This video is getting circulated around and is pretty funny if you haven’t seen it. This one has the English subtitles so you can understand what they are saying. The Chinese to English translation makes it even funnier…
My tooth has started hurting again. I went through this a while back where I thought I was going to need a root canal. My dentist gave me some painkillers and had me wait a week for an appointment just in case it went away. I got lucky and it went away. Well, now it’s back. I don’t know why, either. All I know is that I’m in quite a bit of pain. I really don’t have the money to go to the dentist right now, so I guess I’m going to play the “wait and see” game and hope it goes away. Except this time I don’t have any of those good painkillers that my dentist gave me. But it would cost a little over $200 to go to the dentist to get checked out just to get a prescription and I doubt they would be up for prescribing them WITHOUT me coming in to see them since it’s been over a year.
I guess for now I have no choice but to deal with the pain as best as possible. I have some Orajel that works for about 5-10 minutes and I’ve been taking 4 Advil at a time. I can tell the lower part of my jaw on that side is a bit swollen as well. I can’t eat on that side and actually haven’t been that hungry anyhow since the pain is just constantly throbbing and I can feel it in my ear at times. So yes, I’m a bit crabby right now.
I’m also still tired, but not as bad, at least. I had a test on Monday in Spanish and a test today in Math. I got a “B” on the Spanish test, which I was disappointed in. I have gotten “A”s in Spanish mostly. I did get an “A” on my Math test today though, despite me being in pain the whole time. I only got one question wrong. My next Spanish test will be a take home test over the Memorial Day weekend. I should be able to bring up that “B” by doing well on this test.
Yesterday I found someone to carpool with to school and back. That’s one major worry off my mind. We have four frickin’ cars and only one is running. So the days that hubby drives to work, I have been stuck with the motorcycle. I don’t mind unless it’s like yesterday when it decides to rain. I ended up not going to school because of not feeling up to riding 25 miles in the rain. Because I missed class, one of my classmates called me last night and she lives just around the corner. We have Spanish together and she also has a course right after Spanish like I do. So it worked out perfectly and I can just ride with her and help her out with gas money. With hubby having been out of work for almost 2 weeks with a serious case of strep, we just don’t have any money to throw at fixing cars right now. I like carpooling anyhow because it gives me someone to talk to on the ride there and back.
I decided I’d like to possibly print out my own graduation announcements for the end of summer. It’s only for my A.A. degree which is Phase 1 anyhow. I’m going on for the Bachelor’s so when I graduate then it will be a bigger deal. I’m not even going through the ceremony this time around. I would like to just send a few announcements to some of my family and friends to let them know I earned my A.A. but that there is no need to send me any gifts or anything like that. I’m not having a party. I looked around on the Internet on how to word the announcements and to let the people know not to send gifts and came up with a couple of sites. Now I just need to find what artwork, etc. I want to put on them and get greeting card paper to print them out on. If anyone knows of any free sites that you can design cards or announcements, let me know.
I got a new digital camera I’ve been playing around with. Actually it’s a 6 megapixel camera, plus camcorder, voice recorder and MP3 player. You can download or record TV programs or DVD’s to watch on the small screen it has or you can hook it up to a TV or computer and watch it on there. It has headphones with it and you can download MP3 files onto it for listening to. It’s fairly small for its size, too. It’s approximately 4″x2″x1′. It stores information on SD cards so you can record as much video as will fit on the card. I can tell I’ll probably need a 2 gig card if I’m going to do a lot of video. It also came with a USB plug so that I can download pictures, movies, etc. right to my computer. The video is pretty good quality. The only problem I’ve seen so far is that you really need some light if you are videotaping anything inside. It has a Night Shot mode but then if you move the camera too fast, things can get a bit blurred when using that. It’s best to have it on a tripod in that mode. I think all of it together was about $150, which is a pretty good price for a 6 megapixel camera, especially one that is able to do all the other things this one can. It’s some off brand name that I had never heard of and I think some places bought a whole bunch of these and people have been snatching them up. So far I haven’t heard any complaints about it, except one. They didn’t give us a lens cap to protect the lens with. Eventually I want to post some pictures from it to see how they look. So far I can tell they look a lot better than my old camera. I just haven’t had much time to mess with it and today I haven’t felt like doing much of anything anyhow.
