My Single Mom Life

There hasn't been a whole heckuva lot happening around our house the last few days, same old same old I guess you could say.
The teens have been getting up and going to school, coming home and helping me out around the house because I haven't been feeling well, and I'm trying to figure out what to do with Mark.

Mark took his graduation test, but we don't have the results yet, so he has to go to school every day by law.
The teachers though, tell him in a round about way, that he doesn't have to be there except for Mondays and Fridays, because those are the 2 days that the test results might come in.
So they say to him,
"Mark, I can't tell you that you don't have to be here because I could be fired and lose my pension and all of that, but technically, you only really need to be here Mondays and Fridays for the test results, but by law, you have to be here every day. Do what you think is best for you to do."

So, I've been sending him Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, and giving him Wednesdays and Thursdays off until we get his test results back.
He doesn't do anything all day long as far as education goes, he can't.
Well he can, but whatever he does, it doesn't count toward anything because he already took his graduation test.
He's basically taking up a desk, eating lunch, taking naps, and playing video games on the computers all day long.
The other students ask why he doesn't have to do any work, and the teachers say that Mark is done with school but fulfilling his attendance by law, but none of the teachers want him there because he's not doing anything and the other students see him not doing anything, so they want to do nothing, too, so the teachers repeat the above to Mark, and so I let him stay home as much as I can get away with.
So far, no truancy officers have shown up at my door, and if they ever do, I'll explain what's going on and they can confirm it with the school, that we are simply waiting for the results of his graduation test.
These results are totally holding him up though.
He can't apply to the tech school until he gets the results, so that means he can't sign up for the summer classes that he needs either.
They said it would only be a few weeks, but it's taking a long time, and I really hope they get the results soon so that when he goes to the tech school, the classes he needs won't be full up.
That would really suck because he really wants to take those classes over the summer so he can go to college in the fall.

Sebastian is still dealing with the migraines, they aren't happening as often anymore, he was getting them 3-4 times per week, and now he's down to about once a week, so the meds are working for preventing most of the migraine attacks, but when he does get one, it's bad, and so I give him Tylenol and make him lay down in his dark bedroom with a cold compress and wait for it to pass.

Does anyone remember the Airborne class action lawsuit?
They didn't admit to any wrong doing, but they agreed to pay out for a max of 6 packages per person with your proof of purchase from select retailers.
I had filed for it and I had my receipts because I only ever bought it at Walgreen's, and I save all of my pharmacy receipts for my taxes, so proof of purchase was easy to prove.
Well anyway, when Sebastian came home, he got the mail and in it was my settlement check for $34.95.
Saweeet!
And we all got paid several days early from work, so yay!
It's a good money week for me.
I had been panicking all weekend about money because I had a doc appointment with a co-pay on Monday, I have my surgeon appointment with a co-pay tomorrow, and I have several prescription co-pays to pick up tomorrow, too, and I don't have to worry now.
Plus, I'll finally be getting my income tax refund on Thursday the H&R Tax website says.
I have no idea what the hold up was, I filed quite awhile ago, like as soon as I got my forms, but it's finally going to be deposited on Thursday the IRS and H&R says, so yay!
Now I can pay back a loan, pay off some bills, and pay some of my medical bills from my surgery off too.
I don't owe a lot to my surgeon, it's under $1,000 which is awesome, but my refund isn't quite enough to pay the whole thing off.
I'll be able to pay off half of it, and then I can make small monthly payments to pay off the rest of it, and then I won't owe anything to anyone again.
I love it when I don't owe any money, when I'm all caught up on bills, have everything paid off and up to date, it's such an incredibly good feeling.
Does anyone else get all excited when they don't owe any money and are totally caught up on bills? ha ha