If you don't know - don't ask if you not sure you want the answer!~Smiles!

I did not realize until I logged in that it had been 12 weeks since last posting. I have been using other sites Ie Facebook and Fetlife for online socializing as many of my friends are both here and there. I realized though, that includes my boss, her daughter, and several family members. In short, no freedom to really express myself with out fear of any of them reading. You know sometimes, I need a good rant about work or to say how I am feeling now and then and don't want to share all the tidbits of my life with work.

Tonight I logged on because I am feeling kind of melancholy. I was going to let it out on my page here, vent and boo hoo. . . .

Instead I decided to take my own advise and be Thankful for the things I DO have. I have awesome friends, a job that takes good care of me and that I actually like, I have the best kid on the planet and family that loves me. Even a new guy that I have been seeing for several months,still new and not sure where its going, but he makes me laugh and we have a lot of fun.

A brief update: Ted moved out in October and we never talk, just one of those things. I am still at my job, My daughter Loves going to NSA. My friend came up from Florida and we had a great time on Thursday and Friday. I may be going to Florida again for Christmas this year, but at this point I may just stay home and save money to help me get my finances in order so I can purchase the house I rent. Not much else to report, other than meeting some new friends. Well truth is there is more, but its all the negative stuff that's going on that I don't care to bitch about right at the moment. Just have to shake off the Holiday blues and all will be good!

I hope if any one is still reading me - that your Turkey Day was good (for those who celebrate it)and I hope no matter where you are, you remember what you have to be thankful for.
More soon!

The job is going well still and I have been here for over a year now. I have been told that I "am a Rock Star" by Tony the deputy executive director here, even though he and I have out tense moments. Over all it is by far my most favorite job.

Jade has had a good summer but decided not to go visit her dad in Virginia. She spent some morning time volunteering at a summer camp that my job was doing for ESL (English as a second language) For international kids in the area. She had fun , but is getting excited about school and is glad this is the last week of camp. 6 weeks total. She also got to go to 6 Flags in KY for her friend's Birthday, his mom paid for 7 (2 are hers)kids, their lunch and dinner at Ryan's on the way home. Jade had a blast. She had been to a few other sleepovers this summer too, so she was not as bored this year as she was last year. She is gathering school supplies now and she starts high school at NSA on Aug. 14th - her orientation is on the 7th. Good Lord am I really old enough to have a daughter in high school?

On the Ted front, well I am afraid that it quickly fizzled down to just friends for both of us, but Jade and I agreed it's kinda nice having him around. So he has moved into the Attic. His daughter had a swim meet this weekend in Brentwood, his ex a brought the two kids up from Alabama. His son D. came to stay Thursday night while R. and her mom stayed in a hotel near where the meet was. His ex also gave him loan of a window a/c unit until he can afford one. There are no power out lets up there aside from the light in the ceiling but through the magic of extension cords to the plug outside, Ted was able to move his computer upstairs and get the a/c unit running until we get an electrician to install some outlets. We found one for about $48. An hour. Oh and got the job with the property management/maintenance company that manages several of the properties owned by WCO a few weeks back. Things are slowly getting better financially for both of us.

His Daughter and Ex came to stay Saturday night. I know it seems a bit odd, but she's okay and since he and I are not dating there is no reason I can see to have an issue with it. They went out to dinner, Jade went to her BF Lennon's and I had some quiet time. Sunday we were surprised by two more of Ted's and now my friends from Alabama Julia and Jen. So we had a literal house full. It was fun, chaotic but fun. We picked up some huge screens that were used for silk screen sign printing from a woman off a freebie site. We figure Jade can paint on them, and she is very excited about this. The screens went out into the "studio" aka the mother in law apartment we have out back. Then the group wanted to go to the zoo, but Jade and I decided to stay home. and have some quiet time. Every one went home shortly after. I loved seeing them all and wished I had not been running around so I could have spent more time with Julia. There is always next time.

A few other tid-bits, I have some quilt projects planned out to make some new blankets for Jade and I using up some of the fabric I have stowed, and I look forward to actually finishing setting up the studio, and getting the basement organized. I will take photos of these projects as I go.

All in all it has been a good summer , in spite of some stressful moments. I hope it will be a good fall as well.

