It ends with a R.I.P....don't say I didn't warn you.

Tami did the Easter egg hunt on Saturday instead of Sunday which made it a busy day. Sky bowls in the morning then we went straight to Tami's since Mau had to work. Sky stayed there and Melissa brought him home later on. There was only one crying incident when Damien hit his knee on a rock and dumped his basket of eggs but it was brief. It will go down in history as the first Easter with no crying kids.

We had THE BEST day weather-wise yesterday. It was so nice the news reported the local zoo had over 10,000 visitors (a comparison being only 300 visitors 2 days before with it being spring break) and the park by our house was packed. Advantage was taken in the form of a morning basketball game with Mau and digging the bike out of the basement for a ride with the kids. Kali usually barks once to come back inside after doing her business but 2 hours went by and I jumped up "OMG, I forgot about the dog!". I threw open the door to find her asleep in the sun. She gave me a look like "Do I HAVE to come in?". So anyways, THE BEST day weather-wise. Refreshing.

On a totally opposite note...Our neighbor's daughter, Danni, was born with only half of her brain. I am not sure of the details since I feel like an ass for asking. What I do know is she was not given a life expectancy at birth but generally people with this condition do not live past 2 yrs. Danni is 20 but in a wheelchair, cannot communicate by talking, and has to be fed and cared for 24/7. Today Skylar told me he had to be nice to Danni's brother (Sky's friend) because "Danni stopped breathing and might go to heaven.". I was like "OMG, who told you that?" and he stated his other friend's father did. Another of his friends confirms this. Now, I am not going to believe two 7 yr olds without confirmation from an adult. A call was put in to Mary Jo who said Danni had died at 2pm yesterday. Mau & I just stared at each other for a good 5 minutes before we both said at the same time "I don't want to cry.". It's so fucking sad I can barely take it. Mau is taking this news especially hard since he really liked her and she would always get so excited whenever he would talk to her...he would get a kick out of her wiggling in her chair and laughing when he would talk about football to her. I took over a plant today and talked with her mother for a bit. It was terribly hard, especially when I saw the look on one of her other kids' face.

Ugh...

Life in paradise has turned into life in hell. Mau & I get in the 3rd fight this week (over finances, how lame) so he takes off in my car returning 2 hours later with a bar brawl story that he was involved in. He proceeded to drive my car back drunk. Cool. Of course that news didn't set well with me so the fight escalated until I found out that I have been the world's biggest bitch for 10 years now and if he hears one more thing about my health conditions he might possibly be forced to kill me. He suggested we separate but turned it around so that it would be my decision. The terms of this would be still living together...um, what? Apparently this is totally normal and would bring no unneeded stress on anyone...again, what? Dr. Phil might disagree on that one.

Good news? Yes, I have good news. Skylar bowled in that Pepsi tournament a few weeks back and has qualified for the state finals of the Pepsi Youth Bowling Championships. He ranked 10th for 11yrs and younger in the district! That's my boy! If you can't feel the warmth of my insane ear-to-ear grin, there's something wrong with you. Damn, that's something. I can't get over it. He has really turned into quite a bowler. He's brought his average from a 20 to a 60 this season and always bowls well over his average so it keeps going up. I believe he had a 28 average when he first bowled a 105...that's pretty impressive. The only drawback is that this tournament is in Columbus so it's a small road trip but with possible scholarship money on the line and a measly $20 entry fee, it's not to be passed up.

What else is there to talk about? Do you want to hear about the cockroach the size of the state of Texas that welcomed me into the bathroom? Nah. How about the dog's unhealthy obsession with eating cat poop? No, didn't think so. Mau's decision to go into the Navy? We won't go there. My weight loss accumulating to a solid 40 lb drop? Well, that is something I'm pretty proud of but not too newsworthy. That's it, I got nothing.

Seconds from death...

We are still in 2nd place this week in our league and I think we will hang on for another week. We only won 1 point last night but I have been trying to figure out for weeks where my "groove" went. I have adjusted and readjusted my stances and approach starting positions and nothing has worked. We bowled against the league leader and she coached me on what I was doing wrong and it worked...I pulled off 4 strikes in the last game and was picking up spares I couldn't pick up before had my life depended on it. I thought it was really nice of her to help me even though we were bowling against her team.

