When will it stop!?!?!?!?...

I have never been this sick for this long in my entire life. I was pretty sure I was going to die in my sleep last night so I told Dean that I loved him very much but to forget donating my organs because the poor scalpel jockey that would have drawn the short straw to cut me open to give my kidneys to a guy that's on the verge of walking toward the light would have let out a little girl scream when he saw that all of my internal organs have atrophied and are on their way to complete liquefaction due to this interminable virus that is killing me one never ending day at a time.

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AND then on top of being sick, I had PMS this last weekend. Sometimes when I have PMS it either makes me Freddy Krueger and I want to slash open everyones' jugulars and stand there and laugh or I go complete polar opposite and cry uncontrollably when my checker doesn't tell me to have a nice day as I'm leaving with my cart full of groceries. This last weekend was an example of the latter. Last Saturday I cried on two separate occasions. Why, you ask? Oh, because I was watching a video clip of Canadian highlights of the winter Olympics in Torino and the other time was while watching a video clip of a visiting chiropractors pediatric patients. And I'm talking the floodgates opened, people. I was all but under the chairs sobbing into my jacket and trying to be inconspicuous while doing so. AND ALL FOR NOTHING!! I had not one good reason to be crying. I'm sitting there bawling like a baby and coughing my brains out because of course I'm still sick and with every cough I feel like my brain is trying to pop through my eye sockets which just perpetuates the crying and are you starting to see a trend?!

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So I have decided that Dean and I are going to be purchasing our own little island in the South Pacific where only he and I are allowed to set foot on it so that the rest of diseased soaked humanity cannot transmit their viruses to us anymore since we will have no more contact with the outside world. We plan on reading while lounging in our hammocks all day everyday and having a never ending supply of virgin strawberry daiquiris at our fingertips and never getting sick again. If anyone else is interested, let me know and we'll see if we can't negotiate a 2 for 1 deal on a couple of islands.

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If you do want in on the deal, you're still not allowed on our island.

Stupid persistent sinus infection...

That is a self portrait of me a half hour ago. Ok, I kid. But that is what I feel like I look like right now.
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This gol' dang sinus infection is just kicking my butt. I've never had one before so just when I think it's getting better, WHAM!, it comes back with a vengence 5 times harder the next day. I'm just thankful that my teeth don't all pulse with pain anymore, that's prety sporadic, but the pressure in my sinuses and the 'I just swallowed a fistful of razor blades' sore throat are still killing. I just wish that the floodgates would open and let all the infected crud drain out. I would gladly stay up all night with a box of tissues for that.
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But I'm off to school to go do some massages. I only have 2 more days of clinic after today and finals are coming up next week and I'm in uber panic mode. I graduate on the 18th of April and then it's uber uber study time for boards and then to find a jobby job.

Happy Easter everyone!!!...

It's 11:38PM so it's not too late to wish everyone a Happy Easter. We hope you all had a wonderful day and that the Easter Bunny treated you well.

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The Easter Bunny hopped on past our house since the Car Repair Fairy came by a couple of days ago and stole hundreds of dollars from us. Oh well. We'll just have to steal our friends candy.

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I woke up this morning and wanted to die. I must have a sinus infection or something but I feel like crap. My top teeth all ache so badly and feel like they are all going to fall out at any given second. It hurts to look at bright lights. I'm a snot factory. It kills to swallow. My heart is having palpitations. My head is swimming. All the joints in my body ache. So needless to say, I stayed home and slept for as long as I could today and I just feel like I'm getting worse. However, Dean feels just fine which I am grateful for. Our "Easter Dinner" consisted of me eating chicken noodle soup and Dean had a can of ravioli. I know, we go all out when we really don't have to. And later, as I'm laying on the couch trying to think about anything but my aching teeth and joints, our friend Robyn comes over and sees Dean trouncing around our house in his undershirt (it was hilarious), he runs to put on his shirt, and she was sweet enought to bring over a coconut cake. I can't wait to get my taste buds back so that I can try it. She's an awesome cook.

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So that was our Easter Sunday. Beat that.

Chase's visit to Iowa Part 1...

Dean's wonderful 15 year old brother, Chase, came out to stay with us this last week since he had Spring Break and we are so glad he did. We had a really fun time with him and we think he had a good time with us too...

This was pretty much the common sight around our house when we weren't doing anything. Chase brought his Wii with him from AZ and he brought Super Smash Brothers and seriously, I think they must have clocked a good 15-20 hours on it in the 6 days he was here.

