La, la, la!

Today was pretty good.

Abbie's immunization records are in the mail and on their way to me, so that is one thing that is scratched off my list. 2 out of 4 of the next 2 months' present recipients are taken care of. Really need to get some things for my son, though. I have started looking for a professional babysitter, too, because I'm not going to wait. I don't care what I have to do to pay for it, I am done with people changing plans on me at the last second and making me scramble around for someone, and have any successes rewarded with officially becoming the crappy friend who imposes for free. And I'm done feeling like I have no right to complain when my wishes are not respected, because someone is doing me a favor. I'm also done letting people who are supposed to care about me make me feel awful about myself and my life. Done. Believe it or not, folks, I am a naturally generous and helpful person. I haven't felt that way in a long time. I'm taking it back. It's a shame I didn't win the lottery last night, though. That's going to add difficulty to this little adventure.

I'm so excited about our taiko show tomorrow. I wasn't until yesterday, and then it occurred to me that, from an audience's perspective, this is going to be such a new and fun show! We will be debuting our yatai drum style, and a new style that we learned with a song Laura brought back from her time with the KODO apprentices...and the song itself will be played for the first time in any of our performances, too! Plus, Tsurugi no Mai is one of my personal favorites to watch. I'll be playing in the big Tenchi, but that might not actually be a plus....

Abbie has had an issue with breaking things these last few days. It wouldn't be so maddening to me if she were just touching stuff and breaking it. In these cases, she touches something I've just told her to stop touching, and then breaks it. That's quite a distinction. I'm feeling rather volcanic about the subject. Also, please note that to date it has never been her own things that she has broken. In other Abbie news...she's reading lots. She is going to have NOTHING to do in kindergarten.

Grant was getting a little on the obnoxious boy side, but then snapped suddenly back into my own sweet, sunshiny and helpful boy. Yay! His t-ball game was cancelled due to heat on Monday, and the same goes for practice tonight.

Are you ready for some news? It turns out that Josh really is going to have a change in schedule. I'm going to try not to dwell on the fact that I now require babysitting on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. It means that Josh will be able to be at Grant's birthday party all day! It means that I can sign up for taiko stuff on Friday nights! It means that if someone were to get married/baptized/older on a Saturday, we could all go together! And...drumroll, please...it means that we can go OUT with our FRIENDS. I cannot wait. Oh, yes, Friends. There will be Karaoke.

Well, we had cup-o-ramen for dinner. It was fun, and didn't heat up the house. I think when Josh gets done flying today, we're going to meet at Carson's Ice Cream. I swear we go there twice a week these days. That's okay. I don't have a problem forcing down a scoop of cherry nut in a waffle cone!

Ah, the brightness of the future! Let us hope that the light at the end of my tunnel is not a train.

I hope that you are in the midst of a deeply satisfying week. Peace be with you! And, I also hope that I win the lottery. I would build a house (see how I support my local construction workers?) and put in secret passages and a beautiful garden.