May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose!

Bastard wouldn’t let hubby escape the meeting early, so he’s stuck in damn traffic coming out to get me. Then we have to turn around and drive through rush hour traffic to get to the game, and the puck drops in 1 hour and 20 minutes! Piss me OFF!!!

Just because his boss is a Vancouver fan! PEH

Yesterday morning I went racing into my usual grocery store, whipped over to the ATM that I ALWAYS use, shoved my card in, and waited, and waited, and waited. NADDA All the while I’m standing there, the bank girl is sitting at her kiosk 2 feet away, visiting with the grocery store’s floral clerk. Finally I asked her…. is this thing working??? She very snottily replied, “No … it’s still warming up!” I asked, “Was I supposed to know that?” She asked what the screen said when I put my card in. I told her, “It had the BMO screen up.” She tells me, “WELL you have to wait for the screen to say, please insert your card!” By this time, I’m getting very tired of her cranky ass speaking to me as if I’m a fucking idiot because I don’t know this, and the floral clerk is trying to defuse the situation, because she can sense how bitchy this woman is being, and she’s saying, “Wow! Good thing you’re not a nurse! You’re bed side manner needs some work!! I would have done the same thing! Glad you put your card in first!” I said, “Do you have any idea how many different ATM’s from different banks that a person uses in a week?? You expect me to know this??? How can I get my card back??” She ver stonily tells me, “You can’t! They’ll eventually get it out, and then they destroy them all. You’ll have to get your bank to issue you a new one!” By this time, my temper is about to GO OFF!!!! “Well that sure wasn’t in my days’ plans!” All of a sudden, the screen says, This machine is temporarily out of order! I looked at the woman and said, “Now THAT I would have understood! ” I stormed out of the store and am saying loudly, “Thank you VERY much!!”

The stupidest thing about all this, is that my hubby managed this grocery store for 2 years. I shop there all the time, we know all the employees. EXCEPT this bank employee, so I was SUPER patient with her, as I always am with retail people, since my whole family has, or does work with the public. And she still managed to make my blood BOIL!!!!!!

And how was your day??

I finally staggered into the bathroom and made the mistake of looking in the mirror to discover that I am getting a GINORMOUS zit above my lip! How SEXAY!! Who the hell is the joker that gives you hot flashes, grey hair, wrinkles, a bad bladder and ZITS in the same stage of life!!???

Some people should not be allowed to be parents!! Raising a well mannered, well behaved, caring, sharing, child takes a lot of WORK! It’s non-stop! You have to be totally consistent, you need to keep to a schedule, and you have to be on the same page as parents.

What’s up with the tail wagging the dog?? Our parents will drop the kids off, and the kids are expected to put on their own shoes. Some of the mom’s are so frustrated with the process that we have to say, “Mom, just leave, we’ll do the shoe thing!” If you can’t tell your child to put their shoes on, without a big production, how are you going to tell them anything else, and have them listen to you?

Manners…. those have gone out the door apparently for many families as well! We had 3 year olds who had never “sat at the table to eat”, and who had “never used utensils”! What’s up with that? Where do they eat? I guess they wander around…..and eat with their fingers. How’s that going to work when they’re older and want to go to a friend’s house?

And the TANTRUMS!!!! It becomes increasingly apparent that the word “NO” was not an often used one in their households! Do parents think those tantrums just “go away?” They have no idea how “hard” it is for these kids to come into a formal setting, where they have to learn to accept the word “NO”! It’s like…. “Hmmph, I thought I was a princess!! Why am I not getting my way???”

Bedtime??? Hell no! Whenever/wherever the kid conks out is just fine with them. My kids always had a bed, and a bedtime, and it was very strictly adhered to. For MY sanity. I was home all day with my kids in those days, and by 7:00 I wanted them asleep so I could have an evening.

