Tuesday, Tuesday

I did absolutely nothing of interest at all today.

I did have a fight with Grande Decaf, though. He is oh-so-superior to everyone in this house - or so he thinks. HRH thinks that we are a few miles beneath him. Venti thinks that when Grande goes out into the "real world" he's not going to be testing the waters, he'll be confronted by a huge tidal wave. I think so, too, and I'm trying to avoid that from happening - but man, has that kid got a fucking attitude! And I don't know WTF to do about it.

Tall Decaf is now officially a published model. His picture was used in an ad campaign for a small college in Arizona, and the person in charge sent me a copy of the ad. It was awesome. Tall is officially walking a foot off the ground at this point. He was so happy, and that makes me so happy. What's strange is that Tall is only 14 years old, and was portrayed in the ad as a high school senior. He is way, way, way too big for his age. His nickname here on the blog is Tall Decaf because that's where he fits into the family - he's the middle child, but it's also appropriate to describe him physically. He's surpassing his older brother, Grande, in height and Grande is 2 1/2 years older than him. I am so curious to know what he'll look like when he's all growed up. :)
So, I've been working really hard on setting up www.anxietyportal.com I think it's coming along nicely. I've applied for Google Adsense - I'm sure they'll grant me admission. Once I get that I just need to code it into the header and I can "go live" with it. I hope to God google picks it up and ranks it highly. Now - if I can just find a way to get people to contribute!

I also started a yahoo group for people with panic disorder local to the Puget Sound area. So far two people have emailed me about it, and one of them is working on her MA in counseling. She says that she has her panic attacks under control. God, I envy her. Anyway, it would be nice if I could find some local friends through this venture. I used Craigslist to post the ad about it and had 2 responses in an hour...very cool.

Short Decaf is hiding little pretzels in Tall's jacket. I wonder what he'll say about that tomorrow morning. He adores his baby brother so he'll probably laugh about it.

I can't believe it's ONLY Tuesday. It's definitely feeling like it should be closer to the weekend. Thursday - yeah, it should be Thursday. This week is going painfully slow.

Tomorrow we get another experience of Grande going to his 1-hour appointment at the school to check in with his home-schooling counselor. Last week he managed to get on the right bus, but coming home was a different story in that he got on the wrong bus (which still passes REALLY close to our house) and didn't pull the cable, so he ended up at a mall 8 miles from here. He waited outside for an hour for the return ride - why he didn't go in the mall is beyond me. I guess he witnessed an old lady pull the cable on the way home, and he got off at that stop - second closest to our house - so maybe he'll find the nerve to pull the damn thing tomorrow. Shit, I hope there are some dollar bills laying around for him to use for bus fare.

Well, nothing else of interest to report...as I said, it was a slow day.