Hey, raise the roof: I got a raise! That made my day. My boss conducted my annual performance review and my performance merited a raise. I was expecting, if anything, a big fat �you suck so get out�. After all, I�ve not been myself this year. I spent a lot of time red-eyed, red-nosed, anxiety ridden and tense. I wasn�t really here a lot, or I didn�t want to be anyway thanks to Rod*ney A-Hole Linc*oln�s DNA review.
Yay, more money! (I just hope it doesn�t push me up into another tax bracket. That would suck. )
Jackie�s teacher is up to her shenanigans again. Yesterday afternoon Jackie�s table was going to the bathroom and getting a drink. Jackie didn�t go to the bathroom, so instead she got a drink. Yet she was accused of making a lot of noise in the bathroom. She got a checkmark for it. Mrs. Roseybutt gave her a yellow, which means Jackie was not too many steps from losing 10 minutes of recess. As if the poor kids aren�t cooped up enough, they want to punish them by taking recess.
I know my daughter�s no angel, but I really feel, in all my experiences with this teacher, that she�s picking on my kid. I don�t appreciate her negativity or her sarcasm. It�s really not appropriate for the teacher to act that way. If Jackie has to follow rules for behavior, it�s only right that the teacher should have to follow the same rules of engagement.
So Jackie�s teacher has now been dubbed �The Queen of Mean� (I am so very clever!). You know, usually, I�d advocate for the teacher. However, this woman has been nothing but ignorant to me and the other parents on a regular basis. I just don�t like the lady. How can you accuse a student of something if you weren�t there?
As far as the sitch with my sister Renee: I know I should support her, but how do I support her without enabling her to stay in a dangerous relationship? Maybe my opinion doesn�t matter that much anyway about who she�s with anyway.
Doesn�t it occur to her that her family hates him for a reason? Renee�s not old enough to remember, but I know what our family went through when mom was being stalked. I remember how devastated the family was when mom was killed. None of us wants the situation to repeat itself. It seems though that Renee is in the middle of one very ugly self-destructive streak.
I decided that for Valentine�s Day she�s going to get a VHS copy of �Enough� in the mail from me. I�m going to tell her I know it�s one of her favorite movies. I do think she�ll be smart enough to know that it�s more than just a kind gesture.
I�m going to be looking for some domestic violence information, and I think it would do me good to find a bulletin board of domestic abuse survivors so that I could talk over my feelings about it. I�m so�sore and hurting inside..about this decision my sis made to get back with her abuser. It makes me want to cry. I feel so distraught and saddened. Worse, I�m really worried about her kids, what they�ll see and hear. They�re just little kids. They are my nieces and I love them dearly. I�m sure it seems to them sometimes that they never get the attention they deserve.
I think maybe I�ll write both the girls a letter every couple of weeks so that I can establish a dialogue with them. Maybe I can be a positive force in their lives. Oh, I really wish I didn�t have to go there. I wish I could just be fun Aunt Melissa. Now I feel like I must take on a more proactive role with my nieces unless I want them to end up like my sis. Sigh.
14:49 - Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004
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