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Got a new tattoo ;) Posted 1/19/2007 10:55:02 AM (0) Comments

WD-40 ... Who Knew? Posted 1/3/2007 8:19:25 PM WD-40 ... Who Knew? Author unknown I had a neighbor who had bought a new pickup. I got up very early one Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray painted red all around the sides of this beige truck (for some unknown reason). I went over, woke him up, and told him the bad news. He was very upset and was trying to figure out what to do probably nothing until Monday morning, since nothing was open. Another neighbor came out and told him to get his WD-40 and clean it off. It removed the unwanted paint beautifully and did not harm his paint job that was on the truck. I'm impressed. WD-40, who knew? Water Displacement #40. The product began from a search for a rust preventative solvent and degreaser to protect missile parts. WD-40 was created in 1953 by three technicians at the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes from the project that was to find a water displacement compound. They were successful with the fortieth formulation, thus WD-40. The Corvair Company bought it in bulk to protect their atlas missile parts. Ken East (one of the original founders) says there is nothing in WD-40 that would hurt you. When you read the "shower door" part, try it. It's the first thing that has ever cleaned that spotty shower door. If yours is plastic, it works just as well as glass. It's a miracle! Then try it on your stovetop. Voila! It's now shinier than it's ever been. You'll be amazed. Here are some of the uses: 1) Protects silver from tarnishing. 2) Removes road tar and grime from cars. 3) Cleans and lubricates guitar strings. 4) Gives floors that 'just-waxed' sheen without making it slippery. 5) Keeps flies off cows. 6) Restores and cleans chalkboards. 7) Removes lipstick stains. 8) Loosens stubborn zippers. 9) Untangles jewelry chains. 10) Removes stains from stainless steel sinks. 11) Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill. 12) Keeps ceramic/terra cotta garden pots from oxidizing. 13) Removes tomato stains from clothing. 14) Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots. 15) Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors. 16) Keeps scissors working smoothly. 17) Lubricates noisy door hinges on vehicles and doors in homes. 18) It removes black scuff marks from the kitchen floor! Use WD-40 for those nasty tar and scuff marks on flooring. It doesn't seem to harm the finish and you won't have to scrub nearly as hard to get them off. Just remember to open some windows if you have a lot of marks. 19) Bug guts will eat away the finish on your car if not removed quickly! Use WD-40. 20) Gives the children's play gym slide a shine for a super fast slide. 21) Lubricates gear shift and mower deck lever for ease of handling on riding mowers. 22) Rids kids rocking chairs and swings of squeaky noises. 23) Lubricates tracks in sticking home windows and makes them easier to open. 24) Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close. 25) Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers. 26) Restores and clean s roof racks on vehicles. 27) Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans. 28) Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons, and bicycles for easy handling. 29) Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly. 30) Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools. 31) Removes splattered grease on stove. 32) Keeps bathroom mirror from fogging. 33) Lubricates prosthetic limbs. 34) Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell). 35) Removes all traces of duct tape. 36) Folks even spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve arthritis pain. 37) Florida's favorite use is: "cleans and removes love bugs from grills and bumpers. 38) The favorite use in the state of New York WD-40 protects the Statue of Liberty from the elements. 39) WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a LITTLE on live bait or lures and you will be catching the big one in no time. Also, it's a lot cheaper than the chemical attractants that are made for just that purpose. Keep in mind though, using some chemical laced baits or lures for fishing are not allowed in some states. 40) Use it for fire ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and stops the itch. 41) WD-40 is great for removing crayon from walls. Spray on the mark and wipe with a clean rag. 42) Also, if you've discovered that your teenage daughter has washed and dried a tube of lipstick with a load of laundry, saturate the lipstick spots with WD-40 and rewash and presto the lipstick is gone. 43) If you sprayed WD-40 on the distributor cap, it would displace the moisture and allow the car to start. P.S. The basic ingredient is FISH OIL. P.P.S. Keep a can of WD-40 in the kitchen. It is good for burns. It takes the burned feeling away and heels with NO scarring. (0) Comments

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Posted 12/24/2006 8:25:19 AM Tomorrow is the day! Opening gifts...visiting with relatives, eating until you're sick...then....it's all over. I don;t know about anyone else, but the day after Christmas, I ALWAYS experience a sense of let down...emotionally. There is such a build up in the months before Christmas, ya know? I start saving money and buying gifts in October..sending out Christmas cards in the das after Thanksgiving....its just the best time of year for me. Then BAM! It's all over.... (0) Comments

