School starts tomorrow!! Pardon me for a moment here…… YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! The day that every parent looks forward to – when we can ship our kids off to school and let someone else deal with them for 7.5 hours and hope that the kids learn some thing in the process! My son is going back to public school this year. Last year, about 1/4 of the way through seventh grade – I took him out of school, completely. He wasn’t doing very well in school – – both academically, and behaviorally. The school wasn’t helping a whole lot, either. It had […]

don’t know, for the life of me, how people can have more than one cat! I have enough to do to keep up with my ONE. He likes toilet paper – we’ve established this. Rips the stuff into shreds and trails it all over my house, if given the opportunity. If he gets ahold of a roll of it, it’s all over the kitchen, living room, my office, bathroom…trails down the stairs….I find piles of it in my rec. room down stairs..my bathroom, my bedroom and sometimes he even makes it up onto the third floor. I can’t even hang […]

Went out to dinner tonight with my friends Carol, Debbie and Kim – we had a blast. Wednesday nights are All-You-Can-Eat Crab Legs for $15.99 at the Landing Strip, a pub across the street from the airport. Last time I had dinner with them was 2 months ago – – I think this is fast becoming a habit now and a regular thing. I used to work with those three – – and they still work at the old place, and I have moved on – – but it’s nice to know that some things just endure. 🙂 I miss […]

As I await the State of the Union (in 35 mins from now) my son and I are watching a show on one of these cable channels about UFO’s . . . Area 51. . . Roswell, etc. B. has made a decision. His goal is go get himself into Area 51 and investigate. Getting there is the problem, he said. So he’s going to save up his money and buy a Stealth Bomber off the Black Market. *nod* Oh yea.

Went out to dinner last night with two friends, Carol and Kim. We went to this little pub on the south side – near the airport called “Jetsetters”. This place has all you can eat crab legs on Wednesday night – and let me tell you, we took advantage. Today, I’m still feeling stuffed and probably won’t eat for the entire day! The three of us went through 4 pounds of crab legs, believe it or not. By the time I left the place – I felt like I just couldn’t move! I used to work with Carol and Kim […]

If there is anyone on this earth that knows me inside and out – it’s my father. Oh, there’s plenty he doesn’t ‘know’ about me . . . but there is a lot that he does know ‘about’ me. Make sense? Ok, moving on . . . My dad used to tell me, in my younger years – that my hugest downfall is my optimism and idealism. He thought me too trusting and overly willing to see the good in people and overlook the bad. Not cautious enough. He would say to me – “Lil’ bit – there is plenty […]

We had grandma’s funeral today. Nothing much else to write beyond that today. To prove that life does go on – we had to come home by 2pm to get my daughter ready to attend a sleep-over birthday party for one of her friends. Life does go on. 🙂

One of Grandma’s most favorite spots in the whole world is Holy Hill. Probably one of the most beautiful Catholic Churches I’ve ever seen – with the exception of St. Patricks Cathedral in NY. But even St. Patrick’s doesn’t have the location that Holy Hill does. Not only is it a gorgeous church – but it is set right into the hills, woods and beautiful terrain of Wisconsin I visited Holy Hill today. Not because I’m a religious person. Not because I wanted to pray or walk with god or any such thing. I went there because it made me […]

Grandma died this afternoon. Mom called me and told me that her feet were blue and she was breathing funny. I left home immediately – headed to my mom’s house. It takes me all of 5 minutes to get there – and by the time I did, Grandma was already gone. My dad cried a lot. That’s the hardest part, I think. He’s always been my rock ~ and today I needed to be his. I was more than happy to do it – but that doesn’t make it any easier. I’m exhausted. I love you, Grandma ~ fare thee […]

What a depressing blog today. Not sure why I keep writing about this stuff in here – I guess because I’m sitting here having coffee and all this stuff just keeps happening. As I sit – there is a hospital bed being delivered to my Dad’s house and then a medical transport van will transport my grandma to his house. I’ve been on the phone with him talking to him about the inevitability of it all. He knows she’s dying – it’s just hard to accept. I think I’m immune to it all sometimes. I’ve seen so much death that […]