CintheHood

Feeling better today; went to work so that helped, I think.Got another voice mail from a teacher:  not doing his work, not coming back to finish any work.  I had my son listen to the voice mail. ...

Growing up, things happen to you, but they don't necessarily make you feel like you're a "victim".  You just deal with things & work with the hand that you're dealt.Today was different.  We were...

Well, it was my 46th birthday yesterday.  No big celebration, except that I ate myself silly & probably shouldn't have done that!  But whatever...back to exercise!I got lots of nice wishes on...

I was looking thru December's entries...boy, was I crabby!  I do remember feeling a great need to journal on DS.  I was surely a pressure cooker, needing to blow off steam before exploding!So I'm...

Well, my husband comes home yesterday & says he was "almost fired", but wouldn't say exactly why.  "it was a number of things."  (OK)  But he just got a disciplinary warning & is on probation for...

Had a major (verbal) fight w/son before Christmas.  He was playing Wii & getting increasingly angry & starting to spin out of control.  I told him to start playing & he got very verbally abusive...

Been beyond wit's end w/my son lately.  this year, he started out pretty good being on time.  then he started cutting it close.  Now he's not even getting out of the house till 7:30 (when school...

One happy thing, that makes me update my status to a , is that my favorite cousin just gave birth to a daughter!  (A new little person to put on the family tree!)  She had to be induced, but the...

Good:  got my car back from the body shop.  Not only does it look great, they cleaned it at the car wash, INSIDE and out!  (I'm terrible with that.)  Rental didn't cost too much, thanks to...

What is wrong with everyone?  Or is it just me?  And if it's just me, why?  I nearly get run off the road by 2 cars in a row this morning, my son was late AGAIN, one of the guys I work for...

Just checking in.  Been super-busy @ work lately.  Even worked today.  It's been pretty stressful.  I know it's affecting me outside of work; I have absolutely no patience & have been kind of...

The truth is that I am a failure as a mother.  Everything I've been led to believe (especially about the power of nurture) was wrong.  Even if you "follow the experts' advice" and give 'em a lot of...

I feel like curling up into the fetal position. Got yet ANOTHER voice mail from 1 of my son’s teachers (geometry), saying he hasn’t handed in any homework lately. Also, he hasn’t finished his...

there are a number of verses in Eccesiastes that say how life, or doing certain things in life, is all meaningless.  This is just how I feel right now.  I feel that I've invested so much in my...

I’m in a perfectly foul mood today. It seems that the world is full of jerks & there are very few nice people. This is why we can’t have world peace: because the jerks just have to be jerks! I...