Monday's Music Moves Me: Sept. 12, 2011 ~ Vertigo

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Welcome to a Monday's Music Moves Me, the fantabulistic music meme hosted by me, my dearest of friends Dolly from XmasDolly, Larry from Cakeblast, Callie from Jamerican Spice and the wonderful Stacy from Stacy Uncorked. This week's theme is FREEBIE... so you can post anything you want to!! Go for it everyone.

I am really late posting this due to some serious vertigo I've been suffering - I even fell down the stairs - (and only slight relief from my medication) last night and this morning. So to go along with this, I chose the following songs.....

Dizzy ~ Tommy Roe



You Spin Me Round ~ Dead or Alive (How weird did we look in the 80's??)



Vertigo ~ U2




So what's moving you today? Write up a post and let us know... Here is all you need to do to play along:


First step: Head on over to You Tube, or anywhere you get your music videos and post them on your blog! Upcoming themes are to you LOWER RIGHT of XmasDolly's blog.

Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" Button, mine is on my right sidebar, or off of any of the hosts' sites.

Third step: SIGN THE LINKY - Follow your hosts, grab their buttons too when you visit them and show them some love by leaving a comment.. (mine is on my right sidebar above the 4M button)

Final step: Go visit the other Rockers on our Linky and PLEASE show them some love by leaving them a comment, you know you like comments, they do too!


Once you write up your post, link up with us (on any of the host's blog - they are all connected) and you may be chosen as our SPOTLIGHT DANCERS like this week's lucky couple in our #1 and #2 linky spots.....

Timmy at Fornication ~~ and ~~ Karen at If I Could Escape

CONGRATULATIONS!!

If you are one of the lucky ones who is chosen for our spotlight dance, don't forget to grab the Spotlight Dancer Button from Dolly's right sidebar and proudly display it on your blog... WooHoo!



Now, don't forget to sign the linky, visit the participants, and leave a comment - you know you like them, so does everyone else. For more Monday music fun, visit Lady Estrogen and my friend Denise at Run DMT.

ROCK ON, MY FRIENDS!!




We're very sorry to say there are some people not playing along just using our linky to get traffic for their blogs! Unfortunately, these bloggers will be marked and ignored, you will not get any benefit from our linky, so don't bother. All we ask is that you leave a comment, grab our button, ad/or follow us. If you don't want to post a video, you can post a link to a video, or post some lyrics, but please - at least attempt to make it music related. Thank you for your understanding. We will not follow you and we will not promote your blog!

*** Just one more thing...

PLEASE, we are family friendly blogs and while we really don't want to censor anyone,

but we do ask that you keep your songs rated PG13 or less.

If you find that you need to post songs of an explicit sexual nature or language,

please find a different venue. If your song does contain a small amount of questionable language, please put a disclaimer BEFORE the video.

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Monday's Music Moves Me ~ Been a Bad Week

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Welcome to a Monday's Music Moves Me, the fantabulistic music meme hosted by me, my dearest of friends Dolly from XmasDolly, Larry from Cakeblast, Callie from Jamerican Spice and the wonderful Stacy from Stacy Uncorked. This week's theme is FREEBIE WEEK!

I have had a really busy, lousy week that ended up with a horrible migraine on Sunday that kept me in bed until about 7pm when I could finally keep down a piece of toast and a Popsicle, plus enough meds to take the pain away. So here are a couple of songs that describe how I feel.....

19th Nervous Breakdown ~ The Rolling Stones



The ironic thing about this next song is that it was recorded the week I was born Dec. 3-8, 1965 (I was born on the 7th).....

Mother's Little Helper ~ The Rolling Stones




So what's moving you today? Write up a post and let us know... Here is all you need to do to play along:


First step: Head on over to You Tube, or anywhere you get your music videos and post them on your blog! Upcoming themes are to you LOWER RIGHT of XmasDolly's blog.

Second Step: Grab our "Monday's Music Moves Me" Button, mine is on my right sidebar, or off of any of the hosts' sites.

