To find out her size, look in her underwear drawer at an appropriate moment, and without rummaging, or she’ll notice and think of you as amusingly creepy at best. haha!
I'm 38 and I've been a longtime cold sore sufferer as well. It probably started when I was a teenager. My mom gets it too so I probably got it from her. I would say initially my symptoms were worse and more frequent but by the time i was in the my early twenties, I was getting them maybe 3-4 times a year, which wasn't awful but was still the bane of my existence. About 10 years ago, I heard about Lysine as well and started taking it, about 500mg-1000mg a day (I would take 1000mg for days when I'm feeling stressed out). I definitely noticed a difference that first year, I only got a cold sore once which was a first for me. After that, I was getting it maybe 1-2 times a year, so it certainly seemed to be helping. Then about 2 years ago, I had a particularly bad outbreak - 2 spots on different parts of my lips - it was the worse I've ever gotten. It was a very stressful time for me since I was going through a breakup and selling my house at the same time (!!!). Anyways, I went to the doctor and she subscribed acyclovir. I took it and the cold sores seemed to heal pretty quickly after that. Since then, I've been taking a small dosage (400mg) every few days or so (more often if I'm feeling stressed out). I'm also still taking 500mg lysine on top of that. Anyways, it's been almost 2 years and (knock on wood) still no cold sores!
This is a great article. It's hard to see a $$ sign when you look at a new pet. But this tells the truth. After all the care they really can be costly. I budget monthly for my pets and their care. Love the furry friends!
i have had netspend for over four years now and i have never had any problems with them at all. I pay 10.00 dollars a month and i can use my card everyday fourty times a day and only be chrged 10.00 dollars a month. i too was sent there card and i activated it and loaded it up and was fine and any time i had a dispute on my account it was fixed and taking care of in 72 hours or less. guess thats just me i have never jhad any problems with them
Now that we are debt free besides our mortgage, our goal is to pay off our house. At the rate we are paying, it will be paid off in 3.5 years when we are 36 years old.
Thanks for putting all these mood elevating tactics in one place. I've lived long enough to have tried almost all of them and they all work, especially Doing Something Nice. Planning a trip is also very powerful. After my mother died from a long illness, I was watching a documentary with my husband about Saint Paul's Cathedral in London with my husband and blurted out "we could go there." From that moment, I began planning a two-week trip to England. I spent 8 months researching the places to go and making all the arrangements. I produced a tour book with plans day-by-day, with choices of activities for morning, afternoon and evening, historic pubs and good restaurants near by, and fun facts. We had a wonderful two-weeks, but the I still relish the 8 months I spent in another world planning a trip that would delight my husband.
Thanks for this article! I've been buying carrots with green tops and they do taste better than the bagged carrots. Even the large non-"baby" carrots. I find when I steam bagged carrots, they have a funky metallic taste to them. Maybe it's just the ones at my store but they really do taste like they've been steamed with pennies. I eat the green top carrots raw without peeling them. I wash them but don't go nuts about the dirt. When I was a kid, my sister and I would eat things from the garden unwashed all the time and I have gotten sick from dirt yet so meh. I'd rather eat a bit of dirt than chemicals. The only issue I'm going to run into with the green leaf topped carrots is the price out of season. I can only imagine how expensive they will be if they are available at all. I might have to switch back to bagged carrots during the off seasons. I tried growing my own to see if I could get a steady supply going but my little patch didn't produce anything. The carrot tops sprouted but no actual orange carrot grew. Sad. I think it's the dirt where I live. It's just not the right environment for carrots. They are a picky veggie.
My biggest financial goal is to have enough money in my son's college account for four years of in state college tuition when he graduates high school.
I refuse to wash and dry out and reuse old plastic baggies. They are too cheap, it just doesn't make sense. And if its about the environment, put your potato chips in a tupperware container.
I love cats. Costco offers a great price on scoopable cat litter--under $8.00 for 30 lbs. in a green plastic container. Costco also sells 20 lbs. of dry cat food for about $15.00--not ultra cheap, but our vet says it's the only good quality discount cat food.
I have seven words for you: The world does not owe you anything.
The crushing sense of entitlement so many young people have is unbelievable. You want a college education? YOU figure it out. Parents have to love you, feed you, and put a roof over your head. Everything above and beyond that is a GIFT, not a payment for services rendered.
