sunflowery's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow, photos. Today, none Can I just take a moment and tell you how much I LOVE D0n P@blos Mexican Restaurant? I DO love them! For lunch on Tuesday...or was it Monday? I can't remember. Anyway, they have an appetizer called their dip sampler. With their dip sampler, you get 5 small bowls of their dips, which include, tomato salsa, regular queso, queso blanco (made with white cheese), artichoke dip, and a fiery bean dip that is truly firey. Plus a big bag of chips. And how much does all this mexicanny dippy goodness cost? A mere $3.50 and some change for tax! That's all! I have made 3 meals of this dip spectacular. It is yummy beyond measure. Happy Birthday SuAnn and Happy 3rd Anniversay to the Rosses! It�s definitely sweater weather! Brrrr! I can�t believe that at this time two years ago, we had our wedding reception outside. Our second anniversary is only 6 days away! Woo hoo! I am reading the most interesting yet disturbing book. It�s an auto biography of a boy who has the 3rd most violent, documented case of abuse in California history. The boy is all grown up now and has written an account of the abuse, his freedom from it and the subsequent life he led in the foster care system. It�s called �A Child Called It and The Lost Boy.� I cannot believe the horrific things this mother did to her own child. And yet she didn�t do anything to his 2 older brothers or 2 younger brothers. He alone was singled out for her violent and pathological abuses. This poor little boy was terrorized from the time he was finishing kindergarten until 5th grade! Her abuse grew in form and violence. He was made to sleep in the basement on a cot without a blanket, was not given food, once for 10 days in a row! He was left in a closed bathroom with a mixture of Clorox and ammonia, as well as left in a bathtub of cold water for hours on end and then sent to the back corner of the yard in the cool of the night. She made him eat his own vomit and she made him vomit every day after school to make sure he hadn�t eaten anything or been given any food away from her sight. She made his eat excrement, both human and dog, and she refused to call him by his name, instead referring to him as The Boy or it. She beat him with the dog chain, the broomstick, made him drink dish soap and shoved a cake of soap so far down his throat, he choked. She made him eat ammonia and Clorox and even put food she knew was old and moldy into the garbage where she knew he was forage for food. She punched and kicked and even stabbed her own little boy. All the while calling him a bad boy and making him stare into the mirror daily saying, �I�m a bad boy, I�m a bad boy.� His school principal, teacher and nurse finally rescued him when he was in the 5th grade. I haven�t finished the book yet, but he became a ward of the state and bounced around various foster homes. As an adult, David Pelzer has an amazingly positive attitude. He took his past and learned what he needed to learn and put the rest behind him never to hinder his further growth and development. He broke the cycle of hatred and violence in his life and is a father himself. I highly recommend the book if you can get past the horrific descriptions of violence to a child. I cried so many times while reading it. I just wanted to reach out and rescue this poor little boy who only ever wanted his mother�s love and appreciation. OK�no real segue from that, is there? In 2 more days, there is a work recognition event where we get to gamble and win chips which we can trade in for tickets. We then put these tickets in a bucket to win wonderful and fabulous prizes. I can�t wait. I hope I win something fun and exciting! The only negative is that I have to be to work by 8am�that�s about the time I�ve been getting up in the morning so I�m thinking it might be hard to be up and out and at my desk at that time of day. I have to do it Thursday and Friday. Friday I am leaving early so I can get home, pick up Sweet Baboo and we can make it to the Marriage Retreat. I am off Monday and Tuesday! Anniversary celebrating time. Sweet Baboo and I had a nice talk with our neighbor across the hall. V is a single mom who told us that her husband had led her to believe that they were all moving here to MN from NM to start a new life with new jobs, etc. He sent her up her with her kids to find housing and get started and he would follow in a couple of weeks. Only he never followed. He just left her. What a jerk. She is a very nice woman and her youngest daughter is just a dear. While SB and V were talking, her daughter and a friend managed to wrangle me to the bathroom where they proceeded to apply the most sparkly make-up to me. When I was done, I went and gave SB a big ole smacker of a kiss and the girls just hooted! It was fun. V is also a believer and we had a nice talk about faith and the provision of God. I am glad we are getting to know them better. There was a call on our voicemail saying the maintenance team will be installing our ceiling fan tomorrow! Finally. I think I only called about that a month or 2 ago. The cats are learning to live and let live, though Maisey is the one who constantly pushes her boundaries. I think we will be OK with them, though. Thanks for reading!
11:51 a.m. - Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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