Sorry to those of you out there in LJ land, I have not had the urge to write lately. Things are well, Ted has found work, but he is not happy with the temp service sending him to a different location daily. He has an interview with Woodbine's property management partner on Monday as a full time maintenance position. I really hope he gets it.

Jade is hanging in there over the summer, bored missing her friends but dealing. She has decided to volunteer at the free summer ESL camp Woodbine is putting on starting Monday. Its a great program to help kids age 6-18 improve and retain their english skills over the summer months. Sad thing is we only have 11 kids, not the 40 we have a budget for, ah well maybe we will figure out what we did wrong and do better next year.

I am ready for a serious Vacation. Been doing well though, have only called out one time in the year that I have been here so far, and that was back in November with a killer migraine. Truth is, I love my job, have no complaints, but so much of my life lately is Woodbine Community Organization that I could scream! I work here, rent a house from here, daughter is volunteering at one of our programs and Ted may work for a partner company, and got the interview because of my executive boss Cathie. Like I said I am extremely grateful - just experiencing WCO overload.

So to that end I am taking a week off of work starting the 29th. I am not going any where as my vacation travel plans have fallen through, and well I am just broke! but it will be good to sleep in and recharge, maybe do some things around the house, projects that have been put off.

I wonder what to have for dinner tonight. . . Smiles!

We had another great weekend in Alabama. This past Saturday we drove down and spent time with his kids at a state park. Jade went with us this time, and got along very well with the two of them. There was much giggling between Jade and his daughter and enough in common with his son  who is just a few months younger than Jade to make the morning and afternoon full of good natured teasing. I will need to get Teds permission to post pics with his two in them before posting. That they all get along so well is a good thing, one less thing to worry about as far as our relationship goes.

We spent the rest of the day at Sean and Carinn's gaming. The Shaintar  (pronounced Shine-tar) game system is a lot of fun. This is Sean's creation and you can read about it here: www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13763.phtml Teds big epic character bit the dust in an epic way, as his characters are apt to do, but by doing so he saved the rest of us. This gaming group has gotten rather large, and mixed with older and more powerful characters as well as some very new ones like mine. My warrior priestess has much potential though. There is talk of splitting into two groups. it will be interesting to see what happens with that. I personally am going to purchase the system books and/ or down load the PDF files and introduce it to Nashville.  That is my goal any way.

In the mean time, I am deciding to continue with the Friday Mage group or not. They have become very good friends, but it has become difficult for me to want to game with them. I will figure it out soon. Ted is putting a Scion game together for Nancee, Houston, jade if she is interested and myself at the house. I am looking forward to this. www.white-wolf.com/Scion/index.php

Sunday was Bloat at Julia's. Good turn out and discussion. I always feel very relaxed and inspired to do good and try harder to be a good person after these meetings. Jade was a little bored through the meeting and the game, so I am not sure if she will be joining us next time or not. For that matter, I am not sure when the next trip will be as gas money is sparse.

Not much else going on otherwise. Jade is enjoying her summer , but trying not to be too bored. Ted is still busting butt looking for work, but is very close. A company is running his back ground check right now and should get back to him tomorrow, Monday at the latest. We are getting along well, finding our groove as it were.

He brought more of his things back with us this weekend too. So we are shuffling things to make room and to help make it feel like his home as well, not just him living in my house.  I am still very happy, and have to confess that sometimes, I just look at him and grin in delight. Not sure if he notices, don't really care!

Smiles!!

This morning I was able to take off work and go watch Jade at her middle school talent show. I was and am A proud Mama! She did great! You can see she was very nervous, but she got through her first solo stage performance, just fine.It was not a competition, simply a showcase of 19 very talented kids. 

Here is the video I took with my digital camera, while wishing I still had my video cam.

Enjoy!!

LJ status shows it has been two weeks since my last entry, it feels far longer. So much had gone on, time to get up to speed. I will attempt to keep it brief. . . Ha ha ha ha

First off,  I mentioned that I had met Ted in my last post. Well after talking nearly every day for a week on the phone for hours at a time,(discovering this is amazing in itself as he hates talking by phone!) he decided it was his turn to come see me. So, on Tuesday May 5 he rode up to visit me on his motorcycle. Things went very well.  Thursday, he volunteered to help move a bunch of donated office furniture from it's location to my work, and came back the next day to help put it all together. Three trips in total. I got a new desk out of the deal!

