Well, I fell asleep in the recliner again and woke up at midnight.  Now, as you can see, I am wide awake and cannot go back to sleep.  Ugh, I hate that!  Oh well, I guess it gives me a chance to update my journal, huh?

I got very perturbed when I was in the Dollar General store today.  I took Klara to her speech therapy and decided to go over to the store to pick up a few necessities.  Will wasn't feeling particularly good today as his nose and sinuses were giving him problems, so he was fussy.  I tried to hurry and get everything I needed and I went up to the check out.  The cashier and the lady in front of me even commented how pitiful he was and how he didn't look like he felt well.  I was very very glad to be done with my shopping and on my way out. 

I unloaded the first 1/3 of the cart only to have her look at me and say, "you weren't planning on using a debit card, were you?" 

"Ummm...yeah, I was planning on it," I replied.

"Well, our debit card machine has been down all day," she said.

WHAT?  Now why in the heck didn't they tell me that when I came in?  I asked her how come they didn't put a sign in the window so that people like me, who only have debit cards on them, could go get money or their check book before they waste their time!  She said, "I can't put a sign in the window!  What do you think I could do, just make one homemade?"  Ummmm YEAH!

So she scanned one item to give it one chance to see if it would work.  Of course, it didn't.  Ohhhhhhhhh I was MAD!  Will was screeching and I was MAD MAD MAD!  I picked my purse up, picked my baby up and looked at her and told her that perhaps she might consider warning people as they came in that their debit card machine was not working before they wasted time and energy to go shopping.

I then stormed out to the van and put Will in his carseat.  I am happy to announce that I did get some level of satisfaction, though.  While I was shopping, I had opened a $1 package of pacifiers and gave Will one (with intentions, of course, to buy the package).  As I was snapping him into the seat, I realized that he was sucking a "hot" binky!  Oh my gosh, I am a shoplifter!  A .33 binky!  Heh...oh well.  Color me a felon, I suppose.

I went home and began cooking a dinner of ham, greenbeans, and macaroni & cheese as one of my neighbors lost her daughter to cancer the other day.  She was only 41 years old.  It seems all I do, lately, is cook food for the occasion of death.  People are dropping like flies around here!

Jared and I took the food down to them and visited for a long while.  I cannot imagine losing my child.  I felt so much pain in my heart for what they were going through.  How tragic and sad that a mother has to bury a child.  I was surprised at how little food had been brought in to them!  I don't know, but where I grew up that is what you did.  If someone died you brought food.  No questions asked.  You also sat and visited with people for a while.  It isn't pleasant, but it really is necessary, I think. 

Anyway so here I am sitting in front of my computer and I need to try and go back to sleep.  I will tell you a little secret I figured out this evening.  I still had that awful crook in my neck today and I just mixed up a concoction that worked pretty well on the problem.  I took my favorite moisturizer and added the contents from one advil liquicap to about a teaspoon full of the moisturizer.  I mixed it all up and massaged it into my neck and shoulder that is cramped up and, though the pain is not completely gone, it is definately alleviated.  Pretty cool, huh?

Ok, I am off to bed now.  If you are reading this, you might want to leave me a comment!  Or at least a tag!  Don't be afraid of the new journal, it's easy to work with.  More later!