Please Pass the Salt

December

27

Merry 3rd day of Christmas

Wishing all my internet friends a belated merry Christmas. I’ve been rather “unplugged” the past few days, not because I’ve been in remote, wifi-less locations, but because I’ve been busy with family and relaxing.

A summary of our exploits:

-Last day of work was last Thursday. My family came to visit that night, intending to stay til Saturday morning. But my dad was sick with an awful cold and ended up staying home so we instead had a shorter, fragmented family Christmas at our house, complete with my live-in chef preparing two delicious meals and our two house guests leaving Friday night.

-Spent Friday night and Saturday morning just hanging out with Matt and the dog daughters at home.

-Drove to Matt’s sister’s house Saturday afternoon to spend Christmas with Matt’s family. Matt’s sister is a fabulous and self-taught chef who also cooked two knock-your-socks-off meals that put our fabulous little Christmas eve eve dinner to shame. (I still can’t stop thinking about the food…) We played board games, had an interesting night’s sleep on an air mattress that made Matt feel sea sick, got up “early” (because my therapy takes SO LONG to do) for Christmas morning church, had the 2nd of the fabulous meals, opened presents, then hit the road home,

-…minus one dog (Queen Sadie) who went home with Matt’s parents so his dad (our veterinarian) can remove a weird growth off the back of her hind leg that looks suspiciously like part of the male reproductive system. We all miss Sadie, especially her two younger sisters who are unsure of how to go out into the backyard without her leading the way. Not even stuffed animal Christmas toys cheer them up (because they don’t have plastic eyes and anyone who’s anyone knows dogs don’t like stuffed toys without plastic eyes to rip out and then pull the “brains” (stuffing) out through the vacant orbitals.)

-Christmas evening, after we got back home, we visited Matt’s grandparents (who live here) for a couple hours and brought along a good friend who is a vet student and on-call for surgery at the vet school over Christmas break (bad luck, as he was also on-call for Thanksgiving). Luckily there were no emergencies on Christmas day or night, but he had a pretty impressive patient earlier in the week—a female tiger. (Our university’s vet school/hospital is kind of the flagship/hub for exotic and large animal care in the state of Texas, so there are always interesting patients.)

-I now have an entire week off. So far it has included sleeping late, reading, sewing, cutting Matt’s hair, watching Netflix and playing video games. Matt is teaching me how to play Portal 2. We played co-op mode yesterday and trying to mentally grasp the map from two players’ point of view in a first person shooter game is about to make my brain crack. But I am not giving up! I will master it.

-I was reminded yet again that my lungs hate to be anywhere that is less humid than where we live, which is pretty much everywhere where our families live. I kind of felt like a dedicated toad in the middle of the street in the summer when we got back home. It’s definitely not good when your lungs are trying to fight an infection. I started TOBI on Friday, so I guess I’m hitting my lungs and sinuses double-duty, since TOBI and Bactrim are for different bacteria. Sadly, the Bactrim is almost done. Wish I had another week.

**If anyone has been keeping score, of the 3 family Christmases we were supposed to attend, 2 were foiled—the first at my grandparents’ by my bloody lungs, the second at my house because my dad was sick. Here’s hoping for better luck in 2012…

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