The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good

Friends Jim and Glenn have offered to pick up Rosie and Riddles for us in Dallas. Talk about above and beyond! They say it gives them an excuse to head to Dallas, but come on! You need an international bunny arrival to justify a jaunt over to Dallas? I think they're just nice people.

The Bad

In our continued experience with the crime system in the Greater UK area, someone stole our navigation system out of the the glove compartment sometime over the last month. Don't know when it happened, but I needed it yesterday and it wasn't in the glove box AND the little arm it sits on that was stuck to the window was gone as well. The only thing we can figure is that I left the car unlocked at some point and someone just opened the car and took it. I think this is proof positive that I am not a detail person. I have no idea how long the little plastic arm that used to stick out of the windshield has been missing. Never even noticed. Friday and Saturday are going to be ugly as we have to be many different places and will have to get to them the old fashioned way (I know, you're crying me a river), but we're going to wait until we get back to the States to replace the system.

The Ugly

The weather is just cold and icky. It's June and I have on a wool cardigan today. And Maddie is crying almost daily over something, but then again, I pretty much am, too. For Maddie, today's melt-down was over having to transfer Georgia the fish to her new home on Friday. Mercifully, the crying does not last long. As I have said before, the child feels deeply but has trouble maintaining less-than-pleasant emotion for any length of time.


The Good and the Bad

The good: Here (mostly for the Grandparents) is Maddie's choir concert at school. The bad: I ordered a replacement for the video camera that was stolen from my last encounter with the local criminal element, but it's not exactly the same camera and the quality is just not as good. How long must I deal with the repercussions leaving my purse in the car to visit a cemetery????!!!!! On another good note, I finally got my replacement US driver's license.

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