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Friday, June 08, 2007

3/4 Time

Good morning … this is me. It is 4 am in the morning … WOOOHOOO!! Go figure I could wake up early on my day off. Hehehe. Eh, just as well. Sweetie Pie left a note asking if I could wake him up at 5 am. That was a pretty daring move to think I might be up … lately, we’ve been getting up around 5:30 am. He’s a bold one. The reason? He’s going fishing. He sure is a fishing-butt lately. We teased him last night about his day job getting in the way of his fishing schedule. I would like to think he’s in semi-retirement, except he works so many hours “on the side.” Eh, I look at his face and think … anything you want dear.

Ok, and one more thing … besides it being a vacation day for me, we need to remember that we still have Dr. Marvin … SOOOO, DON’T FORGET PLEASE!!!

Hmm, in other news? Worried a little because it is so muggy … you know that kind of thing should I shut the door and turn on the air, or leave it open. I’m a little heated up, but it might be a break from using the down blanket yet. I guess I might want to give that up? But, it’s so dreamy with the air on … don’t know we’ll have to play that one out.

We’re fighting with our minds now because some of us know that it’s too early to think real hard, but there are others of us that want to be getting on with things.

I think we last left off that we were going to check out the school book store. If you know you are going to be thrown off campus the first thing you are going to look for is what are you going to take with. We now have the list that we wanted, but I’m afraid there are just a few courses missing. Some of the materials aren’t offered every semester, but in comparison … we did pretty good yesterday. We went through about 125 books and then further narrowed it down to AHA! Exactly 100.

That was some good chomping down. We just took out the books that were repeats or that we already had … so no tough thinking there … just common sense.

The next move we are not completed with, but we’re checking out the prices over at Amazon, and then checking out the prices of their discount stores. We aren’t looking anywhere past the books that are in like new condition. The last thing we would need is to get a book that’s been highlighted in already. That would be our job. But, if we needed to take her down one more level that would be the next thing. We went through about 8 pages out of the 21 doing this and we comparatively knocked about $600 off the cost. So, we’re looking forward to taking more off the tag. I know that before doing anything to the cost, we were about $6643.43 … ok, right on that mark. So, about an average of $65-70 per book. With the discount we were averaging about $55-60 per book. Though I would have to check that price over again to make sure it wasn’t any more than $10 off, because that doesn’t seem as much. I do think we are looking at around $5-5500 for the whole set of 100 books.

This is enough books to have obtained my doctorate and beyond, so we’re looking at a pretty substantial collection. It’s about 40-45 courses … I don’t know if I’m going to get one more chance to get the other book list from the other courses that are only offered every other quarter. But, we’ll hang on in that effort. There is one or two courses I’m especially looking at that are necessary for the education psychology degree – one was on curriculum design. We’ll wait and see.

The next thing that was important was figuring out with that many books … how we were going to pay for it. Hehehe I now know that I was turned down by my bank and the student loan place for $10,000. That was probably over reaching, I should have done my homework first. But, I was in such a situation with it yesterday … I went out there on that limb. No, Sweetie Pie doesn’t know where we were at … thinking we’ll tell him soon enough, but not until after his fishing trip … it will be in casual conversation, because it’s a mute point … I’m not going to be given a loan … though I’d be tempted at trying one for half the cost. I still may be caught with the cost of the portion of the last class and the one before that I didn’t complete. That would be a tough break. It was hard for me to understand yesterday that the school loan place wouldn’t give me extra money although they’d already guaranteed that I was going to get $15,000. Eh, suppose I should just let that be.

I was told for a $28,000 loan, which is where they had me so far … at 20 years that I would be paying around $220 a month … for most the rest of my life … BUT, I thought that was a reasonable amount, because it still took in the fact that I owed school loan from college. But, there is a chance that that money isn’t included yet. I’m not sure … we’ll see how that all goes, AND I know that I have the Sallie Mae loan for Joe and that was another $5,000 that we’ll make sure gets added into the one. They say that I have a 6 month grace period left to pay the loan off … I think I used some of my time on the other break we took. I think the frustrating part is that … two of the classes social and cognitive we had finished all the course work and didn’t get done with the final paper so; we’re not getting credit for those classes. I think too there might have been another loan to cover the cost of that cog class, because we couldn’t take it out of the other loan. Not sure … they do a lot of this stuff kind of sneaky under the covers. We are counting on the worst case scenario and that we would owe enough to pay $5-600 a month. That would be pretty disastrous. But, again, I don’t think there is much more important than educating your mind.

