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This is our hotel …

Taken with my iPhone.

Just kidding! We’re at a nice suite hotel with complimentary breakfast and supper –> Bonus! However, travelling with Georgia to theme park after theme park is sort of like the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror –> a series of terrifying and unexplicable ups and downs, that send you realing into the dark recesses of parenting toddlers. If anyone ever hears me utter Disney and Georgia in the same sentence again, HIT ME hard.

I’ll be doing my NaBloPoMo thingy all during the holiday. I’ll also be twittering the road trip away –> follow me on twitter @ http://twitter.com/mommyknows.

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MK Exhausted in Anaheim xo
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I had several emails and a couple of comments asking about Sammy and Georgia’s Halloween costumes. I know, I know, Halloween is old news. That’s what I am all about, OLD NEWS, just don’t tell anybody.

Sam is NUTS, CRAZY, STARK RAVING MAD, about Pokemon. He choose to be Ash Ketchum –> Pokemon trainer. I didn’t argue, it was EASY. Just a little bit of felt and a few articles of clothing he already had and –> wahlah –>Ash was created. We bought the Poke-ball in late Sept., each and everyday until Halloween he asked if he could play with it. I said, “NO”. Good thing too, by 6 pm on Halloween, it was MIA.

Georgia wasn’t home for Halloween. She was on the farm with Grandma and Poppa. My mom bought her a ‘pink poodle’ costume, because she loves small dogs (not rabbits –> contest still open). As it turned out the costume didn’t quite fit her the way she wanted, so she opted out of dressing up and trick-or-treating. Apparently, she likes small dogs, NOT small dog costumes. She was the candy hander-outer to the 6 kids and one dad that came to the door. She’s still talking about the beautiful princess and her scary dad. She apparently had the time of her life. I can’t decide if she is hard to please, or easy to please?!

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Today was a HUGE day for me. I started a ‘clinical drug trial’ to treat my MS. For the next 3 years I will give myself 8 injections a week (7 subcutaneous and 1 intramuscular). I spent the day at the hospital learning how to give myself the injections, parting with about 1/2 cup of blood for another ‘clinical trial’ involving genetics and doing all kinds of tests to measure the level of my disease (pretty low I think).

Just look at what I brought home. This is a three months supply. Value $12500.00 –> good thing it was free. I have to keep it all in the fridge, the pharmaceutical company is supposed to bring a ‘fridge lock box’ tomorrow, mostly so Dennis the Menace Georgia won’t get into my stash. They would be deadly for little people.

I’ve never given myself any sort of needle, except for the time in ‘year one’ (about 7th grade) when I pierced my ears with a sewing needle during a math lesson at Dubai College (really attentive teacher). However, giving myself the first two shots turned out to be easy … really, really easy. I’m good … really, really good.

I am relieved giving the injections was so easy. Now I am hoping the side effects are minimum. I am taking 2 drugs, both currently used to treat MS, just not together. One or the other maybe a placebo, but I am guaranteed one drug that works. Both have a BIG looooong list of side effects –> some pretty nasty. So far, so good.

I’ll keep you posted.

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I know this has been done before, but not with my lovely-mug. Anyway, whoever said it was all going to be original?

It’s either this:

1. 1996, 2. 1994, 3. 1964, 4. 1990, 5. 1974, 6. 1950

Or … I’ll have to tell you all about my day of house cleaning. How after more than a month, I finally got down on my hands and knees and cleaned the baseboards, how I move the sofa’s to vacuum, and even wiped down the legs of the kitchen chairs. Boring eh? Just enjoy the photos.

Which haircut do you think that I actually sported at one time?

You can try it out at: yearbookyourself.com

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I forgot to pick the ‘have a coffee on me’ winners for the last few posts.

I’ve done that now –> so make sure to go back and check if you are a WINNER.

I’m making a ’softie’ (my kids call them stuffies) from my recycled (or is that upcycled?) wool sweaters. I’m sort of stumped. I can’t decide how to make the body (I’m just making it up as I go along) AND whether make it in the same wool/cashmere as the head and limbs or use a different color, so it looks sort of like clothing. I might have to go searching for more sweaters, all of the colors I have just don’t look quite right. I pretty much have to stick with felt as it doesn’t fray and I don’t have a machine. Any ideas –> links please.

The BIG red nose … hmmm … might change that too.

I’ve also decided that I need a sewing machine. That will mean that I will also need lessons. Sewing everything by hand is a bit much. My stitches are not neat enough and it looks kind of tacky.

OMGAWD I’m a tacky crafter. Someone rescue me!

Be back when he/she is finished.

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MK xo
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