The happiest day...

Love the commercial.

Well, we are closing on the house this Thursday! It needs lots of cleaning-but I will happily do it to get out of this house. My parents have been gone for one heavenly week traveling, and one more to go. I never thought my mom could drive me this crazy. I love here dearly-but she is a pessimistic hovering vulture that I can't wait to distance myself and family from.

This is just such negative house b/c of her and it effects my family. It is impossible to have the spirit here-and it shows in my kids behavior and how I feel. I have come a long way since May. I am no longer going to be the one that has to take care of my family. I will love and support them but they need to grow up and finally take care of themselves. I am newly commited to taking care of myself and my own family.
Now i realize why my dad travels so much and will miss having us around to help. He will have to deal with her alone again. It is amazing what I see now that my eyes have been opened. The thing is-there is no going back. I was easier when i was blind to it. I knew the crap was there but i just ignored it. Now it is impossible to ignore.

Oh well I am moving again! I hate the process, but the end result is great. I'll send pics next month when i have them.

Ash-I have a spare bedroom for the you two when you come to visit the East side!!

LA County Fair

Check out this commercial for the LA county fair. I saw it on TV and died laughing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7787847413321695176

Having Fun

We are keeping busy and having fun. We have our Disneyland passes and a membership to a zoo that gets us into 2 small zooz about 10 minutes away. Chuck studies all the time and stays at the library most nights until 11pm. I'm getting used to it and feel like a single mom. I think once he takes his midterms (the 1st of October) then he will have more of an idea of how and what to study for each class and the insane studying will calm down. I can't reall complain because he needs to do well to keep his scholarship.

I am planning a trip to the East coast in Dec/Jan. I think I'll be in Baltimore the 1st week of January so hopefully you will be there Kristen.

Funny picture above - Kristen knows she was there, she took the picture.
These 3 Asian girls saw Leland playing with the umbrella outside a museum and thought she was so cute they wanted to take pictures of her. As you can see in the picture she wasn't that thrilled. She just stood there with this confused look on her face. Then they even each wanted picture with her. It was bizarre but very funny to watch.

not much happening

It's just after midnight on Sunday night, all my patients are tucked in, sleeping soundly to the glow of their television sets, my charting and paperwork are done for the evening, I have my snack of cheese and crackers. What could be better? How about being at home, sleeping in my bed!!

Sorry about not posting latley. I guess noting was going on, then everything got busy. I jsut got back from a wonderful vacation in California visiting Ash and some other girls from nursing school. The week before that I was at Ocean City, Maryland with Johnny and his friends. Lots of sun in the last few weeks, my hair is about five different colors. I'm thinking of just cutting it all off - bad idea right??

So I'm getting antsy... need a change, maybe I'll move (out of my house, not out of the state- for now) or go back to school, maybe I'll do both.

We've had a lot of rain and cooler weather this weekend. It feels like fall, how Seattle feels in September, cool and crisp. I'm going home in a few weeks, all my family will be there, haven't been in Seattle in the fall since I graduated highschool I think.

ok, so this is why I haven't posted. Nothing to write about. Sorry guys. Tomorrow Johnny and I are going hiking, his first time ever, I should have something to talk about then!