Third step: SIGN THE LINKY - Follow your hosts, grab their buttons too when you visit them and show them some love by leaving a comment.. (mine is on my right sidebar above the 4M button)

Final step: Go visit the other Rockers on our Linky and PLEASE show them some love by leaving them a comment, you know you like comments, they do too!


Once you write up your post, link up with us (on any of the host's blog - they are all connected) and you may be chosen as our SPOTLIGHT DANCERS like this week's lucky couple in our #1 and #2 linky spots.....

Chloe of Mama's Musings ~~ and ~~ Kayla of The Eclectic Element

CONGRATULATIONS!!

If you are one of the lucky ones who is chosen for our spotlight dance, don't forget to grab the Spotlight Dancer Button from Dolly's right sidebar and proudly display it on your blog... WooHoo!




Now, don't forget to sign the linky, visit the participants, and leave a comment - you know you like them, so does everyone else. For more Monday music fun, visit Lady Estrogen and my friend Denise at Run DMT.

ROCK ON, MY FRIENDS!!



We're very sorry to say there has been some people not playing along, and just signing our linky so other people will stop by their blogs for giveaways or whatever! Unfortunately, these bloggers will be marked and ignored, you will not get any benefit from our linky, so don't bother. Leave a comment, grab our button, or follow us. If you don't want to post a video, you can post a link to a video, or post some lyrics, but please - at least attempt to make it music related. Thank you for your understanding. We will not follow you and we will not promote your blog!

*** Just one thing, please...

We are family friendly blogs and while we don't want to censor anyone,

we do ask that you keep your songs rated PG13 or less.

If you find that you need to post songs of an explicit sexual nature or language,

please find a different venue.

Thank you very much!***

Did You Ever Have One of Those Weeks?????

  Boy, oh boy, what a week this was for us... I am still recovering.


It started out on Monday, the 13th with my poor husband breaking a tooth eating an ice cream bar as we were picking up my prescriptions (which by the way cost $106 for 2 generic prescriptions, UGH!) - it was, of course after 5:00pm, so the dentist office was already closed.


Well, Tuesday I woke up to discover that Mandie, one of our six doggies, oh yes, they are all still here (explanation to follow) had gotten sick with diarrhea all over the living room carpet. The poor baby was afraid I was going to hurt her as she is still not used to people loving her since she is a rescue dog that we have only had for about a month. So I had to clean up her mess and comfort her letting her know that we still loved her and everything was still OK.

We managed to get Bill a dentist appointment on Wednesday here in town at noon, which of course messes up the whole day, but we are trying to get this fixed for his class reunion in Connecticut the first weekend of October - you see it is his front tooth  - go figure! So, anyway, an hour and a half and $100 later, with nothing done but some poking around and an x-ray, we find out that it is going to cost over $3,100 to fix everything.  Great!!  Now we have to figure out what to do, we have the money for it - it's what we have put aside for the trip to Connecticut. Hrmpf.....   

Now comes Thursday... my good friend (the one with the dogs, who has her own problems right now) has a friend who is a dentist in downtown Orlando, and she's graciously offered to fit Bill in at 8:00am. Oh, joy, we get to drive into Orlando with all the other commuters, but that is OK, we are being done a favor and we really appreciate it, so we get up really early and take the doggies for a walk, which completely confuses them, and off we go. Forty-five minutes later we arrive right on time and my darling goes through a really thorough examination and another x-ray, 3 hours later, it is determined that he needs a full set of dentures on top and bottom. While the bottom can wait, we really need to do the top right away to fix his broken tooth. The cost for this, with a discount and a complete set of x-rays is $2,900... Yippee!!       We decide that our Connecticut trip will have to be cancelled (which also means I won't be able to see my youngest son, Alex - totally bummed now, don't worry sweetie, I'll get over it, you need to have this done and I love you from the bottom of my heart!)  because Bill really needs his teeth to eat and talk, those things are kind-of important... so he is fitted and we make an appointment for next Friday for his oral surgery... more joy: for him because of the pain and for me because I am going to have to drive back from Orlando... I don't really drive anymore, I am a wreck thinking about it already.   

