Suck

Spent a couple hours working on my budget with mom. How not fun. And the worst of it is, I don't really even feel like we got anywhere useful yet, just prep work. Which has to be done, but yeah. Blecky. And I think I got a raise, but I haven't figured out how much yet, or what that will mean budget wise. Le sigh. Money issues suck.

And my phone is a SPAZ!!! dangit. I brought it in to the guy at Wal-Mart since Radio Shack was closed, and he determined that it was indeed my phone and not the battery or the charger. He said HALF of the phones in my model that he sold came back with similar freakouts, so he wouldn't even sell it anymore, and he didn't have any loaner phones, and he couldn't program my old phone because the towers had changed or some such non-sense. Of course I was going out of town right after that, and it wouldn't charge overnight and I ran out of juice at All-State. Which really freaked me out. I mean, Jennie was with me driving, so I was ok there, and luckily I always ran into her when I needed to, but eeps! Tis my only phone! No landline! When I got home I had the brilliant idea to try charging my battery in G's phone. Which worked! yay! Can't do that forever though.... :( How annoying! Have to take it in... :(

Oh yeah, All-State Speech Comp this weekend. Jennie and I ended up going the night before and staying at my cousin's. Then it was only a 45 min drive to Ames, instead of 3! Good stuff. It was weird, being there, feeling old... Picking up on all the energy of the kids. But Collin did great in both of his things, and I saw some other great things. No banners for FHS, and they missed the Sweepstakes trophy by like 1 thing. They worked so hard and were so good! poop! It was the 30 yr of All-State though, and the man who had come up with the whole idea was there to hand off the sweepstakes trophy, named after him! wow! I wish we had had musical theatre back in my day, but I wouldn't have tried out for it probably, so oh well. It was nasty rainy on the way home. We stopped at the McD's with the FHS busses, ended up going through the drive through and bringing our food in, because the line was horrifically long! Not really what I wanted to eat for dinner, but at least I had a huge salad and pretty much nothing else for lunch...

We-ell. Time to get going I guess. Need to figure out wedding budget soon. It will be next to nothing I'm sure. (sob!)