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Yesterday I went to a local spa that I’ve never been to and got this thing done where they detox your body thru your FEET! They put my feet in a tub of regular warm water, and hooked my arm up to a machine, and put something else attached to the machine inside the tub of water, and that was it. I sat there for 45 minutes and relaxed & let my feet be warm in the water, and when I was done, I looked at the water, and it was dark cloudy brown! It was SO disgusting! Not to gross anyone out but it looked like someone went diarrhea in my water LOL! I asked the lady at the spa what exactly was going on and she said that the thing on my arm was sending ionized waves of electricity thru my body and the thing in the water hooked up to the machine was on the other end of the ionized waves, and with that it cleaned out my body… because our body is 70% water so the ionic waves go thru the water in my body and remove all the free radicals and toxins, and they get released into the water in which my feet were soaking. It was so cool and crazy and interesting and gross. And it was only $60! If I can, I want do it once a month just to keep up maintenance on my body with removing all the free radicals and toxins just floating around making me feel like crap. I definitely think everyone should try it at least once though, just so you can see all the crap that comes out of your body. I was tripping out. It’s just really hard to believe that all of that stuff came out of my body, and went into the water. It’s hard to imagine that it’s even possible that someone invented a machine that can do that! It’s supposed to be really good for your health though. Can supposedly improve blood flow, can help with liver and kidney function, improve sleep…Google it. I guarantee everyone can benefit in some way from it. I’m so excited I found something like this, and it’s close to where I live and to where I work, and it’s a small little place so it’s way less intimidating than a full blown rich persons’ spa

I hate using spell check. I feel like it is almost insulting to use spell check. I know how to spell. I have always been great at spelling and grammar, so for me to even entertain the thought of spell check is insulting! Of course, unfortunately for me I am a fast typer and though I am quite acurate, I am not 100%, so there sometimes are typos that I don’t catch, and others can mistake a typo for a spelling error…which is also an insult.
I recently posted an assignment for school and got docked one point for a typo. The teacher said I misspelled the word “joining”…. I went back and re-read my assignments and didn’t see where I had even typed that word, but whatever. I know that it’s my bad for not using spell check, or for at least not triple checking my work before I submitted it, but dang. Cut me a little bit of slack? Every single thing I’ve posted in the forums and threads and discussion questions and assignments have been perfect as far as spelling and grammar, it was obviously a stupid typo mistake. I know there should not be an exception for me, that’s not what I’m asking. I guess just the way the teacher said it was insulting. She could’ve said something more along the lines of, “I noticed you had a typo so don’t forget that it’s always a good idea to double check your work with Spell Check.” That would have been way less offensive.

I have a bone to pick, but I’m not sure with who. It’s either with my medical insurance company, or with the makers of prescription drugs. Or maybe it’s even with both. You tell me.
I used to be on my husbands’ insurance through his employer for dental and medical. When I would pick up my Rx’s from the store, I would normally pay anywhere from $10 to $25 co-pay for each Rx, and that was it. Always. Forever. Then in September he switched employers and I decided to get insurance through my employer. Let me start by saying that I’ve never had insurance ever in my entire life until I got married, which was in 2005, so I do not have much experience with this type of situation. Maybe that’s another reason I have a bone to pick. I didn’t know what I was getting into!
Anyways, so I signed up with the insurance provided by my employer, and things were fine. At the time (October 1st is when my insurance kicked in), I was taking two name brand Rx’s that were not available in generic form. I was also taking one Rx for which I specifically asked to have the name brand, but they wouldn’t give it to me, said my insurance company wouldn’t cover the name brand. Ok whatever. So I get my Rx’s filled in October, things are fine. I pay the normal under $30 co-pay amounts and go about my business. November comes along, same thing happens. Fine. Good. Now comes December… I go to pick up my two name brand Rx’s, and they tell me I have to pay $150. I got angry, because I never had to pay it in the past, so why now? I left the store, did NOT pay for my Rx’s, and called the insurance company. They informed me that I have to pay a $150 co-pay per year for name brand prescriptions, and since I haven’t paid yet for 2008, I will have to pay this month, and then again in January to take care of 2009, if I want to use name brand Rx’s. I don’t remember getting anything in the mail telling me I had to do anything like this at all. So basically they told me that I’m screwed. People like me that need to take name brand Rx’s because a generic isn’t available, does not even exist, we are screwed! Either pay a ton of money, or stop taking your meds. SO, I stopped taking my meds. Screw THEM! Do they REALLY need my money that badly that they have to charge such an ungodly amount every year for name brand Rx’s? Does it REALLY cost that much money to market and produce NAME BRAND prescriptions that they have to charge people that much, as opposed to the generic counterpart?
The thing that REALLY gets me that I didn’t even think about until just tonight (this prescription incident happened a week and a half ago), is that when I specifically asked for the name brand of one of my other prescriptions, they said NO, my insurance doesn’t cover it. BUT, they DO cover it because they are trying to make me pay a huge co-pay for name brands. THAT is fishy, makes NO sense at all. Does it make sense to you? Why would they make me pay for something that I can’t even get?!?!?!? That makes my blood boil. I can’t even begin to think of a logical explanation for that right there.
In conclusion, all I have to say is thank GOD for over the counter GERD medication. Without it, I would probably be dead right now from pain and agony. Maybe I’ll save the GERD topic for another blog. And also, beware of insurance companies…or of prescription drug makers. I’m still not sure which one is the problem causer.

