Yesterday, at my doctor's appointment, I mentioned to my doctor how sick I've been feeling- and, as a result, how little I've been able to work and how little I've been able to exercise (which has been causing severe lower back pain). He wrote me a prescription for a MIRACLE drug called Zofran. I feel one thousand times better. I woke up this morning and ate some cereal on the couch, where I usually sluggishly lay, trying not to throw up, until I have to get ready for work, when I inevitably crash on my bed halfway through getting dressed because of the exhaustion of trying not to feel so horrible. This morning, however, I finished my cereal and then felt a little antsy. My legs were kind of bouncing and I was thinking, hey, I could totally go do some yoga right now- or hop in the shower. It was an AMAZING feeling.

Well. I threw up for the first time this morning. It was mostly because I saw Cinnamon Toast Crunch floating in the toilet because Kyle didn't flush them all the way.

Also, if you're wondering what I had for dinner last night, it was the following: vegetable beef soup, blueberry bagel with cream cheese, tator tots, and three oreos with milk. Some of these choices were directly related to foods I was seeing on Food Network. Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives makes me want to eat everything!

AND, yesterday, when I was having a super-junky sick day, Kyle surprised me with four tickets to the Joffrey Ballet Nutracker next Tuesday and my best friend, Megan, and her husband, Scott, are coming!!! He's the best!!!

THREElittlebirds.

Coming July 1, 2010.

Kyle busted out this hat for the winter:



I can't stop laughing about how ridiculous it is. I'm finding it hard to get any work done.

This morning I decided that today is "comfort is key" day. It means wearing your most comfortable clothes (sweatpants) to work. It also means bringing your favorite candle to work to have burning on your desk while you work.

Last winter I bought a new parka from LL Bean. I loved it. It was long and warm and perfect. EXCEPT that for some reason I decided I wanted a large so that I could fit puffy sweaters under it and everything, so when I got it last winter (still about 30 lbs. overweight), it was a little large. Now that I am down to a healthy weight it is much, much too large. I called LL Bean to see if I could send it back this winter for a smaller size, but they wouldn't do it. I was having a moral dilemma as to whether I should break the zipper and call them to tell them that my coat wasn't functioning and I needed a new (and smaller) coat, BUT yesterday a friend from church came up to me (who is aware of this whole annoying coat situation) and said that she wanted to buy a coat for a needy woman in our community and offered to buy MY coat (for full price!), so that she could have a coat and I could buy a new one that fit! Isn't that wonderful?! I'm buying a new one TODAY!

Since finding a jar of fluff at Angeli's for NINETY NINE CENTS last night, I am obsessed with fluffernutters. I have had TWO since last night (last night I ate my with three pickle spears, somehow the perfect combination). Thank you, Miss Jenna, for showing me the way of the "Fah-luffewnuttew."

I also was super sad to see that Oprah is ending her show! The TV world will be such a strange, strange place. AND what is Chicago to do now?

Don't worry. There's an 8-point buck hanging from the swingset outside. Yech.

Thankful Thursday.

A friend of mine gave me the idea to write five things that I'm thankful for. It's a good practice for me... sometimes I get a little whiney.

1. I'm thankful for Kyle. I think most of you can not even fathom how nice to me he is- how many times he does all of our laundry from start to finish and never complains that I didn't help, how every night before we go to sleep he says, "If you need anything, wake me up, I'll be right here," how every time we come home from out of town he unloads the entire car while I stay warm inside. He is too wonderful.

2. I'm thankful for my church. It was a bumpy start to our relationship, as it was really hard for me to move here, but the people at my church are probably my favorite part about living in Iron River. And when I think about ever moving away, I think leaving them will make me the saddest. I've been more surprised, welcomed, blessed, fed, and challenged by them than by any other group of people.

3. I'm thankful for my job. It's been a long search to find- not even something that I love, but just a job that I didn't hate. And now I feel like I have my dream job for the moment. The people I work with are my family and I get to use so many different gifts from day to day and learn so many new things and do something that I really feel matters in the world.

4. I'm thankful for extras that I don't deserve. I'm thankful for a silly thing like satellite tv at the beginning of a long winter. I'm thankful for getting $15 jeans at J. Crew yesterday. I'm thankful for good books and flu shots and raspberries being on sale and extra pasty nuggets for free and getting to bring a sick cousin an apple pancake. Thank you God for all of the little gifts that I don't deserve.

5. I'm thankful for having a God in my life who knows me and loves me and makes me grow into a better person every day... who looks at me and my whiney-ness and my laziness and my meanness and loves me anyway because He knows what I can be and what He wants me to be and what I will be.

Thank you God. You are TOO good to me.