It’s 1:45am. I have a GI series today at 3:30pm. I can’t eat or drink for 8 hours before. Ugh. Right now, Caetie and GG both are crying with their ears hurting. I seriously hope I am not going to have to make a trip to the ER tonight. Allie was throwing up about an hour ago. I am hoping that was her meds upsetting her stomach and NOT a virus! AHH!!

Ben’s eyes are NASTY! EW! They are runny and green. Gross. He cries when I wipe them. He does this every time he gets a cold. He has since he was a newborn. GG did too but she grew out of it. It is GROSS. I am washing my hands WAY TOO MUCH here lately. Blah. Dry hands.

Tonight… as in… today is officially Thursday and in 18 hours Rachel and I have our big plans! I sooooooooooooo hope it works out. Only way it wont is if someone is in the hospital or I am just physically unable to go. I am going to do this! UGH! We have been planning this for a while. We are going to eat at Demo’s downtown and then go to the live taping of Chonda Pierce at the Ryman. She is a Christian SOUTHERN Comedian. She is FUNNY! I have soooooooo been looking forward to this! I just hope I don’t pass this junk over to Rachel. I will try not to breath on you Rach. haha.

I will be RUSHING after my GI series! I will be STARVING too! WOW!

Okay…. PLEASE PRAY for us! We are dyin ovah here!

PS Emily.. I use to do the vault!

She made the Chris Sligh video!!! Too cool!

Last night, Danny was setting up his “band member” on Guitar Hero. I was laying on the couch watching. We had banished all the kids upstairs for quiet time until bedtime in 1 hour (8pm).

Ben is always jumping off the bunkbeds. He will jump from the top bunk to the floor. They do it all the time. I don’t really care other than they rattle my ceiling. Well… last night we heard the thundering boom of what we assumed was him jumping… he would have been in trouble because they were suppose to be quiet.

It was then that we heard the screams of horror that EVERY parents know when something is wrong. How many times have I blogged about that sound this year! Geez! They were all screaming OH GOD! He’s bleeding. Oh Jesus! Oh God. Get Mom. Dad.. he’s bleeding. It’s kinda funny now. Caetie heard it too and beat us there. She started yelling and screaming. lol I was last because I was laying on the couch. I didn’t even see Danny’s feet hit the steps. I think he only took 3 steps and he was up there. lol

Ben got passed to me. OH MY GOODNESS! He had blood… BIG THICK CLOTTY blood gushing out his nose from the cut and from inside his nose like a horrible nose bleed and from his mouth. It was smeared all over his face, it was horrible. It looked bad. But just looking at the cut wasn’t so bad. I yelled for rags. I was already covered in it. Danny brought me 3 rags. One was instantly covered. I got him cleaned up a little bit. It was just pouring our his cut. I pushed on the cut and looked. OHHHHHHHH… it was deep! I told Danny we had to go QUICKLY cause he was bleeding too much. Before we walked out the door that had stopped quite a bit. It was still a big cut and needed sewing.

I yelled for Caetie to get my purse and camera. haha. Priorities people, priorities. You ALL know you want to see pics. I did, however, forget to ask her to throw by bra upstairs.

So I wore Danny’s hoodie all night and burned up. UGH!

Long story short…

They got Ben back, CT scanned his head for fractures, put him to sleep to have the plastic surgeon sew him up, and sent him home after he drank some apple juice. He got 2 stitches inside and 4 on the outside. He didn’t break anything… but he did cut all the way through his nose into his nostrils and then through the inside of his nose almost to the bone. That is why he was bleeding in his nose, outside his nose and in his mouth.

I will let Danny tell the HILARIOUS stories of him being STONED and seeing things and laughing. It was too funny.

Here’s the pics….

He slept good last night… this morning he got up and snuck into the fingernail polish and painted his nails pink! Yeah, he’s back to normal.

Most of you know that I frequent a board called Jude2. It is a Christian forum made up of mostly COG people… elders, CoGoP, TCoG, etc… Anyway… I had a bout of insomnia the other night and I posted there asking what is worse than insomnia… other than going to hell.

Well, I answered my own question exactly 7 hours later…

I was driving back from Cool Springs. I went there to sell some stuff I listed on Craigslist. Good, easy money. I stopped by Linens & Things because they had a huge going out of business sale and I am looking for something specific that they might have.

Lord have mercy! Do NOT go there unless you have money to blow! Everything was 50% off and Nate Berkus stuff was 70% off! WOW! I lusting after me some Nate Berkus. Whew. Anyway… they didn’t have what I was looking for but they had a few other things I did. So I spent my $25 Christmas money in there.

I got  a thing that my Walkman Cell Phone will plug into and play my mp3s through speakers. It is cute. And I got a Sudoku electronic game. I am addicted to that game. And I got this cool wooden box for my dresser that holds cards, dice, and a pencil.. the top of the box has a slot for a photo. It is a really nice way the hide our gaming junk.

They have loads of bamboo blinds, area rugs, comforter sets, table clothes, doo dad gadget junk, bar stools, candles,… they had a food saver for 50% off! I was dying inside! I have been wanting one of those for years!

Anyway.. from there I headed back towards home to get my haircut. I swung in Taco Bell because I was starving and I knew I could eat cheap. I got a MexiMelt and Sierra Mist.

Here is where finding out what is worse than insomnia comes into play! I take the first bite of my MexiMelt and chase it down with a big gulp of Sprite. BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!

