20 Things

Numbered, because I cannot form full paragraphs.

1. Shoulder surgery went well. 
2. #1 has a double ear infection. Took him to the dr. after I got HD settled into the surgery unit.
3. #2's leg injury is getting better.
4. So many friends have reached out today. Thank you. 
5. Why do these things come in 3's? And why this week?
6. My girl got a job in Colorado! 
7. She and her husband seem to be settling in pretty well.
8. Why did no one ever tell me about Swedish Fish? Addicted.
9. I actually cooked dinner tonight after all of the running around that I did. 
10. And it was good!
11. Pork chops, carrots, potatoes, in gravy, and green beans, if you were wondering.
12. Why is it still in the 80's in November? I'm so hot. All.the.time.
13. I reached my pre-wedding weight loss goal. (It was a pretty loose goal, but I still got there.)
14. Now I need to maintain it through the holidays.
15. I'm actually itching to exercise. Good sign.
16. My #1's birthday falls on Thanksgiving this year. Pretty cool.
17. My aunt also seems to be settling in well in Colorado with my parents.
18. My kids are loving the new Assasin's Creed 4, Black Flag. I'm watching one of them play right now.
19. My #2's team got 2nd in their division in football. He had never played in a championship game before.
20. You are so glad this list is over. (Right?)

The Best Laid Plans

You know how when you have a free Monday after a kinda busy weekend and so you plan a bunch of stuff to do? Your mental to do list is a mile long but you're prioritizing! And planning to get the worst of the  projects out of the way first so you can feel accomplished? So you start a load of laundry and get on the phone since that is your most dreaded task, checking off phone calls and starting to feel so great about your progress. Then the sh** hits the fan, almost literally, with one child telling you he got sick again. So you hang up the first load of laundry since your dryer died last week and say to yourself "It's OK! I can get all of these phone calls done and move on to other cleaning!" But then you realize that you have to cancel an afternoon appointment because of the sick kid and cancel the dinner that you've been planning to cook because it's too rich for the sick kid and you can't really get to the grocery store anyway with a cranky sick kid. Then you realize that you've had enough of the television and video games, (enough to last a lifetime, really,) and have a screen-time ban and send the kids to their rooms so you can get chicken soup started. There is so much going on while you're trying to cook that you don't realize until hours later that you've forgotten to put the carrots in the soup and the homemade biscuits you thought you had perfected were much more sticky than they should be, and damn if you weren't looking forward to those biscuits. When your husband walks in he helps you to realize that one boy is still staring at the ceiling of his room so you end his no-screen exile to realize that the other finally took a nap and slept for 2 1/2 hours. How is he going to sleep tonight?! Then your husband has an impromptu business meeting exactly when you are putting dinner on the table and getting the unruined biscuits out of the oven and by the time he gets to sit down and eat the soup is cold and the biscuits need to be reheated and he decides to take this minute to tell you that he doesn't like tomatoes in the soup anyway. And it's raining again and since I didn't leave the house all day I don't have shoes on and ask him to take out the trash and somehow it's 3 hours later and the trash is still in the middle of the kitchen.

So, yeah, that was my day. How was yours?

Fire Drill

I was awakened at 4 am on Wednesday morning by Boy #1 at my bedside complaining of a stomach ache. In my haze I rushed him into the bathroom thinking that we were going to have a second sighting of dinner. We didn't thankfully, but he was in our bed for the remainder of the sleeping hours.
When the time came for us to leave for school I had convinced him to give school a shot. His class was doing a project that I had planned on going in to help with and promised him we could come home if he still didn't feel well.

I joined the class about 30 minutes later and listened to the instructions for their project. #1 seemed fine, if a little tired until I got a little closer to him. He was scratching at his neck, and not suspecting anything, I glanced at his neck. He had a rash that he thought was bug bites. Um, that would be no. A bright red rash was all over his torso in addition to his neck, and what I didn't know then was that it was creeping downward into his groin area as well.

As soon as he had finished his project we left the school and called the doctor. I called Headless Dad to let him know what was up and he was the one that remembered what we had for dinner the night before: shrimp and scallops. While we've had shrimp before, we don't typically have scallops and they were mixed in with the pasta. #1 didn't eat any but apparently the damage was done. Thank goodness he didn't actually eat them!

