I'll send an SOS in my update

I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last post. So much has been going on that I haven’t had the time to rant. Technically, I don’t have time now. But if I didn’t share what has been going on, I’d go crazy.
So....let me see......where did I leave off.......??? I believe I left off around Turkey Day. So...let me go from there.

We spent Thanksgiving at my mom's house. We went while we were attempting to recover from this flu/cold thing that's going around. We came back not doing very good. I was sick for close to 6 weeks. Blah. Anyway...my mom's place was good. We had good food and good company......it was nice. The rest of the weekend was spent doing pretty close to nothing since we were sick. But that's OK. We deserve time to do nothing.

The following weekend was my birthday. Yeah me! I didn't do my usual "I want EVERYTHING" list this year, so for the first time ever, Brandon didn't have anything planned for me. That was kinda cool but I had anticipated he would have planned something anyway. He usually does so it was a surprise when I found that he didn’t. So, I decided we should go to the movie theater. We watched "Enchanted" which was a VERY cute movie for the chicas, I must say. Even Brandon had a few chuckles.

Then after that, I decided I wanted to window shop. I made Brandon take me to Cost Plus so I could oogle over the imports. I found a really awesome smelling candle there as well as a pretty pricey ice wine that I absolutely LOVE. I'm not much of a drinker these days but I can tell you that I truly appreciate a good dessert wine from time to time. After that, we meandered over to Pier 1 Imports....which SUCKED. It was like walking into Pottery Barn...literally. But I did find a cartoonish meditating frog there....and loved it.....although I didn't get it. From there, we cruised over to Bath and Body Works where I tormented Brandon with all of the over-powering smells. HAHAHAHAHAHAH! I did find a really nice lotion that I got and then, being as it was flippin’ cold out, we went over to Wal-Mart where I picked out a cozy black scarf and a sparkly object.

Our dinner excursion was not as fun though. It took us an hour and half and three restaurants to get seated. And then to top it off, our server sucked in a very BAD way. Oh well...the food was good.

To make up for our outing, Sunday I sat at home and had myself a PJ day. While lounging around in my PJ's and doing laundry, I managed to watch a couple of football games and then turned my attention to a movie on HBO called "The Science of Sleep". That was actually a very good movie. It was sort of this schizophrenic love story, blurred between reality and dreams. I loved it and will watch it again I’m sure. I followed that up with the end to "The Nativity Story" and the middle of "A Secret Garden"; both also very good movies. Naturally I had to ask Brandon a thousand questions about the Three Wise Kings......like......how did they get to be so wise?

After that, everything seemed to slide down the mountain….quickly I might add. 2 days later, I got a call from Brandon informing me that wee-bit had decided to wander off from class again. I mean, she left a class and did not return to her class. Instead, she went out to play in the field while class is in session.

I proceeded to get off the phone, leave in the middle of a meeting that I was having with my boss, cry my eyes out in the bathroom and then take a quick walk outside. Thankfully I have a very patient supervisor.

What pissed me (and Brandon) off the most about wee-bit wandering off is that the fucking school did NOT call either of us to tell us that this had happened. I get calls at work because she is being disruptive, she's forging signatures on prize cards, and stealing toys from other kids.....but do they fucking call when she disappears?!?!? Nope.

We took wee-bit to a child psychologist who had decided that she could have ADD or she could be showing early signs of being bi-polar. Because he couldn’t tell which one it may be, we have to undergo special therapy with her to try and work it out. To treat her (with medication) for one thing when it could be the other would do damage. We preferably do not want to medicate her until we are certain of what she is experiencing. We are hopeful that we wont need to medicate her but because of her over-impulsive nature, we may end up having to do so.

While this was going on, Brandon’s truck (THE NEW ONE) broke down. We had towed it into the dealership, thinking that our warranty covered everything. BOY, WERE WE IN FOR A SURPRISE!!! As it turned out, the warranty only covered $35 of the tow (our bill was over $100) and the warranty only covered 1 part that needed to be replaced. We were stuck with a $960 bill. One week later, we had to take the truck back down because ti was still acting messed up. That night (12/17), Brandon fell and broke his foot.

I rushed him down to ER where we waited for three and a half hours for the doctor to come over and tell Brandon that it was sprained. Meanwhile, I’m staring at X-Rays that show a fracture. “Oh no, that’s just the way his foot is. He’ll be fine. He just needs to walk it off.”

12/18 we picked up the truck because the dealership swore (in writing) that there was nothing wrong with his truck. On 12/24, the battery finally died. So we took it down to our local mechanic who told us that our chain had been yanked, and hard. The problem with the truck was that the battery was dying, hence why it was driving rough and having electrical malfunctions. They also informed us that the dealership was full of crap as they had told us a week prior that the battery on the truck was just fine. FUCKERS.

At this point, Brandon had already had a second X-Ray done on his foot because it wasn’t getting better. We found out on 12/26 that it was in fact fractured in multiple locations. So the next day, he received his new addition to his wardrobe; a pretty purple cast that wee-bit had picked out for him. Naturally, we kept a photo log of the event.

ER



2 Days Later



3Days Later



The Cast



The day after we got the cast put on, we went to apply for his disability since he will not be able to work until March. Yes, you heard that correctly…..MARCH. Anyway, while I was at the Kaiser Member Services Desk with Brandon, I filed a complaint against the ER FUCK TARD who swore that it was just a sprain. I’ve got something that ass-hat can walk off……

As far as my new job goes…..wow…….we terminated the accounting chick because of her bad attitude which means I got a lot of her responsibilities. She really didn’t have much to do because there were no sales being made. Now that we have a new sales team, sales are being made and I’m a lot busier. Plus, I’m still responsible for Government Contracts. I had a quote that I had to write up for Placer County in less then 2 weeks (that was delivered in person yesterday), an office that was suppose to get packed and ready to move...that is until we found out our new building didn’t pass inspection (hurry up and wait!!), and on top of it all, I’m still working on our marketing team.

Next week, I get to visit the new office space to make sure it’s ready for our team to move in and play catch up on what I wasn’t able to get to while I was running around with the Placer County quote. And somewhere in there, I need to hire a couple more people…….how the hell did I get myself back into management?? I thought I was just an executive administrator.

So there ya have it. My month in review……hopefully, I’ll find time to update everyone before the end of January. Oh….and……..






Cheers my friends ~ to the good, the bad and the ugly.