Hopefully for Better Breathing, My Dear

I had a procedure done today in my nose to hopefully make it so I can breathe better.  Though for the first week it'll be worse.  Yay.  Plus, when I was having it done, I asked the nurse how much bleeding to expect, and she said a few drops, maybe, so I told her that I'm an easy bleeder.  She told the doctor, and they gave me some extra stuff to help prevent bleeding.  I still managed to have blood gushing out my nose and down my throat.  More stuff to prevent bleeding! I even accidentally coughed blood on the doctor D: but he said that it was okay, and that's why he wore red.  I love him.   I should probably explain the procedure to the best of my abilities.  They lidocained up my nose, added some no-bleedy stuff, a bunch of novocaine, and a metal piece to my lower back to prevent electrocution.  Then they electrically burned into some of the flaps inside my sinuses to try to make them smaller by way of them shrinking in towards the burning.  If this doesn't work, I have to have full-fledged surgery where they take out stuff with something that is basically a mini meat grinder/sucker.  I hope this one works.

I also had a lovely weekend.  Andy and I cleaned the entire house most thoroughly, and then had a day filled with meeting out of town friends of my friend, playing billiards, taking them to a local pub that rocks, and then back to our place for a couple frozen drinks and games.  It was awesome.  Then the next day (the actual Memorial Day) My friend came back to my place after seeing her friends off to relax with movies, and another friend came over, and then we learned about the explosion and subsequent fire just a bit away at the paper mill.  We don't have a LAN line, so the city couldn't even contact us to tell us to stay inside. Meh, the weather took care of that.  And our tiredness.

Christmas, New Year's, and beyond.

Okay.  My meds are doing great things.  Christmases were filled with great presents and conversations.  Among my favorite gifts... well all of them are great. Here's the list (that I remember)

*Kindle keyboard (I'm still not ready for touch technology) Andy and I actually got matching ones :D
*Amazon giftcard
*Silk Cocoons- heck yes
*Star wars themed usb drive
*A giant cutting mat for sewing, because my old one was too small for fat quarters without doubling the fabric up
*Some tank tops, you can never have too many tank tops
*Electronic catch phrase
*A whole mess of candies from around the world and various other goodies
*Target giftcard
*Best Buy giftcard
*Boba Fett piggybank (to go with our Yoda and Darth Vader piggybanks)
*Fuzzy dice (I love dice)
*Cash
*My camera
*Ribbon for crafts
*A remote controlled car customized for me :)

Three generations of ladies :)

My fuzzy puppy enjoying his new toy

Our happy little family <3

My whole nuclear family.  From left to right: Me, Andy, Drew, DJ, Mom, Dad

How DARE I interrupt their play time!

All tuckered out!


New Year's Eve was really nice.  We bought way too much food.  WWWAAYYY too much.  We still have unused frozen stuff.  It was just some family and friends getting together to eat, talk, and play games, especially Trivial Pursuit.  This year the women kicked butt!  It helped that we realized that last year the guys got the easy pile, and the girls got the hard pile :P

Only a portion of the food we had!!!

Yearly tradition of trivial pursuit, guys vs. girls!

With the start of the new year came a new insurance in addition to Andy's work one.  My parents added me onto theirs because they could (and probably because they want grandchildren :D), so I have extra insurance through March, which is when I turn 26.  So I am announcing now that I have been going through an insane amount of fertility tests.  I have a couple things left, including having something removed, but now I pretty much know what's wrong with me.  Andy will have all of his tests done on the thirteenth of February, so soon we will know everything.  I even have an ultrasound picture of my uterus :D  Somehow all of these things keep happening on knit nights and spinning guild, so even though I feel like I'm ready to go to one, I haven't been able to.  For example, I have a minor surgery on the same day as spinning guild.  Things just keep coming up!
I have been making social contact with people though.  Through Andy's work party, I have made some new friends that are really awesome.  I have done everything from trying karaoke for the first time, to going Irish dancing for the first time!  I am really enjoying myself and trying to open up.