Lulu asked how I could not have anything more to say about the engagement stuff and truth is just that I’ve been busy.

I’ve been back to Domestic Relation’s with Goth Girl’s father.  All over $50 a month, in his favor, not mine.  He thought it would be more but he was wrong and quite frankly I’d pay him $50 a month to not have to go back to that horrible place and to not have to have a panic attack every time I do go.  This time was special though, I got patted down and wanded by a guard that also went through my purse.  That’s something new and totally unexpected.

I’m also looking at another $100 in car repairs.  My car has been squealing like a stuck pig and my only guess is that it is the serpentine belt.  If it is anything else I will have a complete breakdown.  I still haven’t paid Mr. Incredible back the $663 I owe him for paying off the last car repair bill.

My children had dance rehearsal followed by a dance recital the next day, which was also Mr. Incredible’s birthday.  His birthday was unfortunately uneventful.  It was a rainy, miserable day and the gifts I got him were lame but it was the best I could do at the time.  We met my family at the bar for wings and he and I stayed until midnight.  Six hours of drinking is not a lot of fun the next morning.  That hungover day was my mom’s 50th birthday in which I offered myself up as slave labor for the day.  We wanted to do something special for her but we are all broke so I suggested that we all show up at her house and do yard work for her for the day.  I’m sunburned and sore still today and I don’t think we made much of a dent in the stuff that needs done.  My sister’s husband didn’t even show up and my brother’s wife sat around and did nothing the whole time.  But that is how it goes with those two.

So with all that going on there just isn’t much going on with the engagement.  I am going to go look at a wedding band tonight after work.  I told the jewelers I was in no hurry for one but this is the second time they have called me in to look at bands.   So I will go look.

That free, all-inclusive trip to Mexico we were offered turned out to not be free, the trip turned out to only be discounted and although it is a very good deal, we just don’t have the cash for it right now.  So no Mexico and no wedding this year.  If it had been truly free it would have been too good to pass up.

Mr. Incredible was telling everyone that he would rather buy a house first anyway.  So it may be a couple years before we actually get married.  I think 2 years would be good.  Give us a year to find a house which Mr. Incredible said he would live in until we are ready.  Then after another year we could get married and then Goth Girl would only have one year of high school left and she could stay with my mom during the school year.  Sidekick will be going into 7th grade in two years and she asked to finish elementary school at her current school before we move so it could all work out.  Not the ideal situation but one that would work best for all of us.  We would all have to compromise, which is only fair.  But you know how things go with me and this plan could all go up in smoke with the next disaster.