just a few days of drama...

so i have been gone a few days...delivering emma to byu.

had an uneventful ride through the desert (after leaving california way too late) and ended up staying in lovely cedar city, because when you

are an old lady like me, everything shuts down about 8pm.
had a wonderful time at the hampton inn, and a much needed trip to walmart.

all of this excitement, after a letdown of sorts with the pathetic buffet at the mirage 

(dont ever visit this so called best buffet in vegas). i hate vegas. i really do. 

no offense to any vegas readers out there. 

and to make it even more exciting, emma and i are on this crazy diet. have to gorge for 3 days before the starvation sets in. ate lots of cinnamon rolls smeared in butter, swedish fish, ice cream cookie sandwiches, cafe rio, not once, but twice, gurus sweet potato fries and lots of pasta...never felt so disgusting in my life...and the tale continues.

now we are eating 500 calories and hating life. 

it will be worth it, emma, i promise.

the week just gets better, with a trip to the emergency room for an intense migraine, 

hyper-ventilating episode thing complete with hands that went numb
and tingly lips, and gall bladder attack the night prior. 

(i think this takes the cake for the worst i have ever felt),

all of this complete with an iv and barfing in the little square pink bucket in front of 

emma and the nice fireman helper guy with really nice biceps (he probably could have been my son).

and all that good chicken and broccoli wasted.
what a shame.

darling emma even held my hair back while i puked my guts out.

caused lots of drama with aenon hurrying down from salt lake and my 80 something parents scrambling to the little po-dunk hospital in orem. yes, you heard me right, orem.

or "awrem", as they pronounce it here. 

i guess there was a suicidal guy there too in the room next to me.

i really didnt care who was there, because i was given a nice cocktail of sleepy drugs and when i arrived home to my moms, i literally fell comatose into the bed and slept in till 9am.

never done that in my whole life.

so, all in all, maybe i just needed some sleep and some major drugs.

the perfect cure all.

the next day was a fun filled (and highlight of my week) afternoon filled with little darling shops, and even a junk yard...and then lunch at the blue lemon (only after a tour of ingrids home, whose craft room is the size of my living room and kitchen...ok, i will admit, i officially have major craft room envy).

all of this fun with my spark girls, pictured above.

for a bunch of old ladies, i think we are pretty cute, even if i had barfed the night before, and was seriously still coming down from my sleepy drug high.

and i have decided, girl time is necessary.

so get ready, april and melanie. were going somewhere fun.