Catch up (edit)

I was reading all my faves, but if I don’t get to writing, I’m not going to get an entry in tonight, yet again. I’m in the middle of making brownies, adn Jerry’s going to set up his computer so we can watch a movie tonight, so I have maybe 20 more minutes to write? I can probably stretch it out a BIT though.  I’ve been staying off the computer lately, I haven’t even hardly been checking emails, and it’s really piling up, because I’m in so many Yahoo groups for various things.  I’ve been reading a lot lately, Stephen Frey mostly.  I like his style, but I find his books all over the place insofar as characters, and plots.  His books all seem different, because they all are about different types of finance, but he usually puts some sort of intrigue/mystery in there.  Since we talk a LOT about finance in this house, I’ve become pretty familiar with many of his themes, and the books themselves are not as dark as Michael Connely, whom I also really enjoy.  However, after reading him for awhile, I start to feel like the world is out to get me.  Not so with Stephen Frey.  I also read a John Grisham book in the last week or two, an "older" one at this point, and I swear, I think it was his best book ever, but the name is escaping me right now.  It was about an old guy dying and leaving 11 billion dollars to his illegimate daughter who’s a missionary in Brazil, and about the lawyer who is a recovering alcoholic who has to go find her.  I like how he handled the religious aspect of it, because it’s not downplayed, but neither is it ever sort of shoved in your face.  Not something you’d expect from a secular writer, you know?  It really becomes a necessary part of the lawyer’s life, what saves him from himself and his alcoholism.   I think some people NEED religion, though he doesn’t embrace religion per se… he embraces God for the first time in his life, which is different.  Anyway, it’s very well handled, a great book.  I won’t tell you much beyond that. 
LOL, that was a long way from what I intended with this post, which was to catch up on the happenings in this house.  But I don’t usually read so much, because I can’t put a book down typically once I’ve picked it up.  I also like Patricia Cornwell, and recently finished reading Blow Fly, which was…. not as good as many of her other books, but still readable.   I enjoyed it, but some of the characters are getting darker.  I like the fact that the love of her life was brought back from the "dead" and she wasn’t mad at him.
I painted my toe-nails, BRIGHT red, and of course, when Shabree saw me painting mine, she had to have hers painted as well, so we both have bright red toenails now.  What I like about toenails is that you can really screw up the polish, and you can’t really tell.  I’ve been growing out my toenails, which is SUPER hard for me to do, because I don’t like it when they snag on my socks, and I don’t like how they grow out, and I find them hard to clip or shape without ruining them altogether, and sometimes I just hurt myself with them, lol.  It’s true!  But I love having polish on them in the summer, and for that, I have to let them grow out.

Okay, gotta go, movie’s ready (that was fast… KNEW I was talking too much about the books.)

Quick PG update:  No progress on the MediCAL, baby’s fine though, s/he is a squirmy worm… I’m not sure but I think Shabree was probably about this active too, so hopefully that’s a good sign for me, because she was SUCH a good baby.
I sent in my resume to Apple, they’re hiring frontline techs.  I did this night before last, so would expect to hear from them, maybe tomorrow?  I just hope I’ve got at least one good phone number on there… I keep the resume on their web site, and forgot to proof it before I sent it in, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got the first line on there, so they should be able to get a hold of me.  We’ll see how THAT goes.  Right now, I’m just feeling like, fine if I get a job, just as fine if I don’t.
We are reinstating the house, we have to Western Union the money in… this of course complicates the MediCAL thing all to hell… but I guess more on that later.

He’s having to reload the movie.  THIS is the problem with trying to get something for nothing.  Some times, it just sucks.  It simply won’t play on the super size screen.  Our tv is about 6 or 7 years old now…still holding up.  We bought it from Best Buy when we still lived in the first house in Galt.  It’s I think 56 inches… nice and large.  I was AMAZED at what a difference it made for me in my tv viewing, like all of a sudden, I could actually SEE AND HEAR what was on the tv.

