One Before March Is Over

Thanks, T, for poking me to get a post in before I let March slip away completely!  Not that I have anything interesting to say...  but here goes. 

First, an update on J.  He still isn't working, but he's dealing with it really well.  Sometimes I think he's taking it a little too well, but it's nice not to have him beating himself up.  This week he received confirmation that he will be getting unemployment benefits, and that child support will be taken out in the correct amount.  Both very good developments, especially since the last time he was unemployed, they calculated child support based on what he'd been making at his previous job, and he ended up owing more in back child support than he had even made on unemployment.  It took us ages to recover from that.

Also, J just learned that because of some miscalculations (completely separate miscalulations from the unemployment snafu), he overpaid child support for several months after his back payments were caught up.  This resulted in a big enough overage that he is FINISHED paying for Junior!  Jr. turned 18 in January, but support ends after high school graduation.  So it's only a couple months ahead of schedule, but it's a moral victory.

DISCLAIMER:  Neither my husband nor I have any objection to his paying child support in the amount deemed appropriate by the state.  He has never tried to avoid paying it, nor has he ever made attempts to get the amount he pays lowered for any reason.  Any resentment about paying it stems from CB's apparent refusal to use the money she receives to, you know, support the children.  It is purely personal, and the "moral victory" is a celebration that CB's monthly revenue from J will be decreased earlier than she was counting on, and is not meant to imply that we don't actually support Junior.  Thank you.

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There are some changes happening at work that are making me very uneasy.  I'm having a hard time separating what's actually scary from what I'm just being paranoid about.  This is mostly due to the fact that the other people affected by the bulk of these changes are CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORISTS and they won't stop telling me what they think is going on.  I have decided to spend this week avoiding them as much as possible to see if I can get my head a little clearer.  I hope it helps.

I was going to go into more detail here but then I realized that would bore the shit out of you so I deleted it.  You're welcome.  But I will note that I have gotten a little more active about seeing what opportunities might be available elsewhere than I've been in a while.  And I'm encouraged; it seems like there are more openings for my type of work than there have ever been.  So if stuff here does take a turn for the shitty, I may not be completely stuck.

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If you follow me on twitter, you know how delighted I was with the book The Radleys by Matt Haig.  I started reading it on Sunday morning and was hooked immediately, and finished it while waiting for my doctor's appointment yesterday.  It's about a family of vampires, but it's really more of a family drama than a vampire novel.  I am not gifted at describing books without just giving you a Beck's Notes version of the whole plot so I'll leave it at that and you can click on the link to see more info, if you are interested.

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Did you catch that about my doctor's appointment yesterday?  Yeah.  I fought a cold for several days, and thought I had it beat.  Sunday I felt fine all day without having to take anything.  But Monday, it came back and completely kicked my ass.  I woke up at about 3 Tuesday morning and couldn't get back to sleep because my throat hurt so bad.  So I called off work, spent half the day sleeping, and went to the doctor.  I always feel like such a loser when my main complaint is a sore throat - like that should be something you can just power through, or something.  But my doc is pretty good about not being condescending, he wrote me a prescription for antibiotics (and a refill for my favorite headache-combatting narcotic), and even offered to write me a note to get me out of work the rest of the month.  What a sweetie.

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Yeah, that's about a month's worth.  See you in April!