friday

ok.. so i've already missed a day in my daily blog ......

well i do have a good excuse.

i woke up yesterday and just felt a bit off (more off than usual). i was tired, achy, and felt .. blah. there were some people at rehearsal on monday that mentioned being sick over the weekend, and one lady got sick at rehearsal.. so i figured i was next in line.

i tried to take it easy yesterday morning.. going back to bed after getting the kids to school, but didn't really sleep. finally decided to get up and take a shower..i always feel better after a shower. i decided to go out and run some errands that i had been putting off, and to meet bill for lunch. as i drove out of the driveway, i pressed the garage door opener button to close the door.. and then i heard "BOOM!!!!!"

i couldn't figure out what had happened... i was still in the driveway.. and looked at my house.. and then i realized that my garage door was all bent up.. crumpled :( something had happened, and it fell instead of lowering slowly like it was supposed to. i knew it was going to be a hassle, but i didn't want to be late for lunch, so i just left it and went on.

from lunch i went straight to pick the kids up after school.. because the weather was just plain dreary and nasty. we then went to the card store to by my dad a birthday card, his birthday (71) is on monday. nobody could agree on one card, so we each got one.... so he'll have a bunch of cards to open on monday :)

anyway.. back home to check the damage to the door..... its a very very heavy door... double wide made of reinforced steal. its guided thru the tracks by wheels, and springs, and the electric door opener is connected to it. i realized after looking at it, that the spring had snapped. this isn't a tiny spring, its HUGE... i'm so glad no one was in the garage when it happened and that it happened when the door was closing .. not opening.

if it had occured while i was pulling into the garage, the door would have fallen on the car.. and probably crushed it :|

i'm starting to think maybe its this car that is cursed.. a few weeks ago the hit and run accident, then during repairs at the shop.. more mysterious damage to the opposite side of the car.. now the garage door nearly missing it......

anyway.... the garage door will have to be jacked up and removed..and replaced. i'm waiting right now for the garage door guy, he said he'd be here between 8-12... so that means i'll see him around 12:30 ;)

my estimate for this repair is 1300 ... ugh... lets hope i'm wrong. i keep thinking there is nothing else that could possibly go wrong with this house.....

3 toilets replaced, new laundry tub, new kitchen, new master bathroom, new electrical throughout, new telephone lines, new cable.... could all this hassle really be worth the amount we saved on this house?????

so.. on with my day yesterday... by the time i got in after shopping... and feeding everyone, i was still feeling quite crappy and decided to put on my jammies, and just watch the Pistons playoff game. game 3 against the orlando magic (we won!! yay!) now we have one more game in florida.. if we lose that one then its back home next week. this is just the first round of the playoffs, but the pistons look great.

last night after watching the game.. alex got a call from his g/f just at bedtime. her mom is good friends with the secretary at the high school. natalie told alex that there has been yet another bomb threat at their school, and its closed today while the police do a sweep. this is the second bomb threat in 2 weeks, and just 3 weeks ago at the middle school there was a false call about a student with a gun that closed down the entire area for several hours.

in total, 4 schools in our district are closed this morning due to the threat.. thats about 6500 students out of school for another day. this is getting really upsetting.

they caught the person who phoned in the phoney gun call at sam's school.. it was a 6th grader :| a new kid to the school, 11 years old calling from the payphone at school ... how sad. he has been suspended and failed 6th grade.

they have a suspect in the bomb threat 2 weeks ago that shut down the same 4 schools that are shut down this morning... a 16 yr old boy, they are charging him for the costs of the search... estimated 700,000US, plus failing him, and charging him as an adult. there is also talk of charging his parents :|

i just don't understand that.. i mean.. at 16 years old, i believe if you hurt someone or threaten to hurt someone.. you are responsible for yourself. i don't know the parents, or what kind of family this kid comes from... maybe i'm just looking at it from my point of view. if one of my kids ever did something like this...... i just can't imagine.

to the kids at the schools now its becoming a big joke... days off. this latest threat apparently referenced the virgina tech mess and threaten to make that look like "childs play" as a parent that creeps me out beyond words. i asked my 2 high schoolers if they talked about what they would do if someone was actually shooting up their school.. and they said.. yeah.. everyone agrees they would play dead :| i hate that they even have had to think about that. its just so sad.

garage door guy just called, he is on his way.. so we'll see what the damage is in a few minutes.

i'm expecting a housefull of kids here in a little while... since they don't have school, our house seems to be the gathering place. i don't mind that.. at least i know what they're doing.

i'm supposed to do a 5k run in the morning, the way i feel right now.. i'll be walking very slow and come in last for sure .. but i'm still planning on doing it.

i guess if i'm going to do this blogging thing, i need to become more efficent with saying more using less words.

c ya all for now.