Confessions of a Starbucks addict

PJ got to ride on her first city bus the other day. She had a lot of fun!

Picture 1 is PJ waiting for our bus. Picture 2 is her running toward some flowers. Picture 3 is showing the pretty landscaping in front of the school, where the bus stop is located. Picture 4 is PJ on the bus.

We're going to do it all again today, since I'm taking the car to get its brakes done. The other day we were getting new tires on the car. I don't think we'll be doing the bus again, unless PJ wants to go back to IHOP, which is a couple miles away from the Firestone...

Patrick, Kyle, Josh, and Tani... right before heading out to Rocky!


















This is Josh. Tani helped him dress for the event!




















These two refused to dress up. On the left is Donald, Chris is on the right.















So Tani and Kyle like to dance. Who knew?!








So we're going again this weekend. To the Tacoma show. Donald's mom is going to join us, as well as Troy. Should be a good time!

If you know that line, then you know where I was at midnight! :D If you don't, well here's the explaination.

Some things just never change... and others do.I took Chris and Tani to RHPS...and one of Chris's friends, and three of Tani's friends. They were all virgins. Well, technically Chris wasn't a virgin, since I took him when he was 5 days old...but seriously does that count? I think not. So he was re-deflowered. :)

I'll tell ya, the AP lines up here (in WA) are way different than they were 15 years ago in CA. Some are the same...the standard ones, you know, Janet's still a slut, Brad's still and asshole, Chuckie still has no fucking neck, etc.

Then there are the fun, new (to me), lines that I learned. Like when Rocky flips the switches down at the start of the dance show... "Rocky flips red, Rocky flips blue, Rocky plays football at Wazoo!" (Wazoo is the nickname for Washington State University, which is the rival to Seattle's U-Dub, the University of Washington.)

The thing that I didn't like about the show this evening was that there was a guest cast from Tacoma. Don't get me wrong, their cast was great. The problem was that they brought their audience with them...and they have some really different lines than Seattle. So in some of the parts you really couldn't understand what anyone was saying. Another problem was that the theater plays the soundtrack for the movie *incredibly* loud. Half of the AP lines you couldn't hear because they were drowned out by the soundtrack. That sucked. I was really hoping to hear some new ones that I hadn't heard before, especially in places that I had forgotten the lines. Ah well... there's always next Saturday (in Tacoma, Seattle only performs once a month).

I let Tani tag along home with her friends for their after-party. I took Chris and Donald over to Safeway to get me some Excedrin (I'm really getting too old for this shit!), and then we went to Denny's. Back when I was their age, our after Rocky breakfasts were at Carrow's in Union City, but since there are no Carrow's up here...and hell I don't even know if there are any Carrow's in existence anymore...we decided Denny's was good enough. We made the wait staff laugh their asses off with the rude and obnoxious comments. Apparently I must be some kind of sinful parent allowing my children to talk they way they do (technically I am only the mother of one of the kids that was with me, the other was Donald - Chris's best friend...like OMG his BFF DYK! inside joke, you had to be there). After Donald and Chris played 13 over and over with the loser taking Tabasco shots, we left.

A fun night all around. I met another mom there, taking her 16 year-old step-daughter to be deflowered. She gave me her card and asked me to send some of the pics I took to her. :) Yes, I have some really raunchy pics of my dd and her bff's...

I'm going to bed now. It's only 5:45 AM. :P

It was a rough couple of weeks on me. Long story short, as of two weeks ago the high school wasn't going to allow Chris to graduate because they thought he was credit deficient. Grrr. After numerous calls to the old school district, the new district, the homeschooling people, I finally realized that maybe all the school needed was his homeschooling transcript and that might suffice.

I emailed back and forth with the principal, since the counselor wasn't much help... We made an appointment for this morning, I went in ready for battle. I have now learned that going directly to the top of the food chain is best. The principal looked at the transcript, accepted every credit on there, told the counselor to add everything to Chris's transcript, have Chris take an online 12th grade English (a 3 week task that he needs to meet grad. requirements), and he'll graduate! Woohoo!

Persistence pays off. I swear if the counselor had his way, Chris wouldn't be graduating this year, and that would just suck!

So my friend Christine stole this from someone, and I'm stealing it from her. :D What you do is Google your name and the word "needs" together. Here's my interesting commentary...

