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Today was my step-grandma's 80th birthday. We wanted to surprise her by having dessert at my house with all the family already there for her and also letting her talk to and see Alex via Skype. I spent most of the day cleaning the house, making sure it was relatively neat and clean and whatnot. Mom came home around 5 to be able to set up the house for the party and get her gift ready for her (my other grandma's old chair that she's always liked).
Anyway, had the family all come over at 6ish and gave Mary a nice surprise. Let everyone talk to Alex for a bit and then had cake and ice cream "cake" (it was all ice cream, no cake. So it was just ice cream in the shape of cake, wtf) and just generally chitchatted and everything. Most of the family was leaving by 7:30, 8ish, but my one cousin was coming late cuz she was just getting off of work in Dexter at 6. So she came kinda as everyone was getting ready to leave and had her cake and everything but then kinda just stayed at chatted until 10, kinda because she didn't want to go back home because I guess Mike, her husband, has been annoying her recently.
But anyway during her stay here, she kinda talked me into babysitting next Tuesday. I've never really babysat alone before, but not that big of a deal, it's a 4 year old and a 14 month old. The only thing though is that it'll be for all day pretty much, like 9-7 or something like that. Idk, I'm a bit nervous about it mostly because I'm not so great at keeping little kids amused for long periods of time lol. I can muddle through this time for sure, but I'm afraid she might make me her go to babysitter type thing while I'm home, and I'm not gonna want to do this twice a week for the rest of summer or whatever. The reason why she needs the sitter is because Mike is a trucker so he's gone all day and she has her job in Dexter like three times a week all day long. And I mean I know they aren't very well off financially and I've never babysat before so I don't know normal rates, so I kinda let her decide how much to pay me and we decided about $5 an hour. So it's not horrible, but not all that great at the same time, especially since the 4 year old is very active. *sigh* We'll just see about that one.
On another note, got a copy of the police report for my case. Kind of unfortunately, it doesn't appear that the police report was botched at all. I kind of wanted it to be so I could have a reason as to why nothing happened with it, but now it just really seems like the justice system is flawed. The only thing I have against the cop is that his investigation was focused on Logan and not the other two guys, granted he had no information other than their names, but you'd think they'd be able to find an address/number for them with the police resources at their disposal. But the report was pretty thorough actually, but for whatever reason the prosecutor's office decided that it could not establish that Logan or any of the suspects OR anybody took our possessions. That last part's the kicker, apparently it just seems like our items were misplaced according to them. I can understand maybe not issues the warrant for the larceny, but there was clear proof in the report that showed that she committed non-forceful breaking and entering, which is still a felony charge. Whatever, my mom's going to call at some point to figure out further reasoning behind their denial of the warrant.
Tomorrow night is HP6 and then Guys Night...should be fun! :-)
Anyway, had the family all come over at 6ish and gave Mary a nice surprise. Let everyone talk to Alex for a bit and then had cake and ice cream "cake" (it was all ice cream, no cake. So it was just ice cream in the shape of cake, wtf) and just generally chitchatted and everything. Most of the family was leaving by 7:30, 8ish, but my one cousin was coming late cuz she was just getting off of work in Dexter at 6. So she came kinda as everyone was getting ready to leave and had her cake and everything but then kinda just stayed at chatted until 10, kinda because she didn't want to go back home because I guess Mike, her husband, has been annoying her recently.
But anyway during her stay here, she kinda talked me into babysitting next Tuesday. I've never really babysat alone before, but not that big of a deal, it's a 4 year old and a 14 month old. The only thing though is that it'll be for all day pretty much, like 9-7 or something like that. Idk, I'm a bit nervous about it mostly because I'm not so great at keeping little kids amused for long periods of time lol. I can muddle through this time for sure, but I'm afraid she might make me her go to babysitter type thing while I'm home, and I'm not gonna want to do this twice a week for the rest of summer or whatever. The reason why she needs the sitter is because Mike is a trucker so he's gone all day and she has her job in Dexter like three times a week all day long. And I mean I know they aren't very well off financially and I've never babysat before so I don't know normal rates, so I kinda let her decide how much to pay me and we decided about $5 an hour. So it's not horrible, but not all that great at the same time, especially since the 4 year old is very active. *sigh* We'll just see about that one.
On another note, got a copy of the police report for my case. Kind of unfortunately, it doesn't appear that the police report was botched at all. I kind of wanted it to be so I could have a reason as to why nothing happened with it, but now it just really seems like the justice system is flawed. The only thing I have against the cop is that his investigation was focused on Logan and not the other two guys, granted he had no information other than their names, but you'd think they'd be able to find an address/number for them with the police resources at their disposal. But the report was pretty thorough actually, but for whatever reason the prosecutor's office decided that it could not establish that Logan or any of the suspects OR anybody took our possessions. That last part's the kicker, apparently it just seems like our items were misplaced according to them. I can understand maybe not issues the warrant for the larceny, but there was clear proof in the report that showed that she committed non-forceful breaking and entering, which is still a felony charge. Whatever, my mom's going to call at some point to figure out further reasoning behind their denial of the warrant.
Tomorrow night is HP6 and then Guys Night...should be fun! :-)