I’m looking for that silver lining.. or the bright side.. because I’m having trouble seeing the good in anything that is going on at the moment. There’s this forwarded email story that my current situation brings to mind about a little bird stuck in a pile of crap .. but can’t even bring myself to locate the story. I’m sure it even had a more positive moral than I can muster at the moment.
Its just general life suckage.. the husband got stranded in lower Georgia last night because of the rain and car trouble and ended up having to get a hotel instead of coming home. We had to get MIL to call in a credit card for him to get said hotel and it took ages to get him out of the pouring down rain and storms and into a room. Yesterday I made homemade beef stew in the crock pot and it took about 6 hours to cook potatos in it. As someone pointed out last night.. It was taking that whole “slow cooker” thing seriously. Munchkin and I finally got our dinner around 730pm when it decided it was “done” cooking. Remember that scene from Office Space where the guys beat the living shit out of the stolen fax machine?? That was the sort of thoughts I was having about the crock pot… I even threatened to throw it off my second story deck.
Today (because when the shit hits the fan around here.. it really splatters..) I was called by the car insurance company who gets paid every month on the 26th and told that I needed to send my October payment or they’d “terminate our service”.. which caused me to start wondering if I really HAD paid it like I thought or if I was just totally dilusional. Turns out that I HAD paid it.. via money order.. last month.. and it never arrived. When a money order goes missing.. its a messy messy thing. You have to put a “hold” on it.. then put a “tracker” on it.. and find out whether it has been cashed or not… then have it cancelled and get your money back or get another money order. This is not a little payment.. as you would expect with dual car insurance payments in Atlanta.. and its also reporting negatively to husband’s credit.. which pleases him a great deal, as you can probably imagine. Oh yes.. and by the way.. if you do happen to pay with a money order to Geico.. please be aware that its only a step down from sending them real live cash in the respect that they have no way of verifying the story or doing anything to rectify your account. Yay me.
On an up note.. husband got home from the Munchkin’s school and had nothing but good news on his progress and behavior in class! We were concerned that he would have to be held back next year but it looks like he’s adapting more than well to his new school environment. I guess that was the bright spot I was looking for. I’m off to bed before all hell breaks loose again.