do you smell something burning?

it was quite a busy weekend.

my mom is still in the hospital. she's stable, but has had some pretty scary moments. she's currently fighting a staph infection. when i went to visit her, there was a sign on her door saying that in order to see her you had to wear a face mask, plastic coveralls, and rubber gloves. apparently the stomach virus i had last week has a name. it's called the norvo (spelling might be off) virus. it can't be killed by hand sanitizer, is EXTREMELY contagious, and you can get it more than once. she was being roomed with someone who had the virus, which is why you had to wear the protection to see her. obviously, she doesn't need that to contend with along with a staph infection.

when i wasn't at the hospital, i was at camp bonnie brae, helping to repair some of the damage caused by the ice storm back in december. after talking to wayne, it looks like there is going to be plenty of work to do up until camp starts. this weekend the goal was to annihalate 3 piles of ice covered brush by burning them. the job might have been warm, but it certainly wasn't easy. however... it was damn fun because i got to use a flamethrower to do it. it wasn't a huge device, but just the fact that i got to use something that spews fire was an adventure for me. we also got to use and recycle peanut oil from waynes turkey fryer. it was alot of fun. all in all we ended up getting rid of all 3 piles.

saturday night i ended up spending the evening with one of my campers troops. it was kind of an eye opening experience to teenage girls today. i was playing cards with them and the way some of them were talking kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. i ended up leaving the card game to go hang out with the troop leaders. yet another indicator that i am in fact turning 27 next month. when talking to wayne the next day, i believe i actually used the phrase "kids these days". ugh.

my saturday night sleeping was less than ideal. during the summer when sleeping in an empty building, you can hear rustleings of animals and other people outside. but in the winter the silence is almost deafening, and the dark is so dark that you can't tell if your eyes are open or shut. i woke up a few times during the night feeling like all the hairs on the back of my neck were standing strait up. i ended up plugging my earbuds into my ears and turning on my ipod. after that i slept like a baby.

i spent sunday night chatting with my mom. it was good conversation stuff. we talked about life and current events. it was so nice to be able to talk to her truthfully and not have to be careful what i was saying because of audrey or anyone else being around.

after that, i came home. i climbed into bed. shortly after that, steve came to bed too. after about 10 minutes of lying there.. he asked if i smelled something burning. i didn't. so we got up to check out the house. while in the kitchen, he walked by me.. stopped.. then came over to me and smelled my hair. after standing in the fire for 2 days, my hair and sweatshirt held the smell of the burning brush. i loooovvveeee that smell. it killed me to wash my hair today.