Just Pass Me By

Don’t worry I promise I won’t road Rage, I will control my temper, but I am so sick of drivers in Minnesota. When I first moved here, I thought this was the greatest State to drive in. I used to love driving in this State to view the scenery, now I would rather not unless there is no traffic.
This morning on my way to work there was this idiot behind the wheel,  use your turn signal, honestly it not that hard, I’d let you in,  no problem! The center of this world isn’t my van and it isn’t your cute little car, that could be smashed because your being stupid and feeling a need to be aggressive. The signal is very easy to find normally it on the left side that thing that hanging behind the staring wheel, all you have to do is hit it up for right and down for left, it quiet simple. The turn signal on some cars is the same thing that you use to turn your high beams on. Try the turn signal you might enjoy it.

Common sense people, if your in the far left lane, don’t make a right turn, the right turn lane isn’t there it over on the right side of the road, so use it not the left side of the road. Hey you, need to merge it easy. Keep the foot on the gas, get with the flow of traffic and turn your signal on maybe someone will be nice enough to let you in. Please don’t speed up and try to get ahead of the car of head of you try to fit your self between the car in front and the car behind. If you see someone merging on to a highway, and your able maybe try moving over to the left so that person can get on the road, and lets not run each other off the road. I am getting so tired of having to read people minds and figure out that they are going to be changing lanes into my lane with out signaling barely giving me time to not hit them. I am tired of sometimes driving on the highway and being just about ran off of the road.

If your merging on the highway with a group of other cars, don’t try to pass unless you have the room, it rude to push someone of the road. Just because your car or van or truck is bigger then someone else doesn’t mean you own the road, lets try being friendly in this State like I remember when I first moved here. The same goes for you all with the Nice little cars that well I could never pay for it rude to cut of a van who takes longer to stop then you do.

I had a table that was given to me it was so old when it was given, but served it purpose well. I have been wanting a new table for over 5 years, because the old one can only seat 2 people, with nothing but their plates, and was wobbly. When we had company we would always eat out in the living room with some friends we eat at the table, but i was worried it would tip over.

When my husband and I got married we wanted a table and found one we liked at IKEA, It was just a little under $200 but still out of our reach. We been trying to save money for over a year to get this table we’ve wanted. We decided we’d each pay $100 so we can finally have a table to eat on and when we have guest not worry about having more then 3 or 4 people counting us. I am so thankful we finally have a nice table.

Let me begin by saying I am not like most women. I do not like shopping at all, I don’t mind it if I am shopping for someone else to give them a present. I like giving things to people. Now when it comes to me, I want to do as little shopping as possible. I hate buying clothes, food and other things needed around the house. I will do it because it needs to be done, but I hate it. Today I went to Cubs, they are a good store to go to. I am used to having to read the ingredients for my allergies but one thing I haven’t have to do is pay attention to Sodium, so now I am looking at ingredients and sodium because we all know I can’t give my husband something that has a huge amount of Sodium.

There are lot of things my husband enjoys including lunch meat which is so high in sodium I feel wrong buying it for him. I don’t want to have to make his lunches to, I don’t have time for that I work full time, and soon will be going back to school to finish off my degree, so home cooking lunches just is not feasible. I love my husband, the best solution I can come up with is make extras for dinner and tell him bring that and eat it. He would probably enjoy it. I am a good cook. I guess that is a blessing for us. I know how to cook. I got my mom and grandma cookings abilities, they never taught me how to cook.

I have learned most of my cooking skills by experimenting. I have a couple of friends who told me they would like me to teach them. I told them I would be willing to do that if they would like. I like baking and cooking it is enjoyable.

Today at Cubs I went right away from work, it was busier then I expected. alright I said I don’t like shopping, I don’t like dealing with cowards of inpatient people. I try to be patient but lately I haven’t been very patient. I was about ready to cry at cubs because everything me and my hubby like for lunch was so high in sodium. I can’t help but feel more and more responsible for his health problems because I wasn’t cooking homemade, I wasn’t taking care of us correctly. It falls mostly on me because I am the one who cooks.

