Monday, March 24, 2014

5 Little Grins plus a give away opportunity!

 5 Little Grins

Okay I don't know about y'all but I am having a day so I need some positive vibes!!! It's time to link up with Raewyn at Be a Warrior Queen and if you go to her Blog she and her sponsors (yes, that's me in there....my first give away!) are giving away some awesome stuff so go enter to win.

1. I spent the weekend alone thanks to some pre-arranged fishing trip of my guy's and my asthma which I have given too much blog time to but when he came home last night I made sure he knew I missed him. I said it with cherry cheesecake and pork tenderloin sandwich. The smile on his face said it all. It's really the little things you do that mean the most in a relationship. Finding a way to be kind and just show each other you matter. He's home and I'm happy!


2. I finished the Divergent series last night and I can safely say after liking book one, loving book two, that I pretty much hated book three from the minute I opened the cover so I just wanted to finish. All done! Woohoo!

3. My honey and my brother bonded fishing. This is my bro. His smile is broken but trust me he was the Crappie Master!



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With all the bad, sad news coming out today I thought we should all take a moment to think happy thoughts and send Peyton Manning Happy Birthday wishes!!

5. We are only 1 week from Baseball season!!! My Rangers are starting the season of mostly on the disabled list and that's tough, really, but it's a long season and I am faithful but more, I believe they will be ready to make a run when healthy! Never underestimate the power of positive thinking!

Click here to enter the March Give Away with Be A Warrior Queen

Happy Monday! It's almost Tuesday!!

Simply,
Laura
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Thursday: Throwback, Thoughts, & being Thankful








Poor Thursday, nobody really loves you except to bring Friday on.












Then there is the throwback thing. Okay, I give up.







This is me circa 2000?





My dogs Nikki and Penny who are my angels in heaven now Circa 2008.











And of course Ries and Sadie throwing all the way back to...last Thursday!






Thoughts:
-Am I the only one who, when sick, wants to be left alone but checked on when I feel like it?

Tuesday I was in the middle of a terrible asthma attack that lasted nearly 10 hours and at one point I told the BF to leave me be. I don't need to be taken care of. I have done it myself forever. Then about 3 hours later when I was sure my lungs were about to collapse and he was sleeping, I was sad because he was asleep! I know, I know! Women are crazy.
To be fair, he did check on me & he is sweet in putting up with my totally irrational behavior over the last 24 hours.

-Opening Day is less than 2 weeks away and I am not ready! I feel like I have been pulled in 73 directions and I don't know how to get excited for baseball season. Of course I am going. I am, if the tickets ever show up! It won't take much for me to be ready, either. The minute I head out to Rangers Ballpark, it's over!

-Trying to sell a house and find a new house is so much more complicated than I thought it would be. Why can't my house just find a way to be done and sold at the same moment a perfect house shows up?

-How many times can Apple possibly update my iPhone in a year and when will the iPhone 6 come out because I need more storage!

-It never ceases to amaze me how selfish and self centered some people can be while there is a world of people who give everything they have and are for others.

-When I am sick I have the strangest dreams! I was giving birth in one, on my living room couch, no less. The baby I gave birth to was probably a 2 year old. I mean...what IS that? Oh, I have been reading the Divergent series too so there was another dream about war, civil unrest, and me being Rambo! Never gonna happen.

Thankful-

-Of course I am thankful for my Guy who is also my BFF, my family, and some awesome friends who have been there for me though thick and thin.

-I am always thankful for everyone who bothers to read this blog.

-My dogs who guard me and watch over me like good protectors. Especially when I am alone and the man is fishing or hunting.

-My job because it makes everything in my life easier to pay for! ;-)

-Brave men and women who serve and protect!







This rescue inhaler because I don't think I would be alive today to write this blog without it.

-Dreams of the future because no matter how far fetched the dreams seem, they give me a reason to get up every morning.

-Learning to let go of mistakes and unattainable dreams from the past because sometimes you have to wake up to the fact that yesterday isn't coming back and make the most of today! That doesn't mean the past doesn't matter but you simply can't live there.

