I Don’t Want To Go Alone!

It looks like Jacob may not be going with me when I go home for Thanksgiving week this year.  That sucks!!!  Big time!!!  I want him to go so bad.  =(  Today was the 3rd day in a row though that he was sent home due to not enough work.  That sucks even more!!!  It made me cry… one because of the frustration and stress of finances but moreso two because of how it is affecting our plans for this month.  It really does make me sad.  I used to not have a problem with going home without him for a visit, but now I want him to go!!!  His boss doesn’t have the problem of giving him the time off, it’s just not going to work out financially for us if he does go.  *sigh*

If he’s not going to go, then I have to get my airline ticket next Friday when I get paid.  It’s kind of not an option for me to not go since it’s my mom’s 50th birthday this year and all.  I haven’t been to a family holiday with MY family in 5 years.  It’s important for me to be there.  But I really really want my husband to be there with me.  He’s never been to a family holiday other than 4th of July which isn’t the same as Thanksgiving or Christmas.  SO FRUSTRATING!

Our apartment almost started on fire last night.  It was actually right as Obama got the number of electoral votes that he needed to be named president.  LOL  Jacob had turned on the heater last night and it was working just fine for awhile when suddently we started smelling this burning smell.  The smell started to get stronger and stronger and then suddenly things started sparking and crackling.  It was no good!  So we turned off the breaker switch to the heater and went without heat for the rest of the night.  Thank goodness we live in California and it wasn’t too horribly chilly although it was far from warm.

So this morning I got up and took Jacob to work.  Then when he didn’t have to work, we came back home and I laid back down until I had to get ready for work.  When it was time for me to get up for the rest of the day, I decided that I didn’t really want to go work at all.  It tends to be kind of hard to play hookie from my job, so luckily I had the excuse of our heater acting all crazy.  I had every intention of going in at around lunch time, however then I found out that the heater situation wasn’t going to be a quick fix thing.  I decided to wait around for the HVAC people to arrive and come to find out that they aren’t going to be here until 8:30 tomorrow morning.  No way will I get away with even calling in late tomorrow, so now I’ll get up and get ready and leave the maintenance guy here with the HVAC people.  It makes me nervous because we have the dog and we still aren’t supposed to have her.  Yeah yeah… We’ve had her since February and still haven’t told anyone.

I went over to the transition house to meet with Elsa tonight.  She met with Mirielle and me to give us the books that she will be using for her ESL classes.  I am now officially tutoring her as she learns English as a second language!  I’m super excited to begin this process with her, and you could see how excited and eager she is to learn English too.  She was grinning from ear to ear and giggling as she looked through the books and we talked about what days I will be working with her.  Right now I’m just going to be working with her for a couple of hours on Tuesdays.  It’s going to be such a blessing to work with Mirielle.

Now I’m off to work on some scrapbook pages as I wait for the laundry to finish drying.  Oh and of course I’ll be finishing my fake rootbeer float.  Does anybody else out there mix rootbeer and milk to get that creamy rootbeer taste that you get when you drink the last of the rootbeer and melted ice cream?  Mmm mmm mmm… It’s good.  But only if you mix it just right!

I’m out…

Laters,
JamieLynn =)