The Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

Sigh…. it’s been a rough couple of days. I don’t have a coherent post, just a litany of complaints.

In the last week, we have spent about $10,000 on the house. I knew we had two big ticket items to replace - the heating and air system and the carpet. I knew we could pay cash for one and would probably need to finance the other, but I didn’t know which was which because the estimates didn’t come at the same time. So we actually financed them both and I’ll be paying off one right away. But that does put a big crimp in our Caribbean vacation plans. I’m going to wait to see how it shakes out to see if we are going anywhere at all. We could still do a domestic beach vacation but I think Jake has his heart set on the Caribbean. He works so hard, I really want him to have the vacation he wants, but it just might not be doable this year. At least not exactly how he wants it.

In the quest to afford the Caribbean vacation and avoid finance charges for the aforementioned heating and air system and carpet, I have been working a lot, pretty much accepting any work they want to throw my way. Did I mention that I got promoted to project team leader on one project? I think I mentioned that I was offered the promotion, but I did eventually accept it. But I am pretty much the only one on my team who works on weekends, so I’ve been the ONLY one working weekends for a while now. And I have just agreed to be team leader on another project, which will be solely mine for the first week or so after it launches. The work is not hard and I am lucky to be able to do it and still pay attention to Bridget, but it does clog up the brain sometimes.

I’m still missing Neo. I had a dream about him last night. He was crying at the back door to be let in. Not too hard to decipher that one. I guess the hardest part for me is not knowing he’s ok. I hope that he got placed in a foster home right away, or maybe even adopted that day. But it’s possible that he is one of the cats that has to stay at Petsmart all week and that thought breaks my heart. So I have to try not to think about it. I am going to make a donation to the agency that took him back from us. I meant to do it on Saturday but things got confused and I was a blubbering mess and I forgot. I think the pets are a bit confused about where he went but seem to be adapting alright.

Sunday Jake and I went to see Spiderman 3. It was ….. eh. Fun I guess, but I thought the dialogue was very cheesy and villains were just too many. I think there should be a new rule in movies. ONE sequel maximum. I honestly can’t think of any part three that has been very good. But it was still fun to be out with Jake like real people.

Tomorrow I have an appointment with an orthodontist. Fun, huh? My dentist has been after me for ten years to go, saying that if I didn’t get some work done, my jaw would really bother me later in life. Of course he also said he’d like to see my jaw broken and reset so it would be perfect. I pretty much said he could piss off with the idea of breaking and resetting my jaw, and I tossed the idea of orthodontia as well. But lately I can feel my teeth shifting and it hurts. They don’t line up like they used to and I often wake up with a sore mouth. So I’m going tomorrow for a consultation to see what I need and how much it will cost and how long it would take. Ugh. Just what I wanted - braces at age 33. But I would like to get it taken care of, so I’ll suck it up. Although seriously if I had my jaw broken and reset, I bet I’d lose a ton of weight. Hmmmm…. something to consider.

Did I mention my visit to the vag doctor today? Well, I won’t go into details there, but being kept waiting there for an hour really made me just a ray of merry fucking sunshine.

But on the bright side of things, we have an efficiently running HVAC system now, which will hopefully mean the end of $500 electric bills in the summer (Gotta love summer in Texas!) The house is much more peaceful with Neo gone (as much as it pains me to admit that). Soon we’ll have new fresh carpet for Bridget to learn to crawl on (which scares me to even imagine).

It’s all about the looking on the bright side, I suppose.

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