I was somehow sitting here thinking it is Friday. The heat must be really getting to me. It is REALLY hot outside. I'm gonna let the kids get in the little pool. Actually it's not too little......I usually buy the $10 pools from K-Mart and this time I got the $20 one. It's about 10 feet across, and two feet deep.

The class will be over tomorrow and I will be glad. This has been kind of a rough bunch. Mainly one or two young men, but that's all you need in a class like that to really keep stuff going crazy.

I might get in the pool myself ;-)

My husband get Claritin D from his Dr. for his allergies. If I take one at night I wake up feeling GREAT! Weird huh? I get really congested at night though and when I wake up my sinuses start draining which makes me sick. With the Claritin, that doesn't happen. So today may be a brighter day! It's starting off pretty good ;-)!

I think we have to get back in church........It's almost like our family is under attack. Leroy called last night and had two flat tires at work, so we went ahead and bought four of course. We needed them anyway. I'm tired y'all......

I am teaching my class for noncustodial parents this week, so I won't be able to be online a lot. Yesterday was great. We went, again, to Ft. Desoto beach in St. Pete. I am burned and was blitz all day. I am still depressed about what happened. I don't know if I can ever get over it. And this to will pass............

I am going through my valley right now, it has been a terrible month. But, you know what, this WILL pass. I just wish it would hurry the heck up!!!

I got my hair cut in a short bob. It look kind of funny right now, but I donated 12 inches of hair to the kids who have chemotherapy who need wigs. I just got back from Kash N Karry gettin groceries. We are have spaghetti for dinner tonight. That's easy to cook. I can have the kids cut up the onions and I have a garlic press.

For folks who may wonder how I am holding up after my ordeal.....not the best, to tell you the truth. I felt really dirty, i.e., the hair cut. I am a bit disillusioned with mankind. You know what I do is help people getting out of jail, welfare, prison, whatever to find jobs and get employability skills. I don't know if I will ever feel the same about folks.

Those who know me well, know that I have been in lots of trouble in my life. Been addicted to drugs, been to prison in my younger days. I think now how I must have looked to so called "normal" people....I know how I must have looked.......disgusting! Because that was how those person looked to me. I don't think I have enough Jesus in me anymore. I can't love folks with that unconditional love anymore. I'll get over it, I guess.

Well after the last problem with Joy, she called the police. As much as I hate to admit it because of the humiliation, the police came to my job and arrested me. The police lady tried her best not to do it, but Florida law dictates that if someone accuss you of domestic violence you go to jail and the court has to figure it out. I will say this. Joy is no longer my daughter. Hopefully this blog will now cover things in my life that are lighter and happier, but it just doesn't always happen like that. Does it.....

Okay, the latest Joy drama. Her landlord called me last night and said there was a big fight over there and one of his other tenants had called him and was afraid to go to work because he had kind of gotten in the middle of it. So we agreed to meet him over there. She let us in and the boy was on the bed with the other girl and she didn't have her shirt on. The house was undiscribably filthy. Joy was raising hell. I said something about Leroy referring to him as "your daddy", and she went into the routine, "he is not my daddy" etc. And I don't mind telling you, her biological daddy has never done anything AT ALL for her. Leroy has taken his day's off and fixed her car, given her money even when I told him not too.....well I could go on and on about that.

So when I started getting mad they (Joy, the asshole boy *Randy*, and the other girl) left. We had heard they had been fighting with the people across the street, so when I saw the man come out of the house, I went over and introduced myself. He was a white man, but he said his girlfriend had a biracial son and the boy had went over to Joy's house earlier because they owed him money. The boy is 15. He had been selling papers for them apparently. They owed him $13. Well, Randy had spit on him and they all had called the boy a Nig**r, and pulled a knife on him. I was so upset. Now my granddaughter (Joy's baby) Destiny is biracial. Three of my children are biracial. I would HURT anyone who ever disrespected my children like that. Anyway, I went inside their house and hugged the boy and apoligized.

So, the landlord and us agreed to meet at Joy's house Saturday so we can move my furniture I let her use out of the house. The already don't have any gas for the gas stove and I called Verizon yesterday and her phone bill is $1,540. Pray for my poor misguided daughter, okay. And for me not to kill the asshole she is with.

Don't know if Blogger is working yet. Let's see, okay.

AOL sucks, AOL sucks, AOL sucks, AOL sucks. Well I will be on my way home soon to meet the guy who is running the line for my Road Runner. I got NetZero's $9.95 for here at work, because they use AOL here and you can't get one when someone else is on. So I call to cancel my AOL and AOL DSL (which has never worked) and the guy got really pissed, said he couldn't do it, and would not let me speak to his supervisor. SOOOOOOOOO........I cancelled the check card that I use to pay the AOL account, ordered another one with a different number. Emailed them to that effect.

I am now using Hotmail for email ;-).

Okay I am finally adding new pictures to the VIEW PICTURES HERE area over there on the left. So you can see why I am crazy ;-).

Leroy is unhappy with his job. They hired a new guy with very little experience, so they had Leroy training him. Come to find out the guy is making just 25 cents less that Leroy. This is not the first time that type of thing has happened. Leroy has told me before that he felt like he was being discriminated against, but I don't always believe that when I hear it. I guess it is used as an excuse so many times with the clients I work with that I just don't always like to believe that happens in this day and age. It is obvious to me now that that is just what is happening.

We have a vacation coming up though in August and if he changes jobs now, that could effect that. I think I may call the county office for discrimination and see what the options are there.

Okay, I am so good at telling everyone else how to run their life. Why can't I practice what I preach. Suuuuuuuure I ate at Subway, and then went right over to McDonald's and got a McFlurry. What a hypocrite I am.

Found a pretty different weblog today. Has a picture of the guy right on it. Butt naked. Turned out he was gay, but it took me a while to figure it out. Finally when he was discussing how they had sex, I got it. I can be so "green" sometimes, you would never believe I had a quite sorted past.

I am going to SUBWAY for lunch. It's the healthier fast food ;-)!

What a wonderful day we had yesterday. The beach was lovely. My friend Lillie, her husband Paul, me and Leroy and the combined kids (11 of them) all went and had a great day! I will say this though.....no one should ever party of Sunday knowing they have to get up and go to work in the morning.

We are supposed to go back over to Ft. DeSoto Memorial Day, but I think I am going to suggest that we go that Sunday and then we will have all day Monday to recover ;-).

I didn't get too much sun though, thank God. There were trees and picnic tables right by the beach. The fella's cooked hot dogs. I was really nice! Now.........back to work ;-)!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. IT'S YA BIRTHDAY, GO JAMIE, IT'S YA BIRTHDAY, GO JAMIE. Ah well. I'm 41. Good excuse to get Leroy to go the beach. He never does anything but work. Of course he's not much for the sun ;-). We are going to Picnic Island. Not my favorite spot, but it has tables and canopys..

I changed my mind, I think we will go to Ft. DeSoto. Better beach, no rocks. A little bit farther, but what the heck.

Leroy has gone to the store. He always waits to the last minute to get me my little gift. I'm just glad to have such a wonderful husband, even though he did take advantage of me last night ;-)! Yep, I still got it going on like that ;-)..........

Well, I am right in the middle of cooking. We are going to the beach (even with my fat self) tomorrow for my Birthday. Yes, I should be going to church. Wait..............my rice needs to be added.


Ah well, that's done............I am uploading pictures to Homestead as we speak (or I type) and soon the area where it says "VIEW PICTURES HERE" Will be updated.

The kids are filthy. Lucky for soap and water ;-)!