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Get To Know Your Lowlife Neighbors

Hahahahahaha, I love that title!!!!!!

Here is a tip from 1001 Ways to Save the Earth by Joanna Yarrow

"Show your children just how many creatures share your garden. Sink a clean jam jar, with it's lid off, into a hole into the ground. Leave it out on a warm dry night. The next morning introduce your kids to the beetles, woodlice, and other tiny creatures who've stumbled in."







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Nasal Irrigation Has Helped

Until recently I never knew what a neti pot was for. I would see one in the store and cringe. I imagined that you filled it with steaming water put a towel over your head and held your head above the steaming neti pot and the mucus would drain out of your nose. That sounds pretty disgusting right? Well I was wrong and while I have not tried a neti pot I have tried using a blue ball syringe.

I just took a warm shower and used a blue ball syringe with a salt water mix and I feel slightly more human now. The first time I tried this I was nervous and I thought it would feel like accidentally breathing in pool water through your nose with the coughing and gagging and burning.

This was not the case, it did feel a little weird the first time but not uncomfortable. I can finally breathe through my nose and I am not grabbing for the tissue every five seconds. Also my ears are less sensitive and my head no longer hurts as terrifyingly bad as it did 2 hours ago.

Also watch the video in its entirety, if you make the "k" sound while doing the nasal irrigation the solution comes out of your nose completely with none going in your mouth or down your throat.

Additional video HERE





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It hurts so bad

It hurts so bad, its hard to breathe. Hard to talk, hard to eat, hard to keep my eyes open. Hard to keep my eyes closed. I cant tell if it hurts less to sit up or lay down.

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Update

Today I went to the urgent care. Last night I barely got any sleep. My wisdom tooth was throbbing with pain. Ive now got a sinus infection and boy does it hurt. Willow was up at 3am coughing and the only way to help her was to sit upright. Since I had sleeping meds in me, Ev got up with her. And then I got up at 7am and Ev went to sleep for 3 hours and then he got up and then I went to sleep and he didnt wake me up again until 3:30pm and my appointment was a t 5pm. Im exhausted, my brain says I shouldn't be, but I am. Pixie is having coughing spells but she is still "sleeping" so we cant give her anything. Ugh ugh ugh. This cold that we have been cycling around is nasty and seems to last forever.




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MIA

Im so sorry Ive been missing in action. We have all been sick with a nasty cold, even Willow has gotten it. Ev went to the urgent care today. 3 hours and a chest xray later he found out his has turned into bronchitis. We feel awful and tired. Celtic has gotten better but half of the high school is out with swine flu.

Thankfully we took the kids to an old folks home for trick or treating the night before Halloween. On Halloween we heard about the high school and decided to not take the kids out again. The town is pretty small, even though Celtic is in Elementary we are keeping him home for the week. The kids who returned to school after trick or treating probably wont show signs until today or tomorrow and by then the kids they were around at school will have contracted it and they wont know until Thursday/Friday. So I just figured we would keep him out for the week and he can start back on Monday, we dont need something else circulating through the house right now.

Thank you for ALL of the well wishers on our Anniversary, I really appreciate it! Ive got two reviews and giveaways coming up for you and I will try my best to get back into routine.

Bloggest Loser-Sorry I didnt update. Nothing to report, no loss, no gain-just sick.

Coughing and hacking is sooo sexy..........don't ya think??



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Happiness

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