A Little Of This And A Lot Of That!

 Hello to everyone,
 Today I am posting this page I made with a new kit for one of the sites that I enjoy. I am not much of a steampunk person. I really don't understand the concept of Steampunk. Is it a mixture of Gothic and or something else? I didn't get very many compliments on this page so I have to agree that it is not a very good page. But it is not as Ghastly as some that I have seen so it is what I have come up with and so be it!

 Many of you already know that I was sick with a nasty stomach virus last week and then I barely recovered from it before I had to make a trip back home on Friday. The trip home went smoothly, traffic was light and we made good time.
 My daughter Karyn took Friday off to take me to go and pick up some important paper work. After that was done I went to my sisters house and had a chance to see my niece's and nephews and hold that precious baby. Oh what a chunky monkey he is and so happy and he is learning to babble and laugh and is just so happy. Don't think that they are going to be giving him much tummy time as he wants to stand. He wants to see what is going on!
 I accidentally left my favorite robe. She said that she will mail it to me but my daughter said that she is planning on going home in a few more weeks so she can pick it up then.

 The trip home was very long and taxing. We of course was tired after the day and night and we had to leave early in the morning. There was such a dense fog that slowed us down, 2 bathroom breaks and traffic was heavier due to the weather but there was a storm coming and we beat the storm! When we finally arrived here in Austin the sun was shining, very few clouds in the sky and it was hot and muggy.
 Jonathan had to be at work at noon. We dropped Joey and Foxy off at their house and I called Jonathan to tell him that we were pulling up. I didn't even get out of the car. We took Jonathan to work and we planned to hit the grocery store, but Jonathan told us that Nathan was called into work and we had to take him in.
 Karyn didn't really eat much at all as she was driving and she had 2 kolachi's , which are very small crescent rolls with small smoked sausage and cheese in them. Some people refer to them as pigs in a blanket but those are made with biscuits, and these with crescent rolls. They were delicious but we were hungry by the time that we dropped Jonathan off and we decided to go have lunch. We went to a Thai restaurant. This place is totally different from where Jonathan took me too. They do serve shell fish but in a totally separate area and they prepare the food the food in a separate area as well so there is no cross contamination. How cool to know that a business will go out of their way to accommodate their customers with shellfish allergies like I have.
 I have a couple of pictures to share.

 This is me. As you can tell I am wearing a long sleeved blouse but I had to push up the sleeves as it had become so warm. I am drinking a Thai Tea. It is so refreshing and it is one of my favorite drinks. Karyn had never had one and ordered a soft drink but she took a drink of mine and said that she loved it and when she goes back she will have one herself.

 I have no words to describe this dish other than delicious..... It is very thin Asian noodles, almost clear in appearance covered in a delicious cashew paste sauce along with thin strips of beef and chicken, a cabbage slaw that of course I couldn't eat at the time but it was alright as I could not finish even my small plate as we also enjoyed a chicken curry dish of rice with plump raisins, chicken, bright green sweet bell peppers and onions, with sauteed carrots and peas and it is more of a normal type of curry but it was made with a coconut type of cream as well. Very delicious.

 I have a photo of it as well but cannot share it as it did not save when I emailed it to myself. I could go and get it but I will pass for now. By the time that we finished lunch we had an hour to get home and rest before Karyn had to take Nathan to work.

 This is where my venting comes in. This is what I came home too..

 It was actually worse than this. By the time that I took the pictures the wind had picked up and had blown most of the loose trash away, all over the parking lot and I took these pictures from my patio. What you cannot see is the dirty baby wipes, the spilled liquid, the food that is thrown behind the garbage. I was so upset. These new neighbors are doing this and I have complained to the office and they are not doing anything about this. These people put this kind of trash out every single day and this area is reserved for the tenant's who bag their garbage and have it picked up on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. It is supposed to be tied up and set out on those days between 5:30 to 7:30 pm for pick up. It states in the lease that we will be charged a fee and tho I have called and complained before this time I have pictures to prove it as usually a porter will see it early the next morning and clean it up. However since this is a weekend, we do not have a porter on call but a half a day on a Saturday and he was gone by the time that I arrived home.

 A bright spot was Cisco who greeted me at the door and I had to drop everything in my arms to be able hug him, take his toy and toss it and watched as he raced to bring it back to me. I finally made it to my bedroom! Treats and Toys and Playtime ensued. That in turn led to belly rubs, doggie kisses and barks! Well someone was glad to see I was home. Nathan said he moped the entire time that I was gone!

