I typed up a long post a couple of days ago, clicked "add new entry" and POOF....it was gone.  I was not a happy camper.  So, let's try this again.  :-)  I spent late Saturday night/early Sunday morning waiting in line at Wal-mart.  For what you might ask?  A Nintendo Wii.  Quite possibly the hottest gaming system that came out just before Christmas.  A guy who works on the electronics department at Wal-mart tipped us off Friday afternoon.  He said they have some in stock, but couldn't sell them until midnight on the 28th.  So, I got there about 10pm on the 27th to wait in line.  I waited, waited, and waited some more.  Not so suprisingly, they didn't hand them out until nearly 1am.  I was so tired of waiting.  I picked up an extra controller and a few games too.  The kids are thrilled.  They've had so much fun playing together.  It's so fun to watch them bowl, play tennis, box, etc.  It was worth the ungodly amount of $$ we spent, and I guess it was worth waiting in line for.  :-)

Let me just tell you what happened last night.  Or should I say this morning?  I tried to get to bed earlier last night.  I think I went up about 12:30.  I let both of our dogs out just before I went to bed.  I woke up to hear a dog barking about 1:20 or so.  It.barked.forever.  Finally, I got out of bed and looked out the window in our stairwell.  The neighbor was sitting on her front stoop smoking, something she does seemingly all day long.  I opened the window and asked her if she knew whos dog it was.  It seems like she used a whole lot of words to tell me, "not really."  She thought he might belong to someone at the end of the court, but wasn't sure.  Then she casually mentioned to me that the dog was inside my fence!!!!!!!!  I was not happy about that.  Oh, I should mention, it was a Chihuaha (I know it's spelled wrong, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now).  So, upstairs I go to get dressed.  I went around back.  I just have to say, it was freezing out there.  I opened the gate to let the dog out, but he wouldn't come!  In the mean time, my dogs are inside barking their fool heads off.  They wouldnt' shut up.  I really could have used my husband, as he could have been the one to go outside and freeze while I stayed in to keep the dogs quiet.  :-)  I ended up coming back in the house, thinking the dog would leave if I was'nt out there.  Wrong.  I looked out the window, and he was laying on my patio!  Just made himself right to home!  Ugh.  So, I called the MPs.  They were rather prompt, which I was pretty surprised about.  They finally caught him, though they did have a bit of trouble, so I was able to go back to bed.  So, that was my eventful night.  :-) 

School news.....not doing too bad this week.  They are working hard today.  They want to go skating.  :-)  Mikayla has finally got the hang of renaming, Hallelujah!!!! 

Knitting news.....I'm still waiting on my Options needles.  They'lll be here this week.  I have started the calf on my sock, but I'm short a stitch.  I discovered that while Benjamin and I were at speech yesterday.  I think I just need to take out the row I'm working on to fix it.  I wasn't short the last round.  :-)  I'm dying to cast of for fetching.  I'm waiting on the yarn from Knitpicks.  I should knit a couple of dishcloths.  I am participating in a secret valentine swap on a message board I'm involved in, and would like to whip up a couple for that. 

It seems like my dh has been gone forever.  It's been barely over 2 weeks.  He did call last night though, which was nice.  He had to tell me about some award he got.  I can't remember exactly what he got it for, but basically he was the hero of their war game yesterday.  :-)  I told him being a hero is fine if they're just playing war.  However, he doesn't need to be a hero in real time war.  He's already my hero.  That's enough.  lol.  Thing good thoughts for him.....the E-7 board convened yesterday.  It's a long shot, as he's in the secondary zone, but you never know!  :-)  Until next time............