Thomas was recently assigned to a civilian personnel law case as co-counsel. The case has been on-going for the past year, with depositions scheduled for this week. He had approximately one week to get up to speed on a case with thousands of pages of documents. Then, he had to prep for the depositions and then actually be in the depositions. In order to do all this, he has been working long hours. Excluding the weekend, the kids haven't seen him in two weeks because he goes in before they wake up and is home long after they are in bed. It hasn't been fun. He is going to miss Kara's first-grade performance tomorrow, which both Kara and Thomas are very sad about. He is also going to miss Jack and Kara's first machine-pitch baseball game. Fortunately, it is only temporary and his normal work schedule should resume next week. It reminds me of when he deployed and makes me thankful that we are no longer in the military.
On Saturday, we had great, fun plans. Anna had a soccer game at 11, then we were going to go straight to Six Flags. However, Anna got in trouble that morning and refused to go to her soccer game. There was a HUGE tantrum involved, the likes of which we haven't seen in quite a while. Obviously, that meant no Six Flags for her. Initially, I was still going to take Jack and Kara but we decided to forgo the trip and just have fun at home. Anna spent the day in her room. We gave her some alternative punishment options if she wanted to gain her freedom, but she refused. That afernoon I decided to take Jack and Kara out for ice cream. On our way, we got rear-ended. I was driving Thomas' car. You know, the one we bought to replace the car that was totaled in a rear-end collision a few months ago? The car only has 3000 miles on it. I am not positive, but I am guessing the girl who hit me was on her phone. She was very young (a teenager I think, maybe young 20s). We were stopped at a light with cars in front, behind and on all sides. The light turned green, I started forward and was just whacked from behind. Somehow, she hit us twice, the poor kids were scared! They both cried out to ask what was happening.
Our car is going to need a new trunk and bumper. There is also damage underneath. The initial estimate was 6-7k! But, it may change after they put it up on the rack and see underneath (hopefully, for the better). It has been a hassle dealing with her insurance, but I am thankful she took full responsibility. They verbally told me I would get a rental car, but when I went to drop it off, the rental wasn't approved. I don't want to use our insurance, so I have to rely on hers. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but we had to change car seats and do car swaps to make it work since I obviously need the minivan and Thomas is too swamped to be able to deal with any of this.
In the grand scheme of things, it's not a huge deal. Insurance will pay for the damage. No one was hurt, although Jack had a nice mark on his neck from the seatbelt. It is just a pain and a bit sad to see our brand new car looking mangled.
In the midst of this, I got a root canal on Monday. It went as well as a root canal can go. The worst part was footing the bill. $764 with insurance! Plus, I need to get a crown to top it off next week and that will probably be another $700. I really need a job.
A few more complaints, because why not?
-I twisted my knee. It hurts.
-We had some issues with our backsplash. When the guy came out to fix it, he just put new grout on top of the whole thing, but it is a different color than the old grout. It looks terrible! I imagine to fix it, they will have to remove it all and start over. However, I am not sure if the installers will do that willingly or try to say that they see no problem.
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| See how the grout on the bottom is a different color than the grout on top? |
-Our neighbors just put their house up for sale. We moved in days apart and they have been great neighbors. We have an understanding that Thomas shovels their sidewalk (they are an older couple) and they bake us cookies. I am going to miss them!
-We bought a new computer and it doesn't work. After an hour on the phone with Dell support it finally booted up, but it still doesn't seem quite right. Our old computer forced us into a Windows 10 update, but doesn't have enough memory to effectively run the program. It has been very frustrating.
This concludes my airing of grievances for the week. Next time, I will try and make a post about all the positives.
Yikes! You didn't tell me about the root canal. That is rough. At least the whole week wasn't a complete wash. You had dinner with some awesome friends thrown in there, right? :)
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