August 2011

I saw Dr. M on the 5th and my count was 23K we decided that since I'm not having any bleeding problems right now that we are just not going to do anything to treat at all.  At this time summer is starting to wrap up and we are thinking about school.  We got this wonderful letter in the mail from the Superintendent sating that we needed to fill out this ridiculous thing called a student residency affidavit.  I will see if I can scan it and put it on here so you all can see how out of hand this thing is.  It also said that I needed to provide documentation that proves that we do indeed live here with my parents.  Not only that but my dad and I had to go in for a "sit down" with Dr. Friedisdorf, the superintendent.  I went with Colleen & Steve to gather the documents we had to take Colleen to the DMV so she could change her address since she moved to Brookfield this month and she would need documents to register David.  After that we went to the courthouse to pick up birth certificates and we were off.  I had to copy the information pertaining to Caley in my divorce decree and also we needed the tax bill and two things with my name and address on it.  SO at our "sit down" with BFD we will call him for short, first of all we got there about 5 minutes early and his secretary was not even there yet.  SO he lets us in himself and is all flustered and doesn't know where he should sit down with us.  Um I called and scheduled this about two weeks ago, you are the one requiring me to do this, why so unprepared? Anyway, we sit down in this office at a table that he had to clear off so we could use it and he had to bring in another chair for my dad.  I hand him the documents he briefly glances at them and says thank you for coming in I'm sure this is all fine.  He reaches his hand out to shake mine and I'm like really all that trouble and your not even going to look at it? My dad is not satisfied and has to give him a piece of his mind. He told him that he felt that he was profiling me and the other 8 families that had to fill this out.  Just for those of you that don't know we live in a good district where money is not a problem for the school and there are at least 400 families if not closer to 500 in the district.  SO you could say that my dad had to be on to something since they only choose 8 out of 400.  I mean there has to be more families then that in the district that have different living situations then whats normal.  Anyway we were getting ready to go after Dad gave the BFD a bit of his mind, and I was like um are you going to copy that stuff because you can't keep it.  And he was like oh yeah and by this time his secretary had shown up so he called her to come and take it and copy it.  And we left, I was mad at the process but didn't really care because I know that I was not doing anything wrong.  Later that day I went to the Burr Ridge Lab and had my blood taken it was 30K.  On the 17th I went to the school board meeting and told them how I felt about what they had done to me and the other 8 families was not right.  At that meeting they discussed the residency requirements and what things they should do in the future.  Our school board is so messed up that they could not come up with an idea that they could all agree on so the decision was to not do anything about it and keep it the same.  SO that means I will have to do this all again next year.  On the 18th Steve's grandma passed away she was 88 years old.  I don't get a long real well with his parents so I am not looking forward to spending a lot of time with them.  The 19th was the wake and we were there for 8 hours.  And you would never guess who showed up but none other then Brian Voyles, which I forgot to mention in July that he went missing for three days and we were about to start a search party for him and then his wife found him in a bar.  Steve was glad to see Brian and we heard some of his side of the story.  The 30th was the funeral and it was a real gloomy day.  When we left the church it started raining and didn't stop.  I have to mention that we were riding with Steve's parents and it was complete silence the whole ride.  At the cemetery it was pouring down rain and we were waiting for them to put her in the mausoleum, not even going to try and spell the correct!!  After getting poured on lightning was striking so we got in the car and waited.  We got to the restaurant and there was no power.  It was actually really sweet to have lunch by candlelight.  However there was no light in the bathroom when we got there since they didn't put a candle in there, so that was fun!!  Caley went with Dennis & Erin to the demo and the Orange Crush won the trophy!!  Peters first trophy since who knows when!  He was real happy!  The 25th was the first day of school for Caley