I’m still stressed. But of course. Thursday is my Friday, but I’m looking forward to today less than I look forward to the day when my car blows up on the highway with me in it. Seriously, that’s how much I’m hating today. Intense eh? If you only knew. How pathetic I’m being.
Good news! OHMYIACTUALLYHAVESOME! We are going to Florida again at the end of May. We actually used our brains (not a popular past time with the Fintons) and got a rental car this time. So we will be able to visit more people. Or torture them with our presence. You pick.
Tags: Stress, Travel
Posted in Patti by Patti 1 month ago at 1:27 pm. 1 comment
I’m stressed. Sometimes, school sucks.
I had a meeting with the director of the MFT program yesterday. That seemed to go slightly well. He probably thinks I’m a bumbling idiot, since, well, I am.
I have an interview thing on the 17th for the internship I want. I hope I get it. If not, it will just affirm how much God hates me.
Tags: Stress
Okay, I have successfully tackled my first Stats homework. It’s pathetic. It wouldn’t be so bad besides my devil teacher doesn’t actually teach, so I had to teach myself how to do the homework. Worst teacher ever.
Maybe I should start reviewing movies more often. I started using Rotten Tomatoes. Good times.
Tags: Stress
Posted in Patti by Patti 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 11:21 am. Add a comment
I have really sucked with updating. Gotta say Brandon isn’t helping though!
So I’m in Florida, finally. We left the house a little before 6 in the evening on Tuesday, and I didn’t arrive in Florida until almost 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon. How insane is that. Our flight left over an hour late on Tuesday, so I missed our connection flight. Which stranded us in D.C. overnight, and when we got to D.C. we had to wait in line at the United Customer Service for about two hours at 11 o’clock at night. Sounds rough for me, but for a 3 year old, it was hell. We luckily got put up in a hotel, and got about 5 hours of sleep. Then our flight was supposed to leave at 8:40, but we were stuck sitting on the plane waiting for them to fix it for about 4 hours. I’m not kidding. We were just sitting in the plane. Poor Erik…we didn’t get to eat or anything. Erik didn’t eat for almost two days. I felt horrible.
We are here now though, and everything is good. Erik and I haven’t left the house since we got here now. Haha.
Caitlyn is happy, though.
Tags: Crazy, Family, Stress, Travel
Someone shoot me for saying “gotta say.” What the hell. Why are people letting this go on so long? I’m seriously disappointed.
The truck got dropped off tonight to be fixed tomorrow. “Supposedly” fixed I should say. So many other things, like the transmission I got not working, or something else being wrong, or maybe it really wasn’t even the transmission that was shot are much more likely to happen than the truck actually being fixed. The truck being to a point where it is workable and driving is I’d say, about 7%. All those other things are much more likely.
I got a B in one class. I can’t believe it. It’s actually blowing my mind. Makes me sad…I wouldn’t care so much besides the fact that my entire life is depending on grad school. And since I don’t know anyone, grad school isn’t going to come as easily to me as to all the other traditional students. I suck at life. Why does everything have to be so much harder for me?
And….Erik’s sick. I mean like, sick sick. Erik never gets sick. Ever. He was running a high fever today, well what I consider high. It was 102.6 at one point. It was making me nervous. He is finally in his own bed sleeping though. We watched 7 movies today, and he started an 8th. Then he finally passed out. I ended up laying in bed with him all day because my psyche reverted back to that of a first time mom with a newborn. Erik hasn’t had a fever since…um…he was a tiny infant? Not a really serious fever anyway. He has had the sniffles, and some other minor stuff, but nothing this bad. I was freaked out, and still am. I keep checking on him every half an hour. Okay okay I know a bit much, and he is 3 so I should have calmed down by now. But he is my boy, and if Brandon and I don’t love and take care of him he will never know what it’s like. And he deserves that, and so much more. *sigh* If he doesn’t feel better by 8:30 am he will be going to the Dr.
Tags: Cars, Erik Dr., Sad, School, Sickly, Stress
Posted in Patti by Patti 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:27 am. Add a comment
So, when we last left off I was trying to get the transmission to shift. Well, having talked to a mechanic it’s been determined that the transmission is shot, most likely from being towed while in gear! Just our luck! I would say that’s a very reasonable explanation especially since the shift cable is broken so either, it was towed in gear and then the shift cable was broken trying to get it into gear, or the shift cable was broken and it was assumed that it was in neutral even though it wasn’t.
If you’ve been paying attention, that leaves us with two dead cars each with a blown transmission!
This whole vehicle situation is really wearing on Patti and I because every step we take ends up being a step backwards. Not only are we down to one vehicle (which leaves Patti or I home with Erik and no vehicle if there was an emergency), but we’re piling the miles onto the only car we do have (that we still owe money on)!
So, we’re really at a loss as to how to proceed. We have a transmission for the truck (taking up all of Patti’s trunk), but no one to put it in yet (or the money to do so). And even if we pull that off, we’re still stuck with this gas guzzling POS truck that bites us in the ass every 3 to 6 months with something major!