Potty training?? What’s up with 3-4 year olds coming to pre-school still in diapers??? I don’t get it! It’s nasty! I realize, obviously that in certain circumstances, it’s going to take an extra long time. In many of the cases of our kids, it’s strictly laziness on the part of the Mom’s. It’s the same as discipline. It’s much easier to just give in, than to have a “fight”. Otherwise, how is it that we’ve potty trained 3 students at school in the 6 months they’ve been coming to us! Two of the most severely autistic boys I worked with were both potty trained before kindergarten. If their Mom’s could do it…. I can’t imagine any excuse for anyone else! I don’t know how they did it! Oh wait a minute! Yes I do! They did it with persistence, patience, and consistency! Yay for them!!!

I was flying on home down the highway, on my way to get my hair cut, when I heard this gawd-awful knocking sound. I turned my radio down, only to find out to my horror that it was my car!! All of a sudden, it seemed that my gas was doing “nothing”! I heard a terrible BANG, and coasted over off to the exit that was fortunately very near to where I was. I called hubby to let him know, and then called AMA for a tow truck.

It seems that I’ve blown the engine in my car. I will get a “quote” tomorrow for the cost of putting in a new one. Then I have to decide if it’s worth repairing or if I should go car shopping. I suspect I’ll go car shopping, but I need to give it some serious thought. At this point, my first choice is a Jeep Liberty, but I also want to look at cars.

We’ve been taking the kids toboganning for the last 2 days, which means morning, and afternoon for me. All that fresh air and exercise is making me seriously TIRED!

AND I had to cancel my hair appointment! *pout*

I bid on an item on EBay, and was promptly outbid. No big deal, I had bid as high as I was willing to go. Well 2 days later, I get an email from the seller, telling me that if I really wanted the item, I was only 50 cents away from highest bid, because it was her. I looked back in the bid history of the item, and sure enough!! She’d been bidding her own item up!!! I’ve bid on a few of her items, but as soon as all is said and done and all the auctions are over, I’m turning her ass in! What a dipshit!

May I just take this moment to say……I’m sick to damn death of hearing about T. Owens!!! The guy is a twit, and a disgrace to football! Let the spoiled, big mouth, with the big ego go do something useful with his time, since he’s been canned! Let him go shovel mud and collect all the trash left after Katrina. Big ASS!

My GAWD but this has been a dreary weekend!! It’s 4:30 and damn near dark! It’s either raining, or sleeting, or some such shit. Depressing as hell!

I finally could not STAND my house another moment so I spent a lot of time cleaning today. I got it all finished except the family room and kitchen (well I didn’t do the basement either). By the time I would have gotten hubby and his “office” moved out of the family room, with NFL Sunday football on, it was too much work. I’ll have Sarah do that room later this week, as I think she’s off work for a few days after today. I’m nearly finished the laundry, and I have a ham in the oven. Other than that, I’m just waiting for Grey’s Anatomy!

Some people are so frickin’ THICK that it isn’t even funny! Whine, whine whine…. want some cheese with your whine??!!! ACCKK!! I work every day, keep a clean house, throw a few bones at the family to eat, and still manage to have a life. I have a “friend” that I’m just about at the end of my rope with. They don’t work. Are up and about for 2 hours, have a 2 hour nap. Get up, coffee, and play crib, have another damn nap, do some laundry or something, and then go for coffee again. Followed by another snooze after supper. It’s fucking pathetic, and all they do is boo hoo about life! How they’ve worked so hard through life, that they shouldn’t have to work now. Pfffft! I don’t know tooooo many 48 year olds that can say that. I nearly bite my tongue in half trying not to say what I really think! You’re a lazy, useless piece of skin!

And if those fucking loud-mouthed Paolos don’t get bumped out of Amazing R*ace I’m going to SCREAM too!

There…. I’m done. Sweet dreams!

Two Canadian naval ships full of supplies are unloading in Florida. All the supplies they brought have to go through the US army distribution center. HUH? Not only that, they have all kinds of medical personnel on board to help, but they’ve found out that they can not “practice medicine” in the USA without proper paperwork. BUT our doctors can show any ill person the way to a hospital. Talk about a schmucked up situation.