Trying to control the chaos

Irritation

iammandi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:24:13 +0000

I currently do not have internet access at home so I am at school updating this between classes and leftover homework that needs my attention. I am supposed to have internet at home but our phone company is turning out to be horrible liars that like to just lie randomly about whatever. We told them that our service wasn’t on, that Dave had checked at the box outside and still had no dial tone. They told us they’d have someone out the next day to fix it since our phones were supposed to be on 2 days before this. The next day comes and goes with no change in phone status. So Dave called them again and was told ‘Well, from our end everything looks like it’s in good working order.’ And they went round and round with him, saying the same thing over and over again, ignoring Dave’s question of ‘Did you send someone today like you said you would.’ Finally they said that no, they didn’t send anyone and that since we still had no dial tone, they’d have someone out the next day for us to fix it. So, Friday rolls around and I am busy with classes all day so I’m not home and don’t know if anyone showed up. Can you guess where I’m going with this??? No one came that day either so Dave called them back again. He spent who knows how long on the phone with them- an hour or so. He reminded them of previous conversations and that twice we were promised help and twice we were lied to. The rep on the phone then tells him that our records indicate that someone is scheduled to come out on Sept. 2nd. !!!!! That is Wednesday, in case you weren’t keep track of your days. I am so pissed off that I can’t see straight. I want to do something, complain to someone and demand something or other but I can’t because I DON’T HAVE A WORKING PHONE!!! When the service is turned on I will be calling and speaking to the manager’s manager’s manager about this because it’s 100% unacceptable for them to flat-out lie to us- never mind do it more than once! It’s disgusting and the worst kind of customer service. I’ve never had this problem before with Verizon so I’m a bit shocked by the whole situation.

Other than that fiasco, I’ve had such a busy week (last week) and I’m so glad this is a new week! Whew. I was so busy and so stressed that I slept for hours and hours on my day off. And was still tired when I finally forced my eyelids to stay up. But now all the kids are in school and I am not working out babysitting for Elaina while I’m in school and I can sort of relax into my schedule. If you want to call carrying 18 credits and working 6 hours in the tutoring center ‘relaxing’. But at least I don’t have to worry about who’s watching the kids and all that because the school is doing that for me! LOL And speaking of kids and school- today was Elaina’s first day of kindergarten. *sniff-sniff* I wanted to be sad and weepy but we were late getting out of the house today (shut-up!!) so I only had time to think about being sad and weepy before I had to get dinner in the crock pot and get myself ready for school and rush out the door, hoping I wasn’t late to class myself. LOL I think she was feeling a tad overwhelmed when I said goodbye but she kept her game face on and went and sat down. If she had broken down, I would have too so I’m kind of glad she played brave for her mommy. I hope she has a good day. We bought her a new wee little backpack last night, perfect for teeny little kindergartners. God, I hope her lunch was tossed in there…..I was so busy getting her ready that the other kids got lunches put in bags for me and I can’t remember if she had hers. I think so….I HOPE so! If not, I win the award for worst mommy EVER! LOL

When not doing school work and being furious at being lied to, we spent most of the weekend doing yard work. The grass hadn’t been mowed in about 3 weeks and the yard looked horrible. We had to borrow a mower from friends and the grass in our back yard is so thick that it kept stopping the mower and I wore myself out trying to push the darn thing. But with Dave’s help and ‘help’ from the kids we got it all mowed and raked and looking decent by days end yesterday. I can’t wait until we are past the ‘getting it put back together’ stage and move into the decorating stage. That stage is more fun, more colorful and there is more shopping involved. Too bad I have to wait until next year to enter that stage. *sad* In the mean time I’m just happy with how large our yard is and that it’s ours and we can walk barefoot in the grass and did I mention that it’s ours? LOL The trailer is not ideal yet either and the raw, uncovered floors are making me nuts and all but in a few weeks we’ll buy the rest of the laminate and get the floors done throughout and it’ll look so much nicer in there and we’ll feel like we are finally coming home each day instead of sort of camping out.

