Gone Off Track Well as you can tell from the title of my entry I kind of feel like my life has gone off track with me! (btw yes that is a line from a song but I can't remember which one right now) Lets see, turns out whats wrong with my car is a burned out valve. John can fix it for much cheaper than the $700 plus dollars our mechanic wanted but it is still going to cost us about $121 dollars or so and a LOT of labor hours because you have to take out the heads to get to the valves which means everything in that area might as well be replaced! I was able to drive my car home today and the car will still run pretty much but it is not running well and will burn gas like you would not BELIEVE until we get the problem fixed. Other than that I am once again a floater for the company I work with. Last week I worked 4 hours on Monday then twelve hour shifts for Thursday, Saturday and Sunday with a place called Forte Power. Thankfully thats 40 hours but then this week I work at a plant called Honda Lock from 3pm-11pm Monday and Wednesday then go BACK to the Forte plant (which is clear on the other side of a different state than Honda Lock is) to work yet another 12 hour shift on Friday. Top that with the fact that Sandy sprung it on us that she and the kids would be moving at the end of the month leaving us to either find a new place to move to or find a way to pay over $700 dollars A MONTH for the place we're living at now! Obviously we're looking for a new place to go, we've already found a pretty good place only a few feet from where we are now. The place only costs $350 a month but unfortunately its only got one bedroom which is going to be interesting considering theres four of us! But if thats all we can find then thats where we'll have to go because unless I simply have no possibilities in GA whatsoever I refuse to go back to AL. I HATE Alabama even though many would say I'm being stereotypical the place is quite literally full of nothing but close minded, bible thumping racists! I know this for a FACT because I lived three minutes from the Alabama border all my life and it is amazing what a three minute drive over a state line can change about the kind of people you encounter! For example I was still in high school when Hurricane Katrina hit, not long after a sweet black guy moved to the little town of Ranburne Alabama which abuts my home town in Georgia having lost his home and everything he owned in New Orleans when Katrina tore through that state...Ranburne is literally LITERALLY 5 minutes away. He was at that high school for one week, during which time he was called the N word, verbally abused and found nooses hung on his locker. So even though our high school was only 5 minutes away from that horrible place he transferred to our school and never had a racist problem again his entire high school stay! Another example is the fact that Ranburne does the same thing that they did to that guy to people who are not Christian or are homosexual...you name it if its different its unacceptable at the Ranburne high school but at my high school I was voted Most Daring in my senior class because I was open about the fact that I was Wiccan and Bi-sexual. Like I said its amazing what changes one state border can unveil!! Anyway long story short I'm stayin in GA. as long as I possibly can!
Along with the other news above there is more to be had about what is going on in my life. I think I'm going to have to fire my baby sitter and find a new one soon. John said that when he got home yesterday he found Isabel with a dirty diaper on that had obviously been on her for a long time, she even had some on her hand!!!! Needless to say that is totally unacceptable, I am willing to talk to my baby sitter first simply due to the fact that in the past year and some odd months that she has been watching my kids this is the first time anything like this has ever happened...my kids love her and it is completely possible that she got over whelmed by them both and simply didn't realize what was going on. But I am faced with a very difficult situation, not only is my baby sitter a very close friend but she also charges very little money and is available any time of day or night, any day of the week for as long as I may need her for that day. Even on the days that I don't have to work but need to clean house or get some rest from the shift the night before she is still willing to work. So I already know that not only is this going to hurt her but that I'm not going to be able to find a baby sitter who can offer everything she does for such a low price ($10 a day!!). Many people have been trying to get me to look into daycares but to be honest I have heard so many horror stories about daycares that I'm extremely scared of them. On the other hand I have to think about what is best for my children, problem is at this point I don't know whats best for them and I can't be here to monitor my baby sitter 24/7 my mom wants to try and get a surveillance system so I can spy on my sitter but those are very expensive so I'm sort of at a stale mate right now! What is your advice? I could really use some right now.
Anyway I wanted to type more but I'm fixing to get ready to go see a friend of mine. Tonight is the only chance I'll have to get out this week because I'll be to exhausted Thursday night to go out unless I decide differently later! So until next time I'm outtie, ciao and Blessed Be!
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