So, I haven’t typed anything in a while because other than bitching and moaning, there really wasn’t much to say. And still now, there isn’t much to say but I need to vent, to get this major frustration out of my system.
I don’t even know where to begin, there is so much bugging me right now. Luna and Pagan are driving me crazy. Pagan hasn’t been the same since he’s come back from his vacation. He barks at everything and is driving me nuts. He’s only 9 years old but I swear he’s going senile – or seeing things. Luna is afraid of her own shadow, every time someone moves, she scrambles up from where ever she’s laying to jump in front of you, trip you down the stairs and sit at the back door. Of course, when you open the back door, she just sits there looking at you like a moron and then rolls over on her back so you have to throw her out the back door. Just tonight Luna decided a pillow was an evil monster out to get her. This house is so empty it echoes like crazy. I found an old pillow with an elephant print on it and placed it on one of the chairs. Luna noticed it and spent the next 20 minutes growling deep in her throat and barking at the damn pillow. I finally had enough, grabbed the pillow and beat her over the head with it, making noises like an elephant. To the casual observer, you’d think I was crazy. Yep, definitely need a padded room right about now. Currently she’s hiding under my bed because I brought the pillow upstairs and left it on the floor.
The sale of the house has been postponed again. We’re on 2 months now since we agreed to this sale and they keep putting it off. We’ve been in this house since April and have had to pay both mortgages. We’ve lost all our savings and any hidden stash money we had and now are dealing with the worry of having a bad credit mark after I’ve worked for the past 8 years to clear it all up. Can’t pay the damn bill if you don’t have the money right? So, we’ve added an additional mortgage and additional electric to our monthly bills. It’s NOT good. I’ve got a way with moving bills around but now, I’m out of tricks. We’re screwed until this house sells and if it doesn’t sell soon, it will be a nice foreclosure on our record. SUCKS! But, my realtor promises that it will sell within the next 30 days. Of course, she promised that 45 days ago too. Chris is working his ass off, never home except to say hello and then good bye and back to work. He’s going to burn himself out before this sale goes through.
School and Girl Scouts will be starting in the next few weeks and the calendar is steadily filling up. I’ve already had a few training classes this summer for Girl Scouts and another one planned for this weekend. Plus, our summer cook out for Girl Scouts is planned for this weekend (come rain or shine). We’ve got a new program to introduce to the girls and I’ve got to work on setting up 3 other troops at our location. I was dumb enough to agree to become a coach (aka PC – program consultant) and that means I get to train new leaders for our cluster. Nothing like adding more stress to my already full plate huh?
I am still working on getting my day care up and running. I’ve received all the paperwork, filled out said paperwork and am hoping sometime soon, we can come up with the money to get our finger prints done and send back the paperwork for background checks and police reports for DCF. Once that is done, I’ll have my counselor out to inspect the house and interview me. After that is all done, I can start advertising and get to work. Oh and of course I’ve got to get all the vaccinations updated for the dogs and figure out what the heck I’m going to do with them during business hours. Then I’ve got to purchase playpens, nap mats, toys etc.
The guilt eats me daily that Chris is working so hard to keep us in this beautiful new house and I’m doing nothing, not bringing in the bread. I should get my butt out there and find a part-time job (at least) until I get my business up and running. What did I do this summer? I took a month vacation to Pennsylvania and then brought Liz down here for a month to hang out and play. Chris spent his summer working his ass off in Miami. I seriously need to get my license and soon so maybe he can take a real vacation.
And on a funny note… Kids nowadays are crazy or I should say, mine is an absolute nut that sometimes has no common sense. We’re having an issue with the wiring at the new house. For some crazy reason we’ve been having little power surges throughout the house that we are working on getting fixed. One of these surges caused the microwave to stop working. It wouldn’t heat but it would turn on. So, we’re trying to fix lunch and since money is tight, there’s not a lot of variety. Becca complains she’s hungry, I tell her to fix something and then she bitches cause there isn’t anything. I tell her there is a cabinet full of Beefaroni, SpaghettiO’s and Ravioli’s and she then so innocently informs me, she can’t eat those because she can’t heat them up. The microwave is broke and she refuses to eat them cold. I look at her for about 10 seconds trying to figure out if she’s serious or not and then double over laughing because by God she’s serious. I asked her if she knew what a sauce pan was and what a stove was. She just looked at me like I was crazy and stormed up the stairs. I pull out the beefaroni, dump it in a pan and heat it up on the stove. Five minutes later, I call her down and she’s dumbfounded that she has hot beefaroni. Seriously, dumbfounded. I haven’t laughed so hard since the mushroom incident. Of course, she then bitched that instead of it taking 30 seconds, it took a whole five minutes. Gotta love that kid!
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