Monday, February 28, 2011

Bye bye February





I cannot say I'm sad to see you go.
This has been one of the worst months ever.
Not THE worst, but it's certainly up there.

Started out with more inclement weather - snow mainly. And
that meant no school and everyone home driving me nuts.

The school gave me hell in an anonymous letter. My son
missed his 11th day of school and they sent me a generic
form letter full of assumptions and legal threats. We
were supposed to have a conference but due to snow no one
was there, and no one called to reschedule. I had to
write them a message addressing their letter as I can
find no one responsible for sending it. I sent my letter
to the Superintendent and Principal.

I never met the new neighbor, but her mother came over and
bitched me out for 'complaining' about neighbor's dog. Doing
a little investigating afterwards, seems neighbor wasn't supposed
to have a dog, and several neighbors complained to her landlord
about the dog getting loose etc. I took the heat. I came to
the conclusion I wasn't the one that wasn't supposed to have
a dog in the first place, so I wasn't going to put up with
her coming over again.

Our poodle monster Tommy got sick. Two trips to the vet before
it was discovered he had oral cancer, and on February 23rd he
was put down.

On February 24th we had a new dumped dog. Friendly border
collie mix, young female. It was NOT the time and I was NOT
in the mood. I hate people. The next day I begged vets to take
it - vet that charged me almost $200 for caring for Tommy
refused to help at all. Ginger's vet agreed to take it if I
surrendered it with $.

Serious storms were possible last night, and meteorologists were
wetting their pants with anticipation. Luckily nothing bad
happened.

Bye bye February. March is going to be great!