Once we finally got our car back, (it broke down on Friday and we had to be towed to a repair shop, the crankshaft speed sensor busted and a couple hundred bucks later it was fixed and we also had to rent a car to get by until we got our Jetta back, so needless to say, we're pretty strapped for cash now!) we decided that Chase needed to learn to drive a manual. He did awesome. Seriously, he was a natural. He did way better than I did when I was first learning to drive one. We took him over to the church parking lot and let him have at it. If you look at the above picture, he's trying not to smile because he's turning on the car for the first time. It was adorable.

And he's off. He practiced on Monday just in the church parking lot and then we went back on Tuesday and let him practice some more and then told him that he was going to drive home. He was a bit nervous but we took him on backroads and he did just fine. So now of course he wants a manual for his first car.

We went shooting out in Princeton, IA on Thursday and even though it was frickin freezing out, we all had a good time. Chase got to shoot our Remingon 870 Express (he'd never shot a shotgun before), our Colt .45 1911, and our KelTek P32. Now we have to restock our ammo because those boys went through it like it was going out of style.

He just fired it. You can see the smoke coming out of the barrel.

He thinks he's Rambo.

Doing what brothers should do. Shoot stuff.

We went to Red Robin and can't you tell that Chase loves being side hugged by Dean?

Then we went and saw Jumper and beforehand they had to have a little DDR competition.

I don't know what Dean was doing with his arms but it's hilarious.

Chase's visit to Iowa Part 2...

We took Chase up to Maquoketa Caves on Friday afternoon and that was the highlight of the trip to me. Chase was dying to see snow since they obviously never get any in AZ and he got his snow. Granted, it wasn't falling out of the sky but beggars can't be choosers. The above picture is the first cave they shimmied through. It was awesome.

Chase sliding down some rocks in a cave.



There was a huge stalactite behind us. Of course Dean and Chase tried to break every ice stalactite and stalagmite they saw but those suckers don't budge.



Yeah, that's a group of bats. Dean and Chase ventured into a big cave that is closed during the winter due to hibernating bats but no sign was going to keep them out of there.

Ewwww, scary bats. Ok, I'm kidding. They weren't afraid of any bats. I was the scaredy cat. I ventured in far enough to see one and then I was outta there. Dean and Chase hiked the whole cave and I just sat there and waited forever.

Chase's visit to Iowa Part 3...

Like I said, he loves snow. He was like a crazy puppy on crack, all bounding through the snow and whatnot.

I'm holding on for dear life because it's so crazy slippery since half of everything was coated with ice. Chase had just fallen on his bum and back 2 seconds before this was taken.

Chase found an impromptu ice skating rink and promptly did triple axels and backflips to show off. Can you see him in the picture?

I love Chase's "smile". Cheese head.

Yeah, 2 seconds later they were trying to kick it over and carve stuff into it. Boys.

Token self portrait in cave.

Yes, if you think he is dancing around like a fairy, you're right. He was leaping through the snow.

Dean is pooped after hiking through caves and up stairs. We played hard.

We then went home and I made pizza and apparently Chase doesn't know how to eat it. Or it burnt his tongue. I forget.

And like I said, this was a common sight at our house. Wii time.

We loved having him here. He brought a wonderful feeling into our home and we want him to come back. We told him he could just stay and we'd enroll him in school on Monday but for some reason he wasn't too keen on that. We went bowling, Dean and Chase saw I Am Legend, the 3 of us saw 10,000 B.C., went out to Mexican, Chase and Dean drove through Chicago when Dean picked him up, Chase went to school with Dean 1 day but for some reason he thought it was kind of boring, went out for Chinese, we all had a good time. We do love our Chase.

I've been a slackasaurus...

I have been a bloggin slackasaurus these past couple of weeks but I am back from the brink.

As you saw from 2 posts ago, Dean had quite the break from school. Almost literally. HA! I just laughed out loud at my own pun! I'm awesome. Anyways, he in fact did take a tumble on our friends stairs while helping them move. As a result, we have now devoted our lives to burning all slippery cover coloring books so don't be suprised if your children's coloring books magically disappear in the middle of the night and you find a pile of ashes in your sink.

Waiting for the doctor.

That's his best "I'm in pain so give me sympathy" face. I punched him in the ankle right after that.

He learned his lesson to not make that face so now all he will do is make happy faces all the time.

It was a good week.

(I'm not really violent and shame on you for thinking I am!)