This has just been one of those confounding days.

1) Rental car wasn’t ready to pick up when I dropped the Big Ass Truck off for repairs at the ass crack of dawn, so I had to wait 20 minutes (I KNEW I should have gone to Starbucks first!)

2) Traffic was fine until I hit the last exit before my exit (another 1/2-mile down the road). Then, of course, we came over a rise and stopped dead. Took me FORTY-FIVE MINUTES TO GO A HALF MILE!!!

3) Because I was then an hour late to work and my boss had a huge scowl on his face when I walked through the door (even though I had called), I had to work through lunch to make up the time (there went my study period!)

4) Debit card was lost during Thanksgiving. Pumpkinhead ripped the sticker off the replacement one so I didn’t have the activation number to call and they said I could do it at the ATM, but my pin didn’t work (apparently a new pin is on its way, but I still don’t have it).

5) Due to lack of working debit card and failure to foresee this, I had no cash to pay the babysitter. I could see the pity in her eyes as I wrote a check. I just

know

she was thinking, “Poor, broke PT-LawMom.” Sigh…

6) Met with supervisor today. Because I used all of my vacation days for silly little things like, oh, full-body bone scans and needle-in-muscle torture tests and now no longer have time available, I am in “dock time”, which is only for “emergency situations.” Therefore, I will not be able to work through lunch and leave early the days of my exams (which, after a nice, long day at work will run until almost 10 at night!). Nope, not even 5 minutes early. Meanwhile, my well-rested classmates will be doing a little jig as they walk into class. Yep, I will be stopping at the gas station on the way to work tomorrow for a lottery ticket!

7) Spent 14 hours yesterday revising my outline with my study partner. All of the printers were broken at school (WTF?!?!) so I said I’d print it at home so she could pick it up from me on her way to work tomorrow. Yep, you guessed it… totally out of paper. And of course Chapin is on a business trip tonight and Pumpkinhead’s asleep already. I did half consider dragging him out to the WalMart, but it’s freakin’ cold outside and I don’t think either of us are up for that.

Speaking of Pumpkinhead, the boy is suddenly in the most back-talking, tantrum-throwing, drive-me-insane stage!! I’d be really upset except that all my friends with kids the same age are going through the same thing so I know it’s just a stage. Still, his timing is not at all good.

Bottom line — this work full time, attend law school part-time, raise a kid and maintain a household thing is really, really, really overwhelming at times. I am praying, hoping and begging that tomorrow will be a better day!!!