October 16, 2009

Inventions, Well Wishes and Free Cash

Last night, Lil C came into our room four times. That's in addition to the five times she came out of her room before she fell asleep. I know she's stuffed up and is having trouble breathing but enough already. Between Mr. BBM snoring and Lil C visiting, I am getting next to no sleep. Lil C then crawled into bed with me this morning and spent two hours touching my face and arm and driving me absolutely insane. Finally, she fell back asleep and is now snoring louder than Mr. BBM has ever snored (Ok, maybe not quite that loud). Clearly she gets that trait from his side of the family.

Big I is looking and feeling much better today. However, she still has a low-grade fever that just won't quit and she says her headache is better but still lingering. I know she's feeling better because she "invented" a white board made out of a piece of notebook paper and a plastic storage bag. Now she's working on creating an eraser. Once she's done that, it's on to the 10 page packet that came home from school yesterday. I feel like I've been homeschooling her the entire week. Now I know why I don't do that. I'd like to state for the record that I personally despise "New Math." It's just wrong. I spent much of this week teaching Big I to check her answers with "old math" which worked just fine for me growing up. Funny that now she gets it. Grr.

I spent last night camped out on the sofa watching DVR'd episodes of "Flash Forward" which is an absolutely brilliant show. If you haven't watched it yet, I strongly recommend you find it online and get caught up. If you're a "Lost" addict like I am, you will love it. I also watched last night's episode of "Project Runway" and I would just like to warn Irina that if she ever runs into me on the street, I'm probably going to slap her or step on her foot or possibly trip her. She is such a jerk. Whatever happened to being so confident that you didn't have to insult other people? Ugh, she's just awful. I hope Carol Hannah wins, just to spite her.

In other news, my karate instructor had hand surgery yesterday for the second time. I know she's at home right now, probably trying to breathe away the pain and doing wonderfully at it, so please send positive thoughts to Mrs. H for tolerable pain and a quick recovery. We will miss you in the dojo Mrs. H! Actually I miss myself in the dojo too. Next week I'm going to try to work on actually getting there twice in one week.

Finally, a bit of good news to share. I'm giving away a $100 Visa card over at The BBM Review. Go check out the Sonicare review and follow the directions for a chance to win the card or a Sonicare Prize package. If you twitter about it or blog about it and leave a link in the comments, you get an extra entry too and who couldn't use an extra $100 these days?

Finally, if you haven't checked out my latest fantasy football column, that's where the laughs are located. Go visit Bulls N Balls and see for yourself.

Have a wonderful, swine flu free, weekend!