Tuesday Edition

Got a LOT of catching up to do.

Before anything else: Well????? Did the bank call? Hopefully...

We had one heck of a weekend. Friday Micky got a check from Arkansas...fifty dollars. Yep, fifty smackers. He was on the warpath for sure when he called me to tell me about it. I'm surprised you guys didn't hear him (or feel the tremors) all the way up there. After the initial eruption and we had time to think about it, we realized that the check number was different than the one they had told him to expect. So Saturday he got another check and it was MUCH better than the first one. Still, it is only two weeks pay so we're wondering now about the other three weeks. At least it's a start so we feel a little better about it.

Katt's Steve came Saturday and they went to a Native American Storytelling event at SSC. Then they came back and parked on the couch...and talked for hours. Finally they went and rented a movie and Micky and I went and got pizzas. It was late when he finally headed home. Sunday morning he was back bright and early. After another several hours of hanging around here talking they decided to go to Shawnee to the movies. Then we all met at the Chinese buffet place up there for Jayme's birthday dinner. Except Mischa...she was so sick that she couldn't go. Jayme was almost too sick to make it. She rode up on the bike with Joe then came back in the car with us. Katt came home with Joe since Steve left from Shawnee to go home.

The big news? Jayme and Joe are engaged. He gave her the ring for her birthday. It's very pretty but it will have to be sized. The smallest wedding sets they had started at size 7 and she wears a 6. :) They haven't set a date and she wouldn't let me post it on facebook. Sheesh! I'm not getting to do any of that fun "mother of the bride" stuff! She doesn't want me to put it in the paper or anything. Spoil sport! Actually, I'm not at all surprised at Joe because he's been mentioning it off and on since they first got together. Jayme? Well, that's a different story. She always said that nobody would ever put one of those things on HER finger. Amazing how the story changes when you find that somebody special, huh?

So, Jayme and Joe are planning to go to Hot Springs for vacation in July. Katt and Steve are going to Arkansas this coming weekend. He's supposed to come over Friday night and camp at our house so they can get up and leave early Saturday. They will have to be back Sunday because he will have to work Monday. This place is turning into Grand Central Station!! *grin*

Sunday I gave Micky a crash course in Microsoft Word. We got both of his assignments finished and submitted before we had to go to Shawnee. I took one look at the book he was going to be working out of and winced because it is all the stuff that I've been doing since the 80's that he's never touched. It wasn't TOO bad. It would help if he liked doing it. He doesn't.

So what was Monday like? Well, we started the day with a thunderstorm, then it cleared off and I had to return the movie they had rented, pick up a prescription for Joe at the drug store, go by and drop off the payment on their water bill, then I came back home and got Katt and we went up to the college to talk to a counselor about her placement tests and stuff for this fall semester. Then we came back home and I started mowing. I finished up some badly neglected yard work just in time to come in, grab a quick shower and make supper. I left the kitchen in a shambles and came up to work on the computer for awhile and I'm just about to drop from exhaustion. And that's the short, short version because it leaves out the craft painting I managed to work in, the houseplant tending, and the phone calls! :D

So that's where I'm going to leave it for tonight. I'm surprised I got this far. Just hope it's coherent after I've slept!

Love ya!