Bronchitis

Ok, I found out yesterday after a month & a half of torture that i have bronchitis. I was put on antibiotics yesterday and I'm hoping to get rid of this nasty chest cold and yuck!

The med's didn't agree with me this morning as I took them (per pharmacist instructions) on an empty stomach and everything came up, sorry for the details. After 2 hours I felt fine........and now I'm taking them WITH FOOD and I feel so much better. I'm hoping to have this out of me by the weekend. I'm so tired and worn out from this cold, its been since mid-January now.

Guess waiting was not the smart thing........the doctor bill wasn't that expensive, and the med's weren't that expensive either. Always happens that way, we think a car bill or doctor bill is going to cost us a fortune and it doesn't. Oh well....we learn from our mistakes.

The weather is suppose to warm up tomorrow and Friday with rain. And then chilly again for the weekend. Hopefully this rain will melt the ice/snow away, whatever is left behind. My car is half dug out now thanks to the garage across the street, someone came in and plowed the back and half my side open. Now we just need the rain to melt the rest away so I can get my car back or at least find out if it'll run again.

Well, its late, and I'm tired. I need all day tomorrow to work on ebay and website orders, so I need a good nights rest. Plus DEAL OR NO DEAL is on.........cannot miss my man Howie! Love that bald head. :-)

Waiting for more Snow & Ice

Well, we're now waiting for more snow and ice again today. We were just starting to thaw out and melt away, and now another storm coming our way today, all day! Although they said 9:00 this morning and its now 11:00a.m. and still nothing has happened here yet. They are calling for 1-3" of snow and ice.....not as bad as last week or the week before but still enough to make it miserable again.

I am just so ready for SPRING!!!!!

Thawing Out

We are actually thawing out today, it hit 49 degrees they said, maybe warmer. I cannot believe it, I can see my car below the tires now from the snowstorm a week ago. Everything is still ice and I finally was able to clear a little bit of our sidewalk out front to walk to our steps. We still have snow up to our backporch (which is probably about 6" +) and ice everywhere. Its hard to believe when you walk on the snow you still don't sink in like normal. But everything is melting now.....and hopefully flooding won't be an issue.

Tonight its suppose to get cold again and tomorrow in the 30's but I can deal with the high 30's for a few days and warmer weather again towards the weekend. I just want 60 degree weather and I'm happy. I want to get my car running again but until we have a major melting spell, my car isn't going anywhere, its still buried with snow piles from the plow trucks. Really stinks.

Compared to our weather lately, it feels like a light spring today. 49 degrees + is spring compared to what we have had: temp's in the teens...............burrh!

We are getting ready to head to the craft store for some items for a schooL project and to pick some items up at the local scrapbook store so I can do some MAJOR ORDER PACKING tonight, I'm so excited to get these orders mailed.......I'm finally catching up.

Have a great day!

FeeLing Crappy

Still feeLing crappy here, and today is a short bLog entry.

I've been sick since about January 17th, and it stinks...........I'm about ready to bare down and go to the doctors. Last week I was feeling a little better, and feeling like I was getting rid of this darn chest cold (although my voice was still harsh) and now its back. I'm flemmy again and coughing more than ever. I'm still taking my medicine and cough med's but it just won't leave me.

ALot of people I taLk too, said its hanging around and hard to get rid of now. Some people they know have it for 3-4 weeks too........weLL, its going on 4 weeks alright, maybe 5.

I'm having backaches now, which I never ever had. I haven't had back pain since I was pregnant with TayLor, and now my lower back on my right side has been acheing and hurting all day. Hopefully I just slept on it wrong last night.

Well, I'm heading to bed early tonight......Steve is helping out working 3rd shift hours tonight with friends of ours, (cleaning business) so he won't be here tonight, maybe I'll sleep better alone.

Too CoLd for Snow Tubing

Oh my gosh, tonight TayLor's Youth Fellowship from Church went snow tubing. Not only did we experience one of the worse ice storms that I can remember, but its so bitterly cold out, like 15 degrees or less. And a little windy. We froze. Hoping they would reschedule it, we went for 1 hour. Normally I wouldn't do a $10.00 snow tubing price for 1 hour, but with how cold it was, it was worth it. She had fun. Next time we go we'll take some closer friends along.

some of the other kids stayed longer, it was a 10.00 charge for all night, which is a great deal! But 1 hour was our limit.

