Last nights dinner went well.....
Here are a couple pics.....
I have wonderful news....This weekend we will get to meet my sister or half sister....Her and her husband are going to drive down from Colorado........YEAH
I am so excited...........so nervous.............so happy, and already crying....what a basket case I am....
I will post pics soon....

The picture with the paper flying through the air is from the shredded paper i loaded in the big box that I put his IPOD in.....Should have known a mess was on the way....

TODAY IS JOSH'S 17TH BIRTHDAY......
TONIGHT I AM GOING TO HAVE A FEW CLOSE PEOPLE OVER FOR DINNER AND CAKE AND PRESENTS AND THEN THIS WEEKEND WE PLANNED A PARTY FOR HIM AT MY MOMS, BBQing AND SWIMMING.....BUT I FOUND OUT TODAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO RAIN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SO WE MAY HAVE TO CHANGE PLANS AGAIN....IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE LAST WEEKEND BUT HE HAS BEEN SICK WITH STREP THROAT SO WE MOVED IT TO THIS WEEKEND....OH WELL WE WILL FIND SOMETHING FUN TO DO....

I HAVE DECIDED THAT DISHNETWORK IS A RIP OFF.....

I called them today because my son wants the NFL Network....so they tell me that I have to be upgraded to the next package....OK....I said well what do I pay now..He says 53.98 a month...I said how much is the next package up, he says 67.98. When I signed up for this service 4 years ago, it was 19.98. As we are talking about this he told me i can go online to see what new channels I will be getting. So I am looking them over while he is asking me questions....at the top of it, it says 49.99 for 3 to 4 rooms. So I ask him why the difference, he tells me because that pricing is for new customers. Then I had asked about getting a DVR, he said that will be an extra 24.99 charge every month and a one time fee of 99.99. I said but if I am a new customer the charge is 5.00 extra each month and there is no one time fee. He said that's correct....So I am thinking doesn't it make more since to give the customers that have been paying for years a better rate and better service then the new customers.....
OK i have vented now.....I feel much better, besides the fact the i am still paying much more then a new customer.

Well things have been a little crazy for me the last couple weeks.....
My mom invited me over for dinner because she needed to talk to me....After a long conversation and crying, the end result was I have a sister.... When my mom was a teenager way back when....she had a baby and gave her up for adoption.....She got a call the other day from a woman that works for an agency that finds biological parents for adopted kids. After a series of questions the last of which was do you want to have contact with her, my mom said Yes. The agency gave her my moms phone number and the next night she called and talk to my mom for like 2 hours. I spoke with her for a short time. I am so excited....I have a brother, a half brother, and growing up I had 3 step brothers...never a sister.
We have emailed several times since then and exchanged pictures, as teenagers and when we were in our 20's we looked alot alike, but getting older I think she looks more like my mom....The strangest part is she lived in Orange County her whole life, I was born and lived in Orange County until I was almost a teenager and then returned my senior year until I had kids and moved...We have so many questions, and have so much time now to talk and email and meet....wow i can't wait to meet her and her family....
I am on cloud 9 .....