Hashing Out...

The final verdict is in - potatoes are out. MeLissa tried some hashed browns this morning and much to her dismay, the old familiar scratchiness at the back of the throat (the tell-tale sign that she's allergic to something) reared its evil head. C'est la vie. (Do you think the "Dark Side" potato pictures jinxed her?)

Mark decided to give one of the techniques he has learned in school, Applied Kinesiology, to make sure. It is pretty "voodoo," but it seemed to work pretty well. First, he had MeLissa hold a lemon (something she's not allergic to) in one hand while holding her opposite arm up. Then he asked her if she's allergic to lemons (she wasn't actually supposed to respond which is good since she didn't). Then he tried to push the arm that she was holding up down. End result - the arm stayed up...no problem. He did the same with an apple - a little wobbly, maybe, but basically okay. Then, he had her hold some of the hashbrowns she'd made. When he tried to push her arm down, it went pretty quick! It was pretty strange.

Of course, this led to MeLissa being extraordinarily curious and so she kept pulling out foods she was allergic to (and some she's not supposed to be) and having him perform tests. If the test doesn't lie, pineapple and carrots will be added back to her diet soon. Garlic, peanut butter and soy sauce are definitely not. It should be interesting to see how things go in the next few weeks!

In other news, MeLissa took the final for her wedding course today. She did very well - she missed only two! So now, she is a bonafide Certified Wedding Planner who can plan any wedding - large or small. She now moves onto the Event Planning course (the course she was most interested in originally)! If all goes well, she'll finish this course up by the end of March and then will be assigned a wedding or event to plan. She's really looking forward to that experience, too! For the rest of this weekend, though, MeLissa will probably be doing errands, housework and some quilting. Her goal is to finish two blocks - neither of which will be the triangle block. She's thinking she'll save that for another day!

Mark, on the other hand is busily studying. He has a lot of info to refresh himself on over the next couple of months so that he can be a "one-timer" on his first Chiropractic Board Exam and that doesn't even include all the studying for his regular classes! Expect to hear from him again after March 21...