I have been battling a sickness I refer to now as 'The Beast From Hell That Might Kill Me'. I had gotten a cold way back on my birthday. I had the aches and chills but only for a day then the cold kicked into full gear. I quickly downed my usual concoction of zinc and echinacea and it was gone in a few days with mild symptoms. Whew, dodged that one. Well, no. A week later I get the aches and chills again with a sore throat. This time I skipped the zinc thinking it wouldn't really turn into anything since I was just sick. Boy was I wrong. I got the full brunt of it like I was hit by a speeding train. I got completely congested to the point where you can't taste or smell and make weird sounds out of your nose when you try to do stupid things like breathe. I'm extremely used to colds, even severe ones and I didn't slow down. I keep doing all the normal things like playing DDR and keeping the house in order but while complaining the whole time. It went along with me thinking every day that I would feel better the next day. Ain't happening. I have been congested for 2 weeks now, have gone through like 50 boxes of tissues, am hacking up yellow gunk every 2 minutes or so (except when sleeping, then I just hack up the built up shit from the night for hours in the morning), I have no fever but I have been achey with chills and a headache from hell for 7 days now. I am talking achey like every step I take hurts and even brushing up against something feels excruciating and chills like I have goosebumps all the time and shake constantly. Ibuprofin helps me at least get through bowling and DDR and I have taken a few naps...and you all know how anti-nap I am. I feel going to a doctor won't help at this point. They say you have to go in the first 48 hours and I'm way past that so I'm thinking "deal with it and shut up" is pretty much my only option. I apologize for this grim interruption and return you to normally scheduled programming.

A mystery liquid

Sky did really good at the Pepsi tournament. He bowled an 85, 91 and a 105 (he fouled the last shot otherwise he would have had a 111, his highest score yet). He bowled second best out of his division but there's another weekend of it so I don't know how he did overall yet. He had fun, got a patch and a ball towel so that's really what matters.

We got our points fixed in league so we are in 2nd place much to the dismay of the 1st place team who, within earshot of us, bitched about the fact that we were. I'm not sure why that guy cares considering he's in 1st and we aren't near getting ahead of his team yet. He's the ass though and as we got close to taking 2nd, we were prepared for some sort of opposition from him. We only won 1 point this week and lost last week but we won for several previous weeks...that's how we got in 2nd place. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out but possibly someone smarter than this guy. If (in his too tight wifebeater and a name like "Ernie") he is too good and competitive to be playing in this crappy little fun league, then why is he? Bowling for a $100 gift certificate should be so beneath him. Keith & Mary Jo are inching up too so that should really piss him off.

Last night I was getting into bed. As I stretched my feet out under the covers it felt really cold. I left my feet there for a second until I realized it was wet. I jumped up yelling "WTF?" and Mau & I tried to figure out what this mystery liquid might be. My first assumption would be cat pee but it was too large of an area. My second assumption would be dog pee but Kali had been outside multiple times during the course of the evening and peeing on the bed isn't her M.O. It even seemed like too large of an area to be from her too. It hasn't rained so it's not a roof leak, nor is the roof above the bedroom. The turntable room is with no plumbing over that area either. Hmmm. Sniffing it out would have given clues but I'm completely congested due to a severe cold and air is not allowed into my nasal cavity at this time. Mau's sniffer isn't quite as good as mine but he assured me it did not smell like any sort of animal pee. The mattress was scrubbed, Fabreezed and flipped and we dug through the basement for another comforter to use temporarily. All this at 3:30am. Fun!

New stuff on the site

I made some minor changes to the site. I decided to combine all the injury/surgery pictures into one section of its own and Sky is getting his own section but that link is dead as of now because I'm still working on it. I made some other changes here and there but nothing major. HellaKitty and friends came down to make an Ollie's trip and she was given strict instructions to take pics with my camera. Did she? Nope. She failed her mission and let the team down.

Oh, on that note, Skylar has dropped in on the mini ramp at Ollie's. He stands at the top and cries first but he did it 3 times. He thinks holding Mau's hand helps him but Mau lets go right as he drops in so really he's doing it all on his own. Of course he doesn't realize this so he's still scared to try the next time. He also doesn't realize he goes down banks there that are steeper than the mini ramp but rationalizing with him does no good.

We had won all 4 points last week in league but one got counted as a loss again. I talked with the manager at the bowling center and he said to bring the documents and he'll fix it. If we had gotten the appropriate credit, we would be tied for 2nd but are 3rd instead...not fair in my opinion. We went down hard this week to Keith & Mary Jo but I think we will remain in 2nd/3rd for one more week. Skylar bowls in the Pepsi tournament this weekend so we are trying to get him as much practice as possible and coaching...not by a real coach, just by us regarding his stance and placement of the ball considering his wicked hook.

Sky has been moved to a more advanced class in Kung Fu. He has been taking one of each due to Mau's work schedule but Shi Fu wants him out of the less advanced class for good now so he can "teach him some new techniques". Sweet.

I won the poker game the other night. It was rough going heads up against Ted and I think fatigue played a part in it.