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Posted it from my comments. Finally have temporary access to a computer.


Thanks Mary! I'm sorry there isn't an actual post but my computer is still packed away so I'm blogging from my phone. It won't let me type in the post box but it will let me comment!
We have actually slept at our new home 3 nights now. Most of our furniture is in the condo but the rest, with a majority of our stuff is still in our garage space two flights down. My moving crew consisted of myself, my 68 year old parents and my twin brother. Thank goodness for my brother because if it wasn't for him, well.. We'd probably be sleeping on the floor. My Dad has been a huge help as well but I don't want him to do too much. I'm afraid he's going to over exert himself and keel over dead. My brother could only help for a few hours and it wasn't enough so we are trying to get him back maybe this weekend. Penelope can't be here when he's here obviously so it was helpful that it was during the week while she is in school. Penelope would just have to spend that time with grandma this weekend.
Penelope is doing fairly we'll, I think, with the move. Her only acting out, if you want to call it that, is that our first night here, she skunked the entire night. Skunking is what I've named it because it's like how a skunk sprays as a defense mechanism. Some kids, probably a lot, with RAD will pass gas as a way to keep people away from them. These kids tend to have upset stomachs anyway, just from being so anxious all the time. Penelope has always been a gassy kid but she would purposefully ask to sit on your lap and be lovey, then fart. Behaviors like that I've labeled as skunking. Well she had the whole condo stunk up. I have never seen a worse case of gas. Despite that she loved being in her new room and went to bed fairly easy. After the second night, she said she hadn't slept that good in a while. So that is good. She is overall doing okay. We have a couple things we are working on. She is still limping from her knee injury. But limping onlu occures when convient. She has been given the heads up about needing to rest it this weekend if it's nbot better by then and she wants to play with her friend at my parents' house. I told her "Not if you are not healed all the way.
The other thing is she has been lying about her homework and has gotten behind on her reading. But both issues she be resolved this weekend.
Update on George - there is a settlement offer on the table from the prosecutors office. He can either plead not guilty and continue forward, accept a felony 5 (least serious felony) with time served or a misdemeanor that could require up to 6 months of jail time. A felony on his record would make his life much harder so I don't know what he is going to do. Then, he also owes his attorney a certain amount of money by the 15th. I spoke to him a couple nights ago and he was really worried about that. He is trying to sell his motorcycle which is the only thing of value he has. He joked about how he wanted to figure a way to wreck it for the insurance money but he doesn't know how to do that without wrecking himself in the process. Well the next night, he met a friend for dinner and his bike got stolen. I don't buy it but whatever. He's already filed the insurance claim.
Harriet hasn't contacted me so I guess whatever Geoege said to her made her go away. I'd really like to know. Anywho. I thought you would find this interesting. Harriet posted a link to this on her facebook. Penelope was diagnosed with ODD. http://offthegridnews.com/2010/10/08/is-free-thinking-a-mental-illness/ I find it interesting how Penelope is viewed as a victim of brainwahing and overdiagnosis by me instead of what is really going on here. I also find it ironic that this is coming from a psycology major.