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Bright the Day everyone,

I hope all of you are doing well and will be having a good weekend!

Cindy has 3 days off and I have 4 of them.  Monday is my birthday and Tuesday is our Anniversary.   C. bought me a Stand Mixer for my b'day/anniversary!  It's great and wasn't that sweet?? I think so. Don't know if we will be doing something, if anything ~ a quiet long weekend.

Heathen is about the same, but I'm watching him very closely still for the "sign".

I've been pondering about changing the layout of my journal, if not moving my journal entirely ~ I am not sure about why I'm feeling like this I just am. I've played around trying different colors, layouts etc. but nothing has caught my interest, I can't help it, I like black! lol ~ to me it shows the graphics I use very nicely since the majority of them are NOT pastels.  I'm antsy.

The weather here is still hot and very, very muggy ~ soon hopefully it will start cooling and not get over 90 degrees, one good thing is that it hasn't been in the 100's .

In about 3 weeks it will be the Autumn Equinox, the ending of summer and the beginning of Autumn, then the next festival will be Samhain (pronounced Sow-win) or All Hallows Eve.  Samhain is the Pagan/Wiccan "New Year" according to the pre Caesar calendar that the Romans created.  I will hopefully write a entry about each explaining them more fully; I've written before about them but they probably aren't remembering very well so I'll do it again if I can.  just takes that thing that I'm so lacking in, FOCUS .

Brandon, Cindy's nephew (C's Mom and C are raising Brandon) is handicapped ~ some of you know this already.  He was born with a brain tumor and shortly after his birth they had to operate to remove it.  The surgery caused him to have weakness on his left side, he isn't able to use his left hand and his left leg is weak.  Mentally he has a few issues also caused by the tumor and removal thereof...he gets so frustrated with not being able to use his "sweet hand" or run like other kids and other kids make fun of him and harass him and his feelings get really hurt.  Every year when B. goes back to school C and her Mom have to go through hell to get the schools to do what is right for B.  The "No child Left Behind" act is something most of the people they've had to deal with in the school system is something the schools would rather forget if they had their way.  There are many things that they have to watch out for with B.  for example he can't get too hot (causes seizures), he can't have any kind of trauma to the head (no matter how slight), he has to have a aide for everything, even going to the restroom because of his "sweet hand".  Thing is the teachers/aides have no patience and don't care to learn about B's issues.  They get impatient and ignore him.  According to the law they are supposed to have a aide for him every minute that he is at school and even on the bus to and from home.  They getpaid by the state for this ~ yet they do their best to weasel out of it.  It's a good thing that C and her Mom are so savvy as to the laws applying to his situation.  You may ask "well, why don't they home school him?"  the answer is because B. needs exposure to other children and adults, he needs to have that meshing ~ experiences outside of C, her Mom and her Mom's husband.  It teaches him how to deal with society and people in general.  I hope that he has a good year.  Wish C., her Mom & B. luck

Guess I will go for now. Have a good day.