Rayne

Thinking about clothes .....

Happy that it seems the stomach bug passed me over very quickly with only a little stomachache. I seem to be completely over it now. My kids got it much, much worse.

I can't get rid of my hiccups.

Pissed off. Looks like I have to drive back to Garden City and pick up ANOTHER sick kid. .... I JUST got back from there and she was FINE when I left.

Cramps ... but not too bad, just annoying. And annoyed my phone just went off and I *just* sat down across the house.

Pretty proud of myself. I made a very impressive pie for my parents.

Sometimes, you'd honestly think so. When he doesn't use his sleep apnea machine .... yeah ... it's loud. LoL. Me, I'm about to put a Cherry pie in the oven for tomorrow.

Eating cereal, listening to Phee snore.

Yeah, it could easily turn into an obsession with him, and that *could* be dangerous. We're currently trying to stop one of his self stimulations (he flicks his ear and nose when he's talking to people) and teach him it's not appropriate ... so this could easily become the behaviour that replaces it. ((not to say all self stimulation is bad ... he also rubs his fingers together a lot and crosses them, we have told him those are acceptable and he is allowed to do that)) Absolutely though, every kid needs to be taught boundries and limits with anything.

Mine looks like he left the tip of the marker on it for about half an hour. You know how when you leave a marker on a piece of paper the ink will bleed out in a circle? It looks like that ... and stays there for WEEKS. The kid walks around with coloured hands almost constantly. Even when we use washable markers. .... But the washable comes out of his school uniforms. I hate the marker mess, and only have one small pack in a cabinet away from the kids so they can use them on school projects. I have a few Sharpie's in my desk, but I seem to not have an aversion to myself using them, just the mess the kids make. My Dad has a phobia of ink poisoning, so we'd get in trouble big time if he caught us with any kind of ink on our hands that wasn't accidental.

No, but I told him he better hope it doesn't turn blue or purple ... because that means the doctors will have to remove it so it doesn't get into his bloodstream and make things much worse. He was very happy this morning when he woke up and his hand was not blue or purple.

This is such a wonderful thing to hear. Too many people take themselves off of their medication and feel great for awhile after doing so -- only to spiral down even deeper than they were to begin with, thinking the meds made it worse. Most often the culprits are one of two things -- your on the wrong dose or the wrong combination. Keep in mind any psychological meds can take up to 12 weeks to work. Often in these 12 weeks of trying to find the right dose, it can cause you to be overmedicated. Doctors often don't take the time to up the meds gradually, or people just don't want to deal with it. Often they will up it prematurely, at about 4 to 6 weeks not realizing that it's too high of a dose. Sometimes, it's just the wrong med, or the wrong combination. It often takes many tries to get it right eliminating the wrong ones until you find the right one. *Remembers the horrid Trazadone hangover when they tried that one on me, that seemed to last weeks after I was taken off of it.* My mother has suffered depression most of her life. She decides she is better every now and then and takes herself off of her medication. She usually has a break when she's off. She gets really violent, she's tried to commit suicide, she's been institutionalized, we've been through a lot with her. It runs in my family. My daughter has a load of psychological conditions. BiPolar being the most recent diagnosis. She's only 9. Some people do not need the meds too long. I have had post-partum depression, on which I was on meds for about a year. I was diagnosed with Sudden Onset Panic Disorder and was off of the Paxil in about a year. I still have the Ativan to deal with sudden symptoms (that are now extremely rare). My mother and my daughter, on the other hand, will probably be on the meds for years to come. It's very important that while on the meds you have the proper therapy to learn to cope with things on your own to someday evaluate whether or not you should continue on the meds. And that decision should be a joint decision between you and your doctors.

A bit mean. My 6 year old (High Functioning Autistic) has an issue with drawing on his hands with pens and markers. Today he coloured on his hands A LOT with markers. It won't come off. ... I don't think he'll do it anymore.

What You Know - T.I. ((We are very diverse in our music in this house, I have a little of A LOT of different genres))

Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24 - Trans Siberian Orchestra

Disturbia - Rihanna

Take You There - Sean Kingston

I'm Shipping Up To Boston - Dropkick Murphys (another favourite of my kids)

International Harvester - Craig Morgan (One of my boys favourite songs)

Clumsy - Fergie (I have to admit the bass line sounds AMAZING on my Logitech speakers and subwoofer)

Just Dance - Lady *something* .... my kids have the helm.

Shake It - Metro Station ((My kids asked me to play it for them))

My parents used to live at Benstein and Commerce Rd when I was in high school. Then they lived off of Grand River between Wixom and Milford Rd. Now they are back in Garden City, where I grew up. As for me, deciding what to do for dinner, still waiting for an e-mail so I can get back to work, dealing with my sick daughter, and trying to figure out how to fit in making a cherry pie for my Dad for Thursday.

Annoyed I have to reschedule my MRI, since they weren't supposed to do contrast dye, but hospital policy is to do contrast dye and I have an allergy. I wasn't steroid prepped, even though they are steroid prepping me for another procedure I'm going to have soon. I drove there in the middle of the night for them to tell me they can't do it. I have to call the doctor and figure this all out. *joy* ....

I know the feeling ... only the other way around. Ex husbands. I feel better that the van mysteriously started after AAA was called. But sad it was probably the alarm or the electric start. I love my electric start, even though I don't drive it that much. And sad that I was en route to retrieve a Mazda when I was allowed to have my last food/drink for my test tonight and am thirsty as ^&%%^&(()