Multiplying towels and other random musings

School.  A blessing and a curse around here.  There are some days that I just can't wait to push them out the door to torture someone else for a while.  There are some days that I wish we didn't have to go thru all the madness involved dragging teens out of bed to send them off.  And while Little Man is usually fairly easy to get up and out the door, B is another story.  Not that Little Man is all into the learning idea- well, of course not!  He's all into his friends and the girls.  They are way more important than listening to any old teacher right?  Of course- NOT.  B is pretty straight forward.  He hates school.  Every single thing about it.  He has never liked it.  From pre-K when the teacher used to have to hold him kicking and screaming because he didn't want to be there.  He had it down to an art there for a while till we caught on.  He would scream till he'd make himself sick and get sent home for throwing up.  I never said he was stupid.  He just hates school.  And he's not a social type kid.  Maybe I should be worried.  He does very little socializing.  The teachers say that he has friends at school.  He's had to sign the book a time or 2 for talking so he isn't totally antisocial.  But as for going to birthday parties or inviting kids over or going anywhere to spend the night- he doesn't do it.  He's quite happy here with his brothers playing basketball or dragging me out to throw with him or even just going out to shoot hoops by himself.  And if he can't get outside, the xbox works fine for him.  He has all his old baseball buddies on his friends list for live chat and they all get on and play together.  And it's not like kids don't like him.  The kids from his team used to invite him to hang out all the time.  If I didn't make him go- he wouldn't.  He is quite happy to be a stay home solitary sole.  Sometimes I wonder if I should be more worried....

SD goes to court again this week.  Wonder if they'll actually have a hearing this time?  For someone caught dealing drugs to a police officer, he's sure been able to avoid going to court or taking a plea bargain for a long time.  It's been like 2 years.  The funny thing is, there are so many people that he used to hang out with that I've seen their names in the paper since hes been out on bond.  All his old friends are ending up in jail.  Turned in to the police for drugs.  Including his brother-in-law.  And so many of those that got arrested after him have already gone to trial, plea bargain, jail.  It so makes me wonder how he's managing to stay out.  Speaking of the SD's family....  I got several wonderful hate emails from the 2 nieces.  The younger of the 2 definitely needs some major help.  She has a mouth worse than any truck driver I've ever heard.  Pretty scary.  From what I've been able to find out, they are under investigation by the state agency.  It would have surprised me to have not found that with mom out on bond over the baby's death.  That whole family is messed up.  Almost - yes almost- makes me glad that the SD has had no contact with the kids.  Ice Cube has said that he doesn't want SD around his child.  Ever.  I will probably have to change my myspace or get rid of anyone on there that knows SD before he will allow me to post pix of his son. 

American Idol tonight!  Good luck to Danny and Kris tonight!  

On the off chance that Nolan Ryan or Tom Hicks or any of their staff stumble across my blog....

You wasted your money re-signing CJ Wilson to a contract for this year.  I'm not thrilled with Padilla at this point either.  How can the Rangers have the best offense in the league and not manage to win games that they score 9 runs in?  Because you need to do something about pitching!!!   Kevin Millwood canNOT carry the team on his back thru a 160 game season.  Somebody over there needs to wake up and smell the coffee!  If management would get off their lazy duffs and get some decent pitching - then maybe the Rangers wouldn't be so discouraging to watch.  UGH  The Rangers have some serious control issues with their pitching.  Maybe who needs to go at this point is Ron Washington, the manager.  It was sure a manager mistake to leave CJ Wilson in the other day to blow a 4 run lead.  

Well, back to the laundry grind.  Does anyone else out there have the trouble with multiplying towels?  I cannot for the life of me figure out how the boys can end up with 9 dirty towels in 2 days between 3 of them.  That's not counting wash cloths or hand towels either.  That's 9 large bath towels.  They don't shower more than once a day - well, unless they're mowing and that requires coming straight in to the shower in B's case as he's allergic to grass - but still....  I think the things multiply and have baby towels while in the dirty clothes basket.  That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.  ;)