Back to *Normal*

Hey, Barb.

Glad to hear you are home safe and sound. Farting??? Really?? Wow.

Things here are relatively back to normal. The kids are fighting like cats and dogs, even CK got into it with S yesterday, so now the drama is spilling over onto the adults. I'm hiding, personally. I'm tucked into my (now) very cool house (it only got up to 73 yesterday and my house is, as only I can exaggerate, freezing.) I don't feel much like socializing, although S did come over for a bit Tuesday and we enjoyed an iced coffee in the afternoon. Sans alcohol, by the way, I'm sooo in detox.

K and I are supposed to go to the movies tonight and maybe some sushi, but not a plan in stone yet. J has some dinner thing so I'm not sure what I'd do with JJ. He and all his peeps got all sideways of each other yesterday to the point that he ended up "grounded" more or less. Not really in trouble, just in for the day. I got tired of my doorbell ringing every two minutes with some tattletale ranting about something, I swear, this is what I think they do: they get into little sub-groups of 2 or 3, then fabricate/elaborate stories about behavior, then they go from house to house tattling on each other, almost choreographed. Like a little bell goes off, like Speed Dating. It's Speed Tattling.

Things are back to their usual state of chaos and clutter and laundry-to-be-done, but at least it's not a thousand degrees. I had a Doc appt yesterday in which I expressed my wish to get off my crazy meds. The side-effects are killing me and I just don't feel I need it any more. So I'm weaning off it and adding a new ADD med; Day Two, so far, so good. I actually have energy today and didn't eat anything not nailed down yesterday.

Today I'll take it easy...the sun's out but it's nice and cool. K sent me the paperwork for M's custody so I guess I'll have to tackle that, as well as my bank balance, which is completely in the negative and which I have been avoiding for fear of it being way worse than I think. I'll also do a little Monster.com perusing, trying to find a perfect source of income that works its way around my social and family life. Ha!! I'll let you know just as soon as I find that, right before I patent it and make millions off it.

Enjoy your sun and I'm glad you didn't go to Newport. You needed the rest. Good choice.

Love and miss you....my deck is so quiet....
A