Every time, it seems, I drink milk, my stomach feels like it immediately swells. When I eat gluten, roughly 6-8 hours later, I have BAD stomach cramps and diarrhea. I still have problems sometimes with swallowing, food and pills.
The kids have been back in school for 1 week and 1 day, today. They started last week on Wednesday and I am so glad that today is Thursday because I feel like I'm literally going to die of boredom sitting here by myself every morning. I watch the news, Kelly Ripa, Wendy Williams, News at noon, and then the shows like Dish Nation and... what's that other one with Kit Hoover? That one.
I felt so dead this morning when my alarm went off at 6:30. Me and Chris stayed up til about 11:30. He kept playing his Playstation4 that he finally got back from the pawn shop the other day and I was sitting on the couch with him falling asleep.
My energy just feels like it's draining everyday, I have less and less. There's a hole in me somewhere that it's leaking out of. My brain says "OMG WE'RE MOVING SOON!" but my physical body is like a puddle that's been stomped through. As much as I hate taking any kinds of pills, even if they're vitamins or something healthy, I think I may need to find something that'll boost my energy.
Any suggestions? I know nobody reads this stuff except for me.
I was trying out Winn Dixie for a couple weeks instead of my usual Save A Lot. That was a bad idea. I love Winn Dixie for their clearance in their cold sections like the deli, bakery, dairy, the meats, etc. Their clearance tags are like a breath of fresh air and if I find something that's gonna make something half off the normal price OR bring a product down under $1, you bet I'm gonna go for it!
So, I went there a few days ago to try to buy food at least for the rest of the week. I was thinking I could get away with maybe $20-25 spent. NOOO! I spent $48 and change. On what? Me and the kids picked out some clearance yogurts, got some kool-aids, lots of sugar for kool-aid and tea, I bought some chocolate milk, bought wet and dry food for Zeus, 2 boxes of cheapo mac n cheese, sour cream, burrito wrappers, 2 loaves of bread, sliced cheese, a tub of country crock which by the way is a huge crock because they literally suck as oil and as butter; what a waste of money. I think that's about it. for almost $50?? I was floored! I was thinking that maybe I had spent $30. Ugh omg, that was awful. So I had my last $18 yesterday that I could spend. Any more spent and Chris would probably bite my head off because now I only have $200 to go toward car insurance at the end of the week. So, I brought $18 to Save A Lot yesterday because we really need meats. I didn't even get meats with that almost $50. I want to kick myself for not going to my main grocery store. So, I went to Save A Lot yesterday with the kids. I got a sausage and a box of jambalaya for one night's of dinner, I also got a pack of hot dogs, a pack of bologna, a half gallon of milk, a box of tuna helper and one of hamburger helper, a box of au gratin potatoes, and a pack of chicken legs for less than $3 for another night's dinner. Like I made out like a bandit with what little money I have. But now I feel like I cheated my family out of some potentially good food that we could've had versus what I had bought and the stuff we have just was not satisfying to me. Not like nutritionally satisfying or it wasn't like it didn't satisfy me once I ate it, but it was like financially unsatisfying. Like I wish I could bring back what's left that I bought so I can get a refund and use that money to go buy other things at Save A Lot.
That's my rant for the day. Lol.
Ooh! So, I was sitting here starting up this blog for today and I looked out the back window and I saw this big white things behind the trees and behind Chris' trailer out in the road so I was weaving my head around and it's a FedEx truck! I was like "it would be so cool if that was for me". I saw the FedEx guy walking up with a brown box and normally they knock on my door when it's something for Jim and I have to redirect them. So, I walked out and asked who it was for and he said Dobbins.
It does taste much better than it used to. It used to have a heavy syrup taste to the tea itself, plus even heavier feeling in my mouth from the fake lemon flavor. But this Lipton tea now has a light feeling in my mouth, no heavy syrups and the lemon taste isn't too overpowering and there is zero bad aftertaste. I am pleasantly surprised by this new lighter feeling and flavoring in my mouth by this company and I am excited to buy them again in the near future. I can't wait to give them their follow-up survey answers. There was a note in the box that said they were going to email me within the next few days and ask me follow-up questions.
