This is all Apryl's fault.....

You can find her in my friends if you wanna hassle her.

Mom

This one is a little different, so here are the rules. Each player starts with ten random facts/habits about their mommy! People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their own ten things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose ten other mommies to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

1. My mom was a horny teenager (and so was my dad).

2. My mom took me to high school with her...and I later went to high school with some of the same teachers.

3. My mom works way too much but doesn't really admit it.

4. She passed that work trait on to me.

5. My mom drives my dad nuts, and my dad drives my mom nuts and they both love it that way. (don't deny it mom)

6. She anthropomorphises on a regular basis...another trait she's passed on to me. You know...doggie torture, pretending the dogs can talk, dressing the dogs up....they're dogs...not people. Oh who the hell cares...dress em up!

7. My mom is the best road trip buddy and is the only person in the world who has flown to AK just to road trip down with me.

8. She is much more brave than she realizes. She's way more brave than I am...in another life I think she will out travel and out do all of us.

9. My mom is way smarter than I am. No matter how old I get and how close I think that I am to getting smarter....she always wins.

10. My mom isn't just my mom. She's my best friend, she gets pretty much all of my dirt, worries, sob stories and excitement, and I love how she always listens and knows when to be 'mom' and when to be my friend.

I'm not tagging anyone...cause only Katie might, maybe post this....

The rest of my friends are dudes...and guys don't post blogs about their moms.

:)

Time to catch up.
Current mood: confident

So, I haven't been slacking on blogging..contrary to appearances..

I've just been so busy, preoccupied, tied up, stressed and skiing....

Here's the deal.

In November I had Lasik and I was super psyched with the results. You have to understand that I have been wearing glasses or contacts since I was 11 and who knows how long my vision was bad before then. I was really, really happy with how well I could see. About three weeks after the procedure I started noticing some weird spots in my vision in my left eye. I was due to go back to the doc for my one month checkup, so I moved the appointment up a few days. I went in and the doc said my cornea was looking good and the Lasik was good but that I had an inflamation on my retina. He sent me to another doc.....a retinal specialist.

Long story short, retinal specialist said that I have Ocular Histoplasmosis. If you want the details click the link. What that basically means is that I have permanant retinal damage and permanant vision loss in my left eye. About two weeks of steroids took care of the inflamation, and the damage was stopped, but the loss is permanant. So stare at four lights with one eye for 15 seconds and then open the other eye and look around. Thats what it looks like.

Anyway, sucks...but it has been about two months now and I'm getting used to it. My brain and my right eye are compensating, and I only notice the spots occasionally.

Then, yes there are thens. Then I went in to the gyno for my yearly and they were doing a breast exam when the doc found a lump.

Sweet.

Another long story short. I'd never noticed it before so I was really worried. Went to another specialist for a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. BTW, nothing like a big needle getting stuck into your boob. Sorry guys, too many details I know. Anyway, after weeks of nightmares about having cancer I found out that I just have a lumpy boob. Nothing to worry about...and the doc said it had probably been there for years. Which would explain why I never noticed it....

Then, mom calls and tells me Charlie is sick. Third long story short, he has Lyme's disease...and then he got sicker. And the vet figured out he has hypothyrodism. None of his ailments are life threatening, but they are temporarily (hopefully) compromising his comfort level. We are just waiting for the meds to kick in....

But for now, my little guy who is supposed to look like this:




Now looks like this little sausage.



Lastly....oh alright thats all for the bitching.

I have, however, been skiing a lot. This season has been absolutely epic and we have had about 250 inches of snow since December 1st.

Work has been keeping me busy, but I have been enjoying working with everyone and the challenges I've been facing.

I am still crunching away at school. I decided to change my major from Business Management (already have that down, why the hell would I pay for it?) to Multimedia and Visual Communications. Gonna get this web design business down and make some dough on the side.

Finally, I've been taking some pictures. I'm not going to narrate....just enjoy.


































And finally.....for all the skiers out there. And for anyone just impressed by the amazing, watch this video. I will say it's pretty brutal, but in the end he only sustained minor injuries after losing conciousness when he hit his head and destroyed his helmet in the crash.

Incredible.