{"id":326,"date":"2011-05-14T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:29:09","slug":"tick-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/tick-magnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fernando and Pip<\/p>\n


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Went out on a date with Tabs and Pip. We attended the movie <\/span><\/span>Soul Surfer.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b> It was a good movie. I want to move to Hawaii. I love the Hawaiian life style. Pip wasn’t sacred–didn’t have a chance to be as Tabs covered Pip’s entire face during the shark attack. Tabs was so cute. She had seen the movie a few weeks ago with a friend and was thrilled to be going to it again with us. She warned me about any up and coming frightening scenes for Pip. Though, it was I who had to forcibly remove Tabs’ hands from Pip’s eyes as Tabs deemed much of the movie too frightening for her little sis. A great date.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Afterward, we were thrilled to discover Mist had arrived home from Vancouver. Then, as I was tucking little Pip into bed she told me, “I can’t put my head on the pillow because it hurts the “owie” on my head.” I checked and sure enough, another giant wood tick! It must have climbed aboard last Sunday on our Mother’s Day hike. It was big and painful. Of course, I could not remove it with her screams and hysteria. Also, it had a red circle around it on her scalp so I thought it best to make sure it wasn’t carrying lime disease–onward to the hospital. We lucked out–we were only there for 2 h. \u00a0Home by midnight. Doctor froze her scalp with a needle anesthetic. The needle hurt perhaps more than pulling the tick out–can’t be sure, she screamed through both procedures but then miraculously returned to complete calm instantly to finish a game she was playing on the iPad. Doctor asked me if I was like that as a kid?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Today the cousins were over to play. Peter teaches all day at the Uni. I am writing the last of the revisions on my thesis. And then perhaps, I will treat my gals to coffee out. Loath to do another hike today with Pip–that was the second giant tick on her head this spring.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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–Tabs just whipped down to tell me it’s the last day for 1\/2 price frapuccinos! I guess that means a Starbucks visit–<\/span><\/span>I must tell of a little compliment I received the other day at Starbucks–so I don’t forget myself. An older gentleman approached my table and started talking to me. I removed my ear buds and said, “Pardon me?”<\/span><\/div>\n
“That dress is dynamite!” he said, “You really up the classiness of this office in that dress.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
I had to laugh and thank him. I love that he referred to Starbucks as an office and I hadn’t heard “dynamite” since I was a kid in the 70’s. But I agree, the dress I was wearing was a dynamite dress–Grecian style, taupe in colour<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pip the Tick-Magnet Fernando and Pip Went out on a date with Tabs and Pip. We attended the movie Soul Surfer. It was a good movie. I want to move to Hawaii. I love the Hawaiian life style. Pip wasn’t … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[685,684],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","tag-soul-surfer","tag-ticks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t