Open Season, I mean Tourist season is upon us...

and don't get me wrong I totally appreciate all the business they give our little gift shop here in Alaska....without them my kids would go to school with no new clothes in the fall.....its just some of the random question you get asked.....like...."how many cars do you have on the island?" well I don't know that, sorry....not off the top of my head....."why don't you know how many cars you have on your island?" well sir where you are from, do you know how many cars you have in your city? "no, I don't and that is a rediculous question to ask me!" EXACTLY!!! have a nice day..... "we are in Alaska right?" yes you are....."do you take Canadian money?" nope sorry....even though you are in ALASKA we only take US currancy you know since we are apart of the United States of America!!!....."how do you get your cars on and off the island?" we have the Alaska Marine Highway ferries that we use to get from here to Ketchikan, or to Prince Rupert, BC or all the way down to Bellingham Washington if we need to....."you can't just drive?" Sir, we are on an ISLAND.....surrounded by water, there is no place to drive to!!! "oh yeah, thats right! but if you have no place to drive to, why do you have cars?" NEXT!!!!!! LOL I honestly think the Fresh Salty air does something to their braines!!! getting all the smog, and other nasty air out of their lungs, just makes them loopy I guess!!! those are just a few of the many that I have been asked.....and I am sure there will be more!!! stay tuned!!!

Life sometimes gets interesting.....

I have had an eventful May....My oldest daughter graduated Highschool, and my youngest daughter graduated preschool.....two days apart....now if that does not make it crazy enough trying to plan things and be in 4 different places at once....my middle daughter decides to get sick......now mind you this is a girl that has not missed one single day of school the entire year....and the second to the last week of school she decides to have a 102.7 degree fever.....out the entire week.....so on top of her being sick, my oldest son comes home from school sick....now here we are with two graduations, two sick kids in the house, trying to prepare for the parties, and all that jazz and keep the rest of us "unsick" shoving our faces with coldeze lozenges because we do not have time to be sick!!! no time at all!!! (btw I highly recommend those little suckers!!! woke up with a sore throat popped a few of those throughout the day, and bam sore throat gone) we make it thru the graduations the decorating, and the ceremonies....then I have tourist season or as I like to call it OPEN SEASON here in Alaska starting, and I had to get my fathers gift shop in order for the tourists to come in and get their grimy finger prints all over my nicely cleaned glass cases, and pick up cups move them from one spot to another, and then take a shirt from one rack, and oh wait I don't like that one, so I am going to take this one and put this one, um right here, where it does not belong.....yeah....can ya tell I just LOVE this time of the year!!! LOL so I get the place in order, have the first tour of the season come in...things are looking up hmmm its the 21st of May already?!?! damn....time has just gone by....dang....thing I have to get done and then maybe my life will get back to normal....well as normal as it can in our house....then Thursday rolls around....migraine hits......ok fight it....take what you can and get that bugger to back down and go away...far far away....get to the clinic for Jourdy's Dr appt, nope migraine still there....luckily for me my niece works there and See's me in pain and sets up an appointment for me to get a lovely shot to make it go away....get the shot...go home and fall asleep for the next 4 hours!!! Friday comes.....MIGRAINE FROM HELL is in the house....complete with nausea and all of that lovely stuff that goes with it.....I take one of my pain pills praying it will stay down.....I fight and fight and fight the nausea for it to stay down....an hour and a half goes by...still there...not working....time to take another round.....but wait....porcelain god here I come....nothing is going to stay down and it is not going away with anything I have at home.....I call DH tell him to come and get me to the ER because I am not doing well at all....he takes me in...they darken the room....take my blood pressure all I remember is 182 over something and the comment YUP she IS in some real pain....and thinking NO SHIT really!!! thanks for letting me know, because I was wondering why I was here!!! just give me the phenagren and Demerol and get me out of this hell please!!!! thank god the dr comes and says we will get your shot, and off they go....the nurse comes in, I get the lovely dose and wait about 20 minutes and the is a slight dulling of the pain....its still there but the nausea is gone....thank god for that.....dh takes me home as I am really out of it from the shot....I go to bed next thing I know it is 4:30 and he is giving me a pill and telling me it should get rid of the rest...and about 4 hours later I wake up and have no pain for the first time in two days.....if you do not suffer from migraines thank your lucky stars you do not....they suck big fat ones!!! and are not something I would wish on anyone!!! so that is how my life has gotten interesting this month....it was a month that seemed to take forever to get here and now it is almost gone, and I am left with the thought of.....where did the month of may go....so much has gone on this month that it just went by and now....I am trying to play catch up with some things that got put on hold.......because of the month of may.......