This is a warning for all those living within 50 miles of West Dundee, IL. There's a story behind this but I'm just writing this down for anyone who might be interested in buying a Kirby Vacuum.
If someone calls you from K&G Distributing AKA Kondos Galloy and Associates offering you a free carpet cleaning, RUN!! RUN!!! RUN FAR AWAY!!! Not only will they pester you to death with a daily sometimes hourly phone call offering you this, but they are rude when you decline and continue to call until you succomb and schedule.
- They will tell you it's a cleaning.
- They will tell you that there is no sales pitch involved.
- They will tell you it's only advertising and that it is only to get their name out there. When you are in the market for a really good vac, they are hoping that we will think of them first.
- They will ask you what kinds of stains you want removed from your carpet so they can make sure the rep brings the right cleaners.
- They will tell you not to enter the room for 40 minutes after the cleaning to allow the carpet to dry. AND, if you act today and schedule, THEY WILL THROW IN ANOTHER ROOM FREE!
- They will tell you that their rep will EVEN MOVE THE FURNITURE except for entertainment centers and china cabinets and other heavy things.
It's all a LIE.
My name was on their list. They hounded me daily for a few months. I learned not to answer the phone when the name Kondos Galloy appeared on my caller ID. Well, I guess they figured out the game. As I was sitting here doing my work, my phone rang and my caller ID indicated it was a "Private number." Since a couple of my children's friends numbers come up that way, I answered it. I got the above pitch and said..well what the heck? My carpet can use a good cleaning and it may be worth it just so these people will quit calling me.
Yes, someone showed up and I got a 1 hour sales pitch on this really neato system that could be mine to the tune of $1789.00. The sales guy called his "Manager" 3 times and said things like..HOW CAN WE OFFER HER THIS FOR SUCH A LOW PRICE?? WOW! WE CAN DO THAT FOR HER? THAT IS SO AWESOME!!! WE CAN OFFER HER THIS GREAT PAYMENT OPTION?? WOW!!! I DIDN'T KNOW WE COULD DO THAT..I"LL TELL HER..SHE LOVES IT!!
*Good God! it's not a used car! It's a f'n KIRBY *
Did the carpet get shampooed? Did I get my second room cleaned? Heck no! I got a portion of the carpet vacuummed and I did get a 12 inch x 12 inch square of the carpet cleaned for free!!!! And, the sales guy looked like a wounded animal when I told him no and said he didn't get paid for today's visit unless I bought the KIRBY or gave him names of other unsuspecting victims.
Well, my kids were absolutely enamored with this Kirby vacuum and said...DIANE would want one..So and so would love it. I gave the guy 6 names and then called my friends to warn them. I have spent the past week apologizing. To those of my readers getting hounded by Kondos Galloy aka K&G Distributing, I AM TRULY TRULY SORRY!!!! I really am. A couple of you have already mentioned to me that you are in Kirby vacuum HELL with these people.
www.bbb.com They are a member and I think though their approach may be legal and I actually do not know if it is or not, it is deceptive advertising and has caused me a considerable headache and alienation of several of my close friends. SORRY AGAIN GUYS..PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Just a few ramblings
It has been awhile since I have written anything. This whole month has been one challenge after another and I wish it would slow down. Here's the news in my world:
- I am appliance challenged...appliancely challenged? Something like that. My dishwasher AND the washing machine are done broken! As my luck would have it, they bit the dust within 5 days of eachother. As my life would have it, I have no money and have had NO time to go look for another so clothes and dishes have been washed by hand. Being a pioneer must have really SUCKED! They had to add killing their own food to the mix though and that is the only difference.
- I have been having problems with my back and neck. Woke up a week ago in so much pain, I couldn't move. So being that I have been especially crabby because of that, I really haven't felt much like writing or talking to anyone.
- I have had one heck of a time with my job.. I LOVE MY JOB. I LOVE MY JOB. I LOVE MY JOB. Our main vendor did a software upgrade a month ago. For those who work in Telecom, you know what happens after a software upgrade more often than not. . NOTHING WORKS. Of course they called it an "Enhancement." We called it ..... a lot of words I really shouldn't write or say in polite company. We should just cover a box in aluminum foil, add some ball bearings and packing peanuts and ship those out. They'd probably work just as well. In reality, my inbox is OUT OF CONTROL with messages from our project managers telling me how critical it is we have the stuff by lets say...tomorrow.