One of his favorite soups or chili sodium was 1140 mg, I like the soup to but after seeing that I bet I could make it and make a lot lower in Sodium. I know premade food has to to have some amount of sodium in order to keep good. I am just starting to find it frustrating that everything He looks is probably very unhealthy, at the same time I realize I can’t say we can’t have this or that, because when we say No to our selves sometimes we will crave it and give in and eat to much of it. So it is best to allow it once in a while and then not eat other thing that have a higher amount of sodium.

Last night my husband and I went out to dinner with our friend who set us up. She wanted to go out to dinner. There are a few places, we can go out because of my allergies. We tried a branch of a restaurant we have never had a problem with and normally they handle my allergies fairly well and are accommodating. I guess when they open the new store here in my neighborhood they took all the good workers from all the other restaurants in the area. I was not impressed, I asked simple questions about simply how they made something and they couldn’t answer my question. They where unwilling to look, it was not busy.

We finally decided it would be best not to eat there no sense in possibly causing an allergic reaction. They where rather rude about my asking questions. I hate asking questions but it important to now, because forgetting to ask could be a serious problem.

My husband and I go to a couple of Kosher Restaurants in the area. They are wonderful, we don’t have to worry about the keeping of the grill, because if your kosher there are certain rules that are to be followed. The restaurant we went to last night you have to walk through the kitchen to get to the bathrooms. So I picked at their grill and cooking area, I have to be honest I am surprised of how clean they kept it. I cook often at home, and well I don’t keep things that nice looking while cooking.

When I ordered, I asked the Waitress, how things where made. When she didn’t know what all was in it she go and find out. The nice thing about this place is most of their dinners had a list of ingredients this is important for me it reduces my asking questions down a lot. My husband and myself eat kosher also so there are a lot more options at a kosher restaurant for us then at a normal restaurant. It’s nice not to have to tell them hey pork will kill me, and not to have to ask what kind of grease is being used or what’s been cooked in the grease.

Pork is a real serious problem for me, so I am always careful when I order sometimes I end up only getting stuff not cook on the grill. So it a lot of salads, and sometimes they try to sneak the pork in on you. I don’t know why but it just seems like all the none kosher restaurants are getting on this big everything has to have pork in it. If I wasn’t allergic to it I still would not eat pork. I do eat Kosher and it for religious reasons, but I don’t think I would be so careful to avoid it. I wouldn’t worry so much about the grill possible still having it on it or if they cook in the grease something pork. It wouldn’t matter healthwise.

My husband after finding out some of the things restaurants do, has for the most decided to not get fries because of the cooking pork in it. Well the waitress at our kosher restaurant was more then happy to help and answer question. What I do not get is why is it so hard to ask questions and find out the correct information for a customer. Would they do this to someone with a peanut allergy because they simply felt the need to be lazy. I realize being allergic to pork and beef isn’t a common allergy and it not my fault my body has a problem with it. I didn’t say hey have a allergic reaction it will be fun…

I have noticed some restaurants like KFC, in larger Muslim community will not use pork products. This is great it, shows KFC knows something about making customer happy, but you know there are plenty of Jewish Community in the USA with a few KFC around but they don’t do the same. I just find it odd that they would do it for one major community and not do it for another community which is just as major and large. I don’t have a problem with Muslims neither frankly I don’t care what a person is. I think KFC has the right idea, to make the customer happy, but at the same time I think it important for anyone in the Food industry to understand their community areas, and to understand allergies.Would I eat at a Muslim restaurant I probably would just don’t know of any in the area, and normally when i find restaurants that work I tent to stick with the restaurant or branch.

