Hello, Cruel World!

What a week indeed! First, we start of with the a/c breaking just as we end summer. Good news, you say? Well, yes and no. Yes, at the end and not in the middle! We only endured a relatively uncomfortable night until we were able to get a repair man who was "sure" our warranty was only good for 2 years, until we refreshed his memory with a warranty statement. Who says there aren't any honest service professionals out there?!

No, when we realized that it had really been broken all summer, thus solving our mystery of why our electricity bill was 150+ more than normal each month. Talk about a bummer. But, it's fixed and we learned some important lessons: hold onto your warranty information and if your bill ain't right, it's cause something's broke!

Continuing on to Tuesday, my car went into the shop. Quite honestly, the car needed to go in the shop years ago, but I have a hard time donating to lost causes. But I relented and got the car fixed.

So, that brings me to today- Sunday. The day of rest. Well, not so much in my world. Why? Well, because I'm in the hospital. What? How? Who? Where? So yesterday, I was studying finance at the library, something I dread doing. I started feeling a little nauseous and used it as a good excuse to cut my studying short. I headed home and by the time I got there, I was in more pain, to the point of being rendered useless, lying on the couch, telling Koebe and Kalee to watch Animal Planet, even if the grizzly bears were scary.

Around 5:30, I was able to walk around and even had friends over and cooked dinner! I was "healed." Not so much. Around 2:30 am, again, I felt these pains in my side and got up and took some pills and passed out till Kalee's voice broke the morning silence, "Oh, good morning mom! I'm hungry!".

Aprille, convinced I had appendicitis, pushed me to go to an urgent care and get checked out. After wasting 2 hours of my life, and trust me, it really was a waste- who opens a doctor's office and doesn't stock any good magazines?!!! So, after finally getting back to see the doc, they tell me I should go to the ER as they wouldn't be able to conclusively diagnose my problem. Sweet- you wasted my time and took my money!

Off to the ER and 5 hours later, I am sitting on a bed with an IV and this annoying thing attached to my finger that makes it incredibly difficult to type. I have appendicitis. My wife was right (I'll be trademarking that and printing it on t shirts available for purchase from this blog!). Anyway, I thought, I've got my laptop, no idea when I'll actually get a real room or when they're going to cut me open, so heck! Why not post something to my blog! Ah, there. That feels much better. Wish me luck!

Da Kine: A Metaphor for Life

Is that deep or what? I couldn't think of anything cool and creative to call our new blog, so I opted for the words of last resort as used in our previous place of residence- Hawaii: da Kine! Da Kine is a multi-faceted phrase. It can mean "this", "that", "you know!", "awesome", among other things. So, that's it- this is da kine! You get it? Do you feel me?

I should probably start out by bringing you up to speed on where we are at. I work at Samsung doing shows, events, and the Olympics (check out samsung.com/torchrelay!). Most days I honestly feel like I am on the Apprentice, except my boardroom is a cubicle and Donald Trump is my Korean boss, Jong, who Aprille thinks I have created as a figment of my imagination because the stories are too ridiculous for description AND after working here for more than a year and a half, she has yet to meet him! Not to mention, I am also taking 3 classes towards my MBA which I feel I have been doing for an eternity. Only 6 more classes to go!

Aprille (I will speak on her behalf because she has no choice- that's what you get for holing yourself up in "scrapbook land" on the weekends!) has her hands full with everything. Kalee to dance class, Koebe to preschool, helping out friends and looking fabulous (she always does :)). I won't go into more until she is actually standing here because I often get my Christmas newsletters edited heavily by her, so I can only imagine what she would do to this blog!

Koebe is doing well in preschool and moving on from one school and getting transitioned into a private preschool versus continuing at the school. Don't ask me to explain it because even after Aprille has gone through numerous school meetings, etc, she doesn't quite have it figured out either! He is very excited about Halloween and wanted to be Buzz or Woody, but has definitely decided on being a mummy- that was out of left field! The part of my day is driving up to drop him off at school while he hangs out the window (he's still buckled of course) screaming to his teachers waiting at the curb- "Miss Michelle!!! Miss Amy!!! Miss Michelle!! Miss Amy!!! It's me! Koebe Lambert! I slept in the white bed last night!!" (Sometimes he'll sneak into the guest room where there is a white comforter). He is also into singing songs and playing on instruments. The video is of him singing to his Grandpa Lambert on the phone.

Kalee. Where do you start with a girl like her? Two going on 12 and she knows it. She can't get out of bed in the morning without dragging her pink blanket and pink pillow with her EVERYWHERE. She is enrolled in dance and loves to wear her "dancey-dance"- or her dresses and dance clothes. She loves to color and thankfully she spends about the first 30 minutes of church coloring away until she starts to get territorial with the crayons and gets in trouble.

Well- this is a start. And hopefully it won't be the end! Stay tuned for more!