Day 43 - May 13th

It's hot. Not only did it reach 91 degrees today, but our air conditioner went out. It needs a new compressor. I hear that's expensive. Don't really care, I just want to be cool. Praise the Lord for our attic fan and the huge storm that rolled in. We were nice and cool all night long.

We can always tell what Ginger is learning in school by what she wants to show us when she gets home. She's learning the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction. In my head, it has always been reversed. To me, Non-Fiction should be Non-True. That's how my head sees it, and it's the same with thermostats too. If you want the air on, you should turn up the air, which means turn up the thermostat. Right? It doesn't really matter because our airconditioner is broke. Anyway...Ginger has learned it the correct way and she absolutely loves to learn new things and gets so surprised to learn new words and how things work. I'm such a proud momma. Tonight she wrote a story for us to read at bedtime. She and I were the stars of her story. I wonder if she recently heard the phrase, "When pigs fly."? Definately going in the scrapbook.

A Fiction Story by Ginger

When I woke up from my sleep, my mom said I could ride on a flying pig to school!

(click picture for a closer view)

Day 42 - May 12th

Today was a windy and rainy day, just like the previous 19 days have been. But I know better than to complain, come August we'll be wishing for a tiny shadowing of a single cloud. I have been working on tons of paperwork (see yesterday's post) and gathering all the information in a somewhat-almost-sorta-kinda-not-really-but-maybe-in-my-head organized fashion.

I hate ants. Today's picture: Ant Poison.

'Nuf said.

Day 41 - May 11th

Big day. We met with my attorney today. It's the beginnings of what I hope is not a big huge drawn out process. My attorney is great and I highly recommend them! I used the same guy in my divorce a couple of years ago. His name is Ron Fraley from Winters King & Associates. They are so nice there and will even pray with you if you want them too. I don't think I can go into details of it on here, so I'll leave it at this was the first day of getting the ball rolled in my direction. And, it's going to be a very busy few weeks. Thank you Lord for awesome men of God working for you in the legal system! Miracles do happen!

Day 40 - May 10th (Mother's Day)

Aside from being very sore and exhausted (see yesterday's post) it was a great Mother's Day. We went to church at New Heart with my mother and then met Joy & Tim for lunch at Goldie's. It's not fancy, but we're not fancy people and we didn't have to wait in line for 2 hours. After lunch, Russell & Tim took my mom to go see the new Star Trek movie. Joy, Ginger, and I went to Purple Glaze. We used to love this place and went all the time. Now I remember why we took the break, it's expensive!! Actually, it's not too bad, I'm just not very good at being patient. I hopped up (more than once) to get another piece to paint while waiting for another to dry. I had three projects that day. We had fun, all three of us are very creative and love to paint. This is a picture of Ginger working diligentaly on her ladybug. She did a great job. And it wasn't until later that Joy asked if I noticed it was reversed. I hadn't noticed! Neither had Ginger. It won't be ready for pick-up until tomorrow, then I guess we'll see if Ginger notices.

Day 39 - May 9th

It's work on the house day! We have another house in Tulsa. It's Russell's old house. He had renters living there that failed to mention there was a leak. Long story short...the foundation sunk in 6-8inches in the very center of the 2-story house. Like a sink hole. He had to gut the house, raise the walls back up, and is now rebuilding it himself. With the wonderful help from his mother, myself, and Ginger. And from the pictures I've seen, he's had a scattering of very dedicated friends come and help with some very huge projects. They had to re-lay the foundation inside the house, with the walls still up!! It's been a big mess. But now we're down to the final stages. Today I spent 4 hours mowing the yard of it's first season mow after 3 weeks of rain. Yeah...I'm sore. Russell, Elain (Russ' mom/Nana) and Ginger hung a whole wall of sheet rock, complete with an arch cut out. Ginger made sure the wall was covered in her artwork, stories, and tic-tac-toe. We were all exhausted by the end of the day, but we got a lot done!

Day 38 - May 8th

After an exhausting week Russ called my mom to keep Ginger tonight. We needed a date night. The only problem...we are exhuasted...hence the "exhausting week" as mentioned above. We did what we do best. We rented a couple of Redbox movies (Bride Wars & Last Chance Harvey) and we took Chipotle home. We cuddled on the couch, dined on Chipotle, really enjoyed Bride Wars, and found Last Chance Harvey boring and too true to what life could be. We didn't finish that movie and moved on to Spider Man 3 that we found on TV. I fell asleep just as Spider Man was covered in that black goo. Did everything turn out ok? Did Spiderman live? Oh, the suspense. Oh well.

Day 37 - May 7th

My mind was elsewhere today. But my camera was used...for work purposes, but I did get a shot. So here it is, another work photo. This is the underside of a circuit board. I was trying to show the solder points. But I thought my thumb nail looked pretty good in this shot, needs some cuticle cream, but it wasn't as disgusting as I thought it would be.