Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

Absolutely unrelated things that are or have been going on around here lately....

• tomorrow is "d-day" for the friend that I've kinda 'been with' from the beginning (almost 4 yrs now) of her divorce odessey. finally, after all manner or her foot-dragging or his plain ol' sorryness (like not paying his lawyer)... the day is finally here. i think she must have called me as soon as she got the court date confirmation in the mail. she didn't ask me outright to come stay with her and we got interrupted, so it was about a week later that i called and left her a voicemail saying that if she wanted me to, i'd be there. she called back about 30 minutes later to say she did.

  *deeeeep breath* so, tomorrow is the day. i dread it just because of all it represents, even though there really seemed to be no reconciliation possible because he wasn't interested in marriage unless she was fine with him running all over town with whomever he pleased. um, yeah....

• yesterday i got a phone call from a lady at "our" church... the one we'd gone to and belonged to for so long, but haven't attended regularly in over a year. very, very odd since even when we were there every week, this gal and i didn't have much in common and she never spoke to me. anyhow, she proceeded to say how maybe i didn't know her, but she was such-n-such from church, y'know, from sunday school class, and they were going to have a cookout on monday and she was just calling to let everyone know.

  i. was. dumbfounded. *blink, blink* to say the least!! anyhow, so i just asked some pertinent questions about the time and such and said i'd find out from tommy if we could come. he laughed more than i did. *sheesh*

  seriously, none of these people have spoken to us or ever called to see where we were in almost two years now! very odd.

• i haven't been having big major headaches, at least not all the time. only occasionally, thank God! today, though i found this knot/bump/whatever on the back of my head on the left side. (thus the post title!) it's sore as can be and once i realized it was there, i noticed that when i do have a minor headache, the pain can radiate from there. i have no clue when or where i could have gotten it. hmmmm........
• last week we got yet another blasted eyeareess-ish type letter. this one was from the state, though. it looks as though i may have been deducting the amount tommy pays for health insurance premiums when i shouldn't have. although i have no idea how that can possibly be legal. on our forms there's a reference to 'cafeteria plan', which is not a term used EVER at t's work. sheesh! i assumed that when you pay the stinkin' premiums with the money you earned then you paid the premiums with the money you earned!!!! if there's some distinction to be made between preteeax and after teeaxes, then MAKE IT, but daggone it, he worked just as hard for his money as the other guy did. why aren't his insurance premiums eligible to deeduct? i am madder than fire over this.

  they want info for FOUR YEARS so we may be sunk, children. sunk for sure. the only way i've stayed sane (well, mostly sane) is to just keep laying it at Jesus' feet...crying out to Him. i really don't know what we'll do. case is needing glasses, corey will need a new pair very soon and folks, the g~ is needing them bad! *sigh* life is feeling heavy these days... a-ton-of-lead heavy.

• case signed up for b-ball at the Y last week on what was billed to be the laaaast day of sign ups. when we called the next week to find out why we hadn't heard from anyone about the schedule, we were told they didn't get the "response" they'd hoped and so they had extended the signups another week. i called back at the beginning of the next week and they put me on with the guy over the program. he told me they barely had enough kids sign up for two teams, let alone a whole league!!! argh!

  i was afraid something like this would happen after last year's sorry program. *sigh* i just hate it for casey. he's improved sooo much over last year! i was really looking forward to seeing him play, even if i do have to wear earplugs to the gym! ;)

• thursday begins the world famous chicken festival. (don't ask) if you're reeeeaally curious, you can go here to learn more. both the boys will be patrolling with the emt cadet program each evening. oh, and the forecast is for rain each night. of course it is. bah.
• oh, one last thing... don't ask me why cuz i'm not quite sure, but i went and got myself a myspace account. i don't intend to blog over there, but it is something that is strangely appealing and oddly addictive. *pthththt* i'm having a horrible time trying to find a decent pic of myself in which my nose doesn't look like rodney dangerfield's. urgh!!! if you're on it and i haven't tracked you down for an add, then add me!! ;)

well, i guess that's it for now. i really should have already hit the hay. i do have a headache right now and have to be up early to get to the courthouse. *siiiiigh* yick!

have a wonderful rest of the week!

blessings----