A lot of Lotts: Babies, Kittens, and Stress

Oh it’s like I said. "It’s always something...." And it is. And I am so sick of it. When will anything ever go right? Seriously?

So, everything was starting to go right, and we became happy. I guess that’s where we messed up. Should have faked misery.
Blaine’s grandmother signed for us a loan so we could get caught up on bills, and pay some things off. Well so we wouldn’t have another payment to add to our mess, we decided to buy a washer and dryer, and let the rent to own place have theirs back. So we did that. And we bought Madison a mattress for her bed cuz we were renting that too.

And we paid for various other things, including 2 big cans of formula, getting the van tagged, stuff around the house, bottles, etc. Plus we also paid water bill, electric bill, house payment, car payment, blah blah. And we ate the whole time I was in the hospital plus the whole week I got out because I was too sore to cook, and well Blaine isn’t exactly a chef. So we are down to a couple hundred but Robert had gotten a new job, and it was taking the child support office like 4 weeks to start taking child support out again, so we were short about $564 for the month of May that we usually have in our budget.

So we had to use the rest of the loan money to make up for that. What we had wanted to do was buy a lawn mower because our lawn is a jungle. Well finally last week they put some money on my child support card. Not the whole amount he was behind, but enough for a lawn mower. BUT what happens? Blaine hurts his neck. Seriously. He was crying in pain, couldn’t sleep, moaned and whined when he did sleep. He took muscle relaxers and pain killers, nothing helped. So I called a chiropractor. They get him in, $15 copay, no big deal. They want him to take some medicine, an anti-inflammatory, $40 and insurance won’t cover it through their office. So he needs to go to his family doctor to get a prescription for it that the insurance will cover. So I call to make an appointment there, and "oh you have an outstanding balance from your deductible....$101 and you have to pay that before we can see you...." There goes the lawn mower. Go there and it’s also a $15 copay, plus the $101, Siiiighhh. Then the chiropractor wants him back on Wednesday, $15 copay again. Come back this afternoon again. It’s a 20 minute drive there and back, and gas is not cheap! Pick up his medicine at Wal-greens, $16. Thursday morning, chiropractor again, you guessed it. $15 copay. Come back again this afternoon. More gas. Today is Friday, chiropractor again, yep $15....and gas.

But today is pay day so it’s ok. Blaine’s check will be short because he was off a whole week that I had Isabella, but 3 days of it was supposed to be covered by vacation pay...He gets his check, and it’s only $200 for 2 weeks!!! They shorted him his vacation pay, then told him he only had 2 days he could use, and they will give it to him, ON HIS NEXT PAYCHECK IN 2 WEEKS! How does that help us pay our bills that are due TODAY?

I can’t stand it always being something. We have a house payment, a car payment and a phone bill due today. Sigh again.

Oh and the dumb dog has broke her cord thing she was hooked too, and the neighbor keeps bringing her over here, and we tried to fix it but it’s hopeless. She must have nothing better to do than sit and look out her windows to know when our dog is loose. So I really want to sell this dog. BUT we really need to get a fence so we can sell her puppies, but it is so far away there is nothing we can do until then with her. And we can’t afford to keep buying dog cord things. That is the second one she has broke.

Not to mention all the computer mess we have had.

And we got a kitten, before all this mess happened. And he is pretty but he is annoying, he keeps trying to poop on my carpet instead of his box. I can’t have that. Any ideas? I know they make some kind of spray to make them not go where they shouldn’t.....We thought we were naming him Simba, now I am not sure, what does he look like to you?

Oh and lovely pictures of the baby that likes to be awake from 2 am to 6 am......