Mission Accomplished

Well, it is done! I had surgery today, it was fairly uneventful. I was "out" for about 1 1/2 hours and then in the hospital for another hour after that. They took out the cyst and my ovary, which was the size of a softball. Needless to say, I am quite sore, but doing well otherwise.

I have some super duper friends who brought us dinner so that Dave could take care of the kiddos and I could rest. THANKS!

I am a little loopy from pain meds, so I can't think of much more to add at the moment, but wanted to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers on my behalf, and let you know that all went well.

Out of a Steven King Novel

Dermoid cyst of the ovary : A bizarre tumor, usually benign, in the ovary that typically contains a diversity of tissues including hair, teeth, bone, thyroid, brain, skin, cartilage etc.

This is one of many definitions I found when I googled the term. I have one of these in my left ovary. It was discovered when I had my 20 week ultrasound with Amira last May. It was about pea sized at the time. I had another ultrasound in January to see if it was still there, and it had grown to the size of a tennis ball. I haven't had another ultrasound, but chances are it has grown since then as well.

Tomorrow I am having an outpatient surgery to remove the whole ovary. Yes, the whole thing! Anyways, I went in to see the doctor on Friday morning for a pre-op appointment to receive all my do's and don'ts. I will be "under the knife" for about an hour, and then in recovery for a few more after that.

I am not at all concerned, my understanding is that this is fairly easy, and common enough.

BUT...

I spent the whole time during my appointment and have been obsessing since then about the fact that the stupid scale that they MADE me stand on, said that I gained 10 pounds!!!

WHATEVER.

It better be gone after they take that thing out of me!

I'll keep you informed!

UPDATE on Rockband

It appears as if the 30th is double booked for some...myself included, so I (being the host of this event in particular) had made an executive decision and changed the date to the following Thursday, the 6th of November. Additionally, I feel that 7:30 may be a more apporopriate time for several moms to get their kiddos off to bed first.

I hope that this doesn't change the availability for those of you who have already booked the date, and hopefully a sister can still come!

Girls Night Out ROCK BAND

I said I was gonna do it, and now I am.

Thursday, October 30th, how does 7 sound? All the ladies need to come on over to play Rock Band. There will be at least 2 systems set up!

Ooooh, I can't wait. Bring some munchies to share!

Christmas party in the works!

I have sent out an evite for those whose emails I could find, but apparently don't have current ones for everybody, and I prudently want to express that nobody is being left out....

We are hosting a Christmas Party on Friday the 19th of December. Please save the Date!

When do you think we will get it?

Every fourth weekend, we gather our family and head out for a trip down to King and Pierce Counties. Why, you may ask? Well, we have to share our children with their other parents and to make things fair, we do half of the driving. Fortunately my parents live there so we have a nice warm (free) place to sleep. Additionally, I used to live down there, and since David and I have been married, I have continued to work on the weekends that we head down. It is really a winning situation, as we have to be down there anyhow, why not take advantage of the fact that I have an opportunity to earn some money to contribute to our family budget.

To the point now...I was in Costco this weekend picking up a couple of things for the office and did some of the usual browsing that accompanies a trip to the ginormous "store". I saw a really cool serving platter / lazy susan, and thought "hmmm, that would be kind of cool to use if I had one." The thought ended there though, as $39.99 was not burning a hole in my pocket, and it was not on the list of things that I needed for my office. The thing is, it would take more than one of my hands to count the number of carts being occupied with that neat tray. Now don't get me wrong, it was a super cool platter, but I highly doubt that a single one of those people went to Costco with the intention of purchasing a lazy susan platter. Which leads me to my title question, "when do you think we will get it?" The economy is crashing around us, unemployment is on the rise, houses are foreclosing like crazy, and there really isn't any indication that these circumstances are going to change anytime soon, so...what is the deal with thoughtless spending?

I am not judging, I have a bad habit of spending unnecessarily all the time, and it is something that takes a lot of effort to control, but I am scared of the financial future of our country, and it has effected the way I "shop"... in fact, I don't really do that without a list, and leave with only what is on the list (yes, I am currently patting myself on the back). I just wonder what it will take for the affluenza bug to be realized as a whole!

Any thoughts?

Quotes of Today!

We had Chinese Chicken Fried Rice for dinner tonight, (bear with me, this leads up to the story) and so I steamed some rice earlier in the day today so that it would be cold tonight when it was time to cook. I cooked too much (better than not enough) so I decided to make some rice pudding for desert. I haven't ever had this before, so I am not sure if it is normal for it to be quite runny, not unlike rice-y milk, only really sweet and yummy. We ate it with cinnamin...YUM! Back on to the point now. Reiley said that it reminded him of egg nog, which was his favorite drink (of this conversation anyhow) and then Maira added her two cents. This is how it went:

"V-8 is my favorite drink. It is made by the Power Juicer Deluxe, because there is no food in it at all when you drink it."

This is entertaining for those of us who remember the infomercial brain washing from early in September. If you didn't get to see that post, please refer back so that you can properly appreciate Maira's quote of today.

Arami's quote of today....

"Brooke, did you know that blood tastes like metal?"

hmmm, who knew. I have a Twighlight fan in the making!