08/13/05

a busy week it has been...i sound like yoda from star wars...actually, it has been an eventful and interesting week, so i will quickly update...

kim got home last sunday from camping at lake wallowa and immediately was ill with flu-like symptoms...konnor made her a doctor appointment on tuesday and we took her in after i got home from work...konnor cares so much for kim and is willing to do a lot for her, including this...i totally appreciate that...so now she is better, but for a couple of days she was very weak, needed to sleep but couldn't, congested, sore, throat and ears ached...i'm sure i am missing some of her symptoms...but she is better and back to her normal life of friends and movies and stuff...she has been babysitting for a family with three kids, and she seems to be doing that really well...last night an unexpected storm came up while she was babysitting so i called a couple of times to make sure she was okay...

matt got home last night from the family reunion in long beach, washington...and it was highly eventful, since the family grew by one person during the reunion (!)...yes, renee and les' baby was born on tuesday in astoria , oregon...apparently the hospital in ilwaco doesn't deliver babies, so they had to go to astoria...which is a very beautiful little town, if i may say so...so now my kids have a baby sister named miranda...so i do congratulate my former husband and his wife on their new addition...i spoke to les on the phone last night and congratulated him...it is kind of surreal that almost 20 years after he and i experienced the birth of our first child, and 17 years after our second child, he is experiencing the birth of his third child...yes, with someone else, but i think that it is meant to be this way, i have accepted it long ago, and i only hope for the best for their family...matt is currently sleeping on the couch, recovering from what was supposed to be a four-day reunion on the beach, turned into about 7 days of "new little sister being born"...

and as for me...well, work this week was busy and less stressful than last week...i got a small glass sliver in my heel last sunday while watching csi, and due to my problems with the doctor appointment/insurance company (which i will explain later), i still have this sliver in my heel and i am concerned that it will become infected, so i am slightly frustrated about that...at this moment i am working on a letter to the insurance company with which i will enclose copies of documentation that will prove that this isn't my fault!...again!...back to non-insurance issues...i am going to SILVERWOOD monday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...yes, obviously i am excited!...anyone who reads this and doesn't know about silverwood- it is a pretty cool theme park/amusement park/water park in northern idaho, by sandpoint, idaho, and it is very fun and i will be there monday supervising kids from my summer work place......so my work schedule is a little different this week...that is okay...i am scheduled off thursday (i never get weekdays off!) and i hope it is because technically this silverwood trip involves overtime...it is at least a 3 hour drive from the tri-cities to silverwood...we leave at about 7 am and return after midnight...last year it was really fun and i expect it to be even better this year...

i often wonder whether anyone actually reads this blog...i hope that it is an interesting, unusual, often bizarre, sometimes frustrated and frustrating look at the every day life of a person who is, i think, interesting, unusual, often bizarre, sometimes frustrated and frustrating...i still think my loyal follower in california is the only one who ever reads this (hi, sumo)...

well, matt has awoken and is walking toward me mumbling something un-understandable...so i will go now and relax and rest and catch up on laundry, dishes, and other important household stuff...hope it is a good day for all...later