Letter 2
So...as we keep reading in the paper, Dist # is looking to close a school or converge grades or something like that in order to balance or fix the budget.
Ok...Heres a good idea. Stop wasting paper! MY GOD!
Today K1 brings home a piece of paper that has the month of October on it. Listed are a couple of test dates, days off of school and stuff like that. Oh..and I have to sign it and he has to return it or he cannot participate in freaky friday, whatever that is. are you freaking kidding me!
Its a lousy piece of paper with a calendar printed on it. Why do I have to sign this? I already know when they have off this month, the test listed on there are school wide map tests and you will send home tons and tons of paperwork on picture day. Why are you wasting my money.
Oh...did I mention, that at the beginning of the year we are forced to buy an assignment notebook. The kind with days of the weeks and months in it. Wait, in other words a CALENDAR!
Hey teacher....you know that big slate looking thing behind all of the colorful laminated posterboards of stuff. Its called a chalkboard. You write things on it and students copy it into the assignment notebooks/CALENDARS!
So, I wrote on this stupid waste of my money and time piece of paper, WHY DO I HAVE TO SIGN THIS. sending my son into hysterics because he has to have that taped to his desk for the entire month of October? WHY?
So, Mr Superintendent, tell the teachers to stop photocopying and start writing, and having the students copy. I'll be glad to buy you some chalk.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
What is that smell.....
Ok...I was going to write about that odd smell coming from the first floor. That was ten minutes ago..
So, I went to my blog page and when to login where I couldn't remember my login and pw. I know, hush..So I was sure I knew my login, my email address, even though I have like a dozen of them, I use basically one for all of my crap. So, i enter that in and then the most logical pw. wrong.
I have a bunch of pw's that I use over and over again with different sites. Gasp..I know..the experts tell us not to do that. to use a unique pw for every site. These are the same experts that also tell us to NEVER write down our logins and pws. WTF! Like, I can remember all of the places I have a login and pw to
Lets look at the list
kids school
amazon
work
fb
twitter
blogger
half a dozen shopping sites that I bought one thing on
goggle
email (dozen different accounts)
yahoo
Adwords
Dashbord Analytical crap
httH pool website
at least a dozen forums for both work and personal
bank1
bank2
all of my bills and each of their websites.
freecycle
so lets say about 50 average website...oh wait...with bills, probably 75. So...I am supposed to create unique logins and id's for each and everyone one of them cause if I dont and i get stolen, its my own fault. Please shoot me now. I walk upstairs intending to get something and by the time I have gone up 9 steps, I have forgotten what it was I was after. The pool website, like why do I need to have a login and pw to that?????, I only use each summer. So I'm supposed to remember that after 6 months or so of down time?
So...I have some of them written down...ok no, typed up in a file on my computer. And...if you are thief, there are more computes than people in this house, so good luck finding which one...oh well, ok, its this one...like I would put it on a computer I would have to get up and go to!
I only have some of them written down. And...I was smart...I wrote them down but didn't write next to them what they were for! HA. which of course has its own problems.
Click here to reset my password, yet again.
I still dont know where the smell is coming from?
So, I went to my blog page and when to login where I couldn't remember my login and pw. I know, hush..So I was sure I knew my login, my email address, even though I have like a dozen of them, I use basically one for all of my crap. So, i enter that in and then the most logical pw. wrong.
I have a bunch of pw's that I use over and over again with different sites. Gasp..I know..the experts tell us not to do that. to use a unique pw for every site. These are the same experts that also tell us to NEVER write down our logins and pws. WTF! Like, I can remember all of the places I have a login and pw to
Lets look at the list
kids school
amazon
work
fb
blogger
half a dozen shopping sites that I bought one thing on
goggle
email (dozen different accounts)
yahoo
Adwords
Dashbord Analytical crap
httH pool website
at least a dozen forums for both work and personal
bank1
bank2
all of my bills and each of their websites.
freecycle
so lets say about 50 average website...oh wait...with bills, probably 75. So...I am supposed to create unique logins and id's for each and everyone one of them cause if I dont and i get stolen, its my own fault. Please shoot me now. I walk upstairs intending to get something and by the time I have gone up 9 steps, I have forgotten what it was I was after. The pool website, like why do I need to have a login and pw to that?????, I only use each summer. So I'm supposed to remember that after 6 months or so of down time?
So...I have some of them written down...ok no, typed up in a file on my computer. And...if you are thief, there are more computes than people in this house, so good luck finding which one...oh well, ok, its this one...like I would put it on a computer I would have to get up and go to!
I only have some of them written down. And...I was smart...I wrote them down but didn't write next to them what they were for! HA. which of course has its own problems.
Click here to reset my password, yet again.
I still dont know where the smell is coming from?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
I try to be a good mom, but.....
Lordy! What a night..
I figure myself to be a good mother. Not perfect, but good. I dont coddle, ok fine, maybe I coddle K3 a little, but he is my youngest, and I have backed off of that cause he is ticking me off lately. But, I dont coddle to much, I give my kids their freedom, to a degree. I dont entertain them, I force them to play and do things for themselves. (I just stared a new pair of socks afterall) I dont buy them everything they want no matter how much the beg and plead.
