He is risen!

Not sure what that has to do with eggs, but I don’t get a lot of things.� *shrug*

Neighbors decorate for every holiday – one of my favorites of theirs is Easter.� Among many other things, they tie eggs to the branches of a tree that starts off dead and naked and then blooms with the eggs still on.� =)

She was pretending to be a pirate – lens caps make great eyepatches, if you don’t mind holding them up.� =)

Autumn wanted to take a picture.

They were coming over for lunch.� Her daddy, who’s got the flu, said he was excited about infecting the Aukermans…� Daisy suggested we go out to a buffet so he could infect the world instead.� He started plotting the takeover, and enlisted his daughter’s diabolical aid:

She’s trying to figure out how to get Daddy’s lemon ice…

Autumn said, “Take a picture with me and Tara and Davad!” (That’s how she pronounces David’s name.)

So, I have strep.� A pretty nasty strain – it didn’t respond to the penicillin I was first prescribed, so here I am on a second antibiotic.� My throat was swollen so that it hurt badly to swallow.� The doctor prescribed Tylenol with Codeine.

We filled the antibiotic order separately from the painkiller (I didn’t have my ID on hand and it’s a controlled substance).� When we filled the painkiller prescription, they gave me pills instead of a syrup.� I didn’t realize until later, and then it was too late.� I just started taking the pills.

But they’re uncoated, and large.� It’s painful just to swallow soft things, so it’s really bad swallowing these pills – which are supposed to help with the pain.� =)

Every week, I take a quick trip to the store to grab some food for the hotel room (has a full kitchen).� I get a per diem, and because I work noon-10, don’t really get to go out to dinner or lunch.� Instead, I get things to cook or snack on in the hotel room and eat “meals” at the hospital.

One discovery I’ve just made – and will probably get every week until the project ends – is this granola-like stuff called musli.� It’s amazing – has healthy-tasting stuff like oats, rice puffs, bran flakes – but also has dried bananas and oranges, and nuts in it.� Yum!

Also, it’s funny – it’s Swiss, and the name of the product is “Good For You.”� =)

My father-in-law has a saying:

In this instance: three adult-sized people, a bag of Bugles, and a full-sized concert string bass.� And all of the doors closed.