Thanksgiving is just around the corner and there are so many things that I am thankful for, so I decided to break my list into 2 sections. The first half of my list is my true blessings in life. The second half of my list is the things that I am glad that I/everyone has but is not often thought of. So here we go and may all of you have an amazing Thanksgiving with those that you love.
Top 10 Things/People I Am Thankful For:
1. My amazing, loving, drive me crazy daughter, Sabrina
2. My parents - they may drive me nuts but without them I would not be able to make it through everything I have
3. My family - I love my sistas, nieces and nephew.
4. Friends - they are the family of my choosing and their support and humour has gotten me through a ton.
5. My puppies - they are new blessings that I recieved this year and they are sooo adorable.
6. Medication - let's face it without the meds I would be a way worse person. So thank you Ativan and Vicodin.
7. Deoderant - keep the stank away.
8. Toilet paper - I don't even want to think of what life would be like without it.
9. Soft, comfy beds - ahhhhh.
10. Free will - we sometimes screw ourselves but it's our choice.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
School Tantrum
Ok, no I am not talking about my 11 year old throwing a tantrum about going to school – thank gawd! I am talking about me throwing a tantrum about school’s and school districts who do a crappy job about taking care of student’s that are labeled difficult . I am speaking from experience (being in the teaching field for several years and having a child) I have first hand knowledge of what schools can do to ruin your child’s potential and future.
I live in Southern California and for all of those who are reading this and saying “But the schools are so overcrowded and there isn’t enough staff” – to you I say “Abso-freakin-lutely!” In our schools it is about crowd control in the classrooms. Where classrooms used to be places of learning and social skills acquisition it has now become survival of the smartest and most manipulative. Our classrooms are filled beyond capacity and the teachers are completely overwhelmed. However, that is no reason that the kids that are difficult need to be dropped into a veritable black hole.
Here’s how it works – if a kid is going through a rough time (for whatever reason) and they are judged by a single teacher as problematic then that kid has been sentenced that way for all of the staff of the school and the district and thus their chance ends. It amazes me the stories that I have heard and seen of the kids who are having problems and are judged and given up on.
I do not exaggerate this – it happens constantly to all types of students for all different reasons and it needs to stop! The kids are treated as a problem and a bother and given little to no help. Many students and parents pull their hair out over this because once judged there is no changing it. Schools can screw up and end a student’s academic future without even blinking and they should be taken to task.
I live in Southern California and for all of those who are reading this and saying “But the schools are so overcrowded and there isn’t enough staff” – to you I say “Abso-freakin-lutely!” In our schools it is about crowd control in the classrooms. Where classrooms used to be places of learning and social skills acquisition it has now become survival of the smartest and most manipulative. Our classrooms are filled beyond capacity and the teachers are completely overwhelmed. However, that is no reason that the kids that are difficult need to be dropped into a veritable black hole.
Here’s how it works – if a kid is going through a rough time (for whatever reason) and they are judged by a single teacher as problematic then that kid has been sentenced that way for all of the staff of the school and the district and thus their chance ends. It amazes me the stories that I have heard and seen of the kids who are having problems and are judged and given up on.
I do not exaggerate this – it happens constantly to all types of students for all different reasons and it needs to stop! The kids are treated as a problem and a bother and given little to no help. Many students and parents pull their hair out over this because once judged there is no changing it. Schools can screw up and end a student’s academic future without even blinking and they should be taken to task.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Bring Me the Freaky
So I’m driving along with a friend yesterday and I look over to see this man in the car next to us and I do a double-take. The man has a small, thin beard which he has made into two horn/spikes sticking out from his chin. Yes, I do mean out and not down, from his chin. Oh my God!!
Now some people would get freaked out by this sort of thing but not me – me, I want to go talk to him. It’s just the type of person I am. The more freaky/strange/weird you look them more I want to grab you and sit down and talk.
Now I live in Southern California and so I get to see a fair share of interesting looking people – ones with their faces covered in tattoos and piercings, ones with their tongue split to look like a snakes, ones with so much plastic surgery done that you want to lift up their foot and look for the Barbie stamped into the bottom. You gotta love the need that people have to be INDIVIDUALS. To all of them out there I say thank you and keep on with your freaky self.
Now some people would get freaked out by this sort of thing but not me – me, I want to go talk to him. It’s just the type of person I am. The more freaky/strange/weird you look them more I want to grab you and sit down and talk.
Now I live in Southern California and so I get to see a fair share of interesting looking people – ones with their faces covered in tattoos and piercings, ones with their tongue split to look like a snakes, ones with so much plastic surgery done that you want to lift up their foot and look for the Barbie stamped into the bottom. You gotta love the need that people have to be INDIVIDUALS. To all of them out there I say thank you and keep on with your freaky self.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Autumn is Among Us
I’m a list person by nature and need. My freaky brain disease (Intracranial Hypertension) makes it necessary now to make lists if I want to remember to get or do just about anything. As I’m listening to the sucks like hell wonderful Santa Ana winds blow through our town I began to ruminate on a list of what signals to me that the seasons have changed and Fall is here.