Okay, reinstating the house, and the Medi-CAL thing.  Jerry got a check, fairly large amount, so we’re using it to reinstate the house, and the rest to live off of, but no idea how long, because STILL nothing has closed, even the promising looking deal from two weeks ago (the money has literally gone missing, and if it doesn’t get swept under the rug by some government, someone should go to jail or lose a job, or be blacklisted in the financial community for this fiasco… not that it helps Jerry any, dammit.)  Anyway, we’re also supposed to be receiving some more money, also a fairly substantial amount in the next week?  Or so… that one is pay back on money put down on a villa in Mexico.  Unfortunately, it’s only about 20 percent of what we put down, the rest to come later… so we hope.  So we’ve now got enough to live on for what, the next 4 months?  Again, if we’re careful.  I thought the last infusion would last longer…but we’re only going to pay the mortgage, utilities with this money… no large credit card payments to try and bring them current, which I am not even sure is do-able at this point.  But I’m just still not sure how to explain this all to the MediCAL people, so that they understand that while the money might be substantial NOW, it has to last us til who knows when?  I think, or I suspect, that I’m just not going to get to see a doctor at all during this pregnancy…. I don’t know if they have a co-pay or what, and if so, how much it is… and I am AWARE this needs to be handled, though truthfully, I can’t FORCE Jerry to do this for me.  I don’t know, it’s possible he actually forgot all about it, since he’s typically so busy with other things.  I do know he started in on some of it, but it was on the computer, and he accidentally closed the window, so has to start over.  Sigh.  I swear, things are just working against me as far as this thing goes.  I know in my heart, this isn’t what I wanted, but it looks like what I am highly likely going to end up with is a home birth.  The thought frightens me, thrills me, saddens me, excites me, and worries me.  All at the same time.
So now what?  Well, I have no idea, actually.   I don’t know what I ought to do.  Then if I were to get on at Apple, it complicates things even more.  Well, not that they’ll hire me pregnant.  No business in their right mind hires someone who’s pregnant, even if it isn’t legal.   It’s just not good business.  They don’t have to tell you why they didn’t hire you…. though I’d be a great fit for them.  Oh well.  I just doubt the insurance would kick in until 3 months or so after I got hired, which at this point, I think is about 2 weeks too late.  Well, depending on when I actually got hired.

I mowed the lawn yesterday.  Oh yes I did :).  It wasn’t hard work, it’s not really hot enough yet for it to be hard work.  I didn’t get much done… the grass and weeds are so high that the lawn mower kept choking on them and dying, and we’ve got a LOT of space back there.  I would estimate I got fourth to a third done?  The kids took the weed whacker to it as well.  I also went to a composting workshop, that was interesting.  I got a free compost bin, and then I went ahead and paid 30 dollars for a nicer one.  The free one was for Sydni, because she’s been so doggoned excited about the composting.  So part of the lawn mowing was to get material for the compost bins.  I am hoping to be able to work on that this week.  Trust me, the only thing that hurt yesterday from mowing, was my wrists.  I still don’t know how I’m going to be able to pull this whole gardening thing off… turns out our soil is clay… and of course, our backyard is FULL of weeds, mostly grass weeds, but I can tell you that some of the weeds are so tough, that all the lawnmower did was push them down.  But there’s a swath through the jungle out there, lol.  Our seedlings aren’t doing too hot either.  Well, we have time to start over, and it’ll be fine.  I just keep having to wonder if I’m REALLY up for this whole "adventure" though I sure have learned a LOT about gardening from all the reading I’ve done.  Now I’ve just got to put it into practice…. without it costing me an arm and a leg to do so.

Well, I guess I’ll wrap up for good now.  I think I wrote everything down.  The girls got their grades… Becca is doing HORRIBLE, and probably won’t pass, Sydni is doing so-so, and Shabree needs a LOT of practice.

Gotta go.