I found a note this morning on CJ’s computer. I was gathering up all the laundry and found it. A whole front page! LOL!! It was so darn cute I put a date on it and kept it. He was asking if he could go out on a date with his new girlfriend of 2 weeks!! They want to see the new Hanna Montana Movie here in town. She is a couple month younger then him and they will be going with 3 other girls. LOL!! Joe and CJ have a TON of girls that are their friends and not really any guy friends. I called Chuck and read him the note over the phone. We both thought it was so cute! CJ was afraid to ask me face to face because he didn’t want me to say “no”. LOL!

We think it’s fine as long as I drop him off at the theater and then pick him up there. Man, can’t believe I’m in the next phase of life with these guys, GIRLS!! LOL!! Next will be driving and more serious dating, YIKES!! Hope I live to see them graduate, LOL!! You should see all the girls that flock around both of them! It’s kind of funny really. I haven’t met this girl yet so I’ll have to do that. I’m NOT going to be letting him go to their house to hang out though. He hasn’t asked but I know that will come. I don’t mind if she comes here though. I can keep on eye on them better! So, we’ll see how this plays out.

The boys might have an away Tennis game today, I need to find out so I can cancel their music lessons. I will be going to the Church here soon to help cut up veggies and help with making Subs. The kids sold a bunch to help pay their way to camp. CJ made almost enough money to pay his way. We just had to pay a dollar! LOL! Camp is $140 this year, he made $139. LOL! He got money for camp by selling those Chocolate Easter eggs too.

Becky, I hope Tater pulls through. Know that I am thinking about him and praying that he’ll do just fine! Glad you got him to the doctor when you did! Poor little thing! Hope he comes home soon!

I did manage to go to the beach and look for sea glass. I found a few good pieces. I ended up getting sun burnt too! OUCH! Not too bad though. I walked around for about 3 hours. I should have taken a jacket, it was very windy and I was actually cold! Here was my take.

Can you see the 2 tiny dark blue pieces? That color of blue is SO HARD to find!! I pick up even the smallest of blue pieces! That big white piece is the bottom of a bottle, even has numbers on it. So, not bad for one day. I want to fill this jar by the end of summer.

There were a lot of people down there doing the same thing as me. Guess it’s a popular hobby! I saw some folks skiing with giant kites. All the white you see in this picture are shells!!! You do NOT want to walk on those with bare feet!! OUCH!!!

Yesterday I got an email from Joe’s music teacher. He wondered where Joe was on Saturday night. Come to find out Joe had a concert for the JR. Phil, at the Warner Theater. They were to play in the lobby while folks where coming in. Joe NEVER said a word about it. All he said was, “Mom, there is a paper in my folder for you.” On Tuesday night when he came home from JR. Phil. It was 9pm and I was tired and busy. He never took the paper out and gave it to me and I guess I forgot about it. So, he missed his concert!! Not the main one, that is this Thursday. Chuck and I were VERY upset!! All we did that night was lay around and watch TV! Joe does this. He does it with Band, he’ll get in the truck when I pick him up and he’ll say, “Oh yeah, we have a concert tonight.” He just doesn’t remember to tell us anything!!! I’m so upset, because he only plays 2 concerts a year and it would have been nice to play another one. ARG!!!!

Yesterday while taking the boys to school we saw the most awesome FULL DOUBLE rainbow!!!! It was wonderful!!! I stopped to take a picture and I realized that I forgot my phone at home, so I used CJ’s but I didn’t know I had to press the save button and when I gave the phone back to him it died, so I have no picture of it and it was gone by the time I got home. We had a short storm and it cleared up to be a beautiful day!

I went out with a friend of mine from high school. I had dinner with her, her husband Ron and their 6 year old son James. Then Debbie and I went to see the movie “17 Again” which was really good. The only bad thing was I got a BAD migraine half way through the movie. By the time the movie was done I was in MAJOR pain and as soon as it said “The End” I ran out! LOL!! Debbie had no idea I was so sick so she wondered why I had run out like that. I was trying VERY hard not to throw up all the way back to her place. I ran out of her car and into her house and went and right into her room and laid down! LOL!! Ron wondered what the heck I was doing. Debbie had to tell him I was really sick when she came in. I laid there for over an hour before I thought I could drive myself home. It’s a 40 minute drive! I barely made it home and I collapsed into my bed. I feel better this morning. I feel so bad that I was so sick. We don’t get together as often as we used to because she works 2 jobs. SIGH!!

