RECIPE PARTY!!!

So, I was thinking today. I think we need to have a recipe party. I made some sugar cookies the other day with a recipe out of my Better Homes cook book. They were not very good at all. Remember making them at Grandma Oka's house as kids and decorating them with frosting? Well that was the kind of cookies I wanted to make.

Now I know that I'm not a bad cook, so I figure it must have been the recipe. This got me thinking about all the recipes that I would like to have. Hence the idea of the recipe party.

I propose that we all get together and exchange recipes. We can all get our cute little recipe boxes and have lots of fun. I was also thinking maybe we could help Grandma Oka can some fruits and veggies while we're at it!

Let me know what you think and what day would be good for you. I think it would be lots of fun!!

Boredom

I found this video today from the beginning of the summer. It's amazing the things we do when boredom has set in. I still find it funny. And for those of you who have never tried (I'm sure most of you haven't) you have to have a really big mouth in order for the cup to fit. That probably goes without saying! Nevertheless I was unsuccessful.

Things that bother me

So I don't know if it's because I'm sick and stay at home all day and sleep or if it's just been a long time coming...but there have been A LOT of things that bother me lately!!

Here are some of them:

1. People that say "well actually" and then feel the need to correct whatever you just told them.
2. People that don't return texts and/or phone calls. If they are Verizon carriers I can tell when they read the text so I know when they don't answer me back.
3. Just because I'm home all day does not mean I'm the maid, so don't expect me to clean up after you.
4. Not having friends. Don't get me wrong I have lots of friends it just seems that they've disappeared now that schools started. I need friends that have graduated.
5. Nothing on TV. I know that sitting at home all day isn't a good thing....however being sick has compelled me to do nothing but watch TV. It's time for all the regular series to start again!! I can't wait for The Office.

Getting Better!!!

So I'm feeling a lot better. And by a lot better I mean my throat is less swollen. The medication that the doc gave me for strep helped a lot. The spots are gone and I can swallow my own spit. As far as being completely better....I'm not. I'm still really tired. I have good days and bad ones but I'm generally always tired. I can handle being tired, all I want to do is swallow. However it's kind of ironic, I wanted to be able to swallow so that I could eat and drink. Well now I have no appetite at all. I crave things and then I eat some of it and I'm done. I now just eat because I know I need to. It's a weird feeling. But here's a picture of my throat looking much, much better!!! YAY for drugs!

Could it get any worse????

OK, so if it wasn't bad enough that I have mono...the doc called today to tell me the strep sample was sent over to the hospital and came up positive. So now I have strep too. Come to find out that it's very common in mono cases. However, everyone that have talked to (who have had mono) say that theirs was not nearly this bad. And let me show you why.

CAUTION GRAPHIC PICTURES (of Tracey's soar soar throat)!!!


Let me explain to you this picture...
First you will notice the size of my tonsils. You can see the dangley thing (uvula) stuck to my right one
Second you will see all the white spots. Thats all the infection.

Needless to say this is very painful and I can't even swallow my own spit. And not much helps to numb that. Oh well life must go on!

Recent News.....A Day and A Life of Tracey

So I recently have been very very tired. People have been giving me a hard time because I sleep in till after 10. I thought that because I don't have a job that I just haven't wanted to get out of bed. Well this turned out not to be the case.

Last night I decided to take a nap. I ended up sleeping for three hours. I was so tired later that night that I ended up falling asleep at midnight. This is usually not the case when I take naps. I usually end up staying awake till all hours of the night because I can't sleep. I slept a solid eight hours last night. With the occasional wake up due to a very bad sore throat.

When I finally woke up this morning I could not swallow. I immediately thought STREP!! So I looked in the mirror and could white spots. I thought this might be a figment of my imagination. I asked my roommate to look and she confirmed my original findings. I had white spots.

We have an InstaCare up here, so I went in. They did a strep culture, but the results came up NEGATIVE. I couldn't believe it. Surely the doctor must be mistaken. I could see the white spots myself.

Indeed the white spots were there and the test was not wrong. So what does this mean you might be asking? Well I'll tell you....The Doc looks at me and says, "Let's do a MONO test." "Oh no, not MONO," I thought to myself. Then the nice looking nurse comes in to take a blood sample. I don't know if I have ever had it hurt so bad when someone drew my blood. Anyway they take my blood and I wait.

The Doc comes back with a piece of paper that tells me all about Mononucleosis. Then he proceeds to tell me that because the chances of having an enlarge spleen are really good I'm not supposed to play sports for Two months. UGH, No sports for two months what am I supposed to do with myself. I guess that my dreams of going to the Olympics will just have to wait.

So now that I know I have MONO I guess that I will just sleep. It's a good thing that job searching doesn't take a whole lot of physical activity. Oh boy this should be fun!!!

NO MORE SCHOOL!!!

So it's the Friday before school starts and I'm feeling kinda weird. I don't have to worry about all the chaos that comes with getting ready for a new semester. I feel happy to have a little piece of paper that says that I paid my dues. Best of luck to all of you out there who will be studying your brains out....Especially Hali. Good luck with college I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.