Hoping To Blog About FUN Stuff Again Someday

Court today was really not about US so much as about the hoochie mama who totaled my car last September. This is the third court appearance, 2 of which she attended, none of which she showed up for on time. I would not recognize this woman as the woman who caused the accident that night on a bet.

Today she wore her uncombed hair pulled back in a pony tail and had sneakers on and no make-up. That night she was made up to party and looked 10 years younger. If looks could kill we'd all be dead.

Anyway, the case is really (mostly) between the 2 insurance companies, but I did want to ensure (with our presence) that she would not get off COMPLETELY scott free. She was given 3 months Supervision and a fine. The rest now really is just about closing out the aggravation.

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D goes to the local drug, alcohol, eating disorder, and various other psych issues, Unit at the Hospital this afternoon, for an "Assessment," the results of which -if treatment is recommended- he will -supposedly abide by. We'll see. That appointment will be followed by D's psychiatry appointment to check in regarding last week's med adjustment.

Then of course it's MHW, lest you think anyone is completely sane around here.


UPDATE:

I went to both my appointments. D went to his Shrink appointment but refused to go to the Assessment.

G'night.

A Month In Summary

Well it's been a month since I decided to go back to blogging. What a month it's been. The BEST excuse for not blogging is that I've been playing on Facebook. The MEDIOCRE excuse is that much of the time spent playing on FB has been semi successful in calming my frazzled nerves. The honest (BAD) excuse are the events of just one short month. Had I written about them as they were occurring, I might have retained them all, and the crazed emotions they wrought. Brought?

Regardless, this week (and one day next week) all Stressors come together for one big Phuckfest. Last night was a meeting with the Condo Board. D has already moved back home after being evicted by us (dropping out of College) and by the building (repeated REPEATED repeated noise violations.) That meeting was really bogus -all about how much $$$ they would fine us. Of course I could say how much they would fine D, but D doesn't have a job, nor realistic prospects in sight. Anyway, they're still tallying, having rejected our plea for mercy, leniency, or imprisonment of the mother due to extenuating circumstances, but as of right now we're up to $600.00. I'm sure there's a method to their mathness.

Today, after debating, fighting and angsting for way too long over hiring an attorney vs using a public defender ("we" hired an attorney -of course all legal fees will *someday* be paid by D) is the first of what will no doubt be several Court dates. D and a friend were arrested for having marijuana in the car when pulled over for something stupid (no light over license plate.) Disclosure (to his mother) came lumped in with his license having been suspended (one too many speeding tickets) the fact that he will probably lose it entirely until he's 21 due to another ticket while the suspension was in process, and God only knows what punishment will be meted out because while under bond for the above mentioned arrest, he drove a car (with the officially suspended license) because his buddy was too drunk to drive back from a party at a Frat house in bumphuck Illinois somewhere and D doesn't drink. (The police even tested him on the road and would have let him go except for that little matter of no license.)

His attorney has his work cut out for him and I'm sure the price went up when he heard about the ticket. "Our" goal at this point is to keep D out of jail and get him into treatment. We'll see how that goes.

Toward that goal we move on to tomorrow. In the morning I will be going to Court with J and C over the car accident that left MY car totalled when they were rear ended. By afternoon we move on to the hospital's drug and alcohol unit for an assessment of D. I think this will be the 3rd or 4th time. That appointment will be followed by D's Psychiatry appointment (med check) and my own weekly therapy appointment. That evening, because surely I'll have energy left, is my weekly Group meeting. And so ends Wednesday.

Thursday, ha, I think there might be nothing going on other than the usual mayhem. It's a full work day for me. (I've taken today and tomorrow off, having run out of hours in the day.) I might have neglected to mention all this goes on while I'm pretty sleep deprived (depraved?) due to the hours D keeps. He seems to be up almost all night, then falls asleep near dawn, getting his rest while I'm at work.

Friday, because I'm such a good mom (or one masochistic mofo) I am accompanying J to Court for what will hopefully be Closure to a year long case involving many meetings, classes, supervision and follow-up.

Let's see now, March 23rd will be the driving with a suspended license Court date -in a County I've never even heard of (but am hoping Lawyer has) and next week, on March 6, Friday, "we" get to deal with the Gov'ment itself as D has an appointment with a Psychologist and an Adjudicator to assess whether he's disabled enough to be Disabled. (I could go on and on about that one, but really, is it necessary?)

So, that's a summary of my month. Of course I've left out the parental issues, and they seem to be cropping up more frequently, work, and, gee, have you noticed I haven't mentioned W? (Thank God for anything I've forgotten.)


UPDATE:
D just left for Court with his partner in crime, (so they can smoke in the car on the way there) whose tie I had to tie. Doesn't he have a mother? Maybe they ought use some of their criminal tendencies to learn tie tying or cooking or something.

UPDATED UPDATE:
"Drug School." Completion closes his (this) case. In celebration, and preparation for tomorrow's mountain, I am going to go watch last night's 24.

G'night.