A dose of Benadryl and an hour later we were in the doctor's office, (God, I love our pediatrician!), left with a prescription for prednizone and an epi-pen, and then off to get a blood allergy panel. Of course, that didn't go well either, with him getting dizzy and pale after they took his blood.

Amazingly, that was the worst of it. (Unless you count the sticker shock of the epi-pen. Holy cow! I knew they were expensive, but even with insurance it was waaay more than I expected.) #1 felt better through the evening and was completely clear by the next morning. While we're still waiting on the allergy panel and then the referral to the allergist, we're fairly certain that it was only the scallops, which are pretty easy to avoid.

One mistake I made in all of this was to tell him more than he could handle. He's a smart kid, and I thought that he would be able to understand everything. Oops. By bedtime he was in tears thinking that he was going to die or something. While, yes, food allergies can be scary and dangerous, we are lucky to have good insurance, a fantastic doctor, and I have good friends that I can call on with questions when we get all of the tests back. I will be diligent, yes, but no, it's not the end of the world. Millions of people live with food allergies every day and if it's more or worse than what I suspect then we'll deal with it.

The prednizone though? It's of the devil.

The Elephant in the Room

You remember that my husband has been sick, right? In a nutshell, right after his surgery (March 30) he got bronchitis really bad. It may even have been pneumonia but that was not the diagnosis. He had: 4 prescriptions, 4 antibiotic shots, 1 cortizone shot, 1 vaccination, 1 inhaler, and 1 nebulizer medication over that time span. He's also had 1 chest x-ray and 1 chest CT.

I think that catches you up a little.

Each weekend he's beat. He's always been an early to bed, early to rise kinda guy but since the illness he's been sleeping later. Even during the week he's not getting up at his usual 5 am; more like 6 or later. Then on weekends he has even slept until 10 once or twice. Ten AM, people. Then moves to the couch to watch tv and doze all day. With a few exceptions, this is how we have spent our last 3 months.

As you can imagine, I'm going out of my mind. For one, I'm worried. I spend nights exhausted but yet waking every few hours to his coughing or glancing over to see if he's still breathing. I know that being sick and coughing all the time is exhausting, but being the spouse is, too. For two, he often has to drive long distances for his work and I'm constantly worrying about him driving so tired. I've also been doing the 'worst-case-scenario' dance, and without telling you exactly where my mind has gone, it has involved wondering who the hell would hire me after being out of the job market for over 10 years. Not pretty.

This is wreaking havoc on our home life. He's not much of a conversationalist in the evenings when he's so exhausted. I can't make many plans because I never know when he's going to feel up to certain things-like grilling what I've planned for dinner, or going out to dinner, or making plans with friends for the weekends. Just yesterday I had to take the boys alone to a party and he stayed home on the couch.

Finally, right before I left for the party we had a talk. I told him that we have to figure out something: he had to get the blood work done (that the dr. ordered 3 weeks ago!) and go in to see the doctor, OR I would drag him to the hospital and make them do every test known to man until they figured out what was wrong. If there IS something, then we can move ahead and deal with it, medicate it, or something.  Waiting for something to change (not counting the weather,) without any action is the definition of insanity, right?

So anyway, that's where we are. That's what I've NOT been writing about lately. What have you not been writing about?

Catching Up

To re-cap:  Almost a month ago the madness began with HB#1 having bronchitis and HD's shoulder surgery. Then, about a week later, the real fun began.....

On a Sunday, I sent HD to urgent care because he had been coughing a lot and he thought he had a little more than a cold. A z-pack later we thought all was behind us. Oh how wrong we were!

He stayed home from work on Monday and Tuesday thinking that a little bit of rest would help and by Wednesday he was mentally ready to go back to work. Problem was that he wasn't getting any better. I even started to give him #2's asthma medicine because he couldn't stop coughing. He was able to get into a nurse at his doctors' office and she started him on another antibiotic and some cough medicine. Great news, right? Oh, this was also the week that HB#2 got sick and also started on antibiotics. Fun times!

Not so fast. HD started the second antibiotic on Thursday but by Friday night he still wasn't better.. I offered to take him to the ER so we could get a chest x-ray and find out exactly what was going on but he decided to wait until morning so he could talk to the on-call doctor and decide what to do then. When we finally got a call back we were told to go back to the urgent care and get them to take a chest x-ray. Long story and 4 hours later we left but with out the x-ray. Not good.

