Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

So today has been a day from Hades.

But this week has been great.

To start the day, I dropped the monkey off at preschool, which is at 9:00, and usually by 9:15 I've had my malt-o-meal, checked my email and I'm ready to start attempting at getting some work done before Kaydn Rye arrives back home and the craziness begins.

But this morning started off with cleaning the dog's butt. If you need a refresher on Gertie, the dog, here's a pic from her straw smoking days.



She has been in heat all week and hubby has finally stopped giving me crap about spaying her. Apparently he's never heard of Bob Barker and the pet over-population. He pretty much just wants a breeding maching (in the both of us by the way), but we are finally on the same page about the spaying so we don't ever have to deal with the dog humping us all day.

And the other glorious part about a dog in heat is the lovely diaper that has to be on her butt all day. And now that it is literally 30 below zero (I'm not even joking), she apparently thinks, "Oh wonderful, now that I'm wearing a diaper I can just pee in my diaper and I don't have to pee right outside the door on the deck today."

Last night, at about 4 in the morning, she started howling. I unzipped her from her little bed that she sleeps in and she had peed in her diaper and was apparently pretty upset about it. This is the reason I don't have more children, I'm already up half the night with the dog changing diapers. So instead of cleaning up, getting her in the bathtub and cleaning up her bed in the middle of the night, I just put her diaper in the washing machine and stuffed her in her bed until morning.

So this morning I had to get her in the bathtub, get her bed and her diaper going in the washing machine and put her in one of Kaydn Rye's bedtime pullups. Once I got that project completed and the dog ready for the day, I finally started mixing up my malt-o-meal. But on the way to putting the milk back in the fridge I dropped it and spilled milk everywhere.

I finally got that cleaned up and sat down at my computer to eat my malt-o-meal and check my email. That is when I proceeded to spill a blob of malt-o-meal on my keyboard.

I went in the kitchen to get a toothpick and a wash cloth when I noticed that Gertie had gotten her pull-up off. I picked it up and came to find she had pulled it off only after peeing in it again. So, we were back to the drawing board for our second trip to the tub.

So with the dog cleaned up, the floor cleaned up and the keyboard free of malt-o-meal, finally at 10:15 I was ready to get to work.

It was a horrible, no good, very bad day.

But the week has been great. You know that freelance job I was telling you about last week that I didn't really want to mention until it was a done deal? Well, after getting through the "trial period" I am officially a contract writer for the Jury Verdict Review and Analysis. They make you submit so many articles before they decide whether or not they want to welcome you aboard. And I passed!!!

I am so excited...despite the fact that until I officially wrap up my judgment enforcement business I will be working two jobs. Lately I've been wrapping up wage garnishments and debtor examination depositions along with doing interviews and writing articles.

This past year crazy things have happened with the business, and I have known for a little while that G-d has been telling me to move on from judgment recovery, but I have been holding on to it all year. I do not give up easily. Judgment recovery has been good to me and I have enjoyed it, so having all this crazy stuff happen with my business has been seriously crappy.

And I wasn't just going to quit my work without having something else to replace it. So with this job just kind of falling in my lap, it has definitely been a sign that I heard correctly from G-d about the whole situation.

Now, I receive cases from my editor, interview the attorneys involved, get the details I need and write up my review for publication. It's a lot less work than my business for about the same amount of money, only I don't have judgment debtors calling me up and crying about how they have no money to pay their debts. Oh, and I don't have to actually go to court anymore, which is always a plus. I hate going to court because it makes me feel like my head is going to explode all over everyone, and that is never a good thing.




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