What country are we living in?

Last night I checked my messages around 11:00 pm, and found that my ex husband had called asking if I could drop my son off this morning at 10:00 a.m. Sure, I mean I have nothing else to do. It's not like I spent the last week cramming for a Calc II test that I was supposed to take at 10:00 this morning.

Now if this were a one time occurence I wouldn't make such a big deal about it, but it's not. It happens just about every week. So I sent an e-mail once again reminding him hat we had agreed on giving a week's notice for changes in parenting time and that I was actually doing him a favor by dropping our son off at all, since he was really supposed to pick him up at school.

The response I got? OK, seriously, this is an exact quote from the e-mail:

"you are not my HUSBAND to control me...........means you are woman ...so remain a lady or marry some guy remain a wife................otherwise you will have no life.............."

Some of you reading this may notice that this comment has nothing to do with our conversation, but that's rather typical of his responses. But seriously? So I'm expected to drive half an hour out of my way twice a week because I'm a woman? Yeah, we'll see how often I make that trip again.

Really though, he does have a point. Maybe I do need to find a husband in order for my life to be worthwhile. Since I want to make sure to find the right man I've adopted a new look for me and my son.

Calculus II

I went into my first Calculus II class feeling pretty confident. I knew the material fairly well and thought I would do alright. I guess I would score around a B. Hahahahaha! I got my grade back on Friday with a score of 70%. That's literally the lowest possible grade I can get in this class and still graduate. Then today I went to class and got another three assignment (all in Calc. II) due by Wednesday. I've realized that my only hope is to spent 2-3 hours a day doing homework - a task that would be easily completed by someone 18 with no children to take care of. So today I went back to letting my son veg out in front of the t.v. since we've been home. Kind of sad, but I'm not sure what else to do. ...

The Big Hearing

Well, as of today there's officially a court order that I should start receiving child support. Yep, my son's dad will now start paying a whopping fifty dollars a month. Woo-hoo! I'll be livin' large now! So now that I'm rolling in all this extra cash I just have to figure out how to spent it. I figure I'll start by installing an underground pool, send my son to one of those upper class private schools, and with the change I'll invest in a high interest college savings account.

Seriously though, I don't particularly care about any of those things, but it would be nice if the child support would at least cover the gas I use to drive my son to pre-school. Anyway I've learned not to expect too much. I'm grateful that we have everything we need and though we may not be rich we are certainly getting by.