There were two letters waiting for me when we got home yesterday.  One was a second notice from the State of Delaware Dept. Industrial Affairs, telling me that my former employers would not be held liable for discrimination because 1) they only employe two people, which isn't enough for discrimination to count, and, anyway, 2) since my job was not ( Read more... )

I got bullied all the time in grade school - like, literally, every day.  Most of it is just a blur now. But certain incidents stay with me.  Like this one time, in sixth grade, when the social studies teacher had to leave the room.  Twenty-some twelve-year-olds left unsupervised ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed of a woman who committed suicide ( Read more... )

Lady: I'm going to apply my bookkeeping skills to our ebay records. the fact that they don't bill us from the 1st of the month makes it even messier, but I'm a superhero ( Read more... )

And here I thought that I would be a much more functional human being once the Kinglet was enrolled in school, and I have all this *cough* time on my hands to do the things I want/have to do. Sadly, this is still not true, half a year later ( Read more... )

Bad day at homeschool yesterday. I meant it to be a light day, just a few brief things on the agenda, but after several hours of time-outs and verbal abuse it ended with the Kinglet banished to his room and me weeping at the table ( Read more... )

Referrals - dead ends. Support Group - useless. 36 hours and the kid's therapist still hasn't answered my urgent voice mail. This is why I became a bookkeeper and not a psychologist. You can always rely on your bookkeeper.

I'm finally doing something the God-King has been telling me to do for over a year now:
I'm implementing a schedule for the Kinglet and me.

( This is a big deal. )

Huzzah - After my earlier kvetching, I mobilized (or rather, de-mobilized) the God-King into spending time with our offspring so I could start carting books from the basement into the new office ( Read more... )

Today I ( Read more... )