Jinx Me Not

Ah! Is the weekend really almost over? I’m happy and sad about that. For a couple of reason but those are later. Let us begin with…

Thursday (I know not technically part of the weekend but that’s where the fun begins) – My daughter reminds me at bedtime that not only is she having a sleep over the next day but our friend Biz is visiting with his 2 kids for the weekend and us with little more than PB&J in the cupboards. So arrangements had to be made on the fly for me to have the truck on …

Friday so I can go grocery shopping. Since we only have the one vehicle and I shop like the world is coming to an end when I go. I can not be one of those people who shops via bus. How anyone does that really is beyond me.

• So I drop Dash at work.
• Do the shopping.
• Race home to prepare lunch for Bug.
• Open the mail and find out that the cable/internet bill is 4 days past cutoff.
• I borrow money on my overdraft to cover it.

Mind you this latter is of particular importance because as of September I should have been saving for the x-mas fund but we spent ½ of it on weather proofing the house ‘cause the landlord is a cheap bastard and the other ½ getting a $238 TV we salvaged fixed for half the price. So I had to use Octobers’ x-mas money to pay bills and I can see the trend building (I saw it building because I redid the budget to see what was going to happen) so I decide for the second day last week to half-ass look for a job (Tuesday I put out 3 e-mail résumé’s) another 3 e-mail résumé’s on Friday. I of course was shall we say quite a bit more than mildly depressed. Christmas is my favorite holiday and no not for the commercialism but because it is the one time of year I can give to my family freely. I love watching their faces light up, that’s my gift. I also love decorating the tree.

Anyhow an hour after that I got a surprise which I can not talk about for the next 2 months on the grounds that it may jinx me. I had to wait for Bug and her friend to get home from school to go pick up Dash which really sucks because Dash is finished work at 4pm Bug walks through the door from school at 3:45pm and we are stuck in rush hour traffic coming and going. We get home have dinner and then Biz drops off 2 more kids ages 3 and 5 to watch while he and Dash drive an hour coming and going to Barrie to drop off his niece at her Dad’s. By the time they get back we visit for an hour and then it’s off to bed for the yawning lot of us.

That will bring us to the slogged un-caffeinated Dash who was awakened by Bug’s friend’s father at 10:30. I really don’t understand parents who are up at the crack of dawn on a freakin’ Saturday. Haven’t these people heard of sleeping in? Especially since I asked her mom if she needed her home at any particular time and she said, no. Oh well that was one less mouth to feed. I made pancakes for 3 kids and 3 adults which put me in the kitchen into the afternoon. Cook then clean. We tried to take the youngins to the park but we got a mix of hail and rain so that forced us indoors again.

Sunday, hell is that today I guess for another couple of hours it is. Right so it was clean the house so I don’t have to worry about it this week because I may be otherwise occupied. I can’t say, really. I won’t find out until tomorrow anyway. Ah, look never could keep a secret so now I have to post before I ruin my future.