I'm baaaaack.

Well I have been sans computer for about 2 weeks. I had a virus hit me and thank heaven
my Dad's friend was able to fix this without me losing all my family photos and videos which
I foolishly do not have all backed up. I am such a computer illiterate, it's not even funny. I don't really know how to back them up. I did it once but it was 3 years ago.
I have to get on the ball though as this was a close call and I was sick with the thought of losing
all those pix. I realized that I spend way too much time on this computer though and I have
to start curbing that. Between the time I spend on it and Olivia too, Tim is ready to heave this
thing out the window. The constant tap of the keyboard is irritating to him. I guess it doesn't help that the housework and paperwork is still not caught up so I have to start setting limits
for myself. Summer has been busier than I expected it to be. I feel like an unpaid
taxi service for Olivia and her friends. I never accomplish all that I want to and a lot of it is just
plain old procrastination. I really don't want to do paperwork and filing so I do everything else
I can think of to avoid it. The front beds are weeded but you can't see the top of my diningroom table right now. All in all, the summer has been good(cooler than usual which is great for all of us who are sporting estrogen) with the exception of the fact that
the same brat that was giving Olivia trouble last year is in her day camp this month and has started the whole thing all over again. I'm not surprised since her mother is in such denial and
did not do a thing to stop it last year. It seems everytime Olivia excels at something, this girl gets jealous and finds some other way to take her down. Last year, this girl could not compete with Olivia in softball pitching so she started trying to convince other girls not to play with her
and telling them secrets and all that. 2 mondays ago, the recreation camp went bowling and when I went to pick Olivia up, I saw that she beat this girl 2 out of three games and old Kathleen
was not happy. SOOOOO there she goes again spreading rumors and telling girls that Olivia
had no problems with not to play with her anymore. What a pain. Girls are just ruthless sometimes I tell ya. With boys, they beat the crap of of each other and it's all forgotten 10 minutes later. Some of what I've seen with girls like Kathleen makes me wish that were the case. The backstabbing and mental stuff is just nuts. Knowing that the parents are no help, I went to the camp
counselors. They spoke to the girls involved. I am tempted to bring this up again with the mother but I know this time I will not have the patience I did last year while I listened to her
bury her head in the sand and claim her child was just not capable of any of this. It's a shame
that one girl can go into a group of friends and just divide them up everytime like this but when
there are no consequences at home, she is not bound to stop anytime soon. Enough of that. Anyway, Tim is still swamped at work and exhausted because of it. Our next vacation will be a much needed one for him. Aren't they all. We'll head out to VT in August and I'm planning an overnight or two on the way up to try to get some new adventures in instead of spending the whole time at the same old place we've been so many times. I'd like to get one more long weekend in at the end of August somewhere too as the older
Olivia gets, the more homework she'll have, and the harder it is to pull her out of school for vacations. Tim will go have labs drawn before we go to VT but we will not see the doctor until almost 3 weeks later. He just does not want to deal with this until afterwards and I can understand that. On the one hand, it could be good news and you'd like to know that but on the other, if it's not too good, he'd rather go on vacation not having to think about it then. So that's the update. Really just a lot of the same old stuff. As always, life is what happens while you were making other plans.