Let me just state that I LOVE my daughter and I LOVE my boyfriend.
That being said...I want to run away.
It seems like the two of them have been tag-teaming me the past few days. Jackie is up to her usual persnicketyness and he's been worrying me to death about stuff he should just leave alone.
Has anyone ever noticed that when your child is grounded that you are the one who suffers more than anything? Yes..Jackie got grounded for a week last Wednesday and she is permanently wedged up my buttcrack and I'm going a little nutty from the lack of personal space.
I am annoyed..okay, very annoyed at the two other people on the lease in this apartment. Last time I checked, it was three of us that live here...why the hell do I have to come home from a ten hour day at work today and find the dining room unvaccumed and a dirty plate on the living room floor?
David and Jackie do this thing where they make a point to each other. It drives me batshit. He won't pick up her mess because he wants her to do it herself..which I'm all for. She has been picking up after herself a lot better lately, but she left that damn plate with KETCHUP on it on the living room floor. Don't ask me why it was there, it just was. So Dave leaves the plate on the floor all day. I know he was trying to make a point about it but she has long since forgotten about the plate since she was at school all day.
Anyway..Dave has been FANTASTIC about helping me around the house, he really has. But I have to ASK him to do what he does. He doesn't just automatically do it. (Well, okay, a few times I came home and he had cleaned up).
So why is it that I come home after being at work all day and my dining room floor looks like the ground after a carnival's been through and why the hell is the plate still on the floor?
He could've made her pick it up when she got home from school, after all, I wasn't here when she got home.
I just asked her to pick up the plate. SIMPLE! She picked it up. We move on.
By the way, I'm a devil incarnate for grounding her..according to her. There's no way in hell she was getting away with the shit she pulled last week. Her behavior was totally out of control. I made her write an essay about what she did and what she's going to do to prevent it next time. I made her write apology letters to David, CW (her little friend) and Ariel. And of course she was grounded. Maybe a little heavy-handed but I think she knows now I mean business.
I would never hit my daughter but I was so tempted to smack her little mouth for some of the stuff she said that got her grounded. She's lucky I don't do that stuff..but I was tempted.
I've had headaches the past few days but realized that the medication I had stopped taking in October was not only a diuretic but also a prescription for high blood pressure. That explains why I totally lost my mind so many times this fall. My doctor never told me it was a high blood pressure medication..and stupid me thought it was for one thing when really, it's used to treat an actual problem and it's symptoms.
I picked up the prescription on Saturday morning and I realize now that no amount of money is worth me getting myself sick because of stress and high blood pressure. So, I also found out that the medication is relatively cheap and I'm relieved..because my moods are starting to return to normal.
I have to be at work at 6 again tomorrow morning. 10 hour days can kick your butt. I hate Mondays anyway..so I'm especially crabby and I'm all like "make your own fricking dinner, sandwiches come to mind" because I'm always in a shitty mood on Mondays when I only have to work 8 hour days. I took the crabby up a notch today.
God I'm tired.
3:22 pm - April 02, 2007
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