what the fuck is my other option at this point? I am going to take my extra strength happy medicine though, because really I want to scream to high heaven. I did scare him enough that he closed himself up in the bathroom for a while.

And I just talked to the agent about the possibilities of putting in an offer on the other house.

The first townhouse that you liked so much, meara?

Pretty much what you are doing, msbelle, lock down his access except where you can watch him like a hawk. How much do you think is just really immature impulse control & consequence-comprehension?

Y'all know how fast I closed on my house (30 days.) Man, such a whirlwind.

I've swum my mile and a half (goal on weekends is to swim that Fri-Sun) and now I am eating salad on the deck with Devi and Loki keeping me company. Mister Kitty will come out, but he never stays.

I LOVE this weather. Time to go buy some plants and clean up my yard. Think I'll spend the morning and afternoon doing that. Maybe a walk around the lake. I may even *gasp* put on shorts!

I think it is about 40% impulse control and 60% payback for taking away the DS.

Yah. I'm mad so I will...ohhh want.

A friend had to padlock their pantry because their son was literally eating them out of house and home, and it was a little like that. He go get something he knew was being saved, take a few bites and it would be wasted. Or he'd give it to his friends. Then he'd figured, what the hell, he'd already screwed up, that looked good and then he'd get distracted and it was just wasting so much food, they locked it up, so he'd have to ask to get something. She thought it sounded awful, but really, couldn't afford to do anything but.

The new laws of the land as of tonight:

he takes anything out of my purse, I take one thing from his room each day until it returns and those things I take, they never come back.

if he gets onto the computer without me here and watching, I start locking things up: the computer, my purse, ipod, whatever else is of value.

what was the ep number of leverage when it returned? 9 or 10? the lost heir job or the runaway job?

10. The Runway Job

thank you! I pinged you on fb, btw.

I think my Victorian zombie outfit turned out splendidly.

I showed CJ the picture and he approves mightily.

The snow has been coming down steadily all day, but the roads were clear until about 30 minutes before karate. Then it was near blizzard. We slogged our way through cause CJ needed to get some energy out. (Eight other kids made it out too - usually the class has around 25). We are now awaiting his father to pick him up for the night.

CJ leaves for California tomorrow evening and the roads should be clear again by then - snow is supposed to stop sometime tonight. I'm going to go through his suitcase and make sure he packed everything. Even with a packing list, he gets distracted to easily. Impulse control is rough too deal with. And I know I have it relatively easy with CJ.