I hear next week they are calling for 50 degree weather by Friday, oh gosh! I cannot wait. That will feel like spring for us!

Avalanche Express is only about 5-10 mins from our house, so its not far but it is just do darn cold out it was freezing. Here are some photos to share:

What not to Do

This is what I wanted to try to prevent the other day by getting my car up and running so we could move it and park it in our regular parking spots out back of our house. Because it's sitting across the street at our local garage waiting to be fixed, although we now know it needs a new battery and a little bit of gas after sitting for 3+ months, there is NO WAY getting in there now.

Our wonderful plow trucks have plowed me in and our nice neighbors put their snow piles in front and in back of my car. Might as well wait now and the worse part is .......THIS IS ALL ICE on top of the snow and its not easy to get it cleared out.

The mail hasn't run now for 2 days, and I'm hoping it runs today but fingers crossed XXXX.

There's no where for anyone to park on the front streets and alot of things are put on hold.

Above is a picture taken today, Thursday and the picture below was yesterday after the snowstorm before the snow plowing started. Didn't look too bad yesterday huh? Until I retook the picture above today!

What not to do, let your car sit on a busy street during a snow storm.

Snow and Ice Storm

Yesterday morning we woke up to a snow storm, it starting with just snow, the kids were home by 11:00a.m. after a 3 hour day, which was a waste of gas for the school buses, but anyways.........it snowed all day long and then last evening started to ice/sleet/rain. Boy! all night long you could hear it on the windows while "trying" to sleep, pitter patter on the windows, sometimes very hard. We woke up this morning to the pics below that I took .........ice!

Here in Pennsylvania we'd rather have 12" of snow than 2" of ice, like we got. Snow we can handle, but ice? nobody can.......your inside for the entire day. It was very hard to shovel, dig out and everything is just solid ice. You walk on the 6" + of snow we got and you don't even sink down.

A tree out back made this very nice picture!

My car (red one) is buried sitting across the street at the garage, we tried to get it running yesterday to move it out back where we normally park but the battery was simply dead and we had no time to get a new one. So, my car got buried last night and probably will get buried more and more as the snowplow trucks keep going pass all day long.

Steve and a neighbor guy were trying to help this car that got stuck turning into an alley way (which still isn't plowed open as I write this blog), he finally got through the snow/ice after several pushes and pulls.

OUr sidewalk out back, nothing but a sheet of ice.

Super Bowl Party Pics

Super Bowl Party Pics--- I finally got the new camera hooked up to download pics on the computer. Here are some photos to share from our Colts/Bears Super Bowl Party. We had a good time with lots of food!

Chip, Bryce and Steve chowing out on some good food before the game starts!

Our guests enjoying the game!

Bill & Steve clowing around as Redskin Fans do when they aren't in the Super Bowl. :-)

The new TV arrangement, we stepped up this year to a bigger TV for the game and to enjoy throughout the year.

Jeremey and his girlfriend clowning around after the COLTS took the Super Bowl this year!

Memories

Today I can remember a dear friend of mine, his name was Bret Leiphart. Today is special cause it would have been his 36th birthday today, February 12th.

He passed away about 10 years ago, on Jan.31st due to a snowmobile accident and I miss him dearly. Even though we were just friends at the time, it was a horrible lost to me mostly cause I spent 7 years of my life with him from 10th grade through 2 years into college before we split up. At one time we even talked marriage.

Something funny to post about him is the fact that every year on his birthday he thought he was speciaL, cause he was born on Abraham Lincoln's birthday. He always said he was the man on this day and he was blessed to celebrate Abe's birthday with him. What a nut. He was so proud and truly thought this day was dedicated to him and not Abe when they mentioned Feb.12th every year.

He was my memories in high schooL. There is nothing more precious than memories in schooL and I guess that is what hurts the most knowing he is no longer here and those memories are so strong. So, I just wanted to mention his birthday today cause I'm sure his family & friends are thinking of this special day today! Miss you Bret!

