Another Day Another Doctor

Today is another doctor day for Wyatt. A pediatric orthopedic surgeon. I think we should have been seen last week, but no one ever called us to schedule, so when the office called yesterday to make him an appointment in mid June the receptionist asked what he was being seen for. Since we don't have a diagnosis she asked if he was "weight bearing" and I said no and she said "we'll see you tomorrow." Funny how that works.  I wonder if would work at the Lady Parts Doctor. Try it sometime, if they tell you the doctor is booked out two weeks tell them your not "weight bearing" and see if they get you in for that pap any sooner.

Wyatt really enjoyed being back in school yesterday. He said he got pretty tired and ended up taking a nap on the cot in the storage closet nurses room during lunch recess, but other than that he had a great time. I picked him up after school and took him to a late lunch early dinner at his favorite restaurant and he thought that was great. He's home today because the entire fifth grade (I think all sixty or so of them) are going to a concert at the high school. Since he can't do buses or stairs and has an appointment this afternoon he bagged out of school today but is super excited to go back tomorrow.

Did you watch American Idol last night? I love both Lee and Dreads, but I have really been pulling for Lee to win. Last night changed everything when Dreads pulled out three FABULOUS performances. I'm pretty sure she's a shoe in to win!

Ummmm... I ordered my birthday present yesterday and it should be here sometime this week. 6 and the kids are going to be so happy they got me something SO great. I was SO surprised when I ordered it for myself from them and really touched by their thoughtfulness. I don't want to tell them what it is though because I really want it to be a surprise. I will give a hint though, it's two and it's blue. I'll be sure and post pictures as soon as it arrives.

A Day Without Wy

Do you hear that? It's the refrigerator. Nothing else, just the refrigerator. No cartoons, no Mom I needs, no Mom will yous. Nothing, silence. I don't know if I like it.

Wyatt went back to school today and he was so excited and I was so excited and maybe a little bit worried and maybe kind of sad, but mostly happy for him that he will be with his friends. I talked to his teacher a little and she said that he had finished all of his testing before he became incapacitated and he is for sure moving on to the sixth grade. That was a huge relief for both of us. She said she didn't really want to go back through the lesson plans to get make up work for him but told me they had been studying Oregon History and geography so I think I'll check out some books and see if I can find some videos on Oregon History. Isn't there a video game about the Oregon Trail? I think there is. Learning at it's finest... Through video games.

Wyatt and I tried to watch almost an entire season of lost on Sunday to prepare for the finale on Sunday night but fell short of our goal. We haven't been watching since the beginning but have watched up to season six on Netflix Wii and then we were getting all of season six on Hulu. I'm glad we did it that way because we have never had to wait a week or or a summer to find out what happens next, but it has been a full-time job making sure we don't find out what happens in the final episode before we watch it ourselves. I liken it to trying NOT to find out who won the Super Bowl for a week after the game. So whatever you do DON'T tell me anything!

I had Buddy to the vet yesterday, I think he has something stuck in his nose. Grass maybe. Does anyone from the nail shop days remember Blond Connie? She had a Bichon Frise named Comet that got a pine needle lodged up his nose and then blew it out like a month later all snotty oogy gross. I don't want some groddy snot ball on the rug, plus the fact that he's turned into a mouth breather because his nose is plugged so thats why I took him in. They prescribed antibiotics hoping that will take care of it and if not, they have to "scope" him.

I know everyone probably saw this picture and these videos on facebook, but I'm posting them again just because I can. The chicken video is of Wendy trying to look at Fracks "babies" that are really just rocks, but Frack gets really mad at Wendy and starts pecking her. Funny.

This is Buddy "herding" the cows...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc-XHyPaswQ

And this is Wendy and Frack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAcMnDEhOQ

I hate my "cakle." I swear, is there anything worse than the sound of your own voice!

And this is just a picture after the rain...

Please Hold

We'll be getting "Lost" all day today, so if anybody needs us please wait until tomorrow!

Photo's courtesy of  Cake Wrecks!

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Random...

What a day! Started off meeting Carlos the landscaper in the POURING down rain. Carlos will be doing my edging and weed eating twice a month and mobile spaces maintenance once a month. That is a very good thing. He also said he will set the pool for me when the time comes. Then I got all of my paperwork finished for everyone in the mobile spaces including the lease for the new family moving in. Then Wy and I went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for lunch. Yum-E. Then we returned the wheelchair that he had been using. Then we went to the glasses store where I returned those stupid progressive bifocals and ordered regular lenses. Then we didn't go to Costco because I forgot all the bad stuff that I got last time that they told me to put in the freezer until I came in again. Then we went grocery shopping. Then we went to the post office and mailed a bunch of junk. Can you even believe I got all that done the same day that Google decided to post Pac-Man on their page?

Let me tell you about the coolest thing that happened today. On our way to town I stopped to check the mail and found a card for Wyatt. It was a get well card signed by every guy in 6's unit in Iraq.

I. Could. Not. Believe. It.

Wyatt was absolutely beside himself and in total disbelief that people he had never met cared enough to send him something. He read the card the whole way to town and back. I guarantee he will treasure that card the rest of his life. Or until he loses it. Just kidding, he won't lose it. For a while anyway. KIDDING.

