Surprise!!

And here I was thinking this stupid mouse was gone. Guess what. He's not. Know how I know? He was in my bed over the weekend. I found mice poop all over my sheets. Not just on top, in my bed. And I don't eat in my room or have food in here so I know it's not that. Anyone have a gun to borrow? LOL.

It's officially been 6 weeks (and 3 days but who's counting) since I went to the doctor about my ears. And guess what? They still hurt. They have just been popping and plugging up so it's hard to hear but this weekend they really started to hurt again like they did when I went to the doctor and it was confirmed I had an ear infection. Every other time I went to the dr after that I had fluid in them but now they genuinely hurt. So bad that I have taken 2 naps a day both Saturday and Sunday just ot make them quit for a while. :( I really need the 27 to get here quickly so I can go to the ENT.
We went to the balloon fiesta last weekend nd it was so much fun. Freezing at 5 in the morning when we headed out there (47 dgrees!) but very pretty once the sun came up. Here is a picture in the midst of hundreds of balloons taking off.

Tubes in my ears?

So I yet again went to the doctor about this sickness thing. I still have my ear infection that I had the week before labor day. It seems they are at the end of options for helping me get over the ear infection and cough. The cough is caused by stuff still running down my throat but being coughed out (sorry, prolly TMI) but that's how it is. The doctor set me up an appt with an ENT to measure the tubes in my ears and decide if they are going to have to put tubes in my ears. I'm 24 years old and they are considering tubes in my ears. I thought that ended when you were little.
We still have the stupid mouse in our house and again, we are out of options for catching him. We have several snap traps, the little box traps they get in but can't get out of, and sticky traps. He has migrated from just the kitchen to Lara and Stacey's room. As of now, Shannon and I haven't seen him in our rooms. I think we have given up and decided that since he's such a smart little critter and out smarter every option, he might have just earned the right to live with us.
On another note, Aaron payed for me to come out to New Mexico where he is taking a class for work so that we can go to the Balloon Fiesta. I am so excited to head out there and spend time not only with him but watching and attending the Fiesta and seeing all the really neat balloons. We are attending a dinner at the house of one of the guys giving the class I believe. He's also planned everything out for the whole weekend which is a wonderful trade off as I usually do all the planning. It's going to be a wonderful weekend, very relaxing, and I am ready to be there now.

Fall is coming! Fall is coming!!

Yesterday it was close to 90 out and this morning I was in for a shock. I showered and shaved my legs planning on wearing my dress to the Devon Picnic at the zoo. Oops. Very quickly I changed into jeans and a tshirt and was still pretty chilly at times in the shade. The temp this morning was 58. I love love love the season fall. It simply is my favorite. While this season brings my favorite colors out in everything, but the leaves truly take the colors and run. They turn crisp and crunchy and begin swaying in the trees. The sound they make rustling in the trees is such a great soundtrack on a quiet night. Every tree is unique, every year they create a beautiful picture for us to enjoy for such a short time. Beginning the first part of September I start dreaming up wonderful ideas for carving pumpkins. Driving by that first pumpkin patch brings a smile to my face that can last days. Hay rides, corn mazes, and apple picking are all around though I have never experienced any of those. I'm ready to bring out the slow cooker and start making stews and pot roast and cuddling up with hot apple cider and a fire place. My sweaters, hoodies, and long sleeves are dying to make a comeback. The sad thing is that while I am ready for this season, and my senses have been fooled today, I know summer still has quite a bit left in for me.

Not only does fall bring all of this, Thanksgiving and Christmas are also rounding the corner. But fear not, I will post more when that gets closer. :)

steroid shot and baby tigers

So I went to the doctor the Friday before Labor Day and was diagnosed with a double ear infection, fluid in the ear, a sinus infection, and fluid in the lungs. I knew everything except the fluid in the lungs part. He prescribed me 2 medicines, one liquid cough medicine and one 10 day pack. The total cost? $98 for one and $78 for the other. About the time i finished my cough medicine, I began coughing. Ironic huh? I've still been pretty miserable, my ears have been plugged, and we're not even talking about the cough yet. Probably the worst cough I have ever heard. I'm pretty sure I've been coughing my throat raw. I spent several nights laying awake in bed coughing and only gaining a couple hours sleep each night. I finally went back to the doctor today and he diagnosed me with post-infection bronchitis and fluid in my ears (yes, still). Then he told me I needed a steroid shot and I that I had asthma (which I already knew) So I finally left the doctors office today with another 3 prescriptions; one for the cough, one z-pac for the fluid in my ears, and one to make my bronchial tubes loose the swelling so I stop coughing and it should prevent me from getting this again. He also told me that if I choose to get a flu shot I need to wait one month before I am "healthy" enough for the shot. It would be my first flu shot ever and I probably won't get one.

One another note, I got to pet and play with a 6 week old baby tiger yesterday!! Myself and 2 other people I know paid $30 for the 8 minutes but it was amazing and the tiger was so precious. Her name was Gracie. I'm not sure who names a tiger Gracie though. Here is a picture!

