10 Happy Things

While I am still over the moon about the new EDS research, there's too much other stuff going on in my medical world right now and I can't try to make sense of it enough to write a meaningful post. I'm so tired and so terrified of new physical and mental symptoms that are doing whatever the heck they are doing and I don't think I can handle talking about these things publicly yet.

So. Here's 10 Happy Things:

1. Guess what my baby Jeph learned to do? He can open doors all by himself! He opens the door to go outside to pee all on his own. This is huge, people! Huge! And today, he opened the fridge for me for the first time! Simply amazing. I love him.

2. Tonight, my husband's friends are coming to see us. We're going to dress fun and go out and hopefully have an excellent evening.

3. I put an automatically-spraying air freshener thing in our living room and also cleaned the floors and now our house does not smell like pee. And will continue to smell nice, unless Jeph leaves me a present or two.

4. I'm excited to take a really relaxing bath this afternoon. I'm going to put so many excellent oils in it and stretch out my angry muscles.

5. There is ice cream in my freezer and I'm going to eat so much of it.

6. I'm excited to get my hair touched up so that it continues to look amazing.

7. There's a huge conspiracy thing going on that Justin Bieber is a reptilian creature and it's the best news story I've ever seen ever. There are like videos and everything where people go, "RIGHT THERE! HE BLINKED LIKE A LIZARD!" It's honestly amazing and I am so here for this.

8. I'm so excited to get Jeph's "Service Dog In Training" vest in the mail. Then, we get to start practicing and training in public.

9. I have so many green outfits that I have options for this weekend! I can try a bunch of them on and then decide instead of being stuck with a green t-shirt or something.

10. Magnum just released a Cookies 'N Cream ice cream bar and I need it.

Love to you all.

Showing Love Through Dessert

I'm absolutely in love with baking. I like bringing joy to people through pastries. Is it your birthday? Have a cake. Did you have a big test? Have some cookies. Is it Tuesday? Have some scones. Fresh baked bread, anyone? What about extra frosting from scratch? Are you gluten-free? No problem. I got you. Lactose-free, nut-free, everything-free? No worries. I will show up at your door with food made just for you.

One time in college, I baked five cakes for my own birthday and went door to door giving cake away. Another time, I baked five batches of chocolate chip cookies for a group of exhausted students. And yet another time, I showed up at a friend's door with their favorite cookies because they texted me that everything sucked. I do things like that all the time.

There isn't a lot I can physically do. I can't always wake up at 4 AM to help a friend in need, as sometimes my medication makes me dead to the world in the night. I can't help anyone move as I can't physically lift anything heavy. I can't babysit a young mother's kids, as I never know when I will fall or get horribly ill out of nowhere. But I can make amazing desserts and I can show up at your kids' soccer game with snacks or feed you homemade fudge while you cry over a break-up or feed an army of movers with homemade pizza and brownies. I can't do much, but I can show love to my friends in the best way that I can.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go frost the layer cake I have made for some new friends who are coming over tonight. And then maybe make some cookies. Or fudge. We will see. But it's definitely all going to get paired with ice cream sundaes.