HAVING A GREAT WEEKEND

"Good morning world, and all who inhabit it!" That's one of my favorite SpongeBob quotes. Going to give an update, then start getting kid up for the day.

The weather has been gorgeous the last couple of days. I had been kicking around the idea of taking Colby to the zoo. We had a day nurse, so we had someone to go with us (poor thing, she had to push the wagon with ALL of Colby's equipment). Plus I had 3 free passes, so I thought yeah, let's do it. Colby's nurse got here at 9:00 and we worked together to get Colby ready. We went early and got home early, thank goodness. By the time we were leaving I couldn't believe how long the ticket line was. Going to the zoo is not one of Colby's favorite things to do. He never has been that into it, and yesterday was not exception. It went like this at most exhibits: "Oh Colby, look at the polar bear doing a back flip in the water! Hey Colby, there's a large polar bear down there if you would care to look. Colby, open your eyes. Colby Michael, stop looking up at the sky, at the little boy next to you, and look at the gosh damn polar bear!" But I think he was happy just getting out of the apartment and enjoying the weather. I've made a page on his eye gaze about the zoo. I'm hoping he'll tell me what his favorite animal is. Probably not polar bears, haha.

I've been working diligently on the mountain of mail around here. Actually it's not really a mountain anymore, more like a small mound. I got up early Friday and worked on it a little over an hour. Threw out a buttload of stuff. Then my sweet mama came over and helped me do some filing. We cleaned out a bunch of Colby's old files to make room for new ones. She labeled the folders and kept me on task, never an easy chore. I'm fairly confident Colby's paperwork is caught up for now. I'll work on my stuff soon. Absolutely hate paperwork/mail with a passion.

Van update. It still isn't running well. You'll be driving along, then it will "sputter" then drive along fine again. Colby's nurse said she would describe it more as a "jump". Regardless, it ain't right!! No rhyme or reason to when it happens. It happens when I'm on the interstate and just driving around town. Dad came over to drive it and see what he thought. He drove the van out to Superior so they could look at the wheelchair lift, which also happens to be acting up on the van. Dad comes back and says the van didn't act up one time on the way out there or back. Are you freakin' kidding me?! I'm not crazy. Well, I am, but not about this. I know the van is acting up. The good news is the lift can be fixed for about $300. So we're going to fix the lift for now. Not sure what we're doing about the sputtering. Guess we'll see if it has just magically gone away.

Time to get that sweet boy of mine up for the day. His daddy will be here for his visit at 10:00. I'll get out and go for a long walk, trying to get back on the exercise kick. Also need to pick up a prescription and of course I need to go to Kroger, because for some reason, my life is not complete unless I go Krogering every other day or so. Bye for now.