Just Pass Me By

I learned something new today. I have always been allergic to MSG I can’t eat it. It causes me respiratory troubles, stomach aches and other unpleasant things. I found out tonight that MSG has gluten in it which means I can not eat it at all. I have not know watch spices closer, and other things I tend to like. If it has any MSG in it I need to pass it up. We went out to eat tonight, needed to get a dad out of the house. He was a little grumpy, so I figured his grumpiness was more to do with needing to get out and do something then just wanting to be a jerk.
We stopped in at our little mexican place. I was talking to them about needing to be gluten free. He was able to tell me not to eat the sour cream there because it had MSG in it. Now this answers why I gotten a few blisters in my mouth after eating it. I am glad he told me about it. I never realized msg is a can’t have it at all. It hard to avoid it nearly impossible.

Eating gluten-free is very expensive. Some days I wish I could go back to eating wheat but I know that would be very bad. It is amazing the price different between wheat products and gluten free products. I wonder if it will ever changed, and gluten free becomes about the same. I will need to look at coupons by dropdowndeals.com it seems they have many different option of coupons. They have things ranging from food to clothing to other items I use daily.
I guess I need to start planning my grocery shopping a little better and allow time to find the coupons I need or desire for different food products. Shoot I could even look for clothing this way. Next time I go to buy a DVD I might see if I can get a coupon to cut down the cost of it. Why pay full price when a coupon can take off some of the cost.

Today I had to bring Otis and Shadow to the vet. Time for their checks up. They had to stay there for four hours, oh my goodness what a long time. I think by the end of the four hours Dad had drive me positively nuts asking me where the dog or the cat was each time I told him at the vet. It gets stressful here trying to do homework and have him bugging me every 10 minutes. Then he gets mad at me when I tell him, leave me do my homework stop bugging me. Some days living with someone with Alzheimer is rough sometimes it not so bad. It is hard balancing out things that need to be done for him and things I must complete for the day.
I know that I can’t get chevy corvette custom floor mats, or anything like that because they are not vital to the family. It hard telling him no to donuts because we have to make sure there enough food for my husband and I to eat too. Or we just don’t have it in cash to run to the place that has them near by. It hard telling him we can’t go out till I am done with homework.
Then he complains that the house is cold yet I am hot, and feel it almost toasty.. It frustrating to be woke up everynight and then take 2 to 3 hours to fall back a sleep and everyone wonders why I might be shorter tempted or grumpy. Yet everyone else here can be cranky if they want but heaven forbid I get irritable.

Its been raining the last couple of days, I am glad because my allergies have not been good. I am so glad I do not have to worry about snow yet, not like in Minnesota. I will need to get chains for my car before snow flies so I might want to find where they sale truck tire chains because the car gotta be near by. I was starting to wonder if rain was a myth they all tell us, in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up here, and it doesn’t seem like it raining enough. Yeah I like the rain it not bad, and honestly it doesn’t rain that much in the last month or so we have had three days of rain, and two of those days have been the last couple of days. Yeah I am loving Oregon.

My husband just released his second book. I am very proud of him. He has worked pretty hard on completing it. I wish I had half of his writing talent but I guess that does not always happen. I have math as my strong point. He has his book available on paper or through amazon. I can’t wait for his next project, because I know it be good. We have been married for over 5 yrs now. I am glad he finally doing what he likes to do so much better then him coming home from the typical job and not feeling fulfilled. At least we do not need to buy a bunch of laserjet ink cartridges to print his book.

Dad is driving me nuts. He does not want to use his cane even through he has a hard time walking. He can’t hear but does not want to wear his hearing aides. Yet he wants to have the TV at about 80 volume which is painfully loud. I hardly can handle it above 30. He gets a attitude when we tell him put his hearing aides in.. Shoot if he worried about batteries we can get batteries online it is not hard at all. I have done it in the past. Shoot they even have it at Walgreens and other places.
Sometimes I think dad would rather us yell at him so people think we are murdering him. When I have to yell it not pleasant sounding it kind of unpleasant.
Well hubby wants to go for a walk. Maybe I feel better after our walk..

My husband was told he has to lose weight by a doctor here. He had to see one after we moved in, and no we are working on a problem he has. He been doing good walking daily. I am proud of him. We will maybe need to look at getting him some good shoes for his feet. I will have to look at what famous footwear coupons have in store. Some shoes are just to tight and do not fit good. No fun walking in shoes that make your feet hurt, or feel to tight.
The last week we have done a lot of walking together. It nice to be able to do this activity together and normally we do what needs to be done while we walk.

Sunday we moved from our old apartment. We had thrown out a lot, some of it could have been donated or something but ran out of time. We had a couple of friends helping us clean the night before and Sunday Am they left at noon. When they left they told us we’d be working till midnight. We got it done by 330 or so in the afternoon. Then we started our trip.
I pulled the stove out, it was disgusting back there and I just cleaned it out 3 months ago. Seriously how messy can a area get. The refrigerator lets not even talk about that in the back, oh my goodness talk about dust.
We cleaned out the 2 ceiling vents in the bathrooms, I took one of those compressed air cans to that and got so much dust and gunk out of it. I scrubbed the window sells. Would you believe their was more dirt then anything. My vacuum broke so we didn’t vac out the apartment. I am not sure maybe we are piggies or after five years of living in the same place things collect up.

Today was my last day at work. I am really going to miss everyone. I loved my job and enjoyed it, but sometimes things change and a new life starts. I am not sure what I will be doing, when I first started at my company I wish I would have found Marcus discount medical uniforms since I work with children. Maybe they would have had better things for wearing with messy ones. I do not have a job yet, I am not sure where I am going to be working or how long it will take me to find a job I hope it goes quickly for me.
My favorite thing about my job was watching my kids grow, learn new things, and play nicely together especially when playing was a hard thing. I will miss all my kids. I feel so torn, happy and sad. Thank goodness this weekend ends my summer classes.

I have to say I am not impressed with Minnesota State government. At least they finally came up with a deal, and the shutdown hasn’t lasted that long. I was wondering if it would be resolved by the time my husband and I moved. I am so glad we are moving maybe the grass on the other side of the fence is actually greener. I might want to look at Wholesale Insurance Services for renters and see if there any better deals. I doubt anyone can beat my current insurance. Now hopefully the President and his people can find an agreement so he doesn’t shutdown the whole country. All I know is retired people like dad do not need the government with holding his living money. He is not making any money so he kind of counts on it. I think politicians are not very bright and the colleges they came out of should be ashamed of them.
A lot of people in MN are all complaining about not being able to get their liquor license because of the shutdown. I think it funny that people are more worried about getting drunk then actually the other things which have been affected more. Well at least if MN raises taxes again I will not be living her to give the state some more of my income when I barely have enough for myself.