Monday: colonoscopy

This morning I didn't do much.  A little bit, but I also just sat around a lot.  We finally got to the hospital and things went smoothly.  It turned out that the prep that I did had a high chance of bad side effects, but I luckily didn't have any.

I had a clear colonoscopy with no polyps.  So I get to do it again in five year.  I did wake up at the very end as they were taking the oxygen back off and I jumped when I woke up.  (This is how I normally wake up, honestly.)  They just pushed me back down and laughed a bit.  I don't remember going to the room, but woke up for good when we arrived.  I heard the doctor's report, drank my apple juice, and we got on our way.  They told us it would take a total of about two hours and they were very accurate.

Pat and I picked up the kids after a lunch for me and then I took a nap.  My intestines are still gurgling a bit, but at least I'm able to eat again.

Sunday: hungry

I'm hungry.

I have my recurring colonoscopy tomorrow, so today is the clear liquid diet.  The rest of the family got to eat yummy things like left over pizza and chicken sandwiches and I got Jell-o and chicken broth.

I'm over Jell-o.  Last time I made two different flavors and only ate one.  This time I made one and barely ate half of it.  It looks like it will be solid and delicious and then it really isn't - solid or delicious.  The chicken broth is always the yummiest thing.  I think the salt helps a lot.

The actual prep for the procedure has gone fine.  It doesn't bother me much.  

The procedure isn't until noon tomorrow!  Which means I get to be hungry all morning too.  At least everyone will be gone so I can be grumpy by myself.

Friday: stuff was finally accomplished

Today was the first day that I felt like I actually finished chores this week.  This isn't actually true at all: I got some stuff done on Monday and I worked well Wednesday, but groceries and mid-terms took a lot of time.

O:CtH update: I was hoping to finish the small storage room today, but that didn't quite happen.  I need to dust a crate that I put in it and take care of some things that I took out.  Next up is the basement bathroom.  It's an odd room as there isn't much in it and it should go rather quickly, but at the same time it has some big items that need to be moved out.  This includes Ben's bike.  I haven't been using the indoor bike lately because there's been more karate, so it's time to put the bike back in the garage.  Of course, there really isn't any room in the garage either.  So I need to clean enough of the garage to get the bike in.  I did a little bit of that today.  I found several large kids' toys to donate and a lovely empty box that looked like it was being turned into a castle.  It was taking up a surprising amount of room and I'm wondering how long it's been there.

I also did several outside chores.  I'm slowly bringing in all the summer stuff and I cut down most of a bush that was trying hard to be a tree. 

Thursday: good job

I got a "good job" in karate tonight and I was rather proud of it.  We had just gone through a bunch of basic actions (front kick, front punch, etc) with "here is how you make it better" instructions.  Then we were running through one of our basic combos - high block, front punch, front kick, jump front kick - and I was trying hard to put some of the new technical instructions into practice.  And the instructor noticed and said "good job".

Wednesday: watermelons and Catan

 For the third year Isaac has tried to grow watermelons.  This was our best quantity year, although we still haven't mastered getting a watermelon larger than a baseball.

Surprising me, he ate some of them anyway.  Well, at least a scoop of them.

We also started a game of Catan last night and it was going very poorly for me.  We always tell the children to be good sports, but this game always seems to have one person that isn't enjoying themselves.  We finished it up tonight and it was memorable in two ways. 1) It is probably the shortest game of Catan I've ever played.  Ben had a strong start but so did Isaac, and Isaac continued to get good rolls the whole time.  2) It is probably the worst game I've ever had.  I was just starting to make progress tonight after nothing last night and the game was done.  I ended up with 3/10 points (and you start with two points!).  

Monday: day off

The kids didn't have school today.  I forgot that fact several times, but managed to not send them to school this morning.  We went to the karate school this morning so the kids could play with the obstacle course.  They played with it for two hours, so it was a good morning activity.  I played with them a little bit and managed to pull a muscle in my neck.  It's already starting to get better.

Then we decided to get donuts.  I didn't want to go to Meijer because they don't have my favorite.  We went to one place and they were closed on Mondays.  We went to a second place and they were well picked over with just a few boring ones left.  We ended up making orange cinnamon rolls at home; they were delicious.

The rest of the day was pretty normal.  Screen time, rest time.  Last night I was reading to the kids and the story got pretty scary so we forwarded to the end of the chapter.  Today we backed up, read the scary part in the daylight, and then continued with the story a bit.

I got a few chores done throughout the day.  During laundry, Tornado 'hid' under the bed.  Horizon was nice to his brother and didn't pounce on his tail.

Thursday: pretty normal

 It was a rather normal day today.  I taught.  There was a lot of group work with pivot tables.  I very clearly stated something in a short lecture at the beginning, noting that students often forgot this thing.  Surprise surprise, several groups forgot it.  However, there were also several moments of "ah ha!" when they realized, so hopefully they'll remember in the future.

There was a short meeting after school for 6th grade camp.  I'm sure Isaac will have fun.  I'm glad to have a packing list.  It did make a busy day even busier though.  I know that's just how Tuesdays and Thursdays go, but ...they're still quite full.