Sort of Bummed about July

Well......  July came and went faster than a New York Minute.

I needed it to go sloooooooowly, but it didn't.

I am not ready for back to school stresses.

~PLUS~

The entire blasted month was mind blowingly too hot for a body to happily function.

Maybe it was the heat,  OR maybe it was..............

 the moon's gravitational pull got all changed up and caused an increase of wave frequencies which vastly upset the Earth's energy and made all of the people lose their minds.  

And unfortunately, due to the nature of my employment,  I got to speak to no less than a thousand lunatics this month.  

And it messed me up mentally and emotionally.

The good news is....  our AC didn't quit this year

Which made us NOT want to leave our house to do anything.

I would get home from work, mentally exhausted from all of my psychotic encounters

and I would literally eat, clean up the kitchen and crawl onto my bed and binge watch the entire "Breaking Bad"  series (for the second time).

One, might say that is lazy behavior.

But, I didn't feel like a lazy person.

I somehow felt justified in my inactivity....  like I had earned it.

I am perplexed that people behave the way they do

Say the insane things they say

Make the dumbass decisions that they make

And blame you, a complete stranger, when their stupid plans go south... 

It makes me hate society as a whole.

I expressed these sentiments to my mom...  saying.....

People, as a collective group are inherently lousy.

To which she replied

"I completely disagree.  I see only good in people from my vantage point.

I see people holding the door for me, so I can get Kori into a building.  I see people volunteering time and money and food.  I see selfless,  good hearted,  loving people everyday."

And I was glad to hear that.

Perception is a strange thing

July was a time for getting ready for August

We started with Kaleigh's Kindergarten Physical

She is the bravest person I know.  

Her body seems to be immune to pain or she has an incredibly high pain tolerance.

Procedures don't bother her, shots don't bother her,  doctor's don't scare her.  She doesn't worry if things are going to hurt.  She speaks like an adult.   

Raleigh takes one for the parental team when it comes to shots.

They don't bother KK, but they DO bother me.

The doctor made her promise 

1. She wouldn't kiss any kindergarten boys

2.  She would keep her room clean

3.  She would always be happy

 She is an elf, it's official.

She is below average in height

She is below average in weight

She is above average in happiness and a magical outlook on life

And no one is more excited to go to school than her.

 Dad promised her a reward trip to Target 

if she passed all of her tests

Our next "fix-up" adventure was the dentist

 Peyton had ZERO cavities

But she does have shark teeth.

And by that, I mean her adult teeth are coming in

behind her baby teeth and her baby teeth are no where near

wanting to come out.  

Sooooo......  she will have to have a few teeth pulled very soon

Such a huge disappointment for someone who has

been looking forward to losing a tooth for 5 1/2 years now

 Little Miss Kaleigh, on the other hand,

has a few cavities and one will need a root canal.

Going back to her body not feeling pain....

The dentist is in shock that she feels nothing, but she just doesn't.

And if you think she is worried about having a cavity filled....  you'd be wrong.

She is instead negotiating a new Barbie or two.

 Pearly Whites

The next fix up was our shower.

It was a tile shower and one day I was cleaning and I noticed that one of the tiles sort of caved in when I pushed on it.  I wondered if maybe water was getting behind it.  I wondered if maybe that had anything to do with my month long respiratory problems, which I was imagining was early onset lung cancer.... 

Nevertheless, the decision was made to tear out the tile shower and replace it with a granite one.

Mold for days.

Mold spores floating around my house for all of us to breathe in deeply

 But, miraculously, the second the wall was dried out and the

new walls were put up

my lung cancer disappeared.

I can't wait for the granite to arrive.  

Two weeks without a shower and having to go all the way upstairs to the 

"family room" bathroom is not convenient or pleasant.

That shower is less than.

It drains poorly.

And it hums.

Plus, it's kind of dark and I am hacking up my legs

 Our next......  nightmare......  was moving Brayden

He was renting a little dump in the middle of town.

And Papa asked him if he wanted to move on up... to the East Side

and live in his condo.

Of course, he said yes

And we moved him out during a flash flood

 The sweet neighbor lady came out and held an umbrella over Raleigh

and told him not to get struck by lightning.  

And my poor dad was like...

"what am I chopped liver?

"Am I not worthy of an umbrella?"

Then to add salt in the wounds of the entire family,

the screwed up mess of a tenant that is living in my dad's condo is refusing to move out.

Leaving Brayden and Crysti homeless

(well I shouldn't say homeless, when they have a lovely room to sleep in at my parents house)

While, every thing they own is in MY garage across town

And the delightful court system, which always seems to cater to white trash members of society, is taking it's sweet time assisting us in getting this piece of crap out of my dad's investment property.

She is the white trash poster child...  

And she is quite proud of it too.

And my parents are experiencing first hand what I deal with on a daily basis and are getting an inkling of the nature of people in society from MY perspective.  

Consequently, my mom says to me while we were standing in Brayden's garage

shielding ourselves from the inclement weather....

"you need to quit your job"

On a happy note...

Walt signed up to give yet another talk

for like the 7th time this year.

 And we found out who our new teachers will be.

BLAST....   The first day of school is coming whether we are ready for it or not.

So, I guess we had better get ready

 Kindergarten

First Grade

Morgan is all ready to start college

Allie just won another kendama contest 

AND picked up another sponsorship.

She is also almost up to 1000 followers on her youtube account.

And that is all....