I'm not sure what happened to my son.  Today DJ came home from school with 10 new spelling words he had to memorize by Friday for his spelling test.  He already knows how to spell all 10. 

Then he was given homework consisting of 2 worksheets and 1 math page.  He wasn't happy with that arrangement.  He insisted on doing two worksheets and TWO math pages.

Has anyone seen my child?

My father told me I need to gamble.  How crazy is that?  I'm in this football pool at work.  Every week I submit my winners, by point spreads.  I am really good at this.  I don't know why I am.  I don't really watch football.  I watch the Eagles.  I watch the Super Bowl.  Yet out of 25 guys, I'm winning each week.  I don't know what my secret is.  It takes me about 5-10 minutes to fill them out.  I know nothing about other teams' quarterbacks, wide receivers, running backs, yards, etc,etc.  I do know I want a TO jersey :)  And I'm kicking ass in college football as well.  I know absolutely nothing about college football.  I wonder how long this will last.  My father is amazed at this.  I'm the same chick who didn't even understand how the game was played for about 20 years. 

Tomorrow I need to pack my cubicle.  I'm so sad and happy at the same time.  The IT department is moving to another location across the street.  I'm not really feeling the new office.  I will like that I don't have to talk to 40+ people per day.  People can stop asking me stupid questions.  That's the perk.  There's this new girl they hired.  She's supposed to be an analyst.  Knows absolutely nothing about Excel (which is what she works in.)  She didn't know how to center format a cell.  How sad is this?  Who assessed her IT skills?  She's a very nice person, but she is driving me nuts.  Trainer is not in my title.  Unfortunately I am the resident Excel expert.  Why me?

Tuesday is D-Day.  I'm taking DJ to the developmental pediatrician for his formal diagnosis of AS.  Actually that is just the beginning.  The first visit is play time.  How fun is this?  BTW, I did get him to sit down for like 15-20 minutes and play with some puzzles today.  How cool is that?

Miss me?  I know you did. 

I have a brand spanking new laptop.  I'm so happy!  I had to reinstall everything again which was a pain.  I think I have everything I need on here now.  I'm going to hold on to my other laptop for a week or so, just in case I'm forgetting something before I get rid of it.  Of course, once I get rid of it, I'll search for something that I won't have on this.  Blah!

Many good things happening around me recently!  PIC might possible move to my apartment building.  She came and looked at the apartments today.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  AND, she applied for a job at my place of employment.  Basically, it will be like it was when we graduated from high school.  24/7.  On the other hand, hopefully she will win the Powerball tonight and we'll all move the hell outta here!

In other news, DJ is doing GREAT at school.  He had his very first spelling test this week and received a B for his efforts.  Amazing, because he KNEW all the words.  He's so silly sometimes.  Everyday, I received a note home from is teacher telling me how good he was in class.  Homework has been a breeze.  I'm really not sure what happened to MY child.  But I like this one too:)  We celebrated this weekend.  I purchased a small cake.  And he is getting a new computer game for doing such a great job.  We did try to track it down at a few local stores.  No such luck.

He was supposed to spend the night at my Mother Dearest's house tonight.  He left with me.  He was not happy because we told him her VCR was broken.  I'm implementing the whole Floortime Plan for DJ's whole lack of attention and other things going on.  TV is DJ's NUMBER ONE thing to do.  It also worsens his attention span.  So bye-bye TV.  Mother Dearest was not happy with my requests and wanted to know what she should do with him all night if he couldn't watch TV.  Hmmm, PLAY with him!  She then informed me that when I went to stay at my grandmother's house, she (my grandmom) let me do all sorts of things I wasn't able to do at home.  Am I autistic?  Nope.  Work with me here.  She's lucky I'm not trying the gluten/casein free diet.  Count your blessings, Mother Dearest! 

In other news, he also washed the dishes for me the other night.  How lucky am I?  Though after he went to bed I re-rinsed them well after I noticed half the bottle of dishwashing liquid was used:)

Just an fyi.  I will be absent for a few days until this weekend.  I know you are all sad and will miss my presence:)

When I came to work, I dropped my laptop on the floor.  Ughhh.  Cracked the monitor, broke the keyboard, etc.

