From Dessert to Main Course

Ok, so I've been struggling with a sinus infection since Tuesday of last week.  It's a first for me.  I think this comes from all the crazy allergy problems I've had this season--I think they are getting worse each year.  I've had allergy problems in the past, but it's usually just for a day or two.  For some reason, this season it's been nonstop for several weeks!  Ugh!  Can't. Breath.

Well, as I said, I came down with a lovely sinus infection last week.  (Not to worry--I went to see a doctor yesterday--well, a nurse practitioner, really.  She was awesome--I don't care what letters follow her name.  She prescribed some meds, and hopefully I'm on my way to recovery!)

My mom is really into this natural Essential Oil stuff.  Which is great, I guess.  Some people swear by it.  She has four different oils that she's making me use:  Thieves, Lavender, Peppermint, and Ravensara.  I have no idea what they are supposed to do, but I do know they make me smell like a spice cake.  And I told her so.  She didn't laugh.

I thought it was funny.

The other day I was walking out the door of her house and she yelled.  Like the good daughter that I am, I stopped and came back in to make sure she wasn't hurt.  As she's pulling something out of a drawer in the kitchen (insert my mental "Uh-oh" here), she says, "Oh, NIKI!  I WISH I would have remembered this sooner!  Take this (she starts walking towards me with something that looks suspiciously like a spice jar).  Fill your bathtub with water as HOT as you can possibly stand it, and put all of this in it and soak until the water cools.  Then put MORE hot water in and keep soaking until it cools again.  It will help draw it (I can only assume she meant my sinus infection) out."

I looked down and she's holding a jar of. . . GINGER?  "You want me to soak in a bath of GINGER WATER?  Great, so I'll go from smelling like spice cake to smelling like SOUP!"

My actual thoughts:  I officially graduated from desert to main course.  Excellent.  Why did I have to be a good daughter?  I should have kept walking out the door.  For crying out loud. . .GINGER?  Like that's going to work.  Bah.  This smell had better not stick to me!


Mom:  "Don't worry!  The smell won't stick to you.  Just take a shower after your bath."

I will say this for the ginger bath:  it smelled good, even though I don't particularly want to smell LIKE ginger.  And I was able to breath a little easier for the rest of the night.  Although, that could have just been b/c I was breathing in steam for an hour.

Disclaimer:  I do love and respect my mother.  She is a brilliant, wonderful, Godly woman.  I'm just not as convinced as she is about home remedies and "essential oils."  Give me antibiotics and antihistamines.  I feel great, today!  (That's the antihistamine talking, FYI.  I feel light as a feather!)

The only problem I have with taking the antihistamine:  I don't think the side affects are very conducive to working.  Sometimes my arms don't want to move.  Is that normal?  I sure hope this wears off before 5 so I can drive home!  I'd prefer sleeping in my bed over sleeping under my desk tonight.   Wait a second. . . Why does that sound like a good idea right now?

TWO Stinking CUTE!!

I hope this makes you giggle like it did me!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

I love Irish Blessings!

May the Lord keep you in His hand and never close His fist too tight.

If God send you down a stony path, may He give you strong shoes.

May the light of Heaven shine on your grave.

Champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends.

May you be half an hour in Heaven before the devil knows you're dead.

May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load.  May the mist of Irish magic shorten every road.  May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed.

A great Irish prayer:

Grant me a sense of humor, Lord,
The saving grace to see a joke,
To win some happiness from life,
And pass in on to other folks.

A couple of Irish curses:

May those who love us love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we'll know them by their limping.


May you melt off the earth like snow off the ditch.


How about some Irish proverbs:


A lock is better than suspicion.


Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.


Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.


If you want to be criticized, marry.


You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.


When the drink is inside, the sense is outside.


A funny quote:


Sigmund Freud said, "This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."


Happy St. Patrick's day!

A New Discovery

I feel like a doofus for not knowing about this sooner, but I just discovered my Google Reader!  I follow a lot of blogs.  I mean, over 50--not really sure how many.  There is a way to check, but I don't really feel like doing that right now.  (It's 61--I checked after I posted this.)

I usually just go to my Blogger dashboard and scroll through the latests posts.  If something looks interesting, I click on it and check it out.  Sometimes I skip a few days, and I miss stuff that way.  I discovered the Google Reader right about the time I realized I hadn't check the blogs in a few weeks.

I had over a thousand unread posts.  Apparently, it stops counting after 1000.  Haha.  I love it b/c I can click on each blog and scroll through the posts.  Or I can mark everything on that blog as "Read" so it doesn't show up again.  (For example, I follow the Swapping Spoons blog, and she posts coupons and good deals.  Most of those expire fairly quickly, so there is no reason to go back and read old posts.)

Uh-mazing!!  So I've been catching up this week.  I've missed some pretty cool stuff!  These ladies are fantastic.  So creative.  Some of them are working moms, and I don't know when they have the time for their crafts and home projects.  I'm a single working girl, and I rarely have time to do stuff!  I'm down to under 500 now.  Of course, following over 50 blogs means I usually have over 50 new posts a day.  Once I get caught up, it will be a breeze to keep up!

I'm so excited!

Monday. . . AGAIN!

Bucky Katt

Monday. Phhhhht!