The thing that bugs me with my experience last night with my husband is that the restaurant was slow that we stopped at first, there was maybe 4 or 5 tables with people at it. They probably felt they had made their customer happy for the day and didn’t need to worry about making another one happy. They had plenty of staff on, so it not like they where short staffed. They had the time to go and look up ingredients, wouldn’t have taken long. Now my Kosher restaurant which was full of customers, and probably didn’t have as many staff working took the time out to find out the ingredient in the same product at the other restaurant. The Waitress did it happily, she didn’t have a attitude about it. She went and looked it up, came back and told me what was being used in it. It took her maybe 2 minutes to do this, so why couldn’t the bigger restaurant which I am sure has more customer darking their door steps, then the Kosher Restaurant in a more Jewish Neighborhood. Don’t get me wrong I am so glad they have good customer service and that they take the time out to make sure their customers are happy. But if anyone didn’t have the time to find out an ingredient it was her.

I guess my solution to the problem is to just go to the Kosher Restaurants and put my money where it would be better spent!

I am so accident prone lately, honestly I am surprised that i haven’t broken a leg or something. I love my cat, but sometimes he lives a little to dangerously. Otis, goes every where with me in the house. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night in pain and need some pain relievers. The joys of being a woman.

Otis was right next to me on the floor he is black and white and sometimes hard to see at night. I stepped on his tail. He meowed and didn’t move at all, I got by him with out falling over him. I came back and laid down, Otis jumped up with me and snuggled closely. He is such a good kitty, rested right next to my tummy where most of the pain was and we know hot pads work great. I do have to say Otis being around does make me feel better.

Well I woke up this morning, he jumped down with me and followed me every where. I tripped over him twice, I am not sick, I am very healthy right now other then the pain. But it the Joys of womanhood. Well I was in the bathroom trying to get my self ready. Otis got some how under my feet and I step on his paw he meowed at me and looked at me, like what was that for mom! Well he didn’t feel the need to move out of my way, so I had to watch for him. I finally got done in the bathroom and started walking toward my kitchen, I tripped over Otis yet again for the day.

I am surprised I don’t have any broken bones and that Otis doesn’t neither. When I got home I drove by the window. We live on the first floor Otis was looking out the window. I am starting to wonder if Otis knows my Van, because he was waiting by the door by the time I came up from the parking garage.

I get inside, and Otis right away wanted to be in my lap. Today he seems so needy for attention, he a sweet cat and normally very affectionate. I am surprise my husband isn’t jealous of the cat because the cat the only one allowed to touch me right now.

Today at work was oddly quiet. Maybe the girls had a lesson when they where working by them selves with some of the men, who where playing pay backs. Yesterday and today they where not talking about their personal private life.  All I know is I was getting tired of hearing about someone else sex life, it not my business what they do.

Today, we finish our assignment and then started on a other assignment that was due today, we finished it on time. It was nice because I didn’t have to seat with them all day. I didn’t have to listen to them talk about things that are none of my business.

I have been listening to more of my radio, I am so tired of what they play on the radio. I am tired of hearing a cuss word here and there. Yesterday I had one of those days where I was out to hurt my self. I fall out of my chair and that was a laugh for everyone. I start laughing right away, I wasn’t hurt so it didn’t bother me. Now I laugh when ever I am hurt to so I guess they will never know the difference.

Yesterday my husband had a doctor appointment. He told me the doctor made sure he did everything he could to find out what was wrong with hubby and also check over everything. He took time to listen to my husband. I am sure my husband wasn’t kidding because he got home very late he was there for at least 2 hours but it was his first time with the clinic. It is my clinic, and i know they are good and pay attention to their patients.

My husband came home last night with a dozen of roses, I guess he was trying to say thank you. I ask him what they where for because I didn’t do anything to deserve them. Well Craig, my husband and I were talking about his appointment and everything the doctor did. You all should have heard him talk about it, he almost excited about it. Craig has high blood pressure, I don’t cook with a whole lot of salts, and try to watch my sodium intake anyways. When Craig and I first got married he complained about Veggies and said he wouldn’t eat them so I didn’t make as many home made meals as I should have. We all know premade meals have a lot of hidden sodium. Which is my fault I should have not told him what things were made with and just bought what was needed to keep us both healthy.

