Skype, Cyst, Snowday

Hola!  Just watching the evening disappear.  This weekend has gone by pretty fast!  Here are some highlights of last week or weekend.

SKYPE.  What a great invention :)  It's better to "see" your college student every week, instead of only "hearing" him.  David's wisdom teeth holes in his mouth are all better now -- none of them are bothering him.  So nice to have that ordeal behind him!  When he's on skype, he gets to interact with his sisters, and us, and we can show him things around the house.

Or Teresa can wave frozen mice in front of the laptop camera as she prepares to feed Komodo (corn snake, now 5 1/2 feet long).

TINY CYST GONE.  Teresa got to be the "hospital patient" this week, getting a little cyst removed from the back of her mouth.  It has come and gone about every week for the past 2 months, not awful but annoying.  So it was really tiny, but the location of it made it so they had to give her anesthesia, and make a whole big deal out of it!  Sigh.  The hospital is a type of Twilight Zone, with time...you walk in, and suddenly the whole day is gone.

(Home Depot is the same way.)

So here she is, in full hospital uniform!  And she is a trooper but really does NOT do well with needles and the IV they put in.  So she got a special "Fall Risk" band for her wrist, to alert nurses that she gets light-headed with that stuff.

The rest of the week at school, she left the waterproof wristband on...she supposes it gives her license to randomly walk around bumping into walls? Better keep that wristband.

SNOW DAY.  We also had a storm dump maybe 10 inches of snow on us?  Maybe close to a foot, depending on where you measured.  Timing was such that it steadily snowed hard, pretty much all day.  So they used another snow day.  Another big sigh.  One more day we go to school, further into the summer :(

BEST NEIGHBORS.  I've said it before, but we really do have the BEST neighbors!  And the grateful perk occasionally is that when there's a snowstorm, they pull out their snowblower, and they clear our driveway too, up to where the cars are parked.  It is SUCH a relief to not have to shovel that part.  (We still shovel the sidewalk, deck, porch, and Frank also rakes the roof, but the driveway is a big deal.)

Hope your week has started off well!  Go Olympians :)

Kari