Catch up

Well life has been interesting around here to say the least. But it has been a period of discoveries!

RJ has discovered that he was not meant to stand up on roller skates no matter how much Shandi tries to help him.

Robert has discovered that playing music isn't too bad (he has a bass guitar now).

Randy discovered that it does no good to lecture the boys about keeping their hands off the stuff at Guitar Center when they actually encourage people to play.

And I discovered that I am WAY too old to function on 3 hours of sleep!

RJ officially has a girlfriend now. Randy thinks she must be pretty cool since she was named after a KISS song. It doesn't matter that it was a really bad song... just that she was named after it. He's also found out that as long as he keeps turning in his homework, he gets to go out and do fun things. Imagine that!

Robert's baseball practices have gotten into full swing now. He ended his first practice by catching the baseball with his nose. The coaches were impressed that he knew right away how to take care of it and went to do it without a tear. They started working on Robert's pitching last week. The first one was really wild. But the coach showed him the motions and the next ones were really good. Only one pitch was straight up the middle. The rest were still within the strike zone, which is really good for a 10 year old with no experience. This week they start with 1 day in the batting cage and the next day in the gym. Hopefully Robert will be feeling better. He's currently lying in bed (voluntarily) with a fever, sore throat, and stuffy nose.

Randy woke up Friday morning with a rash on his chest. He swore up and down that it was the poison sumac rash he gets when he goes outside to pull weeds. Since he hadn't been doing that, I told him he was wrong and took at closer look at it. I told him it was shingles and he needed to go to the doctor. Well he ignored me and went into work anyway. Saturday he gets up looking like he hadn't slept any. He admitted that it felt like someone was stabbing him with sewing needles from his chest around to his back. I kicked him out to the doc... and guess what? He had to call and admit that I was right! After the nurse and I quizzed him some more, we found out that he'd had a spot on his back that had hurt for about 3 weeks. And the rash lead right to that spot! I guess I am learning something in school!

As for me, I'm still plugging along with work and school. My lecture is really becoming a struggle. We currently have 80% of our 66 students failing (below a 75%) the med/surg 2 lecture. Personally I only have an 80% which is a C. That is really going to kill my 3.95 GPA. And I am studying my butt off! Hopefully I can pull it up 2% over the next 3 tests so I can at least get a B out of the class.