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Kristen-Things are still going strong with Drew. She has been experimenting with makeup. Slowly getting better. This last time she did not get any below her eye. She did get some above her eyebrow. Generally three different hair styles before she settles on one before school. Her grades were good. All B's and one C. Kristen has a carnival at TRail Ridge on Friday

Matt-Grades are not what they should be-hopefully he is working on it. He had his second bass lesson. Play practice has started. Tonight he has his 1st drivers ed meeting. Tomorrow we are going out to dinner at Chili's and taking Jen with us. Friday Matt has play practice and Sat he is helping her with a book sale and then they are going bowling.

Randy- obsessed with fishing. He caught 7 on Sunday. We all went over there to the local pond with him. I tried to read while listening to Kristen whine about being bored. The dog was there too. She apparently is afraid of fish. Every time he caught one, she would begin to shake. Matt fished for awhile and then carved Jen's name in a stick. Sabrina did go wading. Not real happy about it and even less happy when we got home and had to hose off the pond scum.

Me-feeling a lot better after getting drugs from the doctor. My bp is a little high so I have to go back in two weeks. I am meeting my mentor at Chilis tonight, so they are all on their own. Then coming home and wrapping presents and baking cake. He actually cares about none of it-only cares about Jen. He has fallen hard! I am so far behind in grad school stuff. Causing a fair amount of stress! I can't seem to stay awake late or get up early any more? Can you say burn out?

Randy leaves 10/8 and will not have to go to Korea. That may be a separate trip or someelse will have to make it.

Update on MattJen and the weekend

Matt has been asked to Jen's homecoming dance and has accepted. He says he is wearing all black-big giant veto stamp on that. This will occur while Randy is in Singapore so I will have to drop off and pick up. I told him he needs to check with me since he must rely on me for transportation.

Camping:Can you say cold, can you say wet(as in the white stuff), can you say mud when the white stuff melted? We camped near chambers lake-9000 elevation and it was pretty miserable.Matt and I both had bad colds going into this weekend and now they are worse. Oh and there is this 19 year old girl there who was kind of hitting on Matt until she found out he was 15.

We got home at 2:30 and the kids showered and went to make up the games they missed from the 1st week of their bowling league(I did not know this league ran until April when I signed them up for it!). Regular bowling is at 9am Saturdays. (Kris will miss it again this Sat since she has a confirmation retreat until 3pm Saturday.) I digress...back to today. Kris had to be at confirmation from 5-7 pm tonight and then Matt had a high school game night from 6:30 to 8:30.

Tomorrow-Matt has one on one play practice where he will learn to talk like a drunk. Can you just imagine what we will be listening to for the next 6 weeks.

I am getting my hair colored Tuesday night. Tuesday afternoon, Randy leaves for California. Wednesday night is parent teacher conferences for Matt. He has been told all electronics disappear if he is not passing everything. Which also includes myspacing Jen.

Matt's birthday celebration

He is choosing to help Jen at a local public library book sale and then go bowling instead of a party. This feels weird-A-my son is VOLUNTEERING at a LIBRARY, B-he is choosing to go bowling(which he will have done earlier in the day) over a party.

Good mommy bad student

Last night I helped Matt study for a math test. He said it really helped. His father was too busy. He eventually came up and helped but not until after Matt and I got help on line. I then took Kristen to the store for posterboard. My homework-not so much done. Today I spent all day at the Denver Public Schools bookfair. Fantastic speaker, Steve Layne if you ever have the chance, dont't pass him up. We are picking up Matt's bass tomorrow.

Matt and Kris go to the doctor

Today was checkup day and yup you guessed it-they both needed shots. Kristen did not even notice hers. Matt pulled his out the first time, but I was relentless. The second time they were successful. Matt said the needle was 7 inches long. Just found he got a part in the school play in November. The play is Macbeth did it and he plays the part of Ralph. He tried out for Juanito.

Matt's music video

Matt and his friends Scott, Matt and James want to make a music video of them sword fighting-they are not a band-they plan to dub in music. I explained he can only legally use 30 seconds of any one song(copyright). He is now rethinking this-knowing that I will never allow him to break this law-part of the librarian code.

Matt

Matt and I are here while Kristen and Randy went camping. I have numrerous class projects to work on and Matt has activities scheduled. Took him out for Chick parmisian last night and he remarked it was a long time since it was just the two of us. He is a different person. He says he thinks he is too competitive with both Randy and Kris. Anyway, these are some of the things he talked about:

His friend Scott has made a cd of anti school songs(all hits when I was in school)
Matt loves Twisted Sister, Pink Floyd, ACDC, Black Sabbath. I asked him if he listens to Alice Cooper-he says yes, he really likes her-which proves he has not listened to HIM!

He also would like to get Marine corp tattoos on his arms. Doesn't want to join the Corp-just wants the tattoos-not too sure he realizes needles are involved. He won't be doing this while I am supporting him that is for sure.

I miss my girl, but she is off having fun with her Daddy, who by the way leaves for Singapore on 10/8. There should be a California trip before then.