and sweep/mop the kitchen hopefully before tonight. AND I started a pot roast for dinner in the crock pot! Oh yes and I also swept/took out the trash from my bathroom.

[edit] March 11 605am

Yep, I forgot bathhouse AGAIN... so now I"m on Day 5 - You found 10 CSC in the pool!