What a weird January...

I have been hacking and coughing all this month. As of today I am finally breathing... PTL. I guess all this rain and the pond beside the pond has stirred up the mold. Now I'm getting a cold. Oh, bother. I also have spend much of this month concerned about my eye health. I have an Optic Nerve Head Drusen, basically a piece of calcified dirt in my optic nerve. It is causing some loss of field vision and the Dr. wanted to make sure that the dirt was the root of the problem and not something else. Well all is well.... I do have to monitor my eyes each year but that's all. During all this I have ended up with reading glasses. This is my 3rd pair of glasses through my life. I think I just look at the computer to long and need some help for a while. Maybe after 37 years, my eyes may be going down hill....
We have also made our first trip to the ER with Boy. A few days ago, I was getting ready for an appointment and I could hear Boy coughing in the other room. He is always coughing because he has stuff in his mouth all the time. But this time it would not stop, so I go get him. He is still hacking and gagging while I turned him over to see if the problem would show itself. Not this time. Jmama was the only girl home and she didn't know what it was so I called the Dr. He said to go get an Xray it see if it was anything... so to the ER we go. After 3 hours, no lunch and nothing on the Xray, we left. If it was anything, we haven't seen it...
I think I'm a Facebook junkie...and boring. I was tagged to post 25 random things about me, it took over a week and at least 4 savings of my draft before I finally came up with 25. Here they are

1. I have 5 names, Brandee Carol Daly Ragan Spohr.
2. I was adopted. My stepdad adopted me so that's why 5 names.
3. My fav color is orange. I just got reading glasses in that lovely color.
4. I love Ernie from Sesame Street.
5. I hate the beach, sand yuck!
6. Feb 14 is my "Jesus day", I will have been saved 10 years on that day.
7. If left on my own, I would not have chosen John. Thankfully God is the best matchmaker. BTW John and I have discussed this. He is far better of a man than I could have picked for myself.
8. I can tell my husband anything! I really mean ANYTHING.
9. I want a Great Dane but it would be like having Clifford with my little house.
10. I don't have cable or satellite. I am one of those effected by the "big switch"
11. I am ultra conservative, exceptions: hair, make-up, jewelry, and I prefer modest clothing. I also like just about any Christian music. I am so conservative that I am about at the point of wishing for a 2nd civil war. Red and blue countries...
12. I love venison! I love my freezer full of a nice deer.
13. I live next door to my folks. Poor hubby.
14. I love to cook, not bake.
15. I like to bass fish, I once competed in tournaments and thought of becoming a pro angler.
16. I am not very trusting, so it looks like I'm not friendly.
17. I just watched "Schoolhouse Rock: Election edition" and I learned stuff.
18. I have been working on this list for about a week... today is 1-27-9, we shall see when I finally get done...I am now on "save draft" #3, because I jump from thing to thing during the day.... I think I have been tagged 6 or more times since I started this thing...
19. I have a terrible memory, my paranoia says people think I'm a snob. I'm not, I just can't remember all that you can and I'm afraid you remember the little I do.
20. My boy is all boy, he headbutts, "drives" any thing with wheels, vacuum included, he turns on the tv them comes and sits in John's or my lap, I have heard "he is just a boy" when I notice an unruly little boy but I didn't believe it....until now.
21. Jmama reminds me of my grandmother, she has her OCD, and her stubborness. All qualities that crate on me, probably because I have them too.
22. Smiley was the easiest child ever.... until now, she is sassy and yells alot.... what does that say about me?????? They are often your reflection..... :(
23. I am a stay at home mom, I like being here with the kids but I think I am terrible at home schooling and just getting it all done each day. I think my hubby would rather I did more but I just can't find the time.
24. My mom asked me what I would do first if I were the Pres... I would require the Constitution to be taught in every grade level. By the time kids got to high school, they would learning basically Constitutional Law, like colleges do in law school.
25. I love to work griddlers and play Nerts.