When they get hurt, I take care of them, but still force them to take care of themselves to a degree. Yes, when K2 had a broken leg, I made her get her own drink when she was able. But I see that along the lines of good parenting. When they get sick, I show the appropriate amount of concern and sympathy depending on the illness. High fevers, get hugs and tylenol, blankets, cool washcloths on their foreheads. (my mom used to do that...the washcloth...still remember how good it felt)
But, oh but, I cannot handle the wailing. K2 was sick all afternoon and all evening last night. Both end kind of sick. Serious stomach cramps kinda sick. Dry heaving kinda sick. So, I put my good mom hat on, got her a small garbage can, a heating pad for the stomach cramps, put a book on cd on her computer and tucked her into bed, cooing the words of caring and sympathy. And then...annoyed mom walked into the picture.
Ok, I get you are sick. I get it! We all get it. but really, every time you go into the bathroom, please stop whining my name, getting louder and louder. I go in there, you say your stomach hurts, I say I'm sorry..and then two minutes later you are yelling my name. This went on starting at about 3:30pm until well past 3am. and I do mean every 5 minutes. I was ready to strangle you, not literally please. I mean come on! I get it! I know you feel like crap. I KNOW. But please, please stop screaming my name every five minutes to tell me you dont feel good. Its not what you want. You dont want annoyed mom standing there, you want good mom, but you decided that you need annoyed mom to stand there and say, I know you are sick, what do you want me to do, I cannot be sick for you(althought I could do it alot quieter)I cannot do anything for you, go back to bed.
So...sigh...K2 was able to take good caring mom and turn me into annoyed please shut up and dont say my name again mom. I actually told K2, after I got her a warm blanket and set her up on the couch with the tv on her favorite show and a garbage can in front of her this morning , to please not say my name for a while.
How quick they are able to turn us from loving and caring and feeling oh so bad for them, to dear god just shut up moms.
I figure myself to be a good mother. Not perfect, but good. I dont coddle, ok fine, maybe I coddle K3 a little, but he is my youngest, and I have backed off of that cause he is ticking me off lately. But, I dont coddle to much, I give my kids their freedom, to a degree. I dont entertain them, I force them to play and do things for themselves. (I just stared a new pair of socks afterall) I dont buy them everything they want no matter how much the beg and plead.
When they get hurt, I take care of them, but still force them to take care of themselves to a degree. Yes, when K2 had a broken leg, I made her get her own drink when she was able. But I see that along the lines of good parenting. When they get sick, I show the appropriate amount of concern and sympathy depending on the illness. High fevers, get hugs and tylenol, blankets, cool washcloths on their foreheads. (my mom used to do that...the washcloth...still remember how good it felt)
But, oh but, I cannot handle the wailing. K2 was sick all afternoon and all evening last night. Both end kind of sick. Serious stomach cramps kinda sick. Dry heaving kinda sick. So, I put my good mom hat on, got her a small garbage can, a heating pad for the stomach cramps, put a book on cd on her computer and tucked her into bed, cooing the words of caring and sympathy. And then...annoyed mom walked into the picture.
Ok, I get you are sick. I get it! We all get it. but really, every time you go into the bathroom, please stop whining my name, getting louder and louder. I go in there, you say your stomach hurts, I say I'm sorry..and then two minutes later you are yelling my name. This went on starting at about 3:30pm until well past 3am. and I do mean every 5 minutes. I was ready to strangle you, not literally please. I mean come on! I get it! I know you feel like crap. I KNOW. But please, please stop screaming my name every five minutes to tell me you dont feel good. Its not what you want. You dont want annoyed mom standing there, you want good mom, but you decided that you need annoyed mom to stand there and say, I know you are sick, what do you want me to do, I cannot be sick for you(althought I could do it alot quieter)I cannot do anything for you, go back to bed.
So...sigh...K2 was able to take good caring mom and turn me into annoyed please shut up and dont say my name again mom. I actually told K2, after I got her a warm blanket and set her up on the couch with the tv on her favorite show and a garbage can in front of her this morning , to please not say my name for a while.
How quick they are able to turn us from loving and caring and feeling oh so bad for them, to dear god just shut up moms.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
A note to my husband....
Dear Honey,
It has been a long tough rode. But we have traveled through it together, hand in hand, standing with our faces towards the wind, daring it to push us back. We refused to back down, refused to feel sorry for ourselves. We worked together, and stood firm. You worked hard, achieved the near impossible, and I am very proud of you for that.
So....perhaps you are thinking that you are back in the office already? See, in the office, they have people to do things for you. They have things to take in and out the garbage...so, I am thinking you are daydreaming ahead..as you have walked past our 6 garbage cans three times today and not brought them back from the curb. We do not have a janitoral staff to do this, and I dont do garbage.
So, my darling, get off your lazy ass and quit walking past the damn garbage cans! They will not make it back into the house by themselves!
It has been a long tough rode. But we have traveled through it together, hand in hand, standing with our faces towards the wind, daring it to push us back. We refused to back down, refused to feel sorry for ourselves. We worked together, and stood firm. You worked hard, achieved the near impossible, and I am very proud of you for that.
So....perhaps you are thinking that you are back in the office already? See, in the office, they have people to do things for you. They have things to take in and out the garbage...so, I am thinking you are daydreaming ahead..as you have walked past our 6 garbage cans three times today and not brought them back from the curb. We do not have a janitoral staff to do this, and I dont do garbage.
So, my darling, get off your lazy ass and quit walking past the damn garbage cans! They will not make it back into the house by themselves!
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