http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/index/ en fool@thefoolsfodder.com Copyright 2008 2008-08-23T15:47:41-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/while_i_catch_up_on_laundry/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/while_i_catch_up_on_laundry/#When:15:47:41Z A New Blog Post: While I Catch Up On Laundry http://tinyurl.com/5hd8u5 A Meme: Swiped from Chatty, who stole it from Nat. Play along if you wish. Here are the specifics: To do this yourself: Type your answer to the questions into a flickr search Using only the first page, pick an image Copy and paste each of the urls in the Mosaic Maker 1. What is your first name? 2. What is your favorite food? 3. What high school did you go to? 4. What is your favorite color? 5. Who is your celebrity crush? 6. What is your favorite drink? 7. What is your dream vacation? 8. What is your favorite dessert? 9. What do you want to do when you grow up? 10. Who/ what do you love most in life? 11. Choose one word that describes you? 12. What is your Flickr name? If you decided to play along, let me know in the comments so I can check it out! Here’s my Mosaic The Fodder 2008-08-23T15:47:41-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/no_idea_what_day_it_is/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/no_idea_what_day_it_is/#When:13:13:58Z New Post: No Idea What Day It is. http://tinyurl.com/5uo9wz Is that a good thing? Been up since early this morning. Couldn’t sleep. So I grabbed the camera and went around snapping here and there. The sun was just starting to come over the trees and the lake was a still as glass. With a little bit mist rising off of it. (Did I ever mention that I read “The Mist” while up here on vacation when I was younger. Yeah I loved the horror stories while in the middle of the woods… Bwahahahahah! Heh! Yeah I have lost it!) So yeah I have been here since Saturday morning… somewhere around 8am. I think I have slept twice. Pretty sure that makes it Monday. Must be Monday actually since my brothers have gone home and back to work. The kids have been havin’ lots of fun Papa took The Karate Kid out for a little spin in the boat after the big kids went tubing so I got some time to just float for a bit.. I think it is the first time I got to just swim and not worry in years. Made me a little sad. Cuz that means it has been years since The Mr and I have been up here for any extended amount of time together. *sigh* We are hoping that next year we will be able to take a week together. On the agenda today? More of the same swimmin’ sunnin’ and floatin’. Rains are coming again tonight some time...with the thunder-boomers… Oh the kicker! Kinda funny. When I was a kid without a really decent camera we were here during a full moon. I guess I was about the age where something like that would suddenly be appreciated. Anyway it was amazing when the moon came up with the reflection on the water looking like a golden path up to the heavens or some magically place. So every year I check to see when there will be a full moon and if I will be here during so I can get a better picture. Also a year or so ago my Dad gave me his tripod which has been stored in my truck since. The point of all this drivel? Well we had a full moon this weekend! Yeah! I missed it coming up because I was tending to the Karate Kid… And? well I took the tripod out of my truck when I was packing and decided I wasn’t going to need it. Ah well There will be other years right? And I still have those 110 pictures to look back on. The Fodder 2008-08-18T13:13:58-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/walter_for_president/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/walter_for_president/#When:16:48:30Z New Post: Walter For President! http://tinyurl.com/5j5mu5 Another big step! Tonight The Mr and I are going out and leaving the kids home. The Drama Queen will be babysitting The Karate Kid and giving him his insulin at bedtime. I am a little freaked out about it.  But back in May I ordered tickets to see Jeff Dunham. The Mr and I get a kick out of him. I think I was a fan of the Jalapeno on a Stick way back in the Half Hour Comedy Hour days… was that VH1 or MTV… I think it was MTV… We have caught his shows on The Comedy Channel and he is really the only one that gets me to laugh consistently all the way through. I remember how excited I was about getting the tickets. Then not so excited because I was planning on taking two weeks of vacation instead of just the one and then realized that show was during the first week. But really the thought of two whole weeks with out The Mr wasn’t really sounding all that fun. Then The Karate Kid got sick… and the idea of leaving him really tore me in half… The idea of never getting to get out without him again hurt even worse. So I talked to The Drama Queen to see how she would feel about giving him the shot and she was a little freaked, but watched me a couple times and then did it herself