Cute Lasagna!!!

Yes, you read correctly. Cute lasagna. :) John and I got a cookbook on cooking for two and they had a small recipe for lasagna that you make in a bread loaf pan. Genius! AND it's really cute!!! If you would like the recipe for my adorable little pasta creation, just let me know!! :)

Yay for cute lasagna!! Yes, I totally took a picture ha ha ha

John can't figure out why I get excited about this sort of thing, but that's okay. That's why i'm the budding food artist and he's the accountant. hee hee

Oh that reminds me of a story. If you have seen Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, then you know that in the story, Mr. Magorium hires an accountant to determine the worth of his store. When a child asks Mr. Magorium what an accountant is, he replies, "I'm not sure, I think it's a cross between a counter and a mutant." The characters then refer to the accountant he hires as "mutant". Which is one of my affectionate nicknames for John. ;)

Best use ever:
When John and I were dating, I took a family finance class. Some of the course material (like stocks and investments) was really hard for me to understand. When I asked John for some explanation during one of our study parties, he told me he didn't know how to explain what I was looking for. In mock exasperation I said "Why not?! You're supposed to know these things, you're my mutant boyfriend!!!!"

Yeah, that one went up on the quote wall in my apartment.

Thank Goodness!

For nausea relief!!! WOO HOO!!! where have you BEEN all my life?! ha ha. i have been so sick to my stomach since my antibiotic dose was doubled and I couldn't eat or sleep and life was pretty miserable. But we had to go back into urgent care for a follow up and they said it was looking better, but that there were still some small pockets of pus and yuckiness that needed to be cut opened and drained. blech. so of course, i get poked again. John was kind enough to mention that last time i was injected 4 times. eek!!! I was of course, freaking out while the doctor was getting it all ready. I hate how they always take forever and make you anticipate the pain LONGER. ;) But this time before I got the numbing shot i got something to kind of numb the skin around where i'd be getting the shot and this time the shots were a TON less painful! Where have YOU been all my life?!? So i was nice and numb and sat there while i got the rest of the yuckiness drained out and now it's all taken care of. Even though i was numb, i didn't appreciate getting poked and prodded and blech. I now have an ointment to put on the open wound 3 times a day and a nasal thing to do 3 times a day. I guess MRSA colonizes in the nose. How it got all the way down to my hip is beyond me, but whatever. And they gave me nausea pills which have been absolutely wonderful and i can eat and sleep now!! hurray!

Now we're paranoid about germs and bacteria so we spent this morning disinfecting our entire apartment so that no one else catches this un-funess. yay for bleach! And with all the ointments and creams and pills that i have going on, John has drawn up a schedule for me so that we can keep track of everything and when i do what, etc. He's so cute. :)

So now that I have pills to help the nausea, i'm a happy camper!! Unfortunately, John hasn't been quite himself lately. He's had a headache for the last couple of days and he took his temperature last night and it's lower than what is considered a normal body temperature. Of course there are people who have lower temperatures normally, but he doesn't remember the last time he's checked his temp so he has no idea if it's normal. hm. He googled it (Although at some point today I had to tell him to stay off of google because he keeps going and reading articles on MRSA and freaking himself out) and we read somewhere that something that can cause a low body temperature is being overwhelmed. That's my guess, ha ha. He also had a sore throat this morning and says he hasn't really felt like eating much. We're trying to keep high spirits, but it's been a rough couple of weeks and i think it's starting to wear down on us.

Thank you to everyone for your love and concern and keeping us in your prayers. It has really helped to keep the morale up when things get rough. We're lucky to have Mama Moffat down for a little while too, to hang out with me while John is at school so i'm not here at home alone.

I love family. :)

These are a few of my favorite things.... :)

Hee hee. So to lighten the mood from these past posts about my yucky sore, I've decided to give a small tour of our little apartment. But you'll notice that it isn't really the rooms I'm showing you. Just some random finds that show up around here:

Our piano! and the REALLY loud clock, and the beautiful print of Christ that John gave me on our wedding day.

This might seem weird, but i seriously love this bookshelf. :) I think i drove John nuts when I was trying to get him to put it up and secure it so that I could put things on it ha ha

This is on the counter facing the living room. This painting was done by my old roommate and she gave it to us as a wedding gift. We love it!

This is Winthrop. The Human Basting Brush. Given to us by Amy and Kirsten for our wedding :) He is the greeter as you walk into the kitchen.

MIKE WAZOWSKI MUG! We got two of these at Disneyland on our honeymoon. You can't look at these and NOT want to smile. :) They hold SO much milk too! (we like using them for milk and cookies)

Our cute teddy bears all dressed up for the wedding. :)

I love this picture that was taken at the temple, this sits on our dresser.

I made this as a project for one of my classes at BYU, and now I'm finally using it in my own home! It's quite exciting really.

Well, not exactly a comprehensive tour of the apartment, that might come later, but these are definitely things in our home that make us smile. :)

Blech

Sorry to have such a "blah" title of this post, but seriously, the gaping hole in my hip is disgusting. And now I get to look at it all the time because we went to the doctor's again yesterday and was advised to rinse it out 3 or 4 times a day. ew.

