Holly’s Happenings

We have a neighbor/friend that we’ve been helping out the past few months because he lost his drivers license due to a DUI. He’s a decent guy, I honestly don’t mind him, but OMG does he drive me up a wall when he comes to our house!

For instance, he had to come here today because he needed me to fax something for him. While I don’t have a problem doing that, what I do have a problem with is his inability to have things ready “to go” when he gets here. This isn’t the first time he’s done this, it’s happened a few other times as well, and with each time it happens, it just aggravates me more and more!

This time, when he came, he didn’t even have a cover letter for the fax he needed sent, and when I asked him for it, his reply was “HAHAHA, I knew I was forgetting something, I’ll just let you type up one really quick for me”. While this really is “normally” not a major problem, he wanted me to do this within a couple of hours of an exam that included having my eyes dilated.

Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I have this done, it makes it nearly impossible for me to read anything. So while I was trying to fill in the “blanks” when filling out the cover letter for his fax, I obviously made a few mistakes. I knew that I would, but I wanted to get the information put in initially, then go back through and fix my mistakes. But NOOOOOOOOOOO, he wasn’t about to let that happen, and would make me go back and fix them right away. But he wouldn’t point them out as soon as I did them, no, he had to wait until I was at least two lines away. When I initially tried to explain to him that I knew there would be mistakes and that I planned on going back and fixing them all at the same time his response was “It will just be easier to fix them as I notice them” in a VERY snarky tone of voice.

If it weren’t for the fact that A). I won’t let him TOUCH my computer and B). I wanted him out of my home ASAP, I’d have walked away and told him to go “F” himself! I mean seriously, if someone is doing something nice for you, something that you can’t do that would cost you to have it done elsewhere, WHY do you have to be rude and snarky about it? And why aren’t you completely prepared to have it done when you get to their house? UGH, I know this is VERY minor and petty, but this guy REALLY gets on my nerves! I wish like heck that I could tell him to go elsewhere to have stuff like this done, but he’s a good friend of my hushands, so I feel I need to be nice to him! But UGH, I really wish I didn’t feel that way…LOL!

Now that I have you scratching your head wondering what in the heck I’m talking about, I’ll fill you in…LOL! A week ago our home phone/DSL and cell phones were turned off because the bill was behind. They’re all from the same company and on the same bill, which I’m now realizing might not be the brightest idea I’ve ever had….LOL!

We “thought” we had a week to make the payment, that’s what the piece of paper on top of the bill pile for this particular bill said. But because the services were turned off we were told that they would not be turned back on without the entire bill paid in full. This particularly stunk because we knew hubby was going to have a smaller than normal check this week, but thankfully I had a better than normal pay coming in, so we thought we’d be fine. But, as the saying goes, that’s what you get for thinking!

After cashing his check and adding in my pay, we’ll be four dollars short of paying the bill. And that’s before the ATM fees to take my pay out of my account, and before the fees to put all of the money onto the prepaid debit card that we use to pay this particular bill AND before the fee that we have to pay each time this card is used. So, once you total those fees up we’ll actually be almost $10 short. We didn’t think it would be a big deal, I mean, it’s almost there ya know, and when you consider that I was overcharged by almost $20 on my cell phone bill for text messages, which is in dispute, I really didn’t think it would be a big deal.

But once again, that’s what I get for thinking. Hubby called the phone company to double check and see if they would still turn the services on if the payment was $10 short of the total amount, and what did they tell him? No sir, your services will not be turned back on with a payment less than the entire bill paid in full. All I can say is )(#@#)(*$&#@*(&)#@$&#@*$^)#@$&)@*(#&$)@#*&$#@)(*%^@)#*($^

OK, now that I have that out of my system I feel a little better, but I’m still friggin pissed off! But, I’ll get over it! In the mean time, since realizing we’re short on paying the bill, I’ve been a raving lunatic tonight but when you add in the fact that my stomach bug is about a billion times worse and Aunt Flo decided to arrive two weeks early again, I guess it’s not surprising. I HATE MENOPAUSE AND DIAL UP!

Good morning! I’m sitting here scratching my head this morning trying to figure out where in the world did this week went?? Honestly, it seems like we were up at the races the other day, but that was Sunday and it’s now Thursday! UGH! I’ve seriously let this week slip by me and now I’m in a situation where I have a TON of stuff to do in just a few short days! And I’m honestly not sure that’s going to be enough time to get it all done!

The kids start school in just a few short days and I still have a ton of supplies and stuff to get for them. I also have to take my daughter shopping because she has to wear uniforms for school again and she has NOTHING! But with as tight as finances have been lately, I just haven’t been able to get her anything! She and her brother both need shoes as well, UGH!! I’m REALLY going to have to get creative this week to get this stuff figured out!

The next couple of weeks are going to be busy as well! We’ve got moms annual Labor Day family reunion coming up on September 1st, that’s also the week of the fair that we all love going to. We’ll have to deal with getting the kids back on as decent of a homework and sleep schedule as possible, which is really going to prove to be a challenge because they’ve both been having some fairly significant sleep problems lately!

OK, I feel like I’m about to lose my mind thinking about getting all this stuff done….LOL! But I do work well under pressure so I have no doubt I’ll somehow manage to pull it off! Just cross your fingers that I don’t lose my mind trying to get it done…LMAO!

Good morning, the weekend is quickly approaching isn’t it? I’m having one heck of a lazy morning, but it’s probably because I had a very rough night! After my little crying spell yesterday I called my friend Lisa and was talking to her. I felt kind of foolish for missing the kids so much, but she really helped me pull out of it by talking about how she felt the first time her kids went on vacation with her ex after they were divorced. She said she really felt lost and lonely those first few days and it took some time to adjust to the kids not being home, but after that she really enjoyed the time to herself.

I did pretty good the rest of the day, but then when I went to bed last night I just could not get my brain to slow down and stop thinking about the kids. Right after I went to bed they called, which didn’t help matters any, but I held myself together while I was talking to them. But after we ended the call I fell apart again and just absolutely could not get back to sleep and ended up staying up until a little after 3. I still couldn’t get to sleep and when the hubby’s alarm went off an hour later I got up with him for a little while. Finally around 4:30 or so, I was so tired I had no choice but to go to bed!

The alarm was set for me for 8:00 so that I had time to get up and wake up before having to get ready to go help my sister in law do some running around today. Shortly after 9 she called letting me know that she wasn’t going to be needing me today, she didn’t have to go to the appointment she thought she was going to have to. She said she found out late last night but didn’t want to call me because she was worried she’d wake me up…LOL! If she only knew, huh?

So now I sit here debating on what to do. Part of me wants to go back to bed and get more sleep, I’m on my 3rd cup of coffee and it’s not doing a very good job of waking me up at all! I could head outside and go for a nice walk, but it’s really humid out this morning and the mosquito’s are HORRIBLE. It’s times like this that I wish I had some sort of home fitness equipment like an elliptical or treadmill that I could hop on to get some exercise and help wake myself up and snap out of this funk!