This n That…

A few things.. Not much..

First.. I’ve been angry lately. Like REALLY REALLY angry. I know some think its such a wasted emotion but its one thats so much easier for me to deal/cope with than others are/tend to be.. These last 2 days have just really plowed the crap out of me and I’ve probably (no I have) been taking it out on the wrong people but I just really feel the overwhelming urge to burn something to the ground.. Hey its the anger talking.. That’s not saying i’d actually burn something to the ground.. Well nothing that would hurt/harm someone else or get me into real trouble anyway..

See.. Hubs got laid off again on Wed afternoon. Yeah.. His boss. Or should I say his ex boss.. I want to cause physical harm to. It’s funny how things work. Three weeks ago when he got the call to come back to work, I was ecstatic.  Things seemed to be looking up finally. A small part of my brain was scared that this would be temporary and his boss would screw him over.. He made it clear to the guy that he couldn’t come back to work for two weeks and then get laid off.. It would screw up everything. Now I know to some that sounds silly. But, getting laid off is not fun. It takes alot of crap to get back on track and there is a 3 week period where you have no income coming in what so ever before you get that first unemployment check and working 2 weeks and then having your unemployment screwed up to where you have to file a new claim and wait another 3 weeks for income is HARSH.  It’s not easy. It puts your bills further behind and its kinda hard to buy diapers when you have no income coming in.  See.. Our savings. We have none. Having to buy the new house after Ike destroyed ours took every penny we had. It took every bit of our savings and then some.  We didnt even have a month between the down payment on our house was complete and the lay off happened so we were unable to save a freaking penny.. So hubs made it clear he couldn’t come work a few weeks to be laid off again. Three weeks with out a check coming in there was no way in hell we could take another hit like that. But the boss man assured him he had plenty of work to last awhile and they were getting new work in all the time. Hubs agreed and went back to work. Both of us having that annoying lil voice in the back of our head telling us something was wrong. There was a warning there and we both heard it but didnt listen b/c he’d been with the company for so

long and they were pretty good to us in the past. They worked hubs to the bone for 3 weeks. He came home exhausted every day barely able to move. He worked many days through lunch and didnt have the time to even call home on his lunch break. He would come home after work and pass out. They worked his ass off only to keep him 3 weeks. Get their big job out of the way and then lay him off again. Talk about angry! I’m still seeing red.. My violent streak is barely being held at bay..barely…  Not only did they mess up our unemployment b/c we had to file a new claim and yep. you guessed it.. 3 week waiting period.. BUT he had turned down another job to go back to work there! He missed an opportunity that could have lasted longer than this did. Now that opportunity is gone because they filled the position already. See.. violent streak barely being contained.. Still seeing so much red my vision is clouded by a purplish red haze…  See other than the no check for 3 weeks thing, the missed opportunity thing, there is still one more thing that has me so pissed off.. They laid off hubs and kept the boss man’s son.. Shock? No.. not really.. Pissed? EXTREMELY… Hubs had been there WAY longer than the boss’s son.. Hub’s is way more experienced than the boss’s son, he’s way better than the boss’s son, he’s always fixing the bosses son’s mistakes, the boss’s son shows up when he wants to and if he wants to. The boss’s son is a punk and not one person there likes him other than .. well the boss.. But.. the boss doesn’t even really like him. He keeps him b/c his wife makes him. See its not exactly HIS son per-say.. It’s his step son. The kid is a spoiled rotten punk who’s mom makes sure he lives a cushiony life

and never has to get out into the real world outside of what she can control.. Now why i’m on my tantrum i’m just gonna get it all out.. And because this is fact and not rumor I don’t feel bad about doing it either.. *shrugs*.. Boss’s step son.. *laughs* is also the boss’s nephew.. *gasp* WHAT? YEAH! *rolls eyes* Only in Texas right? Or maybe Alabama? (No offense seriously).. But anyhow.. Like I was saying.. Boss’s step son.. is also his nephew..  See.. son/nephew’s mom.. Used to be married to the boss’s brother. Something happened and now she’s married to the boss man and the boss man and his brother no longer speak.. *gasp* you don’t say? Oh.. I do.. I speak the truth.. It’s actually common knowledge.. Not just “table gossip”.  Now i’m not one to attack other people’s looks.. That’s not normally my style.. And I may be lashing out in anger here and it may be misplaced (well really it wouldn’t be SOOOO misplaced if she raised her son to be a real man and didnt coddle him and if her husband had some balls..anger remember?) But really.. She’s sportin one MASSIVE mullet. We’re talking

