My latest Xmas gift

I have to say I love gif cards, as impersonal as people think they are(i don't) they are so useful for later in the year when stuff you want goes on sale, unless you are my husband who stashes them away for years and when he decides to use them the $100 GC from amex is now $48 because after a year they charge a $2.00 maintance fee..huh who knew i thought the money was yours to use since its already been paid for...but that a whole different rant .
moving on, i had gotten a GC from my friend julie for best buy, i was initially going to save it for a laptop, but the more i read about them the harder i realize they are to upgrade memory and such ( i will still get one someday) so as those of you who know me know i love the sims, well my pre-ordered game comes Feb 20th i read the requirements for the game, oops my PC does not pass, i need a new video card and more Ram like 2gb more. so i do some research and find what i need at newegg and order it, 4 days later its at my door step i take it upon myself to open up my PC and attempt "surgery" on my PC as my son called it. Wohoo it worked great no geek squad need, i amaze myself at times. so now i have this awesome PC running so smoothly on this 15 inch box monitor, not pretty, so i start researching flat panel monitors, and i find one with great reviews at best buy. long story short i got exactly what i wanted for about $30 after all is said and done, and now i have this amazing thing on my desk and I'm in awe!
check it out here
love it!
thanks jules and bernie, you guys rocked this gift!

Free meds???? is it possible?

Many thanks to A Frugal Life for this great tip: Stop and Shop, a supermarket chain here in the Northeast, is offering free antibiotics to those with prescriptions through 3-21-09. There doesn't seem to be a catch. You present a prescription, they check to see if it is on their list of essential antibiotics (the list is here) and they give you a 14 day supply - free. They don't bill your insurance, there is no co-pay, and no minimum purchases or coupons are required. Stop and Shops announcement of the promotion is here. Kudos to Stop and Shop for trying to help out people with free antibiotics.

I'm pretty healthy but twice a year or so, I get UTI, you know the kind, i-really -have-to-go-now-but-nothing-comes-out-maybe-a-drop-or-twoThey usually happen on the weekends after I try homeopathy cranberry juice, cranberry, pills, I pray for relief and then I cry. well now being in the 2WW i'm afraid to take any antibiotics. if it wasn't for that sole reason, by Monday, I call the doctor, I drive to the office, I pay a $10 co-pay, she makes me PIC then looks at me for oh thirty seconds, announces that it is a UTI, and writes a prescription. I get to the pharmacy, I pay a nother $10 co-pay, I take the antibiotics, and by day 2 I have relief, i take the entire course of antibiotics.
It occurred to me that I could call my doctor and ask her to phone in a prescription to Stop and Shop (no charge for that). Bet I could talk her into it.
But ....stockpiling antibiotics - is it wise?
The problem with that is that people will use the antibiotic past the expiration date (in most cases it is a year). Tetracyclines in particular become toxic quickly and should never be used after the expiration date. No one, including me, will or should ever take the liability risk of telling you it is okay to use anything past the expiration date.
In this case though, I throw out antibiotics if expired. keeping in mind that, having a stash of antibiotics to treat my UTI will save me a slew of money and pain.
I'm going for it.

Feb 14th

this date usually represnts a nice dinner out a big bouquet of roses or chocolates...for me as of last year it will mean nothing but reliving the pain and agony i went through as i had to tell my husband that our baby was no longer with us.
Just recently The fray came out with a new song and it wasn't until i really paid attention to it that the lyrics really hit home:

I found God
on the corner of First and Amistad
Where the west was all but won
All alone Smoking his last cigarette
I said, where've you been? He said, ask anything.

Where were you? When everything was falling apart.
All my days spent by the telephone. And all I needed was a call
It never came To the corner of First and Amistad

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late.
You found me, you found me.

But in the end Everyone ends up alone
Losing her The only one who's ever known
Who I am, Who I'm not, Who I want to be
No way to know How long she will be next to me

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late.
You found me, you found me.

Early morning, City breaks
I’ve been calling for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never send me no letters
You got some kind of nerve, taking all I want

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late.
You found me, you found me.

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late.
You found me, you found me.

here is the music video in case you are interested.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=48029285

the part where he says "You got some kind of nerve, taking all I want" yeah i still feel that way almost a year latter on the anniversary of the worst day of our life as a couple

Please say a prayer for Costa Rica

A very strong earthquake just rocked Costa Rica, i spoke to my mom and she said 2 hoose down the street from ours have collapsed, my grandmother is ok but her BP shot up and so they are watching her so her sugar doesn't shoot up as well.
As for my mom she is home alone and she is having strong chest pains, i' told her to lay down and raise her feet if the pain persist she needs to call a cab an get to the doctor right away, my mom is very stuborn with doctors, i had to force her when her appendix nearly burst to get her to go to the ER.
i feel so helpless stuck here and having her so far away.
she said the country is in emergency state due to a DAM having potential to break so they are evacuating some towns, luckly our house is up in the mountains so shes safe from taht!
I can't beleiev that we were at that volcano just in august!
so if you guys can spare prayers please my family needs them
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_costa_rica_earthquake

a healthier me

On the recommendation of my friend, I tried Jillian Michaels’ (of The Biggest Loser) 30 Day Shred workout. It has three levels that go according to difficulty. Not including the warm up part, the whole thing lasts 20 minutes and is structured in 3-2-1. Three minutes of strength, two minutes of cardio and one minute abs. Sounds simple enough, right? Wrong, wrong, so very wrong. The thing is you can’t stop, you have to move from one segment to the next without stopping. I mean I guess if you are about to pass out or really need to rest you can stop but for optimum results you need to not stop.
I just tried for the first time tonight and I can honestly say that this is one of the best workouts I have ever tried. It’s simple but it gets the job done.
I love how she is so honest about how if you want a shredded body you need to work for it, she made me laugh when she said no breaks what did you think you could do a 20 minute workout AND get a break! no sir not here!
So who’s in with me? I’ve decided that I’m going to give this a try for 30 days to really see if it works. 20 minutes a day for 30 days is not much to ask. I’m going to give myself a break if I miss a day or two, or if get pg I'll have to do yoga or something else but until those 2 lines appear i'm gonna try this..