I have math homework to finish before class so I am done here now. I’ll try and post first-day-of-school-EVER pics later this week. Elaina is too darn cute!

First

iammandi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:31:38 +0000

First day back is going well so far. I was late to my first class. Naturally. It’s Biology and the teacher was doing a ‘get-to-know-you’ thing where she’d say if this scenario fits you, go to this side of the room, if not, go to this side of the room. Blah blah, we walked back and forth for a while. Lame and stupid. Then we got to dissect frogs!! I’ve never done that kind of thing before because I opted out in high school. The worst part was the smell of the formaldehyde. I ended up feeling sick to my stomach when I was done. I didn’t enjoy it a whole lot. Our frog was FULL of eggs and all the organs were pushed around and they were not where they were supposed to be so it was really hard to identify them. If it didn’t smell so bad, I wouldn’t have minded so much. Plus, the organs had no color at all except gray and dark gray so it was hard to figure out what that lump was compared to this other lump. So, WELCOME TO BIOLOGY!! Nice way to start my morning. My apologies to you vegetarians for the subject matter.

We had lecture after that and a 15 minute break before so I went to see if I could speak with an instructor who runs the tutoring lab to see if he’s going to hire me to tutor but he wasn’t in so I ran and got a snack and went up to the class. Wouldn’t you know it- I was late again. Ugh. I felt stupid. And then I’m sitting there and not 10 minutes later I am feeling like I have to pee really bad because of the UTI. So I hold it and wait and mentally bounce and when she starts talking about the online portion and said she’d show the class what the online program looks like, I jumped up and left to use the restroom since I know how all that worked and knew I wasn’t missing anything by leaving. We got out an hour early so I just came home to eat lunch and chill until my next class starts at 2:30. I’m determined to be on time for this class. Early even!

We are supposed to have our phone turned on today and I am dying to call Dave and see how his morning went but I can’t and it’s making me nuts. He had to take all of the kids to get their shots done since I’m in school and wasn’t able to do it myself. We’ve had a lot of glitches in things lately so I am wondering how things worked out, if they worked out at all. Nothing has been easy this month! Now I’m just killing time until my next class. It’s so quiet right now. It’s strange to be here alone and just hearing neighborhood noises. No kids yelling or fighting or laughing and joking and squealing. So this is what it’s like to have all your kids in school….tis very strange. I could get used to this.

I think I’ll do some straightening up before I leave. I’m always amazed at how fast the kids are able to trash any places they go. Clothes and blankets and toys and stuff just randomly dropped or tossed here and there. 30 minutes should be enough time to make it look a little better in here. I hate housework.

Tired!

iammandi — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:44:29 +0000

Well, we have most of our stuff packed into this not-quite-big-enough-for-us trailer. It’s not too bad fit-wise. Not really crowded but there will be lots of odds and ends that have nowhere to go. And that awesomely huge craft room that I had in NC? GONE!! No room for that here. I’ll have a craft ‘area’ which is okay with me. But I will miss my huge craft room. Won’t have time like I used to to work on stuff anyway. I’m really tired today and kind of achy too. I haven’t done any heavy lifting or anything but my body aches and feet hurt a lot. I don’t plan to do much at all tomorrow because I need the swelling in my feet to go down before school starts on Monday. And I don’t want to be super exhausted Sunday night and have to get up early and be in classes all day.

My schedule for the fall is a heavy one. I’m taking 18 credit hours and Mondays will be a long, long day for me. My first class is from 9:30 – 12:45 and then I have a class from 2:30 – 4:10 and my last class starts at 5:30 and ends at 6:45pm. I will be one tired momma when I finally get home! Dave will have dinner duty on Mondays and Wednesdays and I will have a late class on Tuesdays (7-9:40pm). I very much look forward to starting and doing the student thing again. I like my free days but I start to fall apart after just a couple of days of too much free time. I need structure and purpose. I’m supposed to work part-time at the college too (if it works out) so before long I may feel differently about the free time bit. LOL

I’m too tired to concentrate so this is all I got tonight.