Ok - I will try to be brief.

Yesterday I did three tests that I needed to take care of. Unless something INSANE comes back from the MRI, everyone is pretty much saying it's stress. Too much on my plate. I shouldn't have started INO Mommy. That's what's killing me. To rev up a site is IN (freaking) SANE. It's not really about the writing as it is about getting the site on the MAP. And that is just SO INTENSE. I have to think about what I want to do here....

But back to the tests. I will just write a quick summary of each.

Neurotrax (?) I think that's the name: Long story short - it was a memory test. And it was really elementary. I mean, my daughter could have done it. It was split up into several sections and I zipped through all of them except the ones where they required me to remember a number of pictures or word pairings at once. For example, they would show 8 pictures and you had 20 seconds to stare at them. Then they showed one at a time and you had to say which way the picture was pointing. So an arrow - was it pointing N, W, E or S. I had no idea. I mean, pulling a blank. It was too many at one time. When they showed one pic, I could do it. But when they put up the full 8, it was impossible. Midway I started to cry because I knew how STUPID the test was and how I SHOULD be able to do it -but I just couldn't. The woman was nice though. She told me to relax and take my time.

Even the word pairings - clueless. They would show 8 pairings in a flash and then give you multiple choice to try to match it with the correct counterpart. Impossible.

Everything else I did - so I don't really know what that means.

EEG (Electroencephalography): I almost asked the doctor to take a pic of me. I had wires all over my brain! It was nuts. You close your eyes and they flash a bunch of lights. It was supposed to trigger a seizure or show ADD / brain disease etc. Doc said I had none - but did note my brain waves were hyper active. He said I needed to relax a bit more.

MRI: This was insane. You didn't have to take your clothes off and change into a gown. I even kept my wedding rings on which surprised me. The machine wasn't as claustrophobic as I thought. And truth be told, I couldn't be scared... because the NOISE WAS INSANE. No one tells you of the obnoxious amount of banging and clanking and pounding the machine makes as it takes photos of your brain. I was doing everything in my power to NOT laugh. I just couldn't believe it. My brain was vibrating - and I'm not joking. I actually felt my brain swell with each BANG. You aren't supposed to move at all either -so here I am trying not to smile when all I could think of was... Rockband and alien invasions. That's what it sounded like - playing the drums on Rockband and some cheesey 50s alien movie. I tried to do a YouTube search but came up empty. I don't wish you have to go through a brain MRI, but unless you do, you can't understand what I'm saying. It was wild.

My mother said she did an MRI for her knee and it wasn't like that. Guess it's just the brain one.

I came home, we played the with kids a bit and I went to sleep at 830 or so. I was so tired.

Today is my 8 yr anniversary. Bill and I were going to get a sitter and go out, but I really want to take it easy today. Just want to chill out at home with the kids - or maybe take them to someplace local and low key for dinner. Dont' want to make a big production. He came home after dropping Natalie off from school and got me a BTL from Starbucks. So today is the best day ever. :)

My hair is soaking wet in this picture because I thought the event was at 2:30 and it was at 12:00 instead! LOL!

At 10:45 I decided to look at the invite to start getting ready for the function and then saw NOON as the start time. Mind you I am an hour away with traffic. So I jumped in the shower, threw on some clothes, and hopped in the car service that was waiting outside for me for about 20 minutes. OMG! L-O-S-I-N-G it.

The food he cooked was the best I've ever eaten and it was all with Hellman's Mayo. I am going to do a huge write up and include the recipes he gave out because I was DYING how good they were.

And naturally I teased him - can't help myself. At one point Bobby un-tucked his shirt after the event and just wanted to hang out. I called him a slob and said I wanted to take a pic with him as he was. I even requested some mayo so we can stain his shirt. He laughed, fixed himself up and we took the shot.

More to come about this later.

After the event, we went to the Natural History museum with the kids to preview a new exhibit that is opening this week. The kids LOVED it. They were running around like ANIMALS. I could barely keep up.

Today is my MRI - 5pm. Will update you about that once I get any news. At 1:30 I have another appt for the balance issue. Then 2 more tomorrow as well. This is going to be fun. :)