Oh Aimee, so sorry. Best luck for something quick.

Argh! Applying for state health coverage...Grace has it (long term care, catastrophic disability blah blah blah) and we applied in September and are still in the hell of paperwork. I have zero understanding of the system. The only thing I've learned is to stay on top of the paperwork as best as possible.

Is Monday done yet?

Unfortunately the cabinet is too big for the number of shoes it holds.

I think I need a closet redesign in my room and in Noah's. The shoe system that worked at our old place doesn't work at all now.

Today I got cancer insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, and plants! Guess which one is actually exciting?

I have no idea what to do with these poor suckers. I guess I'll go get potting soil and some pots after work, then put them out on the deck somewhere and watch nervously. Step three is tomatoes and cucumbers and squash and cantaloupe, but I'm not sure about step two. Also, I'm not sure I entirely believe that you can grow cantaloupe in a pot.

Oh shoot, I ought to do something to make sure they don't get blown off the deck, huh? Hmm.

Argh! Applying for state health coverage...Grace has it (long term care, catastrophic disability blah blah blah) and we applied in September and are still in the hell of paperwork. I have zero understanding of the system. The only thing I've learned is to stay on top of the paperwork as best as possible.

Michigan's Working Families program was pretty easy to navigate until I realized we lost her birth certificate between there and here. So had to get a new one. But, now I have it and she sould be signed up pretty quickly.

Thank god. Paperwork is the bane of my existence.

On Sunday we went to a pancake breakfast at the fire station. They were giving out free trees (or in reality, free shrubs, because we got a cape myrtle). I'm so excited yet unclear on where to plant it. Our yard is really yardy and we don't have a tree lawn. In the back we have some woodchipped area, so maybe there?

Here's what gets me ... Now that I'm officially unemployed, I could totally get pregnant and have coverage. I have to say, it's tempting to become a SAHM, have another baby, get some state benefits and just be done with working until I finish school.

Oh thank G*d, I finally heard from my cousin and his wife's family in Burma are all safe and sound. Apparently, it's total chaos there: the price of everything has doubled, if not tripled, there's no electricity, meat is impossible to come by, etc.

Well, yeah. For good reason. But only for prenatal and immediate postnatal care, I think, right?

I know I have work to do. I'm just not sure what it is. We have testing today so our schedule is all out of whack and we get out early.

It's just that my motivation is all sapped.

But only for prenatal and immediate postnatal care, I think, right?

Yeah. There is that.