Dear Diary...

Rain gone crazy

Today has been raining like nuts all day long.  Cam was feeling sick all morning, and I didn't really want to have him play lax this afternoon, but he was said he was feeling better. So we went out in the crazy weather for his game.  It was awful- giant puddles on the field and frigid cold wind.  Poor boys, poor parents watching the games.  I was soaked through by the time I got back in the car.

We had a change of clothes for Cam in the car. We went home with the heater in the car on full blast.

I made a nice batch of hot chicken noodle soup for dinner- perfect in this weather.

Jeff then had three games to officiate.

This is what we were in...
This is what it looked like from under the overhang.
Post-rain, showered, cozy in the bed.

Almost rainy Saturday

Faire workshops were cold this morning, breaking into only slightly less cold, then temps dropping in the afternoon by about 15° in 20 minutes.

Cam and I are done with our classes, and Jeff has one done.  He spent all day doing building.  The tavern has walls, roof, and a door.

We're home, tired, waiting for the rain to start.  We had pulled brisket sammies and salad for dinner.  I didn't eat much.

Received a shipment of my new spanx and a couple of bras.  Boy, the spanx were hard to put on, but provide good compression.  Jeff did have to help me pull it over my shoulders.

Tomorrow is church and lacrosse.  Jeff's officiating until 8 or so, and Cam will come home with me after his 3 o'clock game.

Busted

Fuming.  A certain someone in my household just got busted for looking up inappropriate things online.  A certain someone who has heretofore been very trustworthy.  Thank goodness for a very sharp mom-radar. I walked down the hall and his door was shut (never is shut) and I just had a feeling-

• Computer gone.
• xBox gone (for him & password protected for adults)
• no iPod touch
• tomato staking (no leaving alone for any reason)
• losing his door

His father is beyond furious and threatening to take away lacrosse and cub scouts if he can't give an adequate explanation for how he came to use the search string he used on youtube (NOT words in a nine-year old's vocabulary.)  My guess is the xBox live- (that is used out in the open.)

Take care of your kids- don't expect that they will be innocent forever.

I've been trying to have a straightforward conversation with him about the birds & bees (basic and non-threatening) for a while, but he keeps shouting "GROSS" "DISGUSTING" and "How could you be having this conversation with a nine-year old?" I bought him a book that he won't even open (geared to 6-9 year olds.)

Part of his consequence will be that he has to spend 30 minutes with me each evening reading the above mentioned book aloud and discuss.  It's important that he know these things.... it's not a punishment, but it will probably seem as such for him.  I'm afraid for him.  After he was busted, he started with the whole, "I'm a horrible person," "I hate myself," "I'm the worst boy ever..."  I don't want him to be alone- I'm actually afraid he'll hurt himself.  I didn't say anything- he's said these things before when he's been in trouble, but I've always said that no, you're great and we love you.

I did say that we love him, no matter what, but we want/need/must have the truth.  J is sick to his stomach over this. He will not be alone for any reason for at least a week.

I don't want him to lose lacrosse or scouts- those are things that keep him busy and off the screens.  J just wants to scare the shit out of him.  Seeing him laying on the floor hysterically crying was terrible.  I want my little boy back.

Can I just take a sledge hammer to the xBox?  Please?

Bad evening in the B. Household tonight.

Friday Eve

Work today- not my best day, not my worst.

After school with Dr. Park. Also received my shipment of the Back Vitalizer- I bought two.  One for home and one for work.  Laid on it in bed for a while and it felt pretty good.

Since Jeff was officiating at Malibu High, Cam and I went to lax practice and I hung out with Sean for a while until I was too cold to stay on the field.  So I went to the car and sat in the warm.  We went home and Jeff made food (flautas and salad.)

Archer.  Desperately awful, but hilarious.

Bed early- sore in the flanks and at my center stitch line.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! (my shirt says Lucky Lass- I almost passed it up at Target because I kept reading Lucky Ass- yeah, that would be inappropriate for school.)

Have not finished started Cam's costume. Mine is too big.  I think I'm going to have to pad mine with a pillow at least for approval.

Wednesday Humpin' (not really)

Ooh, this picture is awful. That's all I need today.

 

Tuesday movie

Went to see Jane Eyre since the boys were at an LMU game and then practice right afterward.

I loved it.  This was a good version.

Returned stuff to Nords and bought some Kellies' Kookies.  Nom.

I came home and made dinner- parpardelle, broccoli, feta, and chicken tossed with Ina's garlic vinaigrette.

Good day, good afternoon, good evening.

Hopefully good night too!

