Happiness is having Olive Garden in Dothan. Woo hoo!! My wonderful husband calls me out of the blue today and asks me to meet him and a friend for lunch. It was good. I didn't realize how much better their spaghetti is WITH meatballs versus without. Makes a huge difference. (Cher needs to disregard this blog.....as do I, but my will power is lacking at present) So we proceeded to enjoy our SECOND dining experience at the new Olive Garden. I am so pleased. When we moved here we said that Dothan was missing two major things - a Target and ANY kind of decent italian joint. Well, Olive Garden opened on the 28th and Target opens in the spring. Yeah! So now we can move on to the smaller, more cultural wishes.....
Andy bought Microsoft Money 2007 for me. Now I can upgrade from 2004. I wonder if this will create more money for me to work with.....
Had an interesting morning at preliminary hearings with our new robbery client. He has three charges and says he is innocent. My boss believes him, and he really does seem like a nice, decent fellow. But the evidence looks kind of yuck. There isn't much that I hate like I hate not knowing if our clients are guilty or not. We also got a chance to talk with our client's wife, a cute-as-a-button little white girl (our client is black and about 30 years old) who is having a tremendously difficult time kicking her drug habit. She has a horrendous past, but has really come out of all that now, but is having a hard time breaking this last habit. She's kicked all the "hard" stuff - but living alone in "crack rock city" (as Pat calls it) doesn't help her maintain discipline. She is just pitiful. Very sweet mostly, but very very independent - too independent really - she doesn't see that she needs a little helping along. (Just like we all did at 19 years old). She can be very stubborn . Please pray for her. Pat was wonderful with her, he was able to talk with her about her hangups from the standpoint of someone who has fought some of those battles. I was so glad, because I was starting to fume. Since I haven't been where she is - haven't even been close - I just want to say, "get it together! Go get a GED and get in school, how hard is that when you don't work and the government will give you Pell grants all day long!!" Need to pray for patience with her....I have real issues with non-working healthy people who aren't in school. I hate supporting society.
On another note...
Latin dance class was FUN on Tuesday night. What was great is that since this is our second set of classes, we have learned how to stand and where your arms go and so forth - so now we can actually focus on learning the steps. It was fun. We started learning the rumba. I need some shoes though......
Looking forward to the weekend. We may go to a football game tonight, not sure yet though. Andy and I are both totally exhausted and need to have some "down time." Also, my house is disgusting - I would be mortified if any of you were to see it. I will rectify that situation tonight probably as well.
If anyone is actually reading this, so sorry. Consider this the droll ramblings of a person extremely ready to start the weekend.
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