The missing glasses were found after three phone calls from me to the school, Maxine searching, and in the end, I had to go into the gym and pull out the bleachers in question to locate the missing glasses.
I am a bit miffed about this. I called the school yesterday to follow-up, and I was told the bleachers were being pulled out and a search was underway. I called back and was told they weren’t found. I figured the only way the glasses were going to be found is if the person responsible for buying a new pair went and looked for them (that would be me, by the way).
I went. I looked. After talking to Maxine to determine exactly which section of the bleachers she had left them, I pulled out the section, and right at my eye level, where your feet would go if you were sitting in the bleachers, were her glasses. They were unharmed. I do find it hard to believe that the bleachers were pulled out and examined without finding them. The only thing that might explain this is if they didn’t pull out the right section. Maxine isn’t the best for giving directions. She initially told me to search on the other side, but she also said the section near the red chair, so I looked in both places although Maxine was describing them as one and the same.
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And it is a good thing I won’t have to pay for another pair of glasses just two weeks after buying the first pair — my septic needs to be emptied, and we need an estimate to repair the lift pump. I’m hearing the lyrics “money, money, money, mon-ey.”
In good news, we did finally find cheaper health insurance. Hoo rah! The new rates are about 50 percent of what we had been paying, and I know we are going to be noticing the difference in our monthly income.
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I thought I was going to have some unwanted time off from work this spring because I had thought there was at least six weeks between the time the winter semester ends and the summer session begins. It turns out, I was wrong. It is good to be wrong about things like this.
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And now I am off to take advantage of my sister’s hospitality as I attend a conference not far from her home. She won’t be there since she is leaving for Arizona today (so is my mom). They will be going with my Arizona kin to the Country Thunder music festival, if you happen to be going and get locked out of your car, say hi to my brother-in-law for me! (He’s the locksmith there.)
