There's a FROG in my throat!

So this is what it has come to dang-nabbit! My cold started out itsy bitsy small... NO sore throat just a weird feeling to a freakin' frog jammed inside my throat with me CROAKING away as I talk and almost dying because of the FAT frog blocking my air way... *sigh!* sheesh its crazyyyyy!!!

Anymoo, besides THAT life is great! I'm back home in the valley (Nemiah) chillaxing with my family, friends and all loved ones for the Holiday Season. It's soooooo AWESOME to be back home for Christmas!!! And we have SNOW!!! Too much of it now that I think about it? NOT! Hahaha I LOVE it!!! Snow drifts and blazing trails and snowmobiles and snow angels and avalanches :S and chicken soup and hot chocolate and frozen fingers 'n toes and sugar cookies and indian tea and snow days (playing in the snow) and christmas tree hunting and decorating and turkey dinners and playing board games and all that fun jazz!

But to start off at the beginning of my Holiday craze... I ended up leaving Abbotsford Dec.15th (Friday)... travelling and finding out that the #5 Highway I was to take to get to Kamloops was CLOSED, and so was the #1 through the Canyons... so I was in quite a pickle! Because I found out that my insurance on our jeep was going to run out the next day (16th), which meant I had NO choice and HAD to get back up north one way or another! And first of all I had to meet my parents in Kamloops to pick up some new winter tires. So guess what I did?! I drove the #1 Highway through the Canyons anyway, even though it was closed... I ended up driving ahead of the rest of everyone (they were just sitting, parked on the road in a huge line up), but then once I got to the front of the line, the road police opened up the road! So it all worked out and I made it to Kamloops and back home.

So ever since I've been home, I've been hanging around the community, catching up with extended family and friends, participated in the school concert ("Return of the Angels") with my two bestfriends Jessie and Hattie Tanis, attended an Elders luncheon, cooked for the Staff and Community luncheon, and spent a couple of days hanging out and catching up with the Tanis family. It's so good to be back in the community again, I've missed it so much!!!

And more recently, I spent the weekend with my sister in Williams Lake at her apt this past weekend. We both ended up driving back to the valley on Saturday (23rd) and then on Christmas Eve, we went to the Tanis' for a potluck dinner. It was so good to have everyone together again to share a Christmas dinner! And then on Christmas day my parents ended up having a Christmas dinner at our house, and we had close family and friends over. Afterwards, Jessie, Jo and I cruised over to some friends (Annie 'n Wayne Wm) house to hang out and play cards and "gamble", hehe... they just played with poker chips for fun. But other than that, we've just been enjoying this incredible amount of snow we've been getting!

But it's mainly been the last few days (since Christmas day) where my FROGGY throat has been bugging me... I thought it was getting better yesterday, because my voice wasn't croaking anymore, but then yesterday evening my throat was attacking me!!! The stupid frog just wouldn't give up already! Just like the pic below...

That little critter just doesn't want to get out! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! He won't give up dang-nabbit! He just doesn't want to budge... argg! So anyway, I've come to a point where I'm tired of croaking like a frog and almost dying because I can't breathe because there's so much flem in my throat choking me to death! That's what it feels like anyway... *sigh* And the fact that I'm talking like a frog just is NOT FUNNY!!! Grrrr! hahaha! Actually, I think it's pretty funny... it's been years since I've had to talk like a frog... I laugh about it now, but it's getting to be annoying... the coughing anyway!

And I ADVISE any of you out there... LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHERS!!! My mom Phyllis told me at the beginning of my froginess or first signs... to gargle with salt water! And I didn't listen, thinking that the weird feeling in my throat would go away by just drinking tea... but heyyyy, IT DIDN'T!!! So now I"ve been gargling with salt water and eating chicken soup and drinking lots and lots of Indian Tea! But I actually think somehow that my sickness is getting better... it started with a REALLY sore RAW feeling in my throat... but once I gargled with salt water, there's no more sore throat, but now I've been coughing up flem (which I think is the beginning stage of getting better... loose flem and coughing it up and all that NOT so fun jazz and hopefully in a couple days I'll be better... maybe I'm wrong? *Shrugs*)... but anyway, I feel like I'm stuck in this irritating FROGY stage, because the dang frog just won't give up!

"Come on,
Come on birdy, you can do it!
You can beat him!
Eat the stupid frog!!!
Eat him,
Eat him,
EAT HIM...

Wait...

ewwwwww!
Okay I don't want to EAT the frog...
I want to be RID OF the frogy!
*sigh* Whatever!
I'm confused, nothing unusual there, hehe."

Anyway, I've found a solution!



Taa-daaaaa!!! FROG REMEDIES!!!

1. Drink lots of water to keep your vocal chords moist.
2. Try not to scream or talk loudly ever over background noise.
3. Avoid cigarettes and alcohol
4. Avoid caffeine. It can dehydrate your vocal chords.
5. Use good posture and good breath support.

It sounds believable. Sounds smart. I BELIEVE! heh heh

Well I'm done talking about my frogy nature... *ahem* I mean my frog in my throat!!! Cheese [pronounced Ch-eh-zzzzz] hehe!

Alrighty folks, I'm outtie!

Wishing you all a (late) MERRY CHRISTMAS and an (early) HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!!

Many blessings to you all this Holiday season! God be with you always!

And I leave you with this great word...

Ch-eh-zzzzz! heh heh :P



A sister in Christ, Yolanda (aka: Yo)