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Oh, What A Week!
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I have to apologize for the week-long hiatus from posting on Life With Lorelai, but life, technology, and the weather completely took its toll on me this past week. Allow me to sum up:
Monday: Facebook “temporarily blocked” my account and deleted all of my posts – had to create a new account; Met with new lawyer – it went great; Ran from that meeting across the county to meet with the Public Health Nurse to get help in filling out some forms for Rory’s SSI – went well; Came home spent 3-1/2 hours filling out the SSI paperwork; Called and Texted Christopher about cancelling mediation as its no longer needed – he wouldn’t respond; mailed SSI paperwork; Spent hours trying to get Facebook up and running again.
Tuesday: Discovered I had a LOT of things to do to repair damage done by facebook blocking – still not finished; Called and Texted Christopher again – no response; Took Rory out clothes shopping for school – thank goodness for gift cards and birthday money; Christopher finally calls and doesn’t want to cancel mediation (maybe he wants Rory to live with him…HA! She’s 18, it doesn’t matter what he MAY want.) – He’s going to call an attorney and check on it; Rory was very upset about Christopher’s phony pretense of caring – needed to spend time cheering her up; Summer finally arrived with a vengeance! 85-90 degree weather is NOT normal for summer in Huntington Beach – YUCK!; Christopher calls back late and says he’ll cancel mediation tomorrow – it’s about time he got a clue; Taco Tuesday was so crowded we had to wait 30-40 minutes for a table and then got the waitress we don’t care for – oh well, the tacos were yummy.
Wednesday: School started for Rory; Received a call from Rory’s home teacher saying that one of the people in the district office is creating waves and wants to meet with us regarding Rory’s schooling and her IEP – we have an IEP in place that isn’t due for review until December. We will meet tomorrow to discuss this issue; Christopher cancelled mediation – called my attorney to let him know and have him check with the court to be sure it was cancelled; Go to the Federal Court house to meet Christopher for a free clinic we needed – yuck, yuck, and yuck. And on top of that, Christopher didn’t bring the paperwork he was supposed to bring. Even the attorney rolled his eyes; Deal with Medical Insurance paperwork; Weather still blistering!
Thursday: Wake up early to hopefully get more work done on fixing Facebook issue, and write a blog post before the scheduled power outage from 8am – 5pm today (did I mention the heat? A/C please!); Open internet, get a VIRUS – Obama’s angry face with an outstretched arm pointing a long finger at me. – Wow, did it do a number on my computer. It completely knocked me off the internet; Power went out; Called my antivirus protection who said it would cost $165 for the 1st hour and $35 for every 15 minutes thereafter for someone to come out and fix it; Called my bank to have them watch for suspicious activity; went to the bank to get a new debit/credit card; had Rory and Kirk call the bank about their accounts; went to Staples to see what they could do about the virus; Rory and I went to Target and walked around in the air conditioning dreaming in the housewares department, and then over to Luke’s to hang out with electricity; Rory talked with her friend, Marty, who’s at Baylor University – he helped me get rid of the virus, fairly easily and without loosing any of my files…yeah! – Need to update and reload some program things, easy but time consuming; attorney called me – mediation is cancelled.
Friday: Met with the medical home teacher – district lady coming to the house to meet with us next week; Rory had school on campus; Rory had a Freshmen Connect event with the college group that I had to drive her to and from; still super HOT!
Saturday: The Great Labor Day Cruise Car Show at the Orange County Fair Grounds – Luke, Rory and I went. Fun day, but wowzers hot!!!; BBQ at Luke’s with Sukie and Jackson.
Sunday: Still hot, but slightly cooler; Finished my Guest Blog posts that were due today; Went to the Orange International Street Fair with Luke’s nephew Jess and his girlfriend – tons of fun.
Monday: Brunch with Luke’s family; weather is still warm, but MUCH cooler; bike ride this afternoon – yippee!
Well now…that’s a week, huh?!
Thursday while Rory and I were dreaming at Target, we strolled down the candle aisle and had a little Cheap Aroma Therapy! We had so much fun. We stood there smelling all the different candles. Rory’s favorite candle scent was the Waterfall-Marine Breeze-Canyon Mist, and I couldn’t decide between the Vanilla Cupcake or the Lemon Macaroon. We both agreed there was DEFINITELY a reason for the Bamboo Sugar Cane-Wild Bamboo-Palm Tree candle to be on clearance. Blech! Was that ever disgusting.
Here we are at a brand new week…and boy, oh boy, are we looking forward to an awesomely incredible week! Tee Hee…it won’t take much to make it feel like that after the disaster of last week. I hope all of you have a wonderful week too.
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Wow, so glad you got through it and recovered LOL…missed you!
Angel
We did! And Luke made sure Rory and I had a super fun and busy weekend. Yesterday, we just relaxed, rode bikes, and enjoyed the quiet. 🙂
Hi Lorelai. Wow. What a week you have had. I certainly hope that this week is much better for you! I am having some internet issues myself at the moment. Can’t get my facebook to fully load so that I can post today’s blog entry. Ugh. I can relate to you having issues in this arena. It wasn’t working when I left the house this morning. I was hoping for better luck when I got back, but, nope. Nothing changed. Otherwise, things are going well for me. I am working on getting my Etsy store up and running. I have a launch date of Wednesday of next week. Yay!! Finally. So, I have tons to do before then. Still have to finish making some products, and then get them all posted.
It is good to see you back. I have missed you.
I have missed everyone! Good luck with your internet problem. It can be so frustrating when you have a deadline for things and you NEED to be online to accomplish them. I’m excited to see your Etsy store and your new products. 🙂
Good lord! It sounds like you had quite a week! Glad to see you back and I’m hoping this week goes much better for you =)
I think it was about six months crammed into one week! LOL …this week can only be better. 🙂
Oh my goodness. You did have quite a week. I hope this one is looking up 🙂
So far, so good! I’m thinking it can’t possibly be worse than last week, so it’s big smiles for us this week. 😀
Oh my gosh, Lorelai, that was a heck of a week. I am so sorry to hear all of the drama, all of which you had no direct involvement with! Most of it was stuff that other people did or didn’t do. Ugh. How frustrating! I hope this week is better. How’s your FB situation now?
My computer, internet, and facebook all seem to be working well…YIPPEE! You really do feel helpless when other people’s incompetence wreak havoc in your life. Here’s to a bright, sunny new week. 🙂
Whew… what an exhausting week! I really hope that this week will be much much better, not just a little better!
Thanks, Rochelle. I had a great night sleep last night for the first time all week. Woke up to the aroma of fresh brewed coffee…mmm…all is good. 😀
I’m sorry you had such a rough week, it sound like things are looking up though.
I’m thinking this will be a much more relaxed week. I plan on doing my best to keep it as stress-free as possible. Big smiles for a happy new week. 😀
I think something is in the air. Life has been crazy on this side of the globe too. Hope things start to cool down!!!!
Hi, Lani! I’m not sure I’ve ever had a more crazy and stressful week…LOL. It can only improve form here…happy, happy! 😀
I may seriously never complain about anything. EVER. AGAIN!!
Hahaha! It was quite the roller coaster ride. But wow do I feel happy and raring to go for this week. Big smiles and lots of laughs. 😀
Well, that sounds frankly . . .terrible! I hope you have a much better week ahead of you! I hate when computer things mess up!
Well, you nailed my week smack on the head. AND I even forgot to mention that some stupid truck decided to rev its engine and spin its wheels in a road construction zone and threw a rock into the side window of my suburban…chipped, oh yeah! But this week is looking WAY up! I think sometimes you just have to laugh at it all because otherwise you’d just sit there and cry. 🙂
What a busy week you had. Welcome back…
I have been very busy last week and early of this week ordering products and input data to homeschoolskedtrack. Have a great day…
Good luck with your homeschooling. You have a great week too. 🙂