This whole time, between medicating for the shoulder, the coughing fits, cough syrup, and wandering children I didn't get much sleep. Oh yeah! And it was state testing, too, so I typically get up about an hour early so I can start cooking a good breakfast for the boys.

Hold on, Folks, were only a week in and we're only getting started!

To Be Continued.....

No Change

I hope that we turn a corner soon. This is quite a story.

*sigh*

I hate these posts, too.

But I gotta do it. Headless Dad has an awful case of bronchitis. He's been to the doctor twice. Both boys have had it.

I'm behind with everything. And I'm exhausteddddddd.

Be back soon.

Hospital, Waiting (A Stream of Consciousness Exercise)

I actually thought that there would be more to write about from the waiting room. Isn't there supposed to be more really good people watching in these places?

HD went in to surgery a little while ago...and has actually started, according to the new-fangled status screen that is in the waiting room. We're not sure how things will go. Check this out...

Last Tuesday he dislocated his shoulder again for the 5th (6th?) time in 6 months. This surgery was already scheduled from back in January, so we were semi-prepared. Yesterday he had a pre-op appointment with his surgeon and it's sounding like it could be worse than we had originally thought. The doctor said that 90% of what he could find he can fix...the other 10%? He would need help and we would have to reschedule. Again. With more pain! And more waiting! Yay!

But I have to be optimistic... We're hoping for a bionic shoulder so we don't have to do this again. Ever. Could someone get on that for us? Please?

Oh! One really cool thing happened while we were in the holding room of the OR. When the anesthesiologist came in to meet us and say hello he asked if he could pray for us and for the surgery. It was short and sweet, but really nice. I'd never heard of that in a hospital that did not have a religious affiliation before.

I may have to go find the ATM machine so I can get something else to eat. Maybe I should have gone back and read my archives of the last time we had to do this. Suppose I left myself a message about eating and bringing enough money? File that under "What was I thinking?" Should I go now? This is the same hospital that the boys were born in and Headless Girl fell in love with the pastrami sandwiches. Wonder if they are still as good? That was a long time ago, so no telling.

I love the fact that there is free wifi in the waiting room here. I was just planning on writing a few drafts but this is better. Or not. You be the judge. I am the only one with a computer here in the waiting room. Does that make me cool? Or weird? One woman next to me is crocheting, one is reading a book, one dude is napping. Two different men have flowers.

That damn screen. I am compelled to see if there has been a status change like every.two.seconds. It's cutting into my typing, really, and I keep losing my train of thought. Like I had one in the first place?

Anyway,  so that's the sitch. Funny that I thought I could write from here. It's not happening, is it?

Um, Califmom just started her tweets about her husband. I have nothing left to say now. My heart is breaking for her and their family.

I'm done now.

Headlessness, Again

On tap this week:

Shoulder surgery for HD on Wed. means that I'm slammed all week.

Not to mention HB#1 is home sick today and I'll be running him to the dr. Actually, I'm quite serious about the running part. I have eleventy million things to do and the dr's office wasn't on the list.

Could someone tell me something good?

And, I'm totally planning on writing a real! blog post. Hopefully that will happen sometime before June.

The Crud

Yes, it caught up with me. No, I will not feel guilty about spending my day on the couch.

I suppose I'll probably get a few loads of laundry done out of necessity.

Good night. I need my strength for a long day of baseball tomorrow. *sigh*

Filler #2

Sorry, folks, for the dead air here.

I'm sick, thanks to a particular 7 year old that I know that went to urgent care last Friday.

Been on the couch all day. I know, I know, I should have used my time more wisely and written.

Instead I tried to catch up on reading. Failed that, too. I still have 124 in my reader. Yikes.

And somehow I got roped into going to ANOTHER field trip tomorrow.

(Don't go there with me. I NEVER told the teacher yes-she assumed. Gah!)

I even had a post or 2 almost finished for your viewing pleasure but (see above) never edited. See? Fail.

The good part is that I WILL be better to go see my cousin for his birthday on Saturday, come hell or high water.

Mind over matter!

Now I think I'll go order a pizza because there is no way I'm cooking tonight.

Klutz, Part 2

Many of you saw my tweets tonight about being in the ER....Here's what happened.

