When life hands you lemons add alcohol and stir!

[mishka422]

Steal away girl! That made my day on an otherwise cruddy one!

First, my golf cart was stolen right from the front of my house in broad daylight yesterday between 10:30a and 12:30p.

Second, two older women who live at the other end of our subdivision and drive by our house every day on their golf cart had stopped by the other day to ask about the stain on the street. Gabe's car has a slow oil leak that he hasn't been able to find and can't afford a mechanic to fix. It has left a trail on the street where he turns around and a stain under his car where he parks. She is one of those old busy bodies that has nothing better to do and decided to call code enforcement about it. GIVE ME A BREAK! Ooohh...heaven forbid...there is a little oil on the street. It's asphalt! Get over it! It's not like it's actually causing any kind of danger or being tracked anywhere. It's drops. Now I have a fine from the city for "defacing public space" and orders to not park the car on the street anymore and to put kitty litter down on it. The kitty litter will make a bigger mess than the oil. STUPID! Sometimes it's great living in an affluent area and other times it's just ridiculous. Of course, living in one of the lowest crime cities of it's size in the country didn't save my darned golf cart!! ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!!!

Third, a vicious storm hit here right as I left work last night. I thought for sure I was going to be blown off the road or a tree was going to come down on me. I got lucky and made it home without getting killed but a couple of women driving on the north side of Atlanta were not so fortunate and a tree blew down on top of their convertible Miata and killed them instantly. So sad. I encountered two very large pine trees down across the road on my way home and had to divert but thankfully I missed them actually coming down.

Missed Zumba because of the storm too and that just irked me. I count on that as a stress reliever.

One last bit of nonsense. I finally found Marc's proposed class load from his counselor last night (school gets out today) and discovered that they did not implement what we had discussed in his IEP. He was supposed to have weight lifting (to keep physical activity in his day which helps him focus), study skills, English, math, math support and world history. Instead they put him in social skills, math, math support, English, world history and physics! No gym class and social skills instead of study skills.

That is just setting him up to fail. He had a hard enough time passing his TWO academic classes this year. I have contacted his autism triad coordinator and his counselor. We'll see.

Just a wild and crazy day overall.