Happy Saturday to Me!

So I wake up this morning and Greg, Charli and Nicole are gone to practice/try-outs. Nicole spent the night last night so she could go to the Welcome Back Dance with Charli. They had a good time, I went to bed on time, got a full 8 hours and woke up to stormy skies and a little bit of rain. It was great!

Then Lacey calls me and tells me she owes $336 for tuition. But I've already paid tuition. In fact, it had gone up 10% and I paid that, in full back in July. So I go on-line to find out what this $336 business is about and well, CSU decided in it's infinite wisdom to increase the tuition and fees. Just like that. No matter that I had already paid, no don't think about putting it on for next semester, they want $336 and they want it now. Whoopee!

So I go to my online banking to see if there's any blood in that turnip. I was told that Greg's getting a 10% cut in pay starting September. I don't know who keeps the calendar at that company but 8/15 is NOT September. Yup ~ they cut his pay.

This is after the night before when Taylor tells me her truck is not running well and is trying to describe all the noises it's making. Special. And we had to buy a car for Greg so now I have a payment that I didn't have. And my kid's softball organization decided that they needed all new matching uniforms and cleats and bags that's going to cost us $2000 per kid. Yeah, I don't think so. Looks like it's time to find a new team. Well, it's not really the team, it's the organization and you know what, we don't need to be part of that. Seriously.

Then I get a text from Taylor saying that her friend's dad died. Mom got up to go get coffee, came back to bed and he wasn't breathing. WELL ~ If that didn't put things in perspective for me, I don't know what will. She asked me to pray for the family. I did and did a little "Thank You God" for us.

The two little kids are fighting, Lacey says she should just quit school and I opened a beer at 11:30am this morning.

I have a new theme song by the way... "God is great, beer is good.... and people are crazy!"
It's my ringtone now.

Happy Saturday!!

PS ~ I had some really great stories but it's kinda pointless to go on about that right now. ;o)