I woke up early on Tuesday morning without a link to share for “OT Tuesday” and what did I discover, WebMD has a Mahjong game! hehehe OK I’m weird, but I liked it. I liked the idea and I actually enjoyed clicking each little tile and reading the little health tips. Very amusing little piece of marketing. I want more of these!
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Some of you may remember the infamous day last month when I celebrated E’s birthday with not one, but two trips to the store for replacement Lisa Frank backpack and lunchbox. (for those who missed it, the dog ate them). Well now you lucky folks get the update on this situation…
Exactly one week after the purchase of those replacement items, E came home with a completely busted zipper on the backpack. Argh. I was done with this situation so I dragged her to Office Depot and forced her to choose a real backpack. She was not happy about this. These backpacks were just plain old backpacks, sure to last more than a week, and there was no bright color beautiful (aka horrendous) backpack in sight. She pouted. She stomped. She whined. She refused to choose. She insisted I take her somewhere else for something pretty. The Denise voice was used and we came home with a plain powder blue backpack that has now lasted quite nicely for just shy of one month. Success. (I also purchased a real backpack for his highness, J, because he’d been walking around with a rip in the brand new backpack his other parents bought him and the zipper broke on it as well. Some folks need a lesson in back to school shopping or they ought to leave it to the professionals… whatever).
Fast forward a few weeks and we see E climb into the car after school with a broken Lisa Frank lunchbox! I’m not kidding. The little plastic ring that you slip the velcro tab to close it came off. Seemed relatively functional to me so I wasn’t all that concerned with it. Two minutes later I see whiteness floating in the air when I glanced in the rearview mirror and I hear RJ shrieking at E to stop throwing that stuff at her. Sigh. The child decided it would be fun to tear the lunchbox completely apart and throw it at her sister. Again the Denise voice was used and I decided to share a little bit of health news with the child…
That stuff she was happily tearing apart and playing with and throwing all over the place might just contain high levels of lead. And E, did you know that lead is really dangerous? The fluff stops flying.
Lisa Frank’s lunchboxes might not be on the list of death boxes but then again, we didn’t test the darn thing. Regardless, no more Lisa Frank products will be purchased by any member of the Flamingo House family. We’re done with Lisa Frank and her beautiful colorful madness. Good riddance is all I can say about it.
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TW use to work from home but she doesn’t anymore. I feel bad about that, even when she isn’t really sick I feel bad about it. Even when she isn’t actively and loudly missing being at home with the little kids. And that. Is why. I buy. Her TOYS! Yes, toys for work. I’ve bought her lots of toys. And pets. The hermit crabs (Ellen, Spikey and Artemis) that the little kids and I got her for her birthday were suppose to go to work. That hasn’t happened and it has made me sort of grouchy.
Anyway, back to the toys.
Apparently work is suppose to be fun. (who knew???) Apparently not many people find work fun and the folks at To-Done have suggestions about how to change that. Number one on their list is TOYS! Ha, see I am smarter than you people give me credit for!
Now the real question is, should I get her another Hazel to take to work? It’s a great toy, her coworkers would love it… or should I just sign her up for an email joke a day thing instead?
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It’s about darn time! FDA Approves Remicade for Ulcerative Colitis
We’ve been waiting quite awhile for the FDA to approve Remicade for UC patients. Now, the question is, will it work better for TW than Imuran is and Asacol ever did?
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The Gilded Chamber is NOT The Red Tent, we have to get that point out of the way right now. I’m really tired of seeing “If you liked The Red Tent, you’ll like ______” and that sort of thing used to describe these types of books.
Because The Gilded Chamber is not The Red Tent, it falls short just like all of the Biblical novels about women do. That’s not to say it wasn’t good or worth reading, it was both, it just wasn’t … The Red Tent.
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How can one girl be surrounded by so many dysfunctional adults? Good grief! A little too much dysfunction for me – and why I read this in September of all months, I will never know. Oh wait, I read it in September because I fell so far behind over the summer … I just kept renewing it and renewing it and can’t renew it any longer.
I didn’t love this one, didn’t hate it either. Not great, not horrible. Just more dysfunctional abused kid surrounded by dysfunctional abusive adults stuff. Ho hum.
Azathioprine aka Imuran is a drug given to transplant patients, those with severe arthritis and others with auto-immune diseases, like Ulcerative Colitis.
TW’s been taking this drug for quite some time and it’s worked pretty well, compared to the other drugs she tried. She’s pretty good about slathering sunscreen on if we’re outdoors for an extended period of time but probably not as good about it as she would have been had she known that she had an increased risk of skin cancer because of the Imuran.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another with these darn drugs. If it isn’t the original disease that gets you it’s some side effect or increased risk from the drugs. It’s darn frustrating.
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Yea! The rumors were right, Stephanie and Bobby Jon have returned! Though Bobby Jon didn’t give a very good performance in the first episode. Ha, maybe he is playing sick so he doesn’t seem like a threat? The nurse sure got a workout, I hope they keep her for awhile. Did you see the previews for next week? Steph says she’s not eating ants? Ha, since when? She ate all sorts of stuff at Palau and never even flinched, she draws the line at Carpenter Ants? Maybe she spent too much time at the Jersey mall in the off season and got soft or something?
I wonder when CBS will add Steph and Bobby John to the Players List?
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