So, that’s where I am at … on one hand nothing more important, but on the other hand … we have to be taking into account, we are not going to have a masters or doctorate degree … which affects my life plan in that I really believed that one can write books a lot easier if one held the degree expected from the big book publishers.

But, then that alone doesn’t guarantee publication, because Dr. Woollcott tried and didn’t get his book published. Granted it was more reflective than scholarly, but nonetheless – he was a big doctor in a big University and still had trouble. There are no guarantees in life.

I think we’re going to go next into reading. We figured yesterday when we were looking at the books over at Amazon that we should put them in their wish list. I know Amazon uses this to try and convince me to buy books like it, but that’s ok as long as they don’t mess with my list. When we got over to Amazon, we realized that they still had books from the first big purchase left to be purchasing. I thought of that for a while, and I went down the list – just two pages long – and took off a few books, but not many … then I decided to mix the two lists so I could come up with a major life plan. The most optimal plan is that Rich is going to pay me enough so that I eventually can pay for school and have a couple hundred extra to be paying for books each month. The opposite side to that coin is that I’m going to have to start reading books hehehe. SOOO, we started that last night.

BUTTTTTT, right now it’s time to wake up Sweetie. It’s going to be a bear this morning because he was up playing cards all night … BUT there is the knowledge that he’s going fishing … I think fishing people can wake up on a dime when it’s time for their cause. Hehehe … Let me go check out that theory.

AHA! We’re between things now … Fishyman soaked up a half hour of back-rubs before he got up to the shower. That’s where he is at now. I think the was pretty sneaky. Appears to me that he had that planned. HMPF! Sneaky finger-geterer.

He’s taking a very nice longgggg shower. He says he was in bed by about 11:30 pm from the cards, but one of his guys called him at 3:30 am to tell him he wouldn’t be coming to work. I think that guy wasn’t expecting to get his boss on the other end … thought he was going to leave a message. BUT, Rich answers the phone next to him thinking that it is going to be one of his kids and they need him for something.

He’s like that.

Hehehe he just came to the bathroom door naked … somehow he lost his towel, ahh … he just came out now for a second. After I’d reached for a new towel, he remembered that he left his other towel on the back of the door. I can see though that he is getting serious about getting up. He said something about putting on his game face. I think he’s getting his sense of humor out and that’s part of it. I know its not about shaving, because he doesn’t do that before he fishes. Whoops naked man!!! Drat he always dodges into the bedroom thinking that I’m going to be grabbing at things. Silly Rich … where’d he get an idea like that?? Hehehe
Hmm … now we’re at the next step … we’d gone in the bedroom to watch him get dressed after the shower and then we MADE him eat breakfast … he only eats a banana dipped in chocolate pudding … uh huh … he’s got a sweet tooth too. He was to the point of barely tied down though because he was ready to get going … but, he has to rearrange the car and make sure his lures are all set up right. He said that would take another 20 minutes. And, then he is going to come up and fill his thermos and then be on his way. He told his fishing partner, he’d be there between 7 and 8 am. I think he’s coming in closer to the first time, which is good, because I’m learning these fishy people don’t like to be tied down. Silly guys … playful bunch.

Fishyface says he’s fishing with the Judge this time – Ron. I think they get a long. I think I know which one it is, but we’ll check that out when he comes back.

He said this was a judge they gave all the hard stuff to. Lots of murders, Yeeks!

Can’t imagine how his mind must work. He’s retired now though … Rich says he has property and a horse farm managed by others so his wife can breed them. Eh, it’s a different lifestyle.

He also said that the younger guy is in Iraq, and the dentist who is about 60 just signed up so he could go too. He’s the one that goes to foreign impoverished countries to give away his services. Rich says he likes adventure. And, there is one more guy that’s out … they aren’t sure he’s going to make it. He had a ruptured hernia in his esophagus this week. I felt real bad about that … I’m sure it will have an effect on the guys this weekend. They are going to want to be together.

