Day 90 - March 31

I have been looking for this box for about 8 months now.  As you can see, I clearly labeled it "Put On Top" along with the addition of "don't crush."  Labeling means nothing in this home, so it would seem.  This box was in the back corner of the first room we filled - on the bottom.  Under 3 boxes of china and 2 boxes of video games.  I haven't untaped it yet, so hopefully everything is ok. :)  I'm hoping the winter gloves/hats/etc kept the fragile stuff from breaking. :)

Day 89 - March 30

Tonight was Family Read Night - an idea dreamed up by one of my teacher buddies that she & I wrote a grant for the last 3 years.  Tonight was the last one.  This cake is actually from the LAST Family Read Night, but I like it.  It's the Pigeon from the "Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus" series.  (Look 'em up.  They're good.  Not "Chester" by Melanie Watt good, but still a fun read.)  Now I'm beat and I must sleep.  Forever.  Or til 6:01am, whichever happens to arrive first.

Day 88 - March 29

This is our new front door!  Of course the lock is different than it was a few hours ago when I took this picture, but that's another story for another day. :)

Day 87 - March 28

The National Geographic Museum is happy to sell you ANYTHING with the Terra Cotta Warriors on it.  Even scrapbooking stickers, as shown here.  Which is amusing, since you're not allowed to take pictures inside the exhibit.  I guess you're supposed to buy the postcards with the pictures and then buy the scrapbook stickers and then make pages out of that? 

All I wanted was a Christmas ornament!  They did have Chinese fish ornaments, but that didn't really match the exhibit so I decided to go without.  I'll live.  Somehow. :)

And now to continue with our busy day.  It's unusual that a quick jaunt to DC is the most leisurely thing we do in a weekend.  We didn't even eat.  Just drove, metroed, museumed, metroed, drove, and came home!

Day 86 - March 27

All done ... just need to put on the addresses and mail them.

Oh, and buy the house.  Minor details. :)

Day 85 - March 26

A (beheaded) yearbook picture that didn't make it.  I spent the last several months working on the yearbook.  It requires a LOT of pictures.  I think I took 4000, but only about 700 of them got uploaded to the site and only about 500 wound up being used.  (Not counting the school pictures that automatically get fed in.)  This was during the first grade show practice.  I didn't even realize the stripe on her outfit was there until it stole the light from 3 of my shots!

Day 84 - March 25

Another lovely picture of art in a doctor's office!  Met with the surgeon who did my thing at the beginning of March.  He advised me to go on meds & not have kids until he knows if the meds are helping me or not.  These two particular meds take 6+ months to build up the proteins or something.  He really made me angry, because he was only thinking about one body system.  He doesn't care how it will affect my problems that my other doctors treat.  Why can't I just get all my doctors who treat various parts of my body (and perhaps a shrink to take care of me while they all yell) to sit around a table and help me make the best decisions?  It seems like every medicine that one of them wants me to take is something another one is telling me NOT to take.  (Heck, even one of the meds the urologist prescribes is on the "don't ingest this ingredient" list that he himself gave me!)  I left there very angry today, because I felt like he didn't listen to a word I said, and didn't answer any of the questions I waited 3 weeks to ask.  And because I got flustered, I didn't really realize that until he was gone. 

So for now, this is the last time I will be seeing this particular doctor.  I have an appointment with a different urologist at Hopkins in a couple weeks, and they claim that they work as a team of specialists to figure out the best solution.  Let's hope they are world famous for a reason. :) Oh, and I think I'm bringing a written paper with my questions and concerns and perhaps even my husband, so that I don't leave feeling so mad!

The good news is, I *am* having a little reduction in symptoms this week.  AND it is not snow weather.  AND we're buying a house in 4 days.  AND it's almost a really long weekend.  All of these are good things!