The good news is, my house still has a nice stock of coffee and good beer.
On another note, How many of us are burned out on hearing about Hurricanes? Last year Florida had 3 of them and we just laughed at them. NewOrleans gets hit with one and well...it's because God hates Lousiana. Folks, I think He hates Florida worse. And after 7 days of hearing nothing on the news besides Hurricane Rita, it was sort of anticlimatic now that she has hit. I just don't want to see anymore anchor people standing out side in the huge storm, talking about how awful it MIGHT be IF the storm moves just a few miles East or West. Yup guys..it's raining. Yup..there is stuff flying around that could hit people. The winds are blowing at 100 mph. I think that flying debris would be par for the course. Rita came. She went. She did no more damage than any other hurricane that has ever hit the coast and guess what... there will be more next year. I do not mean to sound insensitive. I gave to the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief willingly. I think it is terrible what happened to those on the Gulf after the hurricane and my heart goes out to those who lost everything. I was, on the other hand, disgusted with the casting of blame of whose fault it was, the looting, the rapes, the pillages, the whining, the yelling and the screaming from the press calling for the Almighty's resignation for sending a catagory 4 hurricane to NEW ORLEANS! Don't you know folks, that it's totally OK for a catagory 4 to hit Miami, Biloxi, Gulfport, and Tampa. But it is totally UNACCEPTABLE for a catagory 4 to hit New Orleans. Don't you know that America NEEDS Mardi Gras? What would the Girls Gone WIld producers do without it!? Yep, the levee broke. Yes, the government gave LA a bunch of money to fix it after the infamous Hurricane Camille. Did LA use it to fix the Levee? NOPE.. They used it for another project. Did they have an emergency plan to evacuate the city? Yes, they did. Did they implement it? NOPE Did the state of Louisiana know that they were suceptible to Hurricanes for lets say the last 200 years? SURE. Did they do anything when threatened again? NOPE. Ray Nagin has egg on his face. Ray Nagin says...how do I save my butt. Ray Nagin blames FEMA, THe president, The governor and God. VOILA! The fact that FEMA was out there within a week and it is a government agency is a miracle! Have you ever sat in the Social Security office? It takes a month just to get through the line. IT took FEMA a month to react to Category 3 Hurricane Floyd under Mr. Clinton's watch. Good job, Bill! Did the hurricane hit while you were soiling Miz Lewinsky's dress? This is just my view point. Unpopular though it may be! Our media makes me crazy! They are the biggest bunch of mass hysteria perpetrators. I can't believe that everything going on down there in LA after Katrina was bad. What about the millions of dollars of donations, the response of the red cross, the rescues, the people that are down there volunteering their time to help them rebuild? Can't we hear about that? The real story isn't that an act of God happened. The real story is that we Americans ARE taking care of our own. We are sending money. Sending blankets. Opening up our houses to people that lost everything. I think it's a testament to our country, our people, our way of life. A failure of leadership occurred, no doubt about it. But since we are all human and make mistakes, the story is not that we fell but how we rise after the fall. I have no doubt that the Gulf will be rebuilt, Mardi Gras will bloom again, and everyone will pick up their life.
- I am appliance challenged...appliancely challenged? Something like that. My dishwasher AND the washing machine are done broken! As my luck would have it, they bit the dust within 5 days of eachother. As my life would have it, I have no money and have had NO time to go look for another so clothes and dishes have been washed by hand. Being a pioneer must have really SUCKED! They had to add killing their own food to the mix though and that is the only difference.
- I have been having problems with my back and neck. Woke up a week ago in so much pain, I couldn't move. So being that I have been especially crabby because of that, I really haven't felt much like writing or talking to anyone.