In fact, I may just take a nap. At least while I’m asleep I won’t know how bad I hurt. I was in tears earlier until the Advil took some of the edge off. They are wearing off way too soon, it seems. I’ve got other stuff I really need to do, but it’s hard to focus on anything for any length of time while this pain is railing me. I should figure out what I’m cooking for dinner tonight, since it will have to be creative. We’re near the time when we need to go grocery shopping so it’s one of those nights where I have to figure out what I can put with what to make a meal. The only problem is that I don’t even feel like eating, much less cooking.
It might just be one of those “fend for yourself” nights…
I haven’t had much time to blog so here’s a picture of my musically inclined cat, Mr. Peabody.
I am tired.
I am tired because Summer School sessions are only 6 weeks, I go to class everyday, I have homework every day, and a lot of material is covered in a very short time.
I am tired because hubby has had strep throat for over a week and the sores on his tongue still haven’t gone away. He tends to be a bit negative and depressed when he’s well. When he’s sick, he’s very difficult to deal with and it has been very draining.
I am tired because I usually can’t even begin studying until late at night because I’ve been taking care of him. And I usually have 2-3 hours each night of homework.
I am tired because I’ve had little time for much else although I have a ton of other stuff I need to do (like finding a job).
And lastly I am tired because I was looking forward to something from a friend that I was hoping would happen very soon and it hasn’t. Waiting makes me feel even more tired, it seems. The brief spout of energy I had upon learning that my friend was going to do this particular thing for me has long vanished. It’s probably because I’m just so extremely tired. I feel like sleeping nonstop for a week.
So now you know why there’s been a lack of blogging lately. I was going to post a more informative entry, but I’m nodding off at the computer as it is.Â
Therefore, I’m off to bed. I’m just too tired and too drained to care much about anything right this moment.
Yeah, yeah, I know I haven’t posted since the beginning of the month. I have commented on other blogs here and there, but I’ve just been pretty swamped this month. Some of it has been good and some not so good. This is probably going to be a lengthy post so to make it easier for my friends out in LJ-land, I’m going to put it behind the cut.
It appears that at least one grocery store thinks that the average shopper is not very well educated. In fact, they are counting on it in order to make a few extra bucks.Â
Check out the following link:Â Winn_Dixie_Weekly_Specials
You will notice that they are advertising their brand of charcoal lighter fluid in the 32 oz. size.  You can buy two of these for $5.00 or one for $2.50. That is, if you use your Customer Rewards Card. So you can only get this deal if you have one of their loyalty cards. On the shelf, they have a nice ‘Sale’ or ’Special’ tag right under the product that says 2/$5.00 so that you can spot these ’specials’ they have throughout the store.
In this particular case there were a few other types or sizes of charcoal lighter fluid next to the one advertised in the special. They had their brand of charcoal lighter fluid, but it was the 64 oz. size. Then next to that, they had the Kingsford brand charcoal lighter fluid in two different sizes as well.
I noticed that quite a few of the advertised charcoal lighter fluid bottles were gone already from the shelf. The 64 oz. size that was next to it had an advertised price of $3.79. It wasn’t on sale or on ’special’ and it also didn’t require you to have a Customer Rewards Card in order to get that price.
What’s sad is that evidently quite a few people picked up two bottles of the 32 oz. size for $5.00 because it was on ’special’ and they ended up paying more than if they had picked up the 64 oz. size bottle. I wonder if it’s just the mistaken idea that if it’s on ’special’ or ’specially marked’ that it’s cheaper than anything else or if it’s just that people don’t know how to add or if people are just so much in a hurry that they don’t look carefully at these types of things to see if they are really getting the best deal?
The stores want to make money and sometimes they resort to practices like this in order to do so. So the next time you’re reaching for something because it’s on ’sale’ or on ’special’, you might want to take a closer look to see if it REALLY is cheaper than any of the other products next to it. You could be deceived into thinking that you’re getting the best deal because the product is listed in the stores weekly specials when in fact you’re actually paying more for it.Â