without hesitation. The Karate Kid said that she didn’t hurt him as much as I did. Heh! And really, we can’t afford to just throw good money away, right? Besides I could use a laugh or two… or twenty!! The Fodder 2008-08-14T16:48:30-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/time_keeps_on_slippin_into_the_future/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/time_keeps_on_slippin_into_the_future/#When:00:21:54Z New Post: Time Keeps On Slippin’ Into The Future http://tinyurl.com/639hap So in the last week we have had our first visit with the nutritionist, had our water heater die a horrible and messy death, bought a brand new water heater, had the lovely plumber over, (who showed me his entire rear-end while installing our oven some time ago, guess plumbers crack is so last century) to install our new water heater & had our follow up visit with the CDE At least for all the water heater stuff I could shell out tons of money from the comfort of my home. The nutitionist and CDE visits require looooong-ass drives. But I am totally over that because I don’t have to worry about doing that again for another month… and then after that it will probably be every three months… and we may be able to transition to a satellite hospital closer to us. The Karate Kid is doing great. He decided a few days ago that he was going to do all the glucose checking on his own. So he is doing his own finger pricks and using the monitor and then I record the results and give him his insulin. This is a big step for him and it was all his own idea so I am pretty excited and proud about that. Funny how the little guy who just a month ago was crying because he was going to have to go to his primary care dr for a check up and had to have blood taken from his finger for the usual checks. He asked me today if perhaps they will let him do it himself next check up. The mark the nurse left on July 15th has finally healed up. I am sure that had a lot to do with how dehydrated he was and all the other symptoms that went with it. We got a copy of one of the letters sent to Karate Kids primary and it had a lot of info I didn’t know or didn’t remember because that first night is such a blur. I do remember his BG count was around 990. His A1C test was over 11% (a healthy person should be around 4 or 5% I think) don’t know about the Ketones. I know that it was high. And we got the orders for the school nurse for the beginning of the school year. I will have to pick up some supplies and refill some prescriptions… probably will do that tomorrow because I am going to need some things before we go away. I am really nervous about that too. Being in the middle of nowhere is really great, but being in the middle of nowhere with a newly diagnosed diabetic… not so much. Mentally I am equipped. I have all the tools and the instructions to care for him. Emotionally I am a wreck. One of the big things my family loves to do on vacation is eat… and not a lot of good stuff. It is going to be difficult trying to balance all that. I’m not really all that worried about that, because he knows how to balance his carbs himself. Tonight for instance he decided to forgo the chocolate milk so he could have a little ice cream. The lows are what scare me. What could happen during the lows terrifies me. Then again on the bright side we will be vacationing with my BIL who is a paramedic. I don’t even know where I was going with this post. I am constantly looking for silver linings. They are there… I see them. Still… if I was offered a do-over for this year I would so take it!! The Fodder 2008-08-13T00:21:54-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/yay_for_being_broke/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/yay_for_being_broke/#When:20:37:10Z New Post: YAY For Being Broke http://tinyurl.com/6ads58 I Have to Laugh or I’ll Go Nuts.. Or Maybe I Am Already Nuts So about two months ago, before Karate Kid’s diagnosis, The Mr.  tries to get something at the store and his debit card doesn’t work. It is pretty worn out on the back, so they tried to key it by hand. It came up declined. He comes home and tells me and I, of course, have a fit. I go back with him and use my debit card because I know there is money in there and it goes through fine. I begin to wonder if this has something to do with the fact that the bank account for the store was overdrawn because of fees (the loan bank kept trying to get their money even after we forfeited the store). I tell him next chance he gets he should get a new one. Course with the possiblity that it is because of the overdrawn account he puts this off. This is a real pain in the ass because he has to use mine and I end up without it for days on end. So we get notice that the business account is closed and the have notified the interested reporting agencies etc. They won’t be after us any longer for that. So then The Mr tries his card again… and again no luck. So on the next free day he had (which was yesterday) he