Summer Is Looking Promising!

I got an invite to visit Dan and the girls in DC mid-June. I think I'm going to go. I don't think they will be making the trek to Kansas this summer so it will be the last time I get to see them before Dan heads overseas for two years.

I also got an invite to go with John and his family on vacation in late July - to SCOTLAND! I'm going to Scotland! I'll see castles, the Loch Ness and Hagrid's Hut! I am so excited about it! All I have to cover is the cost of the airfare - they have an extra room in the apartment they are renting (Diane's folks were suppose to go but backed out for health reasons) and John says they will cover my fees to get into places and food and such (though I will try to pay my own way.) I am so excited!!

A Marriage and a Mess Up

Spent the week end in Hermann to attend Samantha Englert's wedding. It was a lovely ceremony and a beautiful bride. She found the perfect match in Kale Dempsey and I hope for them many years of happy wedded bliss.

Have I written about Andrea's latest? She got caught in the school with 90 prescription drugs on her. She admitted she has been unable to sleep so she mixed the contents of 17 pills with water and downed it. Then took another 90 to school. She was given the option of going to the hospital for treatment or the police office for booking. She went to the hospital and was put on 72 hour uncooperative lock down. Then on Friday, the judge listened to the doctor in charge of her care and agreed she needed to stay for at least another week.

I then found out that a few weeks back, right before she announced she was going to begin attending NA meetings, that her day-to-day 'servant' had gone thru her bedroom and removed alcohol bottles and street drugs. FROM MY HOUSE! And they didn't bother to tell us what they had found. Probably siting confidentiality. Screw that - you find street drugs and alcohol bottles hidden in my house, you had better freaking tell me.

Then, Kathey was here this week end cat-dog sitting. She was looking through the kitchen cabinets for a pan to bake cornbread and found a mostly empty bottle of booze hidden among the pans. I almost came unglued when she told me.

She is going to call these so-called care givers and tell them someone needs to come get all these prescription drugs Andrea has at the house. I am going to get the name of her primary case manager and give him/her a piece of my mind. You don't keep secrets about crap like that. I will also tell him/her that Andrea will need to be out of my house by the end of May. She broke the hard and fast rule about booze and drugs. No more chances. She is making decisions that I don't agree with and I will no longer support her with a safe haven  - she needs to start feeling the consequences of her actions.

She's outta here.