Well Craig was talking about the Medication he was put on it a water pill. I have never heard of a water pill lowering blood pressure. The doctor told Craig this was the first med he tried with all of his patients, if there was 100 people who came to him with high blood pressure he would treat them first with this, and usually that would resolve their blood pressure problems.

Interesting we will have to see if a water pill is going to work for this with diet and exercise. I love my husband and try to give him what he wants but I think that sometimes he needs to have what is the best for him and if that means me cooking real food and not using a box then that what i need to do. I prefer cooking everything on my own, with all my food allergies I don’t have to worry about do they have something in it that will cause me a reaction.

I wish I would have known I didn’t need to be up early. I went to work was actually a few minutes early and that hasn’t happened often since I started this job. Don’t get me wrong I am always on time, I make sure of it. This is the first job that i have been so close to on time that i am not even close to being early. When I got in there was nothing, my team sat for about an hour. We where given some thing to put into envelopes but theirs four of us and maybe 500 envelopes which needed to be stuffed that took what all of 10 minutes. We sat for probably close to 2 hours today before we where told there no more work for us and there might be work at Noon. Great, I know my team works fast, and we are at least a week ahead of where we need to be. I could have slept longer and came in later, and probably got more hours. Now i have to call at around noon to see if there is any work. Today I played my cellphone games which normally I don’t do, wish i would have brought my PSP today at least those games are a little more fun.

So I came back home and decided I would study Word so i can retake the test at my company and score better. I am not a test taker, I always mess test up. I figure take the course they are offering although i know it already, I just have to be in my Word Document in order to do it correctly.

Well I have 4 more lesson to complete now. Then I will take their test, probably take it a few times, and maybe this way I will pass the test at least a little better then the first time. Now Power Point I had no problem with that test I think I was one of the top people for that. I don’t get it I have used Word so much longer then Power point but found the PowerPoint test to be easier. I have got to score probably better in Word to get a better position.

Distracted driver why you looking in your mirror and moving forward? I can’t tell you how many people including my husband drive me nuts with being distracted and trust me I tell him. Take your eyes of the road for 2 seconds (sometimes longer ) it takes you to look into the mirror, you may not have enough time to respond if someone jumps in front of you. Anyways the Zit on your face will be there later, and no one really cares that much about it.

To day I was dropping someone of at home after service, I don’t mind doing this I enjoy her company and she nice to be around. I was talking to her about life, and suddenly this car in a gas station driveway started moving out to make a left turn in front of me. What do I have it wrote on my car please cause me an accident! Well I braked and so did he, they where on a cellphone. Come on people if you can not talk on the phone while driving, then don’t do it. If talking or listening to the radio is to much to handle at the same time as driving then turn it off.

Trust me you won’t miss anything, you can call the person later. Shoot the radio is available 24/7 and lets face it. You can do your makeup at work, or at home it really not that important. I have found I have to watch out for everyone and try to determine what they will do before hand. There are very few polite drivers.

Well, I am really frustrated with my husband health issues. It seems his clinic isn’t the brightest bulb in the tree. I don’t get why it is so hard for them to understand what my husband saying or what he has faxed into them. He explained to his doctor that he doesn’t have a lot of money to spend on medicines, and our insurance is horrible. Our coverage doesn’t cover a whole lot. He has other medications, which start to add up.

He has been put on 2 different blood pressure meds, his first one he had he started to have a allergic reaction. Okay, great time to see the doctor again, or get a new prescription for it. Well his doctor prescribed something that is way to expensive for him or I to handle. It just seems lately hubby and I are just facing one issue after another.

I cook healthy, so changing the diet isn’t going to help. I am at a lost of how to help him, and how to find out how to get his meds.