Well it’s 4:47 and I just finished my very first visit at Lakeview. I’m… feeling a whole mix of emotions right now. Mainly just scatter brained.

I got up at 5:45 and Diane picked me up. We had to go over to her house to drop something off and then headed up there. Then we arrived at 8:20, signed in. We stood waiting until 9:45 or so before we even got called to go in (note to selves: go about 20 minutes earlier next time). We did the whole metal detector deal and frankly while waiting I almost had an anxiety attack by looking at the place. The tall barbed wire fence, those huge gates, the …. it’s freaky and very discomforting.

When Randy walked in he was checking in and Diane and I both started crying because we feel bad that he’s in there. Of course I got to hug him and very hard at that. We all spent the 5 hours we had talking and laughing a lot. They had a nice selection from the vending machines this time, Randy will be quite stuffed I’ll say until the next time we see him. In prison he told us they had shit for food, here he said they give you a lot more. He’s very positive about the whole thing and he’s officially signed the contract for shock camp so once he’s in his platoon the 180 day countdown will begin. I cannot WAIT for that. It was rough seeing him there though, I miss him terribly and hearing some of the stuff (guys getting slapped across the face, hit in the back, etc..) it makes my stomach churn but he’s ready and willing to do it all to come home sooner.

Oh and he got papers from family court served by his wife, Carrie. Lori is her mother btw. I guess Dillion (wtf kind of spelling is that?) Scott Addison Rumble Jr. was born on September 5th, 2007 which would time it just so that he has a pretty good chance of being the father. The papers wanted him to sign custody completely over to LORI because Carrie is proven to be an unfit and unstable mother. His mother and I told him no way in hell, he’s obviously not doing it. First he wants a DNA test for 100% validity. Then he wants his mother to be granted temporary custody until he gets out because he has more rights to that child than the grandmother, hands down. The only problem is that he can’t attend court or anything like that while in shock camp. He’s going to speak to the counselor about it Monday I think. If Diane gets temporary custody… she wants me there as well aka assuming the roll of mother to him but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. I want to know if the child is definitely his AND if he can get this done while in prison. I highly doubt it. And if you look at Randy’s mother vs. Carrie’s mother the environment is 100x more stable with Randy’s mother in all regards. I just hope this can go over smoothly.

Now I’m home and my stomach is killing me. I’ll probably chill out a bit online, relax, and just do whatever. I’m tired from only getting a few hours of sleep but it was worth it. I love that man so much.