Court Dates and Rank Tests and Other Insanity
So if the holidays weren’t complicated enough, yesterday I had to take a half-day off from work to go to court with the ex. And then I get down there, and he decides that, rather than going through the ordeal of actually appearing in court, he’ll work a deal with us there, in the corridor […]
Good Fences Make for Squabbles
I moved into my house in August 1997. There was a chain-link fence all the way around the back yard. In 1999, the back neighbour asked permission (readily granted) to pull up the back portion so he could put in a wooden fence. I gained 18″ of backyard along the length of the back property […]
Good Friends Make Life Better
I’m a busy mom, home-schooling and working full-time. All three of us take karate — me and Soccer Boy on Tuesdays, and all three of us on Thursdays. We have a fabulous karate teacher — actually two. And, to my complete surprise, one of them has become a very good friend in a very short […]
Karate, Boy Scouts, and Soccer, Oh My!
We are so busy with different things right now that I’m not keeping up too well with blogs and other “extra-curricular” activities. But we are all happy and having fun, so I guess it’s a good trade-off. Karate. Last Friday night, the children and I passed our karate rank tests, and advanced from white belt […]
Today I Am a Mean Ex
My ex agreed to handle Scout uniforms if I would handle karate uniforms. This weekend is New Scout’s first camping trip. Ex kept telling me it was next weekend. I kept saying “Scoutmaster told me it was the weekend after Labour Day. This weekend.” Guess who was right. (But I wasn’t mean yet. I didn’t […]
Drama, Bad News, Rock Bottom
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I was still alive … and so, rock bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — JK Rowling, commencement address to Harvard University, June 2008 Rock Bottom. That’s where I am. But before you can know why, you need some […]
Time to Start Over
I’m going to start over on the Atkins Diet. It worked for me before, and I really, really want to lose this extra me that I’m hauling around. I plan to start on Sunday, to give me time to shop, clear the pantry of things I shouldn’t have, and get all the testing done. Yesterday’s […]
Biting the Budget Bullet
Gas prices and grocery prices are killing me. Actually, it’s really that the consumer debt I’ve racked up over the years eats a lot of the paycheck. So I don’t have the wiggle room to adjust for a $40 fill-up. Or apples at $1 apiece. I had made a good-sized hole in paying off the […]