Happy Easter!

Yes, I know that Easter is tomorrow, but I felt like wishing you a Happy Easter a day early. I hope everyone has a fabulous holiday weekend!

I'm a little sad this year, my favorite Easter candy was all sold out when I went to the store last night. It sucks when your favorite candy is only made once a year, but I guess it serves me right for procrastinating. So if any of you get some of these, maybe you could share a couple??? Haha! Well, Happy Easter anyway! :)

Needles and Surgery and Stitches...Oh My!

How did I make it 25 years without any stitches? Well, not counting the dissolving stitches I got when I had my wisdom teeth removed, today was my first time having stitches and I have 4 of them.

Have you ever had a numb ear? I have to admit it is probably the weirdest feeling I've ever experienced. I had surgery on my ear today. I'm still waiting to get the feeling completely back in my ear.

The doctor numbed my ear with a massive needle and an obscene amount of numbing liquid. For those of you who know me, you know that I hate, Hate, HATE needles! So I stared at Brad for that part of the procedure, it hurt more than I thought it would, but I was okay, until I felt some of the liquid drip down the back of my neck. Ugh! I thought it was blood and it was just the most awful feeling, and it was at that point that I really wanted to faint and vomit all at the same time, but I kept it together. The doctor asked if i was doing okay. I really wanted to say I'm awful, I want to throw up and I want to go home, but what came out of my mouth was "uhh-huh, I'm fine" but I was shaking and sweaty and still freaked out from the feeling of something dripping down my neck. So I closed my eyes and tried to think of anything other than what was happening. It didn't help that I could hear what he was doing and I could feel him tugging on my ear.

Brad tried to talk and keep me distracted. I had my eyes closed still and the doctor asked "Are you okay" and I totally thought he was talking to me so I answered, keeping my eyes closed, that I was fine, but then the doctor said "no, not you" at which point I opened my eyes and saw Brad, pale as an egg and trying not to heave. Which in turn freaked me out that something really awful must be happening. But we all made it through. Now I just have to wait a week to get my stitches out and hopefully I never have to go through that ever again!

Mushroom Hunting

It all started because I wanted to go for a hike. We drove to a local "park" and as we were driving we saw a few people outside the park boundaries with wicker baskets...hmmm, are they going on a picnic? No, they're mushroom hunting...very interesting. We keep driving, enter the park, park the car and start our hike, where we quickly find mushrooms of all shapes, sizes and colors. About 30 minutes into our nature walk/hike Brad can't stand it anymore, he has to talk to someone about the mushrooms. He finds another couple and proceeds to talk to them for probably an hour or so, following them around as they find mushrooms and they tell him tidbits of information. Meanwhile I continue wandering on the path, trying to keep an eye on him while taking pictures of all sorts of interesting mushrooms. Lo and behold! I found a mushroom that is safe to eat before I even knew it was a safe one. So after Brad's educational interview with these people I show him my picture and he promptly asks where I took that picture...hmmm, think really hard, in the last 20 pictures you just took, where was this particular one, retrace all steps...ah-ha! I think I remember! We found my mushroom and harvested it. Brad actually found a lot of mushrooms and we dug some of them up, some of them were already past their prime, and some of them we just skipped over on the face that we had no where to put all these mushrooms and we still had to hike back to the car.


I don't particularly like mushrooms, but they were pretty tasty. I really enjoy looking at the poisonous ones, they're so much prettier than the edible ones! This one was my favorite, and the last one I saw on our hike:


The red ones remind me of Smurfs and Mario.


We encountered multiple varieties of mushrooms and since I don't know anything about mushrooms or what they're really called I made up my own names based on what they made me think of.


Overall is was a very fun and educational trip and I at least got my hike out of the deal and Brad has added yet another hobby to his long list of things to do for fun.