Monday, April 26, 2004
Weekend End
This past four days was a serious overdose of plan B switchage, and I'm heavily looking forward to the relative peace of Monday.
Mike and I did make it to Pueblo Thursday to meet with the Official Psych Team to see if he is still technically qualified to get his SSI benefits. That was more of a success than I was fully comfortable with. Although I told the testing lady right at the start that Mike is usually shy with strangers, she didn't do ANYTHING to build rapport, but right away got snarky with him, just because he jokingly told her an elephant picture was a roller coaster. So the testing didn't go too well, to say the least. By the time the head guy interviewed us, Mike was stressed and bored and rolling around on the floor under my feet. :/ Although they never say things like this, the doc asked, "He already gets SSI, right?" Yes. "Well, that shouldn't change....uh, not that I have any say in determining it or anything." Yeah, gotcha. My kid IS a babbling idiot under some circumstances.
Guess they figured that if he WAS faking it, Dustin Hoffman could just pass on his Rainman Oscar to Mike....
Anyway, the original plan had been for us to go from Pueblo to Denver for the weekend, for Zach's birthday party. However, Mother Nature had apparently decided to throw a huge snowfest that very day, so I decided that, between still feeling crappy and the prospect of driving over Monument Pass in a spring blizzard, the better part of valor suggested I go home and see if the forecast changed Friday.
One very nice thing about out trip to Pueblo was that we stopped at several garden centers on the way home, and found a lot of cool things not available locally. Here is our Plant Bounty:
The pink geranium, the poppy and the marigolds are Mike's.
Friday was the day it rained 4 inches, which is about half our usual annual total. Not that I am complaining or anything, since We Need The Moisture. Decided to give the Denver party a miss.
Not much happened Saturday. The only thing of moment was that Mike was bit by the Spring Decorating bug and got me to help him hang one of those singing fish plaques in the bathroom.
Today was supposed to be Free Dump Day. I got right to work immediately after lunch, loading trash and junk into Dreamcloud. So imagine my chagrin when we got there and found the dump closed due to weather. No, today was bright, sunny and semi-warm. The weather was that 4 inches of rain Friday. Guess they did not want to deal with winching out either patrons' vehicles or the big dump machines. So Free Day is changed to next week.
I got one six-pack of Scotch Moss planted, but not much else of substance. Hopefully tomorrow will be a more fruitful day.
Mike and I did make it to Pueblo Thursday to meet with the Official Psych Team to see if he is still technically qualified to get his SSI benefits. That was more of a success than I was fully comfortable with. Although I told the testing lady right at the start that Mike is usually shy with strangers, she didn't do ANYTHING to build rapport, but right away got snarky with him, just because he jokingly told her an elephant picture was a roller coaster. So the testing didn't go too well, to say the least. By the time the head guy interviewed us, Mike was stressed and bored and rolling around on the floor under my feet. :/ Although they never say things like this, the doc asked, "He already gets SSI, right?" Yes. "Well, that shouldn't change....uh, not that I have any say in determining it or anything." Yeah, gotcha. My kid IS a babbling idiot under some circumstances.
Guess they figured that if he WAS faking it, Dustin Hoffman could just pass on his Rainman Oscar to Mike....
Anyway, the original plan had been for us to go from Pueblo to Denver for the weekend, for Zach's birthday party. However, Mother Nature had apparently decided to throw a huge snowfest that very day, so I decided that, between still feeling crappy and the prospect of driving over Monument Pass in a spring blizzard, the better part of valor suggested I go home and see if the forecast changed Friday.
One very nice thing about out trip to Pueblo was that we stopped at several garden centers on the way home, and found a lot of cool things not available locally. Here is our Plant Bounty:
The pink geranium, the poppy and the marigolds are Mike's.
Friday was the day it rained 4 inches, which is about half our usual annual total. Not that I am complaining or anything, since We Need The Moisture. Decided to give the Denver party a miss.
Not much happened Saturday. The only thing of moment was that Mike was bit by the Spring Decorating bug and got me to help him hang one of those singing fish plaques in the bathroom.
Today was supposed to be Free Dump Day. I got right to work immediately after lunch, loading trash and junk into Dreamcloud. So imagine my chagrin when we got there and found the dump closed due to weather. No, today was bright, sunny and semi-warm. The weather was that 4 inches of rain Friday. Guess they did not want to deal with winching out either patrons' vehicles or the big dump machines. So Free Day is changed to next week.
I got one six-pack of Scotch Moss planted, but not much else of substance. Hopefully tomorrow will be a more fruitful day.
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