- I have had one heck of a time with my job.. I LOVE MY JOB. I LOVE MY JOB. I LOVE MY JOB. Our main vendor did a software upgrade a month ago. For those who work in Telecom, you know what happens after a software upgrade more often than not. . NOTHING WORKS. Of course they called it an "Enhancement." We called it ..... a lot of words I really shouldn't write or say in polite company. We should just cover a box in aluminum foil, add some ball bearings and packing peanuts and ship those out. They'd probably work just as well. In reality, my inbox is OUT OF CONTROL with messages from our project managers telling me how critical it is we have the stuff by lets say...tomorrow.
The good news is, my house still has a nice stock of coffee and good beer.
On another note, How many of us are burned out on hearing about Hurricanes? Last year Florida had 3 of them and we just laughed at them. NewOrleans gets hit with one and well...it's because God hates Lousiana. Folks, I think He hates Florida worse. And after 7 days of hearing nothing on the news besides Hurricane Rita, it was sort of anticlimatic now that she has hit. I just don't want to see anymore anchor people standing out side in the huge storm, talking about how awful it MIGHT be IF the storm moves just a few miles East or West. Yup guys..it's raining. Yup..there is stuff flying around that could hit people. The winds are blowing at 100 mph. I think that flying debris would be par for the course. Rita came. She went. She did no more damage than any other hurricane that has ever hit the coast and guess what... there will be more next year. I do not mean to sound insensitive. I gave to the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief willingly. I think it is terrible what happened to those on the Gulf after the hurricane and my heart goes out to those who lost everything. I was, on the other hand, disgusted with the casting of blame of whose fault it was, the looting, the rapes, the pillages, the whining, the yelling and the screaming from the press calling for the Almighty's resignation for sending a catagory 4 hurricane to NEW ORLEANS! Don't you know folks, that it's totally OK for a catagory 4 to hit Miami, Biloxi, Gulfport, and Tampa. But it is totally UNACCEPTABLE for a catagory 4 to hit New Orleans. Don't you know that America NEEDS Mardi Gras? What would the Girls Gone WIld producers do without it!? Yep, the levee broke. Yes, the government gave LA a bunch of money to fix it after the infamous Hurricane Camille. Did LA use it to fix the Levee? NOPE.. They used it for another project. Did they have an emergency plan to evacuate the city? Yes, they did. Did they implement it? NOPE Did the state of Louisiana know that they were suceptible to Hurricanes for lets say the last 200 years? SURE. Did they do anything when threatened again? NOPE. Ray Nagin has egg on his face. Ray Nagin says...how do I save my butt. Ray Nagin blames FEMA, THe president, The governor and God. VOILA! The fact that FEMA was out there within a week and it is a government agency is a miracle! Have you ever sat in the Social Security office? It takes a month just to get through the line. IT took FEMA a month to react to Category 3 Hurricane Floyd under Mr. Clinton's watch. Good job, Bill! Did the hurricane hit while you were soiling Miz Lewinsky's dress? This is just my view point. Unpopular though it may be! Our media makes me crazy! They are the biggest bunch of mass hysteria perpetrators. I can't believe that everything going on down there in LA after Katrina was bad. What about the millions of dollars of donations, the response of the red cross, the rescues, the people that are down there volunteering their time to help them rebuild? Can't we hear about that? The real story isn't that an act of God happened. The real story is that we Americans ARE taking care of our own. We are sending money. Sending blankets. Opening up our houses to people that lost everything. I think it's a testament to our country, our people, our way of life. A failure of leadership occurred, no doubt about it. But since we are all human and make mistakes, the story is not that we fell but how we rise after the fall. I have no doubt that the Gulf will be rebuilt, Mardi Gras will bloom again, and everyone will pick up their life.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
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So, it's Wednesday, the day after Tuesday.. I had a really nice weekend! Our cabin ROCKS and boy did I need a Laborless Labor Day. After the frustrations of the week, the laptop, the job and everything else, it was very nice to go up there, drink microbrew, relax and hang out with family and good friends. Now, here I am..back at work. My stress headache is back. My stress backache is back and I even sent a couple resumes out tonight because I'm that disenchanted. But, enough whining. My creativity is out the window for the moment but it shall be back soon! In the meantime, check out my brothers blog and a really great little site that cracks me up every time!
http://www.itallendsnow.blogspot.com <--------------------- Joe's site
http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/ <--------------------- Chronicles of George.
http://www.itallendsnow.blogspot.com <--------------------- Joe's site
http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/ <--------------------- Chronicles of George.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Raindrops keep falling on my head.....
