Thanksgiving Morning

Our Thanksgiving started yesterday when we saw a small flock of turkeys just strolling around our neighborhood. Jeremy tried to catch one and they just ran him in a circle not taking off flying until a neighbor let out their dog. Then Jami and Kirk spent the night making it feel even more like Thanksgiving and then to ice it off it snowed yesterday. :-)
Jeremy and I have been up since seven preparing the dinner. We will be eating late so Jessalynn can have dinner at her Grandma Linda's first.
This is going to be great!

Monday Before Thanksgiving

We've had a few rough days here with Jeremy not getting along with Jessica after not getting along with Jami lately and I just think all of the overtime is getting to him but his tantrums are just too much for all of us to deal with so I still came down on him pretty hard. I know he feels terribly outnumbered when he goes up against my girls, Jeanette says he suffers from Step-father Jealousy, and he does, but it is impossible for me to take his side when he is so very in the wrong. Things seem to have settled down a bit tonight and hopefully it will all blow over in time for us to gather for Thanksgiving in some kind of Harmony.
I found out my Section 8 is only for a one bedroom since they couldn't get Dr. Gold to respond to their calls so I am going to try to get Dr. Hay or my shrink to do it but if they won't I will be stuck with a one bedroom and there aren't any where Jess is getting her place. She is paying the deposit on a townhome at the place we looked at the other day tomorrow and I would really like to get one there, too. They are super nice and we need to be near each other for Jessalynn and because Jess doesn't have a car yet.
Jess is applying for retail sales jobs now and I think she will get one. I don't know why neither of us thought about her going into retail before because she would be perfect for it, especially at a clothing store.
I went to my second physical therapy session today and Jay really worked me hard but I think it is going to do me a lot of good in the long run if I make it that far. He started with putting me on an exercycle today to "loosen me up" which took me by surprise and then went on to more butt and abs exercises, two of them done with the big ball. The session ends with me laying on a cushy table with electrodes hooked up zapping my back under a heavy moist heating pad in the dark. Pretty nice!
And that's all for now!

Sunday Morning

I got my letter of approval from Section 8 housing yesterday nd Jess and I went and looked at the townhomes we are hoping to move into. They are great but I found out you can't live there if you owe any utility companies money and I still owe Cox about $1200 from the days of Clown Shoes. I'm not sure how but we will have to pay that off and keep up with our other bills AND have the money to move by the last of February. Meezy is going to help Jess get her Deposit and stuff together and she has to get moved by the fifteenth of December to keep her section 8.
Jami and Kirk worked at the Qwest Center last night and I just got back from giving them a ride home a little while ago. I told Jeremy last night that he was blowing it with being friends of any kind with Jami because he treats her like crap and he got all defensive and pissed and wouldn't even hear me as usual. He makes life hard in so many ways.

Thursday Morning

The week is going by fairly smoothly in spite of the taxi service I seem to be running. I saw Dr. Gold Tuesday morning and he raised my morphine to 120 mg, started a laxative, and gave me an antibiotic for a sinus infection. I saw Dr. Felony Wednesday morning and they did my last instillation for a while and prescribed Diflucan for the yeast infection the antibiotics caused.
I've been picking Jami up in the evenings to come here and wait for Kirk to get off of work. We go to Mohms for supper when we can and then I nap. Yesterday Jami cleaned the house while I napped. :-)

Monday Morning Musings

Wow, I am so sore the last two days and I wonder if it is from driving a stick shift again. Jami thought it would be too much for me with the fibromyalgia and back injury but I brushed the idea aside but now I wonder. Not much I can do about it but suck it up now. Surely I will adjust!
I tried and can't get out of babysitting today so I will have to figure out how to get everything done today somehow. Jami needs a lot of help with finding some organization to help with part of their rent and finding proper clothes for her new job. It drives me a little nuts that I can't help anyone more but we are barely making it ourselves. I even finally made myself stop giving money to beggars for now. It is so hard to pass some of them up in the winter! I saw one on the corner with a sign last night that I would have given money to if I could but I had no cash on me. That is another thing I do to protect us. I don't carry cash.
I bought Jessalynn a coat the other day because I was mad at Jessica's boyfriend. He offered to buy her a coat in exchange for ninety dollars of Jessica's food stamps knowing that a coat would cost less than forty dollars and it just made me sick that he was taking advantage like that of his supposed girlfriend. Plus the fact that he has been living here for several months and we helped to bond him out of jail and he hasn't offered a dime to help out or pay us back. I think he is a lazy, self centered, pot head and would be very surprised if he loves Jessica at all.
I finally got another email from Uncle Paul and this one really made me feel good. He is definitely not treating me like a pariah like the rest of the family. His letter is very friendly and loving. I am so glad!