Buuutttt, my new laptop is coming in on Thursday...wooo hoooo!  I should have it configured by Friday.  I might possibly update a little from work.  Who knows.  Just wanted to let everyone know I didn't drop off the face of the earth:)

See ya soon!

I was so rudely interrupted by Pops:)  I posted quick and shut down my computer.  Did anyone see the fight?  What the hell happened to my baby???  He really wasn't looking good throughout the whole fight.  Still, I was very surprised when he was knocked down.  I swore it was going to go down to the 12th.  No such luck:(

Back to birthday gifts.  Mother Dearest gave me a pocketbook.  Eh.  I use shoulder bags and this has long straps with no zipper.  I can't work with that.  So it's hanging in my closet.  I'll be giving it to someone for Christmas.  She also gave me a personal organizer.  It's one of those things that has a few blank pages for meetings/schedules and a small address book.  I'm such an IT geek.  I don't use paper anymore!  My schedule and phone numbers are all in my Outlook which is synchronized with my IPaq.  I also have my cell phone for all my phone numbers as well.  Do I really need to keep them in a 4th place?  Mother Dearest is the kind of person who goes to Boscovs, walks up and down the aisles looking for gifts which won't run up her charge card that much and purchases. 

Finally, she gave me a pair of gold hoop earrings.  They look like this.  I wanted to clap.  Not because that was the only thing I liked or anything like that.  Because for the past 6 years, every birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Mother's day, she has given me really cute silver earrings.  The problem?  I CAN'T wear silver earrings.  I can't wear anything in my ears except 14k gold.  If not, my ears get infected.  Offtopic, I wonder if that's what is going on with my belly button...I know...TMI...Ontopic.  She continuously gave me silver earrings and I continuously told her I couldn't wear them.  She would take them and tell me she would exchange them for me.  Next time I saw her, she was usually wearing them.  But I always had the candle!  PIC and I used to joke that she purchased earrings she'd like and conveniently “forget“ to return them and get me something else. 

What really ticks me off is for the past 6 years, she buys me a candle.  A week before my birthday, I went to the store and I was thinking of buying a candle because I only had one left.  I didn't buy one because my Mother Dearest ALWAYS buys me a candle for my birthday.  Nope, not this year. 

Mother Dearest should just really keep her money.  I told her I wanted a back scratcher.  Give me something I NEED!  But, on the bright side, I don't need to go holiday shopping for DJ's teacher this year.  She's getting a brand new personal organizer!  Next year, I'll hook her up with the pocketbook:) 

BTW, Dawn, I'm not ignoring your comments.  For some reason I'm not able to post any.  Hmmmmm.....

Yep, I am now wireless.  I never got to post about my cool birthday gifts.  Actually, the only cool birthday gifts I got were from PIC.  Let's see, I received a dictionary, a thesaurus, a book, a wireless router, wireless pc card, and some skin stuff:)

Pops gave me a watch, which I had to bring back.  It was one of those stretchy watches that grabs your skin while wearing it.  How can people wear these watches?  I brought it back to the store and I had to wait forever for someone to come over to the jewelry counter.  No one ever showed up.  Then I went to a different store and ran into the same problem.  I'm still watchless.  That's ok.  I picked up a cool school bag.  I know I don't GO to school, but I do bring my school work to work.  I was tired of bring DJ's spiderman school bag to work with me:) 

I just can't believe this.

Of course I can.  Who am I kidding?

Sorry, I've been a busy little bee.  Actually, not sorry, but here a few quickie updates. 

• DJ started school
• I started school
• I don't understand the concept of Citing
• When DON'T I cite?
• I haven't been to my job since last week
• I'm going back tomorrow :(
• I am one year older
• DJ keeps growing, it's pissing me off
• Philly school district transportation, pissed me off
• Mr Big didn't call me to wish me a Happy Bday, yep, pissed me off
• PIC called me yesterday and left me a message on my cell phone telling me how she has a job interview tomorrow (You GO, girl!), yada, yada, blah, blah (she always does this), then tells my voicemail, “Oh, hold on, I have a call on my other line.“