You know Fall is here when…
1. The leaves change (now I don’t personally know of this phenomenon because I live in Southern California, but I hear it’s beautiful).
2. The air is cool (Ok, really it ranges from the 90’s to the 30’s but whatever) and crisp
3. You can bring out your cool weather clothes: comfy jeans, warm and fuzzy sweaters, furry boots.
4. Popcorn balls (I could eat my weight in those yummy treats)
5. Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere
6. Furry legs (c’mon ladies you know it’s true, as soon as we bring out those cold weather clothes we stop shaving every day and go to shaving every week or so and it’s great!!).
Welcome Autumn we have been waiting for you.
You know Fall is here when…
1. The leaves change (now I don’t personally know of this phenomenon because I live in Southern California, but I hear it’s beautiful).
2. The air is cool (Ok, really it ranges from the 90’s to the 30’s but whatever) and crisp
3. You can bring out your cool weather clothes: comfy jeans, warm and fuzzy sweaters, furry boots.
4. Popcorn balls (I could eat my weight in those yummy treats)
5. Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere
6. Furry legs (c’mon ladies you know it’s true, as soon as we bring out those cold weather clothes we stop shaving every day and go to shaving every week or so and it’s great!!).
Welcome Autumn we have been waiting for you.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Gigantic Boobs
So I’m twittering back and forth with my sisters about the pros/cons of gigantic boobs vs. tiny boobs. See I’m the well endowed one of four girls. On the day my oldest sister got her first bra so did I, and I was the bigger size. Since then I have come to the conclusion that there is a conspiracy against large breasted women.
Those of us with melons have to buy more expensive, yet completely ugly bras. What’s up with that? You bra manufacturers are against us. We get few choices and no cute colors or designs - I say we revolt! Women of all sizes should band together and refuse to wear bras until those that are gigantic are treated as fairly as the tiny-perkys.
Oh wait… just got a mental picture of us without our over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders and big, saggy boobs are not impressive – never mind, revolts off. But we still deserve cute bras!!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Child Slut Costume
So I’m listening to the radio and I hear the DJ talking about when is it appropriate to let your child wear a sexy(slutty) costume? “I’m sorry, what??” I could not believe what I was hearing. To me that question is kind of a no brainer or an oxymoron. Child and slutty do not belong together, thus the oxymoron. If your child is still dressing up for Halloween and still lives at home it is NOT appropriate to let them wear something slutty – duh!!
I kind of want to slap the DJ for even asking that question, but more than that I want to meet the person who genuinely asked that question. I want to see that person and their children and just people watch them for awhile because I can just imagine the stories you would come away from that household with. I envision “Child Bride” or “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” type headlines from that house.
I’m all for kids dressing up and having fun on Halloween. It is a time to use their imagination and let it run wild – they can be anything for that one day. And yeah, get all the candy loot you can (especially if you share it with mommy). But it is not a time for your child to try out their sexuality while trick-or-treating.
Slutty is best left for when you’re an adult who is not out trying to score candy but trying to score something a whole lot different.
I kind of want to slap the DJ for even asking that question, but more than that I want to meet the person who genuinely asked that question. I want to see that person and their children and just people watch them for awhile because I can just imagine the stories you would come away from that household with. I envision “Child Bride” or “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” type headlines from that house.
I’m all for kids dressing up and having fun on Halloween. It is a time to use their imagination and let it run wild – they can be anything for that one day. And yeah, get all the candy loot you can (especially if you share it with mommy). But it is not a time for your child to try out their sexuality while trick-or-treating.
Slutty is best left for when you’re an adult who is not out trying to score candy but trying to score something a whole lot different.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Soundtrack of Your Life
As I was driving along listening to music I started wondering, “If I had a soundtrack to go with my life what songs would be on it?” I have always loved soundtracks for the variety of different songs that you get on them, but also for the meaning that is behind each song. A song can aptly express so much emotion and thought.
I started to think about recent events and the songs that would go with them. Yes this song for this last relationship and then this song for my daughter, and so on. As I started to catalog the songs in my head it made me think of how cool would it be to play the soundtrack to your life at your funeral? But that would have to be a long funeral for all the songs you would want – so even better would be to hand out the soundtrack of your life to people at your funeral? They could take the soundtrack home and listen to it and think of you. They could guess at the meaning or reason behind each song and remember the good and bad of your life through your music choices.
What a great idea - it inspires me to start creating the soundtrack to my life now - don’t want to forget a great song or a memory that I feel needs to be captured. So what songs would you use for the soundtrack to your life?
I started to think about recent events and the songs that would go with them. Yes this song for this last relationship and then this song for my daughter, and so on. As I started to catalog the songs in my head it made me think of how cool would it be to play the soundtrack to your life at your funeral? But that would have to be a long funeral for all the songs you would want – so even better would be to hand out the soundtrack of your life to people at your funeral? They could take the soundtrack home and listen to it and think of you. They could guess at the meaning or reason behind each song and remember the good and bad of your life through your music choices.
What a great idea - it inspires me to start creating the soundtrack to my life now - don’t want to forget a great song or a memory that I feel needs to be captured. So what songs would you use for the soundtrack to your life?
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