Medical Experiments

Sometimes I get emails from people that have random home remedies for whatever ails you. I always want to try them out, but I generally don't get sick, and I would rather try them out on someone else.

Enter marriage.

Bryson got a cough last week the same day I got an email saying:

"During a lecture on Essential Oils, they told us how the foot soles can absorb oils. Their example: Put garlic on your feet and within 20 minutes you can 'taste' it.

Some of us have used Vicks VapoRub for years for everything from chapped lips to sore toes and many body parts in between. But I've never heard of this. And don't laugh, it works 100% of the time, although the scientists who discovered it aren't sure why. To stop night time coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks VapoRub generously on the soles of your feet, cover with socks, and the heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief.

My wife tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and persistent cough a few weeks ago and it worked 100%! She said that it felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her, coughing stopped in a few minutes."

I think it was fate. It took a little (or a lot of) convincing and I had to go buy the Vaporub, but I got him to try it out. And, it might have worked. We weren't real sure, he didn't cough during the night and did feel like a warm blanket was enveloping him, that may have been the vicks he put on his chest though.

Next up: get him to try a netti pot. It might be harder than the vicks. When I emailed him this he replied "I hate netti pots. I don’t know what they are. But I hate them. They wronged me somewhere, sometime."

Football

Whew. Apparently it was the weekend of big games. Bryson explained how this weekend is also sort of a geography lesson with all of the rivalries. Sad Alabama lost. I love Tuscaloosa when I visited the town and fell in love. And I think the QB for Auburn is sort of a hoodlum (though the win today was really impressive, what a comeback).

And, for the record, not that I am in any way knowledgable enough to make this call, Ohio State should play Boise State. I am not a fan of elitism and any team who is undefeated should be eligible for the BCS championship game not just big conference teams. Go Boise State.

For the record, I haven't yet watched any football, but we talked about it a lot today AND I read an article about what the Ohio State coach (can you say elitest) said about Boise State having a chance at playing in the BCS championship game.

I think college football is going to be so much easier to get into than pro football. Drama, drama, drama.

Turkey Day

Bryson and I had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner. Really wonderful. Tom and Jenny, Colton and Adrienne, tons of delicious food; I love Thanksgiving.

On the way home we were talking about hobbies. Bryson and I are a great couple (if I do say so myself). We love hanging out, we have a great time together, and we laugh a lot. But… we have different hobbies. I spent a lot of time outside in Montana, fly fishing and hiking. I love skiing, running and cycling. Bryson loves sports. Really loves sports. He lived in a house with sports fanatics before we got married. I think maybe the only time I went over and a game wasn’t on the TV was during General Conference. And I am pretty sure a score was checked when the choir was singing. I don’t watch sports on TV. Life is too short to watch sports on TV. And football feels like a million hours long.

In our discussion Bryson reminded me of the bike he bought this summer to have a hobby we could enjoy together.

New goal: I am going to learn about football. Watch a few games (or parts of a game- four hours will make me want to give up the sport), read a few articles, learn about the players (more than just the players who have dated a Kardashian sister). Then I will make an educated guess about whether I really like it or not.

Honeymoon

When we fly we try to get seats in the exit row since Bryson is real tall. On the way back from the honeymoon we were sitting in our seats chatting with the man next to us about his home the Florida Keys. The flight attendant walked up to give us the rules and asked us if we were all willing and able to perform our duties if needed. We said yes and she said "And you are all over 15?" and looked directly at me.

Afterward the man next to us said "I wondered if you went out of the country on your honeymoon because you don't have to be 21 to drink."

Art

Bryson has decided he is an abstract artist. To envision where the TV will go on the wall he tacked nails where the corners will be. Since we do not in fact own a TV, he put a picture on one of the nails and hung another picture up next to our TV spot. He just told me how it is abstract art because marking where a TV will go and then putting up an unframed picture of nature contrasts rich and poor, and technology and nature.

Our most hilarious wedding gift

From Bryson's old roommate.

They will be in storage for a while.

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