Fleeting Thoughts

As I go about my day I think of so many great things to blog about. If I ever want to put those thoughts into words I guess I'm going to be forced to start leaving myself little voice messages on my cell phone or something. I just can't seem to remember all those "great ideas" by the time my fingers actually hit the keyboard.No cracks about my memory ... you know you're all guilty too. Admit it.

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Monday, August 21, 2006

Cystitis Natural Cure
If there’s one thing I hate about being a woman, it’s the “female problems” that come with the package. You know what I’m talking about. Get a bladder infection, go on some antibiotics for it and WHAM!!! Hello, yeast infection. What is that all about?? Ugh, as if the bladder infection wasn’t painful enough? Well apparently there is a new game in town that’s about to put an end to that nasty cycle. Say hello to D-Mannose. This stuff is 100% natural and is a glyconutrient sourced from Mother Nature without any additives that don’t belong in the human body. D-mannose is a naturally occurring simple sugar, closely related (in chemical terms, a ’stereoisomer’) to glucose and is found in small quantities in some fruits, such as cranberries. The way it works is, you take Natural D-Mannose and the next time you go to the bathroom, the e.coli is flushed from your system. That’s a pretty fast cure if you ask me - especially compared to the antibiotics route. So, to recap: D-Mannose is fast and it doesn’t come with any nasty side effects since it’s all natural. What are you waiting for?

Blogsoldiers Relaunches

I’ve been using Blogsoldiers for a few months now. It’s a blog traffic engine where you surf sites to earn credits in order for your site to be rotate through the system so that it can be viewed by other bloggers.There’s been some exciting news. Blogsoldiers has been sold and it’s new owner wants to hear from blogsoldier members. He would like to hear suggestions for new features. Are you already a member? If so, please go to the blogsoldiers site and tell the new owner, John Bambenek, what you’d like to see.The new owner is celebrating the relaunch of blogsoldiers with a contest and a fantastic deal on credit purchase.1) 50 referral credits for all new members you refer.2) 50 bonus credits on surfing 50 sites for new members who join.3) Surfing Contest for the month of August, the Top 10 surfers will receive up to 500 credits for having the most pages surfed between Aug 15 and Aug 31. Top surfer gets 500, 2nd gets 250, 3rd 150, 4th and 5th get 100, 6th-10th get 50.4) Membership contest. In ADDITION to the referral bonus, the member with the most sites referred will get 500 credits with the same bonus structure as above.5) REDUCED PURCHASE PRICE FOR CREDITS! I have reduced the price on purchasing credits for THIS MONTH ONLY! It is now $8 - 1200, $14 - 2500, and $24 - 5000.6) If you post on your blog about the purchase and relaunch of blogsoldiers, you get 50 credits IN ADDITION to any referral credits that post generates. (Please open a support ticket, send me the permalink and your username).As you can see, this is a win win situation for people who are already members and for any new members that sign up. We all get extra credits! That’s right- if you are thinking of joining blogsoldiers you’ll get 50 extra credits for the first 50 sites that you surf.Disclosure: All the links in this post are my referal links to Blogsoldiers and other traffic engines. If you sign up under my membership we both win - so help me out and sign up today.Other traffic engines that you might want to join:BlogmadBlogexplosionBlogazooBlogadvance

Cystitis Natural Cure

If there’s one thing I hate about being a woman, it’s the “female problems” that come with the package. You know what I’m talking about. Get a bladder infection, go on some antibiotics for it and WHAM!!! Hello, yeast infection. What is that all about?? Ugh, as if the bladder infection wasn’t painful enough? Well apparently there is a new game in town that’s about to put an end to that nasty cycle. Say hello to D-Mannose. This stuff is 100% natural and is a glyconutrient sourced from Mother Nature without any additives that don’t belong in the human body. D-mannose is a naturally occurring simple sugar, closely related (in chemical terms, a ’stereoisomer’) to glucose and is found in small quantities in some fruits, such as cranberries. The way it works is, you take Natural D-Mannose and the next time you go to the bathroom, the e.coli is flushed from your system. That’s a pretty fast cure if you ask me - especially compared to the antibiotics route. So, to recap: D-Mannose is fast and it doesn’t come with any nasty side effects since it’s all natural. What are you waiting for?

