OMG. 100+ degrees in June.

TOO HOT. TOO EARLY.

Holy crap. It's 8pm and it's still 100.

What the hell am I supposed to do with these kids all day? As it is, I thank my lucky stars that the apartment under us is empty. If I don't get them outside before 10, it's too hot, and I would need to hold them down and force water down their throats in order to hydrate them adequately in this heat.

Not to mention that the heat and bright sun will have me too ill to tolerate long periods of time outside.

I need to find cheap indoor things for them to do to burn off all this energy before they kill each other stampeding like elephants or wrestling.

I think after next week it'll be safe to take them to the pool and not have to split my eyes watching the two of them. Except that brings me back to the sun issues and my eyes. And the fact my skin will burn. With sunscreen. Why don't we have shaded pools here? Jeeze.

Topamax is bad, mmkay?

After telling my Doc in April that my migraines weren't really that bad, I was gifted with a 2 week migraine cluster that was not PMS related. I conceded defeat, went in, and asked for something to manage them. I also had another sinus infection.

My third day on Topamax, I took one and then went to Sara's Scrappin' for Arthritis benefit crop. I'd gotten on I35 and suddenly felt dizzy. I'd neglected to read the bottle, we'd gone over side effects before it was prescribed.

I made it to Scrapbook Haus and I was out of it for the first few hours. Yeah, I got some scrappin' done, but I looked a bit like a zombie. Everyone was notified that I was on Topamax, and I was also warned that it could be horrible.

Little did I know how horrible it would be.

I made it through the day of scrapping. I think I got 9 pages done? Considering the fact I am a slow scrapper and tend to socialize a bit it was enough for me. I also won one of the grand prizes - a free weekend retreat in July. I'll be leaving the laptop at home and it'll be Sara, 20something other scrappers, me, and my photos. It'll be nice to "unplug" from everything for a weekend.

But I digress.

If it was a Topamax symptom, I had it, and I had it bad. By Sunday my face was tingling up a storm and actually felt like it was sunburned...without a burn. I was crazy irritable. My insomnia...it actually got worse. I had no appetite - I ate only b/c I knew I needed to. I was bone tired. So horribly tired. I could barely motivate myself to get out of bed - and then I'd spent the day on the couch. Horrible tired, but unable to sleep.

And then there was the brain fog. Putting a sentance together took a lot of work. I occaisionally have trouble finding the right word for things - much worse. I could concentrate on nothing.

I gave it two weeks. Things were backing up here - I hadn't done any cleaning. I'm usually a pest on Facebook - people started sending me messages asking me where I was. I'd had PMs to answer, but just couldn't be bothered to do it at all.

Horrible, evil stuff. I went back in to see the doc (I had another infection of some sort, too) and I was taken off of it. 24 hours later, my brain started to function. I've been on another migraine med, but it doesn't seem to be working. At least my brain works. :D

We've had some happy thunderstorms the past day. I love thunderstorms. Don't see enough of them here. There's nothing like the flash of light and the rumble of thunder while listening to the rain fall.

Should I be concerned if I hear crunching while my husband is clipping his toenails?

And I'm still tired of the dragons, but if I'm not making new posts, I'm not looking at the dragons. =)

I'm tired of the purple dragon theme.

But I don't know what to change it to. *sigh*

Hmm. Almost 5 months. Not quite as bad as my record of over a year. :D

So, starting from where I left off...

I never made it to the HS Reunion and College Bicentennial. A mixture of various factors and I decided it would be best to stay home.

Michael has been doing much better in school so far this year. His first report card was nearly straight As! He has also passing his math and reading TAKS preliminary tests. Yeah, there's a word I can't think of atm, but hey, I resisted the urge to say "thingy". We do, however, still have trouble getting him to read on his own. He picks fiction out from the library, it gets lost, and I find it after it is 3 weeks overdue. *sigh* What he does read is the sciency stuff that he picks out from his school's library. Books on our solar system, individual planets, earth weather, earthquakes, hurricaines, etc etc etc. He says he wants to be a weatherman. Quite a different direction from the firefighter he wanted to be 2 years ago!

Another year older...

