It's been a CCFCCP's (Crazy!) Month! – Part 2
I have had this post open for about 2 days figuring out how to write things out and I still can’t because I’m not focused enough! My last real post was August 25th, and that really only had pictures in it. I don’t feel like looking at my homepage and scrolling down to see how long ago I typed a post!!
I always have a lot to say and need to work on cutting it down. Seeing as how my blog is mostly just for my own good purpose, maybe lots of writing won’t hurt. Writing is supposed to be good therapy, and well, October was a dumb month so I have enough to write about.
October started out ok I suppose, not much happened. I went through some medical procedures that didn’t work out and cost us like $7000 in the end with absolutely no results whatsoever, so that’s the end of that for now.
Ava’s birthday was on the 7th. I ordered her a beautiful E-I-E-I-O farm cake from Cakes by Stephanie which turned out amazing. It was half marble w/chocolate mousse filling and half red velvet w/cream cheese frosting. Their 1/4 sheet cakes are the equivalent of a half sheet cake, but they cut it in half and make 2 giant layers. This was her cake:
I think this cake is supposed to feed up to 30 people, but it turns out, it was just us that ate it! My mom and sister completely forgot about Ava’s birthday. When I found that out I threw up my hands and said screw it, so we took the kids to the zoo for the afternoon and then we came home and had cake. Her birthday was a happy 2nd birthday though, regardless of my inconsiderate family/
On October 8th Matt started his new job at his old company, CA Technologies. His base pay is $5K more than his last job but he also has the ability to make many thousands more with billable travel time. He’s a Senior Principal Consultant. So I’m happy about his job, he’s happy about his job and we’ll get used to it. It will be hard dealing with him gone half the month more or less, but we’ll deal with it. As long as I’m feeling good it will work out. We had to drive out to Southfield, MI the other day to go to CA’s office inside Two Town Center to pick up his freebie equipment for his home office:
As long as he loves the job, the job loves me 🙂 The benefits are great compared to GE benefits, but they are expensive at $600 a month. Most things are paid out at 100% but what isn’t paid out at that percentage, we are left with 10%. Cigna is our new plan, and the last time I had them 3 years ago, they were really good. They did pay for my gastric bypass surgery 🙂 One company I wish would go bankrupt and fall off the face of the planet is CVS/Caremark. They suck. I see 3 doctors a month at the most, but every time a doc gives me a script, one of my other doctors gets a fax from Caremark tattling on me asking them if they are aware I am seeking treatment elsewhere. Well obviously they should know that, they are the ones who referred me to these other specialties.
CVS/Caremark is so intrusive to your privacy it’s disgusting. I can’t go to the doctors without feeling like I have someone sitting on my shoulder making sure I’m not doctor shopping.. Grr… they need to get off their high horse about doctor shopping. They are 3 specialists, 3 different fields, 3 different prescriptions, none of which interfere with each other. It never fails though. Just wait… I will go to the Toledo Clinic on Tuesday and they’ll start out the conversation “Um, I have a fax from CVS/Caremark…..” LOL Because almost every month they have to share what they shared with me. I’m so tired of it though, it is very intrusive. Sometimes for personal reasons I may not want to have one doctor know of the other. Like god forbid I go to the OB/GYN and get a script for some steroids or some other medicine, within a week I swear, my other 2 docs will know about it. I just hate them and as usual, and it figures, Matt’s new insurance policy is through CVS/Caremark. Thankfully most of my scripts are covered, except one called Lunesta. I get some strange error about conforming to prescribing practices when I check. But now we are back on Cigna (Hap Preferred) PPO (Open Access Plus) which is cool.
This past Monday was rough for us… My mim had to be put to sleep after 16 years 🙁 That made me so sad. I held him all day, gave him his last meal, sang to him and kept him warm. Matt dropped him off at the vet after they dropped me at the hair salon so I wouldn’t have to see it. I miss looking over at him on the couch, and I miss seeing him fall of the couch and not move a muscle when he hit the floor… almost daily!
………….as the tears flow from looking at that picture!
I finally pulled my boys from Monroe Public Schools. Apparently they couldn’t see the problem with my kid not learning anything and they couldn’t understand that my son got whooped on the school bus for no reason as he was getting off. Chris isn’t the kind of kid that can be picked on so I don’t get it. The administrators CLAIMED they had audio and video footage from the incident, remarkably, as always, it was never found. That was unacceptable. I can’t take their word for it that the kid was punished because I can’t see for myself and they would not disclose what punishment. I bet he only got a slap on the hand and held in for lunch recess. Not only that, but about a month ago, Andrew came home from school with a swollen eye, swollen hand, and a horrendous cough. It wasn’t until later that evening when he told me he was stung by two bees!! My child needed medical attention, especially since this cough came out of nowhere. It was evident that his lungs had inflammation in them and I find it beyond ridiculous that I did not get a call at all. Then again, these are the people that claim it took them 6 months to receive the records for them from Southgate.
