November 5, 2004

• I would like to say thank you all for your comments on my past two posts…regardless of who you voted for.  All of us had the choice of voting for whomever we wanted…that’s part of being an American and that freedom is a wonderful thing.

  
  

  Although I didn’t vote for the Bush…I do feel that we as a country still need to stand united for the next four years (and beyond) while he’s in office.  I pray that we as a country can move on from the occurrences of the last 4 years and become a better and stronger nation.  However, in order to do that the President is going to have to listen to the people and come up with a new agenda that will fix many of the problems this country has now… because the old agenda certainly didn’t help matters.

  
  

  Well…I’m going to get off my soapbox now on this subject…but I had to get that off my chest, so thanks for bearing with me.

  
  

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  In other news…

  
  

  ~*I’m On STRIKE*~

  
  

  

  
  

  Did I mention that? No? Well I am.  Not from my paying job mind you…but at home.  Yup…Mom has had it!  I work over 40 hours at this job a week and then I come home and work another 5 – 6 hours a night cooking, cleaning, picking up after all who live in that house and playing tutor to the kids.

  
  

  I don’t mind doing all of that…but the fact is that I get minimal to no help from the others in the house!! To me…that’s not acceptable.  I’m the only one who works full time and do the majority of the housework and child care.  What’s wrong with this picture?

  
  

  The kids are slobs…which I have a plan to remedy.  They most certainly didn’t inherit that trait from me (I think it’s learned anyway…and they learned it from my mother ).  Jason goes to school two days a week and works all but one day the rest of the week…and on his off day he studies…well, he’s supposed to anyway.  However, he does not have set hours for work and is home much more than I am…in which time he usually gets the kids off to school…but then what? 

  
  

  We’ve talked about this and he says that he will try to do more to help me out.  Okay…but I know this means I’m going to have to remind him because cleaning and consistency in that area are not his forte.  My problem with this is that I’m a person that if I see something that needs to be done…I just do it.  Especially if I’ve already asked someone else to take care of it and 3 days later it still hasn’t been done.   I don’t have much patience for that…I guess it’s because I try to ask only simple tasks of people when I know that they have time to accomplish them…so when I see that it still hasn’t been accomplished days later I figure that if they haven’t done it by then…they aren’t going to.  That is usually the case around my house…unfortunately.

  
  

  So I wind up doing it myself because it needs to be done and I get sick and tired of repeating myself all of the time and begging people to just pick up after themselves.  I have three children who are VERY capable of cleaning up their own messes and helping me out with Caleb as well.  I have a husband, who is great about it when he remembers to do so, but when is put in front of a television set playing sports or ESPN…well, I’ve lost him all together.

  
  

  My mother…well, she’s just a slob..plain and simple.  She is a major, and I do mean M A J O R, packrat!!  She has clothes from her high school years and college.  Btw…she’s 63 years old!  As if she’s ever going to use these items again…ever!!

  
  

  She has a tendancy of buying things that we don’t need or never use and then it just all piles up in one location.  My garage mostly…well, it’s more my mom’s storage unit for useless shit than a garage because in the 10 years that I’ve lived in this house I’ve yet to park a car in that double stall garage!!!  There is a narrow path that winds its way through the crap to the door leading into the kitchen.  It’s that BAD!

  
  

  Inside the house…well, our once dining room has also become a place that she likes to just drop crap in…and the kids do it as well.  She buys storage containers…but the only thing they contain are themselves and lids to more storage containers.  Besides, they are buried in the garage somewhere.  That helps!! NOT  Then there is the “so called” office…which is nothing more than another room to pile shit in!! Oh…and believe me…it’s PILED!!

  
  

  So I’ve decided that until the other people in my house start pulling their weight on the cleaning end of things…this mom’s on strike!!  Unfortunately, that means that I have to deal with a pigpen in the meantime. I’m sick of cleaning things just to have it instantly replaced with more clutter…it’s like quicksand!!

  
  

  I will get my revenge though!! Oh yes…I shall.  I’m taking vacation the week of Christmas and Jason and my mom will have to work through that week (retail…it’s mandatory)…but I will be home!!  I’m getting a rollaway dumpster and I’m starting at one end of the house and making my way to the other end throwing away anything & everything that does not have a “home” or is useless, broken, or can’t be given away to Goodwill.

  
  

  I’m DONE!! Seriously, I can’t take it anymore!! All I have to say is that once I have gone through that house and cleaned it all up…God help the next person who makes a mess!!!

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