QuirkyMom

I got a moving violation ticket as soon as I left the damn house. For blocking an intersection. Because there was already a car in the median on Sample road, and I pulled out b/c the one side of the road was clear. Well, cop pulled up right about then. Fuck it all. 3 point ticket. So I have to figure out if I can handle 3 points on my license and just spend the 85 dollars, or if I can’t and want to do the traffic school (72$, plus cost of the course, but no points) or go to court. What a bitch. I didn’t even know you couldn’t do that. There are, multiple times a day no less, 2-3 cars piled up in that median waiting to go. Wrong place, wrong time. Bah.

We had 4 new tires put on the car yesterday. I was expecting 2. So we are down 306 dollars instead of 153. But they were all replaced at the same time, so at least we know that now. I couldn’t remember which 2 we had replaced previously, as they had been rotated so damn many times.

I hate cars. Now, those of you who know me know I love cars. I just hate the maintenance. I wish they were like bed sheets. Or socks. Yah, like socks. When Dorian runs out of socks and we can’t find a pair to save our lives, we go buy more. They are cheap, expendable, and eventually they turn up. Needless to say, we have more socks for the boys than we will ever need, but they are there. Maybe I will make baby sock puppets out of them some day. But I wish cars were like that. If they break or get yucky, you go buy a new one. I know there are people like that, but for what, 98% of us poor schmucks, we just pour about the same amount as a new car back into an old one, slowly, so it feels like the car is bleeding you to death. We just spent like 500$ on the damn car last month.

I have to call and cancel the second room in Orlando. My parents bailed on me. lack of funds and my moms surgery was yesterday. She’s fine. Maybe they will still go up Sunday/Monday…. we’ll see. So now I have to decide if I was a very good friend of mine’s good friend to watch the boys for a few hours, or if I want to leave them home. I am so wary of leaving them home, Dorian b/c he knows we are going to universal and won’t let us hear the end of it (some things are NOT worth fighting over, and with the state of finances, we might not get back any time soon) and Chai b/c he still nurses quite a bit at night. But it is so much easier to leave them with my parents, you know? If you have kids you know. If you don’t have kids, you think I am some anal retentive mom right about now. Well, I am, but that is besides the point.

I think we will leave them with Steve. That way I can feed Chai on the way up there, and it cuts Horror nights a bit short (damnit) but it will ease my mind. Or we could take Chai with us, but that’s a pain. We’ll see.

Oh yah, yesterday. I cut my hand (small cut, no big) putting together some shelving. Fish then told me to move b/c a) he was getting annoyed watching me I think and b) the thing is 6 feet tall and I am 5’1. You do the math. So he put my shelving together. I can now get stuff off the floor and onto shelves, where I shall never see it again lol

I took inventory of my soaps last night, and while I have a bunch of most of what I ordered, I am totally our of Belly Dancer. So next time I am ready to order, I will have to order more of that!

I posted 10 auctions on EBay, hopefully they will sell. Mostly candles, but the starting bid is low as fuck, so even if they stay around there, if they all sell, I should have a nice (if not small) chunk of change coming in. I really need to get to selling stuff through the site. This is killing us. I thought my Belfry site would be a smash, but no go The kits are so inexpensive too! I had a lot of people say they were going to buy, and never did (which seems to be the general of how it goes), and I had some made-baskets requested that I put together and the people fell off the planet or something.

What a bitch.

I have to draw my winner today, maybe that will bring in some sales

mmmmmmmmm food. So hungry. Wonder if I can convince my love
we have enough money to eat out. Seems I never want to eat out as much as when we have no cash. Maybe it makes me feel better *shrugs*