On Sunday my mom called me and told me about her going on a cruise with a close girlfriend of hers. She also asked me to NOT mention this fact to other people (namely my dad). Well, today I get two voicemails from my dad, and a phone call right at the beginning of Lost. He's wanting to know where she is - needs to know for something to do with his legal case (LONG story). I told him that I'd talked to her on Sunday and that she sounded like she'd be unavailable/out of town till at least Friday or Saturday. He kept on pushing for more information. I finally told him that if I knew how to get a hold of her that I would tell him!

Some days I wish I could just cut off contact with both of them. Don't get me wrong - I love both of them very much - but I am SO very tired of being in the middle during their divorce (which took 8 LONG months to be finalized the Monday after New Years) as well as now in my dad moving out to CA and his legal stuff. You know how little kids sometimes stick their fingers in their ears and say "la, la, la" so they can't hear anything? That's what I feel like doing sometimes when listening to either of them.

So, anyway. 62 days to go. School was okay again. The Field Trip was . . . well, different. We had a lady taking our group through the halls who'd never done it before -- so it ended up our group taking a LOT longer than the other group. When we got to the end of our section which led into the general purpose/rec room I found the entire other half of my group standing in the front of the room. There was an Elvis impersonator singing away -- and . . my two most energetic little boys dancing their hearts out.

I personally do NOT have anything against dancing (I enjoy it very much in the privacy of my own home). I do NOT have anything against secular music. BUT our church's standards strongly discourage dancing --- AND this was a church school sponsored field trip --- AND this was supposed to be a trip all about sharing God's love to the Nursing home residents - not entertaining them with the antics of two little 6 year olds. To top it off, both of our church's pastors were there with the first group - and it appeared as though they did nothing to change this. I'm not sure exactly why this bugged me so much - except that I feel like it totally upended the reason we went there in the first place. AND the kids go home tonight and tell their parents that when they were on the field trip it ended with our whole group standing in front of the rec room and dancing along with "And I'm a Believer" (not an Elvis song - I think its a Monkey's song). I told my principal what had happened and she didn't seem too worried about it. I sure hope she's right.

Again, anyway. After work I stopped by the Post Office and picked up my shipment from Amazon - my two books "Make a Mix" and "The Perfect Mix." Then I got home and was on the computer for a short while when I got an IM from a former bf whom I keep in touch with once in a while. He told me that he's going to be opening a property and causualty business in the same town that I'm moving to in June. That should prove to be interesting - not that I'd ever consider dating him again - even if he didn't have a serious gf right now.

I got my lab results back for my cat from the vet. -- A clean bill of health. Not that I expected any less of course.

Well today was a no spending day - makes 11 days I think (oops - just 10). One more till my goal.

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura