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Ok..I'm totally starting to freak out.  Things are heading downhill fast.  Kids, school, work….it's crazy.

 

So yesterday my boss comes into the office and basically tells me that I'm going to be hard pressed to find a nursing job in 5 months when I graduate.  They've basically put a lock down on hiring right now…so I think I'm going to be screwed royally.  I very well could be graduated and have loans due and still be looking for a job.  My boss is already posting my position to ensure that someone is trained before I graduate but that means I will not have a job in this department after that!!  UGH!!

 

And it gets better….

 

So my ex-jerk pisses me off by being unreasonable about this summer.  My son has to go to day care this summer. He is allowed a week "off" for vacation.  He has gone to this special camp every summer since he was 8, where he learns about his medical condition and how to be more self sufficient when it comes to that.  Well, his dad wants him for a week which means I would have to pay daycare for a week of daycare that we aren't using.  He refuses to pay anything because he said "why should I pay for something I am not going to use?".  Ok….but then it's ok for me to pay for something I am not going to use???  Seriously??

 

UGH…men suck….ok…now it gets grosser…

 

So yesterday I realized that my son's room smelled like urine.  He's had an intermittent issue with certain things due to some medical stuff in the past but evidently he actually peed on his floor last week and didn't bother to clean it up or tell anyone. We steam cleaned it and it still REEKS!!  So last night I decided that we needed to move stuff around in his room and steam clean again.  I pulled his bed out and found the following (most of which was stolen out of our kitchen!!):

ü      A jar of hot fudge (the kind for sundaes)

ü      A jar of dill pickle slices (half full)- I looked all over for those damn things!!

ü      A bottle of mustard (almost full)

ü      A bag of low sodium ruffles (half full)

ü      A bottle of sprinkles like you use on Christmas cookies spilled all over the floor.

ü      An empty 2 liter of pop

ü      Numerous pop cans

ü      Numerous candy wrappers

ü      Several suckers stuck to the floor

ü      And several areas that he "painted" the carpet with white out

ü      And….get this…poop smeared on the wall!!!

 

OMFG!!!

 

Seriously??  What on earth is wrong with this child??!!!!

 

I'm totally at my wits end.  By the end of the night we were both upset and crying and his room still reeks and needs scrubbed again.  He's going to have to spend the weekend scrubbing and he is grounded for a month.  I'm so tired of this kind of crap.  I mean seriously this is NOT normal behavior for any kids let alone a teenager!!!

 

And it's not over yet…

 

So I get a text last night from a girl in class that I study with.  Evidently we both got zeros on our med cards and the teacher asked us to meet her after class tonight.  We did the med cards together and then just made two copies to turn in and now she thinks they are going to accuse us of cheating.  OUCH!!  So this should be interesting…..

 

I swear I am surrounded by idiots and assholes these days!!  

 

 

      

Ok…so I'm still working on this.  I spoke with someone at the "home school association" on Monday and she sent me some info this week.  Evidently our town has a home school program where you can rent their curriculum (you don't have to) and have a monthly meeting with one of their teachers but other then that you are pretty well on your own.  The upside to this is that my son could still have an actual diploma and ceremony when he graduates.  He could still do the placement testing so that I knew where he was at and that he was making progress (that is one of my biggest fears right now I think) and he could be part of a group environment for different options.  They also have what is called dual enrollment; which basically means he could go to public school for some things and get homeschooled for others as I see fit.  If he does this he can also be eligible to participate in school activities such as dances, games, team sports, etc.

 

The downside is…whatever classes he does at home are not transferrable if something happens and he goes back to public school.  Well, that and the fact that I have no clue what I am actually doing!  I've been surfing the web and talking to people.  It seems like everyone does their own thing.  The problem is that I really have no clue what works for my son.  Ok…well, that isn't entirely true but I don't know how to decide on curriculum, how I should schedule his days and all that. 

 

I'm one of those "I have to be organized" kind of people.  I want a checklist to be sure I am remembering everything and doing it all right, ya know?  So I have a while to make this decision.  I think I need to hit the bookstore and see if I can find a few books on this.  I need to make an appt with the HSA and see if I can review their curriculum. I want to make sure that I am on the right track and he can go into college or another secondary education if he chooses too.  Plus the fact that I am really worried that this will be too much for me…that I won't be able to be a good teacher for him. Sigh.

 

BTW- it looks like he flunked all of his finals this trimester but still ended up with nothing below a C in any of his classes.  Interesting huh?  I seriously wonder if he did no work if they would still pass him….good grief.  

 

So I got an email today from his English teacher telling me he was basically told what changes he needed to make to his paper in order to get a better final grade.  He told his teacher he wasn't interested in making changes and then went to play video games on the computer….hmmmm.  Am I the only one who sees the issue here?  How frustrating this all is.

So we go forward......