I’m in. I have a whole day of unpacking ahead of me. More later.

The move went very well. A big thank you to all my friends who helped out. I think it was the most effective move yet.

What a week. Between unpacking, work and the kids, it’s been a zoo. Alec developed bronchitis and has been home from school most of the week. Both Kevin and I had to take turns taking time off work to be home with him. I’m tired from Alec being up at night coughing. I still have quite a bit of unpacking to do but I’m hoping most of it will be done by the time the weekend is over. Alec was supposed to start x-c ski lessons tomorrow but they’ll have to wait
until next week.

My 3 year old nephew fell down the stairs at his house and broke his leg and is now in a cast from his groin to his toes:(

I’ve heard nothing new from my brother, other than he is busy and doing well. My heart breaks when I see the news reports about the deaths and the stories of children lost or of children losing their parents.

However despite all the doom and gloom, I love my new place. It has so much more room. Oh and best of all, I have a dishwasher with it! lol.

I’m going to have a housewarming party next Saturday. It should be a good incentive to get everything unpacked and organized, lol. I’ll have pictures to post later this week once I’m done.

I played bball this afternoon. I haven’t mentioned lately but rest assured that I have been playing regularly and “knock on wood” injury free.

I joined this freecyle emailing list. It’s a great concept. People post things they want to give away or things they are looking for. I found a solid wood, black highboy dresser this way and I gave away a bunch of linens, dishes, old toaster, etc. that someone who was getting their first apartment was looking for.

The housewarming party was cozy and fun last night. It was great to see friends and chat about all kinds of interesting topics. I took some photos yesterday of the new place.

And now I want to tell everyone of my “Darwin” moment. On Tuesday morning, the kids and I woke up late. It was hectic and frantic getting ready. I had noticed that my left eye felt blurry. I thought it was sleep in my eye but it was still there after my shower. I didn’t give it a lot of thought as I was too rushed. After the requisite dropping kids off and I’ve parked and I’m walking into work, I notice that my is still blurry and that I’m starting to feel a strong asynchronicity between my eyes. I tell everyone at work about my left blurry eye, they look at my face, not seeing anything. My eye didn’t hurt but it felt so unbalanced. By lunch time, I’m starting to get some eye strain and the blurriness seems worse. So, I walk into a local optometrist clinic and I tell them my story. The woman at the desk stares at my face for a moment and then says, “ummm you’re missing the lens for the left eye of your glasses”. LOL, I just about died of embarassement. I hadn’t noticed and neither had anyone else at work! I quickly remembered how I had picked up my glasses off the floor that morning as they had been knocked off the night side table in the night. The lens must have popped out then. And since I had been so rushed, I didn’t notice it was missing. I don’t touch my glasses or face normally either. And the worst thing was, I had taken my glasses off at one point that morning to see if there was a scratch or dirt on my lens and I hadn’t noticed the lens being missing because there’s a white board with a lot of glare right in front of my desk and when I held my glasses up, the glare made it so that it wasn’t evident. Or at least that’s my excuse for my utter stupidity;) I said to the women at the clinic that I wouldn’t be surprised if I became one of those emails “one day a woman walks into an optometrist clinic complaining of a blurry left eye……” lol

Ugh, home sick today. I’ve got that aching, sneezing, stuffy, hmm, how does the rest of it go?;)

On another note. I’ve got mt-blacklist installed but it seems that since I started using it the spam has increased 100 fold than it did before I used it. I’ve even getting spammed pings. I must delete a few thousand spams via blacklist everyday. Anyone have any suggestions?