Our accounts for ALL OF 2010 - let me reiterate that, one entire year's worth of accounting for two businesses and our personal crap - needs to be synched from the heavenly wonderfulness that is online banking into Quickbooks Pro and then classified so I can give it to our accountant. Barf. I wonder if I can teach the kids how to do it?
Homework, homework, homework. The reading, the writing, the Community Service Learning project that requires a minimum of 20 hours of volunteer work with adolescents. The fieldwork for another project. The fucking 200-level geography class that requires an online mapping tool that is about as user friendly as DOS. (Why oh why didn't I get all my endorsement classes in before I graduated? Stupid me.)
Puppy, getting old and arthritic dog, chickens, goats, cats...the kids do most of the animal care but not without reminders. Every day. For every task. That don't get done otherwise.
Grandmother was not doing well in November and December which means lots and lots of doctor appointments, prescriptions to keep track of, blah, blah. Thank GODDESS she's better now (when Grandmother is happy, everyone is happy. When Grandmother is not happy, I want to throw myself in front of a train.) but it's been tough.
Plus all that regular crap like laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. Husband is a rock star in this department, I am a lucky woman.
So that's where I've been. But because I can't stand it anymore, here are my latest opinions on the news. Because I know you haven't been able to sleep at night not knowing what I think about them. You're welcome.
The Arizona shooting, holy shit what a mess. Along with the rest of the world I've been hoping and praying that the survivors come out ok and that the families of the dead can someday find peace with the whole thing. Thank you Ronald Reagan for gutting mental health care. Fucker. And if you haven't already, SIGN UP TO BE AN ORGAN DONOR! Tell your family you want your organs donated when you die. Tell them that if they don't donate your organs - because regardless of what your drivers license says, docs aren't going to harvest your organs if your next of kin won't let them - you will come back and haunt them in horrible and gruesome ways. Note to my family, I want my organs donated when I die. If you prevent that from happening I will visit you in your sleep and sing the worst earworm song ever. EVERY NIGHT.
This blog is a new favorite of mine. Yay for common sense replacing helicopter parenting!
I'm pretty sure that Amy Chua got a bum rap by the editors who published (and titled - wtf were they thinking?!) excerpts from her book as an essay but she still sounds like a condescending, stereotyping whack-job in this interview. Western parents and Chinese parents are single monoliths that can be reduced to permissive vs. strict? Wow, way to reduce two entire cultures into a sound bite. I'd like to read the book and see if it is as nuanced as she keeps claiming or if she's really just an attention whore. You know, in my spare time.
Joe Lieberman is retiring and I'm just as pissed as Emily Bazleton because I won't get to do my happy dance on election day when he loses. Jerk.
So what do you think? I'd love to hear your top stories or thoughts on these issues...
OK, you want opinions so here's mine. Tuscon shooting: why all the talk about gun control and hardly any mention of: our lack of mental health services, lack of mental health medical coverage; laws that prevent parents from forcing their mentally ill adult children to get treatment and drugs, laws that keep the violent mentally ill person on the streets to wreak havoc on innocent people. The Tuscon shooting is a mental health issue. I'm for gun control and regulation but seriously, this guy was ILL.
ReplyDeleteParenting: all about ommon sense, which seems uncommon these days. I learned about babies and kids from my mom and babysitting. So many women haven't had that experience. They're clueless. When you were 6 weeks old, I looked around my clean house, all chores done, baby sleeping and thought "What's the big deal? This is supposed to be overwhelming." It's what I had trained for, in fact.
Politics: I'm turned off. The news is either scarey (N. Korea) or disappointing (voters filling the House with tea partiers.) I'm giving up politics for lent. Maybe for 2011.
That's it, Darling Daughter. Love to see a new post. Miss your blogging when you're busy!
I'm glad you're blogging, I know how life can get in the way of that, believe me.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much agree with all that you said. I'm too lazy to go into more detail.
I just wanted to stop by and say, "Hi."