Stupid Phone

I own a smart phone.  Except not.  It actually doesn't do most things that I would like for it to do, and frequently acts stupid.  The most maddening thing of all is that it insists upon sending messages to more than one person as a MMS message that when replied to by any member of the group sends that response to EVERYONE.  And now I feel like the ass for sending it that way, even though it would take a million years to send the entire team a note that the game is cancelled.  But I just know that all of the parents are ready to chop me up into little pieces because they have gotten a half dozen 'thank you' responses.  I am considering asking for witness protection.

Your Kid Is No Angel

Recently I have noticed a new phenomenon where parents defend their kids to the bitter end, even if that guy is a complete a-hole.  Say the school calls and says that little Johnny poked somebody in the eye with his pencil.  Instead of little Johnny getting the a$$ whipping he deserves, the parents spend every waking moment blaming the other kid for looking at him funny, the teacher for letting him have a pencil, the school for having teachers that would allow such craziness, and....well probably we could trace it all the way back to the hospital for not testing his hearing properly when he was born.  Does it ever occur to these people that their kid just might be an a-hole???  I mean, I go through life expecting that there will be some percentage of people that my kids just won't get along with.  I feel like that is normal.  Different personalities clash.  But if my kid is screwing around, bet your bottom dollar that he is going to be held accountable for his own actions.

Is there ever some point where it is appropriate to tell these parents that not only is there kid an inconsiderate brat, and that you're sure you know where they are getting it???  Apple, tree maybe??  Probably not, but I am going to give it a whirl.  I will post the results, ahaha!

Technology Dependence

Our email at work is not functioning properly.  I. CAN. NOT. HANDLE. IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I am so ready to jump.  From a very tall building.  Well, maybe not.  I am ready to drop my computer off of a very tall building!  I NEED my emails to come into my Outlook and be friends with all of my other emails.  Immediately after sent.  Not 3 hours later.  And yes, I can sort of check them on-line, but it is not the same.  [Insert temper tantrum]

It is a shame that this is what I have become.  I know that I should be able to function and be productive, yet I find myself pushing that damn send/receive button repeatedly.  Then I mope when it doesn't work or celebrate when it does.  Please let this day end soon.

To top it off, I called tech support.  That statement there should be enough.  The first time they told me they know there is an outage and they are working on it, but have no estimated time that it will be working.  Then I realized that I wasn't getting all of the emails on-line, so I called back.  The guy actually asked me if he could log in to my computer remotely to make sure I was refreshing correctly.  Are you serious right now???  No!!!!  I understand how that green thing works.  I am not a complete fricken idiot!!!  And then later it occurred to me that there must be people that stupid if he has to ask that.  What is happening in this world?

Sounds like...... well, no.

I was SUPPOSED to be on an awesome field trip today.  Due to the bombings yesterday, the school board cancelled all field trips out of our county.  Now, some would say that is a safety first kind of attitude.  And I agree....if we lived anywhere near there.

The bombings were in Boston, Massachusetts.  We were going to Baltimore, Maryland.  So far the only thing I have been able to link is that they are both B cities in M states.  Not the same B city or M state though.

Why are we teaching our children that when something bad happens we need to hide under our beds?  We are supposed to teach our kids to be scaredy cat nancies now???  Oh no.  Not me.  We are not going to stop living because there are bad people that do bad things, because guess what folks....we would never leave our house!!!!!!!!!!

Absentee Blogger

Helloooooooo!!!!

Man, I have been MIA for too long!  There have been so many things going on in the last few months, that I didn't really feel it appropriate to discuss here.  My emotions have been running too high, and I tend to sort of explode in those times.  So, I have taken a LOT of time to try to refocus my thoughts.  I have read wisdom from others.  I have talked to people.  I have PRAYED.  For the most part I think I have managed to maintain my sanity, even if I do have an enormous amount of anger that I am sure will never be worked out.  Which brings me to my next thought.....

How in the world am I supposed to move on with any sort of regular relationship with someone who has wronged me and my family?  None of the wrongs have been addressed, the person has not taken any responsibility what-so-ever for their actions, there has not (and probably never will be) any apology or any attempt to make it right.  To top that off, this person tried to put guilt on us for doing the right thing!!!  I am the guy that says screw you pal and writes you off.  But seeing as it's not my place to do that this time, I am left with a ton of confusion.  Do I even have any right to demand any sort of closure?  Or do we all just go with the flow here?  For now, I have one word:  stupid.

So now we are setting back into regular routines, just in time for schedules to get crazy with baseball.  AND my husband gets to go back to day shift, so I might actually get to see him some!  I am super excited about that!  It's been really tough not having him in the evening.  Not really that I can't handle the daily grind by myself, but I miss him terribly.  I do wish we could squeeze a get-away in soon, but I don't think our schedule is going to allow that.  We have too many things that we have had to push to the side recently anyway, so we need to get back to the projects we should have been working on.

I get to chaperone my oldest's son's class field trip tomorrow to a science center!  I am super excited!  He has really been into science lately, and I think we are going to have a lot of fun.  Hopefully I survive.  His class is all boys, so it should be interesting =)