It was time the situation be addressed. I'd been plotting and planning my attack. I was mentally ready. And, unbeknownst to her, I had an accomplice...Lacey.

Our mission.........CLEAR CUT THE JUNGLE. (Cue scary music)


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Good gracious! Things have been happening around here! The new job is going well but things aren't moving as quickly as I'd like with the remodeling of the unit. We have a new floor in the dining room but then things stalled. We got a full set of plans approved but now they are being "reconfigured" for some reason. Basically, it's because the ( Read more... )

It's been a month since I posted here. And damn, what a month. Lacey graduated May 15th, then totaled her little VW bug in a wreck on I40 that could have been so much worse. I couldn't be anything but thankful that my child was unhurt. There was no room for "mad". I was immediately grateful for the lessons Lacey would learn from the scary ( Read more... )

I took off work Thursday and Friday to get ready for Lacey's big day. I enlisted my sister Karen to come help clean house, mostly for the motivation. My theory is that if someone else is going to help me clean house, I have to do way more than they do. Karen vacuumed the whole house. That was enough to get me motivated and doing most of the ( Read more... )

My vacation is over. I was depressed all day Sunday, mourning the end of it, knowing I had to go back to work yesterday. It was a very different vacation for me. It was totally devoted to Lacey. Sunday, the 19th was Lacey's 18th birthday. So we started the celebration on Saturday by taking Lace and her two best friends out to eat. Lacey's ( Read more... )

We went to get Lacey's driver's license today. It took 3 plus hours for her to take a 10 minute "knowledge" test on a dumb computer. Once she passed the test, we had to call an 888 number to make an appointment for her to take the "road test". That's now scheduled for Thursday morning ( Read more... )

We found a car for the Lace! She's very excited and I am, too. We've always talked about Lacey getting a VW bug and we actually found one at a pretty good deal. Lacey's requirements were pretty simple...CD player and cup holders. The cup holders were a really big deal for some reason so the kid has cup holders. The fact that there is an MP3 ( Read more... )

I have no life. I have nothing to blog about. I work, therefore; I am. But I did actually almost get a whole day off yesterday. It took a lot of planning and pleading, I had to pull in some favors ( Read more... )

At work today I smiled at a gay couple that was being toured through the building. It's a "customer service" thing. People tour the building trying to decide if it's where they want to place their loved ones and we are expected to smile and play nice. But one of the men stopped dead in his tracks, grabbed my hand and introduced himself then went ( Read more... )

Lace and I let the boys in to play every night. Bubba doesn't get to stay inside very long if he's acting too rowdy. So Charlie gets to stay inside by himself and gets lots of attention. Lacey is good with animals -- she has some Dr. Doolittle to her. She started working with Charlie this past week to learn some new tricks. And by golly, ( Read more... )