Today is Troy’s last Tuesday working a regular shift for at least two years. Its really sad, because I used to really love Wednesdays, because they were his first day off & a good portion of the year, I had him to myself on that first day. Yes, its selfish, but when you marry someone & already have kids, time alone with that person is a precious, precious thing. I’ll adapt. Eventually. I don’t like that his first day off rotates every week, or that he works on payday, but I imagine we’ll figure it out.

Erin is in Reno, he’s been there for a week or so. I should say, he was in Reno when he called me on Sunday. He was with some new friends and had just gotten back from white water rafting & was all keyed up (and drunk). The other friend that he went there with left him & headed onto Portland without him. I talked to one of the new friends, her name is Cori, I think its her phone that he’s been using. She sounded pretty normal, she wanted to reassure me that Erin was okay & was taking care of himself. I wasn’t reassured. I’d feel better if he was living somewhere & not sleeping on the streets. I don’t care that he doesn’t want to live here, as a matter of fact, it didn’t surprise me that he wanted to leave, he’s always hated this place. I care that he’s living a dangerous lifestyle that causes me to have to worry about him every day. I have never tried to tell my adult children how to live, I just want them to be safe and happy.

My daughter has to remediate a couple of classes from last year so that she can graduate. For those of you not in this area, that means she has to go to the SEA center and pay $40 a quarter to do a class online and another in a packet (that’s a total of $80). I guess I know where my money is going this week. Hopefully, she’ll pass her stupid UBSCT math test this time around and actually qualify to graduate. That whole thing makes me so angry. She passed her math classes, but because this test stresses her out so much, she hasn’t managed to pass it yet & if she doesn’t, she can’t graduate. Thank you “no child left behind.”

Anyhow, I need to go start my dishes and take some chicken out of the freezer.