I'm looking forward to a relaxing afternoon today, watching The Golden Compass and working on my new amigurumi crochet patterns (I wish I could tell you about them - I'm so excited!). This will be a much-deserved break after a very busy week.
About a year ago, I took in my youngest son's friend. Things didn't go very well, and he had to move out due to behavior issues. Well, a year changes a lot. He is now much more mature, working on his GED, working, and even joined the Army. He just passed his Army test last week. My rule is that as long as he works hard and follows the rules, I will help him as much as I can and provide a place for him to stay. Poor kid was living in a motel room and was very depressed before moving in with us. Fingers crossed and toes crossed that this works out. He's almost 18, and I want him to have a good chance in life.
Not sure if I mentioned this before, but my youngest is a graffiti artist. He's been working on it for a few years now. Unfortunately, he got it in his head a few months ago that he was going to start tagging places to get rep. Well, we live in Maine. There is no rep to get in Maine. I have talked to him over and over again about how that is vandalizing property and it is against the law. He didn't see it that way. Until the police came to our door. Yeah. My brilliant kid decided to tag the bathroom at the local grocery store while I was shopping. On the bathroom wall, he wrote, "you can't catch me." Funny part is, the police showed up at our door about 20 minutes after we got home. I was still putting away groceries. Guess they could catch him. Why are teenagers so stupid? So now he has a juvenile corrections officer he has to see twice a month. She is going to let us know in a few days what the reparations will be, whether he can work off the damage and repair it and do community service or if we have to pay for it. I'm really hoping they let him repair it himself and do community service. He'll learn a much better lesson from that.
In a way, I'm glad he got caught. He was starting to think he was almost an adult and didn't have to listen to me anymore. Now he will be under this corrections officer's rules for the next six months with court hanging over his head if he does anything wrong. That will help me keep him in line.
I got prescriptions for Lyrica and Naprosyn last week. I can't believe it, but they really work! I'm catching up on laundry. My house is cleaner than it has been in months. I'm still really tired and sleep a lot, but it has definitely improved my life. I have to get an MRI next week for my lower back. There were a few weeks last month when I could barely put any weight on my left hip. I could only stand on it for a few minutes at a time and then I'd have to lie down and rest it. That was the most horrible pain I've ever had (probably because I've forgotten childbirth :P).
Now for a movie and some crocheting...
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