This Already?

Sunday night while I was watching Downton Abbey, Zack wanted to know where the camera was.  I told him where it was and asked why he wanted to use it.

As he gathered up Ollie in a big hug he stated, "I'm gonna post this on facebook and score some major brownie points with V (a certain girl). I mean who can resist a picture of a guy with his dog?"

Ollie does not like the flash...he closes his eyes every time

the one he ended up putting on facebook

Who indeed!

Sickness in the House

Jon rarely complains of being sick so when he asked where the thermometer was this past weekend I knew something was up.

Add to that the fact that he spent nearly the entire weekend in bed and asked for some Tylenol and I was feeling a bit uneasy.

But, last night, when he said to me, "wow, my throat has never been this sore before," I knew a trip to the doctor was on tap for today.

Sure enough, the rapid strep test came back positive.  In fact, it took the doctor longer to decide  what to prescribe Jon than the test took.  Jon is allergic to so many antibiotics...Amoxicillin (which includes the whole penicillin family)  and Zithromax give him hives - and I don't mean just a few!  

So he settled on this

 There are only 2 in there because our pharmacy closed at 5:00 so I had it sent to Walgreens. I wanted him to start taking it today...but the cost without insurance was $96.00!!!!!   

Thanks but no thanks....I ended up paying $15.00 for two pills and will get the rest filled tomorrow at the pharmacy that accepts our insurance.

Now I hope no one else gets it.

Date Night

with my son.

Tuesday night I dropped Zack off to watch the girl's basketball game and Jon and I had 1.5 hours to kill before Zack's game so I suggested going to Outback Steakhouse for dinner.

He, of course, was all for it.  And I was happy because I hardly ever get to eat there - and I hardly ever get to spend time with Jon alone.

Jon had the expensive New York Strip and I had the less expensive steak sandwich.

I am So Happy

Oh my ya'll... I feel like shouting this from every rooftop...but I'll have to be content to say it here:

Diclofenec is a wonder drug!!!

I swear I haven't felt this well in years!  

My pain is totally gone.  And even my coughing and the "I can't breathe" feeling have been improving over the past week. 

I'm still not 100% but I would say that I have improved 90% over what I have been living with the past year. 

So happy!

Another Rough Game

While I enjoy witnessing my son achieve success out on the basketball court, I am not overly happy with games that he scores half - or over half - of the team's final points. 

I would much rather have games like this weekend where everyone contributes equally to the success of the team.  

But today, it was not one of those "everyone contributes" games.

It was one of those games where their team had only 8 points at halftime and all 8 of them were scored by Zack.

It's not that they didn't get some good looks at the basket...shots just weren't falling.

But even more frustrating than shots not falling were the 25-30 turnovers they had.  One of their players was responsible for 17 turnovers!

The final score was an ugly 34-17 with Zack scoring 10 and another player scoring 5.  These are truly games that are not fun to watch. 

But I am proud of their sportsmanship and after the game Zack was given a nice compliment by a parent from the other team.  He singled out Zack after the game...complimented him on his playing...but also said he could tell Zack was a very kind person by his actions on the court. 

Two games left!

Money Found

On my agenda this weekend (as if it wasn't full enough) was a trip to Best Buy. A couple days ago hubby decided to pull out the receipt for our big screen T.V. and compare the price we paid with an advertised special in their weekend flyer.

That is when he discovered that they over-charged us...by $200.00!!!!

The item was rung up on the receipt as $999.00.  The actual price should have been:

I took these pictures in and they credited our account $210.00 just.like.that!  No questions asked.  I love Best Buy.

While there I had to update out Kaspersky internet protection and I bought a little MP3 player for $32.00...so some of that money was spent right away.

Tournament Completion

Because of the nature of the tournament, we did not know which team we would be facing until the round robin portion was complete.

I was not exactly thrilled when I walked into the gym and found out we would be facing the team we played here, and here, and here. I was also quite surprised since that meant they had lost sometime throughout the day (and they had been undefeated).

Zack is amazing at the opening jump ball often out jumping boys who are much taller than he is.  Here the boy is at least two inches taller but Zack still won the tip off.

But we had an advantage this day...while Zack's team had been able to rest since their 9:00 game ended, the other team had played two games since 11:00.  One went into overtime and the other was a game they were beat on a 3 point buzzer beater.

So, we were able to jump out to an early lead (we are guest)

The whole game remained close with the teams flip-flopping leads...sometimes we had as much as a 5 point lead but could never extend it and they would always come right back.

As the fourth quarter started we held the slight lead

But, of course, they came back and going down to the wire the score was tied.

A time out was called

Things from here on out were a flurry with the teams trading possessions without scoring.

And then...the second worst thing happened.  Zack was cornered in the back court and had the ball stolen away and they scored.

They then forced another steal and we were so far from the bonus that, even though we kept fouling, we could not get them to the line.  Finally, on the next foul we would force them to the line - and the first worst thing happened!  Someone blew a coverage and left their man wide open for an easy lay-up on the inbound pass.  

With only two seconds left, they stole the inbound pass and scored again so even though the final score was a loss by six...four of those points were in the last 3 seconds so it was a lot closer than the final score indicated.

This was the final score - not the score with 2:52 left...don't know where that time came from.

We then received the biggest surprise (and compliment) as our boys were awarded the Sportsmanship Award (trophy)...citing their positive attitude and for playing their hearts out even though they were the youngest team there!
(Zack had 7 points and a few nice blocks)