For some reason I thought of Andrew’s teacher quit highly, I don’t know why but I trusted her. I was so happy to hear when Andrew got her back this year, but after a month, he had no homework, no reading logs, nothing to sign, and no I wasn’t going to tolerate it. So I sent his teacher a very polite email explaining why I was pulling my kids from the district. She had the nerve to accidentally forward me an email meant for her administrators (principle and ass. principle). In this email she had the nerve to say we’re CCFCCP’s… which is coo coo for coa coa puffs. Then 2 hours later I get this bubbly email likely because she didn’t realize she sent the other one to me, saying oh, how much she’ll miss Andrew and all that. Whatever, I gave them all a piece of my mind. I never blamed the teacher for Andrew. I said Andrew was a lazy learner and the district did not want to re-evaluate him for speech and language, even though in southgate they said if he regressed at ALL, he is to be restested immediately. Well, he failed the entire year. He started off in 2nd grade unprepared this year and when we took them over to summit academy in Flat Rock, he tested in the middle of 1st and 2nd grade, which is pretty bad. So we chose to hold him back. He was a little upset that he went back to 1st grade, but it’s only for the best! They are a school based on college prep work so I think it will do them good!
I would love to file a complaint, I just have to figure out where. Mrs. Vanya Steel had no right to say what she did. I didn’t even get a fake apology, just silence. What she did was so two faced, I have a hard time believing she didn’t think we were nuts last year for no reason either. I was never allowed to participate in school activities because of my 2 girls being so young, so I felt left out the entire last school The only thing I could go to were the concerts, and even then I was embarassed with the 1st concert. They had all the “black” (in the least racist sounding way possible) kids worm across the stage, because, we all know african americans can dance and move their bodies in unnatural ways, lol. But really,. I wasn’t hearing the cricken chirp, other parents were shaking their heads too. All the white kids sat by and watched the others make these moves.
Andrew is a pretty good learner, he has already shown me how he reads, and has done homework almost willingly… which is just, ODD! They both have to dress nice for school within the dress code, so picking out clothes is easier! I have a feeling they will do well. Andrew has not come home crying yet saying he’s getting picked on, which Arborwood and/or his teacher allowed.
I also have some major peeves with the district. My boys have to wait to get picked up on a main road with known fatal accidents, even right where they stand, and they have to get off during heavy traffic. The middle school bus will turn down our street to pick up the 1 whole kid on my small country road. Not my kids bus though…. no way in hell. I have no idea why. Anyway, now the bus picks them up from the Meijer here in Monroe and drives them all the way to Flat Rock, that is a lifesaver for sure!!!
Here is their teensy weensy school:
So what else….. Matt is departing to Ottawa, Ontario Sunday night for a few days to take care of an impending financial disaster at the Bank of Canada, LOL. The impending disaster is Matt 🙂 ha ha. No really, he’s known for massively breaking things, then he fixes stuff. They loved his performance on this most recent job experience with TD Auto Finance (TD Ameritrade I think), and they sent him up with the big wigs to save the Candian economy. Actually, I doubt it’s that important… they are probably just telling him that ha ha. Either way he has to fly like 7 times in the next 4 weeks and it’s gonna suck royal ass. It is considered IT work, but he’s the consultant so he acts like a middleman almost. I guess they are supposed to ask him what they should do! It don’t bother me any right now as long as the kids are good (yeah right) and I have a vehicle. I am not looking forward to waking up at 5:30a.m. to get them up for the bus though!
My mom and brother are really starting to get on my last nerve. It’s so sickening what they have done to my grandmas house. It has been gutted from top to bottom, wall to wall, of anything remotely valuable. Thank god I have most of the sentimental items. Since my mom prioritizes cigarettes and alcohol, none of the bills are paid and they had their power shut off 3 days ago. Now she can’t get it back on until she has $546.00 or manages to get some assistance. I told her it’s not my problem, they will have to learn a hard lesson. That might sound mean but she won’t learn her lesson even from this. The woman makes like $1500 a month and all she has is a $50 cellphone bill, and utilities, that’s it. Any young single mother would be content int hat mount per month and not need more. She’s already gonna lose the house in March, she may as well lose the job too. If she don’t get approved for long-term disability, she has no choice but to go back to work, and by then MGM will have learned their lesson and can her butt. I know for a fact that sounds horrible but, she is taking advantage of a job where she gets paid $17 an hour just to stand and take ID’s. Do you know how many people would benefit from that job? My god, and my brother will NOT get a job!!!!! He should be partially responsible for that house. My brother keeps insinuating to my mom to call our uncle Kevin. I told her nooooo way because if he see’s his share of equity in the condition you guys have it in, he’ll kill you, literally. If he only knew he was losing out on the possibility of $30K+ because of my mom, he would just kill them… starting with my brother. And if he walked into that house and saw the inside, he would just flip out and die at the same time. Nobody has vacuumed the dog hair up in about 6 months, so it’s everywhere. The couch cushions are eaten by the dogs, the carpet has been torn out leaving the wood floors unmaintained. The kitchen i worked so hard on making it beautiful in color a few years ago is now disgusting. Paul and his child are super slobs so they just leave their food everywhere. The house will be condemned eventually! There are so many mice in that house to probably fill every shoe of the entire population of Southgate, really. They are everywhere. They have pawned off every ounce of scrap metal on that house, and also tore down the patio sunroom and sold it as scrap. I couldn’t believe that. Now my uncle’s tool chests are missing. There is just absolutely everything gone. It makes me ill to step forward over there knowing what my grandma would be thinking. The neighbors must be embarassed. Paul sits on the porch all day/night sleeping so that’s a messed up sight. He won’t get off his lazy duff and get a real job. They all piss me off, but I dare can’t say anything to them because they fight back and tell me, “Why don’t you go out and get a job?” in their loudest voices, and I say, “Well, I’m fortunate enough that I don’t have too get a job!!! And my job at home as a mom is harder than any you could qualify for!”
Well, it’s 6a.m. I’ve been up for 24 hours now, time to get some sleep, LOL.
