27 July 2000
Thursday
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A rant
My goal of helping my offspring along the way to independence is
often fraught with obstacles. I'm somewhat annoyed with Ed tonight. For the longest time, he
seemed to be holding Daniel's
car hostage and we had finally worked how how to get it
restored to Daniel's possession. Or so I thought. Come to find
out, an hour or so before I was going to go bail it out of the
shop, he didn't keep the insurance on it. Our arrangement
was that he would keep the insurance on it for a few weeks to enable
Daniel to come up with the money for it. This was after Ed put the
car in the shop and racked up a $400.00 repair bill -- not that
the car didn't need repairs, but they weren't critical to the
operation or safety of the car -- and the financial burden is
somewhat unfair for someone of Daniel's income, especially when
he isn't consulted beforehand.
So, I didn't go get his car tonight. It will be a little while
before he can get the insurance. I know it must be frustrating
for him. It is for me.
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I've created a good group of Harry Potter fans and
think it is really, truly cool to sit around discussing the books
the plot, the characters, etc.
The problem is, we only have one of the fourth book to read,
so we have to take turns. That means that we have to be
careful what we say so we don't give any spoilers.
What is making me crazy now is that my buddy at work (Jeannette) is
reading it now and I'm sooooooo anxious for her to get to a
certain surprise part in the book so we can talk about it.
Last night, she got to the PAGE BEFORE and then put it down.
Oh, it is so hard for me to not say anything.
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I just had to go defend the honor of Nutella.
Teresa and
Rodney were eating some vanilla ice cream and Rodney wanted
to know if I had any chocolate syrup. I told them to use
Nutella, to which Teresa replied, "yech". Not nice!!! I had
to go in there and shove a spoonful in Rodney's mouth so he wouldn't
be put off by Teresa's attitude. Some people just have no taste.
Rodney liked it . .
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Tentative plans for the upcoming weekend:
- Get my brake lights working and get the van inspected.
- Go see the new Pokemon movie will all of my offspring.
- Do the walkthough on Teresa's new apartment
- Take advantage of an employee's shopping night where I work
- Go to mass.
- Get Jason to work and back.
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