Locked and Unlocked Doors

Things that make you go Hmmm …My husband is really bad about locking the door when he goes out of the house. He’s not bad about locking the front door when he goes to work or goes out for several hours. It’s the back door that causes all the problems with him.He goes outside to bbq and doesn’t lock the door when he comes back inside.He goes out into the garden or to sit out on the patio and doesn’t lock the door when he returns.He takes garbage or recycling outside, or just goes out to check the temperature and doesn’t lock up when he returns.It’s not unusual for me to find the back door unlocked at midnight or early in the morning after he’s gone to work. I’m the door locker around here it seems.The only time that my husband consistantly locks the back door is when I’m outside doing something in the garden and he’s decided it’s time for him to return inside.Hmmm do you think that means something?Speaking of locked doors, our boarder has started to not lock the front door when she returns home from school. I’ve found it unlocked when I’ve come inside from the backyard. How the heck can I make sure no one is entering the house that shouldn’t if I’m in the backyard?This morning our boarder breached the lock door rule in the worst way. She left the house at 8 a.m. and didn’t lock the door. I came downstairs when I woke up to find the door unlocked.We air-condition our house with window air-conditioners. When I’m upstairs in our room I can’t hear what goes on downstairs. Anyone could have walked in and robbed us or worse.Worse still … we live in a pretty good neighborhood but no area is truly crime free, is it? I was listening to the news today and heard that a house just four major blocks from here was invaded early this morning. The homeowner was tied up by two or three assailants. There hasn’t been further news yet but I’m curious to find out more about this since it happened so close to our home.Update: I did find out more about it and it turns out that it’s a dumb criminal story, perfect for my other blog Odd Planet. I’m posting the story of the Sleeping Criminals right now. LOLAnd here I find our door unlocked. All I could think of when I heard about the home invasion was how easy it would have been for someone to break in and do that to my husband and I while we slept upstairs, oblivious to the breach of security.I’m furious.My husband and I had planned to sit down and talk with her about this when she came home from school and let her know that we were very upset that the door had been unlocked. As I said above she almost never locks it when she returns home from school, so I’ve slowly been becoming upset with her over this anyway.What does my husband do instead? While I was in another room he whispered to her buddy buddy like and told her that she’d left the door unlocked and that it had better not happen again. He spoke to her as if I didn’t know about it and like it was a secret between them.Chris doesn’t like confrontations or controversy. He holds all his stress inside and tries to avoid unpleasant situations. Not necessarily a healthy thing. Sure you can’t go around blowing up over little things all the time, but I think that if you get your frustration out, even over small things, when something is bothering you that you handle stress better overall, especially when something really bad happens. My husband lets it all build up inside and as a result when some huge problem arises that ends up causing a lot of stress (ie illness in family, death, major money issues etc) he doesn’t handle it all that well.So I think he was trying to avoid a big blow up. We had one last week when I found out that our boarder had thrown out a sandwhich that she’d made herself for her own lunch last week, since she’s decided that, get this - she doesn’t like sandwiches or bread anymore? Huh … she made a sandwich - Herself - then she throws it out? What a waste. See my post Little princess is driving me mad for more info on the stuff that’s been going on in the past week or two with our boarder.We gave in, as we always seem to do, on the sandwhich thing and we’re letting her make her own food. She expressed a desire to eat sushi for lunch from now on. Fine, tell me how much it’s going to cost, and if it comes in at the same price as the sandwiches that we’ve