-A future project that I am just starting to map out after years of putting it in the impossible folder on my laptop. I will share it when it becomes a reality.

-Mostly I am thankful for loving and being loved. Something I never truly felt until the last 3 1/2 months. Being loved unconditionally, no matter how unreasonable you are being. Being secure in that love enough to know that you can be grumpy or sick or PMSing (sometimes). Having quiet moments when you know that everything is good no matter how stressed you feel or who is trying to cause problems. They fail but there is always someone who wants to cause problems and take away your happy.

-Finally, I am thankful for fresh fish and the amazing fish tacos that come from fresh fish and my man catching a bunch more this weekend because a full freezer is a happy home.

Sorry this blog is so scattered. Blame the meds! Happy Thursday!!



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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Calling all Asthmatics!




Last week I explained how my migraines effect me. Lucky me I went from a week full of migraines to a trip East and a horrific allergy attack to asthma so bad I nearly drove myself to the hospital tonight.


So here is my question for those of you who suffer from asthma or know someone who suffers from asthma and may be able to help me. Nebulizer? Does anyone have a suggestion about the best one reasonable money can buy?


When my inhaler fails to help me it is always at night and my coughing becomes so bad that I will go on spells of non-stop coughing for an hour or more. Tonight for example, I coughed pretty much continuously from 7:30 until 10pm. I have a cold humidifier and a warm steam humidifier but in the middle of a significant attack they barely help. I am going in to see my doctor tomorrow and I will probably get a scolding about not going to the ER tonight but honestly a hospital is the last place I want to be when I can't breath. Luckily, I only get attacks this bad once or twice a year

I looked in to a few nebulizers last week when I first started having breathing issues but was afraid of the cost, almost $200! After this attack tonight however, I am almost ready to bite the bullet and spend that so I don't die of an attack some night when I don't want to go to the ER.


So help me please!!! Tell me the best nebulizer out there my asthma suffering friends!! Point me in the direction of open air passages.

Simply,
Laura
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Behind these hazel eyes: Country Girl




I live in the big city but my heart is in the country. It always has been. Oh sure, there are great perks about living in a BIG metroplex like Dallas-Ft Worth.

First, there is every kind of shopping right around the corner. Every corner. I live 3 miles from 2 different Wal-marts, 4 miles from Target, 4 miles from the mall, 1 mile from Kroger. Honestly everything I could ever need or want is within 10 miles of my home. Food, car dealers, shoe stores galore, malls-plural, Jewelers, gas stations. Everything.

Entertainment: I have 3 movie theaters within 5 miles of my house. I am within 30 miles from the Texas Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars and concerts unimaginable...I mean I have tickets for this summer for Blake Shelton, Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, Brad Paisley, and Luke Bryan. Actually I have tickets for more than that but I forget who.

Anything medically I need is right here in DFW.

My neighbors are never in my business. Shoot, 95% of them don't know me and I have lived in my home over 14 years!


Still, I would trade all that ease in a heartbeat for a place on the lake with room for my garden, a front porch to sip tea on, a fishing pole, and a bunch of night crawlers. I grew up in a town where if everyone didn't know you, they knew someone who knew someone who you knew. The town gossips were always in everyone else's business and things like who paid their water bill late were big news! People knew your business, like it or not, and people also knew you. I don't need all the excitement of the big town. I do half my shopping on line now because really, who wants to go to the mall anyway? I really only go to one or two Mavs and Stars games a year and I never pay for Cowboy tickets because well, I won't line Jerry Jones' pocket. I would miss my 20-30 Rangers games a year but I could still watch them on TV. So really, I wouldn't mind living in the country where the dogs tend to roam free and the coyotes wail at night. Life is hard but it is rewarding and let's be honest, who doesn't want to live somewhere where they can hold hands with their honey at the end of a hard days work sipping sweet tea and watching the sunset over the lake? That may not be your idea of heaven but it sure is mine!



Simply,
Laura
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