WOW.

Seriously, just wow.

I’d like to share with you just a few of the catastrophes that struck this week. Ready?

1. Insurance agents are coming to inspect my house. If you’ve ever BEEN to my house, you understand why this is catastrophic.

2. Our student loan payments went up again. This would not be completely catastrophic if we weren’t still trying to pay back the cost for the alternator we had to replace two weeks ago.

3. The transmission in the van (and an oxygen sensor) needs to be replaced.

4. Huge fight – huge fight – with school district personnel regarding an issue I’m not going to talk about on my blog. I’ll say that the problem, as usual, is not at the school level, but resides completely at the district level and it reinforces my belief that problems occur when organizations get too big and try to micromanage.{ahem, big-government-anyone?}

5. The engine in the Mystique blew up. You heard me. Blew up.

6. I thought to myself, “This is a great time for us to become a greener family. Let’s see if we can survive with one vehicle. I might even buy a bike!” Then I realized exactly what all those people were bitching about when they said that Kansas City’s mass transit system blows. It is literally not possible for us to keep our current jobs and own one vehicle.

7. All of these things do not even begin to touch the personal and semi-medical issues that I am painfully experiencing as we speak, but I’ll go ahead and spare you those exciting and graphic details.

I am cautiously optimistic that next week will be better, and with more blogging.