It was fantastic to have these girls and their families over last weekend! There’s something so comforting and sentimental about seeing old friends. Melissa and Bethany were 2 of my favorite roommates during freshman year at BYU. We’ve all changed a little, but not too much! It seems like only yesterday that we were living in Heritage Halls, having our first major bonding experience—a huge, late night water battle with some boys next door. We roomies have kept in touch over the years somehow, mainly through blogs and emails. The last time I saw Melissa was before either of us even had kids! Now Melissa has just had child #2 (Nigel), and Bethany just had her first baby, Max.
We also had a photo taken (on Bethany’s camera) of all 3 of us simultaneously nursing our babies (all covered up, sorry)! It was just so hilarious to me that we were all nursing at the same moment.
And this I cannot comprehend, but somehow Melissa, Sam, little Owen, & newborn Nigel drove across the country to move for Sam’s Residency. Glad we were one of the stops along the way! Melissa and family spent the night before continuing on their journey, which was fun. Chase and Owen played well together—it’s nice when Chase gets a chance to play with a boy who’s actually his same age. Good to see you, everyone!
The other day, I was wondering where Chase was, because it was quiet in the house… And believe it or not, i found him in the laundry room, pulling the clean clothes out of the dryer and putting them in the laundry basket. As soon as he had heard the dryer beep, he had rushed down to get to work! I was blown away.
He dragged the basket out into the family room, and dumped it out, ready to be folded! I told him “thanks!” & “good job,” and in return he gave me his classic silent thumbs up.
Another time recently, Pace was washing the deck, and Chase decided that the bucket would make a good bathtub. This is how Pace found him. (I still wonder how Chase’s body fit comfortably in that little bucket!)
I recently realized that the ONLY photo we had of all 4 of us was a single family photo from Charlotte’s baby blessing. So I asked Rachel to take a few when we were out to dinner once, then out on a walk just today. So in addition to the baby blessing photo, these are the family photos we have now. Hmmmm. I think we need to practice more often…? Chase is quite the character in all of them– at least they’re realistic!
For any bloggers out there who want to avoid Google tagging things and marking them as you or related to your site, a handy bit of code to know is the rel=”nofollow” attribute of an anchor tag. Links on your blog usually are considered related or relevant to the original page, otherwise why is the link there? If you link to a bunch of stupid things then google will say ok blogx = bunch of stupid things. Lets look at the best example of this. Everyone open a new tab in your browser and type in Nathan Fernsten into your google bar. Now click to search google images. What do you see? As you can see in the screen shot below, Nathan Fernsten has become a hideous cross breed photoshopped thing.
How did this happen!? screams Nathan. Well Nathan, it’s very simple you see your blog isn’t very popular, but you have google indexing it. And when you linked the mccullochs site on your sidebar to that image as a joke, we let you keep it there for a few weeks. And each time we visited your site we clicked on that link, showing us that image, (not on purpose to set you as that image, but b/c we wanted to see if you had changed it yet) since you didn’t change it this is what google saw. (Start talking like a computer) Person wants to find Nathan Fernsten, person found Nathan at this site, person clicked on link that says mccullochs, got picture, ended session at nathan’s site. Hmmm this image is now the most clicked on link on Nathan’s site, this image must be very important, set this image as very relevant to Nathan. (end computer talk)
So thank you Nathan for the greatest trick ever played on yourself. I will enjoy clicking on that image each time I search for you in google images to make sure it still thinks it’s relevant. And remember every one else, if your site is being crawled by google (ours isn’t), use the rel=”nofollow” tag to tell google what’s not important to your site.
<a href=”http://example.com” rel=”nofollow”>example</a>
HAHA sorry, that was just funny. Any comments?
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UPDATE: ok I’m back! Here’s what went down. You go in, the DR talks, looks at you. Turns out I have a polyp in my left nostril. It was so cool he had the medical student shadowing him take a look. Then the nurse comes in. You take off your shirt and lay down. She sticks you with 53 little needles. (not bad like a cat scratch) My nurse did it fast which helped a lot I think, b/c if she had paused between each one my body would have said, why are you letting her!? Attack! Then the test of will power starts. At each of the different spots on your back you start itching, that is if you are allergic. For me my entire back started itching and I had to go to a happy place. While it wasn’t like I wanted to rip my skin off my body, it was pretty annoying b/c you don’t want to itch and have to start the test over again. The willpower test lasts 15 minutes. Then the nurse comes back in. She writes down two numbers for each of the 53 things. 10/40, 5/20, 5/20. The first number is how big the bump swelled to in mm. And the second number is a redness scale.. I guess her discretion. SO now that I’ve told you that, who wants to guess out of 53 how many things I’m allergic to in any amount? wait for it, wait for it, ok guess. Nope 45. Yeah I reacted to 45/53 things (one was a control). Feel free to ignore the results table below, as they are so I can have them eternally on the blog. I’ve highlighted the few that I wasn’t allergic to, and the two that grew to larger than 10mm.
So I’m headed to the allergist today. I’m pretty excited, even though I’m sure he’ll tell me I’m allergic to my favorite things, ice cream, cheese, butter, and fun. I’m headed in and I’m expecting to get poked a dozen or more times in the back/arm/personal area, or where ever he wants to find out what I’m allergice to. Has anyone sane done this? It’s crazy to me.. but I’ve had a runny/stuffy nose for the last 2 months and I hate it. I’m going to a DR who practices the SILT method, so instead of allergy shots every 2 weeks for 5 years to help you build your immune, you drop two drops under your tongue each day for 400 years. I’ve give you more details after my appointment. So what do you think? Waste of time and money? Did it work for you?