Bad Things in Threes

**I swear I have like 10 blog posts half-written but I just haven't had the time, energy, or inclination to work on them as of late.  Lo siento!**

I don't know if Murphy set this one up alongside his "law" just to screw with humanity but bad things always seem to come in threes.

Today I thought our three were as follows:
1) Craig will be out of work effective July 1, 2011 due to the massive clusterf*ck that is his job.
2) We learned yesterday that he gets no unemployment benefits because the church he worked for opted not to pay unemployment taxes.  We didn't know and it looks like it was a perfect storm of our ignorance, nobody communicating in this church, and misinformation that led us here.  Good times.
3) Craig's car started grinding today when backing.  Double good times.

HOWEVER, things are not so dire.

We had the brakes completely replaced a month ago on the car (Thanks Mom and Dad Falvo) and Craig took the car back to where the work was done and the owner looked at the car, found a spring loose, fixed it and charged nothing. (Thanks Mark's Expert Auto Service!!!)

THEREFORE, I think we may have weathered one of the three with the brakes that cost about the car's worth a month ago and now we're looking up.  Maybe?  Anyone?

It's all about the positive thinking!