A week ago Matt and I went to see the musical "Wicked" at Fair Park with Mom and Dad. We got to the fair a few hours early to walk around and eat horrible but wonderful food (in my case, a corny dog and a funnel cake). We also took in a bit of the auto show, where I displayed my enthusiasm over a Jeep Rubicon by opening the door into Matt's eye (it swelled up rather magnificently 15 seconds later, and he had the fun time of telling coworkers I beat him). Then it was time for the musical, and it was awesome. The premise is, if you don't know, that it tells the story of the Wizard of Oz starting when the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba) and Glinda (Galinda) are girls in school and ending in just about the same place that the Wizard of Oz did (Dorothy is never seen, however, in this one). And not surprisingly, there is quite a twist on the original tale. Anyway, the actress playing Elphaba had an amazing voice and both female leads were wonderful actresses. Of course, the sets and costumes were amazing, and the story itself was very fun. All in all, it was insanely good and I was really happy Matt and I got to go. Plus it was great to spend some time with Mom and Dad.
In other news, hopefully you've seen pictures of the cute kitten we're fostering. They are up on overt here: http://roberts.overt.org/Foster (there are new ones up and a video!). The story behind her is that she was brought in by some good Samaritans on October 1 who'd found her injured and stray somewhere. Her only real injury was that most of the skin had been ripped from her left front arm (not detached completely, but certainly not intact either). Dr. Jackson sewed her back up, but they figured that at her age (8 weeks) and with her injury, she'd be euthanized if she went to the city. So they hung onto her hoping someone internally would either adopt or foster her. Normally one tech at work is good for taking kittens - LaNell is associated with a cat rescue group and has a ton, but she has a contagious kitten virus at her house right now. I thought "hey, we could foster a kitten and it'd be good for Piper to get a little more socialized with other animals." Matt said he'd consent to it as long as the kitten did not become a permanent member of the family. This was fine with me - I don't want a second cat and as cute as she is, we didn't have that connection I felt with Piper. So anyway, I took her home. 
On Friday, Piper stopped hissing and swatting her, and now she grooms her and they chase each other and wrestle and even sleep next to each other occasionally. I did have a bit of a scare when the kitten (no, she doesn't have a name) had a temperature, so I took her to Dr. Sarpong at her new clinic (Hillside) just to make sure something wasn't going horribly wrong with her stitches at about 10pm tonight. It was really good to see Sarpong anyway, and Hillside is nice. They are open until midnight, too, which is neat. She gave the kitten something to help her fever and said nothing was too bad about the leg, just to up her antibiotic dose. And I got to congratulate Sarpong on her upcoming blessing (she's pregnant!) in person.Hmm, what else? Oh yeah, Matt's been insanely busy with tax stuff (for instance, he isn't home yet) but thinks he'll be done by the weekend. We stayed at his house with Luke on Saturday night because his parents were in College Station, and that was fun (except for the Aggie game). So yes, I'm looking forward to having my husband back!
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