Hopefully we can get the truck running and still buy groceries and hopefully we can trade in the truck at the next opportunity for a more reliable vehicle that gets better gas mileage. I also think I’m going to keep working on the Neon, possibly try and rebuild the tranny myself. I don’t ever want us to be in a situation like this again!
Tags: Cars, Life, Stress
You know things are bad when I’m quoting songs. It’s a good song at least.
My favorite past times you ask? Listening to music, taking my dogs everywhere with me so I don’t get bored, driving to Rochester to get transmissions, whaifweituwa….wait wait wait….back up.
Okay so I definitely lied about that last one. But, that is what I did with my ENTIRE day (and you can’t forget enough driving to get me to West Virginia! why West Virginia? They marry their cousins there, life is easier, go with it) I brought Logan Drake and Drake Logan along for the ride so I wouldn’t get lonely. Drake Logan road up front on the way there and Logan Drake road up front on the way back. They both had their chances for ultimate cuteness.
And again, you know things are bad when I’m calling the dogs, coughcoughcough, cute.
Tags: Stress
Posted in Patti by Patti 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 8:07 pm. Add a comment
So we’re nearing that time again. It’s almost the end of the semester. I have one final, and two papers left. I only have one more class to attend. I had a exam yesterday, and it was brutal to say the least. Hopefully I pass that class! Yea, ME! I know, it’s crazy. There was one question I didn’t answer at all. I mean, at all. I drew a couple little pictures. Ha.
So sorry that we haven’t posted a lot lately (but maybe I’m apologizing to myself?) The truck is d-e-d (yes I missed the A on purpose) so life is stressful. Brandon had to take a personal day today to go out to where Nora’s sister lives to hopefully get the Neon transferred over to us. Now, to get the Neon running…haha. We’re praying. If we don’t get it running we have no idea what we are going to do. The truck is going to cost so much to fix, just for it to break again, because there are other things wrong with it. And other things going wrong with it. WHY?! Anyway.
Erik is also sickly. He has a really bad running yellownastyness nose. Now he is developing a cough. I was thinking of taking him to the Dr. this morning but when he woke up he was doing alright and the nose was slowing down. Of course once he got up and running his nose started running again. Eep. Mucinex for kids is great though, gotta say. Last time he got this runny nose stuff I just dealt with it myself and I got it to go away with no Dr. visit. Hopefully it will happen again that way.
Tonight is supposed to be date night for Brandon and I. As we are in such a rut with the truck, I’m making dinner at home and we’re going to a movie. That’s the extent of our extra entertainment. It’s okay, we’re happy with it.
At least Christmas is soon! Hopefully Erik enjoys it more this year!!
Tags: Cars, Erik Dr., Movies, School, Sickly, Stress
I am totally and utterly in need of a lot of chocolate. Don’t ask me why.
We had a great Thanksgiving (s). When we don’t blog for a few days that generally means we are enjoying ourselves and keeping busy. Or we are arguing non stop and hate the world and don’t want to talk to anyone. Okay, well that has never happened, but I imagine if that does happen, that will be the case.
Erik decided he doesn’t like turkey dinner. Not the first time, or the second time, and not even the third. What a butt. All three were amazingly good, he missed out on a lot. He ate some fruit. And some bread. And, that’s it. What a loser kid. Heh. He got to go watch Aunt Ashley and Matt play soccer tonight, which I heard though the grape vine he liked a lot. I hear it was a good arena to show off his new shoes, which if I were him, I would do the exact same thing.
So I impressively…get this…didn’t take pictures this year. I purposely left my camera at home. I think I’m driving everyone nuts with the 900 pictures I have of them and their kids (or just Suzie’s kids…since they’re the only “kids”). Or I am driving me nuts. I have over 7000 pictures in iPhoto. A bit much, we say? Yes, we definitely say. Alas, Christmas is coming soon. I’m sure I’ll make up for it.
Off to do so much more homework. I didn’t have a lot, and now I have WAYTOOMUCH. Hate it.
Tags: Family, Fun, Holidays, School, Stress
So today while I was in class, we watched a video on the Pygmies from Africa. It was pretty horrible, and part of it make me very skittish and to a point, disgusted.
They have a tradition of sharpening young boy’s teeth when they get to a “mature” age so that they are attractive to the girls. If you don’t sharpen your teeth, you will be laughed at. It was really hard to watch. Part of me wonders if it’s my ethnocentric psyche that’s makes me shudder at the sight of it. When there is part of me that also wonders if it is because they young children were acting like they were in real pain. That they were truly suffering.
Obviously in our culture doing things like piercing your nose and putting plugs in your ears is almost normal. But when you see someone who is doing it, or if you are engaging in it yourself, the person isn’t struggling, or screaming. Way back in the day I got my eyebrow pierced. I remember sitting there, with my eyes closed, and Irene holding my hand. Then I sat there as still as possible and it was over in a few minutes with barely any talking. So watching someone struggle and scream in utter pain is horrible. The young boys who were getting their teeth sharpened had to be held down by numerous people. After much deliberation on my part I believe that is the reason why I was so disturbed by it. “If they can do it, then you should be able to watch.” I prefer not to see people suffer, no matter what is happening.
Tags: School, Stress
