Old Lady

I had my eye appointment today with my new eye doctor.

She called me a "youngster" even though she had just seen my husband. Hmm, she did call him cute instead of handsome, dashing, rugged or manly. (All adjectives I would use to describe him)

Still... youngster?? I'll show her!

What did she find when she looked into my little ol' left eye?

"Hmm... Looks like you have a cataract."

Wait!!! CATARACT!! But I'm only 24?!?

"Well let's take a look at the other eye.... hmm.. I'll be darn. You have one in each eye! Little tiny snowballs. Perfect mirror images of each other. Well, I've never seen anything like it!"

Well aren't I just special....

"The only thing I can think is that they're congenital, meaning you've had them since you developed as a fetus. And clearly you're not having a hard time seeing through them. But we'll just watch them and see if they start thickening or growing. Right now they're about this big, 3 mil..." as she shows me on a ruler that I cannot see at all because of my stupid dilated eyes.

Gee thanks. I feel sooo much better.

... it gets better...

"Now let me check your eyes again now that they're dilated.... Just as I suspected. It looks as though you're far sighted (as I already knew) and near sighted. Hon, the best solution to your current condition is bifocals."

No. Nope. No way no how.

"And I just can't stand putting you in bifocals right away so I think we'll try a different prescription to see if we can retrain your eyes and avoid bifocals for the time being. But we'll probably end up there sooner than later."

Seriously?! Shoot me now.

Am I turning 25 or 95 this year?!?!

My newest (food) love

So as you know, really like eating good food. And even more than that, cooking good food.

My new favorite summer food?

Grilled pizza :)

The crust is a loaf of focaccia sliced in half

The top pizza is drizzled in olive oil and has fresh spinach, garlic, baby portabella mushrooms, feta cheese and parmesan cheese. (My favorite)

The bottom is fresh homemade pesto (with home grown basil, garlic, parmesan, pinenuts, pepper), tomatoes, mozzarella and parmesan.

I seriously can't get enough of these babies.

You won't have to ask too hard for me to make you these when you come see me :)

Really just a plane ride away..

I'll be there in LESS than a week!

5 Years

This is an oldie but a goodie. Since I didn't know you that well in college I'm not even sure if you were here, but this is a photo from January 27, 2005 at my ring ceremony in the Mac Rotunda! I waited many years for this ceremony and after seeing lots of people go before me I finally got to have my own! Here we are 5 years later. Here's to another great 5 years!!

The most magical place on earth

As you know, we just got back from Disneyland,

the place of magic, excitement, wonder, imagination....

and sheer terror.

By far one of the best pictures from the trip, if not all time.

Now, I have to give her some credit.
This was on Splash Mountain, you know the ride with the log and foxes and bears and rabbits. (Oh my!)

It does have a rather steep drop off at the end.

But was this that drop? Oh no. This was a mere 3 foot drop. Tops.

As we all laugh after this little hump in the river she screams,

"THAT wasn't IT!?!?!?!"

If only I wasn't afraid of my camera getting wet on the big drop, I would have loved to have seen that face.

I bet you can guess what my background is now. ;)

Some Like It Hot...Just Not ME!

All I can say is that it's been HOT here....and I don't like it. I spend my day running (well not really) from one air conditioned place to another. And let me tell you, leather seats on the summer are rough! Hope the temperatures are cooler where you are, or at the very least less humid!

Family

While you were at the happiest place on earth I was in Grenada, Mississippi at a family reunion. I had to post this picture because it was just too funny to not post it. This is my Great Aunt Sissy aka Aunt Wynette and my Great Uncle Shorty aka Uncle Ed. Aunt Sissy was my grandad's sister and Uncle Shorty was married to another one of my grandad's sisters, Cathrine, who passed away a long time ago. Uncle Shorty is 90 and his vision isn't that great anymore, but he is still as sweet as I remember! Aunt Sissy still has her hair done and her lipstick in place! It was a quick trip, but good to see my parents and sister and other extended family that I don't see often.

Cube Life

The thought may not have even crossed your mind, but I thought I would give you a glimpse into my everyday life at work. This is my "office". Now I know it's not much to see, but hey I spend 40+ hours here a week so why not post a picture. You can see my favorite UK cup to drink out of, or the black one that is a Harding cup (gotta represent). I've seen where you work, now you've seen mine!

Afternoon drive through Napa

I thought I'd follow with an image from our last trip as well.

Especially since most future posts will be from each of us separately. Might as well start out with us together knowing that it might be awhile before we can get one of these again. :(

We're Animals!

Ok I know we're suppose to post pictures from our weekend, but I couldn't help but start this blog out with a photo from my last trip to see you! For those of you out there, this is a pic from the Sacramento Zoo! Amanda was gracious enough to have me out for a visit and we, in true fashion, lived it up!