Summer vacation is now two weeks old. Wanna hear the highlights?
- found out we are losing our principal, meaning major changes coming down the pike next year
- experienced minor meltdown
- called off wedding
- backed out of escrow on a house and took mine off the market
- spent a very hot, sweaty, dusty day packing classroom
- attended a one-week training that was a criminal waste of taxpayer dollars … didn’t learn a single thing in five whole days
- got to break wedding news … over and over again ALL week long
- was rearended on the freeway … car sustained considerable bumper damage but nobody injured
- while on the phone reporting accident, received a call informing me that my uncle died
- was nominated by sisters to break the news of uncle’s passing to dad
- started week two off with jury duty … can you say “false imprisonment?”
- spent one day in waiting room of surgery center waiting while dad had what are hopefully only polyps removed from sinuses
- received our estimate for the new condenser on our A/C … to the tune of $3000!
- received my “Back to School” catalog from Lakeshore today!
So, tomorrow I find out if I will be a juror on a case expected to last two weeks. That would just be the icing on the cake. 
Aren’t you glad I updated?
Quote of the Day:
Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie
Okay … three things I am thankful for today:
- Otis Spunkmeyer cookies in the courthouse snack shop… best thing about jury duty
- amusing histrionics on the part of jurors attempting to shirk their civic duties
… second best thing about jury duty - good books to keep me company … just finished Lisa See’s new book, Peony in Love. Great book!
Poisoned by Fairy Tales 
My Uncle died too I found out the day before I left Ireland to come back home. He was my moms’ baby brother and he had a motorcycle accident. My brother-in-law got the delight of telling me. Afterward I felt sorry for him and apologized for having a small meltdown, but it was just so shocking.You need a re-do. Wouldn’t that be fantastic if you could say “hey, I want to re-do this week and leave out some of the crap”. So I know how you can get out of jury duty, just tell them you’ll be delighted to serve because you know he was falsely imprisoned and you’ll be excused so fast it will make your head spin. No CA prosecutor wants a pro defense juror. Have you priced new AC units? Seems to be if your spending 3 thou anyway that it might be worth it to at least look at a brand new unit. It might be more but wouldn’t it have at least a year warranty? Also if you did sell the house later you could just put the unit payoff price in the selling price of the house.I always joked with the kids that if we ever got rear ended that somebody needed to fall out of the car onto the ground and do the “crappie flop”. Since your not from the south I’ll explain that crappie is pronounced crop-ee and you would basically be flopping around on the ground like a fish out of water. The idea being to be able to sue the pants off whoever hit you. Not that I would, I truly think Americans as a whole have gone lawsuit crazy and it should stop. But it sure was fun joking about it with the kids.I’m sorry you have had a completely crappy 2 weeks, i sure hope it gets better.
you called off the wedding? I hope you are ok!
I’m so sorry for all that you’ve been through these past weeks! Getting rear-ended is the worst…I hope the person that hit you had insurance! I’m so sorry for the loss of your uncle as well. *hugs*
😦 i know last week was over. hope this week was better. thanks for the message. one of the downsides is that i won’t be at l.p. anymore will all of you guys. it was a treat to be back with family for a bit. take care.