Today is going to be a hot one! I already have my A/C on!! I live in a hot box and if I don’t turn it on it will be over 90 in my house by 3pm. It got over 80 in here yesterday and it was SO HOT all night long. I’m SO GLAD I have central air in here!! Makes the summers fly by! LOL! I might go down to the beach today and search for sea glass. One summer I got a pint jar filled with the stuff. I didn’t go much last year since I don’t live right by the beach any more. Here is a picture of our beach.

Wow, this kid is REALLY good!! I watched this a few times. It’s wonderful!! Just click on the picture!!!

I am feeling MUCH better today! I went to SNAP this morning and walked the treadmill and came home and vacuumed the whole house. I now realize that the pain pills I was taking were making me VERY sick! I would all of a sudden get REALLY nauseated and break out in a sweat and I would lay on the couch sweating and moaning and then it would go away and I’d be really cold and then it would start again and I would be sweating and then cold. It would do this for hours! I thought it was just because of the surgery. I stopped taking the pain pills on day 3 and felt better but my stomach still hurt but I could live. Then I went to a party at the church and I helped clean up. I ended up hurting pretty bad and had the starts of a headache so I thought I would take a pain pill and lay down and watch tv the rest of the night. WRONG!! I got VERY sick again with sweats and chills and bad nausea for over 6 hours. I was sick all day yesterday too but not with being hot and cold just nauseated to the point that I would have to lay down. So, had I not taken any pain pills I would have had a MUCH better recovery!! Who knew!!

My pepper plants have FINALLY come up!! YEAH!! I’m glad about that. Can’t wait to get everything planted.

We have an Amish crew just down the road cutting the neighboros woods. Chuck is not going to be doing any more cutting he’ll be having Amish crews do that from now on. He went fishing on Saturday for maybe 2 or so hours and was in pain all the next day. It makes him mad that he can’t do simple things like that without being in pain. It’s going to take a VERY long time for him to fully heal. He still walks with a limp. I wish he would do physical therapy but he feels it wouldn’t do any good.

Today was SO nice out! I actually wore shorts today!! We all took a ride WAY out into the country today. I sat with my window all the way down all the way there and back. Chuck had to talk to an Amish guy out in Spartinsburgh today about the job they will be starting here on our road next week. Amish don’t have phones so we had to drive all the way out there! It was a very beautiful drive though. We ate lunch at the one restaurant they had there in town and it was really good. Didn’t get home till about 4pm.

I took CJ’s glasses in this morning to Wal*Mart and they put them in the other frames no problem and it took about 5 minutes. CJ is glad to have them back as next week is the week long testing in school.

I’m feeling much better though it still hurts to laugh! I also STILL can’t sleep on my side so I haven’t been getting good sleep. I HATE sleeping on my back but when I turn on my side it causes me great pain and I have no idea why. It feels like it’s pulling so I just lay on my back.

My tomato plants that I started indoors have all come up but the hot peppers have not. I do hope they come up, if not I will be buying plants at the nursery this year for hot and not hot peppers. My sister, Kitty, started some for me and she said hers all came up. I’m hoping this week they will. Last time I did peppers NOTHING came up!!

Today was an okay day. I’m feeling some what better but I still hurt. It’s like I did 5,000 sit ups in about 5 minutes. My whole stomach hurts like I worked out too hard, LOL!! But it looks good and is healing just fine.

Yesterday I had a reaction to the IV and my whole arm swelled up and got red and hurt really bad. We went right to the doctors thinking it was infected but it wasn’t and they said just wrap it up in a heating pad, which made it feel much better! Today it’s a little red but no longer swollen, still hurts but much better. Odd, I never had that reaction to an IV before.

CJ broke his glasses today, he just laid his arm down on them and they snapped in half. Joe has the exact same frames and told CJ he could have them since he no longer needed them. I thought that was nice of him. Joe has decided that the free glasses he got are pretty good and he no longer wants to put lenses in his old frames so CJ can have them. I will have to have that done tomorrow. CJ needs them to read or he ends up with headaches.

Joe was supposed to play Tennis at today’s match but he’s on the bottom and the other team didn’t have anyone to play the exhibition match so he didn’t get to play. He really wanted too though. I was SO ready to go home after an hour.

Today I noticed that there was a puddle of oil under my truck. I will be calling Dean in the morning and letting him know about it. It must be the rear end they put in something is leaking somewhere.

Had lunch with the girls today and had a really good time. They had me laughing so hard that my stomache hurt! Sometimes we can be a really rowdy bunch on Thursdays!