Sometimes it's good that I've been able to get over my fear of talking to people and talk. Sometimes too much and sometimes I says stuff that comes out completely wrong and leads to one of those silences.
Sigh.
The more tightly wound I become the more I have a tendency to say just whatever that comes to my mouth (it skips the mind part, so it doesn't come to mind). With the house and everything else going on, it's safe to say I'm pretty tightly wound these days.
I started running again which used to help me unwind, however I gave myself a bursitis in my foot which put a quick end to that and made me even grumpier. That and the dumb dog tried to bite the rotating belt of the treadmill or has jumped up on it only for it to fling her backwards into a chair. Which the kids think is hysterical if they're awake and encourage her to do it more. But it ruins my rhythm having to stop to yell at the dog to stop or to put her outside to howl to come in or behind her gate to bark and howl to come out. (why did I get a dog??)
But my foot decided it'd had enough of that nonsense, anyway.
Other than that.. it appears the appraiser has it in for us because she doesn't like our real estate agent or the fact that he challenged her appraisal value. Larry is about 1/2 a breath away from calling her up and asking 'what is your problem?!' House has still not passed her inspection and while she's not supposed to add new things when she goes to re-inspect old ones she did and appears that she will.
I can't wait to hear what she'll say when she sees Larry moved our little trailer into the garage there.
He's about ready to start moving all our tools over there so we can start moving now while she's dinking around with the reports and inspections. Really, we've already been working on fixing it, it's practially ours.
And to be really honest, I'm digging the real estate lock box with key feature. You don't have to worry about loosing the key, you just remember the 4 digit code. That would come in handy here at least weekly.
In other news.. wars and rumors of war.
Kids are doing well, I'm learning a whole lot reading all the history books before deciding to dumb it down considerably for my first graders. I never understood the Crusaides before. I mean I'd heard of them, particularly with the Spanish Inquisition, but I never understood the reason behind them before. And NOW all the volitility surrounding Jerusulem makes alot of sense to me.
And we also studied comets and shooting stars. Apparently a big one fell in Jerusulem which is a holy site for a religious group. Built a shrine around it and bow to it. My kids couldn't understand the concept of bowing and worshiping a rock.
But it all ties in. It's pretty wild. And as much as I'd love to send my kids to school, I'm still hemming and hawing on what or how much they'll actually learn there. I mean besides the required gay penguin book in 3rd grade. Yes. It's CA required ciricullum to study a book about gay penguins in 3rd grade. Somethings I could live without living here. That would be one.
The traffic would be another
And the cost of living
And rain would be nice once in a while
But if I need a little kick into being thankful all I have to do is watch the weather channel anytime from now until April. Always makes me feel better about living here. Just wish I could convince family and/or friends to move here with us.
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