I guess it’s not THAT crappy. Worse has been known to happen at sea.
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My rent is being annoyingly hard to pay. The check’s already bounced, which is astoundingly irritating, but it has not been noticed by the landlords yet. If I manage to get them to hold off until Wednesday, I should have all but roughly a hundred dollars ready for them. I may even be able to beg and borrow that much from someone.
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My great-aunt passed away last week. I’d never met her – to my great sadness, as she seems to have been everyone’s favorite relative. I did get to see her brother, my great-uncle, for the first time since I was ten…I’ve really missed him, and that was a high point. But the funeral was…well, a funeral.
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Mother would’ve been there, but she left the very day that my great-aunt died for a trip she had admittedly planned a good deal in advance. This would not have been such a big deal…but she just happened to be going to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. You know, right where the hurricane’s heading.
So currently I’m fretting about money, about my mother’s safety, and about a very fine lady I never met. And my job, as much as I like it, is simply not paying me enough…I can just barely pay the bills on what I’ve got, and I’m working weekends…sometimes I go weeks without a day off just so that I can make my insurance payments. I’ve been working at my current job for over a year now without a raise – as a temporary worker, too, when the work I do really should be done by an actual company employee. Hell, it should be a frickin’ paralegal with some of the stuff I do. But at the moment I can’t even afford to buy antibiotics for a really obnoxious infection…
Life is good. It’s just this week that sucks.