An Update on our Boring Lives

I'm sorry we haven't posted anything in a while. We're not very good at this. We've been really busy with school and work, and haven't had time for anything exciting to write about. Although, Ryan is doing some really cool stuff in his optimization class with genetic algorithms. Apparently they have nothing to do with humans and genetics. I figured this out about halfway through Ryan trying to explain it to me. Ryan has also been busy with car maintenance. I don't know what we would do if he wasn't so handy. We've saved a lot of money by having him do all the maintenance. Here is a picture of Ryan working on the car. I help by giving moral support and taking pictures.


I've been loving my new job, well, as much as you can love a job when you don't like to get up and go to work every day. Everyone there is so nice and I'm doing real engineering. Right now I'm working on designing a test fixture to test part of our tool that we're making and when I finish it, I get a bonus! I'm pretty excited. So I guess our lives aren't that boring, but that was about 3 weeks summed up into 3 sentences. It sounds better when you lump it together like that. If I'd been updating you day by day, you would have been bored to tears. I know I was.

Another bizarre thing that happened is I got a very strange rash. I know, it sounds disgusting. I had these little red bumps all over my entire body. They didn't itch, they actually kinda hurt. I went to the doctor to figure out what was going on. Now that should tell you something right there about how bad this rash was, because I hate going to the doctor. Our doctor especially! They never have any idea what they are talking about. You pay for them to tell you exactly the same thing you could have looked up on the internet. Or they don't tell you anything at all, and you still have to pay for it.

This is how my doctor visit went. I showed up and the nurse took me back and weighed me and took my temperature and did all the nurse things. This took about 8 minutes. I spent about 3 minutes waiting for the doctor. The doctor came in, took one look, count them, one look at my hand and said, "Hmmmm, that's interesting. You say it doesn't itch? Okay, this isn't an allergic reaction, what's going on here is your body is reacting harshly to something." Cause I couldn't figure that out on my own. Thanks Sherlock! I couldn't tell that my body was reacting to something. Then without looking at the rest of body, even though I told him I had it all over my body he says, "Let's just watch it. If it gets more wide spread let me know." More wide spread?! It's already all over my entire body, including on the roof of my mouth. So I said that to the doctor and then proceeded to strip off my clothes so I could show him how it was all over my body. I was so mad that he couldn't at least take the time to look at everything before saying "let's just watch it". The least he could have done was say, "I have no idea what's going on, if it gets any worse, you should go see a specialist." So finally he looks at the roof of my mouth, my back, and my legs and says, "Let's just watch it, let me know if it gets worse." The whole visit took 13 minutes. That means I couldn't have been in there with the doctor for more than 2 minutes. I was ticked.

Eventually the rash just went away and I still have no idea what it was or what caused it. I've already been asked by everyone under the sun if I changed lotions or laundry detergent or got new clothes or tried a new type of food, and I didn't, if that's what you were wondering. I had it for a little over a week. Ryan never got anything so it wasn't contagious. Aside from being bizarre and a bit annoying, it really wasn't that bad. People just didn't want to touch me or get near me. Now I've added a couple pictures so if you are easily disgusted or you don't want to look at them, I promise not to say anything interesting after this point so you can stop reading. This is mostly for my mom, who is very curious and interested in all things medical.

These pictures do not do it justice. I promise, it was much more obvious and disgusting in real life.