I'm back! Posted 12/15/2006 7:21:07 AM As most of you know, my computer decded last week to finally give out on me...luckily, as you can tell, I have a new one! Yay me! Now if I could just get myself out of dial up hell, I'd be ok ;) (0) Comments

Tis the season Posted 12/5/2006 10:42:14 AM Ok, so MOST of my Christmas shopping is done. I still have a Barbie House and a bike...oh! and stockings..I still haven't gotten the small trinkets and candy for those...but considering I'm buying for 5 kids, I think I'm doing pretty damn good! This will be our first x-mas on the new land, so it's exciting! I didn't get to deocrate the trees outside like i wanted to, but next year you can bet it's going to look awesome all lit up with white lights..... (0) Comments

Myspace Posted 11/24/2006 1:14:22 PM How many of you have myspace accounts? Does anyone use TagWorld? I've heard of it, but never actuall went there...but I am sooooooo sick of the MySpace "hiccups"........ (1) Comments

Holidays Posted 11/20/2006 10:05:12 PM It's my favorite time of year...I love everything to do with the holidays. I start anticipating it the few days beofre Halloween, and the day after, I am in the zone! The decirations, the television commercials, the smells. I love it all. I think I'm worse than my kids :) We're going out of town for Thanksgiving, so far 34 people have said they are attending dinner. So, barring any major conflicts, it should be a blast. Pecan pie! Pecan Pie! Pecan pie! Did I mention pecan pie?! LOL (0) Comments

Ripway... Posted 11/9/2006 7:12:31 AM Ok, as I'm sure is the casewith most of you, I opened this blog from RipWay, to increase my bandwidth, for all the images I use on MySpace. But I have made a couple friends here, and its nice to be able to post blogs here that aren't viewable by my MySpace friends...get different opinions, ya know? But it's getting really old to keep this account, make sure I log in a post regularly, and yet RipWay STILL locks my account....I keep having to email them, wait a couple days, and then they say "sorry about that" and unlock it....anyone else having this problem? (1) Comments

My update Posted 11/7/2006 7:45:18 PM Ok, so I have had almost no time to be on the computer whatsoever. I don't even know where to begin. Dj got sick about two weeks ago, his ears were infected AGAIN. He has tubes in his ears, but they still get infected way more than they should. So of course I take him to the doctor, two days later the pressure built up so much, his eardrum burst. Then Emily got sick, today they put her on a nebulizer every 4 hours, along with Nasonex, Zyrtec, and some steroid liquid that I forget the name of. My computer has also been fucking up, the motherboard is fucked, and the screen flashes and blinks blue, and sometimes won't turn on at all. Its all a gamble when you get up in the morning and turn it on. On top of all that, Danny's 14 year old niece was sent to live with us form Florida, for reasons I prefer no to discuss, let's just say it has been a HUGE adjustment having 6 kids in one house, ESPECIALLY with two of them being teenagers and two of them being 2 years and under. My brain is fried, by the time 9pm comes, all I want to do is curl up in a ball in my bed and go to sleep, and hope that the next day will be better. On a lighter note, my babies just had a birthday. Dj and Emily share the same birthday, November 3rd, exactly a year apart. We got them a few toys, and I made a rice crispy treat cake with chocolate on the bottom and peanut butter chips on top. YUMMY! This weekend, we are supposed to be going to New Orleans for a wedding, but if Emily isn't any better, I'll send Danny with the kids, and me and Emily will stay behind. And for those of you that know me, you know I have a love affair with my beloved New Orleans, and to miss this trip that I have been looking forward to for a year would break my heart...but life goes on... So anyways, blah blah blah, yada yada yada..that's my update. I'm trying to keep up with messages and comments, but we all know real life sometimes takes precedence over internet life ;) (0) Comments

