Que Sera Sera: Holy Freaking Week!!

So, it's June which means that school is winding down. I purposely took Friday off of work - booked an EDO and everything - to work on report cards. Sidenote... well more like a side rant... Yes, I am a teacher and I have to take an earned day off in order to complete my report cards. We don't work 9-3! I don't have time to catch my breath during the day, nevermind doing marking and planning. I work long hours to create great lessons and keep the kids interested and when report cards come around, I'm behind. Every round of report cards I find it necessary to take a day off in order to get them complete. But hey, keep telling yourself that your kids teacher has easy hours, long holidays (btw, I'll be back in the classroom at the beginning of August planning for a new year, so no, I don't have the whole summer off), and an easy job.

Sorry, after last year's contract crap that happened, I still feel attacked thanks to the government ads trashing us (using OUR tax money to do it too).

Moving on.

So I took Friday off to finish my report cards. However, on Thursday, all my grade 7s were gone on a camping trip and I had them for three classes, so that meant three prep periods for me. Guess what?? I got the report cards done.. which meant long weekend for me! At the end of June!! I spent my morning playing video games with the puppy sleeping on my feet, and my afternoon doing the same. I needed the day off after the week I'd had.

On Tuesday I started getting sick and by Wednesday I had the head cold to kill all other head colds! And then the worst happened! Hubby got a phone call from HR about some backpay that they owed him... not a bad thing. But he asked them about the position that he currently holds. A bit of backstory on this. He's been covering a medical leave for two years. They repost the position every four months and each time he's gotten the job, no problem. This time they repost it, and he applied as usual. When he asked the guy if they had a decision on it, he was told they gave the position to someone else! They didn't even interview him for the position that he's had for two years. He has had flawless reviews in that time and the principal even tried to get HR to offer him the position as a permanent, and they didn't even bother interviewing him for it! I'm so fucking mad! He's furious!! And we're screwed!

I don't know how we're going to pay bills come September. He's got a hatred against the division, so I'm not even sure that he will be willing to sub in the division. He wants to sub in the cities, but they are both a fairly long drive away - meaning that we'll lose $50 of his pay on gas each day he subs - but he doesn't care. He's letting his ego get in the way of it all. I can understand being mad! I really can. It pisses me off that I will now have to drive to work all that way alone every day and spend all that gas money for me to drive as well. It pisses me off that with everything else going on with us, now we have to deal with that too!

He did apply for a couple of other jobs yesterday and hopefully one of them pans out - but it will mean that he'll have to find a place to stay for the weekdays because it's too far to drive everyday - that's going to suck... a LOT!! We did that while I interned and it wasn't good, but it's four years later and maybe we'll be better at it! I don't know. At least it would be a job.

What pisses me off the most is that I love MY job. And I'm good at it. And if he doesn't get something close by, then I will have to move eventually because we can't keep going with it with us living apart. This all just sucks.

To top it off, my grandmother gave us a hefty cheque a couple of weeks ago and we were going to use it for adoption, but now we might have to use it to live.... and we can't go ahead with adoption while he's unemployed... we'd never get approved! On top if it, I have an RE appointment on Tuesday and anything that they tell us will surely mean more money which we won't have either.

So to cap it off...