went down to get a new card. He goes to the teller who tells him there is some kind of alert on the card. He is sent over to the asst manager who tells him the card was canceled because someone used it to try to buy something in Amsterdam for $2500… Luckily there wasn’t enough money in the account to cover it so it was flagged and viewed as suspicious. It may be that his card number was stolen after shopping at Hannafords, but we can’t find any proof that he actually shopped there with the debit card.. so who knows. Anyway they issued him a new card. I have looked over our statements and there is nothing out of the ordinary there. I guess we got lucky!! The Fodder 2008-08-07T20:37:10-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/gooooood_afternoooooooon/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/gooooood_afternoooooooon/#When:17:17:14Z New Post Gooooooood Afternooooon! http://tinyurl.com/5lbk6r How the hell are ya?? I am tired. Very tired. I haven’t been sleeping well at all. Not sure if it is the whole “My husband had to file for bankruptcy after his business failed and then went back to the company he despised and now just complains incessantly, while I am being chased by one of his vendors that he had promised me would be paid off before any others because he needed me to sign a personal guarantee for and now will be taken to court if I don’t come up with $2000, even though I don’t have any income to speak of” or if it is the whole “My son was just diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and is in what is considered the ‘Honeymoon Phase’ and will most likely be coming out of it right around the time school starts so I will not be there with him and what if his sugar tanks and what was that noise, is it him? Is he up? Is he ok? Why is he up in the middle of the night again? What does that mean? Was it even him? Am I driving him crazy by constantly asking him if he is ok?” thing. Add to that a little “bounced a check while in the hospital with the boy because I wasn’t here to transfer funds and was a little too preoccupied to even think about it and now have to deal with fees on that” oh and by the way The Mr needs gas for the truck… oh and then there’s the tenants who decided to go camping this week… won’t be home until Sunday… wonder when I will get the rent?? Ugh! Calgon take me away! It is horrible to feel so exhausted that you know you can drift off any minute only to have a noise (the air conditioner kicking on or off or something outside the window) snap you away and send your heart racing. Sometimes it isn’t worth just laying there. It gets to be too frustrating and so I get up and do whatever I can quietly so as to not wake anyone up..or if I do tough it out I end up wide awake when The Mr leaves for work and go through the same thing all over again… course I am a raving bitch the next day either way. The other nasty side-affect? I can completely space out and not even realize what is going on around me. The other night we went out to dinner and I was waiting for something and The Mr and our son walked away a bit and after a few minutes I realized that my daughter was actually talking to me. I think I hurt her feeling pretty good, too. & That really sucks! I appoligized and she said it was ok, but I still didn’t seem to thrilled with me. Not that I can blame her. She has been forced to take a back seat over the last couple weeks because of everything with her brother. I hoping that The Mr can get a day off next week so that I can take her to a movie and we can have some mom & daughter time. We haven’t done that in a real long time!! One good thing to come out of the whole insomnia thing is the new design I am converting. It was written for Wordpress and that can be such a pain in the ass to convert to EE, but it actually hasn’t been too bad, even if I am up at 2am playing with it. You can get a sneak peak here. It is still a long way from finished, and I still have to build the other templates to go with it but I am liking how it is shaping up. Let me know what you think. There are still a few quirks to work out. Like the date disappearing from every post but the first. I am sure there is just a tag out of place somewhere. I haven’t checked other browser either, just FF. Don’t know if I will either, I guess that will depend on the insomia.... The Fodder 2008-08-01T17:17:14-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/all_work_and_no_play/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/all_work_and_no_play/#When:19:14:22Z New Post: All Work And No Play http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/ Makes For A Very Dull Fool! But my kitchen looks wonderful… too bad I can’t raise my arms. I will honestly destroy the next person who doesn’t clean up after his/herself. I don’t care which of them it is! The bathroom is next, but that will have to wait until Friday. Tomorrow we meet with out Nurse Educator to learn more on the ins and outs of insulin dosage. Can’t wait!! After that I won’t have to call in every night and talk to someone different about my son, answer the same questions I answered the night before and then have then mess with something, only to change it back the next night. *sigh* One more night of that, hopefully I will get our educator again tonight (Talked with her last night) she is the only who really made me feel confident.  