We had planned for him to stay through Saturday and then caravan back down to Eva for the gaming session and things there, and that he would stay there. The universe had other plans. He went to take Jade for a spin around the block Thursday of that week and the bike would not start. So after some discussion, we decided,  well, that he should move in. So he did.

( Now that I have your attention. . .  )

Well so much for brevity, but that is everything so far. I am happy, I feel content, which is something I have not felt in forever.

Smiles!

It has been a good couple of weeks, and busy ones as well.  I am  completely distracted here at the office because the Seniors are watching Marley and Me on the screen and have the sound blasting through an amp. Excellent  time to catch up on the journal.

I have become involved in the planning committee for the Hands Together in  Flatrock  - Arts & Music Festival. WCO will have a table there, I have been putting together a new brochure on the services WCO provides. For the fun of it,  Jade and I are considering having an artists table there showing off her paintings and some of my graphic illustrations. We need to make up our minds this week. Jade is also going to be doing some face painting. What this means at the moment is that I am committed to meetings every other week, then every week as it gets closer. Any one in the area is welcome ot com out and see us.  Link to the Festival info


This past weekend I finally made the two hour trip trek to Eva, AL to visit seanpatfannon and miari. It turned out to be what I am calling an Epic Weekend. I arrived just after midnight on Friday and stayed until 3pm Sunday. I was introduced to their roommate Ted and spent much time getting to know him  while he was cooking a small ton of lefsa - a Norwegian potato flat bread not a potato tortilla! Evil Grin. I was also introduced to several other friends of theirs and to Sean's world in the form of Saintar - the RPG he created. It is a Savage Worlds word and much fun to play. There were about 11 of us players, who performed many an Epic feat.  My visiting there and gaming will be come a regular.

Sunday I enjoyed watching a class/ceremony held in their living room on teachings of Odin. Carinn, Ted, their friend Julia and several others participated.  I follow no specific religion, I consider my self to be spiritual and open to the ideas/ideals of others. The point of the ceremony was to give thanks,  for various things. it is something I believe strongly in, no matter what you believe in or do we should be thankful for the gifts we are given in life. So often we ask for thing after thing in our lives that we take for granted what we already have. Was a pleasure to observe. I find my self extremely comfortable there.

The Friday gaming group is going well, we are coming to a break in the Mage game, and I am thinking of doing the same. I have become really good friends with Richard and Lori and will be spending time outside of gaming with them. Also I may be hosting an after hours game at my house as well, maybe trade one for the other.

Jade is going to be entering her middle school talent show to prove that she is more than just "painter girl". She is going to sing and perform Matchbox 20's Back 2 Good on giutar, while a friend accompanies her on drums. Iam proud of her for wanting to do this. I know she wont really admit it but I know she is a little bummed about only making the waiting list for the guitar program at NSA  and this is her way of saying hey, I CAN do this!

This has become a  novel. . . better get back to work...

We are getting settled well in to our new house, not much else happening at the moment, aside form a good night of Gaming and some heavy storms passing through the area. I am really enjoying getting to know my friends Lori, Richard, Ray and Rich in the gaming group, great folks. Three other members did not show up , but in my opinion that helped things to move along smothly and at a faster pace. All funthough no atter how many are there.

I was reminded by </b></a>louc1 that I had not posted any of the photos that my daughter Jade took when we visited the Opryland hotel here in Nashville last month. (Thanks Girl!) Mind you this place is ENORMOUS! We were there for about  30 minutes and just went to the area in the center of the hotel and convention area called Riverwalk. This is all in doors under a domed glass/greenhouse roof. The area is full of foliage, flowers and surprises. The guest room terraces overlook it all. There are shops and restaurants in the center. It is, even with the photos, very hard to describe this place, so I will include a link to the hotel site. We left and felt like we had been on a mini holiday, and plan on going back any more times. I hope you enjoy her photos. Oh, Happy Easter everyone!



As always click the image to go to the gallery and see more pics.

Part of Riverwalk

Mine was pretty tame. Came across only a few pranks, and none directed at me. YAY!

