Reality Me

I’m home alone with 3 7 yr old boys. I think I’ll hide somewhere. 3 capable brains all failing to think at once is entirely too much. How does a 2nd grade teacher manage!

My mother-in-law referred me to a job that pays $7/hr. My father-in-law referred me to a job that pays $55k/yr. So, which one holds me in higher regard? 🙂

* Ok. So I went and voted in the preliminaries. I would feel good about myself if it wasn’t for the fact that every time I step into a voting booth I realize there is so much more about politics that I really should understand. It makes me wonder that knowing what I know, how many people vote with no knowledge at all? “That names sounds similar to my uncle; he must be a good guy.” “I saw him on tv the most. He’s the guy!” It’s frustrating because I’d like to run out there and shake everyone and say “Do you know what you are doing?!” By pushing those buttons in the voting booth, we are deciding the future of our children’s lives, their education needs, our whole way of life; and they expect only 17% of registered voters to even bother showing up. It’s scary when you think about it because at some point it becomes an issue of economics and buying the right percentage of voters.

Wow! Makes you appreciate what we pay for a computer now-a-days. Let me re-iterated: 1989, 2 MB RAM, 256,000 Colors (wow! 18 bit)!

Spent the morning blogging, surfing, setting up Act, composing a letter to a friend in hopes that he can help me find a job and taking phone calls.

So I’m confused. On election day, we close the schools because we don’t want strangers walking around the campus with our innocent children about. It’s a safety issue. BUT today, for the primaries, the schools are in session and the same voting machines are in the gymnasiums and the same strangers are mucking about. WHY?

Isn’t this the same category of stupidity as we see at the airports when they confiscate your nail clippers at the security checkpoint then behind the secure area they sell you the same nail clippers at the gift shop?

Driving to school I was thinking about my lack of effort at finding a job, the baby was crying and the 13 yr old was babbling and we nearly had a headon collision.

Being one of the 43 million uninsured families, this scared some reality into me! Additionally the baby still has a lump on her left breast that we haven’t had checked out for fear of getting labeled a ‘pre-existing condition” and becoming completely uninsurable.

The baby is a joy. She holds her head high and is so confident. She cried in the car because her milk was stuck between her and the seat. After that was resolved she talked and talked and read her book.

This morning when I changed her, I found 2 pacifiers in her pajamas!

Stress level is high today but in check.

Baby is screaming. I should have had her up 20 minutes ago. Got lost on the computer. Bad dad! Bad dad! Time to take the 13 yr old to school. I guess the baby is coming along.

I found it interesting to note that the employment section of Sunday’s paper is no longer called “Careers”; it is now called “Jobs.” That says a lot!

A New Day!

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This Morning

* Woke at 2am and refueled fire. Couldn’t convince myself to stay up and work.

* Sufficiently freaked at not having a job and insurance yet. I MUST secure something.

* Woke the 10 yr old at 6:09 and told her that the 7 yr old and I are leaving at 7:00 that she should be ready to go. Normally it takes her the entire 50 minutes to be ready. Today she has homework and really should take a bath. Gonna be rough!

Last Night

Battled with the 13 yr old in a war of attrition as we each wanted to give into sleep. I finally added wits to it and put the portable motion alarm back in the kitchen. Only thing, I couldn’t get it to work but Tommy thought it was there.

Too tired. Need sleep.