Summer is almost over and I have almost recovered from my vacation. After vacation we got two weeks to try to get back to normal life before we had to go to California for my niece's wedding. A couple days before we left for California I got vertigo and it started my never ending visit with doctors. I first saw my ENT (who is getting fired because he should have retired 20 years ago and is clueless), orthopedic for my neck, ER a couple hours after arriving in CA, then onto a new primary when we got back, then a cardiologist (everything looks good there) and a neurologist (verdict isn't in on that one yet). So needless to say it hasn't been the best month. I've been tired, it's been hard to work, hard to sleep, it just hasn't been a fun time. The vertigo is finally gone though but it left me with migraines. I took meds from the neurologist once before chucking them because they made the headaches go from mild and slightly annoying but bearable to feeling like my head was in a vice.. Now I just follow up with a kidney doctor and get an MRI on my head and then I'm clear. Maybe they'll find out what set all this off, maybe they won't.
So for since getting back we have mostly stayed indoors. The vertigo started after going to the waterpark so I wanted nothing to do with the heat after that. Staying inside probably made things worse but now we are starting to get back out.
Adri started Kindergarten a couple weeks ago and so far she loves it. She is always good at making friends on the playground but now she gets to see the same friends everyday so I think it's probably the first time she has made real friends besides family or our friend's kids out of state.
Zach has been terrorizing us. It's funny that when Adri was 3 I said people are crazy saying terrible twos because she was such an easy kid until 3 and a half or so. But Zach is a little terror. He climbs up on the table, up on the couch, he screams when he wants stuff, he's just a little terror. He is a cute little terror though. He's finally at the chatty stage although we can't understand most of what he is saying. He sounds like a little shouting German, only I can understand German better than Zach. About a week or so ago he started running up to me giving hugs and he yells when I leave the house. He likes to watch That 70's Show, Scrubs, and all the other shows that shouldn't be interesting to kids. If he's laying down he'll jump right on when the show's theme songs start up. He loves music and dancing and yes, he makes me proud, he loves heavy metal. Our go to show right now to shut him up and get some time to sit down is The Gruffalo. Zach, unlike his sister, is all business when it comes to eating. He gets it from me. When food is in front of him he goes to town and inhales it.
Oh so if you're wondering why this post is titled "Hell 2015", it was 117 degrees last week. Well 117 in the valley where I work, about 113 here. So we went up to Flagstaff for the day with me sick off my butt and tried to take the chairlift but got rained out. Ended up going back yesterday. That will be my next post.
This was in July. Adri said she is a bug.
This was pretty funny. I put up a pen in the living room because I was dizzy and just couldn't take any more of chasing this kid around. So I took a picture and Google Goggles popped up with a hit. This rarely happens; usually only on landmarks and stuff. Well I know my kid is half Dominican and all but Google Goggles suggested that this is picture of the Rafael Trujillo landmark in Santo Domingo.
Adri's first day of school.
About a week ago a cricket kept me up all night. I got pissed off and pulled a Harry Truman. I filled up my sprayer with Bifen and attacked my yard. The next morning I had thousands of dead crickets in the yard. No joke. Hundreds just on the patio. I have no idea where they all came from but walking through the neighborhood at night you hear crickets everywhere and then dead silence in front of my house. So I had to take a leaf blower and clean up all the crickets. I decided i might as well do the whole yard and when I got to the corner of the yard and blew up all the debris I found this little guy. I think I scared him pretty good but he kept watching me until I was done. Either momma rabbit or a predator came by because an hour after I went inside he was gone.
I finally got out and did a hike a couple mornings ago. This is the hill behind my house. After three weeks of sitting on my butt it was a little challenging getting back into hiking. I felt a lot better afterwards though.
The night before my hike Natalie's cousin was over and I was showing him some scorpions in the front yard. A neighbor started talking to us and was describing what you see below. He didn't know what it was but he told me he found something that is brown and looks like a scorpion but without a tail. Well after my hike the next day this Tailless Whip Scorpion was above my front door dying from all the Bifen I sprayed two days prior. They look scary, their legs are 4-6 inches long, but they are harmless to humans and are not real scorpions.
Keitt mangos are finally in season and as big as Adri's head.
I brought a couple old HP servers home a couple weeks ago and haven't found a home for them yet so they are still by the front door. Like I said, I've been lazy lately. Well Zach has decided they are his new favorite place to sit. I don't know why but for some reason he likes to sit on them and play. And when I go over to him he pushes me away.
Zach yelling at me at my Dad's house a couple weeks ago.
Zach sitting in his new favorite place.
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