The Fodder 2008-07-30T19:14:22-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/type_1_diabetes/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/type_1_diabetes/#When:15:55:22Z Type 1 Diabetes http://tinyurl.com/6582mv Wow what a week it has been. About this time last week The Karate Kid was being moved from the ICP (Intermediate Care Program) to a room on the floor where they put all the diabetic patients. I was still trying to wrap my mind around all of it.. I got easier after we were moved to the floor because I knew he was going to be ok and we were becoming a part of the treatment. We decided his schedule and they built a plan around that. So far it is working out well. This past week has been all about tweaking the plan now that he is doing more than playing air hockey and roaming the halls of the hospital. We have to call in every night with his numbers and they change things a bit. Usually only by a half of a unit. Giving him the insulin and checking his sugar has become pretty routine. We let him choose the finger and the place he will receive the injection. We haven’t been able to talk him into trying his belly yet. We have been told that a lot of kids prefer that area, I know my grandmother did hers there. He isn’t having that! It probably has a lot to do with the fact that he has very little body fat. His weight is improving. When we went to the doctors on the 15th, he weighed 50lbs. Sunday at my parents house he was up to 57lbs. He has always been slim, but he had been looking more thin than normal. I guess I should back up some and start at the beginning.  The Fodder 2008-07-23T15:55:22-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/exhausted/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/exhausted/#When:00:54:40Z New Post “Exhausted” http://tinyurl.com/6lym4s It has been a long four of days! So much that I need to purge, but I am really pooped right now and I need to get some rest because my baby brother is getting married tomorrow and I have to try to incorporate a new diet for The Karate Kid into the day. The long and short of it is, Both kids had well visits with the pediatrician Tuesday. They were due, and I had some concerns about the boy. I got home from the visit and found a voicemail message asking me to call the office back ASAP. I did that and was told to go directly to The Children’s Hospital in Boston. Which we did. And found that he has Type 1 Diabetes. Purging will come later, it is time for his bedtime glucose check & injection. The Fodder 2008-07-19T00:54:40-05:00 http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/the_waiting_game/ http://www.thefoolsfodder.com/index.php/site/the_waiting_game/#When:15:01:46Z So the meeting yesterday with the trustee went well. http://tinyurl.com/6nnzhb So the meeting yesterday with the trustee went well. It was quick and painless. The Mr. was given a continuance to the 30th because the trustee wanted an appraisal on the house and we didn’t have that. We got it after and faxed that to his lawyer along with a certificate for a 2 hour long course he had to take on personal finances. He shouldn’t have to go back on the 30th now… or at least that is what he was told. Now we wait 60 days and then should have a discharge. Then I have to find a job. We have really tightened our belts here and they can’t get much tighter. Karate & Kickboxing have been canceled until further notice. Scraping so we can afford to go to NH in August. Have to have some fun right? I am back in the position I was in two years ago wondering what I will find for work.. will I like it… how will it affect the family and everything else. Ugh! Hate it! I have some time to set my mind straight… until then I am going to get all the things done I have been putting off. Both kids need physicals and eye appointments. Both should need new glasses as well. That is going to suck. Should run us around $500 all together. Ugh! There’s our deductible though. Gotta space them out though. I have to find a way to get rid of some of the store crap. Our register system Quickbooks POS, a computer system, fax/copier/printer. Not sure which is the best way to go. Maybe want ads… Not dealing with shipping on them that is for sure! Also going to spend some time on a new design here. I want to incorporate my Flickr pictures or maybe create a Gallery again. I have twitter there on the side, it’s kind of blah… some other stuff too. Course if I am working I may not have any time to maintain everything so maybe I shouldn’t bother. I dunno. The Fodder 2008-07-09T15:01:46-05:00