gag me

today i took a shower.

*pause for applause*

yes, i'm quite proud of myself too, seeing as that didn't happen for me yesterday...

ahem.

anyway, towards the end of my shower i couldn't help but notice the nice little pool of water i was standing in. drat. the drain probably needs to be declogged from the massive amount of hair that falls out of my head, i thought to myself.

and then the thoughts continued in my head: man that really grosses me out. i can't stand to pulling hair out of drains. it makes me want to throw up. oh i almost did throw up that one time when ben said he had a present for me and he proceeded to show me what looked like a living creature made of hair, soap scum, etc. that he pulled out of the shower drain. that was so mean of him. i hope he'll declog the drain again so that i won't have to. i would probably end up throwing our little plastic drain declogger right in the trash with the gobs of hair. i am NOT gonna touch the gobs of hair...

[side note: this is also my thankful thursday. because i am so thankful that ben will declog the drain for me...]

so as i was standing in the shower thinking about how gross drain hair is (well, hair in general. you know, when it's not on your head where it was made to be.), i got to thinking about all the things that make me gag.

and i knew you all would be dying to know too.

so here's my list of the top ten things that make me want to puke:

10. the thought of eating sushi.

9. the smell of sulfer

8. spoiled milk. apparently not chocolate milk though!

7. slimy food particles in the dishwater.

6. other babies' poopy diapers. (i'm SO glad i don't work in the baby nursery at church!)

5. seeing kids chew on paper.

4. the thought of having my eye poked out.

3. having anything in my mouth for too long. gum, pen, keys, etc. there comes a point where i will start gagging on it. (too bad it didn't work with chocolate. or ice cream...)

2. dryer lint. i couldn't touch the stuff until i had kids! and it still grosses me out to touch it.

1. hair!! hair in drains. hair in food. hair in my mouth (refer to #3.) stray hairs in the shower. globs of hair in dust bunnies. seriously, they all make me gag!


ahh, now i will be able to sleep better knowing that you now know what gags me...

and hey if you like reading lists and/or making lists, stop by sara's blog and check out top ten thursday!

the eyes have it

today samantha had her yearly eye exam. which, when i say yearly, i mean third. she was born with minute cataracts in both eyes (which the opthemologist couldn't see until i showed him), so we had them checked out when she was a couple months old. he said they would most likely never affect her vision, but to have her checked every year. we didn't go back until last year when she was 4 and a half!

at our last visit to the pediatrician they said she was a little farsighted, so today we had that checked out along with her cataracts.

her appointement went well, except for the part where she had to have her eyes dilated. she didn't like the eye drops very well, which you can see from the picture! but she read all the letters great and her vision is just fine! her cataracts have not changed at all and will probably never be a problem for her. and her farsightedness is normal for a child her age. YEA!

samantha had to wear these lovely glasses for a 3-d test so i couldn't resist this great photo opportunity and a totally blog-worthy picture. especially after i took the picture and samantha said, "mom, please don't put that on your blog!"

sorry sweetie, i had to! :-)