Fired, I say!!

2011, your performance review was bad after the first quarter and it only gets worse! You are fired, FIRED!! On to 2012!!

*grump*

$650 into the van for brakes and a new water pump this week. Which is just painful coming, as it did, on top of the Great Dental Debacle, that hasn't begun to be dealt with.

We'd pretty much scrapped travel plans, intending to make this a bit of a "bummer summer" as it were. But it still really ticked me off today that my erstwhile, PITA co-worker marked herself off the weekend of the 24th, after having originally agreed to work it. So now I get to work 3 weekends running!

The girls are done with school as of today. Rori is going to be a bit of a problem child for John, I think, as she doesn't tolerated the heat very well.

So - here I sit with no $, no fun plans to look forward to, no time off to get anything done (I have a PILE of painting - chicken coop, bookcases, house, etc., etc.)

whine

I want these:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62117963/pretty-maids-one-pdf-embroidery-pattern

all three sets, really. And any others she has that aren't up there. I'd lurve to make the girls some quilts. In all my spare time.

*head desk*

Ah, well. Such is life. At least, my life. I at least do have a cunning plan to make a new shield for John. Not that it will do him a LOT of good until we have insurance and he can get his knee repaired. But sometimes I just have to work on the problem I can reach

I also find I suffer fools even less gladly than usual. So I will regale you all later with tales of Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel and he Hound Dawg, among other "moments" when I'm more in the mood to make with the funnies.

Also more updates on the principality thing later.

Back to the salt mines....