The Tropics
Living on the coast has been an eye opening experience from year to year we always keep an eye on the gulf and the tropics. Since Katrina we've only evacuated twice, twice in 5 years. It's really hard to believe it's been 5 years and we still see the destruction Katrina caused. But all in all things are recovering even if it's slow.
I have friends who tell me, well at least it's almost over since it started in June. It's just September and in the past two weeks there have been four tropical distrubances - One turned into Hurricane Danielle, which didn't threaten the US at all. Hurricane Earl which is looking to affect the East coast - my brother and sister-in-law will be be affected it looks like, Fiona looks like it's going to follow the first two, and now there is TD 9 is up on the list, that one is a wait and see for us it looks like.
So needless to say Hurricane season just got started. Lovely. Here's to hoping...
Antibiotics…
Today I kept Kathleen home from school and I'm particularly glad I did. We went to the doctor today for both the girls to check up on their colds. Sammi has a sinus infection and Kathleen has an ear infection. They are both on antibiotics and a cough syrup. And all are different with different dosages and different times. Thankfully only the cough syrups are on a "regular" schedule. Sammi's antibiotics are once a day thing, and Kathleen's is twice a day (12 hours).
Kathleen should have some ear drops but CVS didn't have any and she's not overly complaining about the pain, if she does I'll just give her some Tylenol as that seemed to help.
I wasn't overly concerned about their cough, but I was concerned that Sammi was still sniffling, she's had this cold longer than I've had mine, and Kathleen's ear has been bothering her since Friday so I'm glad I took her in.
Hopefully the girlies will get better soon.
Updates
Well, there are a few updates to go through that I've yet to post.
I have heard back from only one of the several applications I sent out thus far. All the others are still out there. I did manage to get find a number for one that I wanted to call. And I'll look into the others I have out as well. I am not sure what all I applied for now so I'll have to hope they sent me something in automated reply so I can follow up exactly lol.
I am still sick. My voice is thankfully better, but I have a lingering cough and sinus issues. I'll probably have this for a while, I almost always do. The girls are sick with something too probably the same thing I have, nasal issues and a cough. Kathleen was complaining about her ears hurting I hope that it doesn't require going to the doctor's office. Poor Kitten is having issues with her voice too.
Shea got the bugger too but he seems to be doing better. He went to the doctor and he got antibotics and a decongestant pill. Hopefully that'll fix him up nice and good lol.
Kathleen has school pictures on Sept 14th, she's suppose to wear fall attire, what the heck is fall attiire? I just hope I can pull something together for then. Right now most her clothes are spring/summerish. I'm sure I can make a dress fall by adding a shirt underneath, but I don't really have any fall type colors for her. Yellow maybe, but it's kinda dingy from two summers worth of kid dirt lol.
I'm having regular headaches again. I now know where most of them originate from, or at least I know what the left side headaches are from. I try not to take my migraine meds for them but alot of the time that's all that really works. Ice, heat, Flex All with a massage vibrator thing to push and poke at the injured areas. It helps as long as I keep doing it. Hot showers help. There is a lot that helps but there is nothing that can heal this, or make them go away completely. The best thing is the massage thing, but it's hard to do myself, and it's hard to tell Shea where it needs to be done to get the best benefit from. At least they aren't brain issues or anything like that. While they are annoying at least I have a cause for them in most cases. It's all the other times I am not always sure, but these ones on the left side when they reach down to my neck are all about scar tissue.
Still feel like crap
Thursday was just the beginning of the adventure. My sore throat turned into a head cold and then into a chest cold. So bad that Sunday I could barely talk, today isn't much better, but thankfully I don't have to talk much in the morning. Tho it's hard to discipline the girls when you can't talk well. Or even ask them a question lol.
Kathleen had a stomach bug Friday night and Saturday morning. Sammi got sick Sunday, and now I have what they had. Thankfully it's like a 12-24 hour bug, But I'm worse off than I was yesterday. And I can't go lay down cause I'm afraid I'll miss the alarm on my phone to go pick up the little one from school.
I doubt I'm going to get anything done today
Feel like crap
Sammi was not feeling great a few days ago. She was drinking alot and now I know why, her throat her like h e double hockey sticks lol.
I spent the better part of the afternoon in bed sleeping to the best of my ability with three other people occupying the same room. That's the price you pay when you live in two rooms. I went to go read, but I didn't even open my book I just lay down and closed my eyes, not sure I actually slept thoroughly but I rested and feel better, not 100%, no where near it actually still extremely tired, and my throat hurts.
Not sure if Kathleen got it and gave it to us, or if it's something Sammi picked up. You never know with kids lol. Hopefully Shea and Kathleen don't get it.
No News yet
I've put several applications/resumes in online to several different jobs but I've not heard anything back yet.
