08/19/2009

I can’t think of a title, besides "Long day" and that’s been used and abused.  So I’ll leave it blank.  You guys know I’m not much for titles anyway.

Was up at 7 to take Sammi to the orthopedist at 8:15.  Was late… wasn’t QUITE counting on traffic being the way it was.  I took a way I thought might not be so bad… and it was… but it wasn’t all the same.  Could have been worse.  I had gone to bed after 1, trying to put a book together for Sammi, it’s got all sorts of pages in page protectors, so she can trace her letters, shapes, numbers, color her letters, and then wipe it all off.  You can turn any page protector into a white board.  So we took that with us this morning and worked on it a bit.  The doctor’s office was in Carmichael, which is a LONG drive from my house.  It took 45 minutes to get there.  So I decided on the way home to get some more BIC pens from Office Max (15 cents per 10 pens… GOOD deal)  Well, when I got there, I realized, I DIDN’T have my purse!  You have to realize, I was already half an hour away from the office.  So I got back into the car, turned around and went back for my purse.  Sigh.  Then I went to WIC, got chastised for not calling, then went to DHA, got chastised for not calling (EBT card demagnitized again… we don’t want to be without it for the time it takes to send us a new one!)  Sigh.  Sammi kept telling me at the DHA "Wanna play!" so I let her play a bit there, and promised her we’d go to Raley’s so she could play there instead.  When I got there, I called Jerry, and I’d been gone at this point about 5 hours or so, so he was NOT happy.  I had given my phone to Bec, she went to her mom’s for awhile, but Jane’s got no phone, so my phone went so she could call us when she wants to come home.  It’s not been good having no cell phone, though seriously, I don’t give a darn.  Anyway, he wasn’t happy that I hadn’t called before then, but I asked him if it was all right if we stayed, he said yea, but get him some New Mexico peppers, on sale this week only (and available this week only, once a year.  I bought a BUNCH)

Anyway, Sammi’s leg is FINE.  I knew it was… she walked a BUNCH last night, as we went to 8 different stores looking for school supplies.  Office max, Florin Road Wal mart (south sac), Staples, Dollar Tree, Big Lots, Wal mart (yes again) in Elk Grove, then Michael’s, then Target.  I got everything I needed except for construction paper, and if they need that, I just MAY have them use my flat cardstock since I have so much of it and pretty much all of it was bought at 50% off a long time ago.  I just don’t use flat cardstock any more.  I’m spoiled into using textured cardstock.  I guess it’ll depend.  But we got everything we needed, and THEN some.  Crazy, and I spent way too much money.

So I am EXHAUSTED… just flipping tired.  Did I mention Sammi’s leg is fine?  No fractures, the walking on the tippy toes actually indicates she’s fine, because it takes more work to walk like that than on the flat area of your foot.  We don’t know WHY she’s walking on her tippy toes.  And she does it, then forgets to do it and walks normally.  Wish I hadn’t gone this morning.  Sigh.

Let’s see, what else?  Went to Hometown for "linner" and then took the kids to play at McDonald’s for a couple of hours after.  I need to re-do my scrap bag.  I was SO pissed at Becca, she had my new pair of scissors in her room, never asked for them, and the tip protector was nowhere to be found.  After all that’s transpired with her this past week (which I realize I didn’t talk about), I was fit to be tied, I was so mad.  I’m really just tired of the kids thinking they can just help themselves to my things.  Pisses me off badly.

Well… I have got to go.  I am just SO tired… all I want to do is lay down and sleep, and not think about anything.  It was a good/bad day, though it wasn’t that bad, but I hate being chastised.  That made me feel kind of bad.  I hate the DHA anyway.  WIC is usually nicer…but they were all right (sorta)  Oh well… can’t let it get to me, so will stop talking about it.  And I’m kinda bored, and Shabree wants to watch a movie, and I can’t think of anything I want to do less.  Plus I need to do some exercise, and I JUST DON’T FEEL LIKE IT.  Sigh.  Not to mention, Shabree’s on the Wii, so I can’t do it now anyway.

Bored and lethargic… GREAT combination.

Oh, and our home school test run?  A nightmare.  I’m SO looking forward to this (NOT!)  Shabree actually told me I was not her teacher when I asked her if she would talk to her teacher the way she was speaking to me (the answer was no… but somehow it’s ok to speak to me disrespectfully… ugh.)  I was ready to put Syd and Shabree back into school right then and there, it was such a disaster.  Oh, and I need desks to be put together, only Jerry can do it…but he’s TOO DAMN BUSY to do it… but did his deal go through?  No, it did not… it broke down.  Of course it did.  Cause he’s living in a dream world about it, it’s never going to happen, and damn damn damn.  I’m so tired of living like this.  Seriously.

I nearly left the other night, all because of Becca.  Not that I want to talk about that.  Suffice it say, I have been miserable a lot lately.

And with that, I really have got to wrap up.  This situation MUST get better and soon.