My fat lady summer clothes arrived today too! I finally broke down and decided I will never be tall and thin again so I might as well get some clothes that don't make me look like a bratwurst. I would rather be fat in clothes that fit as opposed to fat in clothes that used to fit. As far as fatty clothes go, their pretty cute. A couple skirts, two pairs of capris and some cute tent tanks.

Ok, thats enough, I have to go play Pac-Man.

Oogy

Oh  my gawd... I have had the worst reaction to one of my medications today. I'm supposed to take Neurontin for my headaches three times a day, but when our insurance ran out I cut back to once a day because it is SO expensive. Now that we have insurance again I decided I better work my way back up to my regular dosage. This morning I got up, took my pill, made my latte, read my email, lost me equilibrium, almost fell off my chair onto the floor, crawled to my bed on what felt like the ceiling, closed my eyes and hung on for the next four hours. I hate it when that happens.

Then, if that wasn't bad enough as I'm laying there holding on for dear life, Bart and Buddy run in the bedroom, Bart jumps up on the bed and is covered tip to tail in cow sh!t. I guess it's a good thing he loves water because I had to hose him down for at least five minutes. I was on my knees, hanging on to the hose spigot trying not to fall over washing the dog with my eyes closed.

Anyway, I'm feeling a bit better now, but I still have to close my eyes to turn my head and I'm pretty sick to my stomach. Sooo... I think I'm going back to bed now. See ya tomorrow.

Just Stuff

Ahhh... A beautiful day to mow the lawn. Not really. Is there ever really a good day to mow the lawn? I thought not. After I'm done with the lawn I get to vacuum and it seems like I have almost as much carpet as I do grass, except vacuuming means having to clean the stupid thing (vacuum) out too. Gag. I think that's the only downfall of dogs, and springtime is the worst. I really want hard wood floors... No wait, I want concrete floors that I can use a leaf blower to clean. That would be SO great! I think you could paint it to have some really cool looking finish and use a leaf blower to sweep and a pressure washer to mop. OMG, I think I'm on to something! Picture me wearing safety goggles and ear protectors cleaning the house...

American Idol... This is what I think, Casey for sure goes home tonight. I think Lee is on fire, I mean smokin! And, I think he has a good chance of pulling ahead of Dreads, which up until last night I didn't think he could do. I thought Dreads was in it to win it and would leave everyone else in the dust. Now I'm not so sure.

General Hospital is so dumb now I can't even watch it. It is nothing but stupid stress and I have enough of that going on. They don't even have a good story line. How dumb.

Ok, I can't think of anything else so now blogging has turned into procrastination...

Ummm... I got two really cute bras at the fat lady store last week! One is black and one is kind of a beigy taupey tan. If you ask me, there's nothing better than a new bra. Well, maybe maple bars. It's a toss up. Maple bars or new bras? I guess if you eat too many maple bars you have to get new bra's because you get to big for the bras you have, so really you can have your cake and eat it to. Or in this case it would be maple bars and bras. How would you say that? You can have your maple bars and bras too. No, that's not right. How about, You can wear you new maple bars and eat them too. No, still not right.Ummm, You can eat you bras and wear you bars. No, now I'm just getting confused.Oh well, you know what I'm getting at... Eat more bars get more bras!

After the whole bra thing I'm not even going to start on my new glasses. I'll just say this... I'm taking them back to have the stupid bifocals taken out. I've felt drunk all week and I walk around with my hands out in front of me and take super high steps because I feel like I'm falling off a log. I even talk like a stooge when I wear them, because I feel like I have to balance. I'm at the grocery store and the lady say's"would you like cash back" and I have to focus my eyes, take a deep breath, balance and say "uhhhh... no....thankyou"How dumb. I'm taking them back.

We Have Water!

The continuing saga of the outside pond water has come to a happy ending! Last year during the freeze we shut down the pump to the pond that supplies all the outside water for the farm and the mobile spaces. The plan was to turn it back on in the spring after the fear of another freeze was gone but in plenty of time for everyone to start watering their gardens. 6 disconnected the pump at the wire box thingy so nobody would slink into the barn and flip the switch to get water until the all the lines checked out and we repaired all of our leaky outdoor faucets. Of course I don't have to tell you what happened next... As soon as 6 left for Iraq the know it all "Assh@le" in the mobile spaces went in to hook it up and screwed up all the wires and almost burned out the pump. So, the pump guys have been here two days in a row fixing everything and now we have water again. I'm not telling anyone in the mobile spaces until the first of June though. I can be spiteful like that.

Wyatt seems to be improving every day no thanks to any of the doctors and even starting to walk a little without his crutches. He walked up AND down the stairs yesterday, squeeling, but all on his own. He is taking 250mg of Neurontin three times a day and 500 mg of Naproxen twice a day with fish oil thrown in three times a day just to keep his joints good and greasy. He really wants to be able to go back to school and walk with his class for his fifth grade graduation, and I'll do whatever it takes to make that happen.

Wendy was out yesterday and cut my hair!! It's beautiful, and she has so much confidence, you would never know she was still in school. I guess growing up in the "business" has really paid off, she has the ease and chatter of an old school hairdresser. I would love it if someday she opened up and wash and set salon and spent her days doing blue rinses and comb outs. Wouldn't that be great! She could serve weak coffee and dish the best gossip in town. Maybe I need to talk to her about this...

Thats all for today, tune in tomorrow for another episode of  Fat Bottoms On The Farm!