January 2nd week

1/8/13 - It's tough times here. Busy as heck, and just tough in general on top of it all. But we manage to keep going on. Guess that's how it's done eh?

We were unable to get tyler back into school here this semester due to outstanding bills at USM. Apparently if you apply for housing then find out you didn't get enough financial aid to pay for a dorm room and you cancel your application for housing - you get stuck with a $1200 cancellation fee. It might as well be a million dollars as far as we're concerned. It is just as impossible to pay by Jan 14. I guess the only alternative is for him to sit out a semester and work and get it paid for. It might even be a good thing for him. Most of what people learn at age 21 are not necessarily from school but from the real world and the school of hard knocks. As long as he gets back in by fall 2013 we can handle a small bump in the road.

I've been rehearsing something or other every single night. Steel Magnolias on Sunday, Wednesday, and Fridays (soon to include Saturdays too). Aladdin on Monday Tuesday and Thursdays. I sometimes think that I like it this way because it gives me something to focus on that isnt really all that important in the grand scheme of things. But most of the time I just think I'm crazy and stupid for booking my time so tightly. It's just that time of the year though. Musical season.

I've don't do New Years resolution per se. But I always find some other creative way of putting it. So this week I have diagnosed myself with a serious, potentially deadly "life disease". It is, however, curable. The prescription for my particular strain of the disease is: less technology - more outdoors, less playing music - more listening to music, less ignoring and avoiding problems - more attacking problems, less carbohydrates - more protein, less work - more family, less forced extroversion - more meditation, Then I've got to have surgically removed the monkeys on my back, the thorns from my sides, the storm cloud that is attached over the top of my head, and some things I've allowed to get under my skin along the way. Lol

And that's my only hope for survival. Lol.
So that's my dramatically creative way of saying the changes I hope to make in the new year lol.

I've been working hard on the Steel Magnolias play and I've had the best time. I've spent lots of time each week with 5 other females, working toward a common goal and socializing at the same time. THIS NEVER HAPPENS in my world lol. It's been really nice hanging out with other females on a regular basis. And I'm even starting to feel slightly comfortable being on the stage. I didn't say all the way comfortable. But it's no longer making me freeze and go blank when I'm up there. Lol

That's about it for this week. I hope I've not made a completely depressing post. Lol. But January is just that kind of month. My boys are doing good. Rusty is preparing to run for South Ward Alderman. The future beyond January shows hope of better things to come. Jut got keep treading the water through the difficult January days.