...: February

I'm going to try just adding throughout the month. It was too hard to remember January.

1. I started the month with an IVP, one of the most miserable 32 hours of my life. The day before the x-ray, you can only drink broth until 5:30 p.m. At that point, you drink magnesium citrate. I didn't really know what that was and I couldn't find "dinner" anywhere. Kyle finally found it at Walgreens for me and thinks he's hilarious that he got to "buy me dinner". After starving all day and being tired of burping beef broth, I decided to call it a night at 7. I didn't know the power of magnesium citrate, but I was glad I didn't listen to what the pharmacist told Kyle about drinking two bottles. One bottle alone had me up 12 times between 7 p.m. and 5:30 the next morning! 12!

I had to be across town for the procedure at 7:30, so not only was I starving and exhausted by the time they called me back, I was freezing in the little gown they gave me. To make matters worse, they couldn't find a good vein since I was so dehydrated. They tried twice in my right arm, twice in my right wrist, and finally they called the nurse in and she got it in my left arm. I hate needles, and it felt like the last straw. Cold, starving, exhausted, and bleeding, when they left the room to get everything set up, my eyes started to cry. Still no new results.

Kind of sad and pathetic that my eyes were crying, but after that whole ordeal, I thought I'd reward myself. I don't know how most people would do that, but I decided that an entire Roberto's burrito, strawberry milk, 3 candy bars, and an In N Out cheeseburger would be perfect. Yeah... I decided it's time to find a different way to reward myself.

2. Though neither one of us knew who was participating in the Super Bowl, we decided we wanted to be festive this year for Kyle's sister's Super Bowl party and so we made shirts.

Let me rephrase that.

I decided we wanted to be festive this year for the Super Bowl and so Kyle made us shirts.

I have to add that Kyle isn't stupid and he intentionally wrote "Super Bull". (We've got in the habit of sending each other annoying texts that might go something like, "I'm sew happy two bee off work! Thyme was just dragon today!" That's where that came from.) The pictures aren't very clear, but the back of his shirt said "Finkle" and I was "Marino".

3. Kaitlan and John invited John, Brooke, Kyle, and I over for taco/hot tub night. So fun! Love the friends I have here!

4. Valentine's Day was perfect. I had to work late, but Kyle surprised me with Ping Pong, the best Thai food in Las Vegas, ... and something else that I will post pictures of later. Maybe.

5. Saturday, February 18th around 8 a.m., I was happily racing Kyle back to his place and listening to 95.5 and somewhat zoning out when I heard "Be caller number 10 now!" I thought to myself, "I can do that!" and guess what? I did! I won 4 3-DAY HOPPER PASSES TO DISNEYLAND/CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE! WOOHOO!

6. Kyle talked me in to giving snowboarding a whirl, so we grabbed two of his nephews from Henderson and met Sarah & Greg, as well as Kyle's sister-in-law and other nephews up at Brian Head. I went with extremely low expectations knowing that I'd have to make the very best out of a terrible situation. I must have done a really good job. Though I appreciated the disgusting/amazing surprise chili cheese fries for lunch, that wasn't even my favorite part. I had the best company, the weather was beautiful, I had perfect teachers, my kidneys didn't hurt once, and I got an awesome, fun workout in! Time to unfreeze my gym membership!