House Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!

This week is Little One's spring break and guess what we are doing??? Looking for a house, DH discovered a way to find the brand spanking new MLS listings. And today we found 5 new houses and Little One and I went looking. One needed new flooring, new paint, new sinks, had double doors btween both bedrooms that you could open up if you wanted to, and an overall spray down of Lysol. The second one was in a neighborhood that would not allow any children under 18 in it. It too was nice but 2 bedrooms. The third one was a condo, pretty but didn't get much daylight and I just want a house not attached to anyone! The fourth one was one of those funky communities that all the houses shared a common driveway and then the driveway would branch off to each of the 4 houses and this one had no yard for Little One to play in. The fifth one was a VERY VERY CUTE 2 bedroom 2 bath, with Terrazo floors in the living areas and carpet in the bedrooms, but 1 of the baths is in the garage and reminds me of an outhouse but I guess we could add on another bath to one of the bedrooms somehow, someday. It is on the low end of our price range, nice yard, dead end street and closer to the beach. But how do you add on an bathroom or maybe a whole other guest room with bath????? Hello, Home Depot, I need some help!!! And our search continues..............

Jessica Lundsford

Today, a man named Couey admitted to abducting and killing 9 year old Jessica Lundsford. She lived in Citrus County Florida which is 3 counties north of us in Pinellas. We have heard everyday of her father Mark Lundsford searching and pleading and also of her Grandparents with which Mark and Jessica lived. Her Grandmother raised red flags on her polygraph and I was afraid that she might have had something to do with Jessica's dissapearance, but the officials did not say what came of that.

Since living in Pinellas county (11/03) there have been TOO MANY ABDUCTION attempts TO COUNT in the surrounding counties, and roughly 4 have ACTUALLY happened.

Just in the past 3 weeks there have been 4 attempts all of which the children got away and were able to describe the men to the officials.

With one attempt, a daughter told her father that this man was stalking her at her bus stop and the father hid in the bushes at her bus stop, and when this guy came up again to the daughter, the father attacked the abductor and held him until the official came to arrest him.

Just yesterday in Tampa a man walked ONTO SCHOOL PROPERTY and began talking to a 4th and 5th grader through a fence gate that is about 6 feet tall and it "automatically" shuts and locks when someone walks through it, but as he was talking to them he rattled the fence and found the gate did not lock when it closed. HE THEN OPENED THE GATE AND GRABBED ONE GIRL BY HER HAIR, and the friend she was with began screaming and pulling on her friends arm to get her away from this guy and then he ran away.

I don't know what is going on, if there are copy cats trying to get attention, or if there are really that many sick men living in this area, but IT SCARES ME!

Tonight as I watched the Citrus county Sherriff live with breaking news on Jessica, I felt my blood run cold as I heard the words "He confessed to taking her life". My heart goes out to Jessica's family and friends. By looking at her pictures everyday on TV, I could only imagine what a vibrant, happy girl she probably was and what joy she must have brought to everyone around her.

Horrible

Sometimes you wonder what makes someone do the thing he/she does? Why do people hurt and kill? What makes them cross that line? Why? All I can do is ask why? I was in shock over what happend to the Judge's family in Chicago and what happened today in Atlanta. Is this what our judicial system is coming to, where our peers, attorneys, investigators, court reporters, judges, bailifs, deputies and their families have to wonder will will they come home tonight or will some lunatic blow them away while they are trying to do what they are hired to do? What will happen, will the judge have to sit with a bullet proof vest on? or Sit behind bullet proof plexi-glass?

Emotionally Detached

Have you ever felt like you walk around totally emotionally detached from everyone in your life. I have been pondering this with myself, why don't I share myself? What makes me keep myself from other people? Is is b/c I am afraid that once I become comfortable with someone that we will move again? or that they will judge me? How do I get over this?? Whatsup with me???

WOW!

Again we are congratulating Steve Fossett for doing the incredible!! He took off from Kansas, flew around the WORLD NON-STOP FOR 66 HOURS SOLO and landed back in Kansas. What a thrill ride! Oh, to have the money to do some of those crazy things...........