Wait.... things get better.  We get home, and notice that all the digital clocks in the house are blinking. Turns out, the house was without power for about a 1/2 hour while we were gone which explains why it is so warm in there - mind you, we still have temps in the 90s here.      So, after resetting all the clocks, I start working on my blog and answering emails when I doze off for a bit because I have gotten up way too early compared to usual and my back is really killing me from the scrubbing of the carpet in the morning.  At around 4:30pm there is a short loss of power again, but it comes on about 5 minutes later, this happens several more times. Not so around 5:15 when it goes off again.... oh, no, this time is goes off and stays off, I have just turned on the oven to make chicken - damn!  So, I call the power company and find out that it should be back on by 6:30 and they will call me if there is going to be a delay. I get a call around 6:15 from the power company asking if my power is back on... UH, no! They tell me that it should be back on by 9:00pm... there goes dinner.  So now we have to go out to eat and we have found out that it is the whole town that has no power, so the restaurants in town are out of the question.  Boy it gets dark here with no lights and it gets really warm without A/C or the ceiling fans. Well, we find that Chick-fil-A is open and has power just on the out-skirts of town so that is where we eat - I love their chicken strips. I even get some nuggets to bring home to the puppies because there won't be any of my chicken to add to their dog food for dinner - YES, they are super spoiled.   

After dinner, we go home and feed the doggies by candle light and then go sit on the balcony with them by citronella candle and FINALLY the power comes back on around 9:30pm and stays on. It takes about 10 more minutes for the DirecTV to reprogram itself, and we watch one show then head off to bed because I am so stressed, in pain and thoroughly exhausted. 

Friday, I start working on on catching up on my emails and my blog when I discover that during one of those power surges, some of my emails have disappeared - CRAP! So, if you have sent me something that was important and I haven't responded to you, please resend it and forgive me, I am not ignoring you... I am totally overwhelmed and wiped out! Now here is the reason for still having all the dogs: My good friend has been trying to buy a house here in town and she even put down a deposit only to discover that there is a lien on the house and the current owners are refusing to sell.  Where she is living now doesn't have room for the dogs, so, we still have her three dogs along with our three dogs... don't get me wrong, I love them all, but it really is a TON of work and it is causing me a lot of pain in my back and neck and doesn't give me as much time for my own blog or visiting all my wonderful virtual friends - whom I miss terribly!! But how can you resist these faces:

We were really lucky enough to go out to our favorite Shannon's Irish pub on Friday night for their "Half-Way to St. Patrick's Day" party and have a fabulous dinner and Guinness on tap, plus spend time with some great friends with splendid music.

Saturday morning I was awakened at 4:00am with a mind-splitting migraine with excruciating pain, nausea, sensitivity to light, sound and any kind of movement. (Those of you who don't get migraines have NO idea how debilitating they can be, and I am so grateful you don't have to suffer with them.) I ended up taking one of my heavy-duty pills (at $33 each) around 6:00am and it hardly did anything. I stayed in bed - along with 4 doggies making sure that I was OK - minus the times I had to get up to vomit {pardon the visual} - taking another of my $33 pills plus my regular pain pills, migraine meds, and regular medication once the vomiting stopped, until 4:30pm when I was at least able to stand up and walk. I went outside with the dogs for a walk to get some fresh air (wearing VERY dark sunglasses) and then came back in the house and lie down on the couch to watch a little TV with my eyes 1/2 open and the sound lowered with all 6 doggies surrounding me, taking turns to make sure I was OK and licking my face, hands and feet. Good thing Bill had some left-overs from Friday night because I really wasn't up to cooking, I was able to put the chicken that had been marinating since Thursday {remember the power-outage?}  in the oven and he and the doggies had a piece of that... I drank water for dinner and then had a little ice cream mixed with a banana to raise my potassium level. I figured this migraine was from all the turmoil in the air pressure with the fading hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Igor off the east coast of Florida and the tropical depression a bit farther out in the Atlantic... when all these depressions smack together over central Florida and the barometric pressure fluctuating rapidly, it really effects my migraines and this one was a doozie!

