Hot off the Press: ME!

EXTRA EXTRA!! Read all about it! Boston trip overview: currently put on hold. A more pressing matter has come up! Read on!

A few weeks ago, my dear author friend Betsy asked me if I would send her a little paragraph on what going back to school means to me. "Sure, no problem!" She asked me to throw in a little about my CF and how it makes going back to school a little different than everyone else. "Done." I thought I would end up seeing a link to an article in a few days. However, that's not at all what happened.

I get a phone call at 10 a.m. one morning waking me from a light sleep. "Hi this is Lora with City Life and I'm calling to see when you will be available for the picture for the article about Back to School by Betsy St. Amant." HOLD UP. First off, let me gain consciousness before I can even think to comprehend what you're saying. I was so confused, trying to figure out what this lady is talking about, all while trying to wake up. Picture? City Life? What is going on?! She arranges to come by my house that Thursday to photograph me. I sounded like a complete fool trying to give her directions. I'm pretty sure it came across like I don't know where I live. But, somehow she found my house that Thursday.

I doubled checked with Betsy to make sure this lady was legit and learned that Betsy's story was going to be the cover story for the City Life magazine that's sent out in my city every 2 weeks! COOL!!! It came out today and it is a great article, so please read it! Here is a link: City Life!

The article starts on page 14, the part on me and CF is on page 15, and the picture is on page 16! (If you're looking at a real copy, the pages are off by 1).

I'm really thrilled about how the article turned out!! It's so well written. Please take a few minutes to read it!

-Annie

ps I graduated in 2009, for those who noticed. :]

Boston Trip-- COMING SOON

I am tired! I have SO much to say about my Boston/Plymouth trip, but now is not the time! It will come soon (and hopefully so will my luggage... which got left behind somewhere, thanks to the airport)!

Until then, read Lauren's blog, where she tells about part of my trip: MEETING HER!!

Here are a few pictures from my trip to hold you over until the full write-up!

And these pictures don't even begin to tell the many stories!!

-Annie

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My Tales of the Tanning Place

Today was a great day! It started with my mom and I meeting my nurse practitioner for lunch. No reason, just because. We enjoyed about an hour long lunch, just chatting! It was really great.

Mom and I had more errands to run, but first: off to the tanning booth. I've never been artificially tanning and I'm not really for it, but we were going to get those Mystic spray tans. Fine. I wasn't thrilled, but we're going to the beach on this Massachusetts vacation and we're both ghastly white. We get there, pay for our sessions, and Mom goes first while I watch their "How-to" video. While waiting, out of the tanning room walks my friend Betsy! She watched the video with me (as we joked about how difficult it looked) and soon I was ready to go... or so I thought. The best advice I got from others: HOLD YOUR BREATH! "Crap..." I think to myself. I can barely hold my breath 10 seconds. This thing will not be good.

I finally get to the room and one of the workers puts in my spray tan bottle and starts up the machine. "Welcome. Please insert your tanning spray and run your hand over the sensor." She didn't run her hand over the sensor, so I did it for her after she left. OOPS!!!! That's how you start it! I haven't undressed, done my hair up, taken off my jewelry, put on the lotion, or anything!!! I run to the other side of the machine and press a red button. "Purge starting." I have no idea what that means, but I'm panicking. I run out of the room.... "Umm.. I started it. And I'm not ready. Then I pressed a button." Epic. Fail.

I had to wait a while for them to reset the machine, throw away that bottle of spray tan stuff, and put in a new one. *siiiigh*. Boy did I feel stupid.

I was ready like 10 minutes later (or so it seemed) and stepped into the machine, clothes-less, hair in a net, lotion on my hands and feet, and those weird eye things for tanning beds on my eyes. NOW I run my hand over the sensor (at the right time). If you haven't seen one of these things, they look a lot shower stalls. I get in, close the door, and wait to be sprayed. GROSS.... soon the stall filled with the mist and every breath tasted bitter and was sharp. I was taking small breaths and soon felt winded and light-headed. I was very glad to get out of there! It only took a few minutes, but man... that was rough!

Now, the key was to not get wet for the next 4-7 hours. It's a beautiful sunny Southern day, I'm sure I'll be fine. What we didn't think about was the HEAT and how we started sweating. Not good! I think we avoided streaking though, thankfully.

I think I'm tanner. I think. My feet, the bottoms of them, are ORANGE! It's kinda funny. Check it out:

Haha! Shows off my arch nicely.

-Annie

No FB and a good book

So my facebook was shut off a few days ago: surprisingly a way less big of a deal than I thought. I haven't really missed it actually...

And instead, I've done a lot of reading! I just finished the 4th Harry Potter book and am about halfway through the 5th. I love these books and I'm really enjoying rereading them.

Today I got to see Carter for the first time in 2 weeks or so, and first time after seeing Kiarda. Wow is there a difference! It's crazy how much a difference 8 months makes in a baby's life. Wow oh wow.

I've been kinda anti-internet since FB shut down, actually. Which is why I haven't been posting much. I have gotten addicted to backgammon too! OH MY it's not healthy how much I play. Haha! I love playing against Mom, she's really good. She's the one who taught me how to play and the strategies of the game. I'm totally bringing this old school game back to college with me. Thank you Zenpep points!

Ok. It's currently Tuesday night. At 5:45am Thursday, I LEAVE FOR BOSTON!!!!!!!! :]]]] I'm super super duper excited. I won't have access to a computer while I'm there so no blog updates until I get back, but with it will come a picture with me meeting Lauren!! This trip is going to be fun! I can't wait!

I had mentioned a few posts back that I moved the Vest to the morning. I also moved Pulmozyme to the morning too, since those two go hand-in-hand. I like the results. I think I might need to add a second Vest treatment to the evening, but I definitely need it in the morning too. I get a lot up and out with the morning CPT.

Night!

-Annie

Countdown to move back to college: 26 days!!!!