Being Creative

I was trying to be creative this morning with some new ideas for my website www.thegspatch.com with some new Valentines Day things, here is one of my punch art girls with her V-day Tag! Somewhat cute, I think........you can purchase it on my site.

Have a great week!

New Camera

We got a new camera last week or 2 and I cannot figure out how to upload pics on our computer yet to show on the blog........I'll be back later when I figure it out.

I want to share the SUPER BOWL PARTY pics we took, so check back later.
And stay warm..........

Frigid CoLd

I wanted to blog today about the SUPER BOWL PARTY we had last night but its so coLd out this morning that I'm sitting here with a chiLL on ...........its 7 degrees right now. The kids have a 2 hour schooL deLay and therefore, haven't even been on the bus yet, although any minute now its picking them up. What a cold Frigid day, burrrhhh! coLd.

It was so cold last night, the wind was horrifying and I just cannot believe its this coLd out.

I will post some Super BowL pictures later today or tomorrow. We had a good time, I think the cold weather kept alot of guests at home this year, but that's ok, we had about 12 guests arrive and we had a blast.

Keep warm!

Da Bears or Da CoLts

Well, who should we root for today's SUPER BOWL PARTY SUNDAY? I think I must say I want the COLTS to win, but I'd like to see the BEARS to win since its been 21 years since they've been to a Super Bowl.

We are preparing our party right now, and I'm about ready to close the computer up til MondaY.

We have food coming, HOT WINGS, 6 FOOT SUB, TURKEY CHILI, NACHOS/CHEESE, BEER AND SO MUCH MORE! It's going to be a fun party, plan to take some pictures as we bought a new digital camera on Friday, and cannot wait to try it out today.

We have door prizes, mardi gras beads for your team whichever your prefer (orange or blue), and lots of gambling games to attend for the evening.

Good luck Bears and Colts...............PEYTON MANNING is the man!

First Real Snow

WeLL, tonight we had our 1st reaL snow of this winter and its Feb.2nd already. Ground hogs day. We had about 1-2" of snow tonight, enough to cover the ground but not the roads. It is so cold outside now, and this snow will make things real icey overnight. We're staying in for the night and decided to hang out in the warmth.

We normally go out on Friday nights when Taylor goes away for the weekend, she's at her dad's this weekend. But tonight its an early night. I'm still feeling half sick and coughy. My chest is still congested and hurting from coughing alot. We are going to try to get a little bit tomorrow night before our big day on Sunday - SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!

I'm about ready to head to bed so have a great weekend!

Just for Fun

An online friend of mine who also has a great blog had the cutest "Just For Fun List" on their blog.You have to give an answer that begins with the first letter of your name!

I'm Wendy and I will use "W" ...

Here's my list. (wow! Wendy, that's a hard letter, wish me luck)

1. Famous athlete: Manning, Peyton (the cutest guy in NFL, what a way to start)

2. Four letter word: Whiz

3. Street name: Water St.

4. Color: White

5. Gift: White Roses

6. Vehicle: Wagon (it has wheels)

7. Tropical Location: Wakakee (spelling?)

8. College Major: Writer

9. Dairy Product: White Cheese (that counts, come on you try it)

10. Something in a Souvenir Shop: Water Bottle (tourist need water to travel right?)

11. Boy Name: Walter

12. Girl Name: Whitney

13. Movie Title: Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

14. Alcohol: Wine

15. Occupation: Waitress

16. Flower: White Rose

17. Celebrity: Whitney Houston

18. Magazine: Wow ( I don't know this one) I'm stuck.......??????

19. US City: Washington DC

20. Sports Team: WASHINGTON REDKSINS (who else????) that was easy!!!!

21. Something Found in a Kitchen: Whisk

22. Reason for being late: Wash needed done ?!?

23. Something you throw away: Wilted flowers

24. Things you shout: Wait for me!!!!

25. Cartoon Character: Winnie the Pooh

OK, your turn! and let me know when you post yours so I can have as much fun reading your fun List!