Birthday, Baby, Rob Bell and Feeling Famished.

(Matt makes funny faces in 90% of pictures I take)

Before getting sick, we celebrated Matt's 28th birthday. It was low-key, but we did our normal "Birthday Donut" tradition. Birthday donut started when I was working in radio through the end of college. I was out in random clubs until all hours doing remotes, and would come home exhausted. I was on my way home from Merced at 2am the early morning of Matt's b-day, and I stopped at a gas station for a snack and a red bull to keep me up for the drive home. I decided I'd grab Matt a donut and surprise him calling it "Birthday Donut". We do it every birthday now after midnight, It's fun! Although I wish it was "Birthday Danish" I'm not a big donut fan...

(Micah riding on the vacuum)

Tuesday, my good friend Sarah Yanagi went on a (much needed) trip to the beach leaving her adorable offspring, Micah, with Matt and I overnight. Micah is a very sweet, very busy little boy! I should mention that Micah loves Matt! In fact, the biggest "meltdowns" happened when Matt would walk out of the room, or leave for work. We played lots of hide-n-seek, "Chase Scout" which Scout actually loved until Micah started hitting him in the face with a book... :-) and watched 'Blues Clues" which just happens to be my favorite cartoon for little ones. Yesterday afternoon we went to a Gymboree class, and we both had fun! I will say that as soon as Sarah picked Micah up, I was ready for bed! Chasing a 1 year old is hard work! :-)

Matt and I are getting ready for a little Valentines trip to SF Sunday night. Not only are we spending time in one of our favorite places, but Monday night we're going to see Rob Bell's "Drops like stars" tour with Sarah and Aaron in SF. Excited! I'm glad because I'm feeling spiritually famished right now. We *really* need to find a new church, or at least a place to go until we find a "home". With Matt working every Sunday, that is going to make it harder, but we need to make it work!! For now, I'm reading "UnChristian" which is amazing, and I'm re-reading "Velvet Elvis". I have a stack of books waiting for me, but I keep going back to Velvet Elvis....

Anyway, now I'm feeling physically famished... Time for breakfast!

A little scary!

Holy cow have I been getting sick! Usually I wake up with a terrible sore throat, and then am sick for a week. this has happened about 5-6 times over the last few months. I had been mildly concerned, but figured I was just getting the normal seasonal illnesses that have been going around.

Last week my string of illnesses became slightly scary. I hung out with a friend, and by the time I got home I was feeling a little bit off. Nothing major, but enough to just want to go to bed. Matt had just returned home from school, and decided he would join me. after getting into bed I started to shake. It was like the worst episode of chills I had ever experienced. I had huge goose bumps, and they were painful-- like a million needles stabbing my skin. I tend to run high fevers when I'm sick, so we reached for the thermometer. I have to keep track of my temperature because I had a seizure when I was little from a high fever, which makes me a little more susceptible to them. To my surprise, my temperature was normal.



That night, I was feeling worse and worse, to the point where I was sobbing because I was in so much pain. Matt insisted on taking me to the hospital, but our insurance just changed to Kaiser, and I would have to go to Dameron, and I hate that hospital, so I resisted... but I probably should have gone. I eventually fell asleep, but work up at 3am so sick to my stomach, and throwing up. Not my usual respiratory issue. Back to bed again, and then up with a sore throat, and stuffy nose. Then a bloody nose. Then a stabbing headache and another week of being sick. Basically the doctor thinks I need a CT scan to check out my sinuses, to see if I have some sort of blockage. Sigh... never ending!! I'm just hoping it's nothing. I hate all things medical. Rather I am scared to death of all things medical (doctors, hospitals, blood draws, check-ups, sharp looking tools, surgery, being put under... everything!) so I'm not happy, but hoping we'll get some answers. At this point, I just want to know what in the world all of this is. I'm just ready to not be sick anymore!