And to say that 70% of people don't have degrees because their parents wouldn't cough up the tuition is ludicrous. Even pretending that's true (and I am *really* pretending), that would say more about the helpless young adults who curl into a ball at the first sign of adversity than the parents who wouldn't or couldn't foot the bill.
Our little guy costs around $20/month for food and litter. (http://www.plantingourpennies.com/2012/05/31/kitty-pop-an-entertainment-...). And he just had his yearly vet checkup (super healthy!) which was $98 including the county license fees for the year. He's worth every penny for the hours of entertainment he provides.
We feed his cheap-ish dry food, and he loves it.
@raina - I wish we could toilet train our cat, but if we leave the toilet lid open he dunks his stuffed toys in the water and then brings the "drowned" toys to me in the middle of the night. Trust me, a "toilet monkey" is not fun to wake up with on your chest at 2am.
Thanks John for the reference to healthcare.gov. Kim pointed me to the site as well and I plan to use it as a resource for my next article on how to choose a health plan.
Pay off the building my husband runs a business out of and payoff a 7K deductable that we had to meet for medical care that was needed. I work for a large corporation as a worker bee and by that I mean I'm not earning a large salary. The lowest deductable for healthcare coverage that is available to us is is 7K and my husband ended up with a brief hospital stay this year.
Agree - health care can be really difficult to navigate and understand! A great site to help translate health care jargon into easy to understand language, is http://www.healthcareplainandsimple.com/
To pay off my mortgage (currently at $118,000) before my 35th birthday (four years from now). I plan to live in this home the rest of my life and I want to truly own it.
Hi Guest,
I did not mean to say that cats are expensive -- they're definitely cheaper than dogs and despite the Acorn Ranger fiasco owning our two cats has definitely been worth it. I just mean to say that there can be unexpected expenses.
But yes, it was definitely an impulsive decision to bring the stray cat home, and it turned out to be a mistake! Now I know: My cats don't want a new roommate.
To find out her size, look in her underwear drawer at an appropriate moment, and without rummaging, or she’ll notice and think of you as amusingly creepy at best. haha!
I'm 38 and I've been a longtime cold sore sufferer as well. It probably started when I was a teenager. My mom gets it too so I probably got it from her. I would say initially my symptoms were worse and more frequent but by the time i was in the my early twenties, I was getting them maybe 3-4 times a year, which wasn't awful but was still the bane of my existence. About 10 years ago, I heard about Lysine as well and started taking it, about 500mg-1000mg a day (I would take 1000mg for days when I'm feeling stressed out). I definitely noticed a difference that first year, I only got a cold sore once which was a first for me. After that, I was getting it maybe 1-2 times a year, so it certainly seemed to be helping. Then about 2 years ago, I had a particularly bad outbreak - 2 spots on different parts of my lips - it was the worse I've ever gotten. It was a very stressful time for me since I was going through a breakup and selling my house at the same time (!!!). Anyways, I went to the doctor and she subscribed acyclovir. I took it and the cold sores seemed to heal pretty quickly after that. Since then, I've been taking a small dosage (400mg) every few days or so (more often if I'm feeling stressed out). I'm also still taking 500mg lysine on top of that. Anyways, it's been almost 2 years and (knock on wood) still no cold sores!
This is a great article. It's hard to see a $$ sign when you look at a new pet. But this tells the truth. After all the care they really can be costly. I budget monthly for my pets and their care. Love the furry friends!
i have had netspend for over four years now and i have never had any problems with them at all. I pay 10.00 dollars a month and i can use my card everyday fourty times a day and only be chrged 10.00 dollars a month. i too was sent there card and i activated it and loaded it up and was fine and any time i had a dispute on my account it was fixed and taking care of in 72 hours or less. guess thats just me i have never jhad any problems with them
Now that we are debt free besides our mortgage, our goal is to pay off our house. At the rate we are paying, it will be paid off in 3.5 years when we are 36 years old.
