30 Fun things in 30 Days: Day 17

Fresh fruit is delicious and fun to eat.

Yoga with a good friend is fun...and being told I am really flexible after not feeling flexible since the whole crushed wrist thing felt really good.  Breakfast at a fun restaurant and talking for hours is one of my favorite things in the whole world...food and conversation...double favorites.   Leaving the restaurant and finding these just added to it.  Making not so pretty things a little prettier.  People do that here.

In the afternoon another wonderful friend came down from the middle of the state today...I am so lucky!

Did you know people still get shingles...and it looks an aweful lot like poison oak?  Yep.  And it lasts for 5 weeks?  And that chickenpox and shingles are both related to your nerves.  Chickenpox are the single nerve endings and shingles come from the base of the nerve and then come out through all the little nerves attached to the big nerves.  AND you only get them on one side of your body.  SHUT YOUR MOUTH.  It is true.  AND they can cause tingles all over your body kinda like a chill and the point in a sunburn where the burn kinda hurts when skin touches?  Yep.  And people can't get them from you if they have had chickenpox but they can get them if they haven't had chickenpox but only if they rub the area where you have it or the blisters pop and they get the blister juice on them (even babies or people with low immune systems...so don't rub babies on shingles, no matter how tempted you are).  This is what I learned today, and thought i would impart the knowledge.

Anyhow--Yoga, breakfast, second tostada dinner in two weeks with lovely people is fun.  My major fun thing was having another friend come down who is just a down right positive, fun, and amazing human being.  As hard as it is to be so far away from home, getting all this attention when I am home is a major plus (just being honest).  I love home...even if it is hot and moist as a theoretical hell (humidity is probably really bad in hell).