STOMP, Glasses and Gila Monster spit....

Lots to talk about, where to start....

DH recently had a birthday. I will not divulge his age as it will give mine away and I'm older. Because I dearly love this man I know what he likes. He likes NOISE...well, okay, not noise but rather percussion noise. I also happened to notice that the Broadway production of STOMP! was in town. Being the loving, ever overindulgent wife that I am I got tickets to the final performance at TPAC in Nashville. All I can say is WOW!!! and if you get a chance to go see STOMP! go see it. It was not only fascinating to watch them use paper bags, plastic water jugs and MATCHSTICK BOXES to make phenomenal music, but it was downright funny. I had such a good time. I actually got really sad when I knew the end was coming because I wanted to stay. If you get the chance I urge you to go and take the kids. Seriously good family fun and it really does not get "loud" like you think it would be until right at the end.

Now, how to get him to go see the Nutcracker Suite with me in December.......

Glasses update: I woke up with a migraine headache this morning at 5:30am and as the prayer of "Oh God, please let me puke and feel better or pass out" was uttered over and over the very thought of putting a contact lens in my eye (the headache was centered behind my right eye) was OUT of the question. I laid on the living room floor with an old pair of glasses from which I pilfered the missing pieces of my current glasses. Do you realize how tiny screws in glasses are? I thought this could certainly be used by some horrible country as a torture device, especially with a raging head throb and wave after wave of nausea. The headache is a 3 out of 10 right now on the pain scale of 10 being cut my head off now and 1 being is that a fly irritating me. It will take a few days to totally go away. Golly how I love a good headache......NOT.

And Gila Monster spit update: I am now officially into week 3 and disappointed to say I have only lost 5 pounds...but it sure beats gaining weight. Since after the first week when I could not eat at all I have managed to eat again. Therefore I must now add a decent amount of exercise and more careful eating to my regimen, which I will do. The doc upped the dose today (as was expected) so I'm back to being nauseated again, or is it the headache. I'm not sure, but I sure do know how much I want to go to bed right now and forget to wake up for work at 5:30 in the morning, but I will get up and work, I'm a good kid that way.

We went shopping today for Christmas. I need some input from anybody who has a Leapster "gaming" system from LeapPad. We want to get this for MB, but there is a NEW system and and old system. While the old system has more games, the new system has the capability to plug into your TV directly and show what is being done on the TV. This will be good IMHO for home school because the titles appear to go through 5th grade and MB is a VERY visual learner. They have math, phonics and even Spanish, reading etc. If you have any experience with this system, please please leave me your opinion.

On that note, I shall bid you farewell for the evening as my head is hurting and I need to put it on an ice cold pillow. One of these days I am going to put my pillow case in the freezer before I go to bed. I love a cold pillow.