It's me, Charity

 Last Monday I tried a new drink at DD, their Iced Coffee with Mocha. I ordered it on the mobile app and missed the part about adding milk, so it wasn't quite my favorite but it wasn't bad either! Also, I believe it is ALWAYS an appropriate time for iced coffee. 20 degree weather, who cares!  I got the cutest valentine's day card in the mail from Audra, and it got me all teary eyed. thankful for friends who love me well!  The daily countdown to my birthday!  Wednesday I got up early to go to the Minute Clinic for the sinus infection that will never end. And got a person whom I was NOT a fan of. Despite the rough start to the morning it perked up when one of my students brought me a heart shaped pretzel for Valentines day! SO sweet! And so very yummy.  Thursday I was up early again, and in need of extra caffeine. I tried the Iced Coffee again and liked it much better with some milk involved.  After I was sufficiently caffeinated, I...

 The words to describe last week would be Snow & Snot. Sunday I started feeling like I was getting a cold. Monday when I got up it was clear I had one. It had snowed over night, so I got to use my new to me borrowed snowblower for the first time! Despite not feeling well I was pretty jazzed to try it out!  Don't ask me about the weird gloves I'm wearing.  I have no clue. After a slight technical difficulty with the extension cord not fitting the plug in, I got it going, and managed to clear my driveway and sidewalks and my neighbors sidewalk. My cord didn't get me to his driveway. Which I felt bad about until I was teaching later and heard a snowblower. Someone had come to do his driveway!  Wednesday. Oh Wednesday. There were numerous times that day when I wanted to sit down and bawl I was super sick by Weds, and realized I needed to see my Dr. So I made a same day sick apt for later that afternoon. I got ready in the hopes I could ...

 I Have no Memory of what happened Monday, but apparently I was happy and having a good hair day!  Over the weekend I had painted a wood frame to match the colors of my gallery wall. One of my favorite pictures of Apes and I at her wedding!  Tuesday I was NOT THRILLED to be up super early for my ENT apt. But I will say my hair was looking really good! I knew I wasn't going to have a lot of time, so I straightened it the night before to save time on washing, drying and styling the next morning. It worked!  I look way more awake than I felt at that point.  I had to wait in the waiting room for a bit and then in the exam room, and I don't know what my BP was but I'm sure it was WAY up there. I was SO nervous! I thought for sure that my left ear tube was out of my ear drum and that my Dr would take it out and put a new one in. I had tried to mentally prepare myself for the horrible pain of the burning acid numbing drops. but much to my shock my Dr...

 Wellllll...... another less than stellar week to recap!  Last week I was still very sick with my ear. I took Monday off of work and spent it on the couch, half deaf, alertnating between hot and cold. I have been running a low grade fever now for 13 days. Yes, as I write this on the 27'th I am STILL sick. thankfully less sick than I was, but still. No pictures from Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday I was back to work, still half deaf. I went to my Dr's that afternoon, and he confirmed that I needed to see my ENT asap. My Swimmer's Ear was better, but now my ear drum is super red. He attempted to call my ENT and they were closed for the day. I had been calling since MONDAY and never got a live person or a return call. Finally, on FRIDAY, I found out they were on vacation. Way to have a vacation voicemail...... I was very frustrated at that point.  After seeing Dr C, coming home and teaching another lesson, I went to go pick up my new antibiotic and ear drops antibiotic/...