Cali Who?

It appears that the lovely, charming Cali-Sue (I don't know why I added Sue to her name...it just seems to fit) wasn't suffering from abandonment related to a foreclosure or anything that bad. Perhaps she was merely left to her own devices while her human family went away for a three day weekend because I haven't seen her once since Monday morning. So she's moved on to mooch off other families? Or to return home. The bowls are still out on the front porch and in the back yard but there's been no sign of her. I'm not thinking anything's happened to her other than she went home. And she'll be welcomed back whenever she returns. We like having a 'stray' cat friend now and then. Well, I like it - and J. indulges me - 'cuz he's sweet like that.

I'm off tomorrow - at least mostly off. My PC is being upgraded and I have to go in around 1ish to see how the conversion is going. Hopefully, all will be well and I'll have a brand new, super fast, oh-so-much-lighter laptop! Yippee! The current one is getting odd 'memory' messages and occasional 'blue screens of almost death' - and our IT guy said 'replace it before something horrible happens'. So we did. Can't wait.

4 day weekend looming with just working around the house on the list. Possibly a lunch date with my husband....and I need to go back to Macy's and return a couple things. An excuse to drive to the 'big mall' again.

My cousin D. in Edmond, OK. emailed me to confirm they are OK - scared me to pieces when I read that the tornadoes in Oklahoma hit Edmond - many cousins live there. I emailed her pleading to 'send me an email that you're alright - or I'll have to shock the heck out of you and call you!'. Looking forward to her blog update SOON, I hope 'cuz I've missed the happenings in her life lately.

I am heading out the door to a Lions meeting shortly. Wishing I didn't have to go 'cuz Survivor premieres tonight and I hate to miss it - but I'll be home to watch it with J. on our DVR.

Boys are (still) driving me crazy. B. has (I hope) made a decision related to college that is the better decision - one we have been hoping for. We will see if he sticks to it. His grades are still lacking and the effort to change that isn't happening either - so we're at impasse on many topics. He frustrates me....I am reassured by many family and friends that this is all 'normal'; that they do improve and become lovely people someday. But for now, we muddle through. He has made some bad choices/decisions lately - and assumes no responsibility for much of it. Yet, it is what it is. It can't be ignored. I know he knows this....but he's still holding out hope for a miracle. Or a change of heart. HIS HEART is telling him what he should do - he's just resisting listening to it. And he knows what the better decision is. I'm praying it's settled soon - I'm pretty sure I'm getting an ulcer and while work is certainly a component of that, the situation with him is not helping any.

Bye for now - off to hear high school students in a speech contest sponsored by Lions.