Irritating Surprise

Ugh. It's been a rough 24 hours over here. We got a bit of a rude surprise last night when we discovered $500 suddenly missing from James' account. The company he works for was recently bought out by Ecolab and it turns out that they completely screwed up his child support. Evidently they "forgot" to take it out of one of his checks so instead it was simply auto-deducted from his account without warning. It has been coming out of his check without a problem for the last 6 years, so we never even thought to make sure they were taking it. Certainly not what we were expecting when we were double checking the balance last night to head out to the store. A few weeks back they had messed up his overtime and failed to put it on the check it was supposed to be. By the time they added it on to the next check taxes took it all and then some. It was if he had never worked it at all. You would think that a multi-million dollar corporation could handle payroll, wouldn't you?

As a result, we will not be attending the wedding for my co-worker that we were supposed to this weekend. We simply cannot swing the gift after that. I'm not too broken up about not going really. I didn't particularly want to go in the first place. I'm not exactly a fan of weddings or this particular co-worker. But it is completely embarrassing to be the only person not going from my office. I had to make up a lame excuse of not having a baby sitter for Lena and Anne. I told her my sister can't watch them because she has to work now.  

This co-worker is already not exactly the nicest person in the world to deal with on a good day. So my telling her this morning that I was not going to make it to her wedding has resulted in a very chilly day. Lots of eye rolling, lots of dirty looks, and she's really not speaking to me either at the moment. I wonder just how long this will last exactly?