Why Us???

I have been putting this blog off because I didn’t want to seem like a whiner, or whatever, but I am so upset, and mad, and stressed, that I just have to get it out. So as I talked about in my previous blogs Blaine's work screwed him on his vacation pay he was supposed to get the week Isabella was born, then he hurt his neck, and he has been off work from the 29th of May until yesterday, June 18th. Well we all thought it was going to be ok because he had a short term disability through his job, where if he couldn’t work for a short while, he could still get paid. 

Welllllll We call to his work Friday to see why they hadn’t deposited his check in the bank (by the way his last check was $290 for 2 weeks since they ripped him off) and they told us the insurance place handles it since it was disability. So we call them, and they so, oh we deposited $170 today.....I was like WHAT? Why only 171 bucks for 2 weeks, oh, he is only getting $400 benefits every 2 weeks, and the first 7 days is an exemption period and we don’t pay for that. BUT no one bothered to tell us that BEFORE he decided to take the disability......So I have been looking for a job everywhere. I got an interview at this very very very small cafe in Van Buren, which is a 30 minute drive from here, but I needed anything. He called me today and it’s open M-Sat 6 am to 2 pm, and he said I would work part time, and be out by 2:30 or 3 p.m. I said I would take it. 

So I go over to my neighbors, the annoying one, and ask her if she could watch the kids from 2:30 to 3 or 3:30 when I work, and she was asleep, so her husband said he would tell her I needed to talk to her. Then I got a thing in the mail that said we had been pre approved for a vehicle for zero down, and blah blah, well since we can’t pay our blazer payment, and it’s so high anyways, and only seats 5, we decided to check into this. So we got dressed, Blaine fed and watered the dog, and I didn’t even feed the kids cuz I didn’t think it would take too long. We got there at noon, and at 2 the kids were still hungry and having fits, so I was like look, we need to go eat and my husband has to go to work. So they said they had a car for us, and I could come back alone and get it. SO we ate, dropped Blaine off, and drove back....Me, and 4 kids :|.....

By the time I started to head home it was after 4:30. I changed the girls diapers, and went to see the neighbor. She said yes she would watch them, followed me over to my car, talked to the kids while I made Izzy a bottle, and everything. I told her I had to run to take them to Michael’s and go show Blaine the car. She called me an hour later BAWLING her eyes out saying she thought our dog was dead....I was like, OH  GREAT! I tried to calm her down and said don’t cry, and I was like I don’t know what to do....I won’t be home for a while. SOOOO I called my friend and asked her to run over and see if she was dead. She calls me back to inform me that the neighbor called the police on us....And that they are waiting for me to get home. Then says they are taking pictures and stuff cuz apparently she got tangled up in her chain and choked while we were gone. So I start bawling, and Blaine says he is leaving work and coming with me so I didn’t have to go alone. We get here and what’s worse is the officer is one my friend had tried to set me up with a couple years ago........and it didn’t work out. SO yeah! Then he sits here  getting all mean. saying he is doing me a favor by not taking my husband to jail, and wrote us a ticket and we have to appear in court on Monday. "I am doing you a favor, do you understand that?!!?" was his words. I am just so upset and mad. We didn’t choke her ourselves, we didn’t know she was tangled, we untangle her every day. 

We did not pay almost $200 for a dog to KILL it. And having to go through the trauma and tell the kids their pet is dead isn’t enough, NOOOO they have to slap a fine on us or whatever they are going to do. WELL we will go to court and we will defend ourselves! She was fed, watered, had a dog house, was not abused. AND if the nosey neighbor was so concerned we were mistreating our dog, why did she wait until she was dead to call the police? Maybe she choked her....cuz we have had her chained for 3 months and she hasn’t got tangled on her neck ever! just wrapped around the pole thingy. Anyways, see the bull crap we go through? Yes let’s go buy expensive well bred dogs so we can kill them!!! I told the neighbor to NEVER speak to me again. I am so upset right now. We had to get another baby sitter, on short notice, and she lives 10 minutes from here, the other way from where we need to go to work, so Blaine will have to leave an hour before his work, and I’ll drive an hour a day to pick them up.........I hate life right now. 

OOOOHHH I also forgot to mention that my friend said she saw our lovely neighbor stopping every car that drove by and telling them something..........I bet now our whole neighbor hood thinks we are dog killers. Lord help us, and I pray for that woman. I honestly feel sorry for her because she doesn’t have the slightest idea of the wrath she has brought on herself. If she so much as looks as me I am filing harassment, and I am already going to file trespassing.

Little Edit here.....an update on it all. WELL Tuesday my first day at my new job, and Blaine calls my cell about 12:30 saying he drove alllll the way to the new sitter’s house, and she wasn’t home, and no one answered the phone. So I didn’t know what to do. Luckily I got off in enough time to meet him at his work, so since we can’t rely on her, my boss said since the cafe closes at 2 and Blaine don’t have to be at work till 3, the kids can come up there for about 15 minutes! SO that’s good. On the dog case, Blaine and my friend that came and checked on her BOTH said the chain was not around her neck or body, and that white foam was coming out of her mouth. So we think she was poisoned, and I forgot to mention that when I was asking the neighbor about watching the kids, she "confessed" to me that she had been sneaking our dog table food such as steak and stuff.....I find that out then 1 hour later our dog is dead.... Hmmmm makes me wonder. She has never asked us permission to feed our dog, and I never gave it to her. Bad news is that when we go to court, it’s like when you get a speeding ticket, you say guilty or not guilty...Well if we say guilty, we get slapped a fine, and if we say not guilty, it’s reset for trial. So either way we are out money. We aren’t saying guilty because we aren’t guilty, and we don’t have money for a lawyer, so we will have to defend ourselves, and that still isn’t a sure bet we will be found not guilty, so we could end up not only paying the fine anyways, but court costs as well. So I don’t know what to do?!
But I like my job so far, and I  am making pretty decent money for the hours I work. Hopefully we will be able to get caught up on our bills soon, but with neighbors like ours...........Maybe I left something out. Questions?