1. Rikki needs to repost with the EXACT error message if we are to better aid her/him.
I am always very specific with error message posts. Usually though I can find the error with Google, so I don't need to post on a board about an error I see... of course I rarely have errors, so I probably wouldn't need to do that anyway!

2. Rikki needs a hug.
Well sure, who doesn't? Seriously though, I do need one today after the crap I've gone through to make sure my son will graduate with his class this June!

3. Rikki needs a home.
Well, no I don't. I own a home. Though I do want to move, so if you find me a home with at least 5 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, at least 2500 sq. ft., and a fenced-in yard for less than $200k, I might consider it... The weather has to be exceptionally good wherever this house is, I'm tired of rain, snow, and sleet. Give me 70 degree weather year-round and I'm a happy camper. :)

4. Rikki needs help in the gardening then.
Aside from the bad grammar, I probably do need help in gardening. In fact I hate, loathe, and totally despise gardening. There is something to be said for being one with nature, but if it's my own yard, forget it. There are way too many wasps, hornets, bees, moles, squirrels, crane flies (piss ants, my daddy calls 'em!), and dirt in my yard. I'd be happy to cement in the entire place, but I think that might bring the property value down. It might also piss off my neighbors.

5. Rikki needs to quit living in such a deep-rooted state of denial.
Trust me on this, I'm not in denial about anything. Everything is on the surface here. Wait I thought of something! I know that I'm fat but my mind tells me I'm not. For some reason my mind thinks I'm still that skinny little gymnast that I once was. The scale says different. :P

6. Rikki needs to catch up in comments.
Hmm, that's quite accurate actually. I know that I haven't been the best at posting on DF lately. I rarely post comments on my friends' blogs. Sheesh, I'm a miserable person aren't I?

7.Rikki needs to stop eating at McDonalds.
Well actually, I have. When I started Weight Watchers, I quit McDonalds food. I still will stop by occasionally for an iced tea, but that's it. :D

8. Rikki needs to disappear and never come back.
OUCH! Reading further on that link, you will realize that the person was talking about a character on CSI:NY. Ha! I do think it would be fun to disappear for a few hours. I'd love to see if the kids even notice if I'm gone.

9. Rikki needs surgery to correct a very painful eye condition.
This, I know, is untrue. For me anyway. I may be needing a surgery for a possible rotator cuff injury though. Finding out this week...

10. Rikki needs to take responsibility for her actions and accept the blame for what she did.
Jeez! What did I do?!? I think I'm a pretty accountable person anyway. The only thing I can think of right now is that I probably not fighting hard enough with two school districts right now. I may end up caving and having to pay close to $1,000 to have my son repeat classes that he already made up while homeschooling. Grrrr...

Well, that was fun. I tried doing it with Aurica and only came up with three things. I guess it's not such a popular name...

Okay, so I haven't talked about it a lot in this blog. I've been losing weight. I joined a gym. I'm getting healthy after an entire year of inactivity... The one thing that I can't figure out is why my bgs drop like hotcakes while I'm exercising. I've turned my pump down with temp. basals, up to two hours ahead of time, still no luck. I've started just eating one or two Nature Valley Granola Bars, in the peanut butter flavor, on the drive to the gym...without bolusing. That seems to keep me pretty well for my sessions at the gym. I still drop, like crazy, but it's not 911-worthy.

The other day I went to the gym, had only one granola bar, ended up at 37mg/dL after only 20 minutes on a bike... now I started at 113, which is lower than I'd like to start exercising at, but it was better than nothing.

Because of this new phenomena I'm having, my doctor said she'd do whatever she could do get me on a CGMS. We immediately contacted Medtronic to inquire about the Paradigm system. They gathered my insurance info and three days later (okay 5 days because of the weekend), they called and said I was approved. They went over the payment schedule (since my stupid insurance changed last year and they cap DME at $2500 per year...eek!), and today I emailed all the forms back with Troy's (he's the primary insurance holder) and my signatures. The insurance person at Medtronic emailed me back saying that he just needed the script back from my doctor. Unfortunately that news was emailed to me after 5 this evening, so I emailed my doctor to ask if she'd faxed it back to them. I'm waiting to hear, but she's usually not in the office on Thursdays, so we'll see if I get a response before Friday...

So, a new pump to learn... and a CGMS to learn... I'm really hoping that I'm not stupid! :D

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