Happy "He Is Risen Day" Easter!!!!

 I'm out on the road, fairly common event to be out here somewhere on a holiday, but it's no worries.  I just ate a fantastic Easter meal in my truck, talked with people and texted, stuff on face book, I'm good.  

I'm in Brownsville, btw.  I had mixed feelings of whether I wanted to find an empty here today or not.  I really didn't think they would have any - Easter  is a big holiday in Mexico and I wouldn't have expected to see them bringing up empties, but empties there are. 2 of them in fact.  So I'll be leaving out of here early tomorrow morning - I could leave as early as 4 am but I doubt I will, probably more like around 5:30 am.  

But, Happy Easter to you, your loved ones, family, friends, acquaintances and of course doggies and pets!  My doggy was clearly unhappy that I was leaving this morning, well they were both unhappy about it but Addler gets this look on his face.  He knows what I'm doing.  I get up, put the collar on his neck, get my shower, pet him and Aspyn for a while, then leave.  I didn't sleep worth a Jingle Bell last night, I woke up around 2 am and never got back to sleep. So, I'm kind of sleepy right now.

But it's only 6:30 pm, full daylight, it's much too early to be going to sleep. So I'm going to force myself to stay up at least until around 8:30 and then go to bed.  Oh, and I got down here the earliest I ever have at 5:30 pm!  I didn't waste any time, being tired? My goal is to get here and get out of the driver's seat and relax.  

I haven't looked at the property listings in a while.  Same stuff all the time, there are a few new ones that come on there here and there, but mostly it stays the same with properties that are unusable - covered with water or overpriced. They don't sell, no one wants to pay double, triple, quadruple etc for property and you can't do anything with a swamp.  You offer them fair market value to the properties that are usable? They just laugh at you. I laugh back - I see your property has been on the market for 2 years.  

Or how about a "commercial property", 6 acres, 600k? Undeveloped land next to a motel, lmao.

Oh, the situation at home. Well, I'm not going into personal details of other people's lives in great detail on the internet.  At least not that stuff.  Taylor is, however, going to be a stay-at-home mom, pull Jaxon out of daycare and do the home mommy thing.  Is it good or bad? That's not my call. People are free to live their lives as they see fit, learn from their mistakes, enjoy whatever right decisions they make and that's that.  I could be making a huge mistake in attempting to get property and start up a business.  But, it's a risk I am prepared to take.    James will start making more money after he gets down with college.  In fact, I saw a place that allegedly has excellent wages, tho I don't know that he's interested in a new job.  He gets off work and goes to college 2 blocks down the road from work. 

I never got started on my pond setup.  It keeps raining.  I need a dry day to do it.  I mean, it won't be that hard, per se, to set up it's just the fact that I need the right weather conditions.  The grass - I planted a bunch of seed out front after using the aerator machine - about half of it or less is actually growing. The rain washed the rest of the seed away.  

So that's it for me.  Just waiting out another hour so I can try to go to bed.

G'day

 Ok. Instead of sending the email telling me that they were working on the birth certificate, they just bypassed that part and - sent me the birth certificate.  My mother has never had a birth certificate - in her entire life.  It was only until she needed it to renew her driver's license that she found out her "notice of birth" wouldn't work.  It's a very old document, the only "real" and official thing she had. 

Why she waited so long to get her birth certificate is unknown, but because the state was never asked to make one, she couldn't get it on her own.  You read that right: she asked them to send her a birth certificate with the state seal on it and they refused.  Appalling? Yes, in my opinion, but whatever. They told her a family member would have to ask for it for her.

How does that  make any sense?  Whatever the case, I didn't get into it with them about it, I just sent in the form, got some stuff wrong on it, they sent me an email informing me of such, I corrected the issue and walaah.  Mom will finally have a birth certificate.  I sent her a pic earlier - just got the thing - and asked if she needed it overnighted to her.  

I suspect she's driving on an expired license - I've gone through this before. I didn't used to be that you needed a birth certificate to renew your license. I thought it was only for commercial licenses, apparently they want it for everyone now?  I didn't know anything about it, went to get my license and they told me I needed a birth certificate  The issue had me going clear back to Arizona to get one because I was not going to be able to work - it's a long story not worth going into again, I just know how she feels.  

Mobility is important. As long as she is legally/medically qualified to drive, she should be able to.  Yes, I asked her if she was driving on expired license, I didn't get an answer lol. I changed the subject after realizing she didn't want to admit to it for whatever reason - wouldn't have bothered me if she was doing so, she doesn't normally go around breaking the law everywhere and her need to go to the store and get groceries supersedes the state's desire to have everyone in a computer data base so they can keep tabs on you..... and she tried to do this on her own to no avail.  The state doesn't care what your needs are, I have learned that from ample experience and a book's worth of stories I could go into here - and won't.

So today was a "put the house back together" day.  It's been in a shambles for quite a while.  I had a box out there in the living room amidst the rest of the boxes I had forgotten about. I tried to bring it into my room when....plop....the entire contents spilled out onto the floor after the bottom gave way. 

No worries, I threw half of the stuff into the trash can and put the rest of the stuff away, problem solved. Another box to go through and I'll be done with that. But, that's nothing I'm doing today.  

I didn't finish this post but publishing it anyway.