And, then one guy sold his boat and another’s boat is broken, so they were going in together to get a smaller boat, that would work. I asked fishy-man (as a back-seater) if they had enough people with boats to keep him fishing. Cuz the way I count that’s about 5 boats down. But, he said he would be ok, and if anything he would rent a boat like the others and stay closer to shore. That guy … he’s a true fisherman! But, I think they need more fisher-people.

Hmm, think that’s all the fishy news. Oh and Bob shaved his head … Rich said that he had some peach fuzz up there, but it’s all gone now. I think he left a little hair on the side. I think that affected Rich because he’d worry if he lost his hair … We never talked about it, but I know he’s proud to still have some. Hmm I think its receded some, but that’s not something I’d want to bring up either. I don’t have old pictures to prove it and what would it matter … cuz I’d take him no hair or not! Long as his smoocher worked at least 

Ok, talk about smoochyface. He just officially left … Came up for a thermos, identified his partner on the calendar and then took off … as ancy as an ant with a suitcase! We were pushing him out the door too … he had started making a list of things he wanted me to be doing when he was gone … Like nooooo, I don’t think so!

Hmm. Took a few moment to eat my cereal and by the next time I’m up we should take our medicine. It’s about 6:30 am now. I sure hope those green and pink worms work. Ok, shhh … let fishyman be for a while. Besides we should be celebrating … YOOHOO Fishyman’s away the mice will play! Damn someone promised him we wouldn’t be a bad diet person this weekend. That means no extra sweets and we gotta walk. Hmpf! Shower every day too? Man – takes all the fun out of being on your own.

Double Hmpf!

Go take the medicine? OH MAN OH MAN! This isn’t fair! AHEM… I know, I know go take the medicine.

Whoops … I’m going to mark that as a protest … someone fell asleep at the desk for a half hour … sheesh … just a few pills, please?

Ahh, ok … better? Got some fresh coffee and cleaned our glasses too. That ought to be good for something? Fishyman leaving took a little oopmf outa me 

But, we’re not going to let that get us down, right? Thadda girl. Why don’t we take a look at what we were last discussing … you were excited about something, right? I know……..

Ok, now then … where were we?

Ahh yes, we went into the other room and looked for just the right book. The one that we came out with was written by a big guy in disabilities named Dr. Michael Wehmeyer … and this particular book is Providing Access to the General Curriculum: Teaching Students with Mental Retardation. We read a chapter out on the balcony last night and started another on the sleepy couch. We’re going to need taming that dragon! Anyway … these are the chapters …

Understanding mental retardation: A functional model

Curriculum decision making and educational supports

Conceptualizing access to the general curriculum

Achieving access to the general curriculum

Person-centered and student-directed planning

Program evaluation: Empowerment evaluation and personal outcomes

Creating learning communities for all students

Designing educational supports: Instructional decision making

Teaching strategies that work in inclusive classrooms

Establishing equal school-home partnerships: Parental and family involvement in
education

Positive behavioral supports and classroom management

Teaching functional academic content

The emergent self: Sexuality and social inclusion

Community-based instruction

Self-determination: Curriculum augmentation and student involvement

Technology and students with mental retardation

Achieving access to and progress in the general curriculum: Making curriculum
decisions and designing educational supports

Yup, yup … that’s about it. I will need to figure out a way that I can keep the writing portion up to par with the reading portion. I think an ideal would be to write a paper about every 50 pages. This book would be about 5-6 papers then – there are 17 chapters total. In this book and many others they have chapter objectives and so something could be made out of that, or there would be a way of writing a summary, or we could go back to that one model we’d learned about the first semester, or we could do something orientated toward the work at the center, or more, or something in and out of what’s been mentioned. There are a lot of ways, but I have to get over the worst part which is the realization that I won’t have access to the school library … and doing that kind of research was what held the value of the papers together.

Hmm, just checked mail then went over to the bank … I had forgotten to pay rent and car … so I did it now. It looks like most of all those bills I sent out the other day have gone through … So at least we are good there … we’re going to make it.

Just gotta keep trying.

Ok, figured some more stuff though there’s a little more to figure. I emailed a note to the Harold Washington Library asking about psycarticles data base and then I checked out APA … I could now join as a master’s level student for $225 which would be the regular package, plus a gold certification that would allow me full access to the data base. The problem is and I would have to check on it – is that I would get in because I was a student. So, the question is if I stop being a student would I lose my membership eligibility. Hmm, good girl … I found the contact email and sent it off … I want to do this legitimately. I asked them about my membership if I discontinued school. I’d still be qualified in a sense I’ve taken some masters’ work, but I don’t know about being active. I asked them if it wouldn’t work for them, could they recommend another source for having the psycarticles. I would gladly pay the $225 a year if I knew I could have access to this resource. It has a lot to do with how I plan my writing for the books I will be reading.

