So I just got off the phone with both of them.. it turned out that today was actually her birthday. What a riot!  It was so good to talk with them. They are both still in Amway , but it's now called QuickStar which is more into the nutritional aspect rather than the laundry and cleaning products that it was. I may have to look into it, he mentioned a product that is no carb, no sugar energy drinks... I forgot how motivational and sweet these two people are!  It was great to speak with them...oh! And he has a daughter that lives in Alpharetta...so they will be coming to the area in a month or so. How coinkydink is that?

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Here is an update on my leg.  I was a little loopy after my acupuncture treatment yesterday. And having a hard time adjusting to my new eye glass prescription, so was feeling foggy about that too....

I went straight home, and when I got out of my car, walking from there to my apartment and down some stairs, I was able to do so with barely a limp! The muscles had released that much... it felt freer than it has in a year!  Incredible after just a acupuncture treatment and tends to boggle my mind, because I come from a different aspect of how to get muscles to respond and release, you know?

Today its a little tender, achey and like it wants to go back to being stiff again, could be partly weather related too I suppose...it's raining here in GA...but if by tomorrow its locking up I will make an appointment to come in sooner than next Monday cause next week I want to really nail this thing, so I will be ready for our trip back to NY to visit!

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Son. Called yesterday from the new jail...I dont know if I mentioned it or not, but last week, he finally went before the judge in Cobb cty, and they dropped the auto theft charges, set the court date for the drug charges for june 07 and released him on bond, which then promptly he was transfered to the jail here in gwinnett cty because they put a hold on him due to his breaking probation.  So now he is in that holding pattern until he gets to the judge to find out what the penalty is for breaking probation.  Then next June he will find out what the penalty is for the drug charges. In the meantime, Gwinnett wont release him on bail, cause they consider him a flight risk as well as the fact that he broke probation...so he is there until they figure out what to do with him. I think I am going to try to visit him either next week, or the week we come back from NY. 

He apologized to me. He said he feels very very bad that we had to move on account of his violent behavior and the drug people he surrounded himself with. I said.. yes..that was 90% of the reason why we moved, the other 10% of the decision was to keep my office open and running and we couldnt do that and keep the house payments on top of it all. We decided to keep the move to ourselves after that because of who you were involved with.

I am glad to hear that he is owning up to his responsibilities. I am sorry that he will have a felony on his record now...for stupid drugs... what a mess they make of lives!  I did let him know there was a chance that we may decide to move back to NY next year, just didnt want to surprise him by not telling him that at least.  He took it fairly well. Considering he has the man that had him arrested wrapped around his finger playing on his guilt. The man is paying for my son's lawyer AND sending him money. He has 150 bucks in his account. I was like.. do you earn money....and he said, nope, Al sends it to me. I called him out on it, and he kinda gave me that laugh that says, yep, I know it.... but I will be damned if I will send him any money... and that still shows me that he is using people... I am sure he feels that he doesnt have a choice in the matter at this point...but it's kind of an ugly situation in my eyes..to have this older gay guy just doling out cash and bending over backwards to help my son who will drop kick him to the curb once he is out.  Apparently he has already told my son, when you get out, you will be under lock and key here!

Ah.. come on man, reality check.. he had rules etc to live by the last time he got out of jail with us, then with them when he moved in with them... being under lock and key with the taste of freedom.. it will last ..um.. maybe ... 1 month...then it will go haywire... that is the typical pattern.

But.. I DO pray that this time the cycle is broken, that my son will pull out of this being a better man for it, it's just hard to see the 'games' still in play, and I know changes are slow...so I am going to be happy for the changes I hear him saying, and hope that that when he does come out, the changes will continue.  I pray for solid men to surround him, and draw his heart to a better place, that he will begin to feel like he CAN do something and BE someone.  I want someone in there to encourage him to get his GED. I think he is tired of hearing me say it..but he is so dang SMART.. but so dang lazy!  EH! LOL!

I walk by faith, not by sight...and in that walk of faith, I know that God is doing a deep work, a deep cleansing in my son, and that he will continue to water those seeds that are dormant in him, that fell on thorny ground, that got choked out...and make the soil of his heart fertile to begin to feel better about himself and not cling to the past. To cut his ties with his biological mother in the fact that he relates the loss, the rejection, and the negative heritage she provided to him... to instead look to the little boy that we chose to bring into our family... and to know that we chose him, loved him, and still do love him.

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Ah.. I have a client in 20 minutes, my second one today.. .then I am going to go pick up my pants that I dropped off to a local alteration shop, why do they think that all fat people are 6 feet tall? LOL... I have another pair of jeans to give her to hem up for me.. .. I hate sewing.. so this is nice that my pants will finally all be the right length! Yippee. 

Then I am going to Aldi's to return the gps that I bought, it is not working...I think I will go back to the original plan and get the one I really wanted.  One that I can read..lol

Let's see... oh yes..then I am going to Walmart to pick up my prescription glasses, however I am going to have them check these new glasses out, they still are making my eyes very blurry and I am having a rough time with them, this is day 3 of trying to adjust to them.

I have to fill out my paperwork to apply for my National Massage Certification test.  It is a complicated bugger and it costs 225.00 to apply...and you only get to take it twice...If I fail it , then I would have to pay the entire fee again. Incredible pressure there, eh?  I should have taken it right out of school 5 yrs ago, but I was in the middle of building my business, and wanted to put it towards advertising instead. And well, there has always been a reason not to take it.

Now, I have the money from the income tax return, so I better do it, and I better get studying... At least 1/2 hour a day I think is a good committment ( I have never had to study..so this whole study thing makes me out of sorts!)  I think I have 90 days from when I give them the application to go to a center to test.

OK.. off to do what I do! :)

Love and Laughter,

Dawn