a soldier through this

Spent all day with R, and thankfully he had a really good day. Managed to get him to take out the garbage/recycling and wash dishes, then watched a couple of movies and baked some pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving.

And on the Thanksgiving note, my family has never really cared about doing it on the actual day – we get together when we can get together. This year it’s just me & Mum + S, J, & R, so it’s nothing overly fancy. My family has always more-or-less only been in it for the pie (which we always have lots of) and considering only a handful of us actually like turkey… lol.

Mum said her Thanksgiving contribution is going to be “sleep all day”, and I told her I’d wake her up when it was food time >.> (This is, of course, provided I myself am awake >>)

That said, Pieeeeeeeee.

Went over to where I’ll be moving the horses today. A lot’s changed, but a few familiar (really) old faces are around – including Silver, a now 38-year-old Arabian gelding who was one of my two regular mounts when I couldn’t bring my own horses. Betsy’s still there, Elenore, Rolo, and Sir all died within the past few years.

I’ll be really happy to have the horses over there. I know they’ll be well taken care of, and there’s lots of other stuff I can do there to help out (mucking stalls, exercising horses, fixing fences, etc). I was even offered a position as a camp counselor for her summer camp sessions, so that’s something to look forward to and think about :O

….Yess exciting times!

Did jack-all today other than watch a few episodes of Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn! upon being curious. Then stopped because my laptop doesn’t like .mp4 and I’m too lazy to look for more .avi’s. >.>

Also managed to finish a big gift for my angel at TAFL’s secret Santa, so that is good times.

S is copying Perfect Hair Forever to my desktop so things are lagging to all hell, and making it difficult to actually post. Thus, I leave.

Not that I think Saturday will really be all that swell. Have a lot of fic to be writing and very little time to be doing it.

Not so good day with R – it was good in that he was home on time and didn’t fight with me or argue and pretty much did everything I asked, and I managed to keep him from running off… bad because he stole $200 from S this morning. He did, however, seem to show remorse. The good news is that it was confiscated from him by the school, and his teacher brought it back to me after school was over.

Just argh. We really need to try to figure out ways to help this kid get over this sort of stuff before all of us go nuts.

Yargh. So tired.