no writing.....well....to be perfectly honest, I was very mad! (As if you couldn't tell that from reading the last entry!) I have had some time to cool down, reflect and chat about it with various friends, confidants, relatives and of course, my man, and they have talked me off the ledge...mostly!
Anyway, here is how it stands;
The school district...HA...this is a fight that I will not give up but it must be put on the back burner until next fall when they start planning the 2011-12 school year and so I am resolved in my, oh shall we say 'diligent patience', in other words, I can wait through the summer, I'm not going anywhere and I am certainly not forgetting this or letting it go. In the mean time I have tried to organize a parent's group at the school to talk about this and just other general issues and hopefully that will be a very good thing for everyone involved~the first two meetings have been small but interesting and the feedback has been to keep it up so we shall see.
Girl Scouts~double HA....I still really can't fathom that what happened happened as it is soooo against everything Scouty but we are all still human beings and most definitely fallible and so I am going to say something to the neighborhood chair in my end of the year info dump and then move on. I will not be involving myself and most certainly not Bella with the particular "culprits" until they can literally prove that they can and will do it right though, as her food allergy is never a three-strikes-you're-out kind of deal...one strike could kill her and so for right now we will stay in the dugout thank you very much!
The foobs/cancer....well...I guess I am still coming to terms with it all. I'd like to think I was over everything and just hunky-dory but alas, it appears I am not, although I try and continue to fool myself into thinking so. That's not to say I don't have good days, I do...totally fab days when I look smashing in a shirt and I don't even have to put on a bra(I just know you're jealous ;) ) but the truth is...I am reminded every single day of what happened when I look in the mirror. Even though I try and avoid that as much as possible, it's kind of hard when the back of our bathroom door has a full length mirror on it and it is what you see when you open the shower curtain and step out...hmmmm....maybe I should move that...or just take hotter showers and really steam it up! :P As for the real important issue....swimsuits...I give up! Surprised? Don't be...it is hard enough for everyone else why shouldn't it be hard for the perfect foobs? Of course what this really means is although it might seem like the easiest route, I will not be appearing nekid at the pool, I will just be wearing one of several suits I have bought that cover the scars enough and if they don't or the suit shifts in the water and someone happens to see them and stare well...that's on them, I give up, I officially don't care and nothing anyone does can make me.....I, of course, reserve the right to completely revoke that statement should I go to the pool and have some little kid scream loudly, "Mommy, why does that lady have slashes on her boobies?" but I am hoping that will never be the case...and even if it is, I am pretty sure that mommy will be far more embarrassed by that than I am anyway!
And now the rest of the story....the last few weeks have been crazy insane with fieldtrips, end of year happenings, camping trips and more Dr.s appts than I can keep straight! Not to mention the fact that in that time period I applied for a position on the School Board(no I didn't get chosen, but I wasn't doing it for that completely, I just wanted to see how they did it) and I have come away with some very interesting observations and questions that were posed to me that I plan on posing right back at them when they run again.....yeah, I'm a troublemaker, actually that's not really accurate, I just seek truth and justice and equality, but whatever, I suppose to some who are not doing those things that does qualify me as a troublemaker...guess they should watch out then :D
I found out I actually hurt the nerves in my foot as well as tendons and cartilage from the cookie/stairs incident and am still recovering from that although it is MUCH better thankfully!
I have continued to battle the teen drivers, but...I am winning(insert evil laughter here) since I have no qualms about calling the police and making the county money from them parking in a lawn, or too close to a mailbox(must be 7 ft clearance on both sides fyi), or too close to the entrance to an intersection(a 30 ft clearance required for that one) or too far from the curb(12 inches or less). And...there will soon be a no parking sign on one side of my street which someone tore down years ago and that will lessen my troubles even more!(Kudos to the STL County street dept. as they had a truck out here to check on it literally within a half an hour from when I called about it!!!! Unfortunately they weren't sure exactly where it had been before so the boss man has to come out and officially survey and then make sure that is clear of all utilities before they put it back up, but they said within a week's time. And yes, had I known that, it would have gone up last fall but...at least next year it will already be there by the time school starts! )
And last but not least, I ended up getting stitches on Cinco de Mayo! Now before you guess it may have been due to my over celebrating the holiday...I will stop you and say I had just poured my first Mojito(I don't do Tequila or margaritas) and had only taken one sip before I was de-pitting an avocado and the knife broke the pit and sliced my thumb. It was not the smoothest move I have ever made, yet I really have never claimed to be smooth, in fact I generally proclaim I'm a klutz and to watch out, but this was truly all the avocado pit's fault...I have never had a pit break on me....and ..never had to get stitches either, so it was kind of a two-fer I guess. However, I now have and thankfully made it through the ordeal without passing out and still getting to devour the avocado in some homemade guac(it was delish btw) and now I just have one more scar to add to collection and I'm really just happy I didn't cut my nail as that would have been waaay worse and this is "just a flesh wound" so no biggie in the grand scheme of things. I will say it was quite amusing to see the girls' reactions to it though! They have seen me with hair in various stages of falling out, no eyebrows or lashes(which is truly the freakiest part of that I swear! ) boobless with huge scars running across my chest and too many drains for one lifetime not to mention the scars and actual bulging port implant and this...THIS...five measly stitches grossed them out~I will never understand my children, which is probably for the best anyway :)
So now I am just continuing with the crazy wind down of the school year and the end of an era as Lexi moves from elementary to middle school and somehow managing to have at least one thing to do on my calendar from now until June but then the lazy days of summer shall begin and my formal sun-worshipping shall commence and I can't wait.
I will try to be better about writing again and now that I am over this latest bout of madness I think it will come easier ...or at least I will have lots to write about for the next few weeks anyway :)
So, I hope you have had a nice end of April and start of May and as always,
Blog ya later-
K
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