I am moved into the house across the street from work on Saturday, and cleaned out the apartment on Sunday. So far we have all of the big furniture in place, beds, cable and computers set up. Now its just unpacking, which we are doing some every day. Last night we dug out much of the kitchen so we can finally cook. I can't tell you hoe much money we wasted on not being able to cook at home for 5 days. Jade calls it the twilight zone house because the main bedrooms and living room are smaller, the kitchen is huge, then you add the storage of the attic the basement and the apartment in the back and suddenly everything fits somewhere.

For the moment we are renting it at an extremely good price, on the condition that I take the Financial Fitness as well as maybe the Homebuyers Club classes here at work to help repair my credit and become mortgage ready. Heck they are free and I was planning on taking them anyway. Down the line, when I am ready and able, I do have the option of purchasing the house, or another if I want. I like this one and REALLY would hate to move again. Its time to be settled!

Not much else going on in my world. I am taking a break from unpacking and going gaming this weekend.

I am linking the gallery of  pics of the house for my friends far away who are interested. Enjoy!

Click to view more

Getting ready for bed here ,but I realized I have not posted in about 2 weeks. and if I don't post now it may be another 2 weeks before I can.

What have I been doing you ask? Oh the usual,  changing plans over and over. The good news is I will be moved this weekend! I am moving into the house my org owns that is directly across the street from the office, and less than a mile from the School of the arts Jade will be going to. yep she got in for visual art and is on the waiting list for the guitar program. So proud of her.

YAY ! In 2days I will be out of apartment hell! It as a mad dash to finish packing, we had stopped because we thought we were not moving out until April 30th. Surprise! But My boss offered me a deal I could not pass up so I took it. Renting it with an eye toward later purchasing when I improve my credit situation. Its has s much potential. I am sad over missing Imagicon, but happy that my  new gaming friends are able to come and help if I need. Thanks Rich, Richard, Lori, & Tony!! More details and pics soon. Shoot I just realized I never posted the Opryland pics either. Oy! Bad journal keeper, no biscuit.

Yesterday I took off work a little early to take Jade to the dermatologist, and to have another blood draw while I am there. She has some moderate acne issues that my doc thinks we can take care of with in the next 10  weeks or so. All Good. We just got tired of the over the counter products that work for a while then stop. Now keeping her on the routine everyday is going to be the tricky part, but she wants to be clear so I think she will stick to it pretty well.

We stopped on the way home to the Opryland hotel. If you have never been or seen pictures of this hotel, you are missing out. The guest rooms and conference areas all feed into a central area called the Cascades. There is an indoor river and bridges that surround little shops and restaurants, complete with thousands of live plants and fish. Jade had a blast taking pictures, which I will post later tonight. We plan ong going back often. After that we indulged and went to dinner at Macaroni Grill. We were happily stuffed on seafood linguine and lobster ravioli. Okay, yea so it really was not in my budget, at all, but it was one of the best Mondays we had in a long time! Totally worth it.  Felt like we had been on a mini vacation all right here at home.


I have decided to stay in my apartment and pay the extra $130.00 on my rent for the month of April. I received more information on the duplex and it seems that the tenant will not be able to stay with out signing another lease for longer than a month, and she really cannot afford it any linger. So Crossing my fingers and dealing with boxes and a disorganized apartment for a little longer, Again this is something completely worth it in the long run, so I will deal.

This weekend I am going to Eva, Alabama to see my friends Sean and Carinn for some gaming and other fun. Jade will be staying at her friends house that she rarely sees. It will be a good way for her to kick off her spring break.

That is about all for now. Another update soon. .
K

So if that phrase were true, you would think I would lead the most worth while life ever. I know things could get worse and I should not complain. There are many good things just on that horizon for me, places to travel, people to meet and to love. Today however I am just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I found out yesterday that the second duplex I was slated to move into is also not going to be available for a month or possibly two after my lease is up. This would have been great to know several weeks ago. It is march 3, I have 29 days until my lease is up and I either have to be out and scramble to find another place to live or stay month to month and pay an outrageous amount of money. I don't have to have the wonderful duplex (although I REALLY want it) Just a straight answer instead of stringing me along would have been very helpful.