Sunday I was still feeling kind-of weak and sick to my stomach, so I didn't eat very much all day, just a couple of bites during our usual breakfast out with the doggies at Shannon's Irish Pub - the babies ate everything I didn't.     We walked around town for a little while and came home to watch football. To add insult to injury, the week ended with our poor NY Giants losing the game on Sunday night.     I'm so glad the week is over... lets hope this week is better.


So how was YOUR week?

Bitch and Moan Friday (So, I Know it's Saturday) 2/6/10

Bitch & Moan Friday [or in my case Saturday, TeeHee] is a meme started by my friend Annette over at Fairy Blog Mother to get all the crap off your chest before the weekend so you can start refreshed. I haven't participated in a while (sorry Annette) but I have read her posts and the other participants and laughed my butt off because Annette and Tami really know how to make fun of the bad things in life... and isn't that really how to get through the rough patches?

So, here I go:

~ Health Insurance & Hospital Bills: Can't they EVER agree? My insurance says I don't have to pay for something but they told the hospital that they weren't going to pay for it and that it wasn't to be written off by the hospital. So who the hell IS supposed to pay for it? When I call the hospital they tell me that it is a copay, but I say I have already paid my $20 copay for that visit to which they say, yes, I see that, but your insurance company says it is an additional copay. WHY? I call the insurance company... they say they don't know why. HUH????? You are the ones that told the hospital I have to pay it. They tell me to tell the hospital to call them. Soooo, I call the hospital again and they tell me they only take INCOMING calls, they can't make outgoing calls (you probably understand this Annette, but it is really frustrating to me!). So now I have to call back the insurance company, find someone who speaks and understands ENGLISH - a feat in of itself - and have THEM call the HOSPITAL. In the meantime, I have received a letter from a collection agency for the $24.66 that the hospital says I owe them. I know it is not a lot of money, but it is the principle of it AND I already pay over $96 per month for my Medicare replacement plan. URRGGHH!!

~ Grocery Store Sales Items: I hate when I go to the grocery store to buy the items that are supposed to be on sale and they don't have ANY. You know, if it happened once in a while on one item, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But when you go shopping at the same store and it happens over and over on LOTS of items, it really gets to be a PITA. "Why do I go to that store?" you may ask. It's the closest one to my house so I save on gas and I do get rainchecks, but when I plan my weekly menu on the sales items it really gets to be annoying!

~ Prescription Drug Costs: I cannot believe how much they have gone up in the past 5 years since I have been out of the field. They have always been expensive and people without insurance have always struggled. We have insurance, and as you can see by my first B & M it is such a wonderful plan - it does cover some of my prescriptions, but not all of them; and the ones it does cover, it doesn't cover completely. We picked up one of Bill's prescriptions yesterday for 5 pills, yes FIVE pills and it cost over $95... it averaged out to be $19.06 per pill... thank God he only has to take it once per week!! That's one of the cheap ones, I have a prescription for my migraines that costs $261.86 for 9 (NINE) pills - that's $29.10 per pill!!! I'm lucky that I only need to use that one for really bad migraines that either hit me out of the blue or that don't work for my cheap meds ($30 for 80 generic pills) or Excedrin Migraine if I catch it early enough. I know that there are some really fat-cat executives out there on their private Caribbean islands living it up on my (and lots of other people's) money. They can just go... well you know!!

Well, that's it for now, what pissed you off this week? Don't forget to go link up to Fairy Blog Mother and visit the other participants... Have a great weekend.

Until next time..... Lorie

reBlog from parenttrend.com: Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, Rolaids and More Recalled | ParentTrend.com

I found this fascinating quote today:

"Time to check your medicine cabinets. McNeil Products have issued a massive recall on several common drugs. Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, Rolaids, Simply Sleep, and St. Joseph lines all have products that are being recalled. Thankfully, the liquid versions have not been added to the recall, yet."

Head on over to ParentTrend to finish reading the complete article...

parenttrend.com, Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, Rolaids and More Recalled ParentTrend.com, Jan 2010

Until next time..... Lorie