I talked to Dad tonight. He sounded tired but excited to talk. The little one was such a handful I had to help control her and got off the phone early. Maybe I'll send him an email. I felt like that guy in the song. You know the one "...my boy was just like me, yeah. He'd grown up just like me." I really wish I had been able to make time for him. Dads are important. I feel a lot better now I just wrote Dad a nice e-mail to get him up to speed on where our adoption stands and on the MiniVan.

The MiniVan has been a nice distraction. We have a lot to tell about our latest adoption "prospect" for much lack of a better word. We are holding a lot of the information close and it is not for release until something goes down. And something may be going down really soon and it both feels like something is coming while also feeling like something is not coming. Meanwhile I keep thinking things like "How the hell are we really going to pay for this car" and "I've got to do the damn taxes!!"

When we bought this house I thought this is great it is like having rent that never goes up. The problem is you need your earnings to go up to actually have such a thing become an advantage. That has yet to happen. Damn company!!

I'd really like to have more music. I've been listening to internet radio a lot at work and it's great. There is a lot of good stuff out there and I've started to write down some of the performers. For some reason I keep thinking "I don't want to buy a CD" they are useless. Yet I really don't have a computer system setup to interact with our stereo nor do I have an MP3 player. I never have any of these new gadgets but I sure would love to have them.

How many of the same meals have I eaten in my life. If I really start to think about meat and how it is processed, what they feed the animals and how they are treated. Gross!! Maybe I could be a vegetarian. Then I have a good piece of prosciutto and I think this is great who cares where it comes from.