Super sad

So I just spent about forever talking to my mom on the phone, and she unwittingly dropped a bombshell.

Ferenci, my favorite teacher of all teachers, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in state prison. Wow.

Wow.

That's about all I've got. I'm depressed and sad for his family and worried about what's going to happen to him and so many other things going through my head. 6 years of his life gone (if not more, and who knows what this will do to him as a person) essentially because of a text message.

How do you process something like this?

Quick update

well, it's been. . .um, two months now since paul lost his job? i'm not even sure. but, so far, no job. not even a crappy one, although he might be getting one very soon. he interviewed and did the physical/drug test/whatever for a beef processing plant called cargill here in fresno. it's long hours and crappy pay, but we don't have a lot of choices right now. we're just waiting to see what happens. there's no official start date or anything right now.

anyway, other than that, life's pretty boring. i wish i had pictures to put on, but unfortunately we don't have a new card for our camera cause we were planning on buying a new one. . .then paul lost his job. so, sadly, i've missed out on a lot of good pictures. oh well. i suppose i should at least go buy a new card for my old crappy camera.

keith's going through an awful stage where he gets into everything he knows he's not supposed to, multiple times, then throws major fits when he doesn't get what he wants. i hope it doesn't last too long cause it's driving me crazy!

alexa's got some nasty diaper rash that won't seem to go away no matter what i do. she's such a happy girl though. she still hasn't rolled from back to tummy and still can't get her knees up under her all the way. she can rotate and move backwards only currently.

as for me, i have a nasty bruised thumb that hurts something fierce (and when i say thumb, i mean thumb, plus whole bottom corner of my palm, which is purple). i'm having an awful time trying to lose weight and my patience isn't up to par. other than that, things are great! haha. but seriously, i need a break. i need to go camping or to the beach or something. it's been WAY too many months since i've gotten away for even just overnight, and i need a break. i haven't even been up to the mountains since october (when the saturn exploded), even just to drive around. . .isn't that sad?

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i had such a super awesome birthday! in the 5 years since paul and i got married, this one wins hands down. i kept trying to explain to paul it wasn't about the gift, or any gift for that matter, it was about the sincere thought and effort. he scored big this year.

i woke up at 6:45 (why so early??) and the kids and paul were gone. he had left a note on alexa's door saying he had them, not to worry, and he'd be back soon...or something like that. he returned kid-free. that was fantastic. he bought me a new pair of reefs, which i was desperately needing and made me breakfast. then we spent a childless morning spending time with each other like we haven't gotten to do for a very long time. it was fantastic. we saw a movie (which we didn't pay for because we had tickets from christmas) and then had lunch.

all of that, alone would have been enough to keep me happy for a very long time, but the birthday fun continued on saturday when we drove to lindsay. becky was sweet enough to watch our kids while we played at mcdermont all day, which was also didn't pay for because she had a ton of money stored up on her card. we played laser tag, pool, air hockey, virtual bowling, some hoops arcarde games and climbed the huge rock wall (which was by far my favorite part!).

but wait, there's more! (haha) then we drove to tulare where mom took the kids and we went to encore theatre's production of fiddler on the roof jr. where j.d. casey played tevye (who was awesome, by the way!). it was the best birthday weekend ever.

thank you to everyone who watched my kids, it wouldn't've been possible without ya'll!