Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I have blogged, but I will try it again for a little while at least. So many things have happened since my last blog that I don't even know where to start.
I will start here. I changed jobs again. I went back to driving forklift. I was not satisfied at my last job so I went back to full time forklift. I love it. Now I can be myself and not have to worry about saying the wrong thing to upset anyone. Women are very hard to work with. Way too much drama.
Next, we have left the trailer park for good. We bought a
real house with a
real yard and the house is no longer on wheels. We were somewhat entertaining the thought of buying a house, since my best friend Miah and Al did, so we were looking. We wanted a place outside of Sioux Falls and we kind of had our hearts set on one at the end of Main St. here in Lennox, but they were asking way to much for that particular house and when we were driving around looking for houses, we stumbled upon this house that would be up for auction. Low and behold we got the bid and here we are!! It is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 2 bath house on 2 1/2 lots in Lennox. Now I don't have to worry about my boys becoming "trailer rats". Lennox has a good school and seems to be a good community so we have much to look forward to. It is still a small community and therefore people are not as warm to the "transplants" as the families that orginated here, but my folks have been in this town for many years so at least we have a little head start.
The week after we moved in, we received a letter from the son of the family that originally built the house in the 20's. We are only the third family to live here. Kind of exciting. I emailed the gentlemen back and told him that pictures and info would be great, and he emailed back saying that he had written a book about his parents (the builders) and that there were pictures of the original house in that book and that it was in the Lennox library. I of course checked it out and haven't got very far. Some of the pictures are hard to place because of all the changes over the years, like the second floor, the patio doors, etc.
Now I will have plenty of time to read that book, because last week I injured my knee and had to have surgery on Tuesday. I had torn my ACL and they replaced it with a cadaver ligament. Sounds a little creepy, but it will drastically reduce my healing time compared to my other options. (Robbing ligaments from my already handicapped knee) Hey who knows, maybe I have the knee of a 20 year old, or an African American so I can run and jump faster. He He. All I know is that it is terrible pain, and that I would rather give birth again that to go through this pain. I know it has only been 2 days, but it really frickin' hurts. I had to stay in the hospital overnight and had a wonderful nurse Andy who kept me heavily medicated to alleviate most of the pain during the night. I am at home now, and will be for at least a couple of weeks, so I will try to keep up on my blog until then, maybe longer now that we have internet access now. (We were to cheap to splurge on wireless internet and the neighbors had protected connections. Damn them.)
Whew, that was a lot to say, so I will blog later with so much more to say.
