Sometimes it seems like things get way too complicated.

S has an end of year party coming up with her homeschool teen group. They have been stressing that there are limited spots, so signing up and paying right away is important. I just noticed the email announcement that provides the link to the sign up page this morning (email was sent out 3 days ago, but I failed to check my inbox this weekend). I immediately put her on the list, but to hold her spot I have to pay the fee to attend. So, of course, in this day and age of online signups, the fee is supposed to be payed through paypal as a friends and family payment. Easy peasy, right? Especially since the instructions on the signup page said this could be done without a fee. Yeah, apparently I don't have the proper super secret set up and it will indeed cost me a fee. So now I either pay Paypal for the privilege of making this payment for me, or I pay the US mail the cost of a stamp to send a check, or I don't know, maybe I can spend some gas to drive the money to the person I need to get it to (assuming she ever gets back to me about this). In the meantime, I have the whole "limited space" thing hanging over me. I wish I could just pay cash at the door like they used to do for the dances.


On a completely different note, this post was incredibly hard to type thanks to all the crumbs C has gotten stuck in my keyboard over the past few months. Off to try to solve that particular problem with the air pump.