stevo's Journal

Oh God, they're so cute. Anita was gone (had to be elsewhere) no problem, so it was my favorite chore picking up the 2 daughters Emily 11 and Lizzy 14. Refer to their pictures here on my DS! I am laughing my ass of they are sooooo cute! Awe, Geeze! I am laughing so hard right now I have tears streaming down and my stomach muscles are cramping! God, I'm gonna pee my pants!

This weekend was the lovely 37 fahreinheit [ (f_temp - 32) * 5/9 ] 5/9 =0.55555556

celsius =  2.7 degrees rounded 3 degrees. Ummmmmm, in my vernacular, "... weather to die for; it's what I wait around all freak'n year swimming in my stinky sweat in this infernal florida subtropics 28 N parallel. This is crisp and cool night like my birthday weather or favorite halloween weather! The pussy floridians are wearing coats and I am still in t-shirt, sandals and shorts like Steve Irwin, my daily ticket.

 FREAK'N FUNNY!

The kids went camping with United Church of Christ (UCC) 3 hour travel.

They had 3 kids too many [WITHOUT SEATBELTS] all crammed in to 1 small SUV with ALL THE GEAR!

When the driver started the vehicle, it wouldn't start! Anita popped the hood, pointed out the battery negative pole had no nut part of the connector and battery oxides all over the place (dust), and so Anita left them with instructions to go ASAP to WALMART AUTO SERVICE. So, that was handled. Anita felt horrible, upset about seeing incompetence and negligence, and worried about this 30 something couple who were in charge. "Do they have ANY camping skills?" was Anita's soliloquy. Anita, dear journal people out there in DS land, she is an impeccable mother with brights! Don, the girls dad, feels the way I do. Don doesn't want them to EVER go again with UCC unless they prove they get their act together. Geeze! Ugh!

Camping with the worst day of the florida year! Cold, rain, tornado warnings all over the place, high gusting straight blown winds anyway. I testify, even here in Palm Bay, I had lots of fallen dead branches on mom's property here.

Here's me back at the church, picking them up. I arrived at the precise right moment. The kids were all sulky! They had an awful time in the cold, and it rained. The tent was awfully poor. They brought home a soaked blue tarp. They camped under a florida live oak with a dead branch [ dey didna see dis? Vat?]  Oh, ma God?!! Branch fell right next to Emily! I'm amazed Emily didn't jump up and pull the tree up in a fit of adrenalin anger, the kid has a fabulous temper cut off my cloth, hahhaha! So they were all in PTS. They all came home safe, whew, I am relieved too. Their cellphone failed, more murphy's law. There was no phone call!!!!

 Emily was so underslept and cranky, I talked too much and she wanted me to shut up, and said so, god she makes me laugh so much! Lizzy wanted to jibber jabber and gerbelize all about the trip .... LOL! Lizzy said her knees were the overexposed part all sunburned. Ashley who is Lizzy's age, a friend (who is BOY CRAZY) has Mick Jagger lips anyway, she goes, " ... my lips are all cracked and bleeding ..." OMG! I couldn't stand it, I held it all in after unloading their gear, then in the car driving home, I was laughing so hard I could hardly drive. These kids crack me up!