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- December 4th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
If I had a nice yard, I would so have one of these.
When Sebastian and I took our nightly walk around the neighborhood last night, we could smell a wood fire burning and coming from up the street, so we walked that way to see where and what it was. The…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
I need to have my doc check this.
Right now I am in some really horrible pain in my left ankle, no, not another spider bite, and no, I didn't twist and sprain it, but I think it may be diabetic neuropathy.When I tried to get up from m…
- December 3rd, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Disney Christmas Tree review.
I was so very fortunate to receive a Disney Christmas tree animated/musical/light-up Christmas decoration for review and to keep from Collectibles Today. I am seriously grateful for the opportunity to…
- December 2nd, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
I just realized that it\'s December. *blink blink*
Holy crap, it's December 2nd already? I'm not ready for Christmas yet! No!! Not yet!!! I'm not actually panicked about it, the teens know that they are each getting one gift with a value of just $80 b…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Respiratory Guard lozenges review.
I had the opportunity recently to try out a product that says that it inhibits invaders from entering into host cells, and may help you and your family with a flu cure. I wasn't sick with a cold, but…
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I still haven\'t done the yard sale yet.
I really need to get the yard sale stuff done so I can get rid of all of this stuff that I'm not using and try to make a few bucks off of it in the process.I have a 30 gallon octagon shaped fish tank…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Acceptance.
When I got home from the ER tonight, Mark told me that he's ok with it all now, he's ok with the spine issues that he has. He said that he woke up today and it was like a switch...
- December 1st, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Poor baby kitty is always so cold.
Shahiro, the stunted growth kitty who is now 4 years old as of November, is still the same size as a 12 week old kitten, she's tiny.And because she's so tiny, she's always freezing cold when winter co…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
That spider bite turned out to be really bad.
I thought the spider bite issue was resolving itself, I thought I was healing from it. I was wrong. By this morning, both of my legs had swollen up like balloons again, they were red, itchy, and then…
- November 29th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Recovering slowly.
Our Thanksgiving was good, everything was really tasty, and the turkey came out fantastic in the NuWave! I wasn't sure if I wanted to risk cooking the turkey in the NuWave if it was going to come out…
- November 26th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Happy Thanksgiving \'09!
The turkey is in the NuWave, yup, I'm cooking the bird in the Nuwave. I haven't cooked a whole turkey in it yet, but I have cooked several whole chickens and they came out perfectly, so why won't the.…
- November 25th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Getting things ready.
My sis came and took me to Publix to get some last minute food needs for the holiday, it was absolutely crazy in there today! OMG! But I knew it would be, day before Thanksgiving, everybody was in the…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
- November 24th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Some one of these days, I will get the break that I need.
I'm so tired, so so tired. Every single day is a struggle, things just coming and going at me, arguing with the teens, trying to get help so we can cope with it as a family, try to heal this family of…
- November 23rd, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
One of these days I\'m going to win the lotto.
When I win the lotto, I'm going to buy a new house and I'm going to install a good security system. Sebastian and I just went for a walk to 7eleven to get some snacks for all of us. Mark...
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Second and last chance.
I am still fuming mad at the counselor that we are trying to see, trying to get some help from because we all need to speak to someone outside of our situation so we can try to heal our fractured fami…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Stressed up to here.
I've been down sick and seriously fatigued for the last few days due to stress. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it multiple times, that when I get super stressed out, my body revolts and makes me super…
- November 19th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Seriously annoyed.
I am seriously ticked off tonight, so ticked that I completely lost my appetite, have no need at all for any kind of appetite suppressant at all, my hands are shaking, I'm super stressed and agitated…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Trying to clean for an in-home visit.
A counselor is coming here this afternoon to talk with us as a family, to see how she can help us, what kind of things can be done to help us. I know I still haven't explained in detail what's...
- November 17th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
It\'s finally getting cooler outside and I love it.
I'm sitting here right now with the front door open allowing the cool night air to come in.It's not really cool, like up north Maine cool, but it's very nice outside right now.It's currently 69degrees…
- November 16th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Brain freeze. Or is it thawing into mush?
I have been having difficulty all weekend, actually for many days now, trying to think straight, to work, to blog, to do much of anything, and every single time I sit down to do something, I end up st…
- November 15th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
New pc and other things.
I haven't done much at all this weekend, actually, in several days. When my computer died last Monday, I pretty much fell out of everything. All of my stuff is on that computer, digital pics, document…
- November 12th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
I spent the night puking my guts out.
I can't be entirely sure just yet if the cause is the new medication, or if I caught the flu.If it's the med, I have stopped taking it and that should cause the sickness to stop.If it's the flu, the p…
- November 10th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
2 steps forward, 3 steps back, and 1 to break even.
