blown vein and 3-D

I love to donate platelets. It's something my sisters got me into. It's a great way to serve and they give you snacks and you get to watch a movie.
I have not been able to donate for a while because of low iron and sickness.
Well I had an appointment today and in anticipation for it I have been eating a lot of red meat, spinach and almonds. Well I checked in and my iron was 38% (woot! just barely).
So I get all comfy with my water and snack, start my movie and get stuck. The first return.... kinda stings. Then there's the bitter metal taste, but wow! that really stings. The sticker asks me, "How does that feel?"
"Well it stings and kinda burns." Poke, poke. Feel, feel.
The sticker says that my vein was probably nicked on the other side and the saline is leaking into my arm and that's what is stinging. Sorry about that. He takes out the needle and says see you in 8 weeks. :(
So Kyle picks me up and we go to the dollar movie. We watched "Despicable Me" in 3D. It was totally fun and it worked. I liked the movie more than I thought I would.
But my arm still kinda hurts.

The Tie!!!

So... I saw Quantum of Solace about 2 years ago when it first came out. It is a great action movie with lots of cool car chases, who is the double ought spy and of course Daniel Craig. But the thing that I really could remember was how much I LOVED HIS TIE!
I just got the movie in the mail today from Netflix and enjoyed the movie very much. There was so much I couldn't remember but I was so excited to see the tie again.
I called Kyle to see the tie and he said, "Yeah, it's a full Windsor knot." I said, "NO... look at the tie. Isn't beautiful. It's a platinum sheen with a black diamond pattern."
Isn't the tie so pretty.
But the full Windsor knot intrigued me. I don't know a lot about tying a tie, so I looked it up and now I know how to tie a full Windsor knot. It does make the tie look prettier.
I may have to tie it for Kyle from now on...