My apologies for not following up for days. I’ll go into more details later about all that has occurred in the last week. Just a quick bullet fest to give you a general idea:

  • Baby Boy is now being homeschooled. We’re using the most excellent online curriculum Time4Learning.com.
  • PMS started last week, which for whatever reason also triggered a bad but of IBS. Four menses since the first of the year is a bit draining on the stamina.
  • Dr. increased my dosage of Xanax, which decided to play hell with Soma. I’ve been sick. Really, really, horribly sick.
  • Being this sick is not good when finally getting the opportunity to help a dear friend bring some sanity into managing her very fabulous business while freeing her time to do the work she loves to do and does so well.
  • Sometimes I HATE emergency rooms. When you haven’t kept food or liquids down, not even Emetrol or just plain water for well over 24 hrs, which means you haven’t been able to keep down any of your meds and you’re still sitting there waiting for over 3 1/2 hrs. it’s just enough to make you mad enough to go home and be miserable there and just sit in a room with humidifiers and suck on wet washcloths until it’s over.
  • Tomorrow night, we have to take Baby Boy to have an MRI of his brain done. Both with and without contrasting. There is a strong possibility that his mood disorder is not organic in nature but actually something physically wrong in his brain. Dealing with that is, well, I’ve yet to figure out what it’s like other than frightening.
  • Hopefully I’ll be as fully recovered as possible by Friday. That is, if the rest of the boys can figure out that actually being nice to each other and being calm in the house makes Baby Boy’s “episodes” much less frequent.
  • For 3 years, I’ve wanted a desktop zen garden style fountain. This week, my cat received one but I got to pick it out.
  • For over 5 years of being with Joseph, I’ve given hints. Lots of them, about how I would occasionally like to be treated to flowers or a card on holidays. This year I got pink roses. Another cat is stealing them one at a time and hiding them.
  • I need to get some very important links and info added to the sidebar over there. But it is a bit low on the list of priorities. Which is something like this:
  1. Get the FMS back under control.
  2. Get Nate through the MRI without the noise triggering an “episode”
  3. Get this Rx incompatibility worked out so I can actually get some work done.
  4. THEN get some little things done around the old blog here.

Guess I lied and this hasn’t been a quick list. But it has been brought to you by today’s letters: X, Y, and Z.