It's so late I can barely function, but I wanted to mention good news for once on here.  Monday is going to be my first day as an assistant teacher at Farrah's preschool, where I will work part-time (19 hours a week) and make about $9.50 an hour.  This comes at a great time, since his job as a Taco Bell shift manager doesn't pay nearly enough for ( Read more... )

I feel very foolish.  Ben was telling me not to be so sure before I was even late, which for the record, shouldn't be until next week.  I bought a pair of tests yesterday while the kids were in school and spent the afternoon reading up on and giving parenting/pregnancy advice in anticipation.  I barely slept all night, thinking I'd test really ( Read more... )

Well, on Oct. 2nd Ben and I went to the Field of Screams and Hayride to Hell, which was an hour away but totally awesome.  I won the tickets on the radio listening to the Top 5 at 9 and taking the quiz about which songs were played, which was awesome since we couldn't afford to go otherwise--the tickets were worth a combined $70-80!  We have no ( Read more... )

Everything's falling apart.  Things are so awful right now, it isn't even seeming real.  I don't know how to get things back on track from here.  I'm terrified of losing everything.
In late June, my car broke down.  It's the engine rods that broke, two of them, so it was trashed.  The only good thing is the car lot forgave the remaining $800 we owed ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was hanging out on Facebook when I got a message from this guy named Ben who used to be Lesley's boyfriend  five, almost six years ago.  We're Facebook friends, but we don't chat much.  I don't know him very well but have always thought he was a good guy with a nice heart.  We met less than five times probably, but if he went to IUS ( Read more... )

I tried my best to find Jasmine.  It didn't work out.  I try to believe she's still out there somewhere, either stalking mice somehwere or finding her way into the heart of someone else.  We once had a cat who ran away suddenly, and my mom saw her in the woods across the street past the neighbor's property for two years.  Then she found another ( Read more... )

 I feel so awful.  Last  Wed. or Thurs., an employee of the trailer park where we live trapped Jasmine using a baited trap and dumped her in Henryville.  The manager told my mom (I was too upset to go in).  I called the police, and they said since there is a leash ordinance for the city (I didn't know), it's okay this happened, but not okay about ( Read more... )

Well, since my last post, things seem to have improved with Autumnn's amount of play she's getting at softball.  Instead of being benched 4-5 innings of a 6-inning game, she was only benched for 2 innings during last week's game.  She was happy and smiling, she was on the field, and she even had a skip in her step!  That makes me very happy.  I ( Read more... )

This really, really bothers me.  The thing is, I've tried to do something about it, but I have no idea if things will work out even after outside intervention.

Autumn has been playing baseball, softball, tee ball in its progression since she was 4.  Now she's 9.  That said, her softball coach was saying to the assistant coach he thought she was a ( Read more... )

 In October, my mother, Autumn, Farrah, and I were on our way to Farrah's fall festival for school.  On the way, an older guy (60s or 70s--I forget) hit us and made my front and rear driver's side doors nonfunctional.  I leapt from the car (I was having Mom drive, since I was unsure of the location of the festival), and asked the guy what he ( Read more... )