If the weather's decent, I may take Leo to the state fair. I dunno... it's cheap to get in, but rides cost a small fortune and I suspect that's all he'll want to do. We'll see.
Have fun, whatever you do!
Anyway, enjoy your Friday! I'll try to BBL......
Peace out!
Hi, T!
Sounds fun, hope you didn't find anything embarassing
Well, actually... This is an iffy story to tell, but since we're pretty anonymous - y'all don't know her last name, her mom's name, where they live(d) etc... But when she was looking before, she found a book her mom had written (her mom was a mostly wannabe writer who did a ton of freelance editing for actual salary) and a bunch of letters relating to her horrible gambling addiction from about '93 to '98.

It is SO odd and sad to read about what lengths she went to to hide what she was doing, how much she lost, her fear, anxiety, etc. I read the book last night - it's actually an unfinished manuscript, with full passages, then things like "(show here the scene in the CPA's office with the W-2's.)
Deb & her sister had NO idea. Thankfully, her mother was able to get help - but at its worst it did involve her mother stealing from her grandmother's savings, etc., and Deb is having a REALLY hard time reconciling her mother whom she loved and adored with the fairly scary, skanky stuff she was doing. Sadly, part of this was during the time that Deb was getting married (D was invited to the wedding, but as we weren't dating, I wasn't there. I do remember, since we were friends, watching his dog whilst he attended the wedding though

) Anyway, parts of the book/therapy letters mention how much she really kind of detested the wedding as it kept her from the riverboats, and that HAS to be hard to read, no matter if you understand that it's a sickness.
I'm sure it's in some ways no worse than things other addicts do to hide their problems, but I've not had to deal with that, so it's just bizarre to me.
So yes, we found some embarrassing stuff.

Luckily, not related to the boyfriends at 16.
There's other stuff - Deb's mom found out only at age 50-some that her mother had lied about her birthday for her whole life to snare a WWII soldier to marry her. She got pregnant, married a guy who was shipping out, moved, had the mom in April, then wrote to him in November to say he was a dad. Yeah. And kept it going all this time. She only found out when she had to get her birth certificate for a passport.
Deb's dad is a crazy therapist

, so the first marriage was weird, too. Deb doesn't much talk to her dad - their first conversation since she was in middle school was about 2 years ago - because he more or less wrote her a letter to say that he had a new baby and he just couldn't be a dad to both.
Anyway, her life was interesting, and the letters are TRULY fascinating - especially since, whilst I feel bad for Deb, it's not my mom, if you KWIM.
It's been on my mind all day yesterday and today. Wow.
Jo said:
Anyway thankfully he was found in time so I could go to golf
How scary, but good - but weird that they haven't thanked you.
Here's a shot of the snow. It is still coming down. I think we have about 3" so far. It's very wet and heavy.

Mom said earlier that it rained longer than they anticipated, then hung right around 33, to make that ridiculously heavy crap. Sorry.
Love Dexter!

Weird and macabre is so me.

With your weather I think pj's are definitely the way to go. Our weather alarm keeps going off because of all the tornado warnings. Hopefully they won't materialize though.
We adore Dexter, too. Hope the weather has worked out better.
Evening all. The snow started about 7:00pm. Now they are saying there is a possibility of 2 1/2 feet.
D is so mad - have you looked at the map? It stops at MA... But he's going to Argentina, so I say he can stuff it.

I'm glad I'm not dealing with it. I'm sorry that you are, though - we just read that DC is looking at between 2-3 feet. At least we'd be prepared to handle it, you know?
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Lots and lots of tennis, followed by a quick lunch and a grocery run. Got home, the kids got home, I showered, then school Bingo Night. It was fun, but no one in my family won.
I wound up "working" from 7-7:30, then helping to count cash. D met us there after a quick trip to the office, so he took the kids home and I know how much the cash count becomes an issue.

We made nearly $500 in just bake sale and drink sales!
We're still trying to catch up on our recorded TV before we get behind all next week again

so I'm going to sign off. Have a great night, all!