Exhaustion and cream cheese

I've not posted the past couple of days because I've just been too exhausted. Yesterday we burned at Onondaga. It wasn't a hard unit, only 120 acres. I know it sounds like a lot, but compared to Johnsons Shut Ins where we have an 800 acre unit, this one was a cake walk. The worst part was climbing the ridge to our starting point. Then it was mostly downhill from there, sometimes very steep so I was careful not to twist my ankle. Most of the time I carried the rake and just tried to watch out for snags that could cause problems. But my crew leader did let me use the drip torch for about half of the time. And boy was it a good fire, it burned HOT! Big flames, fire whirls, all that stuff made it very exciting! But made me sooo pooped.

When I got back to town Ben called and invited me to have dinner with him and Tiffany. I thought it sounded nice, especially since he was making me fried pickles...YUM! So I went over there for a couple hours, but once my tummy was full, it all started to hit me and I thought I was going to pass out on my dinner plate! So I came home, but wanted to stay up for a little bit since the dog had been cooped up all day. But less an hour later, (right before 10), I was falling asleep on the couch! So it was off to bed with me.

This morning, despite having 8 hrs of sleep, when the alarm went off I did NOT want to get out of bed. I've been a walking zombie all day today! And tonight 10:00 hit and I was falling asleep on the couch again! So not like a night owl like me, usually I'm luckty if I'm in bed by midnight! But as I post this my eyes burn so bad, I just want to sleep!

Have to get up early tomorrow though, baby and I are going on our first salamander hunt! haha. I set up some herp arrays, which are some buckets buried in the ground, one at each point in a Y shape, with aluminum flashing connecting them. The idea is the salamanders are trotting toward their breeding ponds, they hit the flashing, cant climb it, so they follow it until PLOP, the fall into the bucket. Then in the morning I go out, count and record them, and let them go. And they move on the first warm rainy night of the spring...which should be tonight! So we'll see what we find in the morning.

Got my first food aversion today I think. Was running a little late this morning so made myself a bagel with cream cheese to go. In the car, on my way to work, I took a big bite of my yummy Earthgrains bagel with whipped cream cheese and...UGh...I didn't think I'd chew it enough to swallow before hurling! It was the strangest thing. So I waited a few min, took a drink of my chocoolate milk, and tried again. Same reaction! So I guess baby has decided that mommy doesn't like cream cheese anymore. :( Wonder what is next? If it's ice cream or steak, I think I'll just die.