We went back to urgent care because i'd had a fever and when we changed the bandaging, it looked like it was getting worse, so John and I were really worried. I didn't really want to go back, i didn't want them poking me with stuff again, but as the good caring concerned husband he is, John made me. ;)

So what happened at the doctors? They poked me with stuff again. But this time with Q-tips. I don't know which was worse: a) the numbing shot that BURNED as it went in or b) Q-tips scraping the inside of my sore without any kind of real pain relief, as i had taken ibuprofen a couple hours earlier. blech. Anyways, the good news is that they say it's looking like it will be okay, and of course, it could be a lot worse. So we are very grateful for that. But they also told us that the culture they sent to a lab last time I was in came back with the results, and I have MRSA...which i'm still not exactly sure what it is, but I guess it's a strain of staph that is resistant to most antibiotics. So they have me on the strong stuff, and now they've doubled my dosage. And let me tell you, these pills are HUGE. I curse the gag reflex. ;)

But anyway, John's aunt and uncle have wonderfully let me hang out with them at their house while John goes to classes so i'm not all alone here at the apartment while i'm sick. Which is a relief for both me and John. They have been so great to drive me back and forth between our homes. And they make me eat. ha ha (i haven't been very hungry these last couple of days...it's the meds i think)

I was also informed that I should be eating more yogurt now that my double dosage of antibiotics will basically kill all the bacteria in my body. So much for target practice, i need some of that bacteria! Not really a yogurt person, but oh well :)

But things seem to be going in the right direction, and we are so grateful for that. And our families have been so wonderful, checking up on us and making sure we're alright. Yeah, they're pretty awesome like that :)

Okay, I admit it...

I'm a stubborn idiot ;) It was bad enough that I insisted that we go to the temple Saturday as planned and then hobbled my way around the place, but yesterday, I decided I would try to fast. You know, with it being Fast Sunday and all... Even though I'm on antibiotics and pain killers. So, I was horribly nauseated all during sacrament meeting, so we had to come home so I could get some rest and eat saltine crackers and drink Sprite. After I got something in my system, I felt a lot better, but couldn't really bring myself to eat anything else besides my soda and crackers for the rest of the day. Thankfully John has been so patient with me. He wanted to tell me not to fast, but didn't because he was pretty sure I "Wouldn't listen to him anyway". Gee. Thanks. ;) I guess the good thing about all this is that I'm learning to depend on someone else. For those of you unaware, I'm a rather independent individual, so it's been kind of hard to ask for help to get around the apartment, get dinner made, or to go grab something off the counter. So it's definitely been a learning experience for the both of us. But we were definitely expecting our first month of marriage to go a little differently ;) I don't believe a staph infection was anywhere on the agenda. Oh well.

My mobility has improved, no fever, although I've had a pretty bad headache today. John has been absolutely wonderful in helping me out, and just being there because i need him. We've been trying to find interesting things to do for a couple in which one member has a hard time walking. We played Ziggity and Scrabble last night. We were going to go to the library, but then remembered it's Labor Day today. So they are all closed.

But I'm on the mend, we had to redress my wound yesterday and I had to remove a cotton "wick" (basically a shoelace looking string) out of the sore. The doctor has put it there to keep the sore open so it would continue to drain pus and yuckiness. ew. But here I am thinking it's not that long or deep in there, and to spare you readers the details...I'm just gonna say it was a LOT longer than i thought. groooooosssssssssssss! And even though it still looks disgusting, I think it's getting better, I don't need as much pain killer and it's not as bad when it wears off. So hopefully in the next week or so I'll be back to my fabulous self ;)

But enough about me. John has been doing a wonderful job taking care of me. He's kept busy with schoolwork and likes his classes okay, he doesn't think the semester will be too rough. Unfortunately, he's been pretty tired, as I wake him up at night trying to take my meds. blech. But all in all, my husband has basically been a saint this last week or so. :) I'm so happy to have him, he's the best.

Schools and Sores

Well, where do I start? John started classes at SDSU this week and doesn't seem to think it will be too hard of a semester, so that's a relief. I have to somehow keep myself busy during the 6 hours he's at school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I think i've done pretty well so far.

A bit of exciting news: I got accepted to the French Pastry School of Chicago for Fall 2010!!! I received an email on Tuesday and then I got the actual acceptance letter in the mail just yesterday. I'm so excited!! I can't believe I'm actually going to become a pastry chef!!! Now I just have to be patient until John finishes his masters here in San Diego, and then I get to have my fun in pastry school! :)

Some unfortunate news: I have a staph infection. blech. I had some sores show up on my hip late last week and over the last couple of days, one of them has gotten quite large and VERY painful. It was keeping me (thus John too) up at night because of the pain! :( it has been very sad. We went into the urgent care center in La Mesa yesterday and the doctor said it would be best if we opened it up and drained it of whatever yuckiness was in there because it was most likely a staph infection. He gave me a numbing shot (which had to have been the MOST painful shot EVER - but once it kicked in it was fine) and then cut it open and drained it out. Trust me, i'm sparing you the grody details, but man it was gross. Ha ha i don't know how John and I are going to have kids! I'm not the best with pain, and poor john was there at the doctor's with me and held my hand during most of the "operation" but went white and had to go sit down a couple of times. But he always came back. :) So after enough doctor trauma for the both of us, we ran to wal-mart to fill to prescriptions for the antibiotics and pain killers and after about 20 minutes of waiting for them to be filled...the numbing shot wore off. uh oh! Because the sores and cut are on my hip, I have been having a really hard time walking. We still had to get around wal-mart, so John got me into a wheelchair and he had a grand time pushing me around wherever he wanted to go. ;) But i didn't mind too much, i learned how to escape and how to turn the wheels left and right, and off I went! ha ha

So now I'm on the mend, thank goodness. Still hard to walk around, so I'm mostly confined to the couch and chairs. John has been so wonderful helping me get around the apartment and being my gopher (getting me things when I need them) ;)

So all in all, kind of a stressful week with having to go to the doctor's and all, but we're just pluggin' along. We're going to the temple tonight, and I'm quite sure we'll feel much better after that :)