What a day it's turning out to be!

And not in a good way.

So we've paid for the MH, we're getting things set up to move it...and today Scott met with the guy who we thought would be the best bet for doing the excavating. We're assuming it might be a few thousand since my brother just built his big house across the street (4 bdrm, 2 bath...pretty big!) and his septic was around $5500 using the same contractor. So imagine our utter shock at being quoted a figure of $9000! Since Scott was actually there with him, I'm not quite sure where this figure is coming from. The Health Inspector did say it was a lot with some "challenges" due to grading and such, but felt confident we'd be able to get a septic system on it.

Someone tell me again why we can't just go straight to our composting toilets and greywater system? Tell me about those damned regs again and why you just can't do anything that might be good for the environment but you have to pay big bucks to stay in the box, in the matrix, in the grid. I am SO frustrated right now!

We will be calling around to get another estimate though. I don't care if this guy is going to be a neighbor out there, I'm not going to pay him $9000 if we can get it done cheaper elsewhere.

And omigod am I starving right now. Usually my oatmeal with bananas holds me over quite well. Three more hours until I can EAT dammit!

Another facet of my-life-as-hell is that I'm not doing such a stellar job of parenting lately. Not that I've every really been fantastic at it, but I felt like I was on the right track. I don't feel that way right now. Just a rough week all around. Of course this is then end of week 1 of 2 wherein Scott had gotten required to work full time, first shift which made for some pretty interesting schedule conflicts so that added to the overall stress this week. Oh, and did I mention I'm in PMS mode?!

CAN THIS GET ANY BETTER?!?

/whine