Reeka's blog: "Whatever"

So... As you may have noticed, I am back after a couple months of fubreak.  On the off chance that anyone's curious about my life while I was gone, here's the cliff's notes update.

In January, I was in the hospital getting some large kidney stones removed via surgery.  One of them popped out of the incision they made in my kidney, and is floating around in my body somewhere - they say it won't cause any problems there.  We'll see.  I still have one large enough not to pass on its own; they're keeping an eye on it and if it causes more issues it'll have to come out the same way.  The biggest issue about the whole thing is that I lost my contract at GM - apparently my being in the hospital was inconvenient for them.

I spend much of my time on Facebook playing Island Paradise and Zoo World.  I've finally regained some of the energy that I've been missing the last couple of years and am attempting to clean the house while I'm home.

My kids were tested for the gifted and talented program.  They were given an IQ test and my 6 year old son had the highest score in the school, with my 9 year old daughter getting the 2nd highest.  They say my son would've scored even higher, but he'd gotten bored and taken off his shoes and socks and was more interested in his toes than their questions.  At any rate, he'll be joining the Magnet program in the fall and all of his ASD programming will follow him there - and it will be less disruptive because of the kind of class he'll be in.  Although my daughter qualified, she's decided to stay in her current school for the last year before middle school, where she will be with her friends.  She's much more needy that way, so I think it's the best thing for her.  I found all of this out on Friday... which made me an especially proud mom yesterday :D

That's about all the important stuff... I guess it wasn't as cliff's-notesy as I'd thought, but too late now (for you)  :P