Grandkids Visit Again

Jenise and Robbie are spending the night again. :-) I have fallen in love with the new car and am very happy with it so far. Kirk got hired back at First Star Friday and it looks like Jami will be having a job this week, too, so they should climb out of the rut they have fallen into. We are hurting from buying the car and our money situation is precarious to say the least but hopefully we will make it. Jess still hasn't found a job or an apartment. I still haven't been approved for government housing because Dr. Gold hasn't returned the paperwork. It is going to be incredibly warm today, in the low seventies, then colder and snow is predicted within two weeks. Jeremy may be changing jobs for a better paying one soon if he wants to. Premier Staffing is just looking for someone to replace him at Marianna. The country is suddenly in an uproar about MRSA. Lindsey called yesterday and seems to be much happier in Florida.

A New Used Car

Welllll, we finally made the decision to let the van go and bought the little Honda Accord we have been looking at this morning. It would all be great but I can't get it to start now!!! I think, Hope, it is just out of gas. Patrick is supposed to come over and help me when he gets through eating. He isn't at work today because Heidi is in the hospital with appendicitis. She had her surgery this morning.
If it isn't out of gas I don't know what we will do. I'm kicking myself a little for letting the van go anyhow but hopefully this will resolve soon and I will be happy with the car. Jeremy nd I were both sad to let the van go especially to a scrapping place but there really wasn't much choice.

A New Friend

Yep. I finally made a real friend in Omaha. Her name is Laurie. We met through email through our children in not the best way but that is part of what makes it perfect. We both have a child lost on drugs and have much else in common as well. We met for the first time last Saturday at Grisanti's for lunch and she was exactly as I expected, a reflection of my own soul with dark Scorpio eyes. (I have no idea what her Zodiac really is.) We email every day adn share all our little triumphs and defeats and they are all better for it. Friendship.
I am trying to buy a new/used car. We found someone who will finance us but have to find three hundred dollars to put down on it and that is going to be a little tough. The van has no heat or plates still and is killing us on gasoline. We finally paid something on rent, the landlady is being super about us being five months behind!, but that took our car money. And, of course, all of our bills are past due. What a mess. BUT Jeremy's job is going well with overtime except for last week and this mess should start sorting itself out soon. Also, we now have a rider to Marianna with Jeremy who helps with the gas money now.
I took Jami and Kirk to apply at Premier First Staffing yesterday and they might have an accounting job for Jami. She emailed them her resume' yesterday afternoon for the job. They will likely find Kirk work as a forklift or something soon, too, but they are going to be in troubler with their little bills soon and I am in no position to help.

Jessalynn is maybe adjusting to school a bit but we still have a problem with bedwetting. Laurie says it is fear of the father that often causes bedwetting and I don't know about Jessalynn actually being afraid of her father but we do have to force her to go to him on Fridays and even to talk to him on the phone so maybe there is something to that. She is still being bullied at school by a little girl named Abby but we are trying to help her deal with Abby and Laurie, who is a kindergarten teacher's para, says to give her teacher two more weeks to deal with it to teach Jessalynn to trust her teacher, which is sound advice as long as Mrs. Jack gets on it soon. Jessalynn went on a field trip to Fontenelle Forrest yesterday and said that the teacher had separated her and Abby when she told on Abby so maybe this will get fixed. Jessalynn did enjoy her first field trip.
I had Jenise and Robbie for the night for the first time last weekend and it went real well so I hope we can do it more often. The kids were real comfortable here and had fun. Jessalynn and Jenise were giggling until eleven pm. :-)

Halloween

It is the morning after Halloween. Jeremy, Jessica, Jeanette, Jessalynn, Jenise, Robbie and Patrick all went with us although Robbie gave out after the first block and we took him home. The girls didn't go much farther.
Jessalynn was a ballroom princes with a hoop skirt, Jenise was Snow White and Robbie was an adorable little Elmo. We ended the night at Walgreens buying candy to supplement the kids candy and called it a night.
I just woke from the worst nightmare. I won't even write this one, but I had a broken nose in it that still hurts.
Jami and Kirk spent two days and a night here and went home last night. I don't think they had a very good time but Jami got to talk to all of her girls last night. :-)