Day 18

Well the last 24 hours have indeed been incredibly interesting and exciting. Some of you already know about my little surprise yesterday morning, but without going into too much detail I ended up, unbeknownst to me, a little better off than I did when I got up that morning. Not something I feel like I should share on the blog just yet. Huh... I've whet your appetite, all you non-informed. Speak to Pap or Mum. They will fill you in. All I can say is it couldn't have come at a better time.

Going back to Tuesday however, not such a fantastic day, somewhat mundane. The Moving guy came and did a walk through the house and after an hour or so of writing down every box and every piece of furniture and equipment he estimated we had over 18,000 lbs of stuff. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS!!!! Well you can imagine my horror when we sat down and went through the numbers. I thought I'd been generous in gestimating 15,000 lbs. So needless to say a lot of stuff that was in the "think we might one day need" pile will not be coming with us. I'd like to think we can reduce our weight by 3000lbs at least.

Afternoon was filled with piano/singing lessons and homework. Darren got home late so it was a okay sort of day.

Yesterday now that's a whole other story. To start off, my wedding ring was stuck on my right hand (I'd moved it after the accident) and it was starting to make my finger swell up and become painful. So after soaking the finger in ice water and try to lubricate the ring, nothing working I decided to go online and see if there was a magic trick to removing a stuck ring. Let me tell you there is.. and it works!! Really well! So the trick is that you slide a piece of string/ dental floss/ yarn under the ring and then wind the remaining string/dental floss / yarn around your finger and over the knuckle, binding the finger and squishing down the puffiness. You then start to unravel the string from the opposite side of the ring and that pushes the ring up and over the knuckle and hey presto! the ring comes off. I was so thrilled because I thought I was going to have to have the ring cut off. And the best part, it doesn't hurt.

Yesterday afternoon, Owen had his friend Chase come over for a playdate and Morgan went to the park with Gracie. In the evening Lisa and Jim had invited us to go to the Pac-10 tournament (College Basketball for you uninformed) In all honesty as much fun as it was, you have to pay attention all the time and can't relax and talk or you miss everything. As a result, Lisa, her friend Connie and I ended up eating, talking and drinking most of the time and didn't really see that much of the game. Oregon State was slaughtered by Cal State and as I thought it appropriate to root for Oregon State, was somewhat disappointed by the defeat. We left 30 mins into the second game between Washington & Arizona State.

Today, Morgan got to go on a field trip to In-and-Out Burger, which was a lot of fun for them and they got to eat free food and drink all the different sodas and milkshakes. She also has two friends over as a playdate. It's not as easy as one on one because there is always someone who can't agree and I've had to monitor them a little closer than I would usually. Right now they are out on the deck eating apple sauce as a snack and they are singing to each other. Very sweet.

This afternoon, Morgan has her art class and hopefully we will actually get this week...

More on this later.