Mom of many heading into empty nest syndrome- come enjoy the ride!

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Little Town in the middle of Nowhere, Texas, United States
I'm a mom of 4 boys: Jay who's 30, Jory who is 27, Tim is 25, and B is 23. I also have a daughter, Kristi who is 33. I have a grandson, Little Bit/Elmer, that was born in July 2009. I have a new grandson who was born in September of 2017. We moved from North TX to East TX on the land of our dreams in '09 and I love the peace and quiet. It's so nice to have trees again after 11 years of flat and hot. I enjoy hanging out with my friends. I'm a huge baseball fan. Some might even call me obsessed with the game. ;) My favorite teams are the Rangers and the Red Sox. Being a Red Sox fan makes life interesting as all 4 of my boys are Yankee fans. (Basically, I only started cheering for the Red Sox to give the boys a hard time and then actually became a fan) I'm a happily single (well...divorced) mom.
Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Again?

The Rangers beat the Yankees again?  Wow!  What's up with the little team from TX?  I know it would make my son extremely happy if it went the other way tomorrow night when we're there.  Me- I like the Rangers.  2nd to the Red Sox of course.  (YEAH to the Red Sox for their 8-2 win tonight!).  But my boys are stone cold Yankees fans.  B's whole room is done in Yankees.  Tell me the kid isn't obsessed when his biggest wish for Christmas last year was Yankees bed sheets?  I know that this didn't start to be a blog about baseball.  It's just that this is what's going on in my life right now.  The boys are being fairly peaceful (the calm before the storm?).  B is on break from playing ball.  They're watching the run to the playoffs pretty closely.  Which means of course:  I get to watch the run to the playoffs pretty closely.  B is and has been a big Joe Torre fan.  He was not amused with how his favorite team did his favorite manager this past year.  So he's really hoping that the Dodgers make a run to the playoffs and show Steinbrenner that they screwed up letting Torre go.   I do wish that child would retain the facts that the school tries to drill into his head the way he retains random baseball facts.  

Tomorrow I go to the cardiologist.  Scary that is.  I know I HAVE to go.  I really don't WANT to go though.  I'm almost worried about what he'll say.  Maybe I'll get pleasantly surprised huh?  

The Ex's cousin, Ms H, and I spoke today.  She wanted to know if the boys would help unload the trailer when it arrives this week.  It's coming by rail.  That really surprised me.  I don't know why it did, but I just never imagined sending your household goods by rail.  silly huh that I never thought of it?  I guess I just thought one of their kids would drive them down.  It was in the paper a few days ago that one of Ex's uncles, *Doogie*,  was arrested (again).  This arrest was for battery. I'm not really sure how he even got out of jail from last time.  I had heard that they hit him for habitual criminal after robbery arrest number *?*.  It really is one of "those" families.  There were 17 kids in his mom's family.  Yes, I said it right- no typo - 17.  It was a blended family of his, hers and ours.  There were 10 of the "ours" and every single boy in that part of the family has been in prison.  His uncle *Tar* did time twice for bank robbery.  (All names have been changed).  His mom has been arrested 18 times for drunk driving.  And for some reason no one ever understood my not wanting his mom to drive my kids around.  She actually did prison time for drunk driving.  His cousin, *Rudy* is on the city that they live ins 10 most wanted list.  That is a joke in itself.  *Rudy* is on for habitual traffic offender.  Now if you'd see this list it reads wanted for: drugs, murder, robbery, assault, and then habitual traffic offender.   He got a DUI and they suspended his license.  He drove to work and got caught.  Repeatedly.  Not for drunk driving anymore.  For driving while suspended.  Now if the city they all live in were any bigger, then the chances of him getting busted driving to work and only to work would have been pretty slim.  Where I live- he could have gotten a hardship license to just drive to work and back.  But when your family owns the biggest tree company in town and there's only a few police in town- the chances of "pulling one over on the police" are SLIM.  And to tell you how absolutely ridiculously the law in this town works:  Last time he got caught he was at the gas station - not driving- not in the truck- just his work truck at the gas station. The officer pulled in said hey *Rudy* how's it going.  I'm going to have to take you in but why don't you go pay for your gas 1st. Then let him go into the store alone to pay for said gas.    *Rudy* immediately went out the back door and climbed a tree then sat there watching while the police hunted for him.  Now, every officer on the force knows that this guy works for a TREE company.  He's been climbing for his dad since he was like 14 (he's about 30 now).  Don't you think they'd look UP.  2 of them stood underneath the tree he was in having a conversation for 20 minutes.  The search moved on, he climbed down and left town.  He was in a work truck in the town that he's been living in for the last year and the truck got pulled over. (no he was not driving this time)  The police took him to jail as when they ran his name they found the warrant out for him.  Like I said *Rudy* is on the 10 most wanted for that city.  The police in the new city ended up letting him go cause small town Indiana didn't want to extradite for habitual traffic offender.  So, STI knows WHERE he is but they don't want to come get him but they still have him on the 10 most wanted.  Makes NO sense to me.  Anyhow though, B immediately said that "sure" he'd go help them unload.  Little Man- well, I'm sure he will but he made no commitment at this point.  He was actually in a good mood today and didn't act too hormonal at all.  ;)

Good night and enjoy your hump day.  We'll be at the Rangers/Yankees game.