Camping, Painting and Little Bitching

I just realized that July is nearly over and I have only made two entries. Typically, this would mean that I am depressed, couch-ridden and staring blankly through the TV. The good news is that I have just been super busy!

I have undertaken some major home improvement projects this month. Well, not like "This Old House" major but more like "Trading Spaces" without the fabric hanging from the walls like a circus tent or silk flowers hot glued to my refrigerator door. I have, with help from Terry, managed to transform Alex's old bedroom into an oasis of pink! I have turned the addition on the back of the house into a usable space. Affectionately, called the back room it was a celery green color and the catch all for all the crap that gets carried into the house. Now, it is the color of a butterscotch....I almost want to lick the walls! Ummpa, Lummpa Ummpity Ump! I put the sofa and love seat that was in the living room back there along with all of the decorations. I bought a new sectional which gives us much more room to sit. This is good because there is always someone over and watching Big Brother on the floor blows! The colors in the living room are now brown and that weird seafoam green/tiffany blue color. I love it. Now, I just have to get some stuff to hang on the walls. I also painted the master bath...I did that all by myself! It too is still not totally put together. Hopefully, my stamina (mania) will last long enough to get everything finished.

On the diet front, the competition between Beau and I ends tomorrow. I am winning, although it's not official until we weigh in in the morning. I will be collecting my prize! I have lost 15 pounds. Not too shabby for only having been doing this for about six weeks. My goal is to weigh 115 by Thanksgiving. I just can't wait until I look anorexic chic!

Beau got us a boat that I named Lucy. I love Lucy. We took her camping this weekend. Beau and I and the four kids plus John, Mandi, Josh and Emily and Terry went to Rough River. Frog drove down Friday night for a while. We had a real good time for the most part. Of course, there was the kids whining every time there was any down time about how bored they were and ya just can't call it a vacation without Mandi and Josh having at least one argument about who is going to do what for who. I was rather impressed with the Cadillac of an air mattress that Terry had...I was kind of jealous with my little six inch air mattress. Now, I truly understand penis envy! Beau took Me, Mandi and Josh out on the boat on Saturday while Dani and John watched the kids. That bitch broke down. We were stranded in a cove for a couple of hours while Beau tried to figure out what was wrong with it and eventually rig it enough to get us back to land. I am not sure what we would have done if we couldn't get back. There was nothing on that boat that resembled Wilson! Anyhow, Sunday morning when the boat part place opened he was able to fix it and our fun in the sun resumed. It was a nice getaway but I must say when I walked into my house I said to myself, "Be it ever so humble"!

I have been trying to figure out where Avery is going to school. I put in her hardship transfer back in the beginning of June and the lady at the board told me I should get a letter in about two weeks. That never happened. I called and they said they were still working on it and I should get the letter within the week but for privacy reasons they could not give me any information as to whether the transfer was approved or not over the phone. That's horse shit! I called yesterday and ended up having to talk to the head of the student transfer department and my board member. They ended up telling me that they are so far behind because of the new student assignment plan. OK, I promise I am getting to my point. I don't understand why they can't just let kids go to the school nearest their home like they did in the good ole days! They actually had Avery being bussed to Frasier which is near Church Hill Downs or more importantly Arcade Apartments. Not only would it be probably a couple hour bus ride on multiple buses which is totally ridiculous I am not having Haylee and Avery go to different schools. What doesn't make sense is that Kindergartner's are supposed to be exempt. OK, that's good but what happens when they are first graders? Must they change schools? I don't really think the powers that be really thought this thing through!

I will probably be crazier than Cootie Brown here soon. My doctor closed his practice and now I don't have a doctor to get my meds! Getting a new doctor is not as easy as you would think. I called around and a lot of Psychiatrists only take Medicaid or Medicare. I started going through the phone book! Apparently, you have to be court ordered, a victim of domestic violence or have a drug or alcohol dependency issue to be seen at Seven Counties. UofL has a Psychiatry department but you have to go through and orientation. Seriously? I can't imagine for the life of me what they need to orientate! I swear the state of our health care system is seriously jacked! And, if anyone thinks that Obama is going to be able to fix it they are sadly mistaken. Until the pharmaceutical companies can figure out a way to make more money off a cure than ongoing treatment nothing is ever going to change! Don't get me started!

Goal for August, get all of the kids back to school, finish the house so that it looks polished and lose ten more pounds!