cold update

feeling worse and worse every day. I'd hate to go to the doc in the box. Last time it wasn't pretty.

is about to

pull out the big dogs for my little "cold."

One is named Colloidal Silver. The other is called Dioxychlor.

Just depends on which "taste" I desire. This nose/throat mess is getting on my last nerves. Waking me up at 6am on a perfectly good sleep in day!

These two separately did a world of good for my LD. I think they might jus tdo the same for my cold. So here we go to find them.

PS. no lectures on how CS is going to turn me blue. I know it's NOT because I only take 2 tbsp a day. That blue man rubbed it on his skin (his own homemade kind at that) and drank it by the bottles full.

Many photos of Christmas

We chose to have a quiet fun Christmas at my parent's house this year. We arrived around 9am and stayed until nearly 5pm. We had a marvelous time, but I missed the days of having Christmas in the mountains with my Grandparents.

The big gift this year was a Wii for Dad. For the first time ever, he got clued. He's usually the clue writer, clue placer and the clue giver, but never the clue recipient. I had the best time writing clues (which I did last year as well for my husband's clue gift ~ which you might remember was also a Wii). Never heard of a "clued gift?" Well let me explain. Sometimes there is a rather large item that you want to give, but instead of just giving the person the gift ... there is a bit of anticipation. The unspsecting person opens up a normal looking gift. In the gift, there is the first clue to where the second clue is. They realize right away that they've been "clue gifted."

Usually 2 to 4 lines per clue are written. Sometimes it's only 3 places and other times it's 5 or 6 places. I'm sure if we really wanted to be annoyingly fun .... we'd have 7 or 8 clues. The first time somoene got clue gifted was me back in good ole 1995. It doesn't happen every year, but it's fun none the less. Whenever I'm the clue writer, I try to give little fun clues inside each clue about what the gift might be. Whenever the final gift is unwrapped .. it's more of a "aha" that's what that clue meant. Generally clues are found somewhere in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and for the first time ever ... one had to walk outside in the cold to find one in the mailbox.

IF you were really lucky, you saw one right here on my blog yesterday. I had it scheduled to post right about the time he would come to the computer for the last clue. VERY hard to schedule. If you've never done this, I suggest you give it a try. Just as a sample of what you might write:

Now that you've found your next clue
It's apparent what we've done to you.
Your next hint or so I've been told
Is where you keep things very cold.

(this was clue number 3 ~ and he had to find the clue in the freezer).

On to the photos of the day.

I took these photos using my new telephoto lens that santa brought me for my camera. The lens has automatic and manual focus. I discovered that I really like the manual focus on this huge lens that is quite heavy indeed for my unsteady hand. I took these photos from a pretty good distance away.

Row 1: Left is the new Nativity Scene. Right is a few candles, water globe and willow tree angels along with the ends of a couple of band director "magical sticks."
Row 2: Snow babies that my Dad painted years ago. They make me smile.
Row 3: Left is the dish that is a MUST. Granny's Mac & Cheese. Right: Trumpet on Tree

The next few photos were taken with our regular lens for the Olympus SLR. We use this lens for traditional picture taking. We can also use the manual focus on it as well as the automatic focus, but we have to change that setting with the camera body instead on the lens itself.

Row 1: Left:My new Willow Tree Angel. Right: Rob with our new birdfeeder
Row 2: Help with my ever needy hair (and check out the velvetta cheese box in my lap)
Row 3: We always get some sort of goodies. Left: Junior Mints Right: Beef Stick

Guess what we did ....

If you said ...



you might be right.



We decided since we were going to get up early and go to my parent's house .. that we should go ahead and exchange tonight.

Other than the GPS which had already been given .. and well used. I received two new lens' for my Olympus SLR camera. LOVE THEM.

Took this beauty of a picture from the kitchen of my house into the living room.

Bring the Rain

Quick Crud Update

I no longer have that headache. Ya know the one where your head is so suggested you feel as if your eyes and teeth wanna pop right out? Yeah that one. It's gone.

I no longer have that back ache. Ya know the one where you feel as if you just wanna pull the spine right out of your back and you'd feel better? Yeah that one. It's gone.

I no longer have that fever. Ya know the one where no matter how much Tylenol you take it just won't go down low enough? Yeah that one. It's gone.

What do I have?

A cough due to post nasal drip. It's not pleasant when it happens and it catches me and others off guard. It will probably be there another few weeks. But prayers works people, pray it goes away by Christmas morning.

A bipolar nose. One minute it's drippy and the next it's stuffed up. It's so confused. Honestly I think it's all in my head (haa haa. little Lyme humor there).

Fatigue. I think I'm so tired from resting so long.

Well I have to run off to work. Okay maybe not RUN. That would be a long run. It takes me 40 to 45 minutes by car. :O

Crowd Crud Part 2

I wanted to update folks on my crud condition. Last night I continued to get worse. My fever climbed, my cough worsened, my nose wouldn't stop running. I was just plain ole miserable. In fact, I was so miserable that for maybe the 4th time since it's airing ... I missed Survivor Live. I have NEVER missed the finale live ... :=( So I'll be watching to see who won last night and hoping that I don't get spoiled at work or on the radio.

So yes, I woke up feeling much better this morning. My nose has improved (and usually it's horrible first thing in the morning) and my fever is GONE. It went from 101 last night to back to normal 97.5 (for me that's normal). I took some Tylenol last night, but haven't had any in over 9 hours.

I will tell you though that majority of the time, I start fighting it off and then I relapse. So today could be a great day, but tomorrow could be worse than yesterday.

SOOOOOo in knowing this about my body, I am going to continue to work on fighting this illness by boosting my immune system with shakes and taking OTC meds that will help me keep the symptoms at bay. I hate taking medications, but ... I do not want to be sick Christmas morning.