I am also stressing about my meds, which is of course not good for my skin. I have been going into the dermatologist office every two weeks for the past 5 weeks to test my blood. First my H&H (red blood cell) count was low, so I took my iron pills , increased my intake of the green leafies and red meat and went back for a second draw. Now my H&H are fine but my platelets have dropped drastically. I have to go for a third draw next week on the 10th and see if the platelets are still dropping. For those keeping score, the platelet count was the reason I had to give up the first inject-able called Enbrel. then there was Raptiva that did nothing but helped me into a hospital room. Now I have been on Humira for 6 or 7 months and until recently it has been great. My fear is the doc will take me off the med. Understandable, I want my blood to clot and create white blood cells to fight off infection as much as I want clear skin.I simply do not want to EVER be as bad as I was last year. EVER! There are only 5 biologic inject-ables for Psoriasis, and they are considered to be the last thing you should try. I have been through 3. I am going to ask my doctor 2 questions 1- can I lower my dosage and 2-is there anything I can do or take to raise my platelets.

In other, more happy news, the gaming group is going well. We are having much fun on Friday nights at the Game Keep. I like my character, she is a strong no nonsense "Urban Shaman" I fell she is really my inner self, the person I try to be when life gets tough. I have missed this kind of odd geeky group of friends that is all accepting and just a laugh riot.

I am trying to arrange a trip amidst all the madness of half packed apartments and doctors visits to Eva Alabama. It is about a 2 hour drive from here, and will be going to see my friends seanpatfannon and miari for more gaming fun!

At work today I spent most of my time trying to get figure out how I can send a fax with out a fax machine. There are ways, it is possible, but must get the XP 07 Pro install disc, that the Tony-boss has misplaced. Sigh, so it looks like tomorrow I get to sit with the actual fax machine and remember how to set up a group for broadcasting mass faxes at one time. Yes welcome to the world of marketing with no budget. I am having uin though  learning how to create an e-newsletter using interactive PDF format.  Yes, I am a female! I was just noticing that I type a lot of things that many women would not.  I am still damn sexy though lol random thought.

Oh and one last tid-bit, I narked out my daughters principal to the school board for taking kids on a field trip to a t.v. and radio station while knowing several students specifically did not have permission to go. She said it was mandatory that all 8th graders go regardless if their parent/guardian gave permission, so they ALL went. There was also another school on the same field trip that day and one of the kids (no one knows who or from which school) wrote on something belonging to one of the radio station employees. So after the field trip, my daughters ENTIRE 8th grade class was pulled out of classes and into the gym to be lectured and dressed down for their horrible and ill mannered behavior (oh,yea after 2+ hours of standing my daughter sat on the floor, bad bad manners). She decided she would take responsibility for the vandalism and punish her students. I lodged a formal complaint and the woman at the school board I spoke to was very surprised at what I had to say. She asked if I wanted to look ant open enrollment to move Jade out to a different school next year, My answer was I would,  but lucky for us she is moving to high school any way. But don't you think that moving my daughter because of the principal's bad decisions is rather like sticking gum on a leaky busted dam? I am deciding if I need to push this by talking to other parents or let it go as I have with all the rest of the stupidity that has come from this principal over the last 2 years. .  . oh this was supposed to be a brief paragraph . . oopsie!

Anyway, I promise to read and comment soon. I honestly do miss my LJ friends if I stay away too long. Pardon myt slang but - Y'all are addicting!

Copied frommiari


YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I WANNA KNOW YOU...I want to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine...You're on my list, so I wanna know you better!


1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the Macerana?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What 's your favorite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

Things are getting better, and yes that is a good thing. The morons have moved out both from next door where the shooting took place and from upstairs, the boys who hung out with them. Low and behold , quiet has once again settled over the building. I am still moving out at the end of March into a bigger better, slightly cheaper place. At least now I am not worried about staying out my lease. In the end it was good to wait, saved a bunch of stress and money.

Valentines day was an interesting one. I spent it with Jade, and we did every thing from spending a little too much tax money on sushi, picking up some things at the gaming shop, baying a bill and getting locked out of my car for two hours, to seeing a movie. Over all a very good geeky girlie sort of day. The movie was Confessions of a Shopaholic, very very funny, 5 of 5 stars!

In gaming news,  a slot opened up in the upcoming Mage game I was supposed to act as co-GM on. So even better, I gave Rich (the gm) all the notes and npc's I created and sat down and cranked out one of my own. This weekend we begin, and it promises to be a wild one. One of the other players has a son a few years younger than Jade and we are in discussion on letting them start a game that is age appropriate. Jade is all for it. I also finally replaced the set of dice from where I gave the d20 away. Long story. .