Ok, breathe. Sister just emailed and then phoned. She is very worried, because the staff attendance book has disappeared from Rosa’s office. She’s pretty frantic, but I’ve had no use ever for that book other than signing in and I never take it out of Rosa’s office past her desk. She can go ahead and search my office though if she wants. I think most likely that maybe a staff picked it up accidently and set it down … or, that one of the clients took it, which means that they should look amongst their things. We have one or two people in the workshop area next to the secretaries desk who have taken things like that. My first year at the center one of my big folders disappeared and it was never found. I don’t have any other thoughts than it looked inviting to a client and after that it was gone. Sometimes they’ve been known to take things and then dump it in a garbage out of guilt. Man-o-man if there wasn’t a record of how many sick days I have left, I would be pretty upset. I wonder if we wrote it down in the blog. It would be a bear to find if we did. It would have been around the time that we were organizing for our vacation.

Let’s let that concern go for the moment though … we need to press on.

I should try setting a goal today to finish the first three chapters and while I still have access to the school library, I should check it out to see if I could create a small paper that I could be satisfied with. It would give me confidence that I could be doing the kind of work … this time though without the pressure of having to get everything done on the school’s schedule. It would make getting the books more worthwhile if I were honing my writing skills at the same time. I know as far as losing my peers support that usually my papers were better than most so I’m not losing anything in comparison. And, since the most the instructor ever gave toward feedback was a sentence or two and then a 100% mark … I have little faith that their staff was adding to my degree.

There is still the question and disappointment in not being able to have the degree … I’m going to feel bad about that for a long time, but it would help immensely if I could at least be writing and reading about the material I’m most interested in. I just checked it out … I have the text books list for 62 courses … that’s pretty good since you only need 13-15 course to pass a graduate degree. I’m not sure about passing a PhD. But, I know that the big thing was the dissertation’s and major paper and those I’m not going to be pressured to do … although by then I might want some kind of summary paper that is totaling the knowledge I’ve gained.

Like with any other project that I’ve started I always have to be concerned whether or not I will have the stamina to complete the course. On the better side of all that … I look at the part where the BA did get completed, I have managed a job for the last 8 years, and for the last four years I’ve maintained this journal. So, I would have to say that the stuff that’s meant most to me I’ve maintained. Also, along that vein I look at my master life goals. The one I’ve held longest too was that I was going to be eccentric. Hehehe I think I’m doing pretty good with that … Most times I’ve had money, I’ve given it out … true sometimes in my own best interest. There’s probably no Godly reason that anyone should need a $4200 couch. BUT, it is and has been exactly what I’ve wanted and with good care it will remain so for the majority of the next 10-20 years. I can’t imagine updoing myself. Maybe we can take it into becoming an antique! The style will hold … and so far we’re doing pretty good with its color. It is a nice earthy tone, so I think that will hold too.

Ok … now we should probably check out where we are and then dive into something serious. There are several worthwhile projects out there. I’m having doubts about doing the walking today, because the wind is gusting 35-50 miles per hour. It’s not a good time to be out, plus I will get my 2000 some steps in by the time I walk Dr. Marvin’s hall. That will be enough for the day. We’ll see about going for a walk to the zoo on Saturday and Sunday … that would make Sweetie Pie very happy. I still have to go to work tomorrow, but it should be a good day. Sister is taking the center out on a walk for mankind or something – they are going to be in Indiana.

Holly is going to be off that day, so it will just be the secretary and I. I should be good on my own with the exception of relieving her for lunch. At that time I’ll go up front. Not too hard … the group will get back just before they need to leave for the day and I’m sure Sr. will disappear in her office, because she’ll be very tired.

Ok, that takes into account exercise. No later than 3 pm on both days, we need to be at the zoo. Ohhhh yes, and then there is Ame’s last game. I think it is from noon-1 pm, so I’ll go to that and then see if I can go directly to the zoo. Rich is more concerned that I go to the parks, he says he is more comfortable with the zoo because of the people around where he’s not too sure of the parks.

