Traditions

As we approach this holiday season, let us take a moment and ponder our traditions.Some traditions are linked to holidays, such as enormous feasts at Thanksgiving and bringing trees inside your house for Christmas.
Some traditions are linked to places. My favorite place tradition (okay, so I've only done this twice, but, hey) is related to foreign countries: in both New Zealand and Italy, we bought a tub of ice cream and ate as much of it as we could in our hotel room. FUN.
Some traditions are linked to time. I used to get sick/incapacitated every year during summer vacation, beginning, I think, when I was 8 and broke my arm. One summer, starting the DAY AFTER school got out, I got bronchitis and was sick for TWO WEEKS straight.
Apparently, I've continued that tradition, only I've moved the timeframe. Last November, I got food poisoning so bad...I'll spare you the details, but I passed out at one point (and I'm not the fainting type) and I was definitely dehydrated by the end of it.
THIS November, I decided to carry on the seeming-near-death illness tradition by getting an infection. It came on really suddenly, and within a few minutes, I was freezing cold. Jacob brought the tempertature up to 83 degrees, and I was covered in blankets, but was still freezing and shivering uncontrollably. My fingertips went numb and Jacob said my hands even turned blue. CRAZY.But, never fear, it's all good now. I spent yesterday in bed and I feel SO MUCH BETTER.
And whoever invented Tylenol (particularly Extra Strength Tylenol), is AMAZING. A few minutes after I took that, I was starting to feel normal-ish temperature and the shivering stopped. YAY. Also taking an antibiotic, which is VERY effective in killing off the icky infection.

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Aghhh!! Zade had a bloody nose last night--I was SO WORRIED!! It's terrible to see your little baby bleeding!! :( :( :( Fortunately, it was just a normal, small nosebleed (the air was really dry yesterday) so it stopped quickly, but I was plenty upset about the whole ordeal. ;)

Speaking of blood, I just finished reading this great book--a history on the Spartans. I read it as research for this book I'm writing. It was pretty interesting--the Spartan culture was just fascinating. The whole "speaking of blood" relevance is because the Spartans wore red capes into battle so, if they were wounded, the redness would hide the blood, and the Spartans would appear invincible.
Random!