You had a bad day, the camera don't lie

Today was the worst day I've had in a long time.

I tried to send Richard a text this morning, and it didn't go through. Great. Our phones have been cut off. I don't know if Richard didn't get a warning, but if he did, he didn't pass it on to me. It's kind of a bummer because we don't have a house phone ... so without cell phones, all we have is facebook. And obviously I can only check that if I'm at home ... so when I go away this weekend, we're outta luck.

Later, I'm lying on the couch, exhausted from the heat and the already long day, and Aden is looking out the back window at Gunther, who's tied up outside. Suddenly he gets scared and runs to me. So I look out the window to see if he was actually afraid of anything. What I saw made me VERY mad. First, I noticed the back gate is wide open. Then, I can't see Gunther. I immediately think someone has come in our back yard to untie him -- it's happened before. My eyes follow the string he gets attached to, and I see him sitting in the doorway of the wide open gate. I just didn't see him because of the bright sun. What I noticed next really pissed me off.

My bike is GONE. We bought a brand new seat for it yesterday (and not the cheapest seat in the store) and Richard was in the midst of fixing it. And now it's gone. I'm so mad.

When Richard got home from work, he said he talked to his mom and she said one of two of my baby cheques had come in the mail. Finally something good.

Or so I thought.

We went over to his mom's house a bit later, and I'm very disappointed by my cheque. The first cheque I get in a month is the one we've called "the big cheque" in the past. Well, it's not so big anymore. Previously, I would get around $360 in total. Now it's down to a whopping $185 a month. Yet another disappointment in my day. We would use every penny of that $360 in most months ... now we have a little over half of that to work with. And of course, had this cheque been as big as it used to be, I was going to give Richard some money to get our phones turned back on -- now who knows how long it's going to be before we have cell service again.

I have an interview at Toys R Us tomorrow ... and I'm just praying that it goes well so things can start to look up for us, even just a little.