It is what it is

Decided to attack the guest room and paint a very cool blue. With all the white trim and wicker and new quilt, it looks like a B & B or cottage room. 2nd coat tomorrow. Made for a long day. Glad that Amanda got a job at Meijer! Started today. Between "nanny" job and Meijer, she will be gone a lot, but when you buy a car with payments and pay rent all summer, it has to come from somewhere. Glad that she can have this job through school, summers, breaks, etc. Hope it works. Andrew & Brian & Matt home for the weekend of July 4th. Going to Greenfield Village Friday night for the DSO and fireworks and Sue Kage's beautiful Northville home for the parade on Sat. morning. Not much new, birthday on Thurs., creative inklings meeting that day and everyone home by evening. Andrew & Matt both worked for Meijer, Otto worked there many years ago in Kalamazoo when he was working for the temp. people. I never worked there, I got a job at Montgemery Ward in col...

So much to do and don't know where to start. Birthday is Thursday, Creative Inklings meeting Thursday, boys all here Thursday night, TOPS picnic here tonight. I haven't been home yet as last week was math class. Camp starts next Tuesday for writing so that leaves Tues & Wed to do stuff around here. Nothing has been done for months. All the little things, cleaning, sorting etc. Wicked weather yesterday....scary. Looking forward to the 4th with everyone here. Lots of pool sun and fun! Wish we had had the pool when the kids were growing up. Oh well, it is what it is. Hi ho it's off to work (in the house) I go. Note to self...finish book I started before school was out and write article about the state of our schools in Michigan.

DAY FROM HELL!!! Off to Ann Arbor to the Honda dealer to turn in my lease. Two hours of paperwork etc and Matt, who came home last night for Father's Day went with me. He worked there about 5 years ago. Well....getting home there is more construction than for the pyramids....it took us the better part of 2 hours from A2. Well...turned the corner with my beautiful new CRV and ANDREW WAS THERE!!!!!!!! SURPRISE!!!!! I have not seen him in 6 mos. Brian is off to his brother's graduation from middle school in L.A. area for the week and Andrew drove 8 1/2 hours to be home for the Father's Day weekend!!!! Too funny, I have not been food shopping or done anything else to catch up including changing the sheets in guest room but hello.....who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My poor piano teacher gave up after me re-scheduling (knows my whole family for over 20 years and had all 3 kids) said...."Take the day off....after 3 times of trying my best to do my lesson....LOLOL. It...

No more pencils, no more books, no more STUDENT'S dirty looks! What a group I had this year, eiy yie yie! I can honestly say if I never see some of that bunch again, it will be too soon. Fun party last night...too tired to sleep! Nice feeling to sleep in. ADK party this afternoon, piano lesson (may have to re-schedule), picking up new car in Ann Arbor and going to Amanda's 2 baseball games. Nice video chat with Andrew & Matt last night. They get so silly! Brian landed safely in L.A. at 2:09 our time. His plane from Philly was delayed over 3 hours. All day to go 5 hours sucks, but he is safe! Congratulations Matthew Sandoval on your middle school graduation. Have fun with your family. I cleaned out 2 filing cabinets of old 4th grade files and old materials we don't use any more. I think I filled 10 boxes to re-cycle. I didn't get my bulletin boards done for fall (who knows where I will be anyway!) or my books sorted (paperbacks). Administrative whispe...

So, I am just home from graduation..I don't want to detail because I am so disappointed with the behavior of the audience that I will say things I shouldn't. Anyway, I was at the kitchen table and got up to go in the family room and Casey was underfoot and I didn't realize she was there. She is always underfoot and always there but....I started to step on her and realized so to avoid a direct step I fell into the corner of the kitchen wall. Tore up my forearm and will be bruised to the nines. That big ugly one on my upper arm looked like a tattoo for about a month. That one was from the garage door to the house. As always, I had my arms full coming in from the car and opened the door which hit the recycle bin and bounced on my arm....the door won. I am usually in a hurry and overloaded. Every day I take more shit to school than when I go on a two week trip to Phoenix. Anyway.....it is what it is! Grades are done, a lot of my "end of the year" stuff is d...