not really a builder

I got the bookshelves for the girl's room put together... the armoire in her room is relocating downstairs. There was only a slight incident of my genius idea to use my staple gun instead of the finishing nails, but the staple gun won't close. Then riding my carpentry skills, I decided to put up the shelf for her "glass collection" (insert eye roll). I was doing great, using a level for the holes and everything, even hitting a stud. I hung the shelf, and it wouldn't fit! I forgot to take into account the 5 inches of shelf on each side of the holes. I re-drilled, put in the plastic screw things, and put the screws in again. Guess what? The weight of the shelf is pulling the screws out! Someone else has got to fix that for me, as that shelf got a talking to and is in time out. And now the wall is kinda messed up.

And I stink. It is humid, and that building made me sweat more than I have been all day... I think it's time to go pout in the bathtub.

BTW I plugged in the battery charger, so pix of the remodels will get posted sometime.

I need to give a shout out to Megan at the HappyRock Wal-Mart! She went above and beyond to help me! Leaving her post in electronics to check for a set of bookshelves and then going to the back to dig out a set! SuperFabulous! Am calling the manager this morning to tell him about her helpfulness!

So putting the boy's room back together... we now have 3 batman masks. Did they mate???? The last I knew we had 2 (one for each kid). Where did this 3rd come from??? I guess there is now one for ALL of us!!! YAY!!! When I'm sportin acne (well, more than usual) at Halloween time, you will know why!

best thing about court

Is that Elvis was there! I'm not sure what he was there for, but he was there! Glasses, satin shirt, sideburns, rings, sneer, he IS alive!

Court didn't go so well. His lawyer showed up, requesting a continuance. So I wait...

if only I had a broomstick

I finally get a hold of the kids today, and the boy answers. He is sobbing, can barely talk, all I can understand is the word trouble, hotdog, and getting taken to the car. Then his dad gets on the phone, says the boy is in trouble, and I hear a smack, then the phone hangs up. It's only Monday night, the kids don't come back until Sunday. I guess I'll have questions for the judge tomorrow as I get to get MY order of protection renewed. Good thing I have prescriptives to help me sleep and function... I may be starting a-nother layer of paint soon...

What makes this right??? The kids dad didn't want to be part of a family, he chose to "make himself happy," goes months without seeing the kids, and then the courts support and are "confident" in his ability to take the kids for over a week? He hasn't parented them longer than 3 days in almost 2 years!!! Good thing for blessings and prayer, as I can't even imagine the horror the kids would have to suffer without it.

painting prep

Cleaning out the boy's room in preparation for the remodel. Will probably fill up a contractor bag of broken toys and misc crap. I keep finding dirty socks! No wonder he keeps taking mine! Also wetting wallpaper border and plan on peeling it tonight as well. I may be making a late Wal-Mart run as I can't find my small putty knife to fill in all the thumb-tack holes. (Thumb tacks and wire hangers drive me crazy!!! Thanks for the memory boards full of tacks, Kate!!). Back I go!!!

I'm apprehensive, as are the kids. This will be the most time we have been apart EVER. The longest stretch in the last 2 years was the 3 night stretch over father's day. Before that, maybe a long weekend. The girl's tummy hurts, they both keep hanging on me, and we all just keep tearing up. It really, really, really, really stinks.