No dear reader...(I think at least one person reads these things) it is not raining here in sunny Chicagoland. It is raining on me. After working my buttkus off until Midnight last night, I awoke to a dead work computer this morning. It's been coming for awhile but at least it is a light work day somewhat.... I think.
So, the desktop support dude calls and says you need to bring it in..AFTER you back up the harddrive. HUH? I say, Why me? Why can't you do that? Because, he says...ABC (Not my real company name) Company, doesn't have that in my job description for Virtual Office employees. You need to plug into USB port and do yourself. He says if you don't have external harddrive, you have to go buy one and your own troubleshooting tools and do it before you bring it in. Well.. I have an IBM Stinkpad 600X. For those of you who not familiar with it, it has a whopping big 11 GB harddrive with about 3 GB space left..a couple parallel ports, and a 12 inch screen. When I boot up, it vibrates. Sometimes, the mouse doesn't load. I have no idea why this happens. After it sucessfully boots up without exploding, it gives me a ton of errors I click out of and a "found new hardware" message that I have NO idea what it is talking about. Fortunately, I bought an external harddrive to go with my new Dell. I Love my Dell :) and there my computer sits...backing up...ever so slowly. And of course, as I am talking to the desktop dude, my dishwasher is leaking into my kitchen. Argh! Let's all add insult to injury here.
My son calls me from school this morning and says "Mom, next to the microwave oven is a picture form." I pause and say "OK, is it picture day?" In a very small voice he says "Um..yes...sorry" WHAT!!!?? Ok..he hasn't had his haircut, he's wearing an old shirt, he barely had time for a shower and well whatever... Off to Sears we will go. Kids!
That's all I have for now...BOWLING STARTS TONIGHT!!!WOOHOO...
Peace and all that...
So, the desktop support dude calls and says you need to bring it in..AFTER you back up the harddrive. HUH? I say, Why me? Why can't you do that? Because, he says...ABC (Not my real company name) Company, doesn't have that in my job description for Virtual Office employees. You need to plug into USB port and do yourself. He says if you don't have external harddrive, you have to go buy one and your own troubleshooting tools and do it before you bring it in. Well.. I have an IBM Stinkpad 600X. For those of you who not familiar with it, it has a whopping big 11 GB harddrive with about 3 GB space left..a couple parallel ports, and a 12 inch screen. When I boot up, it vibrates. Sometimes, the mouse doesn't load. I have no idea why this happens. After it sucessfully boots up without exploding, it gives me a ton of errors I click out of and a "found new hardware" message that I have NO idea what it is talking about. Fortunately, I bought an external harddrive to go with my new Dell. I Love my Dell :) and there my computer sits...backing up...ever so slowly. And of course, as I am talking to the desktop dude, my dishwasher is leaking into my kitchen. Argh! Let's all add insult to injury here.
My son calls me from school this morning and says "Mom, next to the microwave oven is a picture form." I pause and say "OK, is it picture day?" In a very small voice he says "Um..yes...sorry" WHAT!!!?? Ok..he hasn't had his haircut, he's wearing an old shirt, he barely had time for a shower and well whatever... Off to Sears we will go. Kids!
That's all I have for now...BOWLING STARTS TONIGHT!!!WOOHOO...
Peace and all that...
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Well, put me away in a padded cell!!!
It's been one of those days. I should clarify, I am a "Procurement Specialist" for a fairly large company. My job function, I order stuff and I ship stuff...easy right??? WRONG..SO WRONG. I present for you a day in the life of a Procurement Specialist.
6:00am...Alarm clock rings and I give it a good slap for about a half hour before stumbling out of bed to wake up my son who has slept through his alarm every day since the second day of school. Wander down hall..make coffee..sit and stare at PC for about 5 minutes wondering why the coffee takes so darn long to brew. Finally, it's done!! I grab my first cup of the day.