been making for you, or the ones you’ve been making for yourself you can do it. Turns out the very simple sushi is in the same price range so we went with her on Sunday to Korea town and bought the supplies.Sigh … last night she was complaining that sushi is too hard to make and very time consuming. If she gives up on this it’s back to sandwiches. I’m not going back and forth anymore. This is it.We’ve been giving in to a lot of her demands requests. All we ask of her is that she locks the door when she leaves and when she returns, cleans her room once a week, rinses her dishes after eating (not wash, just rinse), and keep the air-conditioner that we placed in her room turned on if she’s got her door open, if she’s on the main floor with us, or if she’s out of the house - if we’ve asked her to have it on. I don’t think that we are asking too much, and we’ve given far more than we’ve asked for in return.Last night she breached the air conditioning rule. She came home from school at around 5 pm, and decide that she was exhausted due to the heat outside so she went upstairs for a nap. I’d had her air-conditioner turned up high. She turned it off. Fine, the door was closed, it doesn’t matter if it’s on or off if the door is closed because it’s not doing anything to cool the house when her door is closed.At about 6:30 she came down for dinner, then proceeded to look through our phone for past phone calls. She was looking for one of her friends numbers. I regret showing her that feature on the phone because of course she’s seeing all the people who have called us when she does that and it feels like an invasion of privacy when she does that. (really, read the princess story and see how she thinks her privacy was invaded!)Anyway, we had dinner and she proceeded to use our phone for about an hour and a half. When she first moved in she had a cell phone but she got rid of it … now she uses ours. grrr. At 9 p.m. she decided to go and meet some friends. Fine. Out the door she goes at 9:20 p.m. or so. A while later I noticed that our main floor was getting warm and I happened to go upstairs. Her air conditioner wasn’t even turned on. It was still 30 celcius ( 86 F) at 10 pm last night, but it felt warmer due to extreme humidity. Not a good time to have an air conditioner turned off if you are lucky enough to have one. Plus, I had a fever all day yesterday, I didn’t need a warm house when I was in that condition.When she came home we told her about her air-condtioner being off and figured it had been off for 5 hours considering she had said she turned it off when she went up for a nap at 5 pm. She’s done this before, so I told her that if she did it again we would remove the air conditioner from her room. She turns it off most of the time when she’s in there, so it’s not like this is a huge punishment or anything, and if we moved it we’d gain back control of it.Today it’s 36 celcius (98.6 F) with a heat index of 47 C (116 F). That’s damn hot. If she turns off her air conditioner today on top of leaving the house unlocked this morning war will break out tonight.Hubby and I are going to have a talk with her at dinner time about the unlocked door. I asked Chris why he spoke to her so secretively about finding the door unlocked this morning and he said he just didn’t want to have a confrontation. Unfortunately I think this is a very serious issue so we need to discuss it together. I don’t want it to end up in a fight or arguement. I just want her to understand how serious an issue it could be if we’d been robbed or worse because she left the door unlocked. She needs to take some responsibility for her actions.We are looking for a new boarder. If we find one in the next few days we are going to give her notice to move out. She’s driving me insane. She is the BIGGEST problem in my life right now and I have the power to stop it. It’s just unfortunate that we need a boarder at all at this time.Big changes ahead._________________________For those who inquired and sent good thoughts and prayers for Chris he’s doing better. He didn’t go to work yesterday because he didn’t feel great when he got up but he’s been doing well since then. I don’t think the stress in the house does him any good, especially since he doesn’t handle stress well. We need to eliminate the major source of stress and soon.

