Too Much

Do you ever feel like everything is coming at you at once and you just can't get caught up? I've got a lot on my plate right now, so I'm trying to organize my thoughts. Writing always helps.

My house. Ok, so I'm buying my child hood home from my mother. Just found out that the property taxes haven't been paid for a couple years and its about to go up on auction. I'll be able to scrounge the money before the due date but its stressing me out. I've also got to get my brother out of that house, I don't want to kick him out with nowhere to go but I also don't want to be paying on a house that I'm not living in. I also need to pack and get ready for the move, which I hate doing. It'll be good of course, give me a chance to really declutter, but blegh, I hate it with a passion.

School. I get a letter from the school I'm going to saying the account is past due and being sent for collections. Wait. Um, What????? So, I start checking my online account with them. Its showing a charge for the summer semester and a tiny bit for last semester. Its also showing that I have financial aid available, but it doesn't look like its been applied yet. I've emailed the financial counselor, she has yet to get back to me, I've tried calling, same thing. I finally emailed my enrollment counselor, he's always on the ball, within five minutes he had forwarded the email to a couple people in the finance office. I mean, I'd like to stay on with the school, I'm loving classes and doing really well. I don't want to get locked out because someone dropped the ball somewhere. Its enough to make me want to pull my hair out.

The kids. I love my kids, they're wonderful. T-ball signups were last week. I missed the deadline. With all the other stress and everything else, that was what tipped the emotional scales. I sobbed for an hour about it. As it turns out, my son doesn't want to play t-ball. Which doesn't surprise me, he's not a sport like child. He did however express interest in the 4-H summer camps they are offering. I got a notice about them on Friday, May 1st. It said have this sheet turned into us, by May 1st. I wanted to SCREAM!!! I bit the bullet and turned it in anyway today, hopefully he'll be signed up for photography class and the environmental class.

In other news, I bought a 360. Now, I do not like video games, mostly. I already have a wii. But the 360 was cheap and its much more than a gaming console. My favorite feature right now is the netflix streaming. Since I have a netflix account, I can add certain movies to my watch instantly qeue, and they will show up on the 360 so I can watch on the tv instead of the computer. I love that! I've also got a few friends who have 360s and we can chat on it while we're playing or watching movies. Its been fun so far and well worth the money I spent. I still need to buy some games, but the free trials and demos are enough for now. The kids love banjo and kazooie, and I might actually buy the full version, but for now, they're happy as clams with the demo. I also have a regular XBOX set up right now, its not mine, it belongs to a friend. On weekends we get together and play co-op games. So far, we love Hunter The Reckoning: Redeemer. We played almost all weekend. Saturday we spent out at the dump rescuing old computers that the high school had thrown out. That was fun, it started out as the perfect day for it, and then we got caught in a thunderstorm, complete with hail.

So, there's my life. Crazy stuff.