Ok, so as I was chillin' with my favorite red head watching 'Finding Nemo', I get a knock at the door. It was a friend of my ex husband serving me with court papers. So now I'm thinking what the fuck now? As I read the papers I look at the top and it says that it's a motion and declaration to modify child support. First of all, this man has not paid his child support since June 2000. I take that back. I hired a private agency almost two years ago and they've managed to collect from him about $300 since. That's not even a full months support. I find this hilarious because he's asking the court to decrease his obligation if not suspend it altogether. How do you decrease something you're not even paying? Besides why all of this now when he could have done this 5 years ago? He's a moron and I say he needs to get off whatever his drug of choice is and get his act together. Now that Chris is 18, this is a waste of time ... he's not obligated anymore. He is, however, still obligated to back support ... Totaling somewhere near $20,000. I hate the enforcement system here. It's so damn corrupt and I just read that they're going to be audited soon. Anyway, if he (Chris' dad) wants to be stupid I can do a lot of damage. Don't mess with me.

Graduation ceremony starts at 5pm, not 3pm.

(sigh) toilet training ... I think I'm putting that off for another month. He likes being on the throne but his timing is off. He'll do his business in his diapers then ask to go on the toilet. He's pretty much dry throughout the night so I know he's ready.

I want to start looking for a preschool to send J to. He's getting bored with mom, even with all the things we do everyday. He knows his numbers up to 20, he knows half of the alphabet and can point them out on my keyboard, he knows his body parts, even the names of most commonly used muscle parts like the biceps, triceps, hamstring and quads for example. He even knows his face parts in three different languages ... Japanese, Korean, Hawaiian. I taught him a Korean lullaby a few months ago and it's so cute hearing him sing it to me at night. In order for him to sing it, I have to be holding him in a certain way like I used to when he was a baby.

Anyway, I'm off to do stuff ... enjoy the rest of the week!

Chris got the official letter last week ... he's graduating with honors. Cumme laude ... could have been magna cumme laude if he didn't take AP English ... that class totally dropped his GPA. By right he shouldn't have had that class in the first place. The teacher denied his waver because I guess Chris wrote a less than desirable essay but the crafty little bugger forged my name on something that got him into the class ... shame on me for not knowing all of this beforehand, eh?

May 28 is the big day ... graduation. It will be held at the Aloha Stadium and I think it starts at 3pm ... I hafta double check. I'm not sure what kind of lei I'll be getting him yet. I remember my graduation. I had leis that filled the whole back seat and passenger seat of my car. I also scored 4 champagne bottles, 2 wine bottles, Bacardi 151, and a total of 5 dozen long stem roses. BTW with the alcohol ... back then the drinking age was 18. After the ceremony, the graduates are being whisked off to an undisclosed location to celebrate all night. It's a program called Project Graduation. It's a safe no drugs no alcohol event that started sometime in the late 80's. I wish we had that when I graduated in '83. Several secret locations in the past were all night boat cruises, grand ballrooms with games, dancing, food, stuff like that, and I think one year they went to D&B. At the end of the night, the kids are driven back to the high school where they are served breakfast and then picked up by their parents at about 9am.

So, I was just informed today that I will be able to go to Senior Prom on May 7. Since Chris is on the Prom Court, the parents are invited to attend as well. We went to order his tuxedo and he's decided to wear white. A very nice tuxedo if I may say. His date is wearing a golden brown, almost like a dark gold, gown. The bouquet I ordered (they were not taking anymore french bouquets orders) is an arm bouquet with a dozen salmon colored roses and babies breath. He'll be wearing a maili lei. The King and Queen will be announced that night.

Don't even ask about the toilet training ...

laters