It's pouring

It's raining, it's pouring, Gail's drowning. 


Seriously. I'm bordering the line of crazytown right now. Life is doing what life does and I just feel like I'm falling deeper and deeper. 


Of course the biggest thing is Dale's deployment. We're down to just 17 days and I'm freaking out. All I want to do is for us to get some quality family time in, but that seems impossible when he has to be busy the whole time doing crap for the Army. He's currently in West Virginia until Friday night for some training. So I guess we just have 14 days to spend time with him.


Then, the next layer of stress comes from the wonderful hailstorm that hit this past Sunday. (actual hail pictured) Our house and cars sustained quite a bit of damage, and now I have to deal with the whole insurance appraisals, estimates, deductibles, etc. It's pretty much one more thing I have to take care of. It's not like any of it will be fixed before Dale leaves or anything. Crap like this always takes forever.  


Work is always a stressor for me. It seems I've run into being designer abused by the worst client ever and aside from quitting my job over it, it seems like it's not going to get any better. I'm a professional though, so that means I'm allowed to complain all I want at home, but when it's time to work, I shut my mouth and just make ugly designs that I'm not proud of to satisfy the opinion of one. Lame. I'll keep trying to sneak in some good design though, I do have a pride issue after all. 

Let's see, what else, oh yeah, Parker had to get staples in his head this last weekend. He was helping the fella's build our fence, and a drill fell on his head. I thank the Lord it wasn't more than the cut he got, but still, witnessing a doctor staple your kids head without any pain medicine wasn't something I liked to do. We go in Friday to get them removed, which will probably be about as fun as when they pulled the pins from his elbow back in 2010. 


Speaking of fence, here are the before/after photos of the back yard. Yeah, they're crudely put together, but you get the idea. The thing is ginormous, but it's awesome. The only downside is it was finished Sunday, then that storm came in and now it tilts in slightly on the south side from the wind. It just goes with my life's path of "You can't ever have anything nice." 


I'll survive this of course. I've been through worse and have come out ok. It's just one of those weeks where I feel myself going under. Good times.