I am still here, I swear!!! I keep forgetting to respond when I read!! Bad Toni, Bad!!!
yay on the new camera!! Alec just got one for his birthday from my in-laws... He was so excited...
I really wanted to eat the Whispering Canyon this year, but I don't remember why we didn't book it...
I'll admit: There are some times when I forget to respond as well!
I'm still here you are doing great....keep it coming.
Thanks
I am still with you!:
Have you done the photo session before? Hopring at that time you get some great dusky shots.
Diana
I must have forgotten to mention that our photo session is in the AM!
Hoping it won't be dusky at that time, LOL!
I'm still here too! I've noticed all the PTR's are pretty quiet lately. I think summer is just getting everyone so busy and away from the computer. Sounds like a great AK day.
I guess I'm the exception to that rule. We had a church picnic yesterday and I had to stay home because of my crazy allergies.
A little background:
When I was a young teenager, I broke out into the hives that never end. It took a long time before we finally got into the allergist to see why I had chronic hives all over my body! Well, they put me on a ton of meds to control the hives so they could do an allergy test, and lo and behold, I was allergic to 95% of the stuff they for which they tested. Basically, I am allergic to nature. Thank God I'm not allergic to any food or meds as well.
The Dr. said my hives looked like they came straight out of a textbook. Thanks, I guess?
But they never did figure out exactly WHY I was getting them. They explained it like this:
Well, 50% of the time, hives go away in a few days. Otherwise, 50% of the time they go away in a week. Otherwise, 50% of the time they go away in a month. Otherwise, 50% of the time they go away in a year. Otherwise, 50% of the time we figure out it's some kind of freaky deaky medical condition. Otherwise, 50% of the time we have no idea why they are there and they come and go as they please. And that's why you have hives.
Okay, so I'm part of the 1% of people who has mysterious, unexplainable chronic hives. Great.
I ended up doing allergy shots for years, while taking a combination of meds that does a doozy on hives, apparently. My allergies are not completely gone, but I'm only allergic to 30% of the things on the test now. Yippee! It's got to the point where I can control my allergies with OTC Zyrtec (one of the three meds I had been taking) and I can't afford the cost of immunotherapy. So OTC it is.
I'm really worried that I'm going to have allergy issues in FL. It's the worst thing in the world to suddenly realize that your allergies are acting up and your EARLOBE is itching like CRAZY when you don't have your old prescription strength meds to beat that sucker into normality. Okay, scratch that. There are worse things. But let me just say that it's REALLY, REALLY miserable. Like tossing around in your bed all night keeping your DH up because your legs are itchy for no good reason kind of miserable.
So, this is why SilverL is still online when everyone else is outside.
And also why I have a big medicine bag already packed in my suitcase like a freaky medicine man, full of Zyrtec, Sudafed, and some random heartburn medication that apparently works wonders on hives (it's one of the ones my allergist prescribed!) I also have Dramamine, Pepto and Advil---despite the fact that DH insists he doesn't get motion sickness. I considered the Dramamine my $5 insurance policy against having our first honeymoon (minimoon) all over again. DH spent the first three days of "wedded bliss" lying around in bed and vomiting into the very fine toilet of the very large bathroom of the very fancy schmancy hotel where we stayed for a few nights after our wedding. I'm trained like a hound now:
"Did your stomach just gurgle?" I say, as I grab my purse like it's a holster in a gunfight. Only my purse contains those evil little pink Pepto tablets that taste like chalk, and I'm poised to rip open the packet and attempt to force feed DH at any sign of nausea.
I remind him often that he's married to a crazy person.
I'm still here too. Congrats on your new camera.
Thanks, glad you're here!