Time flies

For some reason, last night, I was DREADING going in to work this morning. I don't know why, I just was. It's not that I have to get up early anymore (my last job, I had to be there at 7am), I don't have to be in the office until 8:30, but I just did NOT want to go to work today and I was already dreading it last night while getting ready for bed! I need the money, but I just wasn't feeling the work thing today! I went in and before I knew it, the guy on the other side of the partition in front of my desk (Chris) was hanging up his headset to go to lunch! I looked at the clock and it was already 11am! The next hour flew by and I was out the door for lunch! YAY! Short as it was, I came back a couple of minutes late (my son was trying to talk me into taking him to a friends house and I had to explain to him that I had a limited amount of time before I had to be back!). Then, I got SO involved in my work, I didn't even think to look up at the clock. I decided to go and fill my cup back up with ice water and get more products to enter into the computer from the warehouse and when I came back to my desk, I happened to look up and it was already 4:45!!!!!!!! Only 15 min. until time to clock out and GO HOME!!!!!!!! I was so happy! And it seemed like it had only been an hour since I came back from lunch! Time had flown by! I don't usually get that involved in my work, but I was enjoying entering the product info in the computer! I wish that was the ONLY thing I had to do at work. I love the phone work, but sometimes, it's so hard and people can ask the STUPIDEST questions! Someday, I will be able to do what I went to school for...Nursing. I want to go back to school and get my RN, but we are so hard pressed for money right now, that it's just not in the cards for me. Maybe when I get my taxes back, I can go to school in the evenings...it may take me longer, but I don't care...it will be SO worth it in the long run! Well, that's it for tonight! The kids need baths and I'm tired! Susan

Not sure how much more I can handle!!!!!!!

Well, like I said before, this was going to be my way of "venting". It's been a few days since I was here...lost the internet connection for a few days, but back up and running now.
Starters...today was rough for me. The whole holiday weekend was rough for me! Let's just be honest! My daughter, Jaelynn, has been poked and prodded so many times in the last month, I just want to crawl into a hole and take her with me and never come back out! Her poor little body has been through sooooo much lately! She had her appendix out about 3 weeks ago, I missed 3 days of work because of it. While she was there, she caught a slight cold...which is now pneumonia. I didn't send her to head start today because I knew she wasn't feeling good, so I took her to her God mother's house who is my best friend Chrissy, all so I would be able to go to work...in an attempt to not miss anymore days for a while! Well, about 10:30, Chrissy calls me and says that Jaelynn has a temperature and I should come pick her up. (Chrissy watches 3 other kids in her home and she didn't want them to catch Jaelynn's cold) So, when I got there, Jaelynn's little body was so weak and limp! She scared me so bad! I scooped her up in my arms wrapped in a blanket and we headed off to the ER. She just saw a Dr. yesterday at Urgent Care at the Pediatricians office and they did a chest X Ray there and said it was just "bronchitis". Well, when they did another X Ray this morning at the ER, it had turned into pneumonia and her temp was almost 104 when I got her into the triage nurse. This is ALL I need right now! I haven't been at my job very long and they are really understanding, but I know from being a manager that there is only so many excuses you can accept! I'm afraid I am reaching the last one or two I can get away with. It's killing me inside because I wish I could afford to stay home with her and not have to get her out in the morning to go to school, but I don't have that luxury yet. Which brings me to my next reason for needing to "vent". Never in my LIFE have I ever seen two grown ass men more lazier then the two that live here with me! Travis and his cousin Lance are so f***ing lazy it's pathetic! Friday night, I did the dishes...not my turn, but I was afraid they were going to walk away with themselves after sitting in the sink for 2 days and no one touching them! Anyways, I used the last of the dish soap and asked Travis to run to the $ store (a BLOCK away mind you!) and he says "Ok, just a minute, let me finish this game". So, I agreed...unwillingly...but I wasn't in the mood to fight with him over dish soap! So, tonight I asked Lance if he would mind doing the dishes after dinner so that I could give the baby a warm bath and try to get her temp back down before she went to sleep. He said he would and then says "Oh, I can't...there's no SOAP."!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just glared at Travis! I swear! Some people amaze me! Like these two! How are they able to survive WITHOUT A BRAIN BETWEEN THEIR EARS????? Just today, I was telling my son that it was "too bad most men think with what God put between their legs instead of what he put between their ears!". Well, anyways...HALF of the dishes got done, after Travis realized that I didn't give a rats ass if they sat there for the next 6 months...I was NOT going to give in and go to the store and leave my sick child here with these two numb nuts! And one more little story before I go...I took a bath with Jaelynn (trying to kill two birds with one stone...easier to for me to help her feel better and less water used!) and as soon as she was out, dried off and had her PJ's on and was downstairs with my 12 year old son who was engrossed in his new Tony Hawk American Wasteland game for his X Box...dumb ass #1 and #2 were out the door to go to the grocery store! I would have NEVER known they were gone except Jaelynn and Jordan started arguing and she was crying! I got out of the tub and hollered downstairs to Jordan "What's going on down there?" He says "She won't quit kicking me!" while Jaelynn is trying to yell over him "He won't stop tickling me!" I said "WHERE IS TRAVIS?" Jordan says "I don't know, he went somewhere in his car with Lance" So, as you can imagine, I am fuming by this time! The only thing that keeps running through my mind is this...THERE REALLY ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE THIS STUPID AND IRRESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Those were the best days of my life!!!!"

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their

tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were

growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every

morning ... uphill BOTH ways ... yadda, yadda, yadda.



And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there

was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that

on kids; about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that ....


I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around

and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy. I mean,

compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I

hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've
got it!


I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted

to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it

up ourselves, in the damn card catalog.


There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ...

with a pen! Then we had to walk all the way across the street and

put it in the mailbox, and it would take a week to get there!


There were no MP3s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music,

you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it

yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio

and the dj'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!


And talk about hardship? We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting!

If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID boxes either! When the phone

rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your

mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections

agent ... you just didn't know!! You had to pick it up and take your

chances!



We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-

resolution 3 - D graphics!! We had the Atari 2600! With games like

"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids", and the graphics sucked! Your

guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!

And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one
screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder
and harder and faster and faster until you died! ... Just like LIFE!!


When you went to the movie theater, there was no such thing as

stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or

some old broad with a big hat sat in front of you and you couldn't

see, you were just screwed!


Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15

channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was

on!


You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get
off your ass and walk over to the tv to change the channel. And

there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
on Saturday morning. Do you hear what I'm saying?? We had to

wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat - bastards!!



And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up

we had to use the stove or go build a freakin' fire ... imagine that!

If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop stuff and

shake it over the stove forever like an idiot!


That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it

too easy. You're spoiled.


You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!!