After coming back from Grand Bend I might have initally gotten this Ear Infection from playing football in the great lakes where there could be germs or something. Or the Ear infection could have come from the bug that flew into my eye. So those are my theories.

Regardless, once I came back I had the WORST ear rake in my entire life. I laid in bed suffering until the pain was unbearable and my mom took me to the hospital.

The doctor prescribed a strong pain killer for me, but nothing helped. On the drive to get our medication my pain was greater than any I have ever experienced in my entire life. I felt like my head was going to crack open. My head had soo much pressure it was unbeleivable.

Eventually I randomly asked my mom for a piece of gum. And this happened to be the best random idea ever! Because we just didnt think that that would help releive the pressure. But it did! And I will recommend to anyone if you have pressure in your ear, then chew gum.

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When I was about 13 my best friend Brockel had horses. In return for helping her family care for the horses, Brockel's dad taught me to ride. I loved riding and my favorite horse was a fierce gelding named Chestnut. He was mean but he could run so fast! One afternoon my girlfriends and I were all out riding when a tornado arose. We couldn't see the danger, but the horsed definately scensed it. I was leading the ride and and motioned Chestnut on but he wanted to turn around and the other horses were following suit.
Things get really creepy when a tornado is about to strike and everything around us got eerily quiet. With the horses being so stubborn and the dark clouds coming we decided to turn back. As soon as we did the horses all bolted! I pulled the reins as hard as my scrawny arms could but Chestnut and his incredible strength were no match for me. My friends and I were all at the mercy of these powerful beasts! All we could do was hang on for dear life. What a . . . Read More..

Noels recent memory about being in Elementary School and stuffing things in his mouth, reminded me about a time that we were learning about the 5 types of tastes and learning about which sections of the tongue taste certain flavors.  To test this, we had an assortment of items like sour juice, bitter coffee, sweet sugar and much more.

Everything was fine until the students placed coffee beans on my mouth and I practically choked.  I spit them out immediately and blew so hard that the coffee beans went all over the place.

It was a complete mess.

When my parents divorced, Dan and I used to go to my dad's apartment.

At times, my dad had a room mate, Scott Mitchell and he was a lot of fun. Dan and I got a long with him really well. And he had really long hair and a beard as well.

Here are some random things I remember form staying over there every other weekend for about a year or so:

• We used to play Dragon Warrior 5 with my Dad and would play the poker mini game to try to get some kind of sword. (We didnt care about the game at all, we just really liked playing poker)
• There was the ghetto couch that Scott slept on.
• We used to do dishes a lot. My Dad always made us put the dishes away as well as clean the dishes after he provided us with food for dinner.
• One time, we went to the pool and had a lot of fun in an indoor heated pool. Something funny happened here, but I dont recall.
• Dan and I used to go rollerblading in the apartment complex and go for walks and one time we caught our parents making out with each

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Jeff and I had just gotten married and it was the first morning home from our honeymoon. We had just moved  into our first  little apartment with a tiny kitchen and I decided I wanted to make breakfast for Jeff. I tried to cook eggs but since I had no experience with cooking they all got stuck to the pan. Jeff came in and laughed and asked if I put butter or oil in the pan to keep the eggs from sticking. "What?! You have to put butter on the pan?" I asked Jeff. He couldn't believe I didn't know that. Seriously, I had never cooked eggs, or much of anything in my life up to that point. Hey, people aren't born knowing how to cook eggs! I had one of those wonderful sets of parents that did EVERYTHING for me. Well, Jeff showed me the correct proceedure to use butter and THEN cook the eggs.
The next morning Jeff about died when he walked into the kitchen and I was trying to cook bacon in butter! Who knew bacon created its own non-stick . . . Read More..