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You are Lamentations.

M'yep... pretty much sums it all up.  Normally, I'd have answered the quiz questions differently, but I tried to answer honestly and now I'm depressed even more, lol.

What's so wrong, ya say?  Well...

This morning, we woke up to snow... did you read that?... SNOW!  It's April, the time of tulips and toes in the dirt.  Instead, snow.  Last night - after weather reports told us to prepare for a snowstorm - I made my way outside through the cold darkeness and lovingly covered the garden plants, mercifully brought the chickens inside,and gently told the kids to find their mittens because it's gonna be cold in the house for the next couple of days, so be ready. 

A couple of hours ago, dh started down the hill toward our house after a long day and nearly went into a panic seeing fire trucks in our driveway, police lights cutting the chilly cold night and people milling around... a VERY unusual sight on our lonely road.  From what he gathered talking to the firemen, the neighbor's van (which he said he was just preparing to change the transmission in) *mysteriously* caught on fire inside of his garage while no one was home up here on the hill.  ~:- It was all over but the crying by the time dh arrived home, just in time to see the trucks and people (that nearly sent him into cardiac arrest moments earlier) leaving the scene, fire all put out.  Now, our house smells like a wood fire.  You know that certain smoke-smell that gets in your hair and clothes after you sit around a bon-fire for hours?  That one.  Anyway, good thing it wasn't a house on fire since we all have well water up here, no fire hydrants, and any house on fire is pre-T-TY much *toast*.  By the time the pumper truck would be filled and get here, again, it'd all be over but the crying.

And I'm tired.  Last week, I took a Temp Job... the first job that has ever had me away from home, away from my two younger kids (I did work when my oldest was younger).  Even though *realistically*, I know a paycheck is forthcoming, it hardly cheers me up when I'm there (wearing shoes that my feet have previously rejected preferring bare ones, with a fake smile plastered on my face and a cheerfulness in my voice as I answer the phones that seems to me to be exactly like that rolled kind of icing you put on wedding cakes... nice and smooth and pretty on the outside but barely able to be swallowed and not so great tasting on the inside...) while my kids are with someone else.  Even if it *is* family they are with, so what! 

One of my "upper-level" family members felt it their "duty" to point out that the job is a "good thing" saying that "I need to get out of the house"!  Pfffffffffttt!! What a complete joke - I spend so much time OUT of the house taking the kids here and there, getting supplies for the animals, doing the daily things that need done, that spending time at home is EXACTLY what I need!!!   How dare *anyone* presume to know what's right for me?!

Amazingly, since apparently I'm such a house-bound freak with social anxiety or something, ne'r stepping foot from my home, lol... I did have a good time at two events yesterday... First thing was a Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon at my mom's nursing home where the kids sing, dance & perform for the residents. Me & my 10yodd were the only ones able to go.  The lunch was delicious.  I was put on the spot a bit to make a speech, but I think it came out ok.  It was interesting that *we* were the only ones there in the room who weren't affiliated with a religious group, church ministry, Salvation Army, etc.   

Then, last night my sister had a "jewelry party" ... like a Home Interior Party, except with - what did the lady call her jewelry products?! - something like "classier-than-costume" jewelry.  lol  This lady rep is a homeschooler too.  We didn't talk much about that though.  I was busy laughing my ass off at nothing really, like me & my youngest sister do every time we are within 10 feet of each other.  I  ordered a $14 pair of earrings.  I really liked a $48 bracelet, but really... how often and *where* would I wear it?!  I'd rather spend that $48 on something else... like two months of internet service! lol 

My husband has been working even longer hours than usual. That makes me cranky.  I hate to see him so worn out.  Plus, he's feeling anxious and upset because I took the Temp Job to try to help out financially.   The job attire is casual, since it's a rather grimey-by-nature warehouse that refurbishes mining equipment, but I have to spend time today finding clothes that are "appropriate" and *FIT*. lol

Instead of complaining, I should be embracing the concept in the quote I got in my email box today...

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.
-Sir John Templeton

S'all in the attitude?  Well, then before I go, I'm going to list some things I have to be thankful for (specific things, rather than the "My kids are healthy, I have a roof over my head, you know the usual answers to that question)...

1.  I can use some of the money from the Temp Job to make repairs to my van.  It needs to last for another 100,000 miles.

2.  I currently have the oven on "self-clean" mode, that's 3 hours of 500 degrees of heat radiating off of it, nicely warming the downstairs area - plus I'll have a clean oven!  Yay!

3.  The fire across the road didn't spread to *my* house last night.

4.  My nephew, who spent the night, told methis morning that I make the best blueberry pancakes ever.

5.  In light of the recent job development, my 16yods told me that he'd do *anything* to help out here at home to make sure that he and the other kids don't have to go back to public school.  

6.  After tomorrow, I only have two weeks and four days left on the Temp Job.

 

Hey Amen sister...
I know you were peeved of that upper person we you know how that person is though.
Yeah, I agree we sure do laugh all time together. If you would stay out of my head I just can't help it that I am warped most of the time....We did have fun at my party though huh?

The job will be over before you know it ... Just think you could have 2 jobs like me hmmmm.....
Hey was Dill the one who said about the pancakes/ He tells everyone he has to go to your house to get anything baked Funny huh/ He knows me well at 5yo.