{Good News} For Once

Moments ago, I got a phone call from my doctor's office. My bloodwork came back fine! They said the enzymes in my liver were normal again, so that's good. But that makes me wonder what was even wrong with my liver in the first place!

Whatever, I guess. Now I can drink all the alcohol and eat all the carbs I want!! J/K, I can't drink all the alcohol I want, that's illegal. But nothing's stopping me from consuming ALL THE CARBS.

Also, Christine sent me this today to try and cheer me up (prior to the good news). Click on the picture to see it, full size.

I am in love with pandas and I also just discovered Sebastien Millon and am kind of now obsessed with his artwork and how cute it is. I think I'll spend the rest of the afternoon looking at his site...

{Doctor's Visits and FroYo}

Well, yesterday I had my followup visit with the doctor about my bloodwork. Everything came in with flying colours, 100% healthy...except for, strangely, my liver. The doctor even cross tested for hepatitis, and I came back negative for that. Oh and I'm a little low on Vitamin D. But that can be fixed.

So, while the doctor was telling me all about my bloodwork, she then sprung on me MORE BLOODWORK. I was not impressed, to say the least. Hurt just as much as the first time, too, if not more :(

That was fun. And then afterwards, we went to Bill's mom's house to drop off some stuff and got surprised with dinner at Applebee's! It was nice to hang out with his mom and brother, as well as his brother's fiancée who is here visiting right now. Bill also took me to this froyo place nearby. To be honest, I actually didn't want the ice cream until I found out they were stabbing me with more needles. :X But it was still nice to get :3

I just feel overall blah almost every day, today included. It's icky out (was supposed to snow but is kind of just wet and really windy), and I want nothing more than to just cuddle in bed with my mister. But alas, he is at work, and I have housework to finish.

How are things with you today? What's your weather like? We're gearing up for a pretty nasty blizzard...

{Southern Sweet Tea Tuesday}

I love me some sweet tea. Growing up, from the second the weather started hinting warmth until almost Thanksgiving, there would constantly be a jug of my mom's southern sweet tea in the icebox. But, since I no longer live with her, I had to figure out how to make it myself. Casey from The Aslan's Auspicious Albany Adventure also asked me how to make it, so this one's for you, Casey!

I remember my mom always boiling a pot of water on the stove, but since the coffee pot was not in use for coffee, I figured why not make it a "tea" pot!

I start off by putting five tea bags into the coffee pot itself. I tried putting them in where the filter goes before, but it just doesn't work that well. Fill the coffee pot water reserve to about the 10 line.

Follow that by filling up your container with sugar. I put in about a half-inch deep amount of sugar (I don't measure, I just eyeball it). I also put a little sugar in my Contigo so I could just pour some tea right in there. I make extra so I don't have to take it from the pitcher I just made.

I also use another pitcher just to fill up the coffee pot with water.

After the first pot is done brewing, I pour that into my Contigo (and what's left from that) into the big pitcher with the sugar. I leave the tea bags in the coffee pot and three more to what's already in there. Fill up my water line to about ten/eleven, brew, pour.

Add two more tea bags to the pot, add more water, brew, pour. If you still need more tea to fill up your pitcher, just brew over all the used tea bags and let sit for a few minutes after it's done brewing.

Close up your pitcher (I have one with a sealing lid), turn upside down, and shake until there is no sugar on the bottom. And voila! Southern Sweet Tea, a la Heather!

{March Madness}

Well, look at that, March is upon us!

Things to remember to do in March:

• Get a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's
• Beware the Ides of March.
• On the Ides of March (March 15th, for those of you who don't know what that is), get a Caesar salad and stab it 23 times before eating.

And that's about it. I like to think I'm funny.