7:30 Ah, the work inbox is full. I Click on a mail. Outlook crashes with errors. I wait a minute. I logon to Outlook again. Server is still loading mails. While they load, I logon to 3 different ordering tools I use because that's what the accountants want to make their Sarbanes Oxley hell easier....FOR THEM. For us, it's a nightmare trying to keep all the account codes straight, which order goes in what tool, what is capital and what is expense etc. etc. etc.
7:45am Outlook has finished loading. I start to do my report that takes me an hour to do every morning and I begin reading my 150 emails with Outlook crashing after every third one. Not that it makes a difference. I have 1000 emails in there now.
9:30am Doing an order after logging into my tool. Enter the project code, receive project not found message. Crap! Write an email to the accounting team to fix that code so it works. Outlook crashes as I send it. Crap! Logon again. Send it successfully. Put the order on hold and go onto the next one.
10:00 Start the other order. Go to the order list field in the project and there is no order list. Crap! Start a new mail to the net designer to please upload the list because I'm not psychic. Outlook crashes. Try again and again until I finally get the mail out. Put that order on hold. Go onto the next one.
10:30 Receive frantic phone call from a project manager. Ship date on a hot order is just too long. Please expedite...So, I expedite with the vendor. Receive a message that they will status me in 24 hours...if I'm lucky. Receive phone call from staging center. Order is missing a card. Check vendor website and it says it shipped. Open another case while trying to find a card for this current order because it needs to go out TODAY. Steal one from another project because that's what we do HEE HEE.
11:00 am Attempt order number 3 while getting harrassed at the same time by a vendor sales rep who wants me to drop everything and send him the Purchase order numbers for all 100 sites so he can receive credit before months end. I blow him off...One less thing on my plate.
11:30am "accidentally" delete my inbox because it's terrorizing me. Outlook crashes from the volume of mail it's trying to delete. Logon again.
12:00pm Inbox has filled up again with 150 mails about my invalid project code. By this time, it has gone to 150 people and no one says it's their responsibility to fix. So there the order sits.
12:30pm, receive out of office message from net designer. He is on vacation and can't upload the missing OrderList. Gives me a back up contact who has no idea what I'm talking about.
1:00pm Start another order. Enter part number into the PO and get "Please enter a valid part." Put the order on hold. Write email to responsible party to please add the part to the vendor catalog so I can order the darn thing. You guessed it...outlook crashes.
1:30pm Receive notice that the wrong part shipped to staging center on a really hot order that needs to be on customer prem in 2 days. I call the vendor. They swear they shipped the right part. Call the staging center. They swear it's the wrong part. Get the specifications for the equipment and forward back to staging center.
200:pm Staging center says..oops..we were mistaken. It's the right part but since it's too late in the day, the project will be have to be put on the backburner until tomorrow. Project manager notifies me that she now has 10 additional gray hairs because of this.
2:30...start on the next round of 20 orders to do. The application crashes. Have a ticket opened and wait for resolution. In the meantime time is tick tick ticking away, and I can't do anything.
2:45 receive email from vendor saying they had an application hiccup and the orders we placed in the last 10 days may not have booked. Please check them all and forward the ones that didn't book to them...
2:50 I hit the ceiling as I have done over 150 orders in the past 10 days. Receive 5 IM's from frustrated coworkers venting about how stupid that is.
3:00pm I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I LOVE MY DAMN JOB!
4:00pm... Well..it is now 4pm. The kids are home and harrassing me about dinner. The application is still down and the project managers are harrassing me about orders. The application is still down...so I answer emails in between Outlook crashes, do what I can and wait.
5:00pm The internet connection crashes. I spend a half hour fixing it and getting myself back online. My application is finally up... I just now begin my day.
Have a day all..better than mine I hope.
6:00am...Alarm clock rings and I give it a good slap for about a half hour before stumbling out of bed to wake up my son who has slept through his alarm every day since the second day of school. Wander down hall..make coffee..sit and stare at PC for about 5 minutes wondering why the coffee takes so darn long to brew. Finally, it's done!! I grab my first cup of the day.
