• Happy President's Day - Katie and I celebrated by cleaning house and going to the children's museum for the afternoon.
• Mom is doing much better this week, still very tender where the incision was but that's to be expected.
• MASSIVE work project rolled out this week, after 5 years of requirements gathering, software design, testing, redesign, testing, tweaking, testing, training and rollout. Thank goodness. AND... the clients are happy. I'm SO good at what I do :)
• Dating - I'm not. Quite deliberately staying solo for awhile. Doing some reading in my newly rediscovered free time. It's all good :)
• and that's about it from Lake Wobegon!
• OH .. getting ready for the Museum - Katie decides she wants to wear a dress and a matching hairbow, "ya know mom, to attract the boys."  Oh GOOD GRIEF.  *giggle 

My Mom called me last night to let me know (FINALLY) that she was having "minor" surgery TODAY on her breast to remove a lump.

For the record, no surgery on your parent is "minor".

Hey, see that link over to the top right, "Click to donate a free mammogram?" CLICK IT.

Mom came thru the surgery fine and when i called her tonight she was loopy on pain-killers. So how is she planning to spend her recovery? By having a colonoscopy Friday. Woo, does my Momma know how to party or what :)

Because it is SO perfect, I sent her a link to tblog's gfak40 blog post about his colonoscopy. I completely love his writing and if you haven't seen this one, you should!

It's pretty well known that local media goes a little nuts if any snow or ice is expected. It's also apparently a law that the two guys from Chicago have to make fun of the "local yokels" for not being able to handle a few snowflakes.  They moved here in 1998.  Get some new lines, you jokers.  Jeeze. Same damn thing, EVERY TIME.

There's 4-5 inches on the back deck so far, and no signs of it stopping any time soon.  Bleh.  

For the record?  Our new cat likes being tossed into the snow about as well as dear Toby used to.  *giggle*.

I guess it's like the cranky Chicagoans.  It's tradition.   

Houston, Texas - their weather sucks in the winter too; but there is still awesome food.

Sinus infections left untreated turn really really ugly.

That pretty well sums it up.