This afternoon I started cooking dinner (home made chicken soup!) and started washing the dishes. When reaching for a cutting board I somehow knocked a VERY LARGE knife off of the counter. It fell, blade down, onto the top of my foot about an inch below my ankle joint. Aside from the blood I also felt sharp pain and then numbness in my first 2 toes. That scared me.

Luckily the windows were open and the boys were able to come and help-Boy 1 went looking for an adult neighbor, and Boy 2 brought me the phone and prayed for me. (For those of you that don't know him, this is big. He won't even pray before dinner.) Anyway, Boy 1 found our 21 year old neighbor. Headless Dad had called a friend to come get us, so neighbor boy carried me to the car and locked up the house.

Once at the ER, BIL came to get the kids so they could eat and HD came so awesome friend could go home. I had already been in to see the triage nurse and he had taken a look and slapped a small bandaid on it. When HD looked at my foot his look was "WTF?" but he didn't say anything-Lucky for him!

The lidocane shots hurt more than anything (at the time anyway), and I got 3 massive stitches.I also got a tetnus shot from the hunkiest doctor/nurse I've ever seen in person (HD even said it before I did!). I still have some numbness in the top of my foot but they said that it should go away.

So there you have it-Why I won't be going on my walk for a few days. (I hope I can still drive!) Thanks to those who tweeted to make sure I was ok. Nothing a glass of wine and a pain killer won't help! (Oh, I kid. I couldn't carry the laptop and wine upstairs. Hopefully HD will bring it to me soon!)

Not exactly what I wanted to post for my 200th post, but I guess I'll go with it.

I'm Not Superstitious or Anything

Remember several weeks back we were scheduled for a date night with some friends? And it went to hell in a handbasket?

Yea, I didn't say anything this time so I wouldn't get disappointed.

We had reservations at an 'event' type restaurant- only one seating a night, cocktails in one room, apps/champagne in another, the works. We were going to take BIL and SIL for their birthdays. Except BIL got food poisoning at a restaurant on Friday night.

So, On to Plan B!

The friends that we were supposed to go out with a few weeks ago were available and we went to a high-end steak house-cocktails, wine, good food, good friends. More wine. ;-)

So there you have it. Headless Dad and I dressed for a night out, without kids, with good friends.

Finally! Some plans that worked out.

(BTW- we are standing in front of HD's prized garden. He finally got the whole thing planted Sat. morning. With a little TLC we'll be eating fresh-from-the-garden very soon!)

(Also notice the cute shoes. I found a pair of white shoes- yea! I've been looking for, oh 3 years or so, but just in the nick of time. BlogHer is right around the corner and I'd hate to have had to cancel because of the lack of white shoes.)

The Farm

I was again a helper for Headless Boy 2's kindergarten class today. Have you ever been to a "farm" with 88 6 year olds? Boy that was fun.

Or should I just use the words of my 6 year old?

Boring.

Oh yes he did.

And the "farm"? Not quite what I was expecting. I went to college in a town surrounded by farms and meat packing plants. I have driven across this great country. I have even stepped in a real cowpie at a relatives' farm. (I was 7, I think, and ruined my awesome, new red sandals. Obviously I was scarred for life since I remember it in such detail.) I'm not saying that me + farm=BFFs or anything, but I've seen my share of farms and this was a "farm".

About 6 beef cows, (yes I said 6), a small bunch of sheep (maybe 10 on the outside plus their lambs), a koi pond, (really), about 4 adult pigs and supposedly there were piglets but I only saw one. There was one emu, some rescued greyhounds, a couple of African ox-like things that I can't remember their names, and about 4 horses, including a foal.

No agriculture to show the kids, either.

And all of this within about an hour or so. (Remember we were herding 88 6 year olds. The adults could have done the "tour" in about 30 minutes.)

The highlight of the day was seeing one of the sheep prance and perform a perfect leap right behind our tour guide. The kids thought that was great.

I think that they liked the bus ride better. But all I could do was think that I was so glad that he is my youngest and I NEVER have to do that again. (Note to other moms who may be thinking of going on this field trip? Skip it unless you have a real working farm in your area. The middle of one our country's largest metro areas is not the place to do this.)

*****

In other news, thanks to all of you that sent me good get-better vibes. They worked! Except now HB1 needs them. He came home from school at the end of the trip and fell asleep about 1.2 seconds after his head hit the pillow tonight.

