Update on things.

The youngest is still in college. Her roommate is there now too. She recovered much faster than they thought she would and she is making up the time she missed.

The middle one is in her last year at the moldy, old, hysterical college. One of the classes she is taking is climbing. Last year she fell off her bike and broke her arm. I hope she does not fall off the climbing walls now, or the mountain they are going to climb at the end of the course.

I am working more hours, which is good, but only as many is I can and still be part time, which is bad.

The job search.  Right now the job search is not a search.  He has started a Career Switcher Program to be a teacher. There were two test to pass before he could sign up and the second test score came in the mail on the last day to sign up for this session. The session ends at the end of November.  He is also subbing at some of the local libraries.  

We will soon join the many people in this country with no health insurance. At least we were told that but no one can tell us why.  The cost of it is crazy.

Still at college but……….

The youngest is still at college. Her roommate’s things are still in the room but I do not think the roommate will ever be there. What the doctors thought was pain from strep was meningitis. She was in the hospital for days. She is now at home. She or someone wrote in her facebook that she was home and had a bad headache.  I hope she make a full recovery.

Things I could write about.

The grape at Wal Mart with my name on it. Did you know if you step on one little grape just right your foot will fly out from under you and you will hit your knee on the floor of that damn store so hard you could cry? I really hope you did not know that.
The college roommate with strep throat that showed up for several hours the first day of college and was in the room with my daughter.  Now I think she is in the hospital, but I am not sure, she might have gone to the hospital for tests.

The lonely daughter without a roommate.

The husband without a job.

I do not want to write about any of these things.  I will write that Sunshine by Robin McKinley  is a good book.

The youngest is at college. She is not happy. She might be in time but I doubt it.  No job in sight for the husband. I have to see what I can come up with with more hours. I fear there is not much out there in the way of jobs for anyone these days and nothing at all for someone my age.

“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”  Jenny I read the beginning and the end of  M K’s D  maybe I should go back and read the whole book.

“The Book of Fate” I have not read it.

I read “The Golden Compass”  when it first came out.  I liked it. The movie comes out one day after my birthday. I see it has not yet been rated. I wonder what the rating will be. CisB. I think most books are like that. (Not for everyone)

I liked most of  the last  Harry Potter book.

One book I really enjoyed reading is “Because of Winn-Dixie”

Oh my, but I am tired

and blue.

I finished   Riven Rock. I really did not enjoyed reading it, but I did admire the writing.  I need something to read that is interesting, upbeat and fun. Any ideas?   Lean Mean Thirteen was a waste of time for the most part. 

Went walking this morning. Had to turn around and go the other way pretty fast after we noticed the skunk family beside the road and they noticed us.  Going the other way was nice, we don’t walk that way much because at night the mosquitoes would eat us alive. This morning the beavers were out swimming in the stream that runs under the road.

Have not read any posts. Hope to soon.

Life rolls along.

The youngest graduated from high school. The Governor’s school graduation was so much fun. The regular high school graduation was so sad on top of being the usual boring, stuffy crap. Carried her to the freshman orientation day.  The college is in a beautiful area of the state. The same area we would go to every summer for a “vacation” when I was a child. Most of the time I would be in the backseat of the car so carsick, the rest of the time I would be in fear of the heights.  Childhood, such fun. My father loved the area. Now I just get a headache and wish to be on  flat land most of the time.
The leg is better. All healed except for the one inch long area that should have had stitches in it. I think the Dr. did not want to be bothered.  The top of my foot is just a little numb, that is a big improvement.

The job search? One has to search for there to be a job search.

The arms are not quite as flabby but what no instant results???  I really do like walking with the poles.  I miss them when I am  walking without them.

I am going to try to read some blogs and even post some comments.

No job has been found yet. I fell over something in the house at night and cut the front of my leg, took the skin off my knee and punched a hole in the side of the leg. Everything is healing up and the top of my foot and the front of my ankle is not quite as numb now, but that is nothing, nothing at all. A young man in the same class as the youngest daughter, (that class is  graduating this year from high school)  went over the center line of one of this area’s many country roads in his pickup truck. It happen on a bridge. The lady in the vehicle coming in the other direction could not get over because of the  bridge railing so they wrecked and they both burned up.

Not up to much.

Looking for jobs. That is a joke. Not sleeping much.
Finished reading

The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle

I am going to add more links when I have the time.

He went up.

He went down.

he was lost,

but now is found.

I now have a tiny little foot and I think my name is clickable.  I can not think of a thing to write. I really do not think anyone wants to read about me not being able to sleep.