Back Pain and Brownies

This title really makes me laugh, it seems so clever...at least to me.

Currently, I've fallen victim to some really bad lower back and side pain, nausea, and just a bunch of other symptoms. We here at the Smeriglio household, have narrowed it down to our guess prognosis of something with my kidneys.

Very specific, I know ;)

I am seeing the doctor tomorrow so hopefully this will be over soon, I just feel so lousy and all I want is to lay in bed all day. Work and school call though, so I'm always running anyways.

This week we have Wednesday off for the Jewish holiday, so that is nice. To celebrate (we'll just use that as our excuse) my boss is having us all over for a BBQ. It is more of a "make a dish and come over" thing, than a real BBQ but there will be pulled pork and drinks so I am there.

I, as usual, will be putting together a dessert, since that is my specialty. I was going to make Buckeyes but I decided to experiment and do something a little less time consuming. I am going to make double chocolate brownies with the super mini Reeses cups mixed in and then I am topping it off with some peanut butter drizzle!

I am planning on making a blog post about that so look out for it! My favorite part is licking the brownie batter from the bowl...bad for you I know, but I've been doing it this long and I'm okay!

Final thought - Thursday is my one year anniversary with Shaun! yay!

It is weird that it is one year, it almost feels longer than that, but in a good way. I won't say what I got him yet, just in case he happens upon the blog...but I think it is way awesome. I'll share details after Thursday :) I think we'll end up just having a nice dinner out or something but I like those kinds of things the best.

Have a good week!

Beginning of Summer Update

Well the beginning of my summer also marks the beginning of some new things happening. Sadly, it includes me working and still taking classes. Yes, that is right, I am already in week number 3 of summer classes. I have 3 more weeks of Empirical Political Inquiry and Writing for the Professions, and then I start another two classes for another six weeks. Yikes.

I'll also be working a new job schedule, but it won't be all summer, which means I am on the hunt for a second job :( In some ways it is good because I need the money, but it makes less time to get all the things I need to do done.

I am also in week two of my internship (officially). If you want go check out Citelighter.com! I've done five knowledge cards already! Martinique, Gaza Strip, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, and Sulfates (yes I know the last one is random). It is awesome to see my work go live on a website. I have my new topics for this week already picked out so we'll see how that goes. I have been thinking about a lot of ideas for the company and the website, I'm thinking about maybe making time to go to the office in NYC to meet everyone and talk to my boss about what I'm thinking. It would be awesome to do.

Let me see...what else? Well on the health front my whole family is pretty much cruddy :/ Both my parents have been fighting off some bug. My dad has to get a root canal. I just found out I have an ulcer in my mouth which has been causing the pain. Oh and I pinched a nerve in my shoulder stretching...once again I prove I am a danger to myself haha

I need to wake up for work in like 7 hours so I will end this post with a puppy picture!

Charlie looks so happy in this picture! He turned 9 months old yesterday :)