For those of you that don’t know or have missed me talking about it quite often.. I have a moderate to severe Hiatal Hernia. Every single time I eat I throw up after the first 2 or 3 bites. My food gets stuck and it hurts and burns and makes it way back up. Not a full blown puke but.. I throw the few bites I have taken up. Sometimes it is so bad.. I have to stop eating. Beef, bread, dry stuff, carbonated bubbly drinks… all scary stuff. 

Anyway… so I have my first dry soft shell MexiMelt bite followed by an overly bubbly Sierra Mist while driving in the fast lane down I65 from Cool Springs during Christmas season and lunch breaks. Dear Lord. I immediately knew when I swallowed that I was in trouble. I could not get over. I panicked and grabbed a cup I took with me that morning. Sure enough… with my food stuck… the bubbling Mist stuck above it came shooting out like a volcano. I puked in that green cup while driving in traffic and balancing a  greasy MexiMelt on my knee. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice. It took about 5 minutes to stop choking. It is a horrible pain. You can hear the burps from it and know that it is painful. UGH! I hate it. Well… after that went down. I put my cup of puke in the cup holder beside my Sierra Mist and finished my MexiMelt without any other problems. Strange eh?

But that my friends, is waaaaaaaaay worse than insomnia! HA! I threw that cup away at the haircut place.

Which BTW.. I got all my hair chopped off. Valerie and my church friends are the only ones who have seen it. It is really short. WOW. I am not sure if I can fix it as nice as Heather did. Sheesh. I’ll know after my shower today. If I can’t then you will never see a pic of it. HAHA!

Holler!

Too pooped to really blog…
I am just plain ole exhausted. Seriously… I am wore slap out.

But I did have to come share one thing. Maw Maw took us to Sir Pizza tonight. Have you ever ate something really stringy like cheese or gum… or something. Where if you don’t chew it good and break it.. when you swallow… some of it goes down and the rest is still strung up in your mouth. It feels like you are choking and you either have to puke the bite you swallowed back up into your mouth like a cat with a hair ball or swallow a even bigger piece of food to get all the attached parts down in one swallow.

A few years ago… Doug, Jodi, Me and Danny all went to Fox’s Pizza in Murfreesboro. They have an awesome calzone but they are SUPER cheesy. Doug and I both had a moment of panic where we thought we were going to die at the hand of cheese. I was cracking up.

Anyway…. we were eating cheese sticks. Toby all of the sudden jumped up and flung his chair back and was grabbing cheese from his mouth and stinging it out to the plate with a look for utter fear on his face. I started cracking up saying he is okay. I was laughing cause I had just done the same thing without the obvious panic. I was telling him to just swallow it down. He had a string of cheese hanging out of his lips. It was HILARIOUS. He was scared to death. LOL!!! He was running around. LMBO!! When I saw the piece on his lip slide back, I knew he had swallowed and recovered from his near death experience. haha!! You wont choke or die.. it is just a weird scarey feeling. Maw Maw was snickering, so was the guy behind us. Everyone that has done it can relate. It is too funny.

He was shaking for a few but quickly recovered and went right back to woofing his food down.

Beware of the cheese sticks at Sir Pizza, calzones at Fox’s Pizza in Murfreesboro, and slimy Big League Chew. If you go to these places… please take me with you. I want to have my camera ready next time. hahahaha!!!

I just got a claim statement from our insurance…

They paid a bill for GG for $4272.95! I owe 854.05!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is to United Healthcare???? WHO THE HECK IS THAT!???

So I look at the date… 4/21/08…. that is a LONG time ago to just now be paying this bill!!!!!!! So I check my blog… many times I am very thankful I keep a regular blog so I can go back and refresh my memory of what happened. So anyway… here is the blog!

Okay… so it was the day GG got her ear ripped off by the golf cart. Why are they just now paying this and WHAT cost so much!!!!!!!

We drove to Summit! There was NO ambulance! And at Summit they didn’t do ANYTHING except out in an IV line, CT her head, and X ray her foot! She was COVERED under TENNCARE at the time!!! Meaning.. that should NOT have cost me a DIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They didn’t even sew her up!!! They wanted to transfer her in an ambulance to Vanderbilt. So Danny called his ear Dr across the street and they said SURE! Bring her over, we will do it in the office! So we went over there. TennCare wouldn’t pay for that so we filed that under our other insurance and they paid it. I just went through our bills and we only owe $300 to them but that is the ONLY charge I should have PERIOD!!!!!!!

Someone has FALSE billed our insurance!!!!!!!!!! SUMMIT HCA/DEVIL/SOUTHERN KILL HOSPITAL GROUP!!!!!!!!
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I HATE HATE HATE HCA!!! Makes me so stinkin mad. Can you tell????

Wait until Danny sees this nonsense!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr……..

I just got an email about my cousin Carey getting out of prison. *shivers* He ALWAYS give me the creeps. And let me just say, if I lived near there.. my kids would NOT play outside. Just knowing what he has done is not okay in my mind!!!! YIKES! And to know there are people like that all around us and not know the specifics… oh my goodness. It is very unnerving! Nadine better watch herself.

On to a better past revisiting me….

I found my friend Brandy on myspace and facebook. I check for her all the time. She hasn’t had them long but a search paid off a few nights ago! It is so exciting!! We are catching up. It has been a couple of years since we mailed each other. We had been snail mailing each other since 1st grade! We only lived a few streets apart growing up but I hadn’t seen her since 2nd grade and then she came to my 9th or 10th birthday and I haven’t seen her since. Momma, what birthday did I get the waterbed? That was the last time I have seen her. We have snail mailed all these years but not in the last few years with all the drama that has gone on with church stuff and such. But I finally found her!!!

It is too cool. She is my BFF for realz.