Booms Bangs and Bullets

I was laying awake sunday night and I had wanted to blog, but was unable to get on-line. I have a very slow old computer. It generally serves the purpose, but that night it was just being difficult. So , I turned it off and tried to fall asleep. Being the "3rd" of July, you'd think, quiet night, nope. There were fireworks abundant that were so beautiful, what a show....it was all in my imagination of coarse, I couldn't see a thing. There were rockets and fountains of colored sparks and zips and booms and then...a cannon? Yeah it sounds like someone just fired off a cannon. And, well if cannons are being fired off, why not fire off your guns too? So, the neighbors are poppin' caps at ten o'clock at night. nice... Needless to say, I didn't get a hole lot of sleep that night.
Monday our country celebrated it's freedom. I worked. It was a good day at work, but I was tired from all the not sleeping cause of the noise the night before. I got home and we all drove down to "big" grandmoms. EVERYBODY was there. There were four generations, including eleven kids from 3-11 years old. Aunts Uncles, and friends, parents, cousins, grand parents, and sisters. It was a nice gathering. Aunt Nancy cooked all the food and it was absoluetly delicious. We had a good time.
Tuesday the kids started preschool. They did pretty good. Tabitha loved it. She had a great time. There was a note in Simons bag, saying he did really well for his first day. I was going to bawl when I left Simon. It took all my self control not to let it all go right there. I went out for drinks after work with Jeff and Tina. Jeff's first day back from vacation. The shocker was that we were actually able to get Tina out. But it was nice. We had a good time and laughed a lot, and that's the important part, RIGHT? Jeff is trying to talk me out of moving. It's a sweet sentiment, but california is much more pursuasive(?) (messed that word up) The pull of the surf under a california sun, the smells of sagebrush, Cerro Alto, the hills and mountains in the morning light, the familiarity of our small towns, San Luis, and Cambria, a decent Mexican food restauraunt, the wines, the friendships.............
I have to pull myself back or I get lost there. Have to live in the here and now and be patient. I will be home soon enough.
Tomarrow mom amd dad leave for florida for a week. Kind of looking foward to it. I can stand a little alone time just me amd the kids. Plus I got out of truck day cause I couldn't wrangle up a sitter for the youngin's. So that's not all bad. I'm hoping to see Pak tomarrow, it's her birthday. I'd like to have a gathering sometime while the folks are gone. It's an oppertunity for fun to be had.
I got an e-mail from Tony today, yea!! mail that isn't junk. It's usually WalMart, crafters choice, or Ellen in my mailbox. Feels good to have something worth reading.
Well, it looks like I'm up again, boom, bang, pop. 'When it rains, it pours" works both ways. Good times are good and bad times don't ever end. It's alot perseption and I know it, but at the time it's hard to relate. Where the hell is my soul mate? Nevermind, I'm going solo for a while. I keep forgetting.
Anyway, that's the scoop. I think I'm all caught up at least on the things I'm able to share with you at this juncture. I'm pushing midnight, which is really past my bed time, so I'll see you back here soon. Ta Ta.......or as Julia says,"chow, baby!"