My job has added another layer of responsibility, marketing! That makes, admin asst/ receptionist, graphic designer, rent collector, notary, and now in charge of marketing the org as well. plus all the small things that come up daily that I get to deal with. I love it though, I am feeling that I finally am getting to use all my job talents. I am looking for really cheap ways to get the name out, on top of the things we are already doing, This included email marketing, postcards, brochures and fliers. Working with the United Way on the free tax services has helped us reach a lot of people as well. Oops this is turning into a tangent.

The only thing missing is still the man. I think I have been going about searching all wrong. Well obviously, or I would be with someone. ha! I often think perhaps my friend Sean had the right a Idea with his very public Quest for the gamer girl of his dreams. Yes those of you keeping score, Sean is the one from Chattanooga I mention back in December. He found the gamer girl of his dreams. Of course, He is much more public than I and I hesitate to jump on anyone's band wagon, but you know It sure would be nice to have that last piece fall into place. I am secure with out someone, and I have met some really great people lately, Some really close to what I am looking for. However,  for one reason or another, maybe its distance, maybe the physical attraction is not there, I still feel the need to search. On line friendships, no matter how attracted you feel to one another, are just not the fulfillment I need, so I hope no one is put off by this rambling. I continue to believe that my prince is out there, I just better marketing to find him.

Life, The Universe and Everything aka, Update.
Current mood:  mellow

I am alive, doing relatively well. The apartment is a mess from where I brought
home all these boxes this weekend and started packing then stopped
cause of work and such. I'm going to get on that this weekend in a huge
way.

Bad news, we will be in this apartment through the end of the lease, march 31. We already knew this.

Good
news, the morons upstairs who's son hangs out with the idiots next door
are out of here. He was in the apartment last week when the shooting
happened.  1 down 1 to go.Actually to be fair the mother is a good person, her son who is 20 something is the moron. I  man really,  who moves to Nashville, from Michigan to become a rap star. And he's a white guy, Greek maybe btw. But I digress. They are already moving out. yay. Still working on the other ones next door, everyone else in the building is pretty cool.

Good News - Had my taxes done for free at work and am getting an EXCELLENT refund. I recommend
that EVERYONE look in their area for a VITA program. Volunteer Income
Tax Assistance through the United Way. Certified tax pro's who will do
you taxes FREE, so long and you make under $43,000 a year.  Save a few
hundred bucks and get your refunds in 14 days or less. Okay cmmmericial
done, but really look into it.

Bad News- the woman is not moving
out of the duplex we are to move in to until sometime this summer.
Sigh. Cathie, my boss and property owner says not to worry, there is
another one coming open, it will work out. Jenny the prop. manager (and
Cathies daughter) is very apologetic. Secretly worrying but trying to
stay positive.

Mixed news, Found a stray dog, very sweet Banter Bull Dog (I think) he had been a good distraction. Just when I think my current dog is accepting him, we may have found the owner.
This may be good, Can't really afford 2  dogs of their sizes, and it is
impossible to rent with a bull dog of any type. He is such a sweetie
though, I hate to see him go.

In other
news, Still just casually dating this guy named Dan, been seeing him
for a while now but have been trying to avoid the jinx. I like him, he likes me, were into very similar things, RPG, He used to LARP, I am SCA yadda yadda.  I am not sure its going any where. I must confess I do like it when he sleeps over, and he has a good kinky streak. We'll see. Will Mr. Right Now, become Mr. Right. . . ??? Stay tuned!

Well today did not bring the news I wanted to hear. Thankfully at least it has been quiet here tonight.

I spoke with the on site manager here at my apartments and asked how this situation was being handled I told him we no longer feel safe here,and that I would like to be let out of my lease for safety sake. He stated that the property management and their parent company has never run into a situation like this and are unsure how to handle it. I was to to write a letter explaining what I would like to see happen. SO I did, I write one stating that due to the extreme circumstances I want to be released from my lease immediately. I thought, as I previously stated, That my duplex would be available in the next week or so. I thought.

