Stressed!!!
Okay, it's probably not as bad as I indicated in my header but I'm definitely feeling my stress rising right now. This month has just been crazy/moderately bad. :) Money issues continue as always, which has not been helped by the fact that both my computer and my T.V. died the weekend before last. The T.V. I'm putting off for a while because I have one in my bedroom (although I can't hook up the DVD player to it without getting an adapter) plus a friend and my parents have both offered to let me use one of their extras until I can afford a new one. The computer, though, I couldn't live without, and my old one completely died. The only thing that would turn on was the fan. I think I got hit with a trojan virus that someone sent through my sister's email account, but I'm not sure. My anti-virus software said that it removed it, but less than two days later my computer was gone.
So a new one, luckily one that was on sale, was put on my credit card. I can afford to pay it off, but it just means I have that much less in savings. Plus I still have to pay a $650 (U.S) special assessment payment that is due to my condominium association by Sept. 1st. I really need to refinance my condo, not only to lower the payments, but also to possibly borrow enough to cover the special assessment payment, the computer, and maybe a T.V.
My income is so low right now that I actually qualify for food assistance for the first time in my life. D.S.H.S called the other day to get confirmation information from me, but I had to ask them to call back because I was getting ready for work. Unfortunately, the time I told them to call back was on Monday at 10:00 am. Normally this would be fine, but I forgot I was switching with a co-worker who needed that day off. Hopefully, I can get hold of someone to let them know tomorrow.
My job hunting still isn't going anywhere, but that's at least partly my own fault. I know what I don't want to do, and I know how much I need to earn for Matthew and I to be moderately comfortable again. The big problem is that I don't really know what I want to do.
On top of everything else, my son had a meltdown during swim lessons tonight. With his autism he has very little tolerance with others crowding him, plus he hates change. We just started a new session this week, and he has another new set of teachers which was stressful enough for him to deal with. Today for the first 15 minutes, their class had one too many people in it, and the boy Matthew was next to was not only too close for Matthew to be comfortable, but he kept purposely shoving into Matthew because he wanted Matthew to move further away. Not that there was anywhere for him to go. It got to the point that I actually had to pull Matthew out of the lesson for a few minutes to calm him down. He was so upset, he kept saying he didn't want to go to swim lessons any more. My poor baby! :(
I know that there has been other stuff happening lately, but just writing about this stuff has calmed me down enough that I'm not really bothered by it at the moment. :)