Daughter's birthday today. Old Army Man just is not up to going in to eat lunch as he is hurting too bad today. Well that was a first step of many being different. Middle son phoned asked if he could talk to me and well I invited him to lunch with his sister.
Oldest son called and asked if he could come to lunch as sis was giving him a ride and well the answer was yes. Nice all kids with me on dd birthday. A nice move on everyone part as she was worried no one would remember her birthday. Well things went well as she was not the only one to celebrate milestones in there life. Middle son did get his GED had just gotten the news this morning that was why he was calling me. I felt so good after learning he had his GED as that meant I now had two high school grads and one GED kid from three kids I had been told by school officials time and time again none would never get out of grade school. Needless to say the kids each took their own route to achieve the results but they have now something to be proud of for reaching out to achieve something someone said they would never do and do it with flying colors for the most part. Some times teachers are great other times they are not worth diddle. Some school systems promote great teachers others systems promote the diddles of the education system. 
Daughter does not do photos often. If she did she would look like the picture to our left only without the hat. She looks like me who looks like my mom and aunts, who look like their mom and their aunts see the thread of this. Well we are old stock with strong genes and life has given each of us our own ups and downs. Cowgirl she is not but then again she is turning out more farm girl than she ever would believe she would be. One of the things she talked about to day was about brother and sister-in-law who make all their food from boxes nothing from scratch. How she was able to feed 2 people on the same budget that she feeds one most months the month her middle brother lived with her after SIL and him decided to file for divorce. She is proud she can take two hundred dollars and make it last over a month sometimes 6 weeks. Eating fresh food is some times the things she misses the most at the end of the month but she now knows to purchase cabbage, apples, winter squash, cranberries, oranges, etc that keep well or freeze well so she is not without fresh flavor at the end of the month. She learned the value of cooking from scratch after the first time she moved out. Found out how much it would cost not to learn. Thank goodness for YouTube videos which ed helped her until she moved back home and paid attention now that she wanted to know how to make food she liked or how to stretch the food dollar. She is not a big bean eater but she does have several kinds in her freezer just in case she needs something at the end of the month. She never did like bean dish Friday's we use to have however she did like meat free Wednesday. Eggplant was one of her favorite meat substitutes, edamone (green fresh frozen soybeans) was like in many forms. I have a few seed packets of soybeans that I am planning on trying to grow as the seed catalogs say they will grow and I found some short season seeds to try to give them enough time grow. 
Well to get back to the saying, remember that auto being broken down, it did it again today. Wednesday the auto repair man come out and fixed the belt here after it breaking, Thursday two trips to town-me to work and home again. Friday almost out of town on the way to Albany and bang that darn belt went. Made it to a place I could part and meet my kids. Called the repairman, he came out, put a new belt on, then I drove back, belt may have broken on the way to his shop. I just could not find it in myself to look. DD drove me home after she did some things she needed to do before she could leave town. Time, time, time sitting at home gets old. Not because I do not like it or that there is nothing to do but because of the loss of freedom. A couple of days okay but this is going on 11 days. I have made appointments for Craigslist's pick-ups then could not make it time after time. I look so much like a flake. Flakes one of the things I work hard at not being now that I am sober. Cuss word inserted here, I want to do better and think clearer then days like this happen were it all seems to slap me silly. OAM and me seemed to have a few words a couple times today. We never have words so there was many things which made today a slap me silly day. I hope when we go back in to get the Jeep in the morning we can stay on the road for a while we we get things back on track-emotionally, financially, and well physically be able to be on a track.
Take care, you all come back now you hear,
Ol' Mossback
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