Checking In

Hey there.

I am soooooo jealous of your beautiful weather! It is wet and cold here, not even a hint of sun for part of the day...just rainy gray.  Ugh. How nice to celebrate Cinco de Mayo outside! Since it wasn't nice here, and we had a baseball game, we skipped the margaritas in favor of extra blankets and early to bed.

I had a crappy start to my day this morning with a messy coffee spill and a fight with JJ, but I'm down 2lbs on my Hcg program so all is not lost. Plus, I sort of had to laugh it all away when I made a second cup of coffee, after cleaning up the entire nightmare of the first one, and spilled that one too.  I was so pissed I just dumped the whole thing in the sink, then burst out laughing.  What else could I do?

Followed that with a visit to the endo for a checkup on my root canal - may have to have another surgery in August but we'll wait and see if this fixes itself. I'm not in pain - in fact, didn't even know anything was wrong - so I'm not too worried about it. I did call K and S afterwards though to beg for a coffee date, having not had any yet, so I'm off now to meet them.  Lunch today with KB, then camping group for dinner tonight to plan our menus for our Memorial Day trip.

Other than the Dear Diary stuff, things are going ok here.  M seems to be doing well; yesterday I took him over to one of the technical colleges for an orientation session in their Audio/Sound production program.  He wants to get into music production; he has no intention of going to a four-year, so we found this program through Running Start. Unfortunately, he doesn't qualify for that, but we did discover another good option.  They have their own technical highschool on campus there, and they offer the same idea as RS, but as a student of the college, finishing HS credits.  It's only a 19 credit diploma, but it's legit - not a GED. It just wouldn't get him into a four year if he did want to go; it's not a big deal. If he changes his mind he can make up the credits. At this point, he so desperately wants out of highschool that I think this might be a good alternative for him.  Plus, it's almost free, and he's got money from his dad to pay for it.  What it means in the end is that, two years from now, he will have both his HS diploma and an Associates in Technology degree in sound production.

I've gotta run - just looked at the clock - but will catch up later if I can. Love you!
-A