Yes, definitely let me know when you blog goes live. Throw caution to the wind and just post it. You never know, the way everyone is stuck at home right now, someone waiting to give you a book or movie deal may come across it.
I actually go out of the house yesterday for a whopping 20 minutes. I teach American Tribal Style (ATS) Belly dance. I co-direct our dance troupe and one of my assistant teachers and I videoed ourselves dancing a couple of songs to keep our students interested and moving. I didn’t go into her house because she has 3 little ones. We made sure to stay at least 10-12 feet away from each other and danced in her driveway. She is always fun to dance with. I was talking to her about my daughter and me feeling bad about putting her out but she told me I needed to set boundaries and I should have years ago from the bratty way she is acting. As we were talking, my daughter sent me a text asking if she really couldn’t come home and had to go to her grandmothers instead. I told her , “yes, because you do not listen”. Needless to say, I have not heard back from her. She does have safe places to go, her grandmothers, dads, or her cousins house. It is a horrible time for her to be out but maybe this is what she needs to come to her senses and buckle down and take care of her son. She’ll run out of money soon and have to face the reality of her situation and the worlds’.
The baby was going to day care but her job closed down because of the virus. We’d sing ABC’s to him. He’s not quite talking yet. He says “Hi and Bye” really good, as well as, Ya Ya- what he calls me. I made him color cards and we would dance together a lot. His mom does teach him so stuff but doesn’t have a set schedule for him. I use to be a co-director of a day care so she knows and I told her repeatedly how important it is for him to start early. You know how some kids learn more quickly than others despite anyone teaching them like they know their survival depends on it? That’s what I see and feel when I watch him.
School starts for me tomorrow. I have some virtual classes and the others are just discussion forums but I have been studying intermittently the last week to be ready. I only have 24 hours of school left and I am going to try to do summer classes so I can graduate this fall semester, hopefully. There has been no word on if the high school here is going to have a graduation ceremony. Crossing my fingers they will.
I am happy he’s been clean for the last week. With the world the way it is everyone but the drug dealers will be clean because we won’t be able to leave the house at all. LOL. Mine stopped using on Thursday. He just started feeling better today. He told me that it’s not fun anymore and he feels rundown despite taking it… (Shoulder Shrug) we will see. Wow, the drug dealers come to the door? I would sh$t a literal brick. I am so scary. That’s funny considering they sent out at least 10 police officers for my husband one time. I live on a corner lot and they were all along the fence line and between the our house and the neighbors. They banged on the door at around 2:30 am and I just opened it in my skimpy night gown, the head guy and I stared at each other for a minute. I am sure I had a ticked off look on my face. I do not like being woken up. He cleared his throat and asked for my ex and I hollered back into the house for him, like it was one of his friends at the door. They carted him off and I went right back to sleep. I am soooooo happy that hasn’t ever happened again but it was hilarious at the time.
I have watched all of the Bridget Jones movies. I loved them. Her mom was something else. I’m sorry she’s giving you flack about holidays and such. With you opening up about your situation it’s funny that that is what she got out of the whole thing.
Do you watch Netflix? If you do, you should really watch the “Tiger King” if you haven’t already. It’s in another state but I don’t live too far away from Joe Exotics Zoo. I used to work at a day care that offered pictures with a white tiger cub and I had my little brothers’ picture taken. The show is hilarious. Now I’m trying to get through the new series “Freud”. It is not at all what I expected. There’s a psychic mediums and some weird gypsy like bad lady. I dunno, it’s a little bit much. It’s something to watch besides true crime and serial killer series/movies. I swear by the time this pandemic calms down I’m going to either be the best homicide detective ever or the best serial killer! LOL
I hope you had a beautiful day – Hugs!