The Blog With No Name

July 2001 to June 2008

Originally uploaded by hoyameb.

Here she is, starting kindergarten a few weeks before her fifth birthday, and now off to junior high school (complete with attitude, can’t you tell)!

If you have car trouble, and have to call your insurance company’s roadside assistance, take a picture of the truck when it gets there. That way, if the complete f***ing asshole who patches your flat tire also happens to take off one standard lugnut from each tire and replace it with one for which your dealer doesn’t have a socket, so that when you have driven all the way across town for a tire rotation that can’t be performed, you can call the jerk and have HIM come rotate the tires, instead of paying another $40 (and driving across town again) to have the dealer do who-knows-what to finally get the things off.

Bastards.

• My in-laws live in Cedar Falls. Great portions of Cedar Falls are now under water. My in-laws’ house may be in that category. Oy.
• My daughter’s new principal phoned us just now to let us know that she will be in all possible advanced classes. YAY!!!!!!!! Cannot EXPRESS how much this has been worrying me.
• Went to a baseball game last night. Kids are now old enough (!) that they can walk around the stadium (in the case of the daughter, with her posse) by themselves. Wow, we actually got to watch the game!
• Fireworks following the game (the home team won, but the enemy team was a Cubs farm team – oh the tangled loyalties…) – why is it that “Sweet Home Alabama” goes so perfectly with fireworks?

The Boy is out of school, The Daughter still has a week, and all of a sudden I am consumed with worry about getting her into the proper classes in junior high school. The left hand of the school district knoweth not what the right hand is up to. The house is a wreck, the bills aren’t paid, checkbook isn’t balanced.

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TIME TO FOCUS!