Legal Again!

Today was my driving test to get my license back. I passed and I am once again a licensed driver. I was beginning to wonder if this day would come, it took months to pay all the fines and surcharges!

Been a little down this week, but I’ve been trying to keep busy and it’s help lift my mood. Been cleaning up inside and out which has been needed badly. Still piles of stuff my in laws left when they were moved and I’ve been slowly hauling it all off or burning piles of trash. It’s been an unbelievable mess, and with my back out I was unable to do it. Still taking it slowly, don’t want a relapse, but it’s happening a bit at a time. I’ll get there with it.

Waiting for Brandon to send me a phone number so I can look into a part time job as a security guard. The extra money will go to the home renovations I need to do and to save for the trip to Italy in 2015. I’m going to make that happen somehow. I’ve talked about it for years and now it’s time to plan something for myself and follow through.

Brian has been helping me out around the house more, which I needed. As I type he is barbecuing while the weather is nice. And he is an EXCELLENT cook. Speaking of the weather, all this cold and rainy one day, warm and sunny the next is playing havoc with me. My sinuses can’t decide whether to run like a river or stop up completely. Starting to get chest congestion, so tonight is cold medicine before bed.

Still no word from Brad but I don’t expect that to last much longer. He’s gotten no hours at work in two weeks and his cell phone bill is due in two days, so I’ll be hearing from him then if only to ask for money. Right now it’s a waiting game, he will run out of options soon. Once he’s got nowhere else to turn, maybe I can get him to listen to me enough to consider some options to get his life on track. Who knows at this point? There is a program called JobCorp based in Dallas that will help him find work and get his general equivalency diploma. Not as good as the real thing, but he’s blown the option of a high school diploma so we work with what we have. It would help him get back on the right road and get him away from people places and things he needs to be away from if he is to have any chance of getting off drugs. He may not be ready yet, or for a long time to come, but at least I may be able to plant a seed.

Next week I am going to my sister’s for a couple of days. Brian will have to bachelor it alone for a couple of days since he’ll be in school, but I am going to paint a mural for her, and to see her for the first time since my wife died last March. Before that I hadn’t seen her in three years, so I’m kind of excited to go. I also accepted a contract to design characters for a role playing card game, which should be fun. My only concern is that I’m overloading my plate with things to accomplish. But idle hands are the devil’s workshop they say.

Tomorrow is more cleaning time while Brian is in school. Also waiting for another wayward foster child from years back to get into Texas. Levi lived with me about 22 years ago, and has been in and out of contact for years. Apparently he’s been in Massachusetts for the last few years, part of it in prison, and now he wants to come back to Texas and see me. Hotel Frazier is closed, he’s thirty now and I just don’t know him well enough anymore to let him stay here, but I would like to see him and see how he’s doing, so I’ll take him to lunch one day. Like a lot of foster kids, he spent his childhood in and out of the system. Not a great way to grow up and it has been reflected in his decisions as an adult

Well, not much else to talk about, just felt the need to check in. OD has become my addiction I think, lol. Hope you all have a good week, and I hope your weather is as nice as ours is at the moment, though I know it probably isn’t. There are advantages to living in a sub-tropical climate. Ciao for now.