To begin with, I may be canceling my pump upgrade on Monday. Going to give myself time to digest everything.
Had some stuff going on at school today, that just left me drained a bit more than usual. Normal end of the year stuff, and getting ready for next year, plus something else that just added on to it. Unfortunately nothing I feel free to talk about — but basically it’s kind of hard when you get what you want and the people around you aren’t. Especially when I was there for a couple of years — and I’m not entirely sure I’m getting what I want this year. Remember the old saying about be careful for what you ask for.
That being said — came home and started on my Fitness4Diabetes workout, but before I actually got started, I noticed the house was a bit warm, looked at the thermostat, saw it was 80 but attributed that to outside being hot and muggy.
After I finished, I realized I was REALLY hot. Looked at the thermostat, and saw 81. Like blood sugar, it was supposed be going down, not up, so took a look at the circuit breaking thinking with the storms we have had, maybe the breaker was off. It wasn’t off, but it wasn’t on either.
So I lifted them and they stayed in the same state. Went back to the A/C, turned it on, flipped the breakers, and waited a while. Checked the outside unit and it wasn’t on.
Called the people I have a maintenance agreement with, they came out (eventually), and said that the compressor was grounded and said he needed to write a estimate for a new compressor.
Well, I immediately got sick to my stomach. This spring hasn’t been good with an unexpected tax bill of over $4000. Which shouldn’t have been unexpected, though we’d fixed it but then my husband discovered payroll did do what we asked them to do last year — hopefully it’s fixed now, on my paycheck end instead of his, because it’s easier — I just had to fill out a page on a website.
Well, the estimate was for over $5000 but he said we really needed to get one of their “comfort experts” out and get the whole system evaluated. We both agree but I want A/C now.
My plan right now is to get a second opinion and do some shopping around. Also get them to come out and do an estimate on Monday with Rich. My next early week is full — Marcie needs phenobartibal levels checked on Monday, and I have some field testing I have to do on Tuesday and Thursday.
So the house is not, but at least we have power, which not everyone in the region has.
The whole A/C thing though reminds me of diabetes. You go through life, making it each day one at a time, and everything is going okay. Then all of a sudden, something unexpected comes alone and throws you for a complete loop.
I battling a bit of depression — something I’ve been fighting ever since we got the tax bill.
Oh and some anxiety — which the seniors are giving me. We do the WEIRDEST thing. We still have three weeks of school, but next week is the last week for the seniors. It’s gets weird. First AP Tests starts on Monday. Second, we have a MANDATORY Senior meeting on Monday — yeah, it was on the schedule that way.
Yeah, it gets weirder.
So Tuesday is the last day for 5th, 6th, and 7th period — they meet 1st through 4th, but have finals 5th, 6th, and 7th — the good news, is my kids get their room, so they can still do the final.
After that it gets fuzzy, but basically their last day is Thursday. Then graduation is the weekend after. One reason we do this, is that if a kid hasn’t met graduation requirements, they can make up work. I’ve had seniors holed up in my room for 2 days in the past, making up assignments.
Seriously, isn’t this weird?
So I’ve got a senior who I can NG. Means she has more than 10 absenses. And she hasn’t done all of her work. It gets better — she doesn’t have a passing grade. It gets even better — she came to class yesterday and asked to go to the restroom. I told her she could, but she had to wait for the pass to come back. Two minutes later she gets up and walks out. AND SHE NEVER CAME BACK. She’s even gone today. And I went looking for her yesterday.
Who wants to bet she’s going to be holed up in my room at the end of the week — or next week.
As she wouldn’t be back in my room this year if she didn’t need a technology credit to graduation.
Yeah, and the Mavericks suck too.