Busy Times

 It’s only a week now until my daughter turns 18.  For clarification, the only reason why I’m looking so forward to her 18th birthday is so I can do away with the custody arrangements I have with her dad and stepmother.  It hasn’t really been enforced since she got her first job, but legally, the order itself ends the day she turns 18.  Then, she can come and go as she pleases.  

For her birthday, I’m buying her the same real estate class I took about two years ago.  I’m also getting her a half price books gift card.  On Friday the 6th, I’m taking her to Olive Garden, and we are going to download the app and get her an account for the real estate class. That way, they’ll email me coupon codes that I can use for when I get the class on her actual birthday on Wednesday.  It doesn’t let you sign up if you’re even a day shy of 18.  

We have an extremely busy two weeks at work this week and next.  The chain we’re doing has some interesting items, including this toy.  It’s a sling shot with poop emoji.  Wow.  Would you get your kids this?  If I had seen this two + years ago when I was in a relationship with a single father, I probably would have gotten this for his kids.  I used to kind of purposely buy them things that I knew would piss him off.  

They also have this ungodly over abundance of pb&j Reese's cups. Would you try these?  I haven’t gotten any, because I’m avoiding sugar. If I get ravaged by a sweet tooth, I might pick one up. They also have them with strawberry jam. Not sure why they ordered so many. 

They also had Elote Mexican corn flavored blue diamond almonds. The last store we did had 13 packages, and I bought all 13. They are supposed to be over $3, but at this store they were ringing up $1.09. Almonds are on the green light list for my diet, I love Elote, and my jaw is feeling a lot better. I had jaw pain for a couple weeks, probably from anxiety and gritting my teeth. But now it’s healed and gone, and I can have almonds again. They do not spoil. 

In other news, I know I’ve mentioned here that I started a Wordpress blog a year ago, in June of 2024. It was all about the work I did with kids, along with some current day stuff. I called it the child advocate’s blog. Well they emailed me telling me to renew for $50, and I didn’t want to. So I copy pasted all but two of the posts into a blogspot blog for free. I’ll link it here when I feel confident enough to. I also should work more on it. There are 25 posts as of right now. It “can” be controversial. I’m not afraid of controversy, but actually, yes I might be a little. I’m not afraid of people disagreeing, but I am afraid of them going batshit crazy over disagreeing. It makes me wonder if I really want to write this book. Good thing I’ll realistically be pretty old by the time I finish it. I’ll be dead before I can witness the controversy.