Busy busy

I've been so darn busy tonight. Got home from work and had to go to Austin's conferences. Let's just say....there were no surprises, except for all his teachers telling us how respectful and funny and "enjoyable" he was. One said he was always smiling...Brian said "He must burn up all those smiles at school because he never brings any home." Haha. We had Ava at conferences, and she kept putting her two cents in. She was just talking and talking the whole time we were trying to talk to his teachers. It was cute though. After conferences I was just trying to get some cleaning done. I just don't want to have to come home to a messy house after my surgery. Plus, I guess I'm a little nervous, so that nervous energy kicked in. I know that my procedure is no big deal, but this will be my first time under general anesthesia. So yeah, being intubated and all that doesn't sound like much fun. The good news is, I've gotten a lot done tonight. I think this is the first time I've seen 11:00 pm in ages. I must be getting old...I'm usually in bed by 9 or 9:30.

In between all that cleaning I watched a show on the History channel about squid. These divers were doing something they called "Operation Trojan", where they caught a 5-6 foot Humbolg (sp?) squid, attached a camera to it, and let it dive down to 1000 feet to see if there are such things as huge Humbolg squid. Their theory was that Humbolgs are cannibals, and they bigger relatives that live in the deeper oceans will come check out the littler squid. They caught something on camera, but they didn't know if it was a Humbolg, or Arciteuthis (giant squid) or even the Colossal Squid (forget it's technical name, but it's like Arciteuthis, only shorter and thicker/heavier). They didn't get a good enough view to decide what kind it was, but they were able to measure parts of it, and put it into equations for each species. If it was Humbolg, it was over 60 feet in length. If it was Arciteuthis, it was upwards of 120 feet! Yikes! They put it in perspective....Christopher Colmbus's ship, the Nina, was only 60 feet long. Anyway, blame my husband for making me a history channel geek. I love the ocean ones.

Well I guess I should fold some laundry and try to get some sleep.