Malaria, Typhoid, Diarrhea, oh my!

So I went the the doctor on Friday to get my immunizations for my trip to China. Our trip coordinator told us to go at least 6 weeks beforehand to let the immunizations really take over, or something to that effect. So I go and give them my list of cities that we are visiting in China and Cambodia. The doctor comes back with a whole list of things I get to start worrying about three months before our trip, one of the drawbacks of going so early! I get to take two different prescriptions before I go, one for malaria and one for typhoid fever, which both sounds so pleasant. He also prescibed me some anti-diarrhea medication, but instructed me that I am only to take it if I have diarrhea more than ten times in one day. Yeah, like up to that point it is normal and you should really not worry about taking anything! I also requested some medication for an anxiety freak for the plane ride, so he gave me Xanex. On top of all of this I got two shots, one for Hepatitis A and the other was a tetanus shot; one in each arm.

Well which ever shot I got in my left arm was a shot full of pain. Later Friday night it felt like someone had punched me in the arm and it kept getting worse and worse. Saturday I couldn't let anyone get within 5 feet of my arm, it hurt so bad. I can't lift my arm and even my shoulder and up to my neck hurt. Well this morning as I was in the shower I notice my arm is all swollen, it looks like a giant goose egg on my arm. John insisted that this happens, but I am not really convinced.

If this is any indication of how my trip will be, I may decide to quit now!

Snowmobiling

A couple weekends ago John and I got to go on a snowmobiling trip with his family. We went to Strawberry Bay and had such a good time. I got to hang out with John's siblings that I don't ever get to see. We also got to go with no kids! So it was a little mini vacation for us. The trip just happened to fall on one of our "alone weekends". I guess that is one of the perks of being divorced is that every other weekend we have no kids...!

For all of you that asked... I am going to China in April. I will be gone for 12 days, so maybe you can all take turns calling John to make sure him and Morgan are not starving.

Here it is another Saturday afternoon and I am at the library of Westminster college studying, well Ok I am taking a break right now. Last week my laptop completely died (the guy at PC Laptops basically told me to throw it in the garbage), so I have been behind the blogging updates, not to mention I think I lost most of my pictures. Anyway, moving on to the good news, John's ex-wife just got engaged and I'm pretty sure John and I are more excited than she is. John pays her alimony until she gets remarried, so this fact alone made us jump for excitement. Not to mention that she just needs to move on and start being nice to John, which I am hoping this accomplishes!
Also our international school trip, where I was going to go to Israel, got cancelled because of the instabilty in the country,(who can argue with that?). I really had my heart set on going there so I was so dissapointed to have to choose another trip to go on. But I have finally decided to go to China and Cambodia. For those of you that know me, this is going to be quite a stretch for me, I feel like China may as well be on another planet, not to mention the fact that I am a terribly nervous flyer and the flight is around 18 hours! So needless to say I have been having nightmares for the past month about going, but I am really excited. I also have an assingment for all you faithful bloggers, please post an idea of what I can do on the airplane to keep me occupied so I don't freakout and want to scratch and kick at the door to get off!

The Nutcracker

Morgan and I went to see the Nutcracker at Capital Theater last month. It was such a fun time. We decided to take Trax down there so we didn't have to trudge through the snow from our parking spot 3 miles away. So anway, we get on the train and we sit across from each other and there were very few people on when we got on. Well each stop we made more and more "interesting" people got on. Apparently Morgan is a people watcher, just like me. She sat there looking at everyone and after about 10 minutes she said to me, "Oh my gosh mom, I almost forgot you were here, I was so busy looking at everyone." The guy across from us was laughing so hard at her, and so was I.

Then after about another 10 minutes of "watching" she asks me in her very loud 4-year old voice if I would still love her if she was Chinese....

I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. Very embarrassing! But I assured her I would and then tried to concentrate on my shoes.