Lame

Ok, so I am SUPER ANNOYED at blogger right now for totally hosing the spacing on my big spring break post. I'm not going to post anything at all if it turns it into a big stupid unreadable mess everytime. Sorry you all have to suffer, but if I can't read it and I already know every word it says, that's unreasonable.

Good Big Wib News

Maybe not very exciting for everyone else, but SUPER EXCITING for me: my in-laws took the three little kids home with them this last Monday and they're staying for this week of spring break. Here's the recap: Monday: Seth took Eric to his Gifted/Spring Break program, but after Grandma and Grandpa left with the children, I went to get him. After I ate a cup of ice cream and watched a show, that is. Anyway, we stopped on our way home for lunch from Good Times, then came home and ate it in front of X-Men. Then we had a LATE dinner of super-delicioso baked lemon-chicken and brown basmati rice, just sitting down to eat as Seth walked in at 8: something. Tuesday: I took Eric to his "class" then stopped to borrow the wet/dry vac from my Bro-in-law at Baskin Robbins. Seems our water heater overflowed in the night but the floor drain was good-n-clogged. Then when I picked up Eric we stopped at Baskin Robbins again for ice cream treats. We also brought home the Super Plumbing Snake my bro keeps at the store for cleaning waffle cones out of his drains. That's still in the back of the van, though, since I can't lift it and Seth is home late every night. After our ice cream lunch, Eric went to play at his friend Trevor's and he stayed there while I went to the 6:30 meeting about saving our local library. It's going to be a pretty big deal, with a General Improvement District and PAC and everything. I finally picked Eric up just after 8, and when I got a little quesadillas-n-tomato soup dinner ready, Seth walked in, just in time. Wednesday: I dropped Eric at this class, then went straight to my endocrinologist appointment. Everything checks out, if you were curious. I picked up Eric and we went straight to Village Inn for lunch and Free Pie Wednesday. My lunch was the "VIB" with country potatoes, two egg omelet with cheese, strawberry crepe, and french toasts. It was SO DELICIOUS. And I finished the entire piece of triple-berry pie. We were full from lunch at dinner-time, but still followed through with our plan to get a Little Caesars hot'n ready and take it to Seth's office to have dinner with him. That was fun. Thursday: I dropped Eric and then went straight to the Temple. It's stake temple day, but I knew I wasn't going to make it for the evening sessions. It was going to have to be first thing or nothing. So that was good and I made it back in plenty of time to go to the potty before picking up Eric from his class. We sat around all afternoon, "partying," by which I mean we watched tv shows, drank soda, Eric played the computer, and after our lemon-chicken-alfredo dinner, we had brownie sundaes. Mostly I did a lot of knitting on the latest pair of socks I'm making. So that's my spring break so far. I realized yesterday, that I'm doing nearly as much driving around and as many errands as usual, but I don't have to buckle anyone in or tie any little shoes or change anyone's pants (besides my own, which at this point is certainly a chore). That's the main bonus for me: not getting tuckered out chasing little people around every second.

Not Much Info on the Internets

Here's the thing: I don't notice very many changes when I have my thyroid dose changed. I had my dose adjusted a couple months ago because of the pregnancy. I actually noticed a couple things different, so that was new for me.

Lately I've made a couple lovely new jewelry items. I will make a lovely necklace and then put it on and wear it until I make a new one. I make stuff for myself out of sterling silver mostly. I made a necklace and wore it for maybe a week or 10 days and then noticed that half of it was BLACK with tarnish. Then I made another and wore it for several days and noticed that half of this new one was also BLACK with tarnish. I have been wearing sterling silver for years with only normal tarnish levels, and in fact have noticed that wearing stuff usually keeps it from getting all black with tarnish, because it's rubbing on your shirt or whatever. So I made another necklace and wore it for maybe a week and was unaccountably horrified when I found that half of it was BLACK with tarnish.

I just did a search online and there is just barely more than an iota of information on this. In fact the only real reference I found to any of this was a lady asking on a forum why her sterling necklaces were suddenly turning terribly black with tarnish. She mentioned that she had had her thyroid dose raised and had had a miscarriage the previous year. I have been pregnant six times, including right this second, so connecting these dots tells me it's the thyroid hormone and not the pregnancy or miscarriage.

Isn't this weird? All of a sudden all my silver necklaces are turning pitch black around the back of the neck, to the point where I gasp when I discover it. I can't find any science to back this up, but I have to conclude that my higher thyroid dose has combined with some inherent acidity in my skin or something and produced really high silver-tarnishing powers.

On a possibly unrelated note, I have a skin acidity that corrodes the nickel plating off of flutes and knitting needles... Related? or Unrelated? You be the judge!