I'm Alive

I am alive, but barely. I've been away for quite a while! I have a couple of good excuses.

One - I was busy having an amazing girls weekend with my best friends in Texas. I will recap that weekend as soon as I decide to move the pictures from my camera to my computer.

Two - This is my real excuse. I've been sick for over a week. I never get sick. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I went to the doctor because I didn't feel well...maybe high school? I did have an ear infection once in college and went to the Health Center to get some medicine but doesn't count.

I got home from my awesome weekend with friends and started feeling bad right away. Sore throat, couldn't swallow, fever, coughing like a crazy person, etc, etc. So, I stayed home from work one day, took over the counter meds and tried to get better on my own.

And it didn't happen. For over a week, I've been a mess and I just kept going to work and going to school and trying to have fun with Michael. Until yesterday. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. :) The weekend is coming and I want to acutally enjoy it, so I sucked it up and went to the doctor. Well, I don't have a doctor (because I never get sick, remember) so I went to an Urgent Care.

Overall, it wasn't a bad experience but it took forever. Paperwork, waiting room, saw the doctor, went for a chest X-ray, back to the waiting room, back to the doctor to get prescriptions. Aahh! Long morning. But, I got antiobibiotics because I have bronchitis and a sinus infection. Awesome, huh?

So, I'm hoping since I am now taking the right medications that I will be good as new in no time.

Stay healthy, friends! And have a fun and spooky Halloween weekend!

Vitamins

I don't exactly know why I'm blogging about this, except that it's funny to me. I can't take vitamins. No one believes me, but it's true. They make me sick. Ask my roommates from college or my mom or my husband.

They think I make myself sick or something, which is just ridiculous. Vitamins make me throw up. I get hot and nauseous, and that's just a terrible way to start the day.

And don't start recommending brands to me or something like that. I've tried them all! So, my hubs seemed to think I needed to take some vitamins. I'm not really much of a milk drinker -- at all --so I need a little help keeping my bones strong or something, but multi-vitamins are my enemy.

Then, I started reading people's blogs that said prenatal vitamins made them sick and they had to start taking Flintstone vitamins. And that made me smile because Flintstone vitamins are awesome and fun and not gross. I mean, if pregnant women can substitue prenatal stuff with Flintstones then surely they were good enough for me.

I am now happily taking my vitamins every morning, and I have yet to feel like I'm going to loose my cookies. So, if anyone needs some vitamins in their life but doesn't really want to go with anything hard core, i.e. One a Day Women's or something crazy like that, then I highly suggest going back to your roots and taking some Flintstones. I feel stronger every day.  

Who I Am

"I have never seen this place before, but everything I learn of it tells me who I am." - Wallace Stegner.

One of my professor's shared this quote with my class a few weeks ago and it really stuck with me. I think it's so simple but so powerful.

Immediately when I heard it I saw myself in Africa. When I went there in 2006, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I thought I did, but I quickly discovered that I had a lot to learn.

But, more importantly, there was an indescribable feeling involved that not only changed my life for the better but also taught me who I wanted to be.

I hope to have more experiences that teach me who I am.