ASEA ... ewwwwww not for me

One of my friends has been drinking that special water that costs a lot. It's made in Salt Lake City and is basically...what else but salty water. But no, that's not all. They do something to it. So it is special, and has health benefits, thus the $40 price tag on a bottle that is 32 ounces in size. It's supposed to signal cells to renew themselves, thus turning back the hands of time. She said she is in less pain now, and her husband is even regrowing hair in his bald spots. I though YES! This is something I wanted to try.

Yesterday I had the chance to stop by. My friend was walking better. Great! She took out a shot glass and poured me some. I told her just a little. So she handed me half a shot glass. One sip and OMG THIS STUFF TASTES LIKE FINGER NAIL POLISH REMOVER. Not that I've ever tasted it...but...ewww!! Some people say it tastes like chlorine. But to me it had a strong, weird plastic type chemical type taste. I held my nose and belted down the remainder, then chased it with a glass of tap water. So now I don't want to try it, which is unfortunate, because I would have liked to test it out. I would have liked to know if this stuff is a real benefit or if it's just snake oil. I mean, Salt Lake City has a LOT of salt. In fact I think they have enough salt to turn all the sinners on earth into pillars of salt.

The Great Salt Lake

Salt mines

Salt flats....for miles and miles and miles...

Kosovo visit # 2

I had a great time visiting my dear sweet hubby and his family. The trip was less strenuous, only one plane change, in Zurich. I only stayed 10 days this time, but we got better pictures. Here are some of my favorite pictures.

 Embroidered Turkish towels

 Prizren, the oldest city in Kosovo, if you can find it behind the umbrellas

 Prizren. It was crowded, and hot that day

 The city center, Prizren

View from the 3rd floor, Prishtina

AWESOME NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My daughter got married in California and while I was out there for the wedding I got a text message from the USCIS that hubby is APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!! Now all the paperwork goes to the National Visa Center. Hopefully that part will be shorter. It was a short visit in California due to flight delays and general rudeness of the San Francisco airport people. But the wedding was beautiful. I heard a song on the flight home and remembered that I first heard it at the naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July on "A Capital 4th" in Washington D.C. I'm dedicating it to my hubby. It's called Home by Phillip Phillips. Hubby listened to it and said it's appropriate, he loves it too.

The words below speak of our immigration journey and are so true for anyone going through immigration.

Home lyrics:

Hold on to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you're not alone
Cause I'm gonna make this place your home

Settle down it'll be all clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons 
They will fill you with fear
The trouble, it might drag you down
If you get lost,you can always be found
Just know you're not alone
Cause I'm gonna make this place your home

Just another day, but it's not

We went from a dry hot summer to a cooler wetter one almost as soon as we turned into August. Other parts of the US are still popcorn-dry, but here we are fast recovering from the drought. I have been trying to stay busy but I've fallen into phases of doing a lot and then doing almost nothing. Oh well, things are getting done, right? ....um

In other news, today is me and new hubby's first wedding anniversary. Yay! But we are still apart. Immigration is stalled. But I'm not crying like I did last Christmas and New Years and Valentines Day and Easter and the 4th of July, because I'm flying back to see him this fall. We are so happy about that. I wish I could have gone sooner but too many things are going on here this month. In light of that, then I guess I'd better get busy.

Time out for antibiotics

Well about a month ago I got nailed by mosquitoes and the bites itched like crazy. I tried really really hard NOT to scratch them. I tried everything I had to make the itching stop. But I scratched them. And then two wouldn't heal. No matter what I did....so I finally went to my doc.

Doc: "You can take penicillin, right?"
Me: "No! I'm allergic!" (I know my chart says that)
Doc: "Then I will write (I heard the word sulfa-something)"
Me: "No, please, sulfa drugs make me sick!"
Doc: "I can write cyprofloxacin."
Me: "No, please, no, that's like getting kicked in the stomach for two weeks!!!"
Doc: "Z-pack?"
Me: "Yes! I can take Z-pack!"

Thankfully Z-pack is short, because it makes me tired and dopey. Last pill, Monday night, so I will start feeling normal about noon Tuesday.

Yeah, the bites are better.

I've been moving slowly on the house cleaning. I am frustrated. I have been piling stuff in the living room and kitchen that I no longer need. Now I am faced with getting rid of them. Most of them need to be sold, but to do eBay I need to find boxes for everything. And I have no way to hold a yard sale, nothing to put things on, and no helper to carry them out. And I really don't want people coming inside the house....still thinking this over.

Coming up...daughter's wedding in California and a trip to see my mmmmmmmmmm honey in Kosovo. I love the jet-set life! But I wish immigration would hurry up and send my hubby to me. We are looking at next year now. I think they do that on purpose, just to see if you will give up and withdraw the petition. Someone on an immigration forum mentioned that the Statue of Liberty should say, "Show us your money." No, that's not in the context of a bribe, it refers to people from wealthy nations getting approved faster.

I guess I don't spend much time here anymore

I was looking back at some of my posts in 2008. I used to write a lot more, before I got on facebook, which   is where I spend all my time now. Heck, most people spend all their time there. I know a couple people who don't ever check email anymore. It'a all chats and facebook. The land of lost digital content. I say lost because after a few days you can't even find your post anymore, so it's gone, fleeting. I've taken to saving things I really want to remember to my own computer.

The other day we had a fast and furious storm come through. I always shut down my computer, modem and router and disconnect the cable from the wall. After the storm passed I hooked up again, but couldn't get on the internet. I checked the cables, still had problems. So I called India. I mean I called ATT tech support. What a freakin joke.

"Thank you for calling ATT. My name is (whatever). How can I misunderstand you and piss you off today?"

Someone actually posted that on facebook, so obviously someone else needed to call them.

I suppose I could write pages about my sexy husband but no, only to my best friend or two. Although I have been wondering if even I should keep a blog, since just about everyone I know is already on facebook.

Otherwise I'm doing fine other than being annoyed by a mosquito that I never see that keeps biting me. Ok, falling asleep now, nite everyone!

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I'm a Type 1. Learning that was my ah-ha moment. I am so happy I am free to be myself now instead of trying to fit in a box that I thought I was supposed to be in.