OK, OK...Here's the Update! : )

It's been a hectic week or so. Lots of good, bad, fun, aggravating things going on:

1. Tax season is drawing to a close...that means that I get phone calls at least once or twice a day from people saying "IT'S ALMOST TAX DAY...CAN YOU FIT ME IN???" Grrr... Don't get me wrong...we can CERTAINLY use the extra cash right now, but I just wish that people would look at their calendars every now and then. ; ) (Scale = Aggravating)

2. We had the extreme pleasure of having our good friends, Jamie and Jada, spend the night with us this past Friday night. We took the girls to see the Disney Princesses on Ice, and the show was FABULOUS! I even felt like a kid again!! I'll post some pictures of the girls and from the show as soon as I can. Maddie and Jada wore their Cinderella gowns and crowns to the show. The evening was wonderful, but it was kind of dampened by a severe storm that came through as we were leaving. Even THAT didn't dampen the spirits of the girls, though! (Scale = FUN!) The girls played together SO well, and Jamie and I just sat and talked and talked and talked, which was very fun.

3. This morning, I was driving along a little country road that leads to the highway, just listening intently to a song on the radio ("Because of You" by Kelly Clarkson - what a heartbreaking song!). Suddenly, I see lights flashing behind me! Where in the HECK did that stinking cop come from anyway?? So yeh...I get a stinkin' ticket! I was doing 54 in a 35 mph zone...he knocked it down to 45 in a 35, though. Guess he liked me. HA! Anyway, the sucky part was that I was the last in a line of 5 cars that were all going the SAME SPEED! I just happened to be last in line, so I got it. Oh well...I did it, so I have to pay...simple as that. I'm pretty sure I was framed, though. : ) The thing is that I wasn't even paying any attention to what speed I was going. Simple things like that don't occur to me anymore. My brain apparently melted out my ears while I was taking a shower at some point or something. Bah! (Scale = BAD!)

4. I get to get poked, prodded and SHOCKED on Friday. Not looking forward to that - EMG testing. The good part of it is that Phil told me that since he will be home with the kids, he wants me to go and get my hair done after the test. I'm going to get it cut and probably COLORED (for the first time since I was a teenager) because I'm getting really gray in the front on my hair. I have gift certificates to the salon and day spa, so I might sneak a massage in there, too. I DESERVE IT!! (Scale = Semi-Good day ahead)

In other news...my Mom is holding on with her Chemo cream treatment. Her face looks like it's burned badly, and it's pretty swollen in places. She ends the treatment, hopefully, on Friday, and she goes back to see her Dermatologist then. She is HORRIBLY afraid that they are going to tell her that she has to do the treatment for more weeks. (It's usually a 6 week treatment, but they are treating hers "aggressively" for 2 weeks.) Please just pray that she will be done at this point. I don't think she can take too much more of it - it's horribly painful for her, too.

My Dad's surgery is scheduled for May 2nd...please also pray that it would go as well as possible for him.

Finally...we have sent out 6 resumes so far for Phil...please pray that someone(s) might call him for an interview soon.

I'm doing OK...still lots of burning going on in my right leg, and now it's moved to the back of my neck. It's REALLY aggravating! I assume that Dr. Fee will UP my dosage of Neurontin since this theoretically should not be happening on this drug.

So that's it in a NUTShell. I'll post some pics of the girls as soon as I get a chance...