So today I had a follow up appointment with my doctor to check my cyst. After arriving at his office the receptionist told me it might be a while, he had gone to McKay Dee to deliver a baby. So waited with a room full of odd people. Four of them were not speaking English, they had a baby that did not want to be held or put down or eat or anything pretty much. I was guessing he was about ten months and mom was on her second child, I need her fertility! The other couple was two women, guessing they were friends, don't know for sure. One of the women was doing something with her ear, then she had blood running down her neck, gross! Thank goodness the doctor called and was on his way back. The nurse took us all back to different rooms and in order to check my cyst I had to take my bottoms off and sit in my pretty pink napkin, that does not quiet fit around my well endowed bottom for what seemed like forever.
I had drank a lot of water before my appointment and had used the potty before my appointment. Well by the time my doctor came in I really needed to go. So he did the ultrasound and saw this huge black ball on the screen and asked "is that your bladder?" I replied, "probably I really have to go, I had been waiting a while." So I got to run out of my room to the potty in nothing but my shirt and pink napkin. Good thing I was his last appointment! So we went back to finish the ultrasound to find..... nothing! Hooray! My cyst disappeared, now lets hope thats the last of them!
Now I have also been asked by a friend about my diet. I don't really have a set diet because I don't want to or have the money to by a bunch of stuff that I can't feed my family or money to join a group. I did find a book I really like called Eat This, Not That! Supermarket guide. It has great tips and recipes in it. Along with about every food you can think of that you can buy at the supermarket. It compares food in a single group like Ice Cream and tell you which ones are better for you and why and the ones that are not good for you and why. I love it! It has helped a lot when grocery shopping and choosing better choices for our family. There is also two other books with the same name one is a family survival guide, the other I am not sure but the book is yellow. The other two books I have looked at and they also have restaurant information, it will tell you better choices between meals at several different restaurants. Anyway, using this book and taking a prescribed med from my doctor has helped me lose weight. I hope this is helpful! :)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
No, thats just fat, but thanks for asking!
So as many of you know we started trying to have another baby since last summer. Kaydence desperately needs someone to play with or at least someone who will sit still long so she can cover them in stickers. Well after trying for seven months, I stopped having a cycle. So exciting right that usually means that Josh's friend met my friend and Kaydence will have a new person to put her sticker collection on.
Nope, that not what happened, it turns out my friend was a little stubborn and didn't want to leave its cozy little home. Which in turn developed into a cyst. The doctors advice, go home and have sex, every other day come back in four days. Now I pride myself on my intelligence but this day I was lacking common sense. I asked him "Why?" He was hoping that my friend would leave home and find its mate, oh yeah that makes sense now. Well it obviously did not work.
What to do now? Sit and wait for this time bomb to explode so I can be in excruciating pain and possible continue to have problems. That sounded horrible to me so after doing my own research on my problem it sounded like a little bit of weight loss would help me and hopefully get my system back on the regular course it has been on for most of my life. So back on birth control and with help from my doctor starting a weight loss program. I have now lost 12 pounds in a month and I am still counting.
I am sure if you are still reading this your wondering why the heck I titled this the way I did. I felt my story needed some background first. We went to my in laws ward today to see my brother in law sing in sacrament. Their ward is an older ward and has many older women that know everything about everyone and their family in the ward. After sacrament I was approached by my mother in laws visiting teaching partner. She nicely asked me, "how are you feeling?" Kinda thought it was weird but I did just have a cold, so I replied, "good thanks." Then she continues, "Thats good, so your due in the summer, you guys are due in the same month, only a week away right?" After a confused frustrated look I told her, "I am not pregnant, thats Bonnie." See not only is my sister pregnant, but two of my sister in laws are expecting in July about a week apart. Trying to be nice and not let this lady feel bad I told her "we have been working on that." She replies, "oh, well thats so much fun to work on." She leaves and I am thinking wow too much info!
Lets just say this rubs me the wrong way because this is the second time I have had one of these old , nosey ladys assume I am pregnant. Another lady in their ward, went all out to ask me when I was due and if I was excited to have another one. Then when I told her I wasn't pregnant, and asked her where she heard that, she blamed it on my mother in law. Which by the way was a lie.
