I still haven’t heard whether or not Rhia’s teeth are covered for accidental breakage\/removal and all the work that entails. It’s been six weeks, I think, since the forms went in to the office. I have no idea where I’ll get the money if they don’t cover it, and I can’t send her to school with her mouth the way it is. The bullies have enough amunition with everything else.<\/p>\n
It’s not like they won’t know, but at least there would have been teeth there, ya know?<\/p>\n
I’ve got about $5k worth of books on my shelves. Mostly pagan-oriented, from the days when I reviewed massive amounts of such for various places. I can part with them, if needs be, but I know they won’t be worth what their covers say…some of them are rather old now, after all. I could get maybe $1k. And I can not part with my DJ collection… ;) Well, I could, if I have to – but it’d break my heart.<\/p>\n
I’ve got my djembe; hand-carved from good old Manitoba Maple. It’s a good two and a half feet tall, and weighs at least twenty pounds. I tied the knots on the rings around the top, holding the skin on. It was part of my payment for tying all of JR’s rings the summer he took a truckload of djembes and didjeridoos to the Winnipeg Folk Fest. I know what it was worth the summer he made it, and I know what the sister-drum sold for later on… Hand-carved Djembes like this one are hard to find… but losing it would break my heart too, even though I don’t play it.<\/p>\n
I have the car, but that is a catch-22 in more ways than one. It needs at least 1K in repairs before it’s even road worthy, plus I need a car to get to a job, if I find one outside the editing and writing. So far, there’ve been no nibbles on the resumes.<\/p>\n
None of the furniture or electronics are worth anything, other than the computer… and again, there’s that catch-22; I could sell it, but what would I do the work I do get on?<\/p>\n
There are nights like tonight, when I’m up worrying about the kids, present issues, their future issues – all of that stuff mothers worry about – and I have to wonder, would it have been different, if I’d stood up, faced up and grown up all those years ago?<\/p>\n
*sigh*<\/p>\n
I hate not being able to provide the girls with better than what they have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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