Along the same lines as my post earlier this week: I heard a radio commercial for a local hospital that does sleep studies. I wonder if my husband would be willing to do that? Strangely enough, the last two nights he hasn't snored. Well, maybe he has, but I have been so tired, and in such a deep sleep that I haven't heard it.
Apparently, sleep disorders can cause all kinds of health problems. My husband would never agree to doing it though because he doesn't see it as a problem. The other night I was so frustrated that I stared at him in the dark (I felt like the girl in the movie "Paranormal Activity") for a few minutes trying to figure out what to do. Finally, I decided that I would simply pull the bed comforter over his head. I figured he would change his position. Sure enough, he did. I the morning he said, "Do you know that you must have turned over and caused the comforter to go over my head last night?" I pretended that I didn't have any idea what he was talking about. It was good for a laugh, anyway. What a terrible thing for me to do! Desperate wives turn to desperate means.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Stop the Snoring!
I can't stand it anymore. My husband snores all night, every night and it is really becoming a problem for me. Last night the snoring was so loud and strong that the bed was actually moving with each of the loud snores. I just don't know what to do. In the past, I have hauled myself out to the sofa, but since I am the first one up in the morning and have to get up to get all the kids up and ready for school, I don't like to be away from the radio alarm. I also am a bit selfish too because I always think, "Why the heck should I be the one who has to leave the comfortable bed? I'm not disturbing anyone!" We have been married for nearly twenty years and my husband has been a snorer pretty much our whole marriage. Lately, it seems the snoring has gotten worse. The jerking of the whole bed is more than I can handle. When I try to redirect my husband by asking him to turn over or move or something, he is offended. He also gets offended when he wakes up in the morning and I am not in the bed. When I tell him it is because of his snoring, he gets defensive. I just don't get it. I have asked him to take allergy medicine to see if that helps, and he is what medical experts would consider obese, but he doesn't have any motivation to change anything to improve the problem. I am at my wit's end. I need some sleep! Please, please do something to stop the snoring!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Yikes! Anita Dunn is Scary!
Even though I am not affiliated with the Republican party, nor am I particularly conservative, I listen to the Glenn Beck radio show now and then. He fascinates me because his is so hysterically conservative. He deserves credit for being so passionate about what he believes. He also annoys the heck out of me because he cries like a baby and is hyper-critical about everyone who doesn't share his exact views, and he doesn't offer any real solutions for the problems he points out, but I do find him intriguing. Yesterday on his radio show, he claimed that his folks had uncovered a "damning" video of the current Communications Director for the Obama administration, Anita Dunn. He teased it for awhile and said that he could not reveal what was on the video until his television show on Fox News at 5:00 pm. Glenn Beck is nothing if not a great showman. Anyway, I decided to tune into his show to check out what all the drama was about.
Poor Glenn Beck! He is absolutely going to have a heart attack one of these days. He gets so worked up and frenetic that he is going to burst some important and vital organ one of these days! With that being said, I have to say that the video of Anita Dunn was disturbing on a couple of levels. First of all, anyone who has such a horrible case of cotton mouth (the noises from her mouth and the tongue getting thrust out every third word was hideous to look at) is, in my opinion either very nervous about speaking in front of people, or very nervous about the content of the speech. Anita Dunn seems to admire Mao Tse Tung. That seems like someone who should not be in a high government position. Oddly enough, Glenn Beck has this one right. Second, don't people who are being considered for jobs at the White House have to go through some sort of screening and security check? My husband is an engineer for ITT and has to go through a thorough background/security check every few years. If they found him to be a Maoist, I think he would no longer be in the same (pretty lowly) job there. How is it that so many questionable people are being put in such high level jobs these days. What kind of change is going on? Glenn Beck is crazy, but he might be onto something here. . .
Poor Glenn Beck! He is absolutely going to have a heart attack one of these days. He gets so worked up and frenetic that he is going to burst some important and vital organ one of these days! With that being said, I have to say that the video of Anita Dunn was disturbing on a couple of levels. First of all, anyone who has such a horrible case of cotton mouth (the noises from her mouth and the tongue getting thrust out every third word was hideous to look at) is, in my opinion either very nervous about speaking in front of people, or very nervous about the content of the speech. Anita Dunn seems to admire Mao Tse Tung. That seems like someone who should not be in a high government position. Oddly enough, Glenn Beck has this one right. Second, don't people who are being considered for jobs at the White House have to go through some sort of screening and security check? My husband is an engineer for ITT and has to go through a thorough background/security check every few years. If they found him to be a Maoist, I think he would no longer be in the same (pretty lowly) job there. How is it that so many questionable people are being put in such high level jobs these days. What kind of change is going on? Glenn Beck is crazy, but he might be onto something here. . .
