BonBon Rose Girls

I received a random but wonderful email this morning alerting me to the giveaway described in the blog listed below:

http://bonbonrose9.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-bloggy-birthday-giveaway.html

If you are a fan of the website Etsy and/or the artists featured on Etsy you should definitely check out this giveaway. I am especially fond of the scarf!! :)

Medical Fun

Over the last few months I have felt an increasing fullness in my abdomen, which I quickly attributed to eating a few too many sweets. Well, my most recent monthly cycle has proven me wrong! A very abnormal amount of pain in the right lower quadrant of my abdomen was my first clue. Those of you who know me well know I have a certain medical condition, which it has been my habit to pretend I dont have, and it is the real culprit. When my monthly pain persisted beyond its normal and customary length of time I decided to consult someone wiser than I on the subject (this could be almost anyone). I was lucky enough to get an appointment the next day, so I took off work tuesday (yesterday), and drove to Maine to see a well respected Dr. This visit was quickly followed by an Ultra Sound of my pelvis and (very luckily) a subsequent visit with a specialist. The ultrasound showed 5 little alien children in my belly and a surgery is in order (which I suspected) to remove them. I wasn't surprised when this Friday was offered as the date of torture. Somehow everything fell into place so nicely (if that word can really be used to describe my experience) that I can definitely see God's hand leading. So, after having 3-4 too many things placed in my vagina yesterday, I drove the two hours back home with an overwhelming sense that God is watching so very closely over me. There are very few specialists in the area I need and to have recently moved so close to one can only be divine intervention. People fly from all over the country to see this physician, and rightly so. Please, if you think of it, pray for me at 11 am this Friday. Thanks : )

Morning Surprise

This is what my house looked like when I woke up this morning!











And this is what our cars looked like (I didn't know that I needed to put my windshield wipers up so that they dont freeze to the windshield, thankfully someone helped me out with this...)

And this is what my back yard looks like! Notice the amount of snow on top the shed??!

Waking up after a snowfall feels like some secret occurred during the night. A beautiful and amazing secret that you could have only been privy to had you stayed up all night and watched it fall. Spinning its magic and turning your world into a white winter wonderland!

On a side note, I saw a little dog, whose legs seemed only a few inches in length, leaping and bounding through this snow this morning. There must be at least a foot of snow on the ground and he was enjoying every inch of it!

Monday I work 45 minutes (at a normal speed, not snow speed) from my house. It is currently snowing and it is supposed to continue snowing through tomorrow. I will let you know how that adventure goes. I am guessing it will take me at least 3 hours to get home Monday.

Snow Ice Cream

Today I met my most feared adversary since moving to Boston, driving on snow/ice. Somehow this southern girl survived the drive. Work let out early and I got paid to slowly make my way home. After sliding around for what seemed like an eternity, and having multiple cars pass me, I finally pulled into my drive way.

Luckily Ty and I live within walking distance of each other, so I set out on foot so meet him in the middle. It was interesting to watch all of my neighbors dutifully out shoveling their driveways and sidewalks as the snow continued to makes its way to the earth. I wanted to tell them to let it be. To give it a chance to overtake our lives and make us stop.

We enjoyed a wonderful evening playing games and eating snow ice cream. If only more Friday evenings could be like this... Oh wait, they probably will be for the next 3-4 months. Gotta love New England ; )

Websites I Fancy

Sorry I haven't posted anything in quite some time... I knew I was going to be bad at this.

So the reason for this post has nothing to do with Boston, but I have discovered a few excellent websites I thought I would share.

www.jott.com- This website allows you to create to-do lists from your phone and will email/call you to remind you!

www.evernote.com- This website serves as a scrap book so-to-speak for important content

http://rewardsdb.com- This website is my favorite. It allows you to see where you can earn the most frequent flyer miles/credit card points/give to a charity for purchases you would have made anyways :)

www.dailylit.com- Thank you Larissa! This website will email you portions of the book of your choice on a daily basis- Wonderful for down time at work (maybe hours in my case)

My Biggest Fear

It seems that my most time consuming task upon moving to Boston has been my search for a gym (other than the house and job of course.) I know this should not be THAT big of a deal, but somehow it morphed into a giant creature looming over me. I have visited more than 5 gyms, worked out at almost all of them, and even joined one I had never even seen. You might be wondering what fuels this madness? The answer: my irrational fear of running in the extreme Massachusetts cold.

The gyms around here average $55 and greater if you want a pool and spinning classes (which I want.) Somehow I ended up joining the first club I looked at, also the cheapest, and it has no pool or classes. The reward: It is VERY cheap and I can take as many bikram yoga classes as I want (elsewhere.)

Yay for finally convincing yourself to be frugal! : (

Sweet Lies

I know this has nothing to do with living in Boston, but it is an outrage and I feel the need to comment.

So it appears the corn industry has decided to fight back against the belief that high fructose corn syrup is a bad diet staple. They launched a campaign recently with TV ads and even their own website to some how normalize sugar consumption in the minds of Americans. EVERYTHING can be twisted so that it is "normal", "natural", and therefore acceptable. We are doing this with many issues in society today, but I digress...

The website where you can view the ridiculousness first hand is here:
www.sweetsurprise.com

The thing that most Americans will miss is the fact that, although HFCS (as it is referred to on the website) may have the same caloric content as table sugar, it is such a good preservative that you find it in EVERYTHING! They suggest that we consume HFCS in moderation, well excuse me but the only way to do that is to blatantly attempt to avoid it. Only then might you actually consume it in moderation.

The real kicker here is that our wonderful FDA has actually been bought out and are allowing packing to read "natural" even when it contains the HIGHLY PROCESSED HFCS. I have never actually seen HFCS growing in a field anywhere, have you???