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Medication related skin problems

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No matter what I do it seems that my skin is getting worse and worse. I don’t know why it’s causing me so many problems lately.

I really think it’s the medications that I’ve been taking since last summer for my migraines. The medication somehow prevents me from sweating and that seems to really interfere with my skins health … it’s like my skin actually needs to sweat a little bit to stay healthy and clear. I guess I need to do some more research on how to get rid of pimples at least when on this particular medication.

Do you ever have medication related skin problems? What did you do about it?

An old friend is coming for a visit

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It looks like we’re going to have visitors from the USA very soon. Some friends are coming for a visit next month.

It’s one of my husbands old friends who moved to the States years ago who’s coming to visit. He’s coming to town on business but he’s going to be bringing his family. When his friend called the other day he joked around that he was going to bring us some discount acid cigars but of course he didn’t know that my husband doesn’t even smoke anymore so that won’t work!

Anyway … we’re looking forward to the visit. We haven’t seen him for several years so it will be good to spend some time with him.

I want a real vacation this summer

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I haven’t been on a holiday in ages. I was just thinking about it and realized that my husband and I really haven’t been anywhere for quite a while. We didn’t go anywhere for vacation last year or the year before …. so this year I think we should try to go somewhere.

I keep hearing about Outer Banks vacation rentals so I might look into that as place for us to go this coming July.

Have you been to the Outer Banks? If you have, do you have any suggestions as to what we can do there? Did you enjoy your time there?

Anybody else have trouble upgrading their iPod to the new OS?

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I am sooooo tired today! I had a huge problem with our newish iPod Touch.

I was up late on Thursday night … I guess that would make it early Friday morning and I was sorting some music in iTunes and syncing it with the iPod when I got a message asking if I wanted to upgrade to the new O.S.. I said yes, but as it turned out … at that time of night (3 AM) I probably shouldn’t have!

Everything seemed to be going ok at first, but just as the upgrade seemed to be nearing completion an error message came up and the ipod screen seemed stuck with a picture of a USB cord and and the iTunes logo. When I unhooked the USB I couldn’t turn the iPod back on, nothing would happen at all and when I’d hook it back up to the computer via the USB I’d get that same usb itunes image again and nothing else. Also, the ipod wasn’t showing up as being attached in itunes.

I restarted itunes, I restarted my computer, I spent literally hours pouring over support and help pages at Apple and finally after hooking the iPod up to my other laptop at about 8:30 Friday morning did I finally get a message via the iTunes on my old Laptop that stated that my iPod needed to be restored.

Sigh … by the time I finally got my lump of an iPod working again it was about 9:30 in the morning and I’d been up for over 24 hours! Believe me I was more than ready to hit the mattress … trouble was I was so hyped up after not having my iPod work and also after watching all the stuff about the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan that I had some trouble getting to sleep.

Anyway … you’d think that Apple would make sure that an OS upgrade would go smoothly .. I mean my laptop is only a month old and all the software on it is up to date so that wasn’t the problem! Grrrrr! Hopefully the next time I have to upgrade it goes better … I certainly won’t do it in the middle of the night.

We really need to finish our living room and dining room reno

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Do you ever watch home renovation or design shows on television? Sometimes when I find that I have some spare time on my hands, usually on Saturdays, I take some time to watch some of my favorite design or home reno shows.

I find TV shows like Flipping out, Marriage Under Construction, Homes Inspection and any DIY shows interesting.

My husband and I are home renovators. Well … stalled home renovators. We currently have an unfinished living room dining room ceiling and need to finish the wall (currently open and covered by plastic!) that runs between the basement stairs and the dining room. Its been that way for oh .. about … four or more years.

I did say we were stalled in our home renovations didn’t I?

The only good thing about taking our time renovating is that I’ve had tons of time to come up with renovating and design ideas and plenty of time to see what ideas have stuck through the years. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to put in the all glass brick wall between the basement stairs and dining room anymore … you see what a few years to think about things can do?

I’m hoping we’ll put on our renovating hats again in a few months .. I really want to finish our living room dining room. All we really have to do to finish the reno job is put up the tin ceiling, maybe add in monte carlo fans in the living room for cooling, put up molding and baseboards and then work on some new furnishings – possibly.

Are any of you stalled DIY’ers? If so … what did you do to get yourself motivated again?

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