7:30 Ah, the work inbox is full. I Click on a mail. Outlook crashes with errors. I wait a minute. I logon to Outlook again. Server is still loading mails. While they load, I logon to 3 different ordering tools I use because that's what the accountants want to make their Sarbanes Oxley hell easier....FOR THEM. For us, it's a nightmare trying to keep all the account codes straight, which order goes in what tool, what is capital and what is expense etc. etc. etc.
7:45am Outlook has finished loading. I start to do my report that takes me an hour to do every morning and I begin reading my 150 emails with Outlook crashing after every third one. Not that it makes a difference. I have 1000 emails in there now.
9:30am Doing an order after logging into my tool. Enter the project code, receive project not found message. Crap! Write an email to the accounting team to fix that code so it works. Outlook crashes as I send it. Crap! Logon again. Send it successfully. Put the order on hold and go onto the next one.
10:00 Start the other order. Go to the order list field in the project and there is no order list. Crap! Start a new mail to the net designer to please upload the list because I'm not psychic. Outlook crashes. Try again and again until I finally get the mail out. Put that order on hold. Go onto the next one.
10:30 Receive frantic phone call from a project manager. Ship date on a hot order is just too long. Please expedite...So, I expedite with the vendor. Receive a message that they will status me in 24 hours...if I'm lucky. Receive phone call from staging center. Order is missing a card. Check vendor website and it says it shipped. Open another case while trying to find a card for this current order because it needs to go out TODAY. Steal one from another project because that's what we do HEE HEE.
11:00 am Attempt order number 3 while getting harrassed at the same time by a vendor sales rep who wants me to drop everything and send him the Purchase order numbers for all 100 sites so he can receive credit before months end. I blow him off...One less thing on my plate.
11:30am "accidentally" delete my inbox because it's terrorizing me. Outlook crashes from the volume of mail it's trying to delete. Logon again.
12:00pm Inbox has filled up again with 150 mails about my invalid project code. By this time, it has gone to 150 people and no one says it's their responsibility to fix. So there the order sits.
12:30pm, receive out of office message from net designer. He is on vacation and can't upload the missing OrderList. Gives me a back up contact who has no idea what I'm talking about.
1:00pm Start another order. Enter part number into the PO and get "Please enter a valid part." Put the order on hold. Write email to responsible party to please add the part to the vendor catalog so I can order the darn thing. You guessed it...outlook crashes.
1:30pm Receive notice that the wrong part shipped to staging center on a really hot order that needs to be on customer prem in 2 days. I call the vendor. They swear they shipped the right part. Call the staging center. They swear it's the wrong part. Get the specifications for the equipment and forward back to staging center.
200:pm Staging center says..oops..we were mistaken. It's the right part but since it's too late in the day, the project will be have to be put on the backburner until tomorrow. Project manager notifies me that she now has 10 additional gray hairs because of this.
2:30...start on the next round of 20 orders to do. The application crashes. Have a ticket opened and wait for resolution. In the meantime time is tick tick ticking away, and I can't do anything.
2:45 receive email from vendor saying they had an application hiccup and the orders we placed in the last 10 days may not have booked. Please check them all and forward the ones that didn't book to them...
2:50 I hit the ceiling as I have done over 150 orders in the past 10 days. Receive 5 IM's from frustrated coworkers venting about how stupid that is.
3:00pm I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I LOVE MY DAMN JOB!
4:00pm... Well..it is now 4pm. The kids are home and harrassing me about dinner. The application is still down and the project managers are harrassing me about orders. The application is still down...so I answer emails in between Outlook crashes, do what I can and wait.
5:00pm The internet connection crashes. I spend a half hour fixing it and getting myself back online. My application is finally up... I just now begin my day.
Have a day all..better than mine I hope.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
hee hee hee...so true
Thanks Leighton for sending this. A bit of humor for your morning folks.
More later :)
http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/178/index.php
More later :)
http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/178/index.php
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Has it been two months?
