I think my eyes (and brain) are turning to mush. I've been staring at this computer for waaaay too long. (been typing up articles the past couple o'days.) Seems I don't get headaches as easily as I used too -from staring at the screen. It's probably because I'm not "stressed" (lmao!), since that is what's suppose to be causing it (according to my quack of a doc ). Cause a stay-at-home-mom is quite the stressful job... all those deadlines, office parties, file folders, and so on. I don't think I'd make an awesome doctor, but seriously, I think I could do better than a few of 'em out there. I'm not special, anyone could do better than some of these folks I know. It's outrageous.
Here's how interesting my life has been this week:
Hey, I finally found (actually my husband found it for me... in another state) that Diet Dr. Pepper Chocolate Cherry pop that just came out. He brought me home a 20 oz bottle of it (by request!). That stuff is yummy! If you've not had a taste of it, I suggest you at least try it. The only problem is... your not going to be able to find it. Supposidly, they sell it in 12-packs and 2-Lt. (I've got coupons for it!) but I can't find them anywhere. If you see it sold in these portions... let me know! Right now, I'm drinking a Michelob Honey Lager, which is another of my favorite "beverages". Good stuff... I recommend trying this one too. How in the hell did I get on this subject(?), must be the slosh-brain taking over.
Had a function today. A valentine's function. Let me put this out there before I go any further with this: The area I live in (the county) is very very poor. Lots of welfare going on around here. I have no problem with "government assistance" IF the person receiving it is actually working and trying to help themselves. The one's I do have problems with are those who sit on their ever-growing ass all day watching General Hospital, eating 3 Family-Size bags of Snicker's Bars and guzzling Mountain Dew by the bottle (-that their food stamps bought them). OR, even worse, the ones that are so cracked out or drunk that they don't even know they have kids. The little bit of money that they do have is not spent on diapers- cause GPC cigs are more important. Having said this; the function I went to today was full of the latter. Not ALL of them are. There are some nice looking women in there with clean kids that are well-behaved. -Mom's that actually give a crap about their kids. Then, there are those that don't. There was a woman in there today that had a clean cut hole through one of her front teeth (black tinged of course). She had small sores all over her arms and face (and I'm sure the rest of her body too). She was dressed kinda scantily-clad (for a kid's function!) and she paid absolutely no attention to her 9 kids she had in tow. The poor little kids were all around the same age (little!) and dirty as ever. You'd have sworn these kids would have been playing outside all day... if it wasn't 9am. Their clothes were very very dirty, as were their little faces and hands. Come on now... I know they have water... or DFS would have them (if not, they should). How much does it cost to take a cloth and wipe your kids mouth and hands off. They're eating off those hands. There really is no excuse, money is not the issue, it's complete neglect. Jesus, at least get some birth control (that's cheap or free from Planned Parenthood- I think?!) so you don't have any more kids that the rest of the working class has to take care of. Some of them I don't even understand why they didn't just give the kid up for adoption... it's obvious they don't give a crap about the kid. My little brother is adopted from Guatemala. Those people down there have a ton of kids with 10 names a piece:
"Let's name him Jose... What(?)... What do you mean we already have a Jose(?)... His name is Jose Jesus... already one of those too huh(?!)... here it is.. Jose Jesus (the 3rd) Juarez Acorn Jr. the 32nd by the 5th power."
The people down there marry young and start shooting out babies as soon as they can (most the time they start this before they marry... I can't crap on that one too much *blush*). Anyway... the 10 kids they have, I think, is partly because they are irresponsible and don't really care about the child's well-being. The biological mother of my little brother at least had the brain to give away the kid(s) that she couldn't support. She wanted a better life for him, and she knew she couldn't provide it. Or maybe it's not as sugar-coated as I think it is: maybe she just didn't give a shit about the kid and she wanted the money. Either way... the woman gave the kid up to a family that DOES want him. There are people out there that desperately want kids but they can't (physically) have them... and then we got these others popping out kids left and right, and they don't even want 'em! ... Hey look, I'm rambling... Point being, take care of your frickin kid... or don't have any! (Just another rant of mine. I'll move along now.) Thank God I'm "unknown" here, or there would be a lot of crack-whores wanting to kick my ass right about now.
Tomorrow is V-Day. HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO ALL OF YA OUT THERE (--that want to be wished a happy valentine's)!! And those that do not: Love sucks, have a good day anyway! Happy Thursday.
