Thursday - evening

Today is my birthday and it marks the first year of eligibility for SS payments.  It's a paltry amount of money that I can't imagine anyone being able to live off of, but then again, Social Security wasn't meant to be an end all. Sadly, there are a lot of people in that boat and I would be one of them if I didn't  have  this park to built out and hopefully not even use SS at all.  Or not? Who knows.

My birthday was going well until kids started acting out, turning it into a pouting session of youth upset about doing homework, lying about the amount of homework one had to do and thereby getting himself into trouble and the other dictating he's not going to eat dinner.  Yes, he ate dinner.  He's slated for counseling coming up here as soon as it can be scheduled. Imagine an 8 year old with serious anger issues stemming from - what - who knows.  I figure a psychologist can flush it out of him AND help him deal with it. 

They are going to celebrate my birthday on Saturday - which was originally my idea. They being the adults, the other one here and another family of close friends.  I want to go to Bubba 33's and that's where we're going. Unless they want to stay in town, then it's going to be a local mexican food restaurant that sings you happy birthday and smashes a pie pan full of whipped cream in your face : )  It's all in good fun, I love it.  

Anyway, they dumped another load on me today which is also an get-up-at-3:45-am ordeal including Saturday so I'll be tired tomorrow. Today? I didn't get that much sleep last night, I got home and passed out for a full hour and a half.  I feel much better, I just hope I don't compromise tonight's sleep by doing that earlier today.