 I started putting my things away and put on my favorite comfort clothes and laid down with Cisco when my phone rang. It was my son Matthew.
 About a week ago he and Barbara had a fight and they broke up. Or I should say Barbara decided that she needed a break from their relationship. So Matt being the soft hearted guy that he is decided to step back. Well she called him while he was out working and said she decided she just wanted to break if off. Matt went back to pack his things and they agreed that he would take the car as she cannot afford the apartment and the car. Well he is on the lease and the apartment owner will not let him out of it so he is now having to continue to pay the rent but Barbara will not let him stay there. She told him she would make his life a living hell. But when he went out on the road he gave her back the car to use while he was working.
 The company he works for is cutting back expenses. Now he cannot work in the yard and they flew him or was supposed to fly him back to La Cross Wisconsin. Okay so they routed him from Nebraska to Kansas, to Texas, to Chicago where his is stranded since yesterday due to the weather. He is waiting to board a flight to Wisconsin but he called and said I need for you to pick me up at the airport and Pardon my Ugly words here as I rarely say it but she told him "Go Fuck Yourself".... so when he gets to La Cross he has no way from the airport, and no place to live as she will not let him come back.
 Now Matthew has been nothing but good to this girl. When she and her brother was homeless he moved them to La Cross and that was against my advice but he did it because he loved her. I tried to tell Matthew that she was drinking and she was drinking a lot. She and her brother lived with us for 2 weeks last year because they had no where to go. She was getting drunk every day but Matt chose to believe that things was not as bad as I said.
 Of course the drinking has just gotten worse. Half the time she doesn't even go to work. What started it all was when he came home from his break and the house was trashed. The dog has peed and pooped all over the house because no one will take her out, but she even started going on the furniture and bed. Well he was pissed. I don't blame him. Matt said that it took him 3 large trash bags just to get all of the trash out of the car!
 That is when they broke up, but he ended up having to go back to work and left her the car and now he is stranded at the airport and she has the car and the apartment and he has no where to go.

 So he called me upset and I could hear that he had been crying in his voice. It was all I could do to not pick up the phone and call that girl and give her a piece of my mind but I promised not to. BUT I want to so bad. I am so pissed at her. I told Matt that as far as I am concerned she is nothing but a Skanky Drunk Bitch. And I am being nice about even calling her that!

 Now Matthew has so much to worry about. He is in the middle of a custody battle because his ex has been busted for drugs and he is trying to get sole custody of his son because it looks like his ex is going to do jail time from what I hear, but I don't believe she will. A slap on the wrist is my guess. So he is in a real pickle. No place to live, his job is cutting back and IF he gets custody of Alex he has to have a home for him. This is coming up really fast and of course his money is running out because he is still having to pay rent on a place that he can't live at and is a total pig sty with a woman and her brother who are to lazy to put the bottle down and take out the trash, and take out the dog and to clean up a little bit.

 Matthew is like me. OCD in the clean department. It doesn't have to be spotless but it does have to be picked up and areas cleaned. I know that he is just heartbroken but he had told me that things were not good. We have tried to get her help and she has resisted all attempts. Matthew thought that by buying her things, taking her out on dates and spending time with her would help her and he really put his heart into this relationship even knowing that he was coming out on the short end of the stick.
 Yes I am mad at her for hurting my son. I am mad at him for putting himself in this predicament and I am upset that he can't get out of this lease and it is not just there but all over. The only thing that we have here in Texas now that helps us is that if a tenant decides to leave he or she is only responsible for their share of the lease and can have a buy out.
 That means for instance say in my case that Nathan decides to move out then he has the option to pay his third of the rent each month or he can pay off his share at the time that he moves out and if there is any damage he only has to pay a third. Not be held responsible for all of it at once.
 I don't know what he is going to do but that girl better not call me. I swear she will not like a word that I have to say to her.
 Matthew cannot afford another place to live and pay the rent there too. He can't live in his car which she has practically destroyed.  I don't know what to say to him. I don't know how to help him. I as a mother feel like I am failing him. And I know realistically that I am not but as a mother it is all there in my soul.

 I am getting all kinds of chain mail from the election. Hit like if you agree with Trump. Hit like and share if your against Trump.
 I am soooooooooooooo OVER that crap. Ok so I am not a fan of Trump. I think that he should stop crying that the media is unfair to him. Doesn't he have more Important stuff to think about now rather than whining that the media is unfair and biased? Not every media association is against him. Not everyone has bad mouthed him. Not every journalist out there is against him.
 It is time that he puts his petty issues aside and starts to take his position as the leader of our country seriously. At some point in the next 4 years he is going to need the very media that he is whining about. At some point he is going to need the support of journalism, unless he plans to air everything out on twitter.
 Ok so enough said about him. That is just my opinion, right or wrong we have to come together some way and alienating is not the way to go about it. I am an American. I want to be able to support my President but when he acts like a 2 year old having a pity party it is hard for me to stand behind him. His message is Let's Make America Great Again" so let's do it. Get on with it. Tackle the Big things and let the media just do what the media does. Everyone has critics. Every President in our history has had critics because you cannot win over everyone, but damn it don't make the situations worse!

 Now let's talk about the First Lady. Isn't she lovely? Wasn't her dress just so beautiful and she so elegant? People criticized her too but you don't see her going on tirades and rants on social media. No she holds her head up high and walks right on by. That is Class! Now I have heard the stories of her but it has not swayed my opinion of her.
 So what if she posed nude? There is nothing shameful about a beautiful body. She was a model. She knew what modeling meant. She had NO idea that someday she would be standing before our country as the First Lady Of The United States.
 And tell me why is it acceptable for movie stars to film nude but not a model that had no idea what her future held decades ago?

 Okay well this is all that I have for now.  I am very tired emotionally. I am going to try and just relax for the rest of the day. My son Matthew has finally boarded a plane and headed to La Cross as I type this and now I just pray for his well being as he faces another saga of drama about to unfold in his life. I have to stop worrying. I can't do anything about it anyway...


 Until next time have a good day. BB