Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often: Day 9- Jalapeño Cardinal

The damn jalapeno that caused all the pain

I'm typing my first blog ever using the app on my phone! I will edit it better once I get to my computer, but wanted to see how this would look.

Well tonight I went to my first Cards game of the season!

My friend Anna texted me on Monday asking if I was interested in going and getting bleacher seats, of course I jumped at the opportunity and said duh! So, I soon got a text from Anna of the people who would be going with: Anna, me, Steph, and Amy. Two sorority sisters and Amy is a good friend of Anna's. We were set! Tickets bought, we are good to go!

I had told Anna I would make dinner and meet her at Jon's house around 5:00. So, I got all ready! Jean capris, white tank with a cards jersey over it, red tennis shoes, make up done and all.

In order to make dinner I had to grab a few ingredients from my house which included: tomatoes, onion, and turkey burgers. Of course, freaking of course there is a half cut jalapeño on the counter...only at my house. Well, I somehow brushed my stupid finger against the jalapeño or some other odd happening. All of a sudden I felt something in my eye, like some make up or some similar thing, so I did what any ordinary person does, and I put my finger toward my eye to relieve my eye of this unwelcome object. What the hell was I thinking!!?? All of a sudden an overwhelming BURN starts coercing through my eyeball. Pound, pound pound...wait now it's moving to my cheek. Holy Shit my eyeball is coming out of its socket!!!!! Well it's been nice to look at you world, but now I'll be looking at you through only one eye, with the other one covered with a patch! Of course my mom is in the kitchen trying to help me as I'm yelping in pain. She's asking in gentle tones what she can do and I scream back at her that I need a wet cloth. Now mind you I cannot open my eye, AT ALL, so when my mom says "here" I hold out my hand receive a wet paper towel?!! WHAT!!! I don't want this! I need a wet rag!! I'm sure I was screaming because I am in such pain, but god love my mom she sprints into her bedroom to grab a towel-a large hand towel and gives it to me. I'm practically laying on the kitchen sink and water has become my best friend. I'm still receiving no relief and am still in lots of pain. My mom, the Internet guru, runs over to the Internet and puts something like "jalapeño in eye remedy" into the google search engine. I know the noises I was making in the background must have been intense because my mom reads to me "the most important thing to do is remain calm. " If you are anything like me, when someone tells you to remain calm you shout back "I am CALM!!!" and in fact you are anything but. So I stay true form and tell her I am remaining calm. I then hear her mutter something under her breath which I can't quite hear, but I do catch one word, "milk". By this point I'm cussing and stomping my foot, I'm bent over the sink, and tears are streaming out of my eyes. Some of you at this point are thinking, use eye drops, well let me tell you that if I could have opened my eye, then that would be a great solution, AND if I didn't have a fear of eye drops then I would have totally sucked it up and done it. I hear my mom doing something and I'm thinking she's going to help me conquer this whole fear of eye drops thing, I hear her beside me and she says, "here let me see". So like a good daughter I take the towel off my face and look out of my good eye to see a---syringe type thing with a white liquid in it...uh mom, what the hell is that?!!! "They say that milk in your eye will help with the pain", she says as she starts squirting MILK into my eyeball! I shout and jump backward and say something along the lines of "stay away from me with your turkey baster full of milk!" that shit is NOT going in my eye!!! I run into my mom's room and grab the stupid bottle of eye drop stuff and start squirting it in my eye. I'm not sure if my mom was trying to scare me into getting over my fear of eye drops but it worked!! I'll take eye drops over milk syringe any day! Ahhhh finally relief.

I walk out of the bathroom to find my mom giggling at the fact that she just squirted milk into my eyeball. She confirmed this with a giggled, "I just squirted milk into your eye." yeah mom hilarious.

After the jalapeño crisis, things were uphill from there. We met at a commuter lot, drove downtown, parked, walked to the game, watched the Cardinals lose, and then left. I really do love going to Cardinals games. St. Louis is really a baseball city! The weather was perfect, company was awesome, and I had my eye to see it all!

Below are some pics of the night: