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Put a lid on it!

Post on August 25th, 2009 by Jodie

I so much want to rant about the crybaby publicist. But I’m not. I’m going to be professional. It’s soooo hard though.

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And not another word after this…

Post on July 31st, 2009 by Jodie

This Octomom bullshit really gets to me. And I feel that while everyone has an opinion about this, I’ve actually taken fertility drugs, so I know more than the average person about this. But I don’t want to waste my time, breath, and efforts on this woman.
But now that she’s inked this deal for a reality show about her kids, well….that’s just too much for me.

Why the world is still paying attention to this woman is beyond me. She’s a mercenary and thank CHRIST that someone has gotten involved on behalf of her children. Let’s set aside for a moment that women, human women with half a brain in their heads, are not supposed to have a litter of babies. Not all at once anyway. Let’s set aside the fact that her doctor should be publicly stoned for his questionable practices, both before Octomom and after. Let’s set aside that her own mother thinks she’s a bad mom and shouldn’t be taking care of the 14 kids she now has. Let’s not look at the two million couples waiting to adopt a baby. Let’s just look at this poor excuse of a woman and help her out.

Shame on you, reality TV assholes. Shame on you.

I am not going to waste another thought or type another word about this women.

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A few words on social etiquette

Post on July 20th, 2009 by Jodie

Currently, if you don’t have frozen embryos you cannot comment on the state of anyone else’s frozen embryos.

I was at a party over the weekend and connected with a woman who has frozen embryos from their last IVF cycle. We have some too. And it was kind of cool to meet someone who is asking themselves the same series of questions as we do when the bill comes every six months. So the above statement is not directed at her.

But then I think back to how assaulted I felt when the freakshow across the street asked me if I had embryos left over from IVF and that if I did, I was OBLIGATED by GOD to have more babies. And that just pissed me off.

So, if it comes up, take Mama MoJo’s advice listed above.

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Employment Dispute

Post on July 15th, 2009 by Jodie

The average american worker puts in about nine hours a