Warning for parent who use those "Magic Erasers" Posted 11/6/2006 7:39:21 AM I found this while surfing...I use these things all the time! Chemical Burn November 2, 2006 Some of you who are marked as friends or family on my flickr account have already seen this, but as Jill pointed out, I probably need to share it just for the sake of public awareness. I hate writing this and I hate sharing it as there is a lot of guilt wrapped up in it, but here goes. One of my five year old's favorite chores around the house is cleaning scuff marks off the walls, doors, and baseboards with either an Easy Eraser pad, or the real deal, a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. I purchased a package of Magic Erasers ages ago when they first came out. I remember reading the box, wondering what the "Magic" component was that cleaned crayon off my walls with ease. No ingredients were listed and absolutely no warnings were on the box, other than "Do not ingest". My package of the Scotchbrite Easy Erasers didn't have a warning either and since my child knew not to eat the sponges and keep them out of reach of his little brother and sister, it was a chore I happily let him do. If I had known that both brands (and others like them) contain a harmful alkaline or "base" chemical (opposite of acid on the pH scale) that can burn your skin, I never would have let my little boy handle them. As you can see from the picture, when the Scotchbrite Easy Eraser was rubbed against his face and chin, he received severe chemical burns. (Update: the products are abrasive and his wounds today look more like skinned knees than burns. But the Poison Control center confirms that the alkaline nature of the products does indeed cause a chemical burn in addition to scraping the skin.) At first, I thought he was being dramatic. I picked him up, put him on the counter top and washed his face with soap and water. He was screaming in pain. I put some lotion on his face - more agony. I had used a Magic Eraser to remove magic marker from my own knuckles a while back and I couldn't understand why he was suddenly in pain. Then, almost immediately, the large, shiny, blistering red marks started to spread across his cheeks and chin. I quickly searched Google.com for "Magic Eraser Burn" and turned up several results. I was shocked. These completely innocent looking white foam sponges can burn you? I called our pediatrician, and of course got sent to voice mail. I hung up and called the Hospital and spoke to an Emergency Room nurse. She told me to call Poison Control. The woman at Poison Control said she was surprised nobody had sued these companies yet and walked me through the process of neutralizing the alkaline to stop my son's face from continually burning more every second. I had already, during my frantic phone calling, tried patting some numbing antibiotic cream on his cheeks, and later some Aloe Vera gel - both resulted in screams of pain. The Poison Control tech had me fill a bathtub with warm water, lay my son into it, cover him with a towel to keep him warm and then use a soft washcloth to rinse his face and chin with cool water for a continuous 20 minutes. (Update: this irrigation of cool or tepid water is absolutely essential. There is some argument going around the internet that the products are only abrasive. They aren't, the alkaline nature of the sponges also burns the skin - so imagine a burn and a bad scrape all in the same spot. Not pleasant. The irrigation stops the burning by neutralizing the alkaline. Some have suggested irrigating with plain household vinegar as well.) My son calmed down immediately. He told me how good it felt. I gave him a dose of Tylenol and after the twenty minutes was up, he got dressed in his Emergency Room doctor Halloween costume and off we went to the Hospital. They needed to make sure the chemical burn had stopped burning, and examine his face to determine if the burn would need to be debrided (from my fuzzy recollection of hospital work, this means removing loose tissue from a burn location). My son was pretty happy at the hospital, they were very nice and called him "Doctor" and let him examine some of their equipment. The water had successfully stopped the burning and helped soothe a lot of the pain. I'm sure Tylenol was helping too. They sent us home with more Aloe Vera gel, Polysporin antibiotic cream, and some other numbing burn creams. By the time we got home, my son was crying again. I tried applying some of the creams but he cried out in pain. Water seemed to be what worked the best. After a rough night, I took the above photo in the morning. He was swollen and wouldn't move his lips very much to avoid moving the skin on his taut cheeks. I was fighting back the tears, and I said, "Oh honey, I wish I could take it away from you. I wish I could take it off your face and put it on mine". He was so shocked, he started to tear up a little and said, "Mom, no. You don't want this on your face, it hurts so much. You would be hurting. Last night was terrible, I couldn't sleep, and you wouldn't be able to sleep either". It just broke my heart into five trillion pieces - as much as he is hurting, he wouldn..t want me to be hurting in his place. Today he is doing much better. The burns have started to scab over, and in place of red, raw, angry, skin we have a deeper red, rough healing layer. I can touch his skin now, without it stinging, and this morning he went back to Pre-School with Polysporin rubbed all over his face. He announced to the class, "I brought my face for Show and Tell!" I still feel so badly, I'm supposed to protect my son, yet I stupidly thought these "Magic" products were harmless. I have called both Mr. Clean and Scotchbrite (3M). Mr. Clean tells me their products now have a warning label that state they should not be used on skin and can cause abrasions. I could not get through to 3M so I left messages and e-mailed the story through the form on their website. I just received a response: Dear Ms. Kerflop, Thank you for taking time to contact 3M Home Care Division. Feedback from our customers is an integral part of our business and we encourage it. Please know that we have forwarded your message to our marketing and lab departments. We would appreciate the opportunity to discuss the performance of our product with you, as we would not expect it to behave as you have described. Please call us at your earliest convenience, toll free at 1-800-846-8887, so that I might assist you further and bring this matter to a resolution that is agreeable for you. Sincerely, Tina 3M Home Care Division Note: I have absolutely no intention of suing the company whatsoever. My son is going to be fine. I would simply like the companies to post appropriate warnings on their products. (0) Comments

