Watching SNL on Hulu and Alicia Keys just performed.

Watching SNL on Hulu and Alicia Keys just performed. She appeared to be makeup free and is gorgeous. She's a stunner!

As a female who doesn't paint my face - she just made my day. You don't see that often in the media. I'm diggin' it! 😃

(To people who wear makeup, do your thing. I'm not judging you. I'm just happy to be represented, too!)

Aaand... no food stamps.

Aaand... no food stamps.  Why did I just know that was going to be the case?  What a pile of shit.  I'm gonna tear a hole in someone's ass, IN PERSON, on Monday.  I'm going to that stupid office and not leaving until there is money on my card.  I hate this state and it's incompetent, uncaring people.

My shoulders hurt.

My shoulders hurt. Have been since school let out. It's no good. I feel like it must be tension. I haven't been able to relax yet, though, so it would make sense. 🙁

I took another job - for a total of 3 once school starts back and I'm tutoring again. I'm just so ridiculously broke. I don't know what else to do. I REALLY REALLY wanted to relax during my 3 weeks out of school, but I'm just going to work instead.

To make things more stressful it was time for my food stamp renewal at the end of April so I got that handled and faxed in the day before it was due. A few days later I got a letter in the mail saying that I'd been terminated for not turning in the renewal forms. I called last week and spoke to my case worker's assistant and she told me she had my paperwork and that the caseworker had 10 days to put it through since it was late - which would have been today. We usually get our food stamp benefits on the 14th so that would have been great timing.

I called to check in today and got the assistant again. My case had not been processed. My case worker was unavailable. So I left a message on her supervisor's voice mail. Then I called back a few times until I reached someone who could do things. It may well have been my case worker; I have no idea, but she was asking questions and sounded like she had some authority. She said she got my paperwork late, but I told her the date I faxed it and that I could get a copy of the fax log if need be. I also pointed out that if she had it then they received it the day I sent it because faxes do not get lost in the mail. She said they would push it through today and we'd get our benefits tomorrow as usual, but we'll see. I'm not holding my breath. Just tension in my shoulders, apparently.

Anyway. It's been a rough week and I'm glad it's over. I guess I'm just waiting until the morning to find out if I can pay bills or if I have to buy food because I cannot do both. But for now I'm piled up on my couch in blankets and I plan to stay here until either the dogs need to pee or I do.

And on that note, goodnight. ❤

This is me.

This is me (the driver) and it's Shaun's favorite thing. /sarcasm  😂😂😂

Well, I was mislead.

Well, I was mislead.  No Herbst today.  However, they did take off the back half of his braces on each side and put in spacers.  We go back soon for the actual appliance.  Either way - we are still free of the rubber bands!  YAYYY!!!

We're waiting to get a Herbst Appliance...

We're waiting to get a Herbst Appliance put on the Man-Cub's braces right now. When I get home I'm throwing ALL THE RUBBER BANDS away. They have been a plague upon our household for almost a year now. No room was safe. I'm SO over it. FREE AT LAST!

For anyone who doesn't want to see...

For anyone who doesn't want to see the "shaky because I'm crying" version with the rest of the medley. This is Shadow only. Not sure what the quality will be because it's from Shaun's phone and FB also does a number on that, but here it is.

I'm still so freaking proud. I've probably watched the YouTube upload a hundred times.