Non Venom

I was going to write a venomous Thursday 13 about our boarder, but I’m just too tired. I have to get up early this morning to go to a Hindu Wedding at 10:30 a.m. My husband is going to be playing music after the ceremony with a band. One of the musicians is Ravi Shankar’s grandson, so it should be very interesting. Oh, and Chris came home from practicing on Wednesday night with his outfit. I can’t remember the formal name but it’s a tunic and loose cotton pants. Kinda looks like Pajamas. I took a picture with him dressed in it and I’m sure I’ll have more from the wedding and the mini-concert. On Friday there is another wedding for the couple. This one will be a catholic ceremony followed by a reception. It’s at a normal time thankfully, but it’s still an odd day. Then, this weekend we have a festival here in Toronto called “The Taste of the Danforth”. Since we live nearby, I’d like to try to get there once or twice. There are bandstands with musicians, lots of great food and drink and about a million happy people wandering around. Oh and it’s also walking distance too. The reason why I was going to write a venomous post about our boarder is because she’s still driving me nuts! Thankfully, she’s decided to go back home to Korea on August 25th. Whether she goes back to Korea or not she’s definitely going to be out of our house on that day. I’ve had enough. Two weeks ago she accidentally knocked over a water glass in her room. She used half a box of tissues to clean up the spill. She told me about it that day, but I had forgotten about it later that evening when she called me up because her computer wouldn’t turn on. I finally got it started after unplugging it and resetting it, but it simply wouldn’t start up when I tried at the beginning. Then, this past Sunday she told us that her keyboard hasn’t been working for oh, four or five days. Hmmm how about since last Saturday when you spilled water all over it? She offered to replace it, but said it in a way that, to us, seemed like she was hoping we’d say it was ok and that we’d replace it. Uh huh, ’cause by this time I’d realized why the computer wouldn’t start the weekend before. She’s lucky she didn’t have to replace the whole computer. Now I know accidents happen, but why didn’t she tell us about the keyboard sooner. She just seems so sneaky. Last night we found a broken ceramic plate on the stove. I’m forgetting what they are called … you know, the kind of thing that you place a hot dish or hot pot on when you don’t want to ruin a table because the dish is so warm. Yeah, whatever that’s called. Well, we had this on our stove in an area that never has any heat, but it’s ceramic, it’s heat resistant. She must have dropped it or placed it over a burner that was turned on, because it had all these tiny cracks all over it, but two whole pieces had broken off and were lying on the stove when we found it. I asked her on Wednesday evening if she dropped it or turned the heat on under it and she said no. I guess we must have gremlins in the house then ’cause neither Chris nor I broke it. Chris spent all day Wednesday with the groom “to be” practicing music. The bride to be wasn’t amused and ended up doing a lot of the final preparations for the wedding on her own. So I ended up going over to her home Wednesday evening to calm her down. Man was she angry and frustrated. It seems that her Maid of Honor hasn’t been of any use to her and she felt that everything was going wrong. I did the ” it’s your day, and only you and him matter tomorrow” speech and that made her feel somewhat better. When I left the house my boarder and I had just finished dinner. Actually she was still eating. When I came back home at midnight she’d just left her dishes- some still with food on them on the table and the counter in the kitchen. She doesn’t have to do her dishes, but we’ve asked her to at least rinse them after she’s used them. So I had a mess to clean up at midnight. I also discovered that she drank my coke that I had tucked in the back of the fridge near the eggs. We’ve been limiting the supply of pop in the house because she’s been drinking more than the two of us combined. She pays room and board - but that doesn’t include snacks, and I think 4 or 5 soft drinks falls in to the snack catagory doesn’t it? She can buy her own if she wants to drink that much. I shouldn’t have to hide our food and drink now should I? We’ve told her what she can and can’t have, and what she can and can’t use, but she doesn’t listen. She’d made her own sandwhich for her lunch tomorrow. Yeah she’s back to sandwiches again … so much for the sushi that we purchased all the supplies for, for her. Sigh … Curious me … I was wondering how she found my coke since it was near the eggs at the back. Ah ha we’d only had two eggs left and now we only had only one. So she used an egg. Her sandwich is in a baggie in the fridge and when I took a better look at it I could see that she’d fried and egg for it. How does fried egg, ham and uh cucumber sound for a sandwhich? Whatever floats your boat. Now, a week ago I’d asked her to stop using my good frying pan because she kept using a metal spoon in it and she’d scratched the coated surface. It’s from a very expensive set that was a wedding gift and well, if someones going to ruin it it’d better be me. So we actually went out and bought her her own pan to use for cooking. It’s quite nice, a good quality stir fry pan, so she can cook her fried rice, eggs or whatever she wants in it. Did she use the new pan when she cooked the egg? Nope! I found the pan that I’d asked her NOT to use, not very well cleaned, in the cupboard. So that means that she left her dirty food filled dishes on the table and counter but cooked an egg and cleaned (sorta) the pan and put it away. Weird … Why wash one thing and not even scrape the food off the others? I’d only do that if I was being sneaky … and to me that was sneaky. My good pans are now hidden. The last one is the best of course. As soon as we came in the door at midnight she started telling me how expensive her flight to Korea was going to be, but that she’d found a good price on the internet. Could she use OUR credit card to buy her ticket? My jaw hit the floor, she’d been talking all along like she had a credit card. I don’t feel comfortable with that at all … I believe she was trying to tell me that she would give us cash for the use of our card, but I still don’t like that, not after all that’s been going on, and not when I’d assumed by many other things she’s said over the last few months that she had her own card. Trying to think quickly because she’d shocked me with her boldness I told her our card was maxed out. She was upset then- like we owed this to her? and was saying “Oh what am I going to do?”. Now, she’s been talking to her mom every day on the phone, so I asked if her parents have a credit card and why not use it. No … I want to use my Canadian money. Well then why don’t you just transfer your Canadian money to your parents so they can apply that to their credit card when they pay for the ticket. No can do- Korean money is worth less. I don’t get that. Yes there is a difference in the exchange rate but money is money and if it’s transfered it should end up being the correct amount in Korean funds. I think 90 cents Canadian is equal to 1000 Korean dollars. I’m just fed up with her. I feel like she’s being sneaky and as a result we actually have to hide things in our own home to keep them away from her. I can’t wait for her to be GONE!So I did write about the boarder after all. Please feel free to put in as many nasty words as you can think of where they seem appropriate. I took the venom out of the post. But not out of my mind. I’ve only told you the tip of the iceberg parts of this story. It’s just horrendous living with this #$#%$$^%^% . I have the nastiest words of all floating in my head about once every minute, every day. Words I never use because I think they are totally disgusting- but they are in my head and totally directed at her these days. It’s going to be nice to be away from her, here and there over the next few days, but then I’ll also be worried about what she’s doing in my home. Can’t win.