jumbled sickness

and today marks day 4 of being sick sick sick.

apparently my body thinks it's super boring to be sick the same way for 4 days straight so it keeps jumbling everything around.

Day 1:  asthma attack city! can't breathe can't breathe oh my freaking gosh i can't breathe.

Day 2:  still can't breathe and have the worst sore throat in the history of sore throats.  went to urgent care where they made me wait 3 hours and i almost passed out from NO AIR!

Day 3:  super bad fever and more sore throat-ness.  at least i could finally breathe.

Day 4:  runniest of noses and biggest of heads.

thanks for trying to make being sick interesting little body but seriously this has to stop!

you now have 4 days to be entirely over this before Anniversary Weekend is upon us.

consider yourself warned.

sad puppy

it's the worst thing in the universe when your baby is sick.

and when i say baby i mean my little Padme baby.

last thursday and friday she was acting really weird.

all tired and her eyes were really glossy/red and she went through most of the day without opening them and when she did she would just squint at everything.

i was immediately worried, like a good mama should be, and starting googling around to see what could possibly be wrong with her.

boy, was that a bad idea.

i started seeing all these scary things about how squinting and glossy eyes can mean she's going blind!

i talked to Matt and told him our pup needs to see a vet because if something really bad is going on i want to stop it before it gets worse.

the vet was so nice and let us come in the same day to get her checked.

she had all these horrible tests done to her eyes and i felt so bad for her.

she let the doctor stick things in her eyes and turn her eyes green (seriously weird).

she was such a champ though! she didn't even try to yank her head away or anything!

she's the best pup ever!

after all the crazy tests we found out she's a very healthy girl (yay!) and she didn't have anything serious but she does have conjuctivitis.

basically her eyes were hurting her a lot so the only thing she could do to make it stop was keep them closed as much as possible.

poor baby!

we were sent home with some eye medicine for her and the vet said she should be better in a few days.

she was so sad all night after the vet.

i babied the heck out of her to make up for it though.

now it's been 3 full days of the eye medicine and i think she's doing better.

she'll actually keep her eyes open now and i don't notice as much glossy eye-ness.

her eyes are still a little red but we have to continue the medicine for a while so i'm sure that'll go away soon.

i hated this whole ordeal probably just as much as she did.

i can only imagine what future me is going to be like when i have a real little person to take care of and they get sick.

i'm sure i'll be a wreck!

on to the next one

last of the halloween pics!

ewoks with the nephews

Trey and "Comfy Bear"

ewoks with batman, robin, skeleton, peter pan, wendy and tinkerbell

the little shark "Fin" 

i'm so sad halloween is over but i guess i'll move on to the next celebration.

Matt and i will be married for 5 years next week.

holy cow!

and to celebrate we're going on a little mini vacation and of course that means that i got sick this week.

i now have 2 days to get better. UGH!

dear sore throat, i hate your guts! you're the worst thing in the entire world! i hate being reminded of you every time i swallow! 

so yesterday i decided to stick it to mr. sore throat and downed like 500 gallons of water (no joke), hot soup, nasty airborne tablets and Matt even brought home my secret sore throat weapon- caramel apple spice from starbucks.

seriously, every sore throat i've had since high school has been cured within days of consuming one of those delicious beverages.

then last night i took some nyquil and Matt tucked me in for a good night's sleep....NOT.

turns out even sick and full of nyquil i don't sleep but i still got up this morning and my sore throat is slightly less annoying than it was yesterday.

hallelujah! thank you caramel apple spice!

hopefully another 2 days of the exact same routine will cure me for a fun filled vacation.

now i'm gonna go make some lists.

i'm probably the only one who does this but i like to make a crazy number of lists before a trip.

don't want to forget anything ya know.

especially when you're gonna be within 5 minutes of a store.

i'm a weird person. 

i need new lungs

'tis the season to get sick.

i've had this stupid half cold for over a month now but this past week it finally decided to show its ugly face and settle in my chest.

i already have terrible nerdy asthma so this kind of sickness is a big no no.

i can't stop wheezing and taking deep breaths hurts like a mo fo and i have to try not to laugh because it sends me into an asthmatic fit.

so yeah, no bueno.

and of course during the 4 day holiday weekend it just gets worse and worse.

Saturday i could hardly get out of bed because even walking up and down the stairs was too hard on my lungs and i stayed up practically all night because sleeping became too scary.

luckily i have Matt.

that boy did everything he could to make me feel better all weekend.

he cooked for me, he cleaned for me, he rubbed my back, he watched tv with me all night long when i couldn't sleep.

he's the best. be jealous.

but on Sunday it just got too much to handle and we were scared i might actually have pneumonia so we had to make a trip to urgent care.

i got chest x-rays and the doctor said i have bronchitis and if i waited any longer it could've turned into pneumonia because my lungs aren't strong enough to handle the sickness.

i got put on antibiotics and steroids and i have to do breathing treatments every 4 hours.

so this is me.

getting over my sickness every 4 hours.

and i mean every. 4. hours.

Matt yells at me if i don't. in a loving, sweet kind of way of course.

but we're so glad it's not pneumonia and i'll hopefully be good as new in a week or so.

i can't wait.

highlight of my week

well this has been quite a week.

first major thing that happened is matt and i got new phones.

yay!!

i love new phone time!

verizon was having this smokin' deal with their palm pre plus phone, get 2 for $50 and matt talked me into it.

this phone is so unlike any other phone i've ever had.

i've never had a phone with internet or games or one that exclusively has a keyboard instead of the number keypad.

i didn't think i was going to like it as much as my old one but i do, i so do!

it's super sleek and cute and i love it!

the only downside is that i haven't quite got the hang of the keyboard yet.

i always liked texting with T9 and now i can't do that.

and who can text on a keyboard while driving a stick shift car?? not me!

guess i'm going to have to learn to not text when i'm driving.

bummer.

next thing that happened this week is i'm sick...again.

i have this grossy gross tonsil problem and it makes me sick every couple months.

i'm thinking about actually going to the doctor and telling them to cut them out to stop this insanity.

its so not fun being sick over and over again.

that brings me to saturday, the best day!

my big sister's neighborhood had a community garage sale and she told me to bring anything i wanted to get rid of.

matt and i were psyched!

we had 4 big items we were DYING to sell.

a wooden entertainment center, a loveseat sofa, a tv stand and probably the heaviest tv known to man.

it took us for-e-ver to get everything over to my sister's house.

the tv had to be dragged on top of a cardboard box all the way down our stairs, across our living room, out the door and out to the car because it was too heavy to pick up but after making several frustrating trips back and forth we finally got everything over there friday night so they'd be ready to sell early the next morning.

i am happy to report that the ridiculously heavy tv and the entertainment center both sold!

yay!

and we ended up giving the couch away for free to one of my sister's neighbors that wanted it.

we didn't make that much money but i'm just so happy to finally be able to pull my car into our garage and not have to worry about if i pulled in far enough so the garage door won't come down on top of my trunk.

it's a great feeling!

and now we can maybe actually organize the garage since we can finally walk around in there!

i love how successful this garage sale was!

so it's been a pretty eventful week but wanna know what the highlight of my week was?

matt singing shania twain in the shower on saturday morning.

no joke.