I'm Alive!

I'm sure most of you thought it but I am not dead! I'm just lazy and didn't feel like writing. I also didn't have Internet access at my uncle's house for the last few weeks I was there. That sucked!

I did enjoy my two week "mini vacation" that I took at the end of November. Venice is one of my favorite cities in the whole world. Even though it was cold (just this side of freezing) I loved it. I found the perfect hotel...it had a balcony that looked right out over a canal. Absolutely wonderful! The thing I love about most of the old cities on the continent is that they are all fairly concentrated in one area and it is possible to walk everywhere. Fabulous!

I am so happy to be back in the States though. Although I love visiting Europe, I don't think I could ever live on the Continent. I could live in the UK. As my best friend puts it, the UK is just the right mix of the Continent and the US to make it liveable.

One of the crappy things about the Europe is that because I walked around so much my toenail cut in to my toe and then it got infected. I had to have surgery the other day to fix it. Not fun. The surgery part wasn't so bad because it was done under local anesthesia and I could watch. The worst part was actually getting the shots. My doctor used something other than lidocain and it burned when it went in! And of course since I'm really resistance to drugs, it took about 15-16 shots in order to numb my toes. Now they look all cut up. My mom wouldn't even come into the room when the doctor was doing my first post-op becuase she doesn't like blood. The woman who changed the bandages on my grandfather's amputated thumb (she even went out to the garage and found the finger that he cut off) can't even look at her only daughter's toes to see if they look ok. Some people....

I still can't really wear shoes yet and I kinda shuffle around because my poor little toes hurt. :( Hopefully they'll be better by the time school starts.