I WISH I could've gotten a picture of a play-by-play of opening it and revealing what was inside but I was so excited that I called my best friend Jessica so we could be excited together. Lol. Because as much as I love getting stuff in the mail, I also enjoy seeing the stuff that she gets. Those boxes and packages that usually arrive in our mailbox (sometimes through FedEx!) just makes it feel like Christmas or my birthday and those are my 2 favorite days of every year. Plus, trying new products is so exciting! To try a new flavor of something or to get something for the kids to try like a new toy or a new yummy allergy medicine. The possibilities are endless!
On Smiley360, I will try to remember the things that I have been able to test:
I had a mission for Sleep Number where I had to go to a Sleep number store and get a picture of Lily trying one of the Sleep Number Kids IQ beds and then ask a store associate all about it. I have done arts and crafts with Airheads, I have tried out a new laundry detergent, a First Response mission for a new bluetooth technology built into their test strip, ob tampons, Nexium24, Orajel for cold sores, and a slew of Purina dog treats. I know I've got to be missing a few things but I've only been a member for about a year. I get something new roughly once a month. I am currently waiting on some baby orajel for teething and I'm also waiting for some Culturelle for my kids. I was excited about the Culturelle because me and my kids all have tummy problems so I'm hoping this can relieve them. I've also noticed recently that Culturelle is being sold at Dollar Tree! I'm not sure how many is in a box, but I can't wait for this trial and I hope it makes them feel better.
For my BzzAgent campaigns, here's what I can remember:
Zoomer Chomplings electronic dinosaur for my kids; they loved it but it is definitely not for kids who like to play hard. Not even a month after my campaign ended, one of the legs popped off and I couldn't fix it; and the bone was easily lost, plus it was hard to keep track of what the different colors meant that it would show because there was different modes. Tim Tams shortly after they came to the US from Australia (those were amazeballs), again I tried ob tampons, Cascade platinum action pacs, Horizon fruit snack and fruit squeeze pouches, Children's Claritin, Daisy sour cream new squeeze tube pouches, International delight creamer, BIC X-tra Fun #2 pencils, and Russel Stover everyday chocolates. (I was able to look in my account history and see my activity. Otherwise I couldn't remember all of those. Lol!)
Smiley360 is slow at some times and other times you get 2 or 3 at a time; towards the beginning, I remember having 5 at one time lined up down the side of my home page. The trick with Smiley during the slow times is to go into the Smiley Connect and commenting or reviewing items that are listed that other people have tried out through the site. The more active you are on the site, the more chances you have of trying out more new products. Smiley also have a blog that's connected to their website, although I've never went in there to read what they write about, I'm sure you'll get even more chances of getting a mission tossed your way. By the way, I'm always confusing the BzzAgent campaigns with the Smiley360 missions. So if I say a BzzAgent mission, you know what I mean.
BzzAgent, I was just thrown a new campaign this morning for the new Claritin Clarispray nose spray for allergies, but when I clicked on it, it said that the campaign was already full. Poops. But anyways, BzzAgent, you just have to wait patiently until they send you something new to try out. There's nothing to do on that site to interact, I mean, I think you can comment on people's reviews of oher products, but besides posting your own reviews when you;re in the middle of a campaign, I'm not sure of anything else you can do to get yourself a product even faster. On Bzz, PLEASE remember to go into your account after writing a review to accept your MyPoint points. After a month, they expire and then you don't get your credit for your reviews. And the better review, the more points you get. So, make sure your review is specifically aimed at consumers who are curious about the product and what you personally would want to know, don't write anything toward Bzz or Smiley or say anything about how many free coupons you got or anything like that. JUST talk about the product like how it tastes, does it work ok, what you add it to, a recipe of yours, whatever the product may be. Just do whatever the campaign or mission asks of you, don't try to do your own thing or fudge it; it's just not going to work out well. The better reviews you give where you are genuine and stick to the topic, the more points you'll get but also the more willing these sites will be to want to give you more things to try out.
I LOVE trying things out. One, I just plain enjoy free things. Two, we don't have much extra spending money, some weeks are better than others, so I enjoy trying things that I wouldn't have otherwise been able to try out on my own. No, not everything I have a huge urge to try out but you know what, I have a few new companies now that I greatly enjoyed their products (of course I've always loved Airheads, can't sway me there).
Kayla Dobbins
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