Jeez....it is cold outside today! I mean, I am wearing jeans and fleece top for Pete's sake...this is a weird summer so far. But, since it is still June I will wait it out.
Not sure the plans for the day here....Junior wants to go spend some more birthday money that he just got yesterday...I swear if there is a good way to teach kids about budgets I don't know it. A couple years ago Howard gave me the idea to pay him his allowance in a monthly installment, which sounded like a good idea. Of course, I made the decision to deposit a very small amount of that into his savings account, lest he spend every penny before someone's birthday or Christmas or whatever might come up. So, each month, I do just that....but birthday time comes and he gets all this cash and just BLOWS through it....it's crazy. He really does buy ok things with it, but as for the allowance....this month's was wasted on food at the Hannaford beside the high school after he took his finals....I was astonished to find he had spent $20 on chicken nuggets and steak fries and a few drinks! CRAZY!!!! So, I told him that the raise I give him every year he turns older will also now be going into his savings account....in effect giving him less to blow through on a monthly basis. If anyone has any better ideas on how to teach savings, I would like to hear them......if he could only get a job....
Went to the island again yesterday to see Dr. Gilmore...had all intentions of asking about Mom's "condition" if he would share a little insight, but forgot. Shoot! Was hopoing for a cortisone shot in my achillies tendon, but was he ever pissed when he couldn't find anyone to assist him....so I will have to go back in a week or so for that. He said that place is not running the way he and Dr. Cooper had intended, but that all health care facilities were being run bare bones these days.
Anyhow, I will try to remember to get some info. about Mumsie next trip.
The trip home was absolutely ridiculous too...took me an hour and 20 minutes just to get to Brewer...the traffic to Ellsworth was backed up beginning at Lobster place just past where the cheese house used to be....I knew I should have gone via the Bayside Road and Goosepoint...it was crazy. I thought people were trying to get ON the island, not off!!! Now I remember why I don't venture down there much in the summer.
Tomorrow, my best friend and Kyle's God Mom, Lynn, is coming up to run a benefit golf tournament for the Uof M Softball team...she will be the pitching coach this coming season as Mike and she make their transition to move back up here from Scarborough. I am soooo glad to have them back here...looking forward to spending time with them and their kids again. So I will go to Hermon Meadows tomorrow after church to perhaps do some golfing, or just ride around in a cart...we'll see. Haven't played yet this season...but will be good to see her and Mike's Mom too. His Mom is a heck of a golfer....if Kyle didn't have to serve at church tomorrow, I would have played with her foursome, and she would have put me to shame, no doubt.
Ok kids, that's about it from "Brewa"....catch y'all later.
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