I'm back

I've been thinking since I got back from Vegas that I needed to update my blog.  But then again there really isn't anyone who reads this, right?  Wrong, apparently! So for you 3 who read this and for myself in case I ever want to write that book, here is my latest update.
I have post-vacation depression.  I'm working my way out of it though.  Trying to focus on the positive.  And there really is alot of positive stuff.
My oldest son hasn't spoken with his dad since before October of last year - I don't remember when it was exactly but i know his dad didn't wish him happy birthday (by phone or mail) which was Oct. 31.  In case you were wondering, I'm not quite to the positive stuff.
As I said in my last post - I think, it's been so long I can't remember- he got invited to go on vacation with his dad, stepmom, and brothers at the last minute.  What I don't think I mentioned (but I'm too lazy to go back and look) is that his dad also offered him a job.  We thought at first that he wanted him to travel to Bahrain to assemble a machine.  Turns out that his passport has expired and even if he renews it he needs to have had it for 6 months before he can travel there so that is not happening.  But while on vacation, they talked and his dad offered him a full time job at his facility 5 miles down the road from us (Dad owns his own business).  In addition, he gave him a cell phone and added him to his plan.  Ds will have to pay the $35/month bill but now he has money coming in to do that.  His dad loaned him one of their 5 cars and is going to help him buy a used one in the next few weeks.  I'm not sure what got into his dad that made him decide to step up and help out but at this point I don't care.  Ds has needed this for a long time and whatever the reason, it's finally happening.  Of course the pessimist in me knows that now I'm the bad parent who makes him cut grass and pick up dog poop and now that he has a job - pay rent.  But I'm okay with that and hopefull he will remember that I'm also the parent who took him in after he'd been arrested twice and was living in his car and his dad refused to have anything to do with him.  Regardless of all that, DS has been in the best mood I have seen him in in a long time.  Even with having to get up and go to work every morning.
Next positive...I got a new computer!  I keep lots of photos and stuff on my computer and my hard drive had gotten full so I was looking into an external hard drive or a faster computer with a bigger hard drive - and heavily leaning toward the second option.  While on vacation, my son's netbook died.  Now that he has a job he has money, but isn't dying to spend 300-400 on a new computer.  However, he has $150 to pay me for mine so I can put that toward a new one for me!  It's a win-win.  My old computer is a pentium dual core 2Ghz with a 160GB hard drive which is plenty for him - especially since he doesn't need a lot of storage space and that is the biggest thing slowing mine down.   My new computer has twice the hard drive space and a better, faster processor.  So using his $150, I got a jam-up computer for $300 out of pocket!
To be continued, I'm being summoned......