STRESSS!!!!

Okay,
So we decided that it was best if we just drive Laila ourselves halfway to Michigan, and have the grandparents meet us. Since we decided this last night, that we were leaving on Saturday for Lexington, KY, that gives me a day to prepare. However, preparing by myself, while taking care of three kids, who are excessively needy since they don't get their usual outside time as I have been flying around the house, is damn near impossible! Stress no. 1.

Then, my husband calls me and tells me he isn't cancelling his appointment at the car dealership tomorrow (the day we are supposed to leave) because he needs to know now what they are going to do about getting us out of our lease, before we put another mile on our car. I say, "What the hell? We have already gone over our Max miles by 8,000 miles, how does another 700 miles make a lick of difference at this point?" He swears it does. I don't believe it. I just want to buy the car and re-sell it right away and make some decent money off of it. The dealership tells my husband that it is "difficult" to do that, it can be done though, but "difficult.' I don't care one bit how "difficult" it is, they are just telling him that because they want to make money off of our much coveted hybrid. NO WAY am I going to get suckered into that! He is going by himself, the lone duck with a bunch of hunters drooling over our hybrid. Why can't this wait until Tuesday? All the while, I am stuck home packing, making food, getting food in the kid's bellies, doing more laundry, dishes, changing diapers, and dealing with the daily onslaught of sibling rivalry and hysteria over our trip to see Grandma and Grandpa. Stress no.s 2 and 3.

I have so much to do, I don't know what to do. Know what I mean?
It doesn't help either that it is my birthday, and the phone has been ringing off the hook from well-wishers (which is great) but then I get stuck on the phone wanting to talk and catch up, then freaking out afterwards that there is so much to do.

Let alone my Grandma calls me, wishes me a happy birthday, then proceeds to tell me about this news report she saw on how a woman stroked out from a Chiropractic cervical adjustment. Which just angers me to no end, because they are spreading ugly, FALSE rumors all over the country! What she was telling me about their explanation was a pack of lies by fearful people.
They don't tell you what drugs the idiot was on, and how the side effects are stroke, or that it happened days after the adjustment. What about all those effin drugs that kill people daily? Or the MD's that misdiagnose, or the hospitals that neglect their patients? No one ever hears the stories of those on the news. Why? because there are too many to count. Because the Medical profession kills far more people every year by mistakes, drugs and neglect than all the other diseases, illnesses, guns, car accidents, and accidents combined! RRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! (Just as a side note, I do believe that the majority of MD's are well-intentioned people who really want to help others and make a difference. It is the system they are buying into that is flawed. Then there are the assholes who don't care, and are just out to make a bunch of money at the expense of others, like my mother's cancer doctor was, Damn him! Made her go bankrupt, then killed her with a barrage of drugs her body couldn't handle!) My constant stress, but my constant determination to make the world see the light. So, I guess it is good, because it drives me.

Anyway, I better finish this before my head falls off!