Usually when I don't update for a while, its because my life has been incredibly boring.  Lately, thought, its been very busy.  I wish I had the discipline to update every day--or even two or three times a week, but I don't.

We've had some significant flooding problems in our area after the snowmelt from our 9-12 inches of snow was followed by 5 inches of rain in one day.  We are way up on a hill, so we didn't have a problem at our house, but roads were closed all over the area, and I had to take several significant detours to get to work.  We live about a mile from the river, and the people who live next to the river were parking their cars on higher ground and had their rowboats out so they could get to and from their houses .  Our local river is receding now, but they are predicting some more rain this weekend, hopefully most of it will miss us.

Chris went on his first Boy Scout campout last weekend, and I thought I'd be just fine with that.  Was I ever wrong!  By Saturday night, I wanted to talk to him so bad--was he having fun, were they having food that he liked, did they get rained on, was he warm enough?  You name it, I wanted to ask it.   Jon was looking at me like I was crazy.  Of course, the only way I could have gotten to talk to him was to call the leader's cell phone, and I wasn't about to do that.  The boys aren't allowed to have any electronics with them.   When he got back, I pestered him into a detailed, hour by hour description of the trip, and I'm happy to say he had a wonderful time.  And I don't think he missed me half as much as I missed him.

While Chris was on his campout, Katie had a double sleep over.  Somehow, I ended up in mall hell--me and 3 fourth graders at the mall.  I'm not a mall fan at the best of times, and trailing around after the girls...blech.  One of them was supposed to bring a cell phone, so I could plant myself at a central spot and just call them every ten minutes and make them check in personally every half hour, but she forgot it, so I actually had to trail after them.  Mall hell probably explains part of my desperate need to talk to Chris.  He'd never do that to me.

Katie's team won their second l game, keeping them alive in the tournament they're playing in.  To clarify, they lost their first game, so they are still alive in the 'Friendship Bracket'  LOL.  They were trailing the whole game, only to take the lead by one point with 1.8 seconds left!  What a great win!  Needless to say, they were pumped!

Survivor was so traumatic for me last week that I was totally unable to write about it until some time had passed.  Jonathan having to leave the show was just a real bummer to me.  I was really rooting for him to win, and I think he had a good chance of finishing high, if not winning.  His leg looked horrible, and you could tell he knew it by the look on his face when Jeff Probst told him that medical was going to check it before he could go back to camp.  I was still totally unprepared for the way he broke down at the thought of leaving the game.  He was devastated.  I actually shed a tear or two with him.   Losing him has really changed the game, I think.   And then to have Chet wanting to be voted out 'because my heel hurts'.  Whiney bastard.  Even though I think it would have been a great time for them to try to get Ozzy out, I was glad to see Chet go. I just couldn't stomach him asking to go home when Jonathan so obviously DIDN'T want to go but didn't really have a choice.

And don't even get me started on Kathy choosing to quit this week!  Good riddance.  I don't  know how she's lasted this long.  I hope they roast her at the reunion show.  Tracey blew any chance there was of surprising Ozzy with a blindside vote by her comments in Tribal Council--if you are trying to blindside someone and hoping to have people vote a certain way, you don't give away the fact that there might be something going on with comments and winks.

I watched '3:10 to Yuma' today, and I have to say I absolutely loved it.  I'm not a huge Russell Crowe fan, but his performance and Christian Bales' were both extemely well done.  I may have to buy this one.