What a wonderful week!!!

So this week started out pretty stressful. Monday morning I get up, fight my kids as normal to get up for school, and then I get dressed for work. I then drop the kids off at school and then head to work. I get to work at 7:30 am so I sit in the parking lot for a little bit listening to the radio before going into work. While I am sitting there I get a call from my family members’ boyfriends stepmom (if that isn’t confusing) telling me that some stuff went down over the weekend and I needed to contact a lawyer and file for emergency guardianship. I asked her why so she gave me the number of a caseworker to call. I call the caseworker and she said it doesn’t have to be an emergency but she would like one filed since the family member and her boyfriend have been known for drugs, etc. So I spent all day on the phone trying to find a lawyer that didn’t want an arm and a leg to file the guardianship. I talk to my dad about it and you could tell by his voice he expected me to pay part of the lawyer fee. Which I don’t mind doing if we share guardianship and if I had the money to spare. So that day was very exhausting, mentally.

Tuesday and Wednesday I was in bed most of the day because I hurt my back and could barely move. Thursday I woke up sick and throwing up, so I decided I would go into work late so I could get some Ginger Ale or Sprite to help settle my stomach. I lay back down until 10:00 and got up, and got dressed for work. I was still feeling pretty crappy but I still needed to go into work. I go outside to start my truck and all I get was a clicking noise. I thought GREAT!!! So I called my husband and told him I thought the battery was dead. He told me to turn the negative battery cable. So, I did and nothing. I turned it as far as it would go both ways and still nothing. At this time I feel very overwhelmed, plus I still feel sick. I call my husband back and he comes by the house and messes with the battery for a little bit and he finally got it to where it would whorl over but would not start. At this point I begin to cry because I feel so overwhelmed. My husband gets mad because he couldn’t figure it out and leaves. I decide to call Dodge and talk to the service manager (we are on a first name basis) and tell him what is going on and he tells me he thinks the battery doesn’t have enough charge to actually start it. I tell my husband and he thinks I am crazy and don’t know what I am talking about and says he isn’t going to mess with it. I decide to go out to my truck and I take the negative battery terminal off and clean the cable and hook the jumper cables directly up to the cables on the truck. And what do you know….IT STARTS!!! It wouldn’t idle at first but it then straightened out and was great. Haven’t had any more problems out of it. Needless to say my husband was a little upset that I proved him wrong.

Friday-I fought with the electric company most of the day over my bill and then I found this evening that my step-grandmother passed away this morning from cancer. She was the only mom my mother really new. My mom is pretty torn up about it. The visitation is Sunday and the funeral is Monday.

So that is my week. Tomorrow (Saturday) we get to go to Springfield for a Springfield Cardinals game. My son’s baseball team was chosen to go. They get to meet the players, get autographs, go out on the field with the team, get the pictures taken, and then sit right by the team’s dugout box. So, maybe some relaxation.