Merely Monday

Met with Dr. K today and he said everything seems fine.  He wants me to continue with activity and there are no restrictions other than what my body says no to (I mean really says no, not just me being lazy.)  He's not terribly worried about the edema, and said no to seromas.  He also said that the warfarin can cause water retention.  If the edema continues after I stop the warfarin, he can prescribe something (lasix) for getting rid of it.  I hope that won't be necessary.

Stopped at the Vitamin Store and Apothecary on the way home. Cam played video games with Charlie (see photo below.)

Since the boys had scouts tonight, I begged off of salad duty and brought a pie and ice cream instead.  Jim made a delicious lasagne which I really loved.  Nick was not feeling well, so hopefully he'll get a good night's sleep and recover by the morning.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

Today we had Scouting Sunday. For the uninitiated, Scouting Sunday is when scouts of all persuasions attend the religious service of their choice.  Our charter organization (sponsor) is a Presbyterian church, which we happen to also attend.  The boys, girls, and leaders come out in uniform and it's a nice showing.  Our church has a good number of boys in our cub pack.  It was also nice to see half a dozen boy scouts and several girl scouts as well.  Our cubmaster gave a nice speech (he's a screenwriter) and the girls got to sell cookies afterwards.  We managed to bring home five boxes. 

Speaking of girl scout cookies, I found this photo and it cracked me the hell up...

Then we came home and Jeff took Cam to lax after a little relaxation.  I drove separately and arrived when the game started.  Jeff had to officiate three games after Cameron's so Cam and I went home after his game and a stop at the Grilled Cheese Patrol truck (cheddar and a side of sweet potato fries.) Nom.

We had to do a bit of grocery shopping- why is it that I can't even make it through a quickie shopping run?  I'm grasping on to the cart by the time we hit produce.  Sigh.  I have a surgeon appointment tomorrow, and hopefully, he'll be able to help me out with a time frame for pain relief.  It's just so much right now.  I hate the pain meds, though I love them.  Love/hate relationship.  I don't take anything other than damned-no-good-doesn't-work-on-me-tylenol until after school. After groceries were put away, we headed of to our THIRD movie of the weekend. 

We were very silly taking pictures in the theater beforehand.  The film was The Unknown, with Liam Neeson. Rated PG13.  Nothing terrible, some kissing, some killing.  Cam handled it fine.  After the movie was over, some old codger came by and scolded me for bringing a child to a "movie like that."  I said, "He gets around a lot."  He responded, "I mean a CHILD OF THAT AGE." I kind of snottily replied, "You raise your kids, I raise mine."  Meh.  He cleared out.  Cam was well behaved and not noisy (which I couldn't say of the adults who chatted through the movie- come to think of it, the chatterer might just have been him.)

We came home and damned daylight savings time has us going to bed EARLY.  Jeff's sacked out in Cam's room to try to get him to bed at a decent time and I'm about to hit it now.  Six thirty is going to come awfully early tomorrow.  I hate dislike daylight savings time.  Or rather I hate cancer. Thanks Jen's dad/grandad for that one.

First Faire Saturday

Jen came by early for a quick latte-filled drive.  We took the 60 because it appeared that the 10 was compromised.  Saw practically the whole of my facebok friends list.

Hung out, passed out some cookies, drove home.  Of course there was more but it wasn't terribly interesting, other than showing my scars to everyone who would look and telling my tale a lot.

Cam and I went to see The Adjustment Bureau- pretty good. Going again to see The Unknown tomorrow.  Three movies in as many days.  Woot!

Freakin' Nature Friday

Wow- woke up to news of massive EQ in Japan with tsunami.  At 6:30, called mom immediately after hearing that tsunami would hit California shortly. As I was on the phone withe her, the cops knocked on her door and told her to evacuate by eight.  She went up to her friend's in Montara.  I got an email later that everything was fine.

She did go down to the beach on the bluff to see what was going on- she said that the surges were going from highest tide to fully exposed tidepools every 3-4 minutes (usually that takes 12 hours for high to low tide.)  She said it was pretty creepy.

School had it's Character Day to celebrate Dr. Seuss and I dressed up as Hermione, of course.  I braided my damp hair last night and it's STILL full and wild.  It was fun, but tiring.  I just made it home before I collapsed.  I forgot my tylenol at home and everyone had only advil.

We went to see Rango with Jen tonight- the animation was nothing short of stunning.  The story was fine and cute, but nothing compared to how amazing the animation was.  After we dragged a whiny Cameron to Jaipur for Indian food.  He kept complaining about how he doesn't like Indian food (as he was snarfing it down) so I had to slip him pieces of dark chocolate under the table.

Tomorrow is an early AM to faire registration and first day of building.  I'm bringing my chair for sure.  And sunscreen. And a hat.  And sunglasses. And layers.  And plans to leave if I'm not feeling well.