spoken for

again.
*sigh*

Well I’ve been busy…

I installed a new script for our genealogy website. Actually, I installed several new scripts, but finally decided on one today. Unfortunately, with this script I cannot import my file but have to enter all the information in by hand. I can see this is going to take a while.

Kris came over yesterday with the girls while Steve and Aarron went and worked on that house. We couldn’t watch tv because Steve was making me tape his stupid race (you change the channel on the satellite and that’s what it records) so we just sat around, talked, and played Nintendo, lol. I was tired of Nintendo after a while, but Kris wanted to beat the game, so we did.

Elijah’s been stinking crabby today. I don’t know what his problem is. Bleh.

No real big plans for tomorrrow. I gotta go pay bills. We need groceries. That kinda junk.

I may not be around here too much in the near future, depending on how much work I put into our genealogy site. It needs a total renovation!

So anyway…. uh, when’s the last time I posted a real post?

Wednesday;
Went to K’s and spent some time with her. She’d called me earlier and asked me to bring the Nintendo with me when I came. She said, “we can play if the kids cooperate.” Haha. So I did and we played for about 45 minutes before I left.
Left there and went to the game store where I bought the Nintendo. Traded in those extra Super Mario Bros, the stupid Ghostbusters game, and that extra Game Genie. He gave me $8 (instead of the usual $1 each) and so I picked out two other games. Got Dick Tracey and some Looney Tunes thing. The thing is, I don’t know much about the games that are out there because we only had those three when I was little. And then the ones I remember playing elsewhere were Tetris and the other Marios and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and we have those four already.
Then I headed out to mom’s for a bit and we ended up watching Just Visiting. Hilarious movie!

Thursday:
Normal day around here, did math with Sheila around 4, and then in the evening we went over to C & A’s for supper and for Steve to help them put in a new water heater. Theirs went out Wednesday morning.

Today:
I have to go get a shower, now that Elijah’s finally taking a nap. We will be going to BB for a meeting to see what we need to do to help that family out – since they were fixing up a house at the time, too. I guess before there we will grab something to eat and then afterward we will probably go to Walmart. Yesterday was Sarah’s birthday, I forgot to get her card last weekend when I got her mother one (bday was Monday), so I need to do that.

Tomorrow:
I have no clue yet. :-)

So people, I know you visit here. Why don’t you say anything? Well, except for Jared – because I guess Jared’s the only one who likes me!!!!! :P
What do you think of the new layout? I’m pretty dang proud of myself – I’m learning php and css! Check out those images below here, click on them! (Oh for those of you who visit via the main blog page, from weblogs.com or whatever – go to the main page and see things as they were meant to be seen: maka-nani.com)

Oh yeah, sounds like I might have a website job soon!! A hooked me up with friends of hers who are on the committe for the local Farmer’s Market and they are wanting a site. She said they asked her to do it, but she was like, “Why? I’d just have Val do it anyway.” Lol. So she told them I would do it and they are looking into seeing how much they can afford. I probably wouldn’t charge them a lot though, I mean, I’m no professional by any means. So I’d be pretty fair. I just have to figure out what fair is around here. :-) So I guess I will just wait to hear from them!

…when you’re standing there, facing the widow who blames herself for her husband’s death? Nothing. I didn’t know what to do. I just had to hug her twice and we had to move on after Steve told her that they were all in our prayers.
I just can’t imagine.
But of course, his death was not her fault. He had issues, and there was nothing she did to cause this. Questions were running through my mind. But I dared not ask them. When, exactly? Where? How? There was a closed casket, we assumed it was a gun. But we were wrong.
We talked to the two oldest ‘kids’ (both around my age) first before we talked to her. Then we talked to our neighbor about the house of this family. They were in the process of fixing up a house they just bought. So Steve went to talk to a guy we know who was helping with the house about doing some electrical work for them.
After that was all squared away (we will all meet Friday about it), he started talking about the day this man went missing. He didn’t show up to work on the house, and they were worried. They called, nothing. They went out looking, nothing. It wasn’t until day 8 that he was found. Ironically, he was very close – close but hidden, he was found by his son as they flew over in an airplane. He’d taken the material – black garden/drainage hose – that they were supposed to use that day and hooked it up to his muffler.
He must have done it right away. If he’d have waited, his mind would have probably cleared and he’d have gone home.
What was going through his mind?
How does someone get to the point where they feel they have to do something like this? How does it get that bad? Why do they think this will make things better?
It breaks my heart.
I cannot imagine the pain, the sorrow…
Mostly we [Steve and I] were friends with the two oldest ‘kids’ of the family. What I remember about their father was a smiling man, holding his youngest son.
I saw a lot of people I graduated with. This is not the 5 year reunion I had in mind.

The ‘good’ news in all of this is that there has been a trust fund set-up for the family at a local bank – it already has several thousand dollars in it! Steve and I are waiting for payday when we can contribute, too. This is going to be a very hard time for this family. At least the oldest is in college and the youngest of the 7 kids is only 18 months old. So needless to say, the mother is/was a stay-at-home mom.
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