Also, AI results? I never expected Michael to go this early. Do I really need to start a new campaign like the one for Rami and Noriega? Come on people, Kristy Lee should have been sleeping at home before him!

Inspiration: The Top 8

Ok, disclaimer: I feel like cr**. I'm really sick again, probably bronchitis again. I feel grouchy as well. So, I am going to get right to it.

Michael- Didn't get it. Lose the ascot. Once cute, twice weird.

I missed Syesha so no comment. (Caught the blip at the end-it was ok. Did I mention I am sick?)

Jason-of-the-Dreads-Oh my heavens. If I was 24 I would eat him with a spoon. Best of the night. By far!

Kristy Lee- Good tonight. I still think that she should smile when she sings, though. I would guess that she's still in danger.

David Cook- I still like him but agree with Simon-he's been better than tonight.

Carly- Eh. I don't dig her, don't really know why. Still don't like the tattoo staring at me. Call wardrobe! Someone, please! Just one week is all I ask. Didn't like the song much either.

Archie- Good, but not great for me. (Ok, Randy just said "Crazy hot"-hmmm?) I swear I'm not taking off my ears when he sings. I see that he will have a career but I won't be buying the album. (Ooh, that dates me, doesn't it?)

Brooke- Not her best performance either, but still ok. She'll get by on song choice I think. She's worried that it will be her last, you can tell.

Best of night- JASON BY A MILE, and I'm not just saying that because he's my fave.

Since they don't kick anyone off this week I'm not going to hurt myself by finding someone to choose as my least fave.

As far as inspiration goes, I found little in tonights' show. It's either me being sick, or it really wasn't up to par. I can't wait to find out what you all think. Leave me a little love in the comments, then go check out BooMama and see what a whole bunch of other people think!

Just one more thing to add to my crazy life

Have you heard me mention our summer vacation? Long story, but we're going to Hawaii in August for a week. About a month ago I finally got online to purchase tickets.

Found a pretty good deal as far as tickets to Hawaii go.

Clicked purchase.

Fast forward to last week...You remember, when 3 AIRLINES WENT OUT OF BUSINESS?

So not only do I have to call the credit card company and suspend those charges (done), but I have to get back online and find more tickets. Hopefully on an airline that will have the courtesy of not going out of business before we get home in mid-August.

Is that too much to ask?

So much for getting something on the To-Do list done. Two steps forward, 3 steps back!

(Oh, and BTW...I'm sick again. Just thought someone might want to commiserate with me!)

The wedding: The Overview

Well, we're alive and have survived the wedding weekend. We all had a lovely time (in general) and I wanted to give you an overview of the events so when I come back to them you"ll know what I'm talking about. There are some funny (to me?) stories, but those must come later as I am drowning in laundry and must.get.it.done.

Wed.: The Headless Grandparents came into town for the festivities; I was still sick. Cooked dinner and watched American Idol. (Boring again-Girls Beware!-You're all going to be gone if you don't step up your game!!)

Thurs: Take kids to school. HG-ma and I meet others from the wedding party at the spa. I work in HB2's K class. Take Headless Dad's shoes to be reheeled/shined. Pick up kids. HG, HG-ma, and I go to church to help set up at 4-no one else is there! We wait, do a few things, others show (late) and we finally get started with the rehearsal (late). We get to Buca di Peppo for the dinner portion on the evening and ordering turns into a BIG ORDEAL (probably because we are all hungry! And my kids have school on Friday! And it's starting to get late!) [Wait! There seems to be a pattern here...I should have noticed earlier...] Finally get the boys home and in bed about a half hour late, not too bad for the lateness of everything!

Fri.: Take kids to school. Go to Baseball Banner Guy's house to get additions made. Go to Macy's for wedding present (for HG-ma). Go get HD's shoes. Call and ask if they need help decorating for the reception, (No! the room isn't too big and I have lots of help! {foreshadowing, if you needed the hint}). Get kids at school. Feed kids. Shower kids. Dress kids. Shower and dress myself! Be ready to go to church by 4:30. Get a call that the group isn't back from decoration the reception place yet (? 4 1/2 hours later? wtf?) Tell everyone to chill for 10 or 15 min. Go to church. Realize we are only the 2nd group there. Let the boys run around the sanctuary, cause we're classy like that (well, it was our own church, after all.) Get bride and boys dressed. Start wedding. End wedding. Wait. Try to start pictures. Wait. Start pictures. End pictures. Get to reception. Find that there are no seats for my family (part of the wedding party!) Wait. Finally find 5 seats together for HGPs, HBs, and myself. Sit. Wait. Sit. Order food. Wait, wait, wait. HB2 falls asleep in my lap. We finally make a mad dash for the car at 10:20, without being served dinner, (much less see any of the cakey, garter-throwing stuff.) Feed boys Dino-nuggets for the second time today, give them some Girl Scout cookies, and throw them in bed. Fall over.