Friday, October 9, 2009
All I Want is a Little Car!
This is starting to get a bit irritating. My oldest daughter now has her driver's license. Having it is both a blessing and a curse. Right now, it feels like a curse because my daughter wants to drive to school sometimes. I really don't mind. I am getting more comfortable with her driving so whenever she wants/needs to drive to school, and I don't have other daytime commitments, I let her drive my car to school. That leaves me without a car for about eight hours per day. It is not necessarily a bad thing, but if there would be some sort of emergency with one of my other children, or myself, I would not be able to go get help.
For weeks now, I have been looking for a car to purchase for my daughter to use. I am really only interested in cars that are known to be safe, which narrows my options down a bit. My number one choice would be an old(er) Volvo. They are pretty hard to find because people tend to hang onto them until they are no longer usable. A few weeks ago, I found the perfect car for my daughter. It was a 1998 Volvo S70 with absolutely no rust. I looked at it several times, looked under the hood (not that I really know what I am looking at, but gunk under the hood that is obvious would be a red flag, I think). The next week, I went to the lot and my daughter and I drove the car. I really liked it. It was straight- forward with the instrumentation, the leather interior was excellent, it has a few extras like a sunroof, and it drove straight and felt solid. The only problem was that the ABS/TRAC light was on. I asked the salesman about it, but I really didn't understand what he was saying about it because English was not his native tongue. I gathered that they had done a computer scan on it and some sort of sensor or something was malfunctioning. I'm not sure what that mean except that I wouldn't feel comfortable unless the car was fixed and running without any warning lights illuminated. If the dealer would come down on the price, I would be inclined to just purchase the car and use what I saved on getting the ABS thing fixed. If there is no negotiating the price, then I would want the dealer to have it fixed before I would consider buying it.
Here is where my problem comes in: I can't get my husband to help me out with this. He has absolutely no desire to help me figure out what to do. He gives me absolutely no feedback about what he thinks we should do. I understand why he is so ambivalent. He has a car at his disposal every day, without question. He doesn't ever give up his car, so there is no sense of urgency. It is so frustrating. All I really need is for him to say, "go ahead and spend the money" and I would take care of everything myself. So far I have gotten nothing but silence. All I want is a little car. . . and a little feedback!
For weeks now, I have been looking for a car to purchase for my daughter to use. I am really only interested in cars that are known to be safe, which narrows my options down a bit. My number one choice would be an old(er) Volvo. They are pretty hard to find because people tend to hang onto them until they are no longer usable. A few weeks ago, I found the perfect car for my daughter. It was a 1998 Volvo S70 with absolutely no rust. I looked at it several times, looked under the hood (not that I really know what I am looking at, but gunk under the hood that is obvious would be a red flag, I think). The next week, I went to the lot and my daughter and I drove the car. I really liked it. It was straight- forward with the instrumentation, the leather interior was excellent, it has a few extras like a sunroof, and it drove straight and felt solid. The only problem was that the ABS/TRAC light was on. I asked the salesman about it, but I really didn't understand what he was saying about it because English was not his native tongue. I gathered that they had done a computer scan on it and some sort of sensor or something was malfunctioning. I'm not sure what that mean except that I wouldn't feel comfortable unless the car was fixed and running without any warning lights illuminated. If the dealer would come down on the price, I would be inclined to just purchase the car and use what I saved on getting the ABS thing fixed. If there is no negotiating the price, then I would want the dealer to have it fixed before I would consider buying it.
Here is where my problem comes in: I can't get my husband to help me out with this. He has absolutely no desire to help me figure out what to do. He gives me absolutely no feedback about what he thinks we should do. I understand why he is so ambivalent. He has a car at his disposal every day, without question. He doesn't ever give up his car, so there is no sense of urgency. It is so frustrating. All I really need is for him to say, "go ahead and spend the money" and I would take care of everything myself. So far I have gotten nothing but silence. All I want is a little car. . . and a little feedback!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Slow Month(s)
I don't know what is wrong with me, but I just don't have anything interesting to blog about. I haven't earned anything with my Google AdSense stuff in the last month either. I wonder if it has to do with my spending a lot of my "free" time on Facebook? Those blasted games! They are such time stealers! Anyway, I thought I would check in with my "trash heap" of a blog, just so no cobwebs start forming. I think I hear crickets chirping in the corner. Oh well, hope your October is going well!
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