Another week

Well to start off with---My mom is coming to visit me (and my sister Shari's family) in March. With some talking we have talked her into flying down here (so she can spend more time with us). Then in April my best friend (Kelly) is coming with her family. I'm so excited to see all of them!

Now on to other things...let me talk about our apartment "building/complex". Let me first start with how our "building" is. Each "building" has 2 real buildings with 12 apartments each and we face each other and share a courtyard but on each end of the buildings there is a cement wall that encloses the courtyards that is what makes our building. When we first got here there were a bunch of Brazilians that lived downstairs and across the court yard from us, above them there is a single black father and his teenage son, next to them was a black couple, below them was a Hispanic family, under us there is a Hispanic family (or two), next to them is another Brazilian/black couple, and above them (and next door to us), is a single mom with her special needs teenage daughter. Now there is a noise ordinance they tell you about when you sign all your paperwork...10pm and it needs to be quiet (which works for us). And let me tell you EVERYONE lived that rule. The Brazilians would be out until 9:45pm loud and all, but then they would go into their apartment. Now they have moved---their is a very young couple moved into their apartment. Let me tell you that 2:30am comes and goes with LOTS of partying. I have talked to a lot of the "building" about this couple and we are all tired of the crap. So Don and I have been talking with the office and I think yesterday they got their walking papers. The single mom that lives right next to us doesn't let her daughter go to take the trash out by herself anymore because of all the scary people that come and go from there. We have told the office that there is at least us and 2 more apartments that won't be renewing their leases because this is not good. So now the office is trying to make good on the rules. They have even moved in a Largo police woman into the complex (and she lives in our "building". But let me tell you do NOT move with just using the Internet as your only guide on apartments. We will be looking else where for October.

Now on to better things...My friend Kelly has been sharing her books via mail so that I can keep up on her collection. And she sent me some great books, but this last shipment has gotten me to think. I have been putting off reading them because one is titled "Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman". Now I know that I'm not balanced...and this move has shown how unbalanced I really am! But I started reading it and it makes me laugh! Like this statement (it reminds me of my mom--and you will understand why) "Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of motherhood. If you're the one who burned the toast, you scape it off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because they burned it specially for you." That reminds me of my mom because look at all the kids she has raised (hers and others). How many times did she eat something that was crap because we made it special for her? That makes me remember a time when Stephen, Samantha, and I tried to do something special for her and make perogies, but all we had was wheat flour so that is what we used. I don't remember them being really good, but I remember the hell it was making them...and our mom eating them and acting like it was wonderful! Boy she's a liar!
Here is something else this book states "One assumption I learned I needed to let go of was the way I gauged my husband's love for me on his ability to read my mind." But then you think about it...how do we expect others to read our minds. I think we need to be able to let people know what we are thinking if we expect them to know. Or here is one that I think I have been feeling lately! " I don't want balance. What I want is the brick! I want to find the one thing in my life that, if I get that right, it doesn't matter what the world throws onto the other side of the scale." I'm not sure what the "brick" is, but how funny that is that I read that because this last week and a half I have been feeling that way!

Well--I know that I just got way off here. But I thought I would share my boring life with you! Have a great Weekend!