Waiting 45 minutes at Quest Diagnostics for a blood test to finally make it to the back – when they inform you “We no longer take your health insurance.” Just Great. Major suckage kicks in when you travel to the other side of town in Friday *traffic* to Lab Corp. only you can’t find it.
Out of frustration you drive home to Google the location and sure as shit there isn’t one where they told you one would be. Two hours of your day now gone, that you will never get back.
In the meantime you have work deadlines, piles of laundry, enough family drama to see you through the rest of your life, bills, your on the brink of PMS and all that other fun shit that grown ups have to deal with. Bleh. Cranky much? Not to mention the massive headaches you have been getting while popping your migraine Rx and anti-inflammatories to make it S-T-O-P.
And just when you think you have lost it - your six-year-old walks up to you and gives you the biggest hug and kiss and tells you how beautiful and smart you are and you stop to realize for a second that it really is all worth it. And it could be so much worse.
That is a beautiful fleeting thought that leaves as quickly as it came. When your teenage daughter rolls her eyes and shrugs her shoulders – and in your minds eye you can see yourself choking the life out of her. And at that same moment you get a glimpse of yourself in a orange jumpsuit, sitting in a small cell and you realize that isn’t your color and your quite claustraphobic so that’s not a good solution.
So, you laugh it off, laugh so hard that you start to cry because hell you have really just lost your damn mind.
I have tried to edit this post but I just can’t deal with it right now. So, please excuse the comma abuse, run on sentences and insanity.
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LOL..The suits are orange not gray and your just not a bright orange kinda girl, But atleast the family drama is extended family not your real family…Awww Christian is so precious…
Beer Chrissie… beer makes it ALL BETTER.
I’m so glad the little one KNOWS always what to say, honey. Now there’s a good feeling thought! He has always known, and always will, so those hugs and those “I love you’s” will always be there for you when you need it. And here’s a huge hug from me, too. Okay, so that’s not quite as sweet but still … :)
I think I do need more beer ;)
Belle, a hug from you is just as sweeet! You know how much I love you!
At the end of the day babe, the kids are what makes it all worth it. I have also heard rumors that the teenagers eventually grow up and become human again – (*disclaimer*) for the rare case that this does not happen) LMAO – Think about your relationship with your mom now compared to the eye rolling neck twisting I know everything days!!!! XXOO
I do think of those days, I know this is payback ;) The only thing getting me through is knowing we will most likely like each other in a few years. AND someday she will have a child just like her!
Sounds like my every day lately too. I almost landed myself in a padded room LOL
Ethan always sneaks up on me and hugs me and tells me to smile. Little stinkers, they’re just being cute now so they can torture us later!
OMG, we are living the same life.