Yes, I am an Oddball.

But I did. I have no idea why I torture myself. $1,300.00 is all that is standing between me and my souls home. I could book it but then I'd be 6 nights away from being homeless and jobless and friendless. So not a wise choice.  Besides, I'm barely settled into my new "home" and I do love them.  But Oahu, I miss you. 

I'm coming to realize that I'm not the happiest or most patient person on the block. Also I need some alone time. On a beach. In Hawaii. Or maybe I'm just constantly surrounded by crappy attitudes and sass so I've developed both. Oh and the Gimmies, they run pretty rampant around here too. I slept on the lovely but uncomfortable living room couch last night. I'm not loving sharing a bed... Ok I really, really dislike sharing a bed consistently. The odd sleep-over is fine but this every night thing isn't working for me. I think it would if H didn't move so fn much but she is constantly rolling (and she can't just roll, she has to fucking bounce first) moving blankets, tossing sheets and just generally making her presence known. It annoys the crap out of me. How hard is it to just lay down and sleep? 8 nights out of 10 I wake up in the same position that I fell asleep in. If I can do that, it can't be that hard. I'm a light sleeper, unexpected ...

Does anyone have any ideas on how you get a 12 year old who is on the autism spectrum to unplug??? Without the iPad she's already fairly disconnected from the world around her, with it she might as well not even be on the same planet as the rest of us. I'm not kidding when I say this child will spend 12 hours or more with headphones on watching YouTubers play video games and shreek like little girls. Or listening to terrible music while prancing and dancing around the room. She talks back to the screen and screams when they do. These behaviors are bad enough but  I can see her brain melting and it's making me crazy. I love this kid and I know the amount of screen time she has isn't good for her (or anyone but especially her.) She plugged herself in the second she woke up yesterday, 5 hours later I "forced" her to unplug and do something else. She read a book (OMG the horror), we played Clue (which she enjoyed & won) ate dinner with the rest of the family...

Never a Dull Moment around here I tell you. Sunday, P replaced the broken side mirror on H's car, after it was installed everything seemed to be fine. Monday night H loaded youngest daughter into the car to go swimming. P and I stayed home to make dinner. About 5 minutes after she left she called P. All I heard was "What? Smoke? Where are you? I'm coming!" and then P shouted to me that he had to go and then the door slammed. I finished dinner and started plating for the other kids (B had 2 friends over) when H texted and P called at the same time. Turns out there was a short in the electrical system and her van was on FIRE!! Luckily they were less than a mile away, P got there within 3 minutes of the phone call and was able to put the fire out with the extinguisher he put in the trunk. but since 911 was called the firemen & police were at the scene just a couple minutes later. They disconnected the battery and called a tow truck. P can probably fix it, but man is ...

And its going well. I guess I'm settling in well. My only complaint so far is that I'm exhausted all the time. P & H are both early risers, I am not. Not even a little bit. Sadly I'm also a very light sleeper so when they get up, I wake up and generally I can't go back to sleep. I have to admit I'm tired and it's making me a little cranky. Also I'm not exercising like I wanted to be. It's hard to fit in when I want to be asleep by 9 at night. I have the next two weeks off work and I'm really, really looking forward to it. So far I have unpacking, the beach, a yoga class or two and sleeping late on my list.