Not much to say. This year's birthday deviated from the standard Mom's Homemade Pie birthdays that I've had for years. Jer got a sitter and we went out for a nice dinner somewhere not too expensive. No embarrassing song and dance. Afterwards we wound up at Borders and I bought some books. Annual "present to myself". Heh.

Mikey started school this past monday. My days are now much quieter again. Audrey is like a different child when her brother is not around. But, as 3:45 rolls around... I need earplugs.

I'd been aiming to go back east this fall. High school's 15th reunion, college's 150th anniversary, and miscellaneous hanging out with family and friends. It looks like it will not happen. Car needs maintenance, Mikey needs me home to help him with his homework & studying, my anxiety level starts to rise when I think about traveling with a 4 year old, and... I just don't want to come home to a home that will look like it hadn't been cleaned in three weeks.

At any rate, I should head to bed. Blizz decided that the Mags GKP just wasn't for me and I got knocked offline. Now I am one of the many "random" people across the globe who cannot log into their particular server. Sure, I can go to one of my other servers and putter about on a low level toon, but I was in Mags... *sigh*

Speaking of Blizzard... I want them to make the murloc noise available in the US for phones. Almost everywhere else, but here...

My sinuses have been driving me crazy. I wonder if I've got a sinus infection.

Last Friday we took the kids to Schlitterbahn. Great place! Lots of water rides we could all go on. The park isn't one great big park, it's split into three sections. We started off by just doing a little raft ride that went around in a loop, just to get our feet wet. Then we started riding things.

I lost my SU hat on the Backsplash. I thought I had it tightly interwoven with my hair thingy and my sunglass strap, but apprently I didn't. Result in - hat lost and not turned in. We got kinda bored over there though, so we took the tram to the other half of the park. Lots of tube chute rides, and others just lazing about. We waited in line for about an hour for one that twisted and turned down a hill. At one point my foot caught the bottom and I was popped out of my tube. Oops. [However, I did notice that no one pointed and laughed, the waiting line was right there. That would have been SOP back east.] The tubes got stuck in one portion at one point. We'd gone down as Jerry holding onto Audrey's tube, then mikey, then me. I started out holding mikey's tube, but soon into the ride mikey said "mommy let go!" so off he went.

The bottom let out into a pool area. [The ride and pool were fed by the Comal River.] So we spent some time splashing around in the pool for a bit, then had lunch. Mikey took a solo trip down a body tube, then we took what was supposed to be a 45 minute "ride". It was half meandering, half fast, and had a "fork". Left fork was a chute that dumped you out into the Comal River. Right fork let you into a circular "river" thing to float around. We took the right fork and floated around it a couple times.

At that point, it was after 4, and my headache wasn't letting up. Jer went to return the kiddie tubes and I watched the kids while they splashed around in a kids pool for a bit. Time to go home, sleep off the migraine, then go to BT. And to find out just how bad my sunburn was.

HOLY SHIT. Instead of putting the sunscreen on my boobs myself (I walked around in just my bathing suit all day), I let Jerry do it. What self-respecting guy wouldn't enjoy massaging his wife's boobs? He skimped. My boobs were a bright red, as was a good portion of my shoulders and back. I actually had finger marks on the back of my biceps where I'd tried to put on sunscreen. That skin was white. Surrounded by red. Ouch. I spent a few days where I couldn't wear a bra b/c that stuff hurt. It's better now, and my nose is peeling... Audrey has a little peely nose too!

But Schlitterbahn is probably somewhere we'd go back to again. I've got photos, but they are on a waterproof film camera, and I need to finish it off and get it developed.

Doing the WiiFit is doing well. Jerry and I have this bit of competition going on. I get high scores and he tries to beat them. :)

This weekend I'm hoping to get my hair cut, get all the dead ends and stuff off, and then dying it this dark red I found. Got a lot planned for this weekend though (cleaning stuff *sigh*), so I don't know if I'll get around to it.

My HS class is having a 15 yr reunion this fall. Maybe I can fly back east for it and combine it with going to SU's 150th Homecoming Weekend the weekend before. Take Audrey with me and spend time with my parents. Hmm.

Oh yes. This note is for one person. I know you're reading my blog. Like you say, I am intelligent. The only thing I have to suggest is that perhaps you should have read it last year, instead of this year.

Ok, time to find my shoes and get ready to pick Mikey up from summer school.