One Happy Dog Speaks

I found it humorous that Bou went to get her ears checked. I could have told her she was just fine… I did the same thing about a year ago… not because my kids were mumbling but other boys I had to interact with at the kids schools. I swore I was loosing it. My hearing must be going … and… I had above average hearing for my age. Say WHAT? And this year… I wake up with something hurting… my foot, my back, my neck, or worse yet the whole body just hurts. Then I saw this in my email:

An older couple is lying in bed one morning. They had just awakened from a good night’s sleep He takes her hand and she responds, ‘Don’t touch me. ‘ ‘Why not?’ he asked. She answered, ‘Because I’m dead.’

The husband asked…’What are you talking about? We’re both lying here in bed together and talking to one another!’ She said, ‘No, I’m definitely dead.’ He insisted, ‘You are not dead. What in the world makes you think you’re dead?’

‘Because I woke up this morning and nothing hurts.’

Which is bad enough, but I now have pimples on my chin. And they won’t go away. I’m thinking about trying some natural acne home remedies to see if I can make them go away. It’s only two and just can’t see buying large quantities of pimple remover in the store. Sigh…

Wow. Where did the days go? I feel like a walking zombie. I haven’t been able to sleep well or nap. Oh, I have tried, but it just didn’t happen. I forgot to take my vitamins and MSM/Glucosamine for three days and I feel it. My back hurts (I have arthritis in it) and my hip (not sure but bet it is arthritis as well). I have little tiny pimples on part of my face. Wonder what the best acne treatment would be for that… that won’t screw up everything else on my face. My little black hair on my chin is back. It should be a fun week this week and all I can think of is the stuff that hasn’t gotten done in days and the catch up involved.

Ok, it is not the end of the world… and God always keeps me going… sometimes I listen better than others. Right now, I think I’m tuned into another station… the ‘Whine and Cheese’ station. I will change it… hopefully today. My morning started out well with seeing that Bin Laden was killed by US Troops and the kids having slept decently last night. Tomorrow, I should have some better posts and happier moments to report. Really!

My youngest keeps asking me why I am not wearing the lipstick in the mornings. I did the first two weeks of work and haven’t since… I should. I guess I will in the morning. I think he likes me to kiss him and leave a mark. I should enjoy it while I can.

Particularly since I know when my hormonal acne comes back soon he will be pointing that out as well. The little turd (LT) has no switch, limits, stops from opening his mouth and saying the obvious… like “What’s that big red bump on your chin?”. Yaaa… lipstick kisses on the cheeks are where I need to go!

I wore makeup to my interview. I should have known better. Sure enough within 2 days, I had pimples. A couple on the chin, one on the side of the nose and one on the side of my face. I don’t need to find any acne treatments for it, but I certainly need to remember why I don’t wear makeup. Oh and I wear the lightest most gentle stuff I can find. It makes me look good for that day… but the consequences suck. I don’t want to have pimples for the next week while my face gets itself back into gear.

It’s not the end of the world and it may not be the makeup but the remover. It really doesn’t matter… I wear makeup… I get pimples. Ugh. Lipstick seems to be ok. I can even chase my boys away when I’m wearing it by threatening to kiss them. It has some good uses. Particularly since I know they won’t be running away from girls wearing makeup (other than their mom) in a few years. Amazing isn’t it.

What a morning. The boys are hanging all over me. What is it??? I have a ton of things to get done, including this post and I feel like a piece of velcro. I had to ask twice for them to find something else to do. Usually they are not ready for school 8 minutes before we leave and it is driving me nuts. Not like I’m surfing the web and reading acne treatment reviews or Bad Example… but I still want to get my morning activities done without attachments. Funny because I’m probably the reason they act this way. I snuggle with them in the mornings. Love my morning breakfast snuggles on the couch. So when the snuggles are over and the routine begins, they are usually fine… until this morning were they have extra time and I do not! Ahhh… I have promised them more snuggling when they get home. Or they could get it if they helped me now with the chores. Seems this afternoon is fine. Gotta love those boys.

Hmmm… seems now that I’m older, when I sweat a lot while working out, I get body acne. On my rear-end, on my shoulders and neck, and a few other spots where the sweat gathers. I like working out. I feel better when I do work out, but I do not like dealing with some of the other things that come with it. Like the aches and pains the next day. The acne that has appeared… Which is particularly annoying since I make sure I shower after the high sweat workouts. Erg. Sigh… It won’t stop me from working out but it sure is annoying.

Seems I have an issue with acne now adays. Not bad enough for acne treatments but certainly annoying. Is it the workout with sweat? Is it menopause? Is it old age? Is it something I’m eating. What a pain in the rear-end. I guess it is one of those things you think about and wonder about but unless it really bugs you, you don’t do anything different. Sort of like the thick black hair on my chin. I only have one. Don’t think about it or worry about it until one day… it starts to drive me nuts. So much so that I pull it out. Probably making room for a bigger, thicker black hair. Sigh. Need to leave the acne alone and hope it doesn’t come back bigger and nastier.

Well… I broke down and bought a new camera. A really nice Sony DSC-HX5V. Why? Because for the price it does a whole lot of stuff that I want. Twilight setting, panoramic, closeups (sorta), burst shots and more. In fact I was playing with it outside. Trying to figure out how to do the closeups and got these pictures:

And I found a flower in bloom in my yard, with this heat most stuff is wilting!

Better yet, this leaf that looks like it needs acne treatments to look normal again:

What bugs me is I can’t find the setting for it. It seems to happen ‘automatically’ if I stand still enough. I liked my simple camera better because I could say I wanted a closeup with a click of a button. I’m sure I can do it with this one as well, I just don’t know how yet. It has way to much stuff to figure out and not a real good manual. Searching and reading the web is what I have been doing but that is very time consuming and with two kids… yaa… not going to happen a lot. I’ll get there!

I am amazed at how many acne commercials are on tv. I swear I am not watching ‘teen’ shows. I also had no idea how many ways you can ‘fix’ acne. There are acne lotions, acne kits, and the list goes on for a while. I won’t bore you with it. Still… they make it look like if you use their product, you are going to be beautiful when you are through. Uh… NOT. It will make your skin nicer if your acne is caused by whatever the kit, lotion, treatment helps. If it is hormonal then good gracious, I don’t think any of that stuff will work. If you skin is too oily or too dry… yaa, that makes sense. But hormones? You are out of luck folks. I know. I still get it occasionally if I have a particularly rough… month. Or maybe it is just because I’m getting old. At least I’m old enough to think twice before jumping and buying a product before figuring out what is causing the problem. Ok, sometimes I’m old enough. I did buy a Fitness CD which lasted all of a week. Sigh…

It was the first day of summer and I missed posting yesterday. Egads! And the first thought I had was not about posting but am I looking at a bug bite or acne. Did I need acne treatment or bug treatment? And then it hit me. And not in a good way… it is mosquito season. Ok, in Florida it is always mosquito season but at this time of year it is really really BAD mosquito season. I swear some of them sound like jet planes. Though it is the quiet ones that worry me.

I need a pet dragonfly (or mosquito hawk as my mom calls them). They eat mosquitoes! In fact when I see about 20 of them swarming in one area of my yard… I stay indoors. I know they are having a feast and I would be the feast for the mosquitoes if I went outside. Ahhh, the joys of summer.