tagged

nancy tagged me.
i have to tell you
6 interesting things
about me.

i tried to think
of things not a lot
of people know..

rob helped.

here goes:
1. i climbed machu pichu
2. i took piano lessons for 12 years.
3. i got hit by a car when I was 10.
4. i do not, NOT eat seafood.
5. i was stabbed in Peru.
6. i am on a jones soda bottle.

and there you have it!
i'm not tagging anyone.

ailments

Rob has been saying

for years

that your appendix

is a ticking time bomb,

good for nothing

but turning on you

when you least expect it.

I, however, have been

thinking he's

paranoid.

Until monday

when he called me

and sad he thought he

had a hernia...

then tuesday we

took him to care now

because the pain 

was worse.

they of course

did tests and said

go to the ER, 

you have appendicitis.

and who doesnt

love a good 

"i told you so"

moment with 

their spouse?

so i took him to

the ER

and we waited

and waited..

approx. 7 hours

for a surgeon

to take it out.

and one 

finally did.

and we slept 

at the hospital that night.

well, rob slept,

i sat in a chair 

and stared at the 

beeping light.

so now 

I've gotten rob up 

our stairs, 

rented him some movies

got him some meds,

and now he is relaxing

in the recliner.

and on a

smaller scale,

i have smashed

my fingers in a door

of some sort

every day

the last 5 days...

i need to work on my

hand-eye 

coordination..

a funny thing happened on the way to the forum

and by forum 

I mean the post office.

I was in there buying stamps

and of course there was

a very long line.

Further up the line

there were two old ladies.

and i mean old, like in there 80's

and one, we'll call her Betty, 

she looked like a Betty,

was saying to the other

how she got an email 

saying her account has been hacked

and if she would send back her 

account # and social security #

someone would run a credit check for her

to make sure her identity has not been stolen.

Well, everyone around hearing this is thinking

poor old lady is believing the scam, 

but surely the lady with her, 

we'll call her Martha, 

is going to gently explain 

why she shouldn't do this.

but then, 

a 3rd old lady, Beatrice, behind them in line,

starts yelling at Betty, saying

"i can't believe you are so stupid

you would fall for that scam,

don't you know they are going to steal

your identity and take all your money..." etc.

and so Martha, sticking up for Betty,

starts yelling back.

"it's none of your business, 

who asked you", etc.

and everyone else in line is thinking,

what the what is going on here?!?

old ladies fighting??

and i'm looking for the candid camera people.

so just as it looks like Betty is going to 

smack Beatrice with her enormous bag,

the PO teller man comes out and breaks it up.

But seriously... 

it was crazy.

and hilariously sad.

the holiday spirit

is not what it used to be 

when said old ladies were not so old

i guess...

in a winter wonderland

rob and i decorated 

our house for christmas

this weekend.

and it looks 

completely 

fabulous!

it's so exciting

to have a first

christmas together

and our new home, 

and new ornaments 

and picking out our 

own stockings,

deciding which 

traditions

we are going to hold on to,

which ones to start.

wonderful.

our tree is 

 blue and bright green

rob likes his stocking.

i got some cute

christmas placemats

and made a centerpiece 

out of ornaments and 

that straw holder thing..

"ok, ok turn off the lights,

lets try it out"

we put these snowflake

lights on our balcony!

so, as you can see,

our home is now

a magical winterland

of awesome.