Today Sarah’s 7 and Kim’s 28. I left Kim a happy birthday message and called Tammy’s. Only Lisa and Bill were there the first time I called. Bill was out cutting trees and Tammy took Sarah and Becky to Hebrew school. The poor kid had to go to school on her birthday?

Anyway, Lisa and I talked and she sounded more uppity, although tired and bogged down with all kinds of homework and extra activities. She has close to an hour’s bus ride to and from school. The kids from Salem have to go to East Lyme. That’s the closest high school to her which sucks. She has to get up just before 5 AM and her bus comes at 6:20. Then school starts and 7:15. She must not even get home until close to 5 PM.

I called back later but accidentally hit Larry’s number. Sandy jokingly said, “Stop pushing my buttons!” 

Then Larry got on and I mentioned that the pictures Ma sent of the plaque he had made up dedicating the business to Larry was really nice. Well, he wasn’t too thrilled about that. For reasons unknown to me, he said he wanted that kept private and was wondering how many others she passed those pictures out to. I offered to mail them back, but he said that was OK, I didn’t have to. Gosh, I feel bad cuz every time I call lately, I have bad or upsetting news that I don’t even know about.

Then I called the right number to get Tammy and wished Sarah a happy birthday. Then Bill got on and I asked him how the playing with himself was going since that’s what he said he was doing the last time we spoke. He laughed and said that Tammy was pissed off cuz the other kids stood Sarah up that was supposed to come over. They didn’t even call. That’s people for you - they love to stand others up.

Then Bill said in such a funny way that cracked me up, “By the way, use your own name for your fucking shit.” Meaning CDs and all that, but I assured him that I wouldn’t send anything there anymore although I know Tammy did and will continue to.

I also spoke to my folks, too.