I thought that I was finally starting to make some progress with Mark, not with his actual medical/Medicaid stuff, but with him and his feelings about all of this. Last week when he was sleeping in la…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Starting to look up.
I am one smart cookie I tell ya! I was freaking out! Like war seriously freaking out about all of my saved bookmarks and passwords and stuff, and how they were lost and gone until my hard drive files…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Dead computers and birthdays.
I posted this late last night to the work forums so people knew why I wouldn't be around much. Took it to Geek Squad, was hoping it was just the power supply. It's not. Well, it is the power supply...
- November 9th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
My computer is dead.
I managed to fix the bad caller error, but then when I went to plug it back in, nothing. I tried for hours and hours to fix it, but it simply will not come back on, it won't boot up,...
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Day off for now.
My computer is acting up, something called a "bad pool caller" error has happened, so I'm running in safe mode at the moment, using the teens pc until I can take this one apart. Not feeling…
- November 7th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Trash pickin\'.
When I went for a walk to 7-eleven last night, it's now Saturday morning, so Friday night, I saw that one of my neighbors up the street from me was throwing out all kinds of stuff.I think they bought…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Starting to come around and other things.
Sorry that my posting has been a bit sporadic, often late at night and not every day, and I also want to apologize for not responding to every single comment like I usually do. I haven't been able to…
- November 5th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Helping to find a cheap but good canister.
My friend Nic has her own house cleaning business, and she has 2 clients per day, she used to have more than that but the economy has caused people to cut back on services like housekeepers, and they…
- November 4th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Start again in the morning.
Well the 24 to 48 hours came and went with no call back from the Medicaid specialist for Mark. They had until 5pm today to call me back and they didn't, so at 9am tomorrow morning, I get to call...
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Hair across your ass.
You know that saying?"What's the matter with you? Ya gotta hair across your ass or something?!"I literally do.My hair keeps falling out with every shower, it just falls out as I wash it.Get it wet, ha…
- November 3rd, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
It will kill me one of these days.
Stress that is. Oh to be a cat and be able to sleep wherever and whenever I wanted. That would truly be the awesome. Shahiro has taken over my Publix shopping bags and claimed them as her bed. They do…
- November 1st, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Completely missed them!
I totally missed my brother and sis in law Jenna, and my niece and nephew when they came here for their semi-annual orlando vacations that they do every couple of years.They were in Orlando from Octob…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Taking it one day at a time.
I apologize for the lack of updates again, we're all just trying to wrap our heads around the medical news for Mark, and trying to plan our next step, our course of action. I have a lot of phone calls…
- October 31st, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
A non-food weekend.
No no, we have food, I just can't eat anything.Between not feeling right, (I'm feeling all weird-ish so I can't eat) and stressing out and feeling bad over Mark's situation, I just have no appetite.…
- October 30th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Bad day to knock on my door.
Around 11am this morning, there was a very loud knock on my door, I thought it might have been the mailman, I was expecting a package today, (got it Mom, thanks!) but it wasn't the mailman, it was 2 w…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Not sure what to do right now.
I'm sorry that I haven't blogged since Tuesday, all I have done since we came home from Mark's doctor appointment is Twitter. I just Twittered a bit ago about how Mark is doing, it's not good at all.…
- October 28th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Time for new ones.
Just about every January or February, I buy new contact lenses.I buy 4 boxes, each box contains 6 lenses, so I end up with 24 contact lenses, and they are the extended wear ones, the monthlies. I end…
- October 27th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Food poisoning is the suck.
Both Mark and I have food poisoning. We just got back from a walk-in clinic because neither of our doctors could squeeze us in, and because the ER was turning away people who were not "critical&q…
- October 24th, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
He needs his own.
Today, I taught Mark how to shave his face for the first time in his life. He finally had enough facial hair to shave off, and he wanted it gone so he asked me to teach him, not do it...
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Hoping it\'s not super serious.
I posted on Thursday about a friend who needs to see a specialist really soon but is having trouble getting in because of what kind of medical insurance she has, Medicaid.She just recently found out t…
- October 23rd, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Online may be the way to go for now.
It's looking more and more like the best thing that Mark could do for him and his future, would be to get an online degree in some of the courses that he's interested in. I know that there are some...
- October 22nd, 2009
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mskat has posted a new entry on: My Single Mom Life
Halloween horror movie fest.
Sebastian doesn't watch a lot of horror movies, actually, he doesn't like them, so when I am watching them, he's usually in the other room playing video games or watching cartoons or something. Mark a…
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mskat has posted a new entry on: KatScan
Migraines, swollen feet, and health insurance.
I had been battling a couple issues the last 2 days, a migraine that wouldn't quit, and a swollen foot.The swollen foot thing is always bothersome, it (left foot) swells up so much that it hurts to tr…