That toolbox looks wonderful right in the middle of the room

Work up this morning so excited to go and watch the U6 boys team I'm co-coaching play. I was counting down the minutes to leave. We head out to the field and begin walking around searching for my co-coach. All I know about this team is there are 5 five year old boys and that's pretty much it. I know one of the boys and his mom who is the other coach. Aaron and I walked around for probably 20 minutes before realizing that if we can't find them on the 6 fields that are there, they probably aren't there. I was so sad. Maybe I'll have better luck once I've attended a practice with them Thursday.
In between soccer and the fair, we came back to Aaron's house and hung out. At one point I got up to go to the bathroom and tried to step over a toolbox he had sitting in the middle of the floor. Only I didn't make it all the way over. My baby toe caught the edge of it. Ouch. It hurt so bad. Even at the end of the night it was still swollen and bruised.
After a very disappointing start to my day, Aaron and I head out to the fair this afternoon. Our first destination was the Jump! dog show. Seriously, those dog are amazing. This one border collie can do 6 back flips and catch a Frisbee in between each flip! It was amazing. They also had a 3 legged pit bull mix who competed in the deck jump. Basically the dogs run down a deck and jump (usually after a Frisbee) to see who can jump the furthest. This 3 legged dog could easily jump 25 ft! It was really cute watching them because they would get so excited before he gave the command to go that they would literally be dancing and inching their way up. So cute. Our second destination was the sea lion show. We went to it last year and it is also another fun little show. The sea lions could dance and do dolphin tricks like back flips and jumping outta the water to touch the ball hanging in the air. Sparkles (?) could even play basketball! We ended up getting a turkey leg to share and a root beer jug to share. Then I had to get a roasted ear of corn. That's what I look forward to every year.
On another note, our mouse is still outsmarting us. He is still eating the cheese off the traps and still setting them off without getting caught. Think I'm going to buy one of the traps that allows them to go in but not come out. Maybe that will work and I can avoid the sticky traps.

A Second Visitor...

After our fight with the black widows, we thought we were good for a while. Well think again. A couple days ago my roommate pulls out her bread to see the whole side of it chewed off. Really? That can only be a mouse. I get down on my hands and knees and start scouting out a mouse hole or something and sure enough, I find a ton of droppings. They were even in the air vents on the floor. So we go out and buy some traps, load them up with peanut butter, and I expect to catch him. The next morning we get up to see the traps set off and the peanut butter gone but nothing there. That jerk set the trap off and stole the peanut butter. What's worse is he actually broke a trap. The staples that hold the snapping part on have popped out. Are you kidding? We try round two, and still nothing. I am not about to be out smarted by a stupid mouse. Except I am out of options and it looks like I'm gonna be buying a sticky trap and gonna just have to throw the whole thing away and just hope he's dead by the time I get to him. Great.... I'm scared of what will be next.

My first post!

Yay for finally starting a blog and finally getting a post up!! How exciting!!
I finally got around to doing this blog for several reasons, mostly to keep track of all the random unpredictable events that have been happening in my life lately. I know it can only get better.
As of now I have moved into the second house I am renting with some friends. After being "kicked" outta our first house, we found a second one. Ok so we weren't kicked, we were good little girls and let him have his house back that he owned so his son could attend a different school district that the one he got in trouble in. So we are now living right back by OC. So much for leaving the place. Things are buzzing up there with intramural softball games and everyone runing by our house. It really feels like we never left college. When we moved into this house it was very obvious that a group of boys lived here, the house was so unclean. There were rings in the bathtub that took 3 cleanings to get out, no lightbulb, a couple holes in the walls, a poop in the bathroom. Literally. Stuck on the wall behind the toilet paper holder. Can we say discusting. Once we finally got the inside up to a satisfying level we decided to try to get the landlord to tackle the outside, mainly the yard. As it happened, the boys never got around to mowing the yard this year. Yeah, I said year. And we moved in the first of August. The backyard was like a field, grass was nearing waist high. It even took the landlords about a month to get around to mow it. We vowed not to mow it once until they mowed it begin with. Once the grass was mowed we found we had a surprise in the back. Low and behold, we actually have a raised vegetable garden area that was hidden by the grass!! We're so excited to plant veggies in the spring and have fresh garden veggies! Yumm!!
My second avdenture actually started at the first house. I took the recycling out one afternoon and flipped the bin over to find a black widow in there. I'm not afraid of bugs or anything like that really so she didn't bother me. In fact, I took a couple pictures of her on my phone to send to Aaron and we had a chat about her house and my house. Her house is outside, in the recycling bin if she wishes, and mine is inside. She eats all the bugs that are getting in my pool, and I won't kill her. You know, your basic truce. That was that. We move into our new house a couple weeks later and start getting everything set up. I'm a little on the obsessive complulsive side if you know me and things have to match and have order, specifically my closet. I don't think this is bad. I like knowing my jeans are on white hangers, my summer shirts on yellow, my winter on blue, my dresses and skirts on orange, and my jackets on green. Very simple. So I'm doing a little swapping of hangers and feel something on my hand, like a hair or something. I shake it off and notice it's a spider. No big deal. Being curious I squat down to look at it. Oh goodness, it's a black widow. Again. And she just ran across my hand. At this point I surpress the desire to scream and squish her and run and get a plastic juice container. You know, natural reaction. I catch her in that. Ok, I gotta admit, now that she is caught, it's kinda cool to be able to look at her up that close. Anyway, I poured a little fingernail polish in there to kill her and put the bag in a ziplock. And duct tape the zipper closed. And put it in another bag and duct tape that zipper too. Then like on CSI, I label the bag with the date, contents, and my name. Just in case. My theory was just in case someones hand starts rotting off I can take it to the dr with us. :) Brilliant, I know. I'm gonna post a new one about my next visitor.