Will the Fun Never End??
First of all, thanks Ann for your friendly comments. It has been quite depressing, especially since this week my daughter is also away at science camp for school. Wah!wah!
And yet there's another son who is not really around all that much because he is 21 and running his own life (more or less). He has issues of the medical sort. Today he had another seizure and we spent the day at the hospital/ER/doctor's office. We got the grand run around like it was their freakin' job! All because (come to find out) the neurology department lets everybody on vacation at once with only one left to handle everything. Well it was a pain. But finally, finally the on-call doc, who I'm sure is really not a 'douche bag' as my son says, gets back with a med update. So all should be resolved for now.

TGIF!
Back to work week has been crazy. My former duties as "good cop" teacher have been replaced unfortunately. I am now starring in the role as fourth grade "bad cop". My partner is new at this and the smarty-pants crowd is starting to run circles around her. I must now be an ass-kicker :(

Meanwhile, I am committing that most odious of parental sins, *living vicariously through your child* My sweet football playin' son emails almost everyday because he is a little homesick and his life is a virtual rollercoaster right now. It all sounds so exciting. I wish my college experience (and life) could have been like his. Oh well, they say you have two chances to enjoy a happy family- once as a child and again as a parent. I took my chances with the second half, it worked, but now he's gone!! Really, though I am happy for him.

I haven't cried about all this... yet. I almost lost it when his dog pulled his dirty pillow cases out of the laundry pile and sniffed them. She spread them out on the floor and rubbed her snout on them. Poor Chrissy! The best dog ever.

Just starting out ...

I never knew blogging could be so simple. It is a good way to purge to myself. I'm a wild cat football fan because my son plays football for them. He is a lowly freshman. He was my ballast at home, such a good kid. Now he's off on a new adventure and I'm happy for him. I'm sad for myself, because I can't really talk to anyone about how crazy I start feeling sometimes.

I love reading other people's blogs, especially fanfiction. I love 'at home with the gorens' because it is so escapist and boy do I need to escape! Plus I love looking at the pictures. VDO is the coolest.

I like reading the 'in Death' series of books by JD Robb featuring futuristic cop Eve Dallas. She's a woman who had to recreate herself, very much like myself, although I'm not an ass kicker. Plus I don't have the super fantastic gorgeous, rich and can-do anything hubby. Mine's not bad, but he's not Roarke.

Basically it is fun to write a journal that I don't have to worry about my family reading because they shouldn't read it, ever. I can get a hell of a lot of stuff to go away when I type it out.