Stuff in my head at midnight

We got Carter all registered for school.

Here in Utah, our taxes are lower than they were in Massachusetts

but, holy moly (moley?) they have a lot of school fees!

Carter's fees were $232!

What did that pay for?

band

english

math

PE

book rental

library fee (what?)

no locker

no yearbook

no parking pass
no activities

those will come later I assume, when Carter

1-gets his license

2-realizes he needs a locker
3-makes friends and wants to do something other than watch youtube (please!)

He was pretty annoyed that not only does he have to take English, Math, and PE but he has to pay to do it! haha

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I have made zero headway on the removal of the wallpaper since I last mentioned it.

I am at a loss.

I have called and emailed a variety of drywall people

and have gotten no responses.

None.

I told Frank I would can some tomatoes from his garden while he was out of town on a business trip

and he said he'd rather I worked on the dining room.

Too bad for him.

I'm canning tomatoes.

Denial is my way of dealing with the dining room project for now.

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I know what you are thinking.

Frank is so lucky to have me.

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Guess what?

Isabelle is starting to like me!

She smiles when she sees me.

She gets excited to go upstairs to our house.

She puts her arms out so I can pick her up.

She holds my hand and we walk around the backyard.

Kaylee is still stingy with the smiles and giggles

but I can get one now and then.

I'm still nervous to actually babysit.

Two kids under 2.

yikes!

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I realized today that I am kind of prickly.

I'm having trouble acting warm/fuzzy/happy/nice towards the people here.

I'm annoyed.

My kid isn't happy so I'm not happy.

Their accent bugs me.

They are all so dang friendly...seriously I can't take it.

I know none of my reasons for being prickly make a lot of sense.

But it's the truth.

I'm working on it, ok?

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I am lucky that I already have some built in friends here.

It's making the move a bit easier 

(but it's still hard, don't get  me wrong)

I've seen my old buddy Annette from PA two times!

I'm going to lunch with my internet friend, Jacey, tomorrow.

I had my family here for a BBQ.

My parents have dropped by a number of times.

Amber, the babies and my son are right downstairs...which has been awesome!

I have a few other friends who are patiently waiting for me to be less crazy so we can get together.

It feels good to know I'm not all alone out here.

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I joined a gym
Now I'm really at home since I have a place I pay money to every month so that I can never go but feel guilty about it.
I did tack up their class schedule on my cork board.
So that's progress.