4.4

So I was just sitting here chillin’. Catching up on my OD reading when the bed started shaking just a bit. The dog was in her kennel right next to the bed so I thought that maybe she had been scratching or something. But her kennel’s small enough that had she been scratching I would have heard her moving around to which I hadn’t. I googled earthquakes today and low and behold there was a little 4.4 that I felt. Fun stuff.

I don’t know what I would do if there was ever a big earthquake. Every time I’ve felt the shaking of the ground over the past 5 years since we’ve been here (which actually to be honest has really only been maybe 3 times now) I just sit wherever I am and freeze. Don’t move. Just sit there. I’m assuming I’ll be one of those people whose ceiling falls on their head and squashes them. LOL

This weekend is thankfully over. I am happy to be home. The drama did follow us for a bit though. I made the mistake of indicating that I wasn’t planning on coming back to visit the drama-in-laws again anytime soon while we were at Shawn and Seth’s. Yeah… supposedly the "kids" (aka. Shawn) went and told Mary that I said I was never coming back. To which we receive a call last night after we left Bible study of my mother-in-law basically crying wondering what she had done to make me upset and were we really not coming back and blah blah blah. OY!

So of course I had to do damage control. But I was 100% honest as well. I told Mary that I had a great time visiting with her (which I did). I enjoyed spending time with her and playing dominoes (which I actually did) and I don’t have any real issues with spending time with her, Hannah, Ray, Zane or Kady (which I don’t). What I do have a problem with and I also told her, is Shawn and Seth and their need to make everyone else’s lives hell as they insist on bringing the drama with them wherever they go. I mentioned that I don’t take kindly to listening to Seth yell and cuss at the drop of a dime and I sure the hell don’t appreciate the murderous looks that he gave Jacob after the mishap with Payton not catching the baseball and taking it to the eye instead (and just as a little side note: the kid barely has a black eye).

My family and Jacob’s family are polar opposites. My family does NOT have nearly ANY drama in their day to day lives the way that Jacob’s does. But when all is said and done, pretty much ALL of the drama in Jacob’s family stems from Shawn and Seth. And I told Mary last night that I don’t really want anything to do with it. I told her that I don’t have a problem with Jacob going up to visit whenever he wants, but I may or may not come up with him. I refuse to be a part of all of that, or at the very least I plan on limiting my contact with it. It’s too much for me, and to be honest it took a lot of energy for me to not just flip out on psycho Seth and give him a piece of my mind.

Jacob made the mistake of telling his mom that we would come up in May to celebrate birthdays. Hannah’s birthday is on the 26th and mine and Zane’s is on the 24th. I’m sorry, but I am not going to spend my birthday with his family. It’s simply not going to happen. I’ve been wanting to go to Disneyland for my birthday all year, and I still plan on going. Maybe we can plan on doing that as a big family event or something, but I don’t plan on changing my plans to suit them, and even if I don’t end up going to Disneyland, I’m not going to spend my birthday stressed out. If anything I’ll go over to Capitola and hang out with Nana who by the way is moving to a little bungalow for 6 months so that she can be by the ocean for awhile. I can’t wait! She’ll be much closer to us and hopefully we’ll get to visit her often. We didn’t even get to see her this weekend.

So that’s that. My nose is dripping like a faucet right now. BAH! I suppose I better go check out craigslist for some job postings. I’ve been a bit lackadaisical in that department over the past week.

Laters,
JamieLynn =)