I’m enjoying school so far. I’m trying to be ahead of the game and do all of my reading and assignments way ahead of time. I’m actually already done with everything for this week! I was surprised though to learn that because of the holiday, there is no school next week and the week after. For some reason, I guess I thought since I started at a weird time that I would be exempt from holiday breaks, but I’m not!

It’s also kind of disappointing to have two weeks off of school. I’m about to complete my first week of school, and I’m getting into a groove and then it has to come to a halt! I hope that doesn’t ruin my groove. So we’ll see how that goes. Plus even if I wanted to get ahead & do as much school work as I possibly could, I don’t think it even counts if you log into the website and do the work when school is not in session.

I guess I’ll just have to learn to be patient for the next two weeks! I almost feel like I will be missing something or doing something bad by not having school for two weeks. To me, it’s not a ‘break’ - it’s a punishment. I don’t think they should force us to have two weeks off for the holiday. What if I didn’t celebrate holidays? PLUS that adds two extra weeks onto when I finish my first two classes!

OK I’m done griping. School is cool though!

My mom would be 48 today. Crazy. She died in 2003 on St. Patricks Day. I had a horrible dream last night that she was alive but I couldn’t get a hold of her (I have that dream a lot), and then she overdosed on heroine while she was at the bank, and the bank called me to tell me that she had a relapse and I didn’t really know what they meant. So I kept calling the hospital in Colorado where she was and they gave me some paperwork which showed all of her stats and that she was still alive, but she was on life support. Then I showed my dad, and his girlfriend (they’ve only been dating for about 4 months in real life) kept telling me that she was dead and that she wanted to be done with the whole thing, and she wouldn’t listen to me when I was telling her that my mom actually was alive. My dad was just there, didn’t say anything so I’m trying to figure out how to talk to my mom since it’s been years, and trying to figure out her stuff and then I have this woman who has never even met my mom, trying to tell me that she’s dead and to forget about her. I was getting so angry. Then my grandma (mom’s mom) and grandpa (mom’s step-dad) came to Colorado to visit (grandma passed away in ‘05 on Easter and grandpa passed away Aug. of this year) and my grandma was upset because she couldn’t get a hold of my mom either, and I kept telling her that my mom was fine and that I couldn’t get a hold of her but that I would, and we’d go see her.

I hate dreams like that. Every night since my mom died, I have a bad dream like that about her. I’m really sick of it. At first I thought maybe my brain wanted me to dream about her to keep her memory alive, so that I would never forget about her, but now after 5 1/2 years of EVERY single night, bad dreams about my mom, I’m tired of it! Those dreams suck. And in all of my dreams, she’s always alive but it’s like I can’t get a hold of her, or she moved out of state and went into hiding, something weird like that to where she IS alive, I just havent spoken with her in a few years. Which of course brings up more and more anger, maybe abandonment issues because I feel like she abandoned me by dying.

I don’t know. Anyways, that was my bad dream last night! I will try not to post my bad dreams too often No sense in more than 1 person have to go thru the bad dreams!

Tomorrow I have my “walk to class” with my enrolment councelor for school. Basically I have to wake up at 7:45am, get on my computer, and have my councelor walk me thru the school website, and show me how to download my books and everything else I will need. We were supposed to do it this evening but she wasn’t able to make it…so now it’s tomorrow. That should all take about an hour.
I’m excited! One step closer to becoming a full time student! As of Monday I will be officially a full time student. The only thing I wonder about is - will I get student discounts? Don’t some businesses offer student discounts? I don’t get a student ID (which I SHOULD!) so I don’t know how they would know I was a student. That’d be cool though.

