I am miserable, for a variety of reasons..

#1. I hate where we live. Granted the house is nice, but I hate the town. It may be the 3rd largest city in AZ, but it is ass backwards in a lot of ways, and most of these ways make me batty.

a. The school system here SUCKS ASS.  The teachers and principal flat out lie to me and they refused to do anything to actually educate my children. They recently sent home a notice for a science fair… 7 days before the fair and to a grade they don’t actually teach science in.

b. Dry Cleaners. What real city has only 1 dry cleaner in town? and charges over $8 to launder and press one shirt and one pair of pants?

c. Recycling, there are no recycling facilities in this town… not do they just not pick up for it… they don’t even have a place you can take things to be recycled.

d. Cat problem, see several recent posts.. and the city refuses to do anything.

e. Television and Internet. um… First, i can’t get networks unless I get local cable. can’t even get coastal networks through my satellite co. cause of some bullshit with the local stations not allowing it… Second. internet. only one company offers cable internet. that is typical. what is not is the price. I am paying twice for cable internet in this ‘city’ than I did in the last town I lived in… that had a population of only 600. something is wrong with this picture.

2. Temperature. it is not yet May and we have broke the triple digit mark at least twice already. I feel trapped in the house to keep from heat exaustion.

3. My weight. I have been working on losing weight for the last 4 months. Walking daily, watching what I eat, and it is not working, I have not lost an ounce. I think part of it may have to do with being miserable about life at the moment.