Sat.: HD stays in bed because he thinks he has strep. I take HB2 for baseball pics. Come home. I take HB1 for baseball pics. Come home. [During all of this HG is getting the house ready for her Bible study group at noon.] Take HBs and HGPs to BIL and new SIL's house for a brunch. See all remodeling. Realize there is no food of note left. Gather the troops, come home to have food. Return tux stuff. HD is still in bed but says 'Hey! Lets cook.' I go to the grocery store. We cook dinner. HG leaves for the state finals of girls' basketball. We throw the boys in bed, then collapse.

Sun.: HD finally goes to the doctor and has a RAGING case of tonsilitis. Gets drugs. Sleeps while HG-ma and I exchange the mirror (remember my bathroom remodel? Neither do I.) and get to go to DSW (oh heavenly day!!!). Go out to dinner because no one can think straight. Throw boys in bed. Fall asleep twice before I'm able to actually get to my bed.

SO! Now you know. Don't you just love family events? Thanks goodness for the HGPs or I would never have survived all of this.

Toodles-More on all of this later but just the recap is going to make my head explode!!

Still!

Yes, I STILL have the flu. I'm at the point that I am so over this, but can't get over it. Crazy! Same symptoms as always, it just WON'T GO AWAY! On the plus side, I think I've lost about 5-10 lb., although I can't really be sure because the battery in my NEW scale is dead. Perfect.

In AI news-The 2 front runners are now the guy who sang 'Papa was a rollin' stone' and 'Imagine." Wasn't crazy about the rest, but really when you're in bed with the fever/shivers how can you really tell?

The Headless Grandparents are here for the wedding on Friday night. It is so good to have your mom and dad around when you're sick!

If there are no more posts after this it must be because I've died. You don't have to send flowers.

Again?

I have been sick again-ALL weekend. Fever, chills, the works. I feel like I've been beaten. I feel a little more human this morning, but not much.

I really need your prayers, y'all. My brother-in-law is getting married on Friday and I really need to be better soon. Thanks!

On another note, I have a Site meter (see, down in the left sidebar?). I get to see how many of you visit and from where....Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana... It would be really great if you would leave me a comment now and then. I like that you read/lurk, but I would really love a comment now and then. Thanks.

*Knock, Knock* Is Anyone there?

Yes, I'm still here, more or less. The Great Sickness of 2008 really got me-I haven't been sick in about 3 years and now I remember why. Being sick sucks. Big time! As a status report HD and I are mostly over it (just a lingering cough,) and HB2 has it and is starting his 2nd round of antibiotics today. Like my mom always used to say, "I don't have time" and it usually works. Not this time however.

Onward and upward.

Life went on at the Headless household-baseball practice is fully underway, and Headless Girl is cheering her heart out for the girls basketball team in the playoffs. The laundry piled up big time-I had to get that under control before I could even post, it was that bad. We missed a family party last weekend because of the crud-I'm sure it went well but I hate to miss that stuff!

For those of you that pray, would you please send up a word on behalf of my Aunt? She was admitted into the hospital last night with a small intestinal blockage; they don't know yet if they'll need to operate. Headless Grandmother went to be with her, and that's about all we know so far. Thanks for helping me to fill His inbox!

Have you been keeping up with American Idol? Well, the top 12 boys look pretty good, except for the few that don't. Mostly the ones lacking testosterone are the ones that need to go IMO. Not because of their lack of testosterone, but because of their lack of, um, say TALENT? My faves are Rocker guy from Florida, Dread-lock guy from Texas, and Hot guy from Australia by way of Atlanta. I'll let you know the status of the gals after tonight.

Speaking of tonight, HB1 has Blue and Gold starting at 6 so I've gotta hustle to get these kids out the door. Thanks for staying with me internet pals and forgiving the interuption!

Ciao!