oh honey, honey

My friend Tracy (wife of my team leader at work) claims that eating local honey will help with allergies. Huh.

Whether or not it is true, the idea of a big jar of fresh honey just tickled my taste buds today so I tromped down to the office of the guy at work who is a beekeeper in his spare time and bought a large jar of fresh golden honey. It sat in my office all day and I smiled when I looked at it. Yum.

Driving home, I set it on the floorboard beside me and held onto it at every turn (we're talking 45 minutes of driving here so this is some major jar-sitting). I envisioned hot tea with honey and warm milk with honey at bedtime tonight. I tasted fresh honey on my morning oatmeal. Cookies and cakes with honey. Honey on warm buttermilk biscuits. My mouth was watering as I turned into my driveway. I kid you not. I was on the verge of proposing to my jar of fresh, local honey.

I gathered up all my belongings, including my precious jar of honey and hurried toward the house, with visions of honey on everything dancing in my head. But wait. I was hasty, I was in a hurry. I dropped my jar of honey on my gravel driveway and watched in dismay as the jar shattered into a bajillion pieces (all mixed in with the honey) and honey oozed into the dirt...all in slow motion, mind you. Sniff. It was very very sad.

E thinks I should go buy another jar tomorrow. But I don't know - it just seems wrong. That jar was my jar. I'd be cheating on it if I just went immediately to another. I think at least a few days of mourning is in order.

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I believe I have solved the mystery rash. I have only itched like this in a tear-my-skin-off, grab a fork way twice in my life. The first time we deduced it was a penicillin allergy. I was taking penicillin for some dental work. This time, however, there was no penicillin. Ah - but there was dental work. I believe I may be one of the rare folks blessed with a type IV allergic response to dental anesthesia. (Type IV means a delayed response, most often an itchy skin rash that lasts several weeks). Two for two. Yep - pretty sure. Any bets on whether I'll be able to convince my dentist of this?

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And I just want to add here before I close that...I love my kids. I love my husband. I love my family. And I think they love me despite the fact that I have weird skin type-IV allergic reactions and am careless with the love of my life jar of honey. It doesn't get much better than this, folks.