I haven't been posting for a while, haven't I? (Duh...)
Lots of things have been keeping my mood down, and I don't want to just complain all the time.
So, just what's going on, you ask? Oh, where to begin...
Money is tight (as in short), and we're still trying to get the family room and downstairs bathroom back from December's little flooding incident. So we have no room in the house. The kids have no room to play. We have a tiny back yard and we can't even let Jareth play out there unless one of us is out there to watch him. Amy has been trying, and lately she's been managing to take him out to a lot of things.
We want to move, but we can't. We need a bigger car for Amy, but we can't afford one.
On top of that, the next chance for babysitting we get we'll have to use to go see a lawyer.
Yeah, that's the biggie. That's the one I've wanted to post about. But I think I'll have to pick my words very carefully. Let's just say that it got started because of a position Amy's mom should never have put us in, and that whole family (starting from at least Amy's grandmother) was as messed up as it was largely because of the way they used money to control each other and "buy" love.
The whole thing is making Amy physically sick.
And the more lawyers we deal with the more I dislike them as a whole. I'm thinking that the whole point of a legal system is to make money for lawyers. When lawyers get involved the only ones who don't get hurt are the lawyers.
I do have an unrelated post written out on paper, but I didn't want to go a month or two of nothing and then just post it. It doesn't warrant that kind of reading into. I'll try and get a post together explaining "the issue" when I can. We'll know more in the coming weeks.
My job may be changing from an admin role to more of an analyst role (which means more money). There's also a raise ("merit increase") coming. I think I find out the details on that today. It goes into effect July 1st. I just hope it's enough to make a difference.
We're going camping this weekend... :-)