Lately Alyssa has just been awesome. AWESOME. Of course, she’s always awesome, but lately she’s been especially awesome. And this post shall consisted of oversized bulletized blurbs of text outlining some of her awesomeness.

• She can navigate basic computer processes/programs and the interwebs on both Windows (her desktop, my netbook) and OS X (my Macbook). The other day I walked into her bedroom to find her playing Minecraft on her desktop, while watching Minecraft how-to guides (that she found on YouTube. BY HERSELF.) on my Macbook.
• She has totally inherited my tone and knack for sarcasm and witty little one-liners. Today, for example, she and Ryan were reading a book in the backseat of our car while we were driving to Red Robin. Ryan was reading out loud about a ladybug who kept questioning the same other bugs over and over about what they were. Alyssa remarked, “that ladybug doesn’t listen very well”. (In writing it doesn’t look so funny, but I swear, both Dan and I seriously cracked the hell up when she made that snarky remark.)
• Reading. Oh em gee. The girl can READ. One month ago she was on level D books. Now? J!
• She is so sweet, and so helpful, and so independent and self-sufficient… and she loves that she has all of these qualities. She embraces them. She defends them fiercely. Me? Help her? Pfft. She’d be a quadruple amputee and she’d still figure out how to make her own cream of wheat in the morning.

Oh, and to explain the blog entry title: today, Alyssa informed me that she and K, her busmate/classmate, are now stepsisters, and they’ve kissed each other. Her first boy kiss was at age 6, and now she’s had her first girl kiss at age 7. At this rate I’ll be slipping birth control pills in her cereal by the time she’s 12. (KIDDING. I’m not saying my daughter is promiscuous, and Dan and I plan to have many open-minded, open-ended conversations about safe sex and birth control options in the coming years.)

P.S. Today we talked about why smoking is bad. Gahhhhhhh. My daughter is growing up too fast! Sometimes I miss my naive, my-world-doesn’t-go-beyond-my-house little girl.

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On the plus side, I was able to take my time getting dressed and putzing about with morning routines (letting the dog out, scooping the cat litter, feeding the fish, etc.), which is nice since post-op belly pain was also keeping me awake, and is making me sluggish and slower to move and do things. And, Ryan woke up not long after I did, and the two of us had time to not only talk about clocks and alarms (which he keeps calling “timers”), but to also read four books that he wants to take back to school to swap for new ones. Both he and Alyssa are doing AMAZING with their reading, FYI. And Alyssa? Hello computer whiz! The other day I discovered her watching Minecraft how-to guides on YouTube (that she looked up herself!) on my Macbook, while she was playing Minecraft on her desktop. ♥ that girl and her all-around awesomeness!

Right now I’m doing some work, enjoying a heated blanket in my lap, putting off taking a Percocet until I take care of at least another dozen emails (which kind of sucks in and of itself, because sitting upright like this for so long actually makes my belly hurt more, blech), and biding my time until I know the mail lady has come by, at which point I’ll drive down the road to our mailbox (don’t hate – I’m not lazy, just nine days post-op from abdominal surgery, swollen and still in some pain, and I still have that effing broken foot!), where January’s stipend check (from fostering my brother – we’re going to visit him this weekend!) will hopefully be waiting. Then I’m going to bug Dan to take me to the bank, so we can deposit it, and then call for another propane fill-up. Heating ain’t cheap³.

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Aside from pretty much going back to my “normal” everyday duties as a wife & mother as of yesterday afternoon, I don’t know what else could have caused this. I’m not wearing clothing that would irritate the incisions, I’ve left the scabs alone, I’m careful not to get the incisions wet when I shower, and I always carefully pat them dry after showering. Speaking of showering, I think I’ll skip mine tonight, because the one edge of the opened incision goes a little deep, so I want to avoid getting soap or water or contaminants in it. Now I’m going to wake up tomorrow morning feeling like a skank.

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