Women Changing Their World

My son spends the night with one of his friends. When he comes home he asked me why I don't get up on Saturdays and cook him pancakes and bacon like his friend's mom does. Then the lecture began.... I'm sorry, but I work all day-all week long. I get up every morning at 5:30 and prepare your breakfast, come home and take care of as much laundry and housework that I can while making sure you boys have your homework done and take care of any of school stuff that is due the next day. I have to fix supper (which sometimes is a grilled cheese and can of soup) feed the dog and the cat because no one else will do it. hint hint. That is why i don't get up early on Saturdays and fix pancakes. As a matter of fact, you should be getting up fixing ME pancakes! Oh, he says.

When did I become so dull? I was just sitting here analyzing my day to day routine and realized that all I do is work, parent two teenagers (very hard), clean house and pay bills. That is my life in a nutshell. Where's the fun? Where's the excitement? The most excitement I've had in a while is when my cat gave birth to her kittens. Can you believe it? When I die my tombstone will say "here lies the dullest person to ever live" . Okay, time for a change. I need to try sky diving, bungee jumping, deep sea fishing....something! Please give me some suggestions. What do most 43 year old women (single moms) do for fun? I need a hobby. What kind of hobby can I take up? I will admit right now that I have a short attention span and I get bored quickly. I'm probably ADD. I feel I have an adventurous spirit, but I have this other side that is do darn responsible and logical. I talk myself in of and out things all of the time. I have been this way my whole life. Wanting ...

So what is today all about? Remembrance. That was a horrible day in US history. I've never witnessed such tragedy in my lifetime before or since. My heart goes out to all of those families affected by 9/11. Things like that should never happen to us, or anybody on God's Green Earth. I have to get ready for work, yuck, but I felt I needed to post a little something today in remembering that day. I hope everybody has a good day and a wonderful weekend. God Bless Everyone.

I wish something funny would happen so I would have something to write about. Lately everything has been sad. Summer heat makes everyone irritable too. I hate the heat. Why do I live in the South? I guess because it is where I was born and raised and I never had enough gumption to get up and go some where else. Lazy. I was thinking today about how small my world really is. It seems to get smaller with age. People are complicated and take a lot of energy to deal with. The more people I meet the less I like people. Now don't get me wrong, there are people I love. Just because I love them doesn't mean I have to like them. High tech world today-it's supposed to make our world larger- internet -every body "wireless" now, funny, it is making it smaller. So small that we don't even stop to say hi to some one on the street or hand write a letter to a friend who moved far away. So small that we don't leave our back yards or invite neighbors into our yards. We wo...

Work is hard, teenagers are hard, relationships are hard. Is there anything in life that we can call easy? I know what is easy, gaining weight, drinking too much, getting wrinkles, and going in to debt! Okay, yes, I'm glum. Sorry for the negative mood. If anybody out there has any words of encouragement for me, I would deeply appreciate it. Thanks blogger buddies!

I did make it to the "fake" beach on Tuesday. It was actually very peaceful. The sun played peek-a-boo with the clouds which kept everything cool and breezy. Yesterday I slept half of the day. Wow! Some vacation this is turning out to be! Tomorrow I have to attend meetings for half the day, so I guess today is officially my last day of time off. What a bummer. I could really use about 2 weeks. Life is cruel, then you die or you make faces like this.

I wanted to go to the state park and lie on the fake beach. I was going to pretend I was at the real beach in Florida. Unfortunately, the sun is not out today. It's cloudy...that pisses me off. I'm trying to enjoy my time off of work but mother nature is just not cooperating. I cleaned house already. The grass needs cutting but I don't feel like getting all stinky and dirty. What am I going to do? BORED and BROKE!!! Maybe I should get in my car and drive 5 hours to the beach and come home when the sun goes down. The only problem with that idea is that I would fall asleep behind the wheel on the way home. Suggestions are welcomed and donations accepted.