Calvin's birthday cake

Calvin is 18!! What a big year! I'm not responsible for him anymore! Tee. Hee. Hee! He was in Tucson, so Lauren, Kyle and I made a cake for him and celebrated! He's such a great guy. I'm the lucky one to have him for a son! Way to go, Calvin! Happy Birthday. I love you tons!

God's "I know who you are" gift to me

For some, seeing Gladys Knight wouldn't be that big of a deal, but I have wanted to see her forever. She was going to be in concert at Tuachan, just 20 minutes away. The tickets were $50 each this time around, and I just didn't feel I could rationalize paying that at this point. Everytime I saw an ad for the concert, I felt a little bad that she was going to be so close and I couldn't see her. I think she is the greatest singer of all times! The day of the concert, I had to get my IV that sort of makes me sick or tired sometimes. I was laying down at 7:15pm. when a friend called and asked if I wanted some extra tickets her friends had offered her. She was at a restaurant, or somewhere, ran into them, she couldn't go, she offered them to me, who would not have been home or available if I hadn't been a little sick from the IV. I jumped at the chance. I called around, couldn't find anyone who could go in 15 minutes to the 8pm. show. I called a friend who said she was already going, but to go with her and her friend. So I did. When we got there, there happened to be one extra seat next to them on the 5th row in the center.

So, I am sitting there watching a singer I love, in a beautiful outdoor arena, perfect weather, with great friends and having a great time dancing in my seat (alot of older white folks there, so standing up dancing just was too taboo). I began to think of all the little things that got me there--my friend happening to run into her friends, me being home, no one else being able to go, my friend going, a seat next to her's not being used, etc., and got the feeling God knew me personally enough to know I love Gladys Knight and wanted to see her, so he orchestrated it for me. I could have lived without it that night, but I felt He just wanted to give me a gift just because...not because I was good, or did something I was supposed to, or earned it, or for any other reason than just because. How cool is that?!

Lauren's camera skills.....

Pie in the Face

I did a Relay for Life team for our school. It was 6th grade against 7th grade. 7th grade raised more money, so some of us 6th grade teachers got pies in our faces. We raised over $1100.

Yup. I remembered again, my quarterly update

I don't know if anyone even reads this stuff, but in the event someone does, here's the latest. We moved in our new place 3 months ago. Things are in pretty good order except the bonus room, which has all the stuff in it I don't know what to do with. I am waiting to see what happens with that stuff.

My health is good. I have to do a PET scan in a few weeks. I like that because if it is good, I can breath easy another 3 months. I hate that because I won't know if it is good until I get the results back. If it is bad I would just rather not know and just one day not wake up.

Calvin had figured out what to do with his life when he grows up, I think. He is going to a golf college in Phoenix. At least that is the plan so far. Sounds like a perfect fit for him. He is graduating from Sauhrita (spelled someway other than the way I spelled it, according to spell check) at the end of May. He is a cool dude.

Lauren is anxious to get this year done, she kept a count-down on her hand with a marker until I nixed that. She is excited for summer. I reminded her then she would be bored in a few days after school ends. She agreed, but decided being bored in a summer was better than being actively engaged at school. She plays this annoying slug bug game with me where she hits me everytime she sees a VW bug and "says Punch buggy, no returns." So I decided to make up a new game which she finds more annoying. Whenever I see a truck I punch her and say "big truck, you're in luck." She thinks it is stupid and that it is not lucky to see a big truck and I can't make up a game like that because the punchbuggy one is already up and running, but I figure some random person made that one up, I can make up one if I want. It especially gets exciting when played on the freeway.

The community garden: Kyle, his dad, me, and three of my single friends and their families planted a community garden in Santa Clara. We are quite a motley crew. Kyle had the land connection. Amazingly he asked if I wanted to join in and plant a garden. I say amazingly because he has seen 25 years of garden failure from my attempts and still asked me to join him. That is more amazing than the amazing fact we are now divorced and he still wanted to do a joint venture. According to his mom, we have the weirdest relationship she has seen. She is right. The garden is actually growing stuff, which is pretty cool!

Being single: I haven't gone to any single things, but there are perks to the single life. I did go to a dinner party of single people, there were even men there. And it was ok. The perks are that people call and offer free concert tickets when they have extras. I got to see Gladys Knight and also the American Idols at Tuachan for free. I didn't know much about the American Idols, but the tickets were free, so why not, but I LOVED seeing Gladys Knight. Other perks are people are great about helping me when stuff breaks down, there is no one around to hear me snore, nor to wake me up with their snoring, I don't have to shave my legs as much.