it's about 10 am on saturday...i have been up since about 6 doing some cleaning and stuff...actually i was in bed until 7, listening to this cool radio show that i try to hear every weekend, called "weekends around the northwest"...it is all about resorts, bed and breakfasts, camps, ski areas, etc. in the pacific northwest ( mainly washington, oregon, western idaho, northern california too) and also updates festivals, shows, etc. that are happening each weekend...plus a movie critic discusses latest releases (today he highly recommended "batman begins" and "mr. and mrs. smith")...one of the festivals it mentioned is one at which i will be working next weekend...it is "ye old merrie greenwood faire" which is next saturday and sunday in howard amon park...i think that i am selling tickets as a hanford high school fundraiser...

speaking of hanford high...anyone who has read my archived blog entries knows that silverwood is one of my favorite places in the world!!!...it is such an awesome amusement park/water park...i went up there with hanford high/middle school students and had the best time!...we twice went on corkscrew (a very brief, very fun metal roller coaster with two 360's!), one time each on the huge wooden roller coasters, tremors and timber terror, twice on my favorite ride, tilt o'whirl ( it's fairly mild but goes really fast if you spin it just right1), went on the water rides called thunder canyon (very fun!) and the log flume (kind of boring), also i skipped the super round up (i've been on it at the fair, i think i got sick), then we went to boulder beach, which is the fun water park with the wave pool (i could spend all day in there), went on the tube slide (suprisingly scary!), floated around in the "river" on tubes...so fun...i hope to save up some money for later this summer to take me, matt, brie, and others, and kim and whoever she wants to bring...there will have to be a limit because of room in the cars, and also it is about $40 a ticket each and people will have to pay most, if not all, of their tickets...hope we can work this out because it ends up being such a fun day...

ok, so i don't really have plans except i have been invited to a lasagna dinner thing at konnor's house...i really like konnor and his family so i am pretty excited to go...it starts at 5:00 and i think i will walk there...i haven't spent too much time with kim lately, so this should be nice...

later...

early saturday morning

frustration...i just wrote a great blog entry, but my @%^$# internet disconnected before i published it, so dang...well, i won't go into a lot of detail, but things were kind of rough earlier, and i hope they get better...mainly, i just love my kids and want us to work things out...i want to continue to work to provide a home for them and support them and love them without undue pressure and unrealistic expectations, but with some healthy boundaries and limitations and some expectations that will help them become who they can be in life...and today we had some difficulties and miscommunications about this...i know it will get better...hey, thursday i went to the mariners-phillies game at safeco field!!!!!!!!!!!...ichiro was right in front of us, we were sitting in the front row next to right field!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...really really fun!!!...more about it later...take care, everyone in blogland!!!!!!!!!!!