musings, ponderings, rantings, ravings, observations....

Any and all of the above may be seen in this update......

For the last month and a half I have been running the store....boss man at another store in another state doing a reset.....no problem, except that when he is not there, at least one someone in the building, and maybe even from another store, sees fit to go running to him if I fart wrong....after i had my mental breakdown one week, I decided I really couldn't give a rat's rear end. I don't have time for the stupid ass junior high games some people play. I know that in every job there are those who love you, those who hate you, and those who can go either way. There is always someone ready to stab you in the back, and usually there is someone who has your back, but not always. So Monday boss man comes back and I am fully prepared to hear how horribly I ran the place in his absence, and then tell him what I think.....hopefully in such a way as to not be fired outright, but get my point across......and then again maybe there will be no need......que sera sera...

I have discovered the absolute need to delegate more at home over the past couple of months. I simply do not have time for what needs to be done...therefore I have come to request, and at times, demand that the kids pick up a lot more slack....for the older ones, they need to know how to do basic household chores, as it is not too much longer before they will have to do for themselves. For my baby, I am just tired of the mess, so she is now responsible for her stuff. I do not help. I simply provide the trash bag when she gets mouthy about it...pretty well gets my point across and she gets it done, momentarily anyway...Tonight I fixed dinner, a baked pasta dish with salad and bread. When it was almost done, I called out that someone needed to toss the salad and set the table. My husband immediately comes in to help, as do both the boys. Shellie washes her hands and sends the neighbor girl home and Kate simply stands there. Never asks if she can help. Has sat on her ass all day watching tv. Now I've been gone a good lot of the day----Chris to ACT, going to yard sales and the grocery store, etc.....not home to make sure she does something constructive with her time. So I say, well I guess Kate can clean up the kitchen after we eat since she has sat around all day. She point blank says no.

I'm sorry. Since when does a child have the right to look at a parent and say No I will not do what you have told me to do? I would have been smacked through the floor for that. And then had to do it anyway. After dinner she goes in and plops her butt back on the couch in front of the tv. Chris is helping clean up. Ron comes in to help. Kate sits there. Even Ben lends a minor hand. So next time I fix a meal, Miss Thang is going to get to clean up all by herself. At 16 damn years old, I should think so.....

Onto bigger and better things.....I have been a little out of the loop in politics the last few weeks, quite honestly I haven't had the blood pressure to spare for the bullshit. However when the current sitting president has the balls to complain that the govt is not getting enough tax money because people aren't buying as much gas, so he wants to jack up the taxes on gas so the govt can get more money I suppose for more stupid ass bailouts for corporations that most likely deserve to die, well that pisses me off. I did change my driving habits after the freaking $4/gallon plus of gas last summer. Sorry Obamabobama, I WORK for a living. I work damn hard for my money and you and your fat ass cronies and pet projects that you're shoving down our throats do NOT deserve any more of it than is absolutely necessary. As they say in my neck of the woods--- Kiss my ass. Oh and you also want to tax my health care benefits. Up yours. Again I WORK for a living. Stay the hell out of my wallet. Stay the hell out of my life and I will be a very happy camper. I did not vote for you and would never have in a million years. No the other guy was not much of a better choice, but hell, stick with the evil I know instead of that I pray against.......

By the way, that is my right of free speech.....like it or not, I can state my opinion of you and your administration and its policies. It's my opinion. I am not a citizen of a communist country, although I fear we are headed rapidly that way under this administration/congress/supreme court.

Unlike what those in power for the last few decades think, there is a division of power in our federal govt (as well as state govt). The executive branch is the administrative branch. The legislative branch (House of Reps and Senate) is the law making branch. The supreme court is there to adjudicate disputes over the laws when they arise---sorry guys your job is not to make the law, simply to interpret it. The sooner ya'll realize this the better off the country as a whole will be.

My dad mentioned in his recent post an issue over the use of turn signals on vehicles in our state. Due to a misreading, I feel, of the law by our state supreme court. They state that a signal must only be used if other traffic is affected. Hello? Now I may have acquired my original driver's license in the state of Ohio, not WV, but I'm pretty sure the manual is explicit in that signals are to be used when turning or changing lanes so as to alert the drivers around you of your intended course of action and direction of movement. So now with much more traffic on the roads than there was 24 years ago when I received my license, I can just forget using my signal unless I think another person might possibly be affected by my intended actions? I guess that explains why my brakes wear out trying not to hit the person in front of me who must beleive that the fact he intends to turn with no warning--just hit the brakes and there you go, I have to be a mind reader now.....

I've had enough for tonight----must go push kids through showers.......