Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

Okay. I'm still alive, sorta, so I shouldn't be complaining too much.

Had major problems with my site, obviously. All because one of the three domains on my account hadn't been paid. I dunno what happened because two of them come out automatically with P@yP@l. How was I to know?!?!

I had gotten NO notice of the problem, nothing. Just those nasty suspended and unavailable messages!!

Grrr. Then there was this one good thing. At least some folks think it's good....Corey got his driver's license today.

He aced it, of course. I'm really proud of him and glad for him to have it over with. That just leaves me to now endure the worrying every time he leaves the house!

Well, that is AFTER all the blasted insurance crap is sorted out. We're transfering Tommy's old pickup over to his dad and then having to add Corey to the policy....YE--OW--CH! Lordy, what a beatin' we're gonna take on this!! Even with him as a secondary driver. Hmph!

Anyhows, so now we're rushing around trying to figure out where's the cheapest place to get the insurance. We have auto insurance at one place and homeowner's at another. Why? Well, we got the auto where we did because it was cheaper, but then when we needed to get homeowner's, one of the owners was really just a jerk about it. I mean like he told me he couldn't do anything for us and would have to put us on some kind of special policy that would cost about $700 MORE because we'd let it expire (long painful story there...just don't ask)

So this other place, we've done business with before and they got us BACK up with a policy at a very reasonable price. We're just not sure if they can match the auto premiums or not. It's possible, but we won't know for a bit.

For some unknown reason, this state doesn't send out invites to the young driver's course for about 3 months after they've gotten their license!!! That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard!!

That means we'll have to wait that long to get the letter and then go to the four hour course which can get you even more insurance discounts. However, they are now fussing about this practice since apparently one of the high schools has a driver's ed course and the other doesn't. Seems the kids and/or their parents who are taking a 9weeks' course in driver's ed don't think that's fair. *sheesh!!*

I get sick of all this school board crap. If they make it so that the Saturday course is no longer honored by insurance companies, I'm going to find me a bunch of other homeschoolers to demand that they allow us to get into the driver's ed classes. We'll see how they like that!! (they wouldn't believe me... the school system here wants nothing to do with homeschoolers except sign your kids up on Ti+|e 1 for delayed learning children or whatever it is and invite you to spelling bees. Gah!

On top of that?? I canNOT find our vehicle titles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can't imagine how MAD I am about this!!! I've kept them for YEARS in a file folder in the file drawer in the kitchen. But now? It's nowhere to be found. I have NO CLUE WHATSOEVER as to what might have happened to it. No idea where to else to look. No options are opening other than tearing the house apart and praying to God that it didn't accidentally end up in the trash.

*WHIMPER*

*MOOOAN*

*WAAAAIL*

And ice cream on the cake? I have been stiff as a board all day and it's just getting worse. It's drizzled rain all day and my joints are screaming for mercy. I even took an extra dose of Ce|ebReX today and can't tell it's done a single thing.

Okay, so to close with something very positive, despite all my crying and growling? Yesterday, we missed church again. Seems we really all tend to catch up on sleep on Sundays and are getting pretty good (bad?!?) about waking up around 11am or later!

Anyhow, so we watched our favorite preacher on TV and the Holy Spirit just got on my so heavy!!! The sermon was great, but I can't tell you what it was primarily about right now. I just cried and prayed through the whole thing. Corey had gone to help Dad do a repair at the local big-chain dairy while the lines were shut down, so it was just me, Tommy and Casey.

I just asked forgivness for all the failures I've orchestrated, for getting so far away from God and letting our family get into such a shape. I just made Tommy answer my questions about what we're going to do to rectify the situation. I'd mentioned it casually several times, and he'd never done anything but agree with me that something needed to be done.

Between the three of us, and later with Corey, too, we decided we were going to have a family prayer and devotional time in the mornings. Of course, that alone will require major changes in our usual quasi-routine. But change is good, right? ;)

All I know is I'm hopeful....just right now? I hope it stops being whatever kinda weather this is that makes me wanna curl up and die.

I really hurt, people!!!

If you think of it...will you pray that #1 - we continue with the prayer time...that Tommy will get a desire for it for Its own sake and #2 - that I can find those +itles!!!!! Wah!

Thank you!

~gentle, whimpery hugs~