I don’t think I ever wrote about that … last Monday Rich and I went to the zoo.

And, it was very nice. I was worried about the number of times I needed to stop, but he was very patient with us. He did push that we walk as far as we could before going home. We went around the normal circle and then at the fountain, we pushed on and circled the bears grottos and we walked past the big cat displays. Hmm, I still got all those pictures on the camera. I guess that’s another multiple hour job.

But, that’s not my priority now. Oh and for the record, Rich treated us out to a slurpee while we were there. We need to not ask for it all the time though because it was $4 … and they are not worth that much, although Rich says the extra money the zoo makes goes back into taking care of it and the animals. So, I won’t complain too much, it’s just gotta be watched.

Good good.

Another record item is that I’ve been having particular trouble with my hands falling asleep, especially my left. I know I have ulner neuropathy, but I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong for it, or if there is something I should do to prevent it from getting worse. I know with this level of table that my arms rest on the towel in front of me so I am just barely picking up my wrists to type … maybe I better look that up for a sec. brb.

Ok, that’s enough of that … we read three or four articles … I think what we are supposed to be doing is not leaning on our elbows. Actually, I think we now lean more on our forearms, but sometimes it gets pretty bad, so we’ll have to check those times for incorrect positioning. I think from what the doctors say that I’ve shown signs for carpal tunnel too. It would seemed the ulner thing affects more my left hand although they say its bilateral and when they did the test they said it’s in my right hand too, but not as bad. The ulner affects the last two fingers in the hand and elbow, the carpal affectes the first two fingers, thumb, palm and wrist.

Besides staying off the elbows, they recommend not using your hands where the wrist is going to be called upon frequently. Basically, stop typing. Yah, like right!

Maybe by the time I lose complete functioning of it, we’ll be talking into the computer as it does the typing, but for now I’m not looking for an immediate change in venue. It says that it can get pretty painful and its then that surgery is recommended … I just have to reshuffle and deal with aggravation. I’m really afraid of losing hand function. I have to be careful with it.

Ok, ok … that’s enough on the medical forefront. What’s next … major project? It’s almost 11! Ok, time check. Dr. Marvin’s 4:30 – leave here by 3:15-3:30 … we can bring our book just to make sure we’re there on time. So that means shower by 2 pm. AHA! That gives us a little over 3 hours WOOHOO!!!

Projects?

Copying over blog to book

Reading curriculum book

Typing more of a post

Trying to figure out a way to help Rich

Putting the book list on Amazon

Ok, ok let’s stop at there … let’s calmly look over the list and see if there is something we can all agree on, K? Ok, ok bathroom first.

Hmm, I think where we are going is to read the book first … because our mind’s still strong. We can type in between chapters, and do the Amazon and blog to book project while we’re more tired. Better not use up good energy. But for the time being … we got some veggies to eat so let’s look at the Amazon list while finishing this up, good? YEAH!

Ahh, here we are … we have 67 books on our list … but, some of these books we’ve gotten. Hmm, we just checked out the books we’ve ordered and brought home, but the majority on our shelves at work. We have to check the list while we’re there.

That’ll just take a few moments on Friday. Then we’re going to need planning this out … Right now there is no priority for purchasing, but I notice that there is a “desired” space on the page which means I can number my priorities, or I can have 12 priorities mentioned as number one. I can also list the priorities in addition as Highest, high, medium, low, and lowest. Just that after it gets on this list its already past low and lowest. Ahh the desired one is listing how many copies you would like … that could be a dangerous thing when ordering. Hmm, not sure if the book I put a zero on disappeared … I don’t remember what the book was. No, it’s still there … because there are still 67 books. Good, Pshwoo

I am still going to check which books I have at work, but if I worked from the bottom of the list forward, I could get about 9 books for $100 – the first round. I better continue adding books that’s the only way we’re going to see the full package. Let’s do that now that we’re here instead of reading ok?

Hmm, ok, we got about an hour left before we take our shower. We wrote a quick note to Dr. Marvin saying that we ordered just one book and that we’d tried taking out a $10,000 yesterday. I’m lucky that didn’t go through … because we can save a lot of money going through Amazon and their associates. But, the problem still remains in that I want about 100 books and I’m still pretty intent on getting them. It doesn’t seem to phase me that it’s a 5-6000 expense. Not much more important than books.

