Not my money...

Well, this is NOT my money. And I am not gonna say whose it is either...But it is A LOT! Any guesses? And no, it isn't my friend who is a hooker...or a server, or a drug dealer....J/K. So don't try and guess. LOL. And, NO I didn't rob a bank. Haha. I just had to take a pic since I will prob never EVER hold this much cash in my hands again. Ooh, maybe next year I can get my tax refund all in $5s and $10s and roll around in it naked. Haha. That WOULD really be a photo op. Um, no.

Allergies and ancestors

Ok, so the pollen in this area is horrendous...and I am not even joking a little bit. I have spent all day blowing my nose into a roll of toilet paper. Scratchy. Snotty. Yeah, so fun. Everything is covered in a yellow powdery film of pollen. So when I went to the geneticist for the 2nd step in donating my eggs (more on this later)...I had to tell them basically all I knew about my family and their genetic background. Like, had anyone had or died from cancer? How many brothers and sisters do my parents have? How many cousins? (there was no answer to this one since it is over 60 at least on my Mom's side...)
I thought they were gonna draw blood and test me for some weird genetic abnormality marker type thing. All they did was draw a graph with circles for females and squares for males and then she took notes on what I could tell her. It all took about 20 minutes. Very interesting and seems like not very concrete info to report back to the potential egg recipients. What if I didn't mention the type of cancer my paternal grandmother and aunt died of cuz I don't know? Honestly I do not have a complete genetic family tree completed. I barely know all my Aunts' and Uncles' names unless I write them all down. LOL. So on Wednesday is the psychological testing for over 2 hours...I will update on that and why I decided to do this in the first place...etc...

Botany Bay/Edisto Island Day

Last Saturday, without much thought or planning, I dragged the Hubby against his will and Grandma and the kids full of eager anticipation to a place a friend told me about called Botany Bay. It is near Edisto Island.

http://www.dnr.sc.gov/managed/wild/botany/description.html

It was released as a Public Wildlife Preserve last year and it is amazing. I am posting several pics of when we went and one I found through Google that is beautiful.

It is about an hour drive, past Hollywood, South Carolina and is very scenic. There are millions of shells all all over the beach and interesting dead Live Oak trees all over the sand and forest area. It looks like a hurricane came and uprooted all the trees and dropped them in strange places. The Hubby says that is exactly what happened. The shells reminded me of bones and they sounded creepy when stepped on.

Enjoy the photos, in my opinion it was a little too sunny for a good photo op. ;o)

Austin is still afraid of the ocean and Maddie wants to live there someday. LOL.

Ok...so...call me an Addict.

So recently I have gotten into Twitter.com and I find it very addicting. I check it at least half a dozen times a day. And a friend I met on Myspace asked for her friends' URLs to Blogspot and I actually do not recall signing up but apparently I have been signed up since Sept 07. And all I have posted is a photo of Austin when he was a baby. LOL. Too funny. So here I am addicted to yet another online/social network type environment. Between Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Kaneva, and others, how do I have time to get anything done? Is there a support group for people like me? And do I even want help? LOL.