Life Snap Shot

Inspired by a post from Pip. Here is a little life snap shot of yours truly. Play along. Answer a few in the comments or leave a link if you post.

Making : I am thinking about making gingerbread cookies soon. Thinking about it counts, right?
Cooking : Turkey bacon for breakfast
Drinking : Coffee with French vanilla creamer and one Splenda.
Reading: reached by Ally Condie (book 3 in the Matched Series)
Wanting: to decorate more for fall and pumpkin spiced lattes.
Looking: At pictures I took on my camera for my blog post
Playing: Letting Little Miss Play (more like pull) with my hair
Wasting: Time on Pinterest. Obviously.
Wishing: I could sleep in more on the weekends rather than get up before Little Miss.
Enjoying: A slow morning before a busy afternoon at a birthday party for my niece.
Waiting: for my hubby to get home from helping his parents with some manual labor stuff.
Liking: Sweets! Looking forward to some birthday cake today @ my niece's party.
Wondering: When my hubby is going to get up?
Loving: Morning cuddle time on the couch with Little Miss watching cartoons.
Hoping: The Love Bugs go away soon.
Marveling: At the fact my neighbors aren't more annoyed at their incessantly barking dog. I know I am.
Needing: A date night. Followed by a girls night.
Smelling: My Ashland Spice Market Candle I bought last weekend at Michaels.
Wearing: My Jammies--T-shirt and sweat pants.
Following: Dave Ramsey's daughter, Rachel Cruze on Facebook.
Noticing: A touch of Fall in the air? Maybe just a little because it's Florida and perpetually hot.
Thinking: The Grocery List that needs to be put together and eventually purchased at the stores.
Knowing: I've got new shows to watch on Netflix like Season 2 of New Girl and Revenge.
Focusing: on relaxing while I can and not stressing about "all the things that need to be done."
Bookmarking: Some books on Amazon that I would like to eventually download on my Kindle.
Opening: Some yogurt for my breakfast--Dannon Light and Fit.
Giggling: I love making my daughter laugh. Her giggles are contagious!
Feeling: Tired. I want a nap, but that isn't going to happen today.

Attack of the Annoying Love Bugs

Oh my goodness! It's love bug season here in Florida and these annoying creatures are swarming my house! My house is light colored (yellow & white) so the bugs naturally gravitate towards it. SMH.

The worst part of it all is that they are getting inside the house! ICK! They are crawling into the cracks and crevices and Worming their way in; on top of that, every time we have to open the door for ourselves or the dog more nasty buys get inside! The hubs has even gone as far as changing the thresh hold lining on the door and the little buggers are still worming through.

I am so glad my daughter isn't so fascinated with them or trying to pick them up and eat 'em! Gross. The hubs and I are sweeping and vacuuming the doorways and the entryway daily in an effort to maintain cleanliness in our home. Just what you want to do when you get home is clean up dead bugs, right? I wonder if we could train the dog to do it while we are at work? I wish.

In case you are interested in learning more about this pesky insects, Snopes.com says, "Love bugs are not the result of a genetic cloning experiment gone wrong, nor were they unwittingly loosed from a research facility charged with studying exotic insects. They also weren't bio-engineered as a natural solution to the mosquito problem. (Love bugs do not eat mosquitos: the adults do not eat at all, and larvae feed on decaying plant material.) These overly amorous critters are native to Central America; the best guess as to how they came to these United States places them as undiscovered stowaways who arrived by ship in Galveston or New Orleans around 1920. They migrated into Florida in 1947 from Louisiana, looked around, liked what they saw, and decided to stay. Their natural capacity for reproduction took care of the rest."

I can live with smudged windshields and mass grave yards on the front end of my car, but I draw the line at creepy crawly fornicating bugs in the house!! I have standards you know?! Ugh. Thanks for joing me on this rant. Just another simple and significant day in our lives!

Lessons of a Sinus Infection

I have been fighting, dealing with, recovering from a sinus infection since Labor Day. It was a creepy crawly bug that has rocked my world (if you'll excuse the dramatic reference). It's so true that you never really appreciate good health until you don't have it. Plus, I have not been the only one sick. My daughter also had a sinus flair up too with the coughing and runny nose. It's likely she got the "icky" from me.

Here are a couple of "little lessons and factoids" I learned while I was sick.

1. Congestion can cause someone to loose his or her voice. My poor students had to endure "smoker voice" teacher for 3-4 days and I had to take vows of silence when I got home. I never really considered my hubby to much of a talker, but I see thought he talks a lot when I couldn't!
2. You can loose a little weight while you are sick. Yea, I became a littl fixated on my weight when I was sick. I was worried that I lost weight for no reason (cue my hypochondrian LOL).
3. Prescription Mucinex is quite expensive. I opted for the OTC brand, but it didn't seem to help any.
4. Saltine crackers are helpful for that  upset stomach. I kept som in a ziplock Baggie by my side of the bed. It was a bit of a flashback to my morning sickness days when I was preggers.
5. Amoxicillin is antibiotic with side effects. I get an upset stomach to say the least. Do I really need to feel worse, before I feel better? I was feeling better before the doctor put me on the antibiotics.
6. A white film on your tongue is a sign of dehydration. So I have been drinking water like a mad woman.
7. It's okay to take off work and rest in bed all day. I love my job, but I need my health. Plus, I got to watch one of my shows all day on Netflix.
8. There are good tissues and cheap tissues.
9. I could care less "what's for dinner?" When I am under the weather as long as it's quick and easy and I don't have to do much if anything.
10. I have a great hubby who worries about me. He was such a trooper taking care of me and our Little Miss. I am truly thankful for him.

I am so glad I am feeling better! We should never take health for granted EVER because it's really a simple but significant part of our lives.