That’s what time I went to bed last night. My project for this summer has to be postmarked by today and I still am not done. I just have one more little thing I have to do and I have to make a copy of something to finish it. I would have done it last night, but even Kinko’s was closed. I am so ready to be done. I am tired of jumping through hoops. So, after today I will only have one more class to take and then I will be DONE with classes FOREVER!
Archive for July 2007
They had a luau on the last day of preshool. Prior to going Liam asked me what a luau was. I explained to him that it was a party and that they might dance. I showed him my best hula dance and he was instantly adamant about NOT doing the hula at the “lou how”. Well, he must have changed his mind because he did it and so did Colm. (Note: Notice Liam’s lai. He is being Chewbacca. He can turn anything into Star Wars.)
Here’s Colm’s best hula.
Liam has started making up an opera to go along with the storyline for Star Wars. He cracks me up. He has about four different songs that he has made up. The way he sings them is the most entertaining part. The other day I asked him if he could sing some more of it to me. He tried and stopped several times. He finally gave up and said he just didn’t have it in him at that moment. Maybe he will be more inspired later on in the week.
Liam did the neatest thing today. They had a program at the library through R.E.A.D.. He got to go to the library and read to a dog named Kya. He brought a book from home to read that was about a dog. Liam thought is was super cool. Next month we get to go back to the library and read to a different dog.
We met with the painter and the foreman yesterday. Things seem to be coming along rather quickly, so I asked the foreman if the November 8 close date was still realistic. He said that usually you close about 45 days after the painter finishes. The painter starts next week. That’s more like September.
This is our new breakfast food around here. First we put neufchatel cheese on them and then top them with our favorite fruit. I like to put either blueberries or strawberries on mine. Liam likes sliced bananas. Colm tried one, but didn’t like them; he is a waffle boy.
I love listening to my kids as they talk to themselves and each other in the back of the car. Today was a great example. Colm was singing a song about how his favorite color is red. It was so funny. He was just making it up as he went along. Then, later on today Liam was looking at the nutritional information pamphlet that we got at Papa Murphy’s and he said, “Mom, there are a lot of calories from fat in the original crust pizza”. (He likes reading the nutritional labels on various foods). It didn’t stop him from eating the pizza when we got home though.
Squirming Larvae Pulled From Man’s Head
5 Squirming Fly Larvae Pulled From Colorado Man’s Head After Trip to Central America
The Associated Press
CARBONDALE, Colo. Jul 17, 2007 (AP)
Doctors thought the strange, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas’ head might be from gnat bites or shingles. Then the bumps started moving.
A doctor found five active bot fly larvae living beneath the skin atop Dallas’ head.
“I’d put my hand back there and feel them moving. I thought it was blood coursing through my head,” Dallas told the (Glenwood Springs) Post Independent.
“I could hear them. I actually thought I was going crazy.”
Dallas said he likely received the larval infestation while on a trip to Belize this summer. Bot fly infections are not uncommon in parts of Central and South America.
Adult bot flies are hairy and look like bees, without bristles. The larvae, which are about one-third the size of a penny, were living in a pit 2- to 3- millimeters wide. They were removed Thursday.
“It was weird and traumatic,” said Dallas, of Carbondale. “I would get this pain that would drop me to my knees.”
After a specialist told him he might have shingles, Dallas tried different creams and salves. But the pain only got worse.
“When I saw him again, it was pretty obvious something else was going on,” said Dr. Kimball Spence, who could see the spots moving on Dallas’ head. “There’s an open pit. You see a little activity, not necessarily the larvae, but a fluctuation of the fluid in the pit.”
Dallas’ wife, Midge Dallas, teased him about it.
“I told him, ‘I will love you through your maggots,'” she told the newspaper.
But Dallas saw little to laugh about.
“It’s much funnier to everyone else,” he said. “It makes my stomach turn over. It was cruel.”
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Did I just violate a copyright?
It’s coming right along. We meet with the painter on Friday. The contract finishing date is November. I can’t imagine it taking them that long. We’ll see.
I took the boys bowling today and they had a blast! It was so much fun. They had never been before. I think Colm enjoyed watching other people bowl more than he enjoyed the actual bowling and Liam thought he was quite the bowling expert by the end of the game. Their form was hilarious. Liam would run, run, run up to the line and then chuck it. Colm would squat and then give the ball a little nudge. Then the ball would S L O W L Y make it down there. We will definitely be going back. You have to go on Tuesdays though. It is a dollar for shoes per person and a dollar per game per person. So the boys and I bowled one game and it cost less then seven bucks. Not bad.
Putting on his cool bowling shoes
Liam the scorekeeper
Watching the ball travel painstakingly slowly down the lane
Final score:
Me 122
Liam 85
Colm 41