Sat., May 28 & Danica Patrick

Saturday, May 28, was pretty eventful. I could easily write 5 or 6 separate postings on what occurred. I was at my ex's place in the a.m. (The topic of my relationship with my ex is easily worth a few postings). She served me breakfast and we were all eating together. We were originally all going to go to Star Wars III:Revenge of the Sith. My ex, MB, heard that it wasn't a good movie for kids. So it ended up that Ted, my middle child (6 yrs. old) went with me to Star War III. Then MB, my oldest son and the youngest, Brianna, went to Madagascar. The movie I saw with Ted is definitely worth 2 postings (one on the plot/special effects & another on the obvious parallels between Sith vs. Jedis and God vs. Satan & their respective people. After the movie, my ex took a nap, & I took the kids to my apartment while Andy, my oldest (9 yrs. old) surfed the Net. The other 2 were playing with the neighbor kids. While they were doing that I vacuumed my living room and part of the bedroom. Then we all got back together and went to church. The priest gave a pretty good homily (another separate posting). Then the whole went to the restaurant, The Cracker barrel where I bought dinner. They had some tables that had checkers. After dinner, I taught Andy and to a lesser extent, Ted how to play checkers. My youngest, Brianna (3 yrs. old) wanted to play but she's too young so when we said "no" to her she went crying to Mom. The checkers game was arranged where I was playing against Andy and Ted was my partner. Things were going well at the beginning of the game, because it wasn't obvious who was winning. Since it was Andy's 1st game, I gave him suggestions on where to move and corrected him if he tried to move a regular checker backwards. But, the game unraveled in the middle because Brianna was crying and when Ted cheered whenever I jumped Andy's checker, Andy would hit Ted. When Andy cheered or said, "Ha, Ha" to Ted when he jumped a checker, then Ted would hit him or scream at him. Boys will be boys.

But, still I couldn't ruin people's dining experience at the restaurant. There was a window and wall separating us from the diners, but my 2 sons were so loud that the diners could hear them through the window. So, we had to stop the game and go home. Andy & Ted were so angry with each other that I had to sit in the back with Ted while Andy sat in front. By this time, it was 8:30 pm. & I left them to go back to my apartment and get my 9 hrs. of sleep before my hospital shift starting @ 6:45 the next morning. It was a wonderful day which I was very thankful for. Working 2 places, it was a very rare day off. After I get off work, I look forward to seeing them again, and also will spend most of Memorial Day with them as well.
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I don't follow race car driving at all, but I was interested in Danica Patrick and how she did at the Indy 500. I followed her regularly this week in the sports page, and today, while I worked at the hospital, I spent most of my lunch break keeping track of her racing. She ended up finishing 4th, survived 1 fender bender that I saw that she was in. She was leading the race for about 15 laps. The winner will get $2 million, I wonder how much Danica will win? I'll find out in tomorrow's sports page. Way to go, Danica!!