I realized the other day if I do get a call in for an interview I really don't have anything I'd want to wear in. So I'll be going shopping soon hopefully. Not sure what I'll be able to get, but I hope to pick up some slacks and maybe a few shirts and a skirt/dress that I can manage to wear and feel comfortable in. Have I ever mentioned I hate clothe shopping? Well, I do, very much lol.
So hears to hoping something comes up I really would like to get something and that will pay for daycare and a few other expenses and maybe even be able to save something. I'm hoping Shea can find something too, he can't go back to Northrup Grumman until next year (December really but no point in going back before the 2 week break as he won't get paid for it.)
Three Applications for Jobs in
Well today I decided I would look into getting a job in the area. Not a web design job, engineering job or any of the things I actually went to school for, but something practical and something I could get a job with little experience. But first I had to a little bit of research in how much money I would need to make in order to make it worth my while to work. I need X amount of take home money in order to make it worth my while. I calculated the minimum hourly rate with out any thing other expenses coming out of the check. I hope to be able to get this minimum at the three jobs I applied for today.
I just hope they don't say I'm overqualified for the jobs, I can't get a job I'm "qualified" for on paper because I've not done the job for over 6 years. And web design is in limited supply here, so... hopefully with my self-employment being my last job they'll understand. I applied for a Teller job at Hancock Bank, a clerical job at medical facility here in town, I forget the exact name and a patient access representative at Singing River Hospital here in the system. So we'll see how things go.
There is room for Kathleen at the Eastlawn Child Development Center (where she goes to preschool) for her all day and there is room for Sammi with the 3 year olds. The cost for two of the girls there is $210/week.
Wish me luck!
Did some rearranging
Today I did some rearranging which meant a lot of cleaning too. Our bedroom looks much better, and I moved one set of dressers inside of our closet to make room for some more that we are getting later after they figure out what to do with the stuff that was in them, they were from Shea's Aunt's house.
I also rearranged the girlies room. I put there beds together in a "L" shape and moved the tv to another wall. It opened up the room better and will allow me to put in a dresser in there if it's stable enough to hold the TV too. Though I could always just move the little TV in there as we won't be taping much I'm sure but you never know.
We'll see how well it goes over tonight with them sleeping so close, they typically share a bed so I hope it's fine. But we'll see.
You will never know how much stuff was underneath Kitten's bed. It's a solid wood frame with drawers, but we pulled the drawers out to get a better fit of the drawers against the wall (the girls break the drawers stepping on them). And all the toys that fell down the crack fell into those holes too. It was a major mess to clean up while moving things around lol. But it's all clean, there are tons of cars to be played with now lol.
I've a bit more rearranging to do in our room to fit the dressers in here, so that'll have to happen another day.
I also have to go through all the girlies clothes to figure out where I'm putting their clothes and praying they don't take them out of the drawers in their room. Fun fun.
I’m better, Shea’s not
Well I'm feeling much better today. I have a headache but that really is nothing to worry over as it's not making it impossible to work yet. But Shea has what I had yesterday on top of his eye still bothering him, tho I hope the latter is better.
One thing I'm beginning to realize is Kitten is not a morning person. It takes about ten miniutes to coax her out of bed and into the shower in the morning. Then it's a fight in the shower lol. It's good we don't always have a shower, tho she will continue to get up at 6:30a regardless, it's easier to get her moving for school with an hour wait instead of half an hour.
Sammi didn't throw a fit today when we left. She wanted to color, so I told her we'd color at school, but by the time we got home she'd already forgotten about it. She wanted Kitkat but she's understanding she'll be home later.
We are off to take Shea to the doctor, and I'll pick the kiddo up if he's still in there when we need to get her and we'll all come back to get Daddy.
Good Weekend kinda
Friday Kathleen went to school with no issues. Tho she did come home and get sick again not sure what that was about.
Saturday we did the usual. We were suppose to go up to Lucedale to help with some plumbing for a friend of ours but our plans changed Thursdayish with the information that McL was going to be at Shea's parents house. So we had to cancel on that as it was not a trip we wanted to make two days in a row.
Sunday we went up to Shea's parents house, I had to drive Shea's eye was particularly bothering him a lot more than it had been before. The girls and I went to church, and the girls went to Sunday School. I went to Sam and Joyce's and we waited for everyone to show up. McL showed up around 11:15 or so and we spent the time together with the whole family. The girls really enjoyed their time with their brother. And I hope he enjoyed his time with them, they get to see each other so little it's really nice for them to get to play together.
But Sunday wasn't a good day for me either, I didn't feel 100% most of the day, but it wasn't until the night that things went for the worst, I got the same thing Kathleen had. What's bad is I still have it today and have only really eaten crackers and drank ginger ale today. I'm exhausted and I have so much to do. Hopefully I can get some of it done.
Kathleen went to school and enjoyed it, she didn't even fuss at all when I had to leave. She's starting to really like it I think. Yay for her.