So we are in the year 2012 now! Sounds strange. Not a lot going on for us so far. Anya and I are currently suffering from strep throat and it has been years since I had this and I don’t like it one little bit. I do not remember strep throat being this painful. Of course most of the time I ended up with bronchitis so dealing with strep is at least a new adventure! We went to the doc yesterday and luckily they swabbed only my throat and looked at Anya’s. Anya’s was obvious they said, she had the rash and the strawberry tongue, even though her throat pain went away. Me, I was all about the swabbing, one of my favorite things ever. I remember when I was a little girl and they would do that and I hated it then. We are in the year of 2012 now and have all kinds of cool little medical gadgets to take temperatures and even measure the amount of oxygen we have through our nails, but finding some cool little laser tool or something that can check for strep is just too daunting of a task, so we have to rely on the old fashioned long cotton swab and stab the hell out of the already sore throat of the patient! And not just one swab they do two swabs at once now. One to do the quick test on that takes 5 minutes to determine if its positive and one to send off to the lab in case the first one isn’t positive they can send it off and see if anything else shows up. Hey, here’s an idea, why not just stab me with one swab and if it comes back negative, how about the doc see me and see if he can narrow down the symptoms more! Let’s not stab the poor patient with two long cotton swabs at once and for the love of all that is holy someone please invent a new tool other than the tongue depressor! Wood stick to hold down your tongue while someone stabs you in the back of throat to make you gag! Yeah, that’s a great idea! Needless to say, we are on antibiotics and slowly recovering. Anya has decided she loves the smell of amoxicillan but not the taste even though I would take that over the freakin’ horse pills I have to swallow any day. In other news, we went to a ice hockey game, just here locally in Frisco and had a great time. Arwen even enjoyed it until she fell asleep. Yes, my tiny three year old can sleep through a loud hockey game and for her next amazing feat of wonder…stay tuned!