So I can take from my experiences as incentive to work out harder, do many more crunches, skip that brownie or cookie or I can just remind myself that they are just crazy, old ladies with nothing better to do in the geriatric ward.
Nope, that not what happened, it turns out my friend was a little stubborn and didn't want to leave its cozy little home. Which in turn developed into a cyst. The doctors advice, go home and have sex, every other day come back in four days. Now I pride myself on my intelligence but this day I was lacking common sense. I asked him "Why?" He was hoping that my friend would leave home and find its mate, oh yeah that makes sense now. Well it obviously did not work.
What to do now? Sit and wait for this time bomb to explode so I can be in excruciating pain and possible continue to have problems. That sounded horrible to me so after doing my own research on my problem it sounded like a little bit of weight loss would help me and hopefully get my system back on the regular course it has been on for most of my life. So back on birth control and with help from my doctor starting a weight loss program. I have now lost 12 pounds in a month and I am still counting.
I am sure if you are still reading this your wondering why the heck I titled this the way I did. I felt my story needed some background first. We went to my in laws ward today to see my brother in law sing in sacrament. Their ward is an older ward and has many older women that know everything about everyone and their family in the ward. After sacrament I was approached by my mother in laws visiting teaching partner. She nicely asked me, "how are you feeling?" Kinda thought it was weird but I did just have a cold, so I replied, "good thanks." Then she continues, "Thats good, so your due in the summer, you guys are due in the same month, only a week away right?" After a confused frustrated look I told her, "I am not pregnant, thats Bonnie." See not only is my sister pregnant, but two of my sister in laws are expecting in July about a week apart. Trying to be nice and not let this lady feel bad I told her "we have been working on that." She replies, "oh, well thats so much fun to work on." She leaves and I am thinking wow too much info!
Lets just say this rubs me the wrong way because this is the second time I have had one of these old , nosey ladys assume I am pregnant. Another lady in their ward, went all out to ask me when I was due and if I was excited to have another one. Then when I told her I wasn't pregnant, and asked her where she heard that, she blamed it on my mother in law. Which by the way was a lie.
So I can take from my experiences as incentive to work out harder, do many more crunches, skip that brownie or cookie or I can just remind myself that they are just crazy, old ladies with nothing better to do in the geriatric ward.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
NEVER, EVER use American Express!!!!!
Oh, what a day it has been. Josh and I have been trying to get and stay out of debt since we got married. We are big Dave Ramsey fans and have been trying to follow some of his tips. Anyway, we have had our ups and downs and have had to use credit, I am sure we are not the only one. Josh has had an American Express card on and off since 2003. We had no interest for a year and paid our card off in August. Things got a little tight around the holidays and we ended up using it for gift. Well to the point of my story, we received a letter in the mail saying they closed our account? What, why? We had just paid our card off three weeks ago and did use it again just last week. So it has a small amount of money on it nothing close to our 1000 dollars limit which we just had lowered significantly two months ago.
I continued to read on in this letter from such a horrible company. They said that our card was closed due to our credit score. American Express has recently preformed a credit check with Experian and from our "report" we had too many inquires within the year, too much revolving debt, length of time accounts have been established and number of account with delinquency. By this point I am very upset. I know we have debt but nothing has ever been delinquent or late. I made a call to American Express and did not do much listening I really ripped two people a part. Recently in the media American express has said they are giving certain customers with high debts and delinquent accounts 300 dollar gift card for paying off their card by April.
Does anyone else see the problem, lets reward those who are irresponsible and run up high debts, miss or don't make payments with a 300 dollar gift card to pay their card off, thanks for your business? What about those of us who are making their payment and do not miss payments? What do we get? Oh thats right our account closed! Josh and I did some research into our credit report. I had NOTHING late or delinquent on my credit. On Josh he had two late payments on two separate cards from SEVEN years ago, thats it! Also it showed that when we were in the process of trying to reduce our burden of a car we could not afford last spring, every car dealer we went to interested in a car they checked our credit. So that is why we had too many inquires, neither of us had any idea this happened.
