Hey everyone - Yes I am still ALIVE!!!!
Sometimes I think just barely though.....
Timmy - I'm glad all went well...I have been checking up on you via your blog...I'm so sorry about your family....life would be so much easier if we could choose them!
Pj, that's how I lost my first "real" job....I was an addiciton counselor at Parkside, and the boss came into our 4 person office the day before Thanksgiving, and said - oh btw we're paying you thru jan 1, but don't come back, we're closing the unit. - Happy Holidays! - UGH So I'm sorry about y our dw!
We're doing ok I guess....I forgot when I last updated you...my mom ended up back in the hospital with chf again, then they discovered her kidneys stopped working, so she's been on dialysis every other day, it really sucks
She hasn't really adjusted well to it..."they" say she can & will, but I'm still waiting.
Then, my aunt - whom I'm pretty close to, she's my godmother, was put inpatient with pneumonia....
THEN - I decided to have a uterine ablation done - no big deal really, I was only down & out maybe 48 hours
THEN - the bank decided to give Mike $10,000 in bank stock as a year end bonus...that's great because in 5 or 6 years it will be easily be worth 10 times that...so what's bad about it? We had to pay taxes on $10k! in his last paycheck....so after insurance, regular 401k, and taxes he brought home a whopping $154.76....Thank God I had all the presents bought already, but I'm scrambling to buy groceries this week...if it were a regular week we could live off our freezer till next Friday easily....but I have no clue what we're doign for Christmas Eve or Day......
THEN - Can you believe there's more? The brakes on Mike's car went completely OUT on his way to work today...he had to use the emergency brake to stop....so that bill will be hefty I'm sure...
I sound like a whiney brat! sorry! I don't mean to be. I am grateful and blessed. I have 2 beautiful children, a husband that does his best, wonderful friends and everything I could possibly need....but when it all rains down in buckets it really does get to me sometimes.
The girls are off for the next 2 weeks, so I'm hoping some down time will be good for us all.