Saturday, March 24, 2007

Weddings and other stuff...

Aren't they cute?


My son got married last month.  To a wonderful young woman with two adorable kids. The only problem I have is that they live over 1500 miles away and I never get to see them. They're supposed to come down for a visit this summer once my son gets home and the kids are out of school - if they have the money to do it, anyway. I hope they do. Her family made us feel very welcome while we were there. Yeah, we had a few problems on the flight up and back, due to Jet Blue's lack of notification when a gate changed at the last minute at JFK and weather - but overall, it was a wonderful, very tiring trip.

I'm trying to learn to call my daughter in law as often as I can, but I have a rough time some days remembering to call my mother, much less anyone else. LOL!

But I'm trying. I really am.

Looks like Frank's going back out over the road driving a truck for National again. There are just no jobs around here that pay anything at all - even if they do more than take an application and don't call anyone in for interviews. So he sent an application out over the net, and within five minutes National was on the phone, asking him to come there on Monday morning about going back to work. He liked working for them before, but had some issues with his dispatcher that caused major problems.  Hopefully things will be different this time.

I hope he starts soon. We really need the money. Not sure how much longer I can put off the bill collectors. We're behind with the electric and the phone (cell and land line) - and I'm going to have to use most of my check next week to pay the back rent on the storage shed containing the stuff we couldn't put in this small trailer. That won't leave much to stretch out to the other bills. And Frank will be needing the cell phone for work.

At least he'll be working again. Of course, he's not happy about having to leave his computer here - he needs a laptop - but that's going to have to wait until we get things caught up.

My health's getting to be problematic as well. I've been  having stomach pains combined with chest and back pains. They've been keeping me awake. I'm hoping it's nothing serious, since I can't afford to go to the doctor (no health coverage). Although Frank was a hair's breath from taking me to the ER last night when I was suffering so much and unable to sleep (which meant that he couldn't sleep. It started around 9 last night and lasted until around 6 this morning - and then stopped, giving me a chance to get a little rest, anyway. It's been aching today, but not nearly like it was last night.

Keep us in your thoughts.