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April 27 San Juan Island, Puget Sound, WAso i got this free night at a nice place out on San Juan Island---so we took off for a mini-vacation after Adam's neice's t-ball game. Let me tell you, there is NOTHING funnier than a bunch of preschoolers trying to figure out how to play t-ball. 3 innings is about half an inning too long for them to track....the ball comes and they watch it roll between their feet and then run after it. Her team was playing a bunch of kindergarteners who could actually hit the ball. I feared for the little one's noggins and the ball would come out of the air towards them!!!
So the San Juans were beautiful. We saw deer, fox, sheep, alpaca, and lots of beautiful homes.
Here are a few of the highlights: This alpaca looked at me like i was crazy when i stuck my head through the fence to take its picture. for a moment, i thought maybe i was going to be eaten by the cute, furry, will you be my pet?, oh wait--but you probably spit, alpaca. Second, this light house at Lime Kiln State park was beautiful...
Also, what's the point of going to a sculpture garden if you aren't going to play with the sculptures....we thought the sculpture park would be kinda lame---but it wove through the woods and was pretty snazzy in the end!!
April 22 was it just a dream?Okay, i am starting to develop a theme---and yes, i realize it's a whiny one about wanting warm.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
It was over 70 F here yesterday.
yes really.
and the sun was out.
But today the high will be 52 with rain.
So, seeing as how the sun had appeared i went to go sit in it for about 20 minutes while i read over a legal document for work. i think 20 minutes should get me lik 5,000 of the whatevers of Vitamin D (see previous post) i am supposed to get a day. While i was sitting there doing my best imitation of a lizard in teal blue stillettos, it occurred to me that its less than a month until i go home to visit the parentals. I was staring at my shoes, contemplating how much i love them when i realized i can't wear them in Haifa because the meandering on rocks and uneven pavement will shred the heels of my Precioussssss. Anyways, Bob and Lis are working the first few days i am there--so i have a plan to overcome jetlag and make the most of the vacation.
The PLAN
1. Take my evidence books (even if i am not going to read them, they still must accompany me for a false sense of productiveness)
2. Go bask on the sandy shores of the Mediterranean until i have brown-ified or at least de-whitenessed myself. Really, this is a pre-emptive strike on my younger and tanner sister who arrives DAYS after me---giving me a chance to get ahead in the "who's going to be more burnt after living too far from the equator for tooo long" contest.
3. See Nimrod's Castle in the Golan Heights.
 April 10 why i was meant to live somewhere warm and sunny...Once upon a time, in a land called Laurelhurst, i went to visit a man my roommate has affecionately named "Crazy" and the rest of the world calls Dr. Thomas. He is a funny man, who i like because he says whatever he wants in a less than formal manner most times--i also think he might have a tad bit of ADHD. Anyways, Crazy says to me, you look kinda pale to me, like paler than normal, do you look pale to you? To which i responded--you realize there is no sun here, right. He paused, gave me a quizzical look and decided we would run my blood to make sure i'm not anemic or something else.
Results in: i'm not anemic. I am however, something else.
Crazy calls today (bad sign by the way when your doctor and not his assistant calls) and says, so Martha, you aren't anemic, but did you know the average person's Vitamin D levels are between 40 and 65 whatevers? Noooo, i respond, waiting for him to tell me mine is like 25. Yours, however, he continues, is in the basement, its an 8. yeah, not a typo. Just 8. So, unless you are able to make your insurance pay for you to go Hawaii so you can lie in the sun for a few weeks---its time to get some supplements and take about 3000whatevers a day of it.
what are these 'whatevers' of which i speak?? WebMD says:
The Vitamin D Council recommends that 25(OH)D levels be between 40 and 65 ng/mL. The U.S. National Institutes of health notes that 25(OH)D levels over 30 ng/mL are optimal, and that there is "insufficient data" to support recommendations for higher levels. [Obviously the only agreement is that over 30 is a good starting point]According to the National Institutes of Health, the maximum upper limit for vitamin D is 25 micrograms (1,000 IU) for children up to age 12 months and 50 micrograms (2,000 IU) for everyone else. But some recent studies suggest that healthy adults can tolerate more than 10,000 IU of vitamin D per day. John Jacob Cannell, MD, executive director of The Vitamin D Council, notes that the skin makes 10,000 IU of vitamin D after 30 minutes of full-body sun exposure. Point is, ladies and gents, that i was destined to live somewhere sunny!! My body was just not built for the shade! I kinda think sometimes we subconsciously know what we we need---so lately, i've been craving eggs---which it turns out are a good source of Vitamin D. Interesting!! And Thank God i am going home to my folks soon and get some real sun!!
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