Cathie came this afternoon and said that the duplex would not be available until March 1. Let me explain that the organization I work for builds and rents extremely beautiful Affordable Housing, apartments and duplexes all over TN. The duplex is one of our properties, we did hire a property management company so I am not paying rent directly to myself. So any way Cathie tell me she thought the current resident was leaving sooner but heard the no, she is not leaving for a month. She stated that our property management company issues an instant 3 day eviction notice to residents who have shootings in their apartment.

I touched base with my office manager again, He was feeling that I was not going to be released from my lease. I asked him about the eviction. Again He was not sure what was happening, maybe he just could not tell me. He said "they have not been home to talk to." Dude! tape a notice on the door, they will come talk right away. I hate incompetence!

OK so Cathie, Tony and I discussed some options. Tony seemed to be very concerned over where I would get money to move right away. I said I understand and that is a detail to be worked out later. They have a few properties I could move into for one month, then move to the duplex when it is available. Again this involves rent for that month and possibly still left holding the bag here at the current place. It also would require me to get a storage garage, or live with unpacked boxes for that time and two moves/moving trucks. This all just sucks.

My mom's reaction to the whole thing was rather blazee. She was concerned of course, but could offer no help or advise other that perhaps we need to just stick it out here for two months and hope for the best. This is also my friend Nancee's thoughts. She lives right across the hall here. Just stick it out for the two months, we will keep a closer watch on Jade. It will be alright.  I  Love them, I know they mean well. I don't agree. Yet what can I do? It looks like I may just have to do that.

Tomorrow will be more calls to the office as well as to the higher ups in the management at the parent company PRG Real Estate. Tony suggested say I will be taking this up with my counsel person, who is already pushing for better security in apartment communities, and Sean's thought about going to the media.

Truthfully if the idiots next door are evicted I will stick it out. If not I will continue to fight and pry that my W2's get here asap and I can file taxes. I refund would really come in handy at the moment.

More later. .Its 1:30 here again, i really need to find a way to sleep.

I was going to blog to you about finding old friends, rebuilding friendships. I was going to tell you that I believe we enter into each others lives as we are needed and learn from each other, and sometimes people stay, and some go. We never really know why. But in the end it all works out as it should.

Instead. .

Instead I am on to discuss the negative effects of people on each other. How your actions can change my life, instantly.

Around 6pm I asked my daughter to take out the trash to the dumpster in the parking lot, This is one chore I may never have her do again. She did it and came back, all was fine. Several minutes later, there was a loud cracking noise in the breezeway. Yes some of you will recognize the sound of gunfire. All of us in the hall looked out and slowly the chaos erupted. We realized that the guy next door to me had just been SHOT in the chest. We later found out it was a through and though shot, entered his chest hit a rib missed his heart went though a kidney then out his back. He was in surgery. I hope he will be alright.

OK I am really tired and lost half of my post trying to hide it behind a cut. In short I don't believe their story. (There are fishy details that were wiped out)

The brothers have anger control issues. I think they pissed some one off. I am worried that there is going to be a war in my yard that I want nothing to do with. Random act or not, some asshole's lack of respect and inability to play nice with others has changed  the lives of everyone in this building. Jade no longer feels safe her and that pisses me off to no end. I was scared as well, now I am just angry. I have started to make arrangements to move out sooner than expected now. March 31 is my lease date. My new place is ready Feb 1 or close to it. Tomorrow I am going to give notice to the apartment s here and vacate as fast as I can. Hope fully hey will release me, if not that is tomorrow's battle.

My friend Dan says that I am making too big a deal of this, that it is random and over with. I have nothing to worry about. I love my friend, but he is single, no kids, and well - a 6'4 well built male. I am beyond caring about whether I am over reacting or not. Even though this happened to the family next door, not directly to us,  Jade's safety and overall well being is paramount. I know that some one was watching out for her in those few minutes she was outside, walking past their apartment to get home to ours . . .  I am thankful, but not stupid. I cannot take the risk of this happening again.

The letter we have been waiting for arrived last night.

Jade has been accepted into Nashville School Of Arts! YAY!!

Now we need to reply that she is indeed going then we will start getting her schedule and what not.I am so proud of her and all the hard work she puts in, keeping up an honor roll grade average and taking on both art and guitar. Jade has her issues, we all do , but I couldn't imagine a better daughter.