(my second job). I went out to get coffee with my sister Patti, and
my girlfriend Theresia. T and I stopped at a pizza place and got this
pizza with whole wheat crust. I liked it more than her—it had a
coarse crunchy crust. Then we went over and sat with Patti at Heine
Brothers and listened to the music. It was nice to just have a while
to relax. Theresia and I went home late, and we watched an episode of
Heroes season 1. That show is really cool! We went to bed and in the
morning, we BOTH called in sick!
We spent the Saturday together running errands and just goofing off.
Neither one of us had done that in so long—we both work two jobs—it
was very refreshing. We went to this seafood place and got an oyster
sandwich which was ok. It had cole slaw and thousand island dressing
on it which I didn't care for too much, but I swear—the French fries
at this place were the best I have ever had anywhere! After that, we
went over and I showed Theresia the exact model of scooter I want to
get. They are asking $1800 for the one I showed her, but you can get
them elsewhere much cheaper. That was the only place I know that had
one they could show. There's a picture of it on one of my blog posts
last week. After that we went back home and had a nap!! Another
indulgence that neither one of us has had in a while on the weekend.
We watched some more Heroes (actually finished it) and then I fixed
supper—boneless fried chicken.
Sunday we split up—she went to work, and I called in (again!) and went
to work: on the kids bedroom! I got that mostly done but still need
to re-arrange it some. I took the bunk beds apart and made them into
singles. They don't have as much room now, but I cleaned up and threw
a lot of crap in the dumpster, plus I know that the less room they
have to clutter, the better off their room will be. Theresia came
over after she got off work and we hung out for a while—watched a
movie called "Little Trip to Heaven". It wasn't that great. She left
to go get Rachael, and I finished working on the room as much as I was
going to.
The kids came home, and we talked. I asked them what they would think
about riding the bus home on Monday, Thursday and ever-other Friday.
I called the bus depot and found out what time the bus gets to their
stop…it's 5:11! This is because they go to the depot first. On those
days, I would be able to come in a little early or take a ½ hour lunch
and leave at 4:30pm. I would get home before them, and have dinner
started. It would really give us a lot more time together through the
week. I spoke with Theresia and Patti about it when we had coffee.
They both said if I had an emergency and left late, or got stuck in
traffic, that they could go get the kids and wait with them until I
got home. It would only be a matter of minutes. Plus Theresia's
daughter lives across the parking lot—she gets off at 4:30 (so does
Patti). And Theresia's sister Elisabeth is pretty close too, That's
4 people to cover me in an emergency so I think that would work.
We're going to try it for a couple weeks starting next week.
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