Just a couple of brief thoughts here.

* After the whole tire blow out I am now officially broke until December 15. I was stressing myself out over Christmas presents for the District members. I had enough butterfly things and knick knacks put back for the women. I had bought a few things for a gift basket for the men. Thankfully there are only two men. I'll have to swing by the club house and retreive my baskets and celophane to get those fixed up.

* When I pulled out my Christmas decorations yesterday, two other things hit me. First, I'm not putting my tree up in the Al-Anon room this year. I'm going to be selfish and put it up in my own home. Hopefully the cats won't climb it. Second, I found that I had gifts that I could give the Drama Queen and Mr. Excitement aka Taylor and Q. I just need to figure out what to get the wheel chair bound children. Thankfully the last day of school will come after the 15th.

* Finally figured out which actor the paradox reminds me of. After seeing his childhood picture with the blond curly hair, I've decided that he reminds me of Andy Dick.

* I've read two of Frank Peretti's books about spiritual warfare. I checked out another one called The Prophet but it isn't starting out as good as the other two that I've read. I also found one called Abiding Darkness by another author. It may be good. I've only read the cover so far.

* When researching spiritual warfare on the New Advent website I came across Father Stephanos dialogues with two satanists. I'm seeing a lot of that same behavior with Q. So, naturally I'm interested in what these people have to say.

* Q's mother apparently did not turn herself in as she was supposed to. She called several times to aggravate the school nurse about his medication. This Steve/Stephanie was on the line at the same time. At one time I was on the telephone with them. I had two in my ear and then the nurse attempting to talk to me at the same time. It's a zoo. The poor boy had been without medication for 5 days. Last Tuesday I attempted to get some help for the aunt but no one was interested in helping. There's only so much I can do. His re-eval meeting is on Wednesday. It should be fireworks.

* Q hit me twice today in the chest as I was wrestling with him. I'll have some new bruises. The OT bought a stuffed ginger bread man doll to use as an incentive to get him to work. It worked for a little while. But Q wants to do what Q wants to do. Around 9:30 he was out like a light. He slept almost an hour. He took a short nap after lunch, too. But got up when he heard that I was about to paint some kind of scene on the classroom windows. So, Jennifer and I entertained the Drama Queen and Mr. Excitement for almost an hour as we painted snowmen, children, Christmas trees and gingerbread houses and men on the windows. It turned out to be a pretty good day all in all. We sent Kristopher home after he threw up a few times. Samantha and Corey were out sick. So, it was really just Jennifer and I entertaining two children.

* I'm thinking about taking Friday off as it is my Al-Anon birthday. I won't be able to do anything special as I'm broke but maybe just being free from work would suffice as a celebration.

* Linda asked me how I was going to treat myself for Christmas. I really don't know. I had told her that I'd like a pedicure but I'm having trouble with my right foot. My diabetes is really beginning to tell on me in my feet. I've got two toes that are not looking so hot. But if I could afford a massage I'd gladly take that or even a soak in a hot tub somewhere. That would be wonderful.