Thanks for putting all these mood elevating tactics in one place. I've lived long enough to have tried almost all of them and they all work, especially Doing Something Nice. Planning a trip is also very powerful. After my mother died from a long illness, I was watching a documentary with my husband about Saint Paul's Cathedral in London with my husband and blurted out "we could go there." From that moment, I began planning a two-week trip to England. I spent 8 months researching the places to go and making all the arrangements. I produced a tour book with plans day-by-day, with choices of activities for morning, afternoon and evening, historic pubs and good restaurants near by, and fun facts. We had a wonderful two-weeks, but the I still relish the 8 months I spent in another world planning a trip that would delight my husband.
#1: Early retirement
#2: Paying off my home mortgage
Trips would be nice and starting a side business would be great, but these are my primary goals.
Thanks for this article! I've been buying carrots with green tops and they do taste better than the bagged carrots. Even the large non-"baby" carrots. I find when I steam bagged carrots, they have a funky metallic taste to them. Maybe it's just the ones at my store but they really do taste like they've been steamed with pennies. I eat the green top carrots raw without peeling them. I wash them but don't go nuts about the dirt. When I was a kid, my sister and I would eat things from the garden unwashed all the time and I have gotten sick from dirt yet so meh. I'd rather eat a bit of dirt than chemicals. The only issue I'm going to run into with the green leaf topped carrots is the price out of season. I can only imagine how expensive they will be if they are available at all. I might have to switch back to bagged carrots during the off seasons. I tried growing my own to see if I could get a steady supply going but my little patch didn't produce anything. The carrot tops sprouted but no actual orange carrot grew. Sad. I think it's the dirt where I live. It's just not the right environment for carrots. They are a picky veggie.
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I refuse to wash and dry out and reuse old plastic baggies. They are too cheap, it just doesn't make sense. And if its about the environment, put your potato chips in a tupperware container.
I love cats. Costco offers a great price on scoopable cat litter--under $8.00 for 30 lbs. in a green plastic container. Costco also sells 20 lbs. of dry cat food for about $15.00--not ultra cheap, but our vet says it's the only good quality discount cat food.
I have seven words for you: The world does not owe you anything.
The crushing sense of entitlement so many young people have is unbelievable. You want a college education? YOU figure it out. Parents have to love you, feed you, and put a roof over your head. Everything above and beyond that is a GIFT, not a payment for services rendered.
And to say that 70% of people don't have degrees because their parents wouldn't cough up the tuition is ludicrous. Even pretending that's true (and I am *really* pretending), that would say more about the helpless young adults who curl into a ball at the first sign of adversity than the parents who wouldn't or couldn't foot the bill.
Our little guy costs around $20/month for food and litter. (http://www.plantingourpennies.com/2012/05/31/kitty-pop-an-entertainment-...). And he just had his yearly vet checkup (super healthy!) which was $98 including the county license fees for the year. He's worth every penny for the hours of entertainment he provides.
We feed his cheap-ish dry food, and he loves it.
@raina - I wish we could toilet train our cat, but if we leave the toilet lid open he dunks his stuffed toys in the water and then brings the "drowned" toys to me in the middle of the night. Trust me, a "toilet monkey" is not fun to wake up with on your chest at 2am.
Thanks Casey for the link to the site on health care.
Thanks John for the reference to healthcare.gov. Kim pointed me to the site as well and I plan to use it as a resource for my next article on how to choose a health plan.
Pay off the building my husband runs a business out of and payoff a 7K deductable that we had to meet for medical care that was needed. I work for a large corporation as a worker bee and by that I mean I'm not earning a large salary. The lowest deductable for healthcare coverage that is available to us is is 7K and my husband ended up with a brief hospital stay this year.
There's a saying: Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Deborah's post is a clear example.
Agree - health care can be really difficult to navigate and understand! A great site to help translate health care jargon into easy to understand language, is http://www.healthcareplainandsimple.com/
Do what I did and toilet-train your cat. I haven't bought litter in years.
To pay off my mortgage (currently at $118,000) before my 35th birthday (four years from now). I plan to live in this home the rest of my life and I want to truly own it.
Hi Guest,
I did not mean to say that cats are expensive -- they're definitely cheaper than dogs and despite the Acorn Ranger fiasco owning our two cats has definitely been worth it. I just mean to say that there can be unexpected expenses.
But yes, it was definitely an impulsive decision to bring the stray cat home, and it turned out to be a mistake! Now I know: My cats don't want a new roommate.