Trips/Dreams & Allergic Reactions

I've been neglecting this space for so long

which would usually make me feel pretty disappointed

because i love this blog and i've loved writing here

for the past two-three years.

I am however not disappointed because

my time is being spent elsewhere doing productive things

like traveling and thinking and laughing and building

and being real sick for one terrible night.

Let's start with theeeee traveling.

Tom and I spent a week exploring Texas

a few weeks ago.

I posted some pics on instagram but i haven't

really relived it all just yet, until now.

We stayed in Austin for Two days

then headed down to San Antonio for Two days and 

finished the trip off in Houston/Galveston.

We had a blast!

My favorite place was Austin!!

Austin reminds me of Cali but in Texas, with less ocean.

Everyone is so laid back and chill and the food is so amazing

and the social scene is on point and it's just magic in a bottle!!

I'll (maybe) post a few travel posts about

all of the things we did on our trip in the near future. (Hopefully)

Next up is the thinking/laughing/building.

It has been the best having Tom around 24/7.

It's just so fun to have your best friend/love close to

you when you've spent so much time apart and for so long too.

It feels like i'm on vacation everyday with him.

We spend our days lounging and laughing and 

doing some dreaming and binge watching the walking dead.

It's so much fun and I love it!

(I just started watching the WD like a month or so ago.

I mean I'm way behind the times but I'm so glad I finally got into it!

It is so so so good, we only just started season 5 so no spoilers pleaaseee)

My thinking and building has led me to a business venture.

Tom and I recently had dinner with some good friends of mine

and they are pretty business savvy themselves.

We got to talking about ideas, I have about 1,000

business ideas a day, not even kidding.

Anyways we started talking about how to take action.

Take an idea that you really like, that you're passionate about

and just stop trying to beat it with other ideas.

Just take it and make a move.

So I've been moving and shaking ever since.

I'm in the Business Plan portion of my venture

and it's so exciting to build my pretty little creation!!

More about that to come, i'm sure!

And finally let's discuss my fin Friday night.

This past friday we were celebrating my sister and brother in law's birthday.

We went to a Hibachi place in town and everything was going great.

I had never been to a hibachi place before so this was all new to me.

It was awesome, the fire the flips the food, amazing!

He served up some little appetizers and one of the appetizers

was shrimp, this is where the night started going downhill.

I have always been quite picky about food but

as i've gotten older i've decided to try more stuff.

So Friday night was the first time I had ever had shrimp.

I thought it was really good, i liked it.

I only had one shrimp, one pretty good sized shrimp.

Sooo I keep eating the rest of the food he is putting out

but I'm feeling off and i'm quick to realize 

that I haven't felt this way before.

My mouth was feeling weird and so was my throat.

I have a fruit allergy where my mouth gets

itchy and a little puffy with certain fruits so everyone

kind of thought maybe that was it, but I hadn't eaten any fruit.

So it was a mystery as to why I was feeling bad.

I finally had to excuse myself at the end of dinner 

and go outside for some fresh air.

Tom went with me and while we were outside

I started to cry, I didn't mean to cry or want to cry, it just started happening.

We got in the car with my family and

my crying turned into uncontrollable sobs.

My breathing became labored and

I started getting clammy.

Then The weirdest things started happening.

Clammy means I'm close to fainting, but every time

I've ever fainted i haven't really been aware of it, it just happens so fast.

This time was slow and crazy!

I just kept saying, I'm going to pass out

then I started losing my hearing which was SO CRAZY!!

I started telling my parents I couldn't hear and

I got them to turn on the cool air which helped me come to a little.

My dad drove us to the closest Prime Care

and we walked in and there were people in there

waiting to see a doctor but they pushed me past all of them.

They took some bloodwork and gave me a shot

for a totally unrelated infection that I had and sent me on my way.

I mean I was expecting something for the allergic reaction

but I guess they knew i'd be ok after some time.

So we left and headed home.

We were probably in the car for 5 minutes before

I had to stop the car and do the deed that no one wants

to do in public, in a church parking lot.

After that I felt much better but then

I started having an asthma attack and I got

a horrible rash all over my body.

After some benedryl and some sleep

I was feeling better, not 100% but better.

I'm still feeling off from it but I think it's pretty much passed.

So we think it was the shrimp but we're not sure.

Those Hibachi places use so much seasoning and other

stuff that we're not really sure what it was.

I've had a little bit of crab before and it didn't bother me

but i know that shrimp can bother you even if other shellfish doesn't.

Sooooo I'm either allergic to shrimp or hibachi ;)

I don't really plan on having shrimp again so maybe I'll

have to try hibachi one more time to see if it's something they use.

Alright, I'll stop there!

Hope you're all having a great week so far!