And, I think there is another gratification in that I could learn all the school meant to teach me and more … no degree, but cheaper. I have to look at the version where I am saving $15,000 this year alone. It’s made doubly hard, because if I could have continued I would have $8,000 cash in my pocket by the end of the year and then I would have had an education AND knowledge. I guess I’m not the kind of person to work hard enough at it. Maybe someday I can understand us much better.

It’s like a knife slicing down my inner skull past the left I and when I even think school it comes all the way through my head to the top of the chest area. It’s just not happening. That’s the safest thing I can say. Obviously, we are having quite some difficulty in letting it go. 

I just don’t like the sense of passing up an opportunity … of a lifetime. Damn
Ok, you … let’s get off this subject again. Maybe we could take the shower early, go in early and sit around for a bit reading the book on curriculums? Going to need this to reach sister in taking over program development. Hmm?

Anything else more important? I know your not going to finish those last 5 pages at the moment. Kind of burned out on that … Oh and the book we ordered … couldn’t pass it up. It’s called, “Creating capacity for attachment: dyadic developmental psychotherapy in treatment of trauma-attachment disorders” Man … just couldn’t pass that up. Hmm, was that a book I could have looked in? Better check. Nope … can’t search it and there are no comments, and barely scratch from the author. I did gather that they were focusing in on children … so we’ll have to see if it works over. We can wait 3-5 days … let’s see today is Thursday. Let’s hope it gets here by Wednesday next week and we can have it home for our vacation. WooHOOO

Hmm, now maybe we could prepare for Dr. Marvin? Have to confront him on that whole thing of having a binge disorder. Damm more books … Two were on the list one on shame and the other on attachment and addictions, the other two are directly binge related one is toward compulsive eating and the other just calls itself a guide to overcoming disordered eating. There. That should be enough Dr. Marvin. Yes, I’m compulsive … I just ordered over $100 in books to deal with my compulsiveness … one author stated clearly compulsion is the behavior of obsession which lays within our thoughts. BUT, now I really do need to get in the shower … BRB

I said something mad to Dr. Marvin … but it will just make him smile. He’s like that. Tricky. BLAH!!

Ahh … back out of the shower. Good. And, we ate an orange too. It’s about 2:30, so we have 45 minutes to dry our hair … lots of wind coming in today … should work out nice. It’s warm out there though. Rich said 4-5 hours to the lake, so it’s for sure that he’s fishing by now … should have gotten there about noon. Sure hope its nice in Wisconsin. Everyone seems to be going out of state but me! I’ll be the one over here being over drawn in my account. Why do I have to deal with money ANYWAY!!! I’m lousy with it.

Ok, be calm what do we want to do next … maybe calm ourselves with the reading for a half hour? Hmm?

Ok you … we’re back again … we been to Dr. Marvin’s and we’re HAPPY to be home! Had to turn on the air though it’s really hot out there. It’s about 6:40 pm. I think we’re going to go read some, but thought we’d make a few notes while we were here.

He was ready to do some hard doctoring work. Pretty much the whole thing revolved around the food thing, but not direct. He put some words on the board

shame
Abuse control
trust

I don’t remember the other words, but there were only 2 or 3 more … there was one word under trust and one word over abuse next to shame.

I just remember the part we were talking about sex stuff that had happened to us as a kid. I told him I wasn’t going to remember it because it gave me mad feelings … just little ones, but I didn’t like the way that all was going.

Sorry … been sitting here for a while … remembering bad kind of stuff. Just different people in and out of my life … we’d talked about being different people in different situations … He says everyone does that to some extent, but they came together under one identity. Shoot not capturing that part well. We didn’t do the same thing because it was safer to stay separate people. Just remembered though how we were going from one memory to another thinking he feeled me up, he did, and the other did, then we’d turn around and there’d be that many more … seemed like a flood of people had their hands all over us, but we had liked that someone would “care” about us. But it really wasn’t that … they just had their hands on us. This is not a good place for me to be. I remember what it was like with Cooper not to be able to shut off the thoughts. I don’t want that to happen again. Rich wouldn’t like us getting in trouble while he was gone. Beside BJ, no one’s messed with us since we been with Rich. He helped make the others go away.

Wish Rich would call. He’d know how to make us feel better. Probably say … rub my back woman … that always helps.