Well, Monday husband had a ct-mylogram done on his back. He has chronic pain, and they are trying to figure out something they can do to help him.

Except, sometimes the cure seems worse than the sickness.  The test he had done left him with a horrific headache that put him to bed.  After suffering with it hour after hour, he was advised to take a certain perscription pain reliever which we had in our medicine cabinet.  We had one percocet, and then we had some vicodin.  Well, once the percocet was gone, next time he took a vicodin.  However, the vicodin ripped up his stomach, leaving him nauseous, etc.  By this time, of couse, he couldn't even feel any back pain between the horrible headache and the awful stomach problems.  Finally, by the 2nd afternoon after the procedure, even though he couldn't stand long he believed he was on the mend (which doesn't mean "back to normal", by the way).  Since work kept calling him with this and that issue, he has gone to work to field questions and go through hundreds of e-mails, unless he can't, in which case he'll come home and go back to bed again.  ::sigh::

Last week I was so excited!  I signed DS ("JD") up for a year of Study Dog Phonics (http://www.studydog.com), which meant that his phonics would be taken care of.  He does his math with very little help at this time. He is 7 and is in 1st grade. StudyDog does phonics for K-1st (Level 1), and 1st-2nd (Level 2). I had seen the material; it is good. I was so happy that I could focus on other issues, for December at least, and get estate stuff handled, decluttering done, etc.  I think we signed up on Friday of last week...

So on Monday JD says to me, "I'm done with Study Dog, Mom."  To which I reply, of course, "Just go on to the next level, hon."  And he replied, "No, I'm DONE!"  So I go to the computer to check it out and he is, in fact, done.  So, I was correct in my suspiscion that he is reading well, but now I know that I can't let Study Dog be our phonics for the rest of the year... ::sigh::  Well, at least I only signed up for the absolute bare minimum charge of $24.95.  It is so funny -- hubby and I had talked, and I was going to upgrade to the higher level where the company reports back to me with his progress and stuff for our files.  Glad I didn't pay for that!  I don't begrudge them the $25 -- I actually got three levels of Study Dog for only $25, because initially all of Study Dog had been free, and I had downloaded Level 1 (K) and Level 2 (1st), and did not save Level 3 (2nd grade) to my computer. Then, when I went back it was no longer free, so I paid.

Today will hold a run to the auction house to pass off some stuff for auction.  Next I will have to devote some attention to finishing up the paper work for the stock transfers (requires visit to bank to get "Medallion" signatures on about 33 different pages...).  Just found out the bank will only do the first one for free, so I'm going to call my friend, Nate, over at the Tapestry of Grace warehouse and see if he can do it for me. If I have to pay for it anyway, I'd rather pay a homeschool friend than a bank...

Hubby is working on the FL and TX property sales.  Taxes still need to be filed, but we are getting there.  I want to tackle paper clutter, next.  DD wants me to decorate for Christmas. I feel badly -- this is probably her last Christmas in the home full-time, and I want her to have warm fuzzy Christmas memories, but I just don't think I have it in me.  DH and I have planned to get a tree on Sunday, so I'm going to have to pull myself together and figure something out... I am going to try to make Cinnamon ornaments with JD tomorrow or Friday... But this clean up and decorate is so overwhelming when I can't even get the clean-up part done. I feel like such a grinch.  All I can think, as I think of putting out decorations, is that they all need to be packed away again in a couple of weeks, and what a bunch of work!

Bah, humbug!

Well, hubby just came home. I don't even know if he made it all the way to the office. He barely spoke--just walked quickly back to the bedroom.  ::sigh::

I better go. I have plenty to do. Hard to justify sitting here complaining about it. (Oh, was I complaining? Maybe I was just telling you about it...?)  Anywya, that's my update, so thank you everybody so much for your prayers.  There is nothing kinder you could possibly do for me. I appreciate so much each and every time one of you tells me you are still praying for me.  Bless you all, my friends.