We live is the coolest place in America. Today was the Summer Soulstice event, about a block and a half from our hillside home. Six bands playing for free all along Main Street. Sidewalk sales from all of the cool little boutiques. Amazing food. Petting zoo, with Llamas. Yeah, Llamas. We are just too fricking cool here. Other places have horses, goats. We've got Llamas. Little Jules wanted us to bring one home with us.
Listening to: Nickelback, If Today Was Your Last Day
Worked in the garden all day today with Roy and Jules. The little one is out with the babysitter right now, having dinner. I'm blogging. Roy is is grading papers and sipping one of our fine California wines. Buy our wines, please, people, because our state is damn near broke and we have really stupid politicians who can't seem to do anything right.
My freckles are coming back because I'm out in the sun so much with the garden, around my nose and along my upper cheeks. It's changing the color of my hair, too, in the most lovely goddam way. It's a lighter shade of red now.
In case any of you have been wondering what Roy looked like, there he is and there we are.
We have begun to climb out of our financial Black Hole as we come to grips with the fact that we have one very expensive little guy to raise.
Jules has lots of serious allergies, like animal fur of all kinds, all dairy products, all nuts, to grasses and various pollens, and more. He is also dyslexic, and he has attention deficit disorder, NONE of which our mom had ever realized in his first eight years of life, but that we have managed to learn in less than one year. Go figure. Well, she was a good mom to me, at least.
So, in addition to a very expensive private school, little Jules has special medications and a private tutor. Essentially, he accounts for almost every free dime we get, but he is so worth all of it. He's the most amazing little man who somehow manages to stay in very good spirits in spite of it all. I cannot help but thing that all of this is making him stronger in some very important way.
We had cut back on virtually all of our entertainment spending, but that has begun to ease up a little bit. We have reinstated our two World of Warcraft game accounts and today I reinstated my City of Heroes - City of Villains account and played for the first time in about 75 days.
I hear Jules and the babysitter coming up the front steps. Gotta go. Bye for now. Love you all. Oh, and I hope you like the new design. I was eating olives from the garden and they were very yummy. So, it became a theme. I like olives. lol.
The relatives seem like they are a little less irritated with us for eloping. Maybe they have finally begun to understand that they were driving us crazy by not being able to agree on a single thing about our wedding. It's the love that's important, nothing else.
Like the song says: Each day's a gift and not a given right. Leave no stone unturned. Leave your fears behind...
Live each moment like it's your last.