I contacted our bank to ask them some questions on credit. Having accounts open for a long period or time and in good standing is actually GOOD not bad for your credit. So because American express is in a ton of debt and sinking they have to close my account and ding my credit. When Josh called he was told that they didn't even get a report just a summary, so they did not even know our score or which accounts were delinquent. They also told Josh that they are trying to become more like a bank so they can receive stimulus money! Wow, they need the government to bail them out yet they treat their good customers like crap! I also talked to my mother in law who take applications for American Express and she just took 6 new credit card applications last night and she still approves 3/4 of the applicants. So they are really not trying to get out of debt they just want the government to fix all their problems.
Sorry for such a huge venting blog, but we were both very upset. I ended my conversation with American Express with the fact that I will never use their company again, I will never recommend their company, and I hoped that their credit card goes down the drain. Call me bitter if you may but spread the word DO NOT USE AMERICAN EXPRESS!!!
I continued to read on in this letter from such a horrible company. They said that our card was closed due to our credit score. American Express has recently preformed a credit check with Experian and from our "report" we had too many inquires within the year, too much revolving debt, length of time accounts have been established and number of account with delinquency. By this point I am very upset. I know we have debt but nothing has ever been delinquent or late. I made a call to American Express and did not do much listening I really ripped two people a part. Recently in the media American express has said they are giving certain customers with high debts and delinquent accounts 300 dollar gift card for paying off their card by April.
Does anyone else see the problem, lets reward those who are irresponsible and run up high debts, miss or don't make payments with a 300 dollar gift card to pay their card off, thanks for your business? What about those of us who are making their payment and do not miss payments? What do we get? Oh thats right our account closed! Josh and I did some research into our credit report. I had NOTHING late or delinquent on my credit. On Josh he had two late payments on two separate cards from SEVEN years ago, thats it! Also it showed that when we were in the process of trying to reduce our burden of a car we could not afford last spring, every car dealer we went to interested in a car they checked our credit. So that is why we had too many inquires, neither of us had any idea this happened.
I contacted our bank to ask them some questions on credit. Having accounts open for a long period or time and in good standing is actually GOOD not bad for your credit. So because American express is in a ton of debt and sinking they have to close my account and ding my credit. When Josh called he was told that they didn't even get a report just a summary, so they did not even know our score or which accounts were delinquent. They also told Josh that they are trying to become more like a bank so they can receive stimulus money! Wow, they need the government to bail them out yet they treat their good customers like crap! I also talked to my mother in law who take applications for American Express and she just took 6 new credit card applications last night and she still approves 3/4 of the applicants. So they are really not trying to get out of debt they just want the government to fix all their problems.
Sorry for such a huge venting blog, but we were both very upset. I ended my conversation with American Express with the fact that I will never use their company again, I will never recommend their company, and I hoped that their credit card goes down the drain. Call me bitter if you may but spread the word DO NOT USE AMERICAN EXPRESS!!!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Our Anniversary
We just celebrated our four year anniversary a couple of weeks ago. I am just finally getting around to posting it. Josh is the best husband and father. He surprised me with beautiful flowers delivered to our house and a cute new outfit. Kaydence's and I went to buy him some new shoes and few other goodies while he was at work. She wanted to get him some shoes with lights in them, but they were not in his size. When he came home we went out to dinner and Kaydence went to spend sometime with Grandma. We usually go spend the night at The Homestead in Midway which is always amazing. It can be a little pricey but is worth the trip at least once, it is so beautiful up there. This year our anniversary was on a weekday so I booked us a room in the Anniversary Inn for that Saturday. It was cheaper and had a coupon for a nights stay ( I really have turned into my father). We stayed in the Italian Gondola room which had a big gondola that we slept in and a waterfall shower with a huge tube. We went to the gateway for dinner and a movie before our nights stay. It was a very nice night away time to spend with just each other and enjoy a night out. The last four years have not been easy for us but I would not trade them for anything in the world. I love my honey more than anything else, he really is the best husband I could ask for, I love you Josh!
Kaydence's First Talk
They assigned Kaydence a talk in church a couple of weeks ago. She was excited to be able to talk about families and stand up in front of everyone at the microphone. I was not sure what to do for her talk so we drove over to Seagull Book and found a really cute talk book that had a variety of subjects that would work for a few years of primary. I copied the pictures and sayings out of the book, colored them and put them on some card stock. She was very excited the night before and went over the talk several times with me. She even did in front of daddy like he was the audience.
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