Holy Cow! Time sure flies and what a summer it's been and in spots...not in a very good way. I have come to a realization and I think most of my friends can attest to this. Ready? I make really bad choices when it comes to men..Yup folks...IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE! I know! I know! A definite shocker there! That's all I'm going to say. Unfortunately, all my bad choices have decided to come out of the woodwork this summer to bother me and remind me why it is that they are EX's. My ex husband came out of nowhere, after a 2 year disappearing act and decided that it was perfectly in his right to demand to see his kids. What in the world has he been smoking? Well, nevermind..probably what he just got of jail for smoking and selling. Yup, my ex husband dealt drugs to teenagers. What a guy! But, he said if they only just legalized drugs, he wouldn't have had to go to jail in the first place. How in the world do you argue with perverse and twisted logic like that? Nope! He wasn't wrong. The law is. Typical him. And of course I told him which bus he can be under. To which he replied that his kids are the key to his "recovery" as if it's their responsibility to take care of him. No..no..no.. I reminded him as a parent that it is his reponsibility to take of THEM, which means hit the recovery wagon hard because the door is closed until then. Am I wrong? No, I don't think so.
Why is it that the people in my kids life that go out of their way for them, take care of them and love them the most have no legal rights? I think there is something really wrong sometimes with the way the law looks at what is in the best interests of the children? My children have gotten very little from the men that provided half their DNA. They have gotten abandoned, pushed aside, or ignored. Not Emmie's dad..not Kris and Cass's dad have ever and I mean EVER put their own personal needs aside to worry about the kids needs and the way they have treated me in the process is so unforgiveable. I am these kids mom. This is their home. This is where they are supposed to feel safe and secure and loved and these men don't feel that I deserve a bit of respect for all that I have done here. Neither DNA donor has a home or is in any financial position to maintain one. So, while each has gone on to worry about THEMSELVES, I have been left without financial or emotional support to worry about the kids. These men are what the law has decided to be in the best interests of the children, not the grandparents, not the aunts, uncles, friends and even acquaintances that have given them more time, more attention and more love. I don't see any value add in letting either of them disrupt and disrespect my house and by God I can't stand to see my kids in any more pain because they have terrible fathers. End of rant! What's even more awful is, it's my fault for choosing these horrible people to date in the first place. And yes, they are horrible and I am sick to death of the millions of excuses I have heard for their behavior. OH..he's just young. Oh he's just confused. Oh, he's trying to recover.. Please give him a break. They are responsible for themselves. PERIOD. Didn't I say it was the end? oops..so sorry. Too heavy for a Sunday morning. Why doesn't the court look at these things? Why do they just look at the genetic profile? He's the dad he's the best for the kids. I know that isn't true. Read the papers, please. Every day is a testament to the horrible things parents can inflict on their children.
Have a really great day everyone...and if someone can please provide me an answer as to why this is... please let me know.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
A little writers block and an intro.
I realized I had created this blog account a couple weeks ago and then forgot about it which doesn't surprise me. Most of the time, I have no idea what day it is. At that time, I was brimming with a bunch of ideas. Now, I'm deadlocked! My friends will tell you I am rarely ever short words. Now, I have a little performance anxiety. I WANT TO SOUND INTERESTING! But how interesting can a single mom from some urban burb be? Well, I guess excitement is all relative. Today, I got up, engaged in my morning commute to the home office 50 ft down the hall by way of the coffee pot, logged on, worked and worked and worked stopping every now and then to pull the baby out of the electric cords she just LOVES to pull and watch her chase my very confused cats around the living room. She still hasn't quite grasped the phrase "Nice Kitty" which we have practiced over and over while I demonstrate to her the proper and gentle way to pet a cat. To her, Nice kitty means slapping the bejesus out of the poor animal. After logging off, I engaged in my commute home which consisted of walking 50 ft to the fridge to grab a beer. I like beer! I then ran the boy to Baseball practice and cooked dinner ala Burger King. Now, after sitting there at the computer all day I am kicking back and relaxing by sitting at my computer all night too. What a life, I tell ya! The difference is this time, I'm on my personal computer so it's totally different..SO THERE!
Thus ends the day and I am out of my mind tired. I just didn't want this little blogger thingy to think I had totally forgotten it existed which I almost did. I am going to go ponder the next blog by being introspective about the inside of my eyelids.
Thus ends the day and I am out of my mind tired. I just didn't want this little blogger thingy to think I had totally forgotten it existed which I almost did. I am going to go ponder the next blog by being introspective about the inside of my eyelids.
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