I just find this shirt REALLY REALLY funny.. b/c if you can't find the humor in it.. then whats the point. The back says OFF

like way worse than Billy Ray could even imagine. Worse than Joe Dirt even.. I’m not so much attacking her. I’m stating the facts. It’s kinda wierd though because. IF she didnt have that mullet, she’d be a really attractive woman.  Anyhow back to the issue at hand.. The company.. was good to us while we were there the first time. But another thing that has me so pissed off.. I wanna know what this boss man has over the higher ups. It’s a family owned/operated company. Two brothers started it and grew it from there. BUT this one boss man. He’s pretty much useless. He goes fishing on the company dime. He’s never around when he should be. Last time something major happened at the shop and it required his attention (someone was injured) the boss man was no where to be found. I bet you wanna know where he was at.. *winks* I just happen 2 know where he was.. He was out buying that brand new bass boat he took fishing in the McDonald’s tournament that weekend. Yep the company paid him to go buy that boat. That’s not the first time he’s done something like that. No he spends more time OUT of the office than he does IN the office.. There have been many times in the past that he should have been fired. MANY complaints against him. Yet.. he’s still making the big bucks and still fishing on company time. So.. I wanna know WHAT he has on them. It’s gotta be good.. Damn good even b/c i’ve seen people better than him get fired for less than he’s done.. He’s not liked. Not even by the hire ups they don’t have really a nice thing to say about him.. YET?????? Yeah.. it’s gotta be good..

Now that i’ve got that out of the way..

Cole’s teacher wants to have a conference. Well one of them. I hope its only one of them. He’s not doing so well in school this year. This child has NEVER made bad grades so I don’t get it. Suddenly he’s completely different. He is totally anti-school and doesn’t want to go. He has friends and stuff but he has a really strict teacher and he asked me to transfer him out of her class and I told him no. He’s a bit of a class clown and he really needs the structure this teacher can offer him but his grades are slipping. However his lowest grades are not even in her class. He really does not like her though and I knew he wouldn’t from the beginning. She’s not the type of person that fits his personality but I hoped it would keep him in line. He’s never made low grades before but has gotten in small amounts of trouble here and there for goofing off. Never anything major b/c he’s just a goof off. Way too smart for his own good sometimes and when he gets bored he acts out. That’s not an excuse because honestly i’m harder on my kids than anyone else could ever be. I expect as my mom put it once “way too much out of them” . I don’t really see thats the case. I just KNOW what these kids are capable of. Cole is capable of flying to the moon if he put his mind to it. So I really don’t know whats going on with him. I don’t know if its an age thing, a boy thing, a school thing or what. I’m kinda flying blind here with it. When Taylor goes through her “emo” crap.. I handle it. Even if I don’t handle girls well. I do understand them completely.  “Emo” Cole has caught me completely off guard because its totally out of character for him. Every day its a battle with this child and school now.. So I need to go have that parent teacher conference and see what she has to say. I thought we were supposed to do it today but she never confirmed. So I will call and see if we can do it Monday since she never confirmed for today. I HATE parent teacher conferences. I shouldn’t but I do feel like they are “scolding me” for my child not doing well. It always feels like they are looking down on me. I know from talking to friends and family who are teachers that that is not the case but It is how I feel..

Moving on…

Found ONE thing of Hub’s deodorant. On my KITCHEN counter.. Where it doesnt belong. Under a pile of his stuff. Typical though. So totally typical.

AND…

Our 10 year wedding anniversary is Monday.. I honestly can’t believe we’ve made it this far..

Oh….

Hub’s has a job prospect. We should know more today. Please keep your fingers crossed..

**and i’m well aware I was an angry petty bitch in this post.. **