Instead of doing a New Years Resolution, I think I’m going to try doing a monthly resolution. It might work better. That way I will have a goal to work towards each month instead of a whole entire year to try and fail
This month’s resolution is going to be to stop talking about people behind their backs. I don’t do it that often except at work. Today I called myself and a co-worker out on it and said we need to knock it off because it’s going to turn around and bite us in the butt. I don’t talk about people too often, but when I do, it just let it all out and say what I think. I would say it to the people’s faces too, if they asked me, but unfortunately for them, they aren’t around to ask me when I happen to be talking about them
No in all seriousness though, I am a nice person but when people have screwed me over, or tried to screw me over or take advantage of me or anything like that, then I lose all respect for them and then they are leaving themselves to be talked about. They are almost ASKING for it. Don’t be an @$$ and you won’t get treated like one.

I’ve always considered myself to be pretty good with the English language. Spelling and grammar have always been my forte. But for some reason, I have never been able to learn which is which when it comes to the words desert and dessert. Is desert the place with sand where it gets really hot, or is it the sweet thing that you eat after dinner? I have no idea! No matter how many times I ask people and look it up on dictionary.com and try to find ways to remember, I just can’t. Not right now, not so far in my 26 years of life. My husband probably thinks I’m crazy since every time I see either of those words written, if I can’t tell by the context in which it’s being used, I always have to ask him which is which. Every single time.
I think that everyone has that one word that you just can’t remember how to spell, or can’t remember how to say. I used to have trouble with the word cough. For some reason I would always spell it caugh. Also with the word definitely, for years and years I spelled it definately. Oh and one last one - hilarious. Until I was about 18 I spelled it halarious. So weird. I wish I knew why people get mental blocks with certain words. It’s actually funny because it’s normally with words that are so common, it’s almost too obvious when you’re spelling or saying it wrong, at least to me. Like it’s too easy to spell it correctly.
Hopefully after I learn the difference between desert and dessert, that will be my last word block of my lifetime! Oh and don’t bother commenting on this blog to tell me which is which, you’ll most likely just be wasting your time

So you all know that the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday. That is the biggest shopping day of the year. Tons of stores reduce their prices and have major sales so that people will shop at their store for christmas presents. They all advertise these LOW prices and everyone rushes as fast as they can to as many stores as they can to buy as much as they can, all in one day. I have never participated in Black Friday until this year. I did all of my shopping online, and I was still able to take advantage of the cheap sales which was awesome, and very convenient. I thought I was scoring amazing deals and was so happy with myself.

And NOW I am seeing all these advertisements for stores having their pre-christmas sales this weekend, LOWEST prices of the season! What’s that all about!? They brainwash you into thinking that Black Friday is going to the the cheapest deals you’ll find all year and then of course, right after sucks get sucked into Black Friday, then they sucker even MORE people into shopping at their pre-christmas sales. I don’t quite think that’s fair. If I would’ve known that I could’ve gotten even cheaper merchandise if I would’ve waited just one more week, of course I would have waited!

So now, I am screwed for this year. To me, that makes no sense for stores to do that to their customers. I mean I understand that they probably got a bunch of business on Black Friday, but they could get even MORE if they would just wait and do one huge pre-christmas sale, and then another huge after-christmas sale. Well at least now I’ve learned my lesson - the one year I try to participate in major sales, and I got screwed! Next year - no sales for me. I will do the after christmas sales because those are usually pretty good, and the after new years sales are usually decent. But that is IT!

All of you that were like me and were against participating in these sales, now you know. Don’t do it! There’s always going to be a better sale coming up right after you thought that you had already gotten the best sale!

I went to a wedding yesterday. Two people that I’ve known since I’ve lived in California married eachother, which was weird right off the bat. Very unlikely couple, in my eyes. I guess the fact that they grew up together and we were all in the same group of friends, and the fact that they never liked eachother in the past (not that I knew) just made them unlikely. Normally people in groups of friends don’t marry eachother, not that I’ve seen.
Unfortunately lots of people from the original group have grown apart, or had disagreements and stopped being friends for whatever reason. Seeing everyone yesterday actually made me sad that I wasn’t friends with most of these people anymore. They were a big part of my life for many, many years and I would love to still be friends with each and every one of them. Sometimes life just doesn’t allow for that type of thing I guess. I was suprised I was even invited to the wedding, but honored when it was all said and done.
I was so happy that everyone was able to come together to see these two people get married, though. Even if I didn’t speak to each one, I wanted to and it was still awesome to see so many people that I had known for so long, all in one place. It was like a reunion in a way. I wish we could all actually have a reunion. The problem with that is that I doubt people would come. Sure a few would but not half of the people that came for a wedding would come for a reunion by my request. Sad. I wish friends didn’t grow apart, ever. I wonder why we have to?