Life's Little Challenges
Apr. 1st, 2002 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorp(in no particular order)
Yesterday when I was going through my built up mail, I saw I had something from amazon.com. I said, "I don't remember ordering anything from Amazon." A. said, "It was on your wish list and I wanted to make a copy of it, so I bought it for you." It was Tegan and Sara's "The Business of Art" which I really wanted, but I /don't/ want him buying me things. So I said, "You paid for it, here's your copy," and I handed it over. What is /up/ with that?
I now have the electronic copies of the divorce madlibs forms. Now I just need to find all of the financial information. Ugh.
I am already tired of sending resumes. Sent two more this evening, have a new website to look at. Realized that the two cover letters I sent out tonight had the awful L--- last name, because I used the template of an older letter. Craptastic.
I found out today that two brothers that I used to work with in the fall went joyriding one night last week and are now both dead. They slammed into a parked semi at a rest area going about 70 mph or so. They were 14 and 12 years old. They stopped coming to treatment with no notice last fall, and of course now I think I somehow failed them and their mother. Gotta love guilt.
My field placement lasts two weeks longer than I thought it did. This means I work there through the entirety of May, and one week of June. I was hoping to be done with field placement so my girl could come see me in May and I would have some extra free time. Now I don't have the extra free time. Joy. And I was going to use that time to do moving-related stuff.
I was supposed to have sushi with Cary tomorrow night, but he forgot about a previous appointment. No sushi for me.
Yesterday, while on the phone with my father, he decided to tell me that last week, my grandfather had to be taken back to the hospital. He'd been having a lot of nosebleeds, and one wouldn't stop, and wouldn't you know it - his blood pressure was 200/something. Great. But he /couldn't/ tell me this when it happened, so I could have come home. I was in New England. No. He tells me 6 hours after I get back to Columbus.
Speaking of Dad, he has a spur and arthritis in his spine, which is giving him a pinched nerve and numbness in his arm. He's worried he's going to become permanently disabled.
Feh.
Yesterday when I was going through my built up mail, I saw I had something from amazon.com. I said, "I don't remember ordering anything from Amazon." A. said, "It was on your wish list and I wanted to make a copy of it, so I bought it for you." It was Tegan and Sara's "The Business of Art" which I really wanted, but I /don't/ want him buying me things. So I said, "You paid for it, here's your copy," and I handed it over. What is /up/ with that?
I now have the electronic copies of the divorce madlibs forms. Now I just need to find all of the financial information. Ugh.
I am already tired of sending resumes. Sent two more this evening, have a new website to look at. Realized that the two cover letters I sent out tonight had the awful L--- last name, because I used the template of an older letter. Craptastic.
I found out today that two brothers that I used to work with in the fall went joyriding one night last week and are now both dead. They slammed into a parked semi at a rest area going about 70 mph or so. They were 14 and 12 years old. They stopped coming to treatment with no notice last fall, and of course now I think I somehow failed them and their mother. Gotta love guilt.
My field placement lasts two weeks longer than I thought it did. This means I work there through the entirety of May, and one week of June. I was hoping to be done with field placement so my girl could come see me in May and I would have some extra free time. Now I don't have the extra free time. Joy. And I was going to use that time to do moving-related stuff.
I was supposed to have sushi with Cary tomorrow night, but he forgot about a previous appointment. No sushi for me.
Yesterday, while on the phone with my father, he decided to tell me that last week, my grandfather had to be taken back to the hospital. He'd been having a lot of nosebleeds, and one wouldn't stop, and wouldn't you know it - his blood pressure was 200/something. Great. But he /couldn't/ tell me this when it happened, so I could have come home. I was in New England. No. He tells me 6 hours after I get back to Columbus.
Speaking of Dad, he has a spur and arthritis in his spine, which is giving him a pinched nerve and numbness in his arm. He's worried he's going to become permanently disabled.
Feh.
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Date: 2002-04-01 08:42 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear about a lot of this.
Jude, you most certainly did not fail these poor kids. It seems that the more a family/kid(s) needs treatment, the more inconsistent they are about coming to it, being home for social worker visits, blah, blah, blah...
I don't mean to minimize your pain, and I know this doesn't help much. But I care, and I can tell you that it was beyond your control in all sorts of ways. They could've been consistent with TX and made the same short-sighted decison to get into that car.
Again, *hug*. Let me know if you need anything :)
Hey Jude
Just listen to "Frozen" and forget all your troubles. That's an order.
Re: Hey Jude
Date: 2002-04-02 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-02 06:04 am (UTC)I know that you were "on the inside," and I value your opinions very much. And I know we say this all the time, but we need to make concrete plans to get together, before we both get swept up in the busy-ness of the term.
:)
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Date: 2002-04-02 08:12 am (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2002-04-02 08:15 am (UTC)I have a friend who just moved back there and I could kill 2 birds with one stone. :)
*hugs*
Date: 2002-04-02 08:31 am (UTC)I totally understand how you feel about the boys, but after watching my brother, my *OWN* brother, and his friends continue doing STUPID things of that nature, I can tell you that there's absolutely nothing you could have done to prevent it.
My brother's best friend, who's been living at my parent's house for over a year now, went out driving after drinking alot one night, and after a bad wreck was *LUCKY* enough to walk away with being scalped in the wreck. The Drs. reattached the top part of his head, and for a week all the boys swore they'd never do anything like that. "Things have to change."
Things didn't. Things haven't.
*hugs*
I'm sorry you have so much stress right now. I'll keep you and you're way too busy, stressed over madlibs and moving self, along with you family in my prayers and thoughts.
If you need me, babe...Just let me know!
All is not lost!
Date: 2002-04-02 08:34 am (UTC)I'm sure you know this intellectually, and others here have said it too, but you didn't fail anyone. If I've learned nothing else the last few months it's that you can't take responsibility for some things - they're just out of your control. Though that can be sucky too.
I'm sorry about having to cancel/move sushi, that weekly appointment just slipped my mind. :p
But, remember these things, my smurf: you rock; sushi Friday; TMBG Saturday possibly followed by dancing to covered 80s music; The Girl love ya; I love ya; lots of other people love ya.
Re: All is not lost!
Date: 2002-04-02 07:27 pm (UTC)Thanks for the inspiration, though, and the invites for sushi and TMBG. I'm really glad we live in the same cowtown.
Re: *hugs*
Date: 2002-04-02 07:27 pm (UTC)Prayers are always appreciated.
*hug*