a lot to talk about

Man these past few weeks have been pretty busy. Saturday Kacey had his pinewood derby race for boy scouts. He got runner up for his grade and gets to go to the finals in April. Jess wrote me twice. I came to find out that his phone doesn’t get reception so he can’t call me which sucks. His graduation and family day is in May. I requested it off at work but according to my supervisor which is over my manager she told me I couldn’t request 3 days in a row off because they are morons. I don’t see what the big problem is if I’m requesting it off 2 months in advance. The supervisor said she was going to speak to the head person but that she would probably say no. My manager told me if they pull that crap go to the union I’m a part of and explain it to see if they could do anything for me. I don’t even care if I get paid for all 3 days off. If they want to pay me for just 1 and I’ll just take the other 2 days off I’m fine with that. My manager also told me to just take the other 2 days off anyway and the worst that would happen is they would write me up. I don’t want to get a write up so I would try the whole union thing first before I went there route but if the union can’t help I’ll gladly take the write up because I think it’s ridiculous that I can’t get all 3 days off. The head honcho is a real bitch and said at the beginning of the school year at one of our meetings that no one can request like a week off because we get spring,winter, and summer to do our vacations but it’s not my fault my husband’s army basic training graduation is towards the end of the school year.

Then another big issue going on is the teachers in my area might be going on strike and even if they go on strike we still have to show up to work so that means I would have to find someone to babysit Kacey for me so I can go to work because I can’t take him with me since there would be no school. I would probably ask my friend Ginny since she doesn’t work and see if I can pay her something for doing it.

I’m still waiting for Jess’s first check to get here and hopefully it’s a good amount of money so I can get some bills paid off and household stuff. Just have to wait and see. Me and Kacey both miss him terribly but we both understand we can’t do much about it and accept it.

Kacey had his teacher conference today and he’s doing really well in reading, spelling, vocab and getting better with his writing but he has to work on some math skills so if I have any money left I’m thinking of going out to Barnes and Nobles(even though I still HATE them) and get him some math skill workbooks or something to help him bring that up. Otherwise the teacher said behavior wise he is doing better than he was and that the new meds seem to be helping him so that is a HUGE relief for me.

I officially have lost 10 pounds and I’m still working on it. I’ll admit I don’t exercise in the traditional sense with actual exercises but probably all the running around I do at work is helping me lose and I’m trying very hard to eat better and get rid of soda and drink more water. Well I guess that’s all I have to write about