My journal is bi-polar...
It must be, that's the only explanation.
Things aren't going well here at home. If it's not one thing, it's another. If it's not my sister, it's my dad. If it's not my dad, it's the frickin' IRS. If it's not the IRS, it's friction between mom and me. And as if that's not bad enough, I got into another car accident. These incidents seem to be escalating in severity each time. This one was on an actual road with another moving vehicle. It also left the entire front end of my car skewed, as in shifted, about 1/4 to a 1/2 inch. Still drivable, but geez. I'm not even going to "what if" whatever might happen next. But, for all the hassle and the tears and the damage, we got lucky. Lieren was with me and the impact was on the passenger side. We're both fine, as were the three people in the other vehicle. Which, really, makes everything else negligible in comparison.
This weekend I'll be doing concession stand work at the ballpark again with some chorus members. The money we make will be available to all the individuals who worked for their chorus expenses. Which is good, what with the International Competition coming up. I'm using my money to pay for mom's ticket to our after-party, and also to ease the cost of the hotel room we'll be sharing that week.
I'm also babysitting way more than I had been. It's back to being more of a real job. Right now I have three families as "clients." One couple hasn't been going anywhere much, so things are quiet on that front. But I have two other very active families. One of them, the mother is going back to work with her old company until they can find a new person (a month or two). So that gives me two or three days a week taking care of the four month old daughter and 8 year old son (him just until school starts later this month). The other family has a set of 5 year old twin boys that are a handful, but darlings all the same. My schedule with them is more fluid, which I like. The parents haven't been able to go out together since late last November!
Also, I miss Scott. >^.^< Just thought I'd throw that in there. Talking on the phone every day just isn't enough, the longer we're together. But, hopefully, I can go see him during the last week of August. He'd been ill the past few days, but is doing better now thankfully. *le sigh*
All right, I'm not feeling quite so bummed out now. Things are bad, yes. Things might get very, very, very bad, true (especially if the IRS doesn't get taken care of. dad better get off his ass and get his checkbook before this house is seized, godsdamnit! ahem, anyway). But I have to stop letting all this.... stuff get to me and get in the way of my life. I have my GED coming up mid-month! I have the International competition to prepare for! I have a life to get on with!
Right-o, that was cathartic. Off to bed!
Things aren't going well here at home. If it's not one thing, it's another. If it's not my sister, it's my dad. If it's not my dad, it's the frickin' IRS. If it's not the IRS, it's friction between mom and me. And as if that's not bad enough, I got into another car accident. These incidents seem to be escalating in severity each time. This one was on an actual road with another moving vehicle. It also left the entire front end of my car skewed, as in shifted, about 1/4 to a 1/2 inch. Still drivable, but geez. I'm not even going to "what if" whatever might happen next. But, for all the hassle and the tears and the damage, we got lucky. Lieren was with me and the impact was on the passenger side. We're both fine, as were the three people in the other vehicle. Which, really, makes everything else negligible in comparison.
This weekend I'll be doing concession stand work at the ballpark again with some chorus members. The money we make will be available to all the individuals who worked for their chorus expenses. Which is good, what with the International Competition coming up. I'm using my money to pay for mom's ticket to our after-party, and also to ease the cost of the hotel room we'll be sharing that week.
I'm also babysitting way more than I had been. It's back to being more of a real job. Right now I have three families as "clients." One couple hasn't been going anywhere much, so things are quiet on that front. But I have two other very active families. One of them, the mother is going back to work with her old company until they can find a new person (a month or two). So that gives me two or three days a week taking care of the four month old daughter and 8 year old son (him just until school starts later this month). The other family has a set of 5 year old twin boys that are a handful, but darlings all the same. My schedule with them is more fluid, which I like. The parents haven't been able to go out together since late last November!
Also, I miss Scott. >^.^< Just thought I'd throw that in there. Talking on the phone every day just isn't enough, the longer we're together. But, hopefully, I can go see him during the last week of August. He'd been ill the past few days, but is doing better now thankfully. *le sigh*
All right, I'm not feeling quite so bummed out now. Things are bad, yes. Things might get very, very, very bad, true (especially if the IRS doesn't get taken care of. dad better get off his ass and get his checkbook before this house is seized, godsdamnit! ahem, anyway). But I have to stop letting all this.... stuff get to me and get in the way of my life. I have my GED coming up mid-month! I have the International competition to prepare for! I have a life to get on with!
Right-o, that was cathartic. Off to bed!