My week from Hell

The car dealership where we bought or new car 2 months ago had asked for checks for the first three months payments made out to the finance company, as well as the down payment. They were supposed to hold the checks until they were due, but they instead turned them over to finance company all at once a few weeks ago and they were all put through last week. We found out when we went to pull our rent out and has $3 instead of $2K.

We heard our niece is in the hospital on a feeding tube, but she is with at her Mom's and her Mom doesn't like anyone in this family since the divorce and is three states away so it's not like we can go check on her. So we know nothing of what is going on.

Our toilet started running and got worse and worse so within a few days we just turned off the water to it, and started using the other bathroom instead, even though that bathroom has no lights. The landlord says he will fix it soon, but has been saying that about the lights for about a year. and the family room floor for even longer.

My Grandma had a stroke and we live close enough to visit, but far enough for it to be a hassle to visit and do anything else in a day. She is an avid reader and opinionated speaker but now can't get her mind to understand written words and has to concentrate to speak even slowly and still struggles to be understood.

I started a new role playing game based on Grimms' fairy tales. Very dark and twisted. But as I am running it it has to be child friendly, or at least PG-13. I'll do a separate blog for Grimm and roleplaying. But needless to say it is time consuming, distracting and another stress I most likely should have put off but didn't because it is fun.

I cleaned up the house before game last Sunday, and it is a wreck again.

I play on Second Life with DH, (Ok, another blog is needed to explain that world). We have fun. We have friends there, but lately there seems to be several extra helpings of drama. Nothing directly involving us too much, but several issues that plant land mines around conversations. I am still not sure of the etiquette of it all, so am not sure how to handle certain things.

DH had a eye Dr. appointment on Saturday, so after driving 2 hrs, (due to major traffic because a RV broke down where there wasn't a shoulder), on mountain roads, a half hour visit with my grandmother, and another hour back, we all drove over to the Dr's office. He was scheduled to have his eyes dilated and I had suggested walking the mile there because then we could just walk home afterwards, but due to time issues he drove instead. I was intending to order DDs new glasses, but the prescription for it must have fallen out at home because it wasn't in my wallet when we got to the Dr's. so DD and I sat while DH had his eyes dilated, and examined. We did choose what glasses she wanted but couldn't order them without the prescription. We wandered through Costco because it was the only place to go kill time. It was hot and we got tired but were a few blocks from costco on our way back to the car, before we decided we needed drinks. So we searched the Dr's office complex for something that was open, only to find nothing was. We eventually found a deli that had it's door open but was not officially open that was willing to sell us some gateraide. DH decided to try and drive home. So we went home. It was 6pm by the time we got home, and 7 by the time we ate dinner.

I, like a fool, tried to prepare thirteen weeks of curriculum in a little over a week, which would have been easy if not for the other issues that sprang up. I didn't really get started until 10 or so at night, and only the last few nights this week. I had collected stuff that may be useful, but not organized it into any logical fashion until late on Saturday. I had asked DH to help but he hadn't gotten around to it, (had intended on working on it on Saturday but couldn't due to his eyes dilation). So I had a few late nights.