Posted by miss m on Monday, March 4, 2013 @ 2:39pm in
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∞ Here we are and it’s already March. And I realize my intentions to actually sit down and write out a blog entry in my oh-so-neglected blog last month not only never came to pass, but I didn’t even come close. Handful of photo posts….and that’s about it. Sheesh. Just seems like I’ve been so busy [...]
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The month of December went by in a complete rush this year because of being so busy in my shop. I had a record 103!! orders for the month of December alone! (And many of those had more than one item in the order!!) It meant though, that I didn’t have as much time as [...]
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Playing catch-up in photos… I managed to get the village up around the tree the night before my craft market but I still haven’t gotten my monorail up yet: Of course, you know what that means. Tree + village = Gracie! The craft market went great. Not only did I have a pleasant amount of [...]
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Posted by miss m on Thursday, November 22, 2012 @ 10:34pm in
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∞ First off, Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans! Hope you’ve had a nice day, hopefully with good food and friends/family. My day was one of those good and bad sorta things. Good Thing Love got up early this morning and did the 5k Turkey Trot. It’s a huge race they do in Clearwater (like 15,000 [...]
Tags: black friday, car repairs, custom made jewelry, cyber monday, gem tree, gemstone jewelry, gift ideas for her, handmade, handmade jewelry, holiday shopping, jewellry, Love, migraines, phoenix fire designs, phoenixfiredesigns, phoenixfiredesigns.com, phoenixfiredesigns.etsy.com, running, sale, small business saturday, thanksgiving, tree jewelry, tree of life, tree of life pendant, turkey day, Turkey Trot, vertigo
Posted by miss m on Thursday, November 1, 2012 @ 10:38pm in
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∞ Well, I was actually going to finally try and get back into Halloween a little this year. For so many years, it was wrapped up in traditions with our friend Rand, from carving pumpkins to decorating his house, to dressing up and handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters from his house. When he passed away [...]
Tags: crying, depression, grief, halloween, migraines, missed halloween
Good news is that we got Love’s car fixed Friday. We’re back to a two car household and the horrible, destructive whine of the compressor grinding itself to bits is no more. The bad news is that it cost more then we planned: $789.54 I had been planning on $700 so the extra hundred hurts. [...]
Tags: car repairs, element a/c, finances, honda, honda element, honda element air conditioning, Honda Element compressor, i am obama care, i am obamacare, Love, medical bills, obamacare, PCIP
Has it really been a week since I wrote an entry? Sheesh. Here’s a quick recap. Saturday, we went over to Disney for a few hours to catch an extremely early “Dress Rehearsal” of New Fantasyland. See, they’ve been building a new expansion to the park for years now. It’s the largest expansion ever in [...]
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Posted by miss m on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 @ 3:23pm in
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∞ Lots of things going on lately so I haven’t had a chance to sit down and write a real entry again. So, as usual, here’s a recap. Anniversary Last week was the 14th anniversary of Love and I being together. Aw… Seriously though, fourteen years! Holy cow, that’s a long time. One of these years [...]
Tags: a/c repair, air conditioning, anniversary, Love, tampa bay, vertigo, vertigo attack, weekend
Posted by miss m on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 @ 4:29pm in
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∞ Poor Love was extremely sick yesterday. I was out at the post office and the supermarket picking up dinner when he got home after work. He proceeded to vomit pretty much non-stop for the next two hours. It was awful. Finally, around 7:30pm he finished being sick and pretty much passed out in bed and [...]
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Posted by miss m on Friday, August 31, 2012 @ 12:49am in
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∞ Briefly, because I need to get to bed, Love had his tilt table test. I thought it was going to be multiple movements, crazy angles, etc., but it was just them strapping him to a table then tilting it to 90 degrees to simulate standing. The idea is that people tend to lock their knees [...]
Tags: dizziness, Love, migraine, neurologist, neurologist for migraines, searching for cause of vertigo, tilt table test, vertigo
Posted by miss m on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 @ 12:28pm in
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∞ Love was at the Neurologist on the 20th again to see if his increase in migraine meds helped. It hasn’t. So now the neuro isn’t even sure it is migraines and wants to try a few other things. First up is a tilt table test with a cardiologist. It was originally scheduled for last Thursday [...]
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Posted by miss m on Sunday, August 19, 2012 @ 11:10pm in
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∞ The power window regulator assembly is this bow-looking bit that controls the power windows on a Honda Element. Looks like this: The problem with this part is that there’s a little plastic bit on it that tends to, well, break. And when it does, it loses all tension and the window falls down completely into [...]
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…but I’m chatty, so here’s pictures AND words. Mom’s birthday was last Wednesday the 8th, and we were going to get together at my sister’s on Saturday for a birthday party but Mom wasn’t feeling well, so we did it on Sunday instead. My sister had some technical problems with the grill (i.e. it didn’t [...]
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Posted by miss m on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 @ 11:22pm in
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∞ With all the focus on my blog about healthcare following my CNN.com article, I haven’t had a chance to update what ELSE is going on in my life lately. So here’s a bullet-point rundown. Love’s Dad was in the hospital again. Last Monday, July 2nd, he went to the ER late afternoon with severe pain [...]
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This afternoon, we braved the intense June Florida heat to head to downtown St. Petersburg. I wanted to walk around and get some photos with my new camera. And since Love really loves the area, it seemed like a win-win. Of course, it was INSANELY hot and it even rained briefly (like 5 minutes worth) [...]
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