March Break has come and gone. We were hoping to go check out the paintball field even though it's kind of early in the year. Mother Nature slammed us with a snow storm so we're going to have to wait a bit longer I guess.
Carrie had her post op exam yesterday. The OBGYN said she was healing better than expected. She was surprised Carrie was walking so well so soon. There's still some minor tenderness in that area and it'll be another month before the tiredness is done completely.
Logan had his 8th birthday on March 8 and I had my 8th anniversary of my 29th birthday on March 9. Logan got some good loot and had a good time with his friends, 3 of which spent the night here. Things like that make me real glad we don't and can't have more kids. LOL
My birthday consisted of me going to a movie and waiting a few more days for family to drop by and drop off gifts. My sister gave me 3 t-shirts, my grandmother gave me$40.00 and my mom got me bike parts.
For Christmas I got a new watch strap for my watch. I put it on and lost the watch 4 days later. We searched the house on 4 separate occasions looking for it as well as keeping our eyes open hoping it would pop up. No luck. So Carrie got me a new watch from Ebay as an early b-day gift. 3 days after it arrived I'm sweeping in a corner we've looked in and cleaned up several times and find my old watch sitting on the floor. I hate those fucking gremlins/gnomes/borrowers.
We picked up a few of those large plastic storage totes. We're fed up with the back room being cluttered because we've had junk stored in a bunch of mismatched food boxed. Over the next few days we'll be going through the back room and reorganizing into the totes. This should be fun....
2 weeks ago (I think) our hamster, Harvey, died in Carries hands. He was old when we got him and over the last month we noticed he was becoming more and more lethargic. His eyes were both crusted shut and for 2 days we used a warm wet cloth to try and get them opened. It worked but I think that was the death knell for him. We warned Logan that it was coming but had no idea it was going to be so soon.
On March 7 a friend of ours, Larry, bought a new hamster for us, kind of a dual birhtday present. It's only about 6 weeks old now and we aren't sure if it's male or female, though the store staff think it's female. She's a Black Bear Hamster, tentatively named Smokey. My mother laughed thinking we named her after mom's cat and one of Carrie's friends jokes that she's named after his Yahoo screen name.
Like most hamsters she sleeps through most of the day. In the evenings when she's awake she's very active. She likes to be in her hamster ball and is nearly impossible to hold safely in your hands. She moves very quickly and hasn't developed much depth perception( which is common for hamsters apparently) yet. She will wriggle and squirm out of your grip, climb up your arm and promptly fall off. Hopefully as we handle her more she'll settle down.
