Mosaics!

I'm excited to announce I have a new craft project!

Russ and I are hosting our first Passover Seder this year. Its a huge undertaking as it is a very important holiday and there are so many traditional foods to make. We will have at least 9 people, including ourselves. Nevertheless, for our wedding we had a registry for china which our friends purchased. We only bought service for 8. My dear husband impulsively decided to buy more so that our Seder could match. Anyways, a few arrived broken and we got even more sent for free! And yet again a few arrived broken. Luckily we have service for 12 now and a few extras of some sizes.

I decided instead of throwing all the broken plates out that I would make a mosaic with the pieces. I searched for all of Michael's to find the perfect piece to do it on. I finally came home with a square wood mirror. If it all works our the way I want it to we will have a beautiful mirror that will match our china and therefore be hung in a future dining room and perfectly match! What a bright idea huh?

Happy Birthday to me!

I'm getting old... I'm 23 today.

Its weird, being 23 and married. I feel 17 and physically look like I'm 17 so its hard for people to believe both. I wonder when I'll look "old". I think people think that A) hubby is either way older than me or B) I'm his daughter

We got asked on a train once (while holding hands and kissing no less)... if we were brother and sister!
I just really hope when we have kids people wont think I'm the babysitter! ugh

Anyways, how am I spending my birthday?
This morning I had to go back to the eye Dr. I had a scratched cornea a month ago and it starting hurting again. This time its either an infection or a reaction to contact lens solution. But I should be fine.
After hubby gets off the phone we will probably go shopping so that I can spend the $100 Kohls gift card my parents gave me as a B-day present :-) :-) Then I have to work 5-8 because someone quit and I need to cover part of her hours. Then... I will have a nice romantic homemade dinner with my hubby and go to bed early because I have to work at 7am tomorrow.

Tomorrow we are celebrating with very good friends of ours. And there's really no other friends I'd rather be with :-) 

Pancakes!

To celebrate National Pancake Day the hubs and I went to IHOP where they are offering a free three stack per guest today until 10pm! I also had a milkshake and we donated $5 to some charity.

Yum for pancakes and chocolate shakes!

With the winnings...

My May"11 wedding board recently had a post about what you would do if you won the lottery. Since I don't post there I thought I'd think off all the things and write it here

1)Buy a Yorkie and another Sheltie
2)Buy a house
3)Pay off my student loan debt
4) Pay for both my sister's educations
5) donate enough $ to my College Hillel so they could survive
6) donate enough $ to our temple so that our cantor can keep his job
7) donate $ to tons of animal shelters and Jewish organizations
8) quit my job
9) spend all my time volunteering
10) have 2 of my own kids then adopt a third
11) give our parents a huge chunk in return for everything they've done for us
12) buy a new car (my car is like 9 years old already)
13) travel the world with my hubby
14) send our kids to private Jewish schools
15) maybe pay for my cousins educations and give my bum uncle a house and car
16) get my masters in canine sciences

:-) 

Headaches be gone?

At first I didn't think using the anti-depressant was working. My doctor prescribed 10mg (a person with depression would be taking about 200mg) So when I say low dose anti depressants, I mean low dose lol! But for the two weeks I took the 10mg I was getting a lot of headaches.

I then had an appointment with a neurologist that I last saw 2 years ago. She said to take two 10mg (thus 20mg) until they ran out and to pick up a new prescription of 25 mg. I'm still on the 20mg but so far so good. I've haven't had a headache in a few days! What my neurologist also told me (and said the same thing 2 years ago) is that my neck muscles are extremely extremely tight (and this appointment was at 1030 am!). Obviously I already knew this but seem to fail at doing something about it. blah.

So far the meds are helping and I will make an appointment with a chiropractor, since its been a year since I've seen one. I'm hoping that will help

Furthermore...

Bad News: I was having eye pain and blurriness and after going to the eye Dr, found out I have a scratch on my left cornea. No contacts for a few weeks and using regular eye lubricating drops to help it heal.

Good News: I'm kinda sorta getting a promotion at work! They're making me Senior staff (instead of Jr Staff) as one of the senior staff is pregnant. I kind of had a feeling about it, as they were clearly training me to take on more responsibility. I hope I can work hard enough to show them I can do it, I often make stupid mistakes. It makes me wonder if they think I can do it. 

A Clean House!

I know I haven't posted lately. I always feel like I should be writing about big important stuff then get intimidated. Oh well. This is my life. I'm an old married hag that gets excited about the littlest things....

What I do want to announce is that there is a new resident in our household... a Eureka Airspeed Pet!

Sometime last week the hubs was vacuuming and it somehow shorted out or something. There were sparks/smoke and the outlet now has burn marks. However, the old vacuum (a 17+ year old Eureka that the in-laws gave us 3 years ago after they upgraded) barely worked. I could vacuum over a wad of dog fur 10 times just for it to pick it up. For some reason in never occurred to us that never having to empty the bag = its not picking anything up when it should be. Guess we thought we just had a clean house.

So imagine our shock after going over just the living room with our new vacuum the whole container (it's bag-less) was filled!!!!!!!! You could hear the vacuum crackling as it picked up our dirt. We've lived in this apartment for almost a year. It literally seemed like we hadn't vacuumed for a year considering how well the new one works. Plus, the carpet looks brand new. Before it didn't look any different after we vacuumed.

so. that just made my week. 

Tonight I'm Starting Anti-Depressants...

for my headaches!

Two years ago I tried a low-dose anti-depressant for my headaches and it gave me chest pains so I immediately stopped. This is a different medication (but also a very low dose) so maybe it wont have the heartburn/heart attack side affect the other one did. Its weird that they'll use drugs known to treat a certain condition to treat a completely different problem. I've been in birth control for a long while for my headaches... but I recently switched types in order to lessen my chance of stroke and it no longer helps my headaches!

Furthermore tomorrow I'm going to make an appointment with a chiropractor. Chiropractics has actually helped me before so I'm hoping it will continue to help. Although maybe I should wait so I can see if the new medication actually helps? My nurse practitioner also suggested acupuncture. But I'll definitely see how meds and spine drs work before I go with needles (not that I'm afraid of needles... just its further down on the list of last resorts)!