It's yet another Monday.. Posted 10/30/2006 6:52:20 AM I really despise Mondays. They signal the work that is ahead in the coming days...at least this Monday is the last Day before Halloween :)This year we are skipping the $75 on costumes and trick or treating, and have decided to stay home, watch horror movies, eat as much candy as we can hold, and possibly order pizza :)) What are everyone else's plans? (1) Comments

Advice? Posted 10/24/2006 1:58:19 PM Ok, so I found out this weekend that I have a 14 year old family member that has ben doing drugs and running away from home. Her dad wants her to come live here with us, because he simply can't handle her anymore, and thinks that moving her to the country, taking her away from the influences there will help turn her around. I know there are some younger people on here, and I'd really like to get someinput. I have children of my own, so I'll be bringing drama into their lives. Do I turn her away? Do I take her in and hope for the best? I just really don't know what to do at this point.... (1) Comments

My review of the Grudge 2 Posted 10/18/2006 7:20:42 AM Ok, so I'm a HUGE horror flick nut. I have been since I was 5 years old, and my psycho mother took me to see "Halloween" at the theater, she had told me we were going to go see Cinderella...she figured if she could just get me in the theater without any protest, things would be fine....she created a monster on that night ;)There's not a horror movie out there that I won't find something about it I like, no matter how cheesy...hell, I even sat thru House of a 1000 Corpses, which in my opinion rated a 10 on my "Cheese-O-Meter".... So last Saturday night, my oldest kid and I packed up and left for the 10pm show. In this hick town, we have 1 theater, with only 4 screens. We make it there, and the usual crowd of teenagers is outside, yik yakking and smoking, and basically just there to annoy me. We pay for our tickets, and get a drink..don't get me started on paying $4.25 for a damn Diet Coke... Enter the mini theater, and take our seats in the back. Then, we proceed to make fun of the left side of the theater, which is packed with black teenagers. All the "other" folks have positioned themselves on the other side....gotta love Southern segregation...anyways, 15 minutes later, lights go off, no previews (yay!) movies starts. Then its one laugh after another. Don't get me wrong, I laughed and giggled during the first Grudge, but this one was exceptionally funny. Every single time any "evil" makes an appearance, every single girl on the left side of the theater erupts in ear piercing shrieking. I thought one girl was going to actually make it up the wall she was clawing at, that girl was determined to come out of her seat. :) Great movie if you like the whole "startle" effect. Nothing really scary, just things that pop out and make you jump :) Some questions form the origional movie are answered, and others raised, as usual....LOVED the effects as well. I'd kill to have eyes like her ;) Anyways, not a total waste of $7....get yer ass up and go see it :) (1) Comments

Halloween? Posted 10/9/2006 12:02:20 PM Ok, Halloween used to be a BIG deal to me when I was a kid. Hell, it's been a big deal to me as an adult. Now I've got 5 kids, and they all love it as much as I do....so how is it fair that now that I've got a house full of willing little goblins, that Halloween seems to be diminishing in popularity? For the last three years, I have taken my kids out, and we spend a couple hours walking down dimly lit streets, where only 1 out of every 4 houses are welcoming trick or treaters. Nobody decorates, and they seem irritated when their bell rings...what happened? So, now that we are in a new town this year, with very few neighborhoods, I give up. We are planning to buy some candy, order pizza, and rent some scary movies, and have our own relaxed Halloween at home...is it wrong of me? Is it only the south where Halloween has become an inconvienece? (2) Comments

Crappy mornings and crying babies Posted 9/22/2006 7:44:50 AM It's Friday. Usually my favorite day. Not today! Hubby was in a crappy, arguemenative mood, toddler is super cranky, and the baby is just plain whiny. I can't walk two feet without someone crying. I do believe this is one of those "Calgon Take me away" moments........ (0) Comments

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General Comments fusionstar Posted 1/4/2007 1:40:07 PM hello! TRUE_HUMAN Posted 11/9/2006 7:09:49 AM hi there.how r u? Noel Posted 10/28/2006 7:30:56 AM thanks you sir... god bless your family .. happy hallowen pdt Posted 10/18/2006 7:23:10 AM Once a month? That sucks...where are located? I LOVE my new land, but HATE the town.... Glory Posted 7/16/2006 7:38:21 AM Welcome to New Blog. My husband also works in and around Vidalia. Only thing ... he doesn't commute home every day. I only get to see him once a month for a weekend. :sigh: Good luck on your new place. It sounds nice. Please login to post a comment.