7 Quick Takes Friday

1. I have been very neglectful with my blog this summer. It seems my summer has been entirely consumed with the construction loan, college girl's student loans and our health insurance changes. I really, really dislike days that are taken up with the phone, computer and paperwork, as my house dissolves into a shambles around me and my kids watch too much TV. We are nearing the end of all this business, so I hope to get to my usual summer "organizing" routine, which may turn into "organizing and packing". Ho boy...can I get an extension on summer?

2. My washer and dryer are slowly heading toward that big laundry room in the sky. I am trying to keep them alive for a couple more months, at which point, hopefully, we will move and I will have brand new machines. But for now, I am having to dry each load twice (washer doesn't spin all the water out, and dryer is sluggish) making it really difficult to keep up with the growing laundry pile. Well, before Mt. Never-rest toppled over, crushing someone, I decided to give myself and my machines a break and took the whole mess to the laundromat. Three 60 lb washers and 3 dryers later (not to mention $23.00) and all my laundry was clean!!! What a blessed relief!! I know it is really lame blogging about laundry, but this truly was such a relief to me that I had to write about it. Does anyone else feel that overwhelmed feeling when the laundry is out of control? But when the laundry is caught up, everything feels doable and OK? It seems that the laundry is a barometer for me. Is that really weird?

3. Buyer Beware!!! We ran out of my husband's favorite headache medicine, so like the good wife that I am :) I rushed out to buy him some more...well, the next time I went to the store, anyway. I noticed some migraine medicine next to the headache medicine on the shelf and took a look at the bottle and ingredients, thinking he would like the extra strength stuff better--we do have migraine headaches in the family, even some of the kids, unfortunately, so headache relief is serious business.
This headache medicine has 3 ingredients:
-acetaminophen 250 mg
-aspirin 250 mg
-caffeine 65mg
The migraine medicine, on the other hand has these three ingredients:
-acetaminophen 250 mg
-aspirin 250 mg
-caffeine 65mg
THE EXACT SAME INGREDIENTS IN THE EXACT SAME AMOUNTS!!!
This was true for the name brand stuff as well as the generic, store-brand stuff. The only difference was price (oh, and shape of tablets!) The regular headache medicine (store-brand) was $3.39 for 100 tablets, but the migraine medicine (store-brand) was $4.49 for 24 caplets....of the SAME EXACT MEDICINE!! What a scam! I was more than a little ticked off at this dishonesty, but I did purchase the (regular headache) medicine anyway... all my outrage had given me a headache...

4. My four year old daughter hates to have her hair brushed. It is an awful ordeal every day. The other night she had a bath and I was trying to put a comb through her (well-conditioned) hair. She ran away from me screaming, "Dont' brush my hair. You will rue it!"
What?
Rue?
Despite her impressive vocabulary, we had a little chat about threatening Mommy.

5. It is raining in NH today. I don't mind since it has been really hot and humid this week. We have had a LOT of rain this summer. A lot. Record-breaking type rain. But, as a minister shared at a funeral my mother-in-law attended this week, we have had a lot of rainbows also. More rainbows than I've seen in a summer before. Big, vivid rainbows. Even double rainbows. There's always a silver lining. It's all about perspective.

6. I really wish there were pots of gold at the ends of the rainbows. (student loans...yuk!)

7. I cannot think of a story funnier than Jen's about the man stumbling half asleep into the hallway in the hotel. So, I am going to hijack Jen's quick take #2 for my #7. Go read it here!!
It is hilarious!!