Hibernation Sounds Like A Great Idea...

So jealous of Pooh right now...

I need someone to do me a favor...

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, please sedate me and wake me in January.

Thanks!

Can I Quit Today? Please?

Today has been such a crap day.

Started off this morning with another lovely round of car troubles...I'd already made arrangements to pick up my sister after she'd dropped her car off at the mechanic. Well...her car didn't quite make it there...

Her battery had died [one of the several reasons she'd made an appointment to have her car fixed had to do with her batter not holding a charge] I think three times in all before we finally managed to get her car to the mechanic. Luckily, my dad had an appointment that put him in the same area at the same time as my sister's car troubles...I don't know how we managed to get it done without any injury, but we did! [This included one particularly daring mid-major road battery jumping!] Thank goodness for our awesome Dad and some too-good-to-be-coincidental timing!

Continuing with the mood of the morning...work seemed to have no trouble following suite. The work today wasn't particularly difficult...there was just tons of it. Sheer amount made the workload feel overwhelming. [And there's more of that to look forward to tomorrow...yay...]

After the kiddo and I finally got home this evening, I was looking forward to a nice, relaxing evening...maybe a pleasant evening at home would help temper the less than enjoyable day. Aaaand, I wasn't that lucky.

Some days, this parenting gig is too much to bear.

Some days, the messes are just too big.

Some days...I just wish I wasn't doing this alone. [I very much appreciate any and all help I get from family members, so y'all don't take that statement as an offense, please]

I'm trying to figure out how to handle my kiddo forgetting how to properly count to 12. And he's looking right at a clock, too. It's literally a foot in front of his face. /siiiiiigggggh Guys...please pray for me to have the patience of a saint, 'cause I certainly don't have it right now...

Help Needed...

I don't think it will come as a surprise to anyone...but being an adult sucks!!

[I guess I should rather say that being a responsible adult sucks...I guess adulthood wouldn't be so bad if you could float through it Peter Pan style...]

I've just about made up my mind to start looking for a second job.

It's simply expensive to run a household, even on the minimal level! Start adding in 'luxuries' like health insurance and you're looking at tacking on right at $500, easy. Then there's school stuff for the kiddo and everyday nuances like groceries and gas.../sigh... I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir...everyone knows that everything's expensive.

Looking at my monthly income and expenditures...there really isn't much more I can do with my current situation. [Just in case you're wondering, the Marvel Live! stuff from a few posts ago was all made possible by a tremendously generous grand-parental birthday gift...certainly wouldn't have been possible if it were coming out of my pocket...] I don't have any exuberant extras that I'm just dumping money into and there really isn't anywhere that I can make significant spending cuts.

[Wouldn't it be great if I could pull a US Government move here and just invent more money in my bank account? Call up my apartment's property manager and tell her that I won't be paying rent anymore because the funding needs to be used elsewhere and hey! /shrug/ there's nothing you could do about it! No hard feelings, right?]

/Sigh

Tangential government griping aside...

How do people do this?

I know that there are people with circumstances that, relatively speaking, are far worse than mine...I know that there are other single parents out there that work two or maybe even three jobs to make ends meet, but how?!

How am I supposed to have time to work two jobs and take care of my son??

I mean, it's just me. [Sometimes my dad will help out and pick him up from school for me, but it's usually because he's in the area doing work stuff and I'm at the office drowning in work stuff...] My son is not old enough to stay at home by himself yet, so looking at getting a night-shift job is really out of the question. And I can't really just drop the appraisal stuff to pick up something else...I'm pretty darn sure that there aren't any entry level jobs that I could get that would pay enough to keep my bills and rent paid and still leave me any money for food stuffs.

Here's the problem with being 'good' at a lot of things, but not good or experienced enough to get a job in any of those things.

Kids, do yourself a huge favor and never, EVER major in psychology. Never. Not even if you're planning on going into medical school. Pick engineering, pick business...hell, pick teaching! Anything that will give you a desirable, marketable skill...and not a piece of paper that amounts to virtually nothing despite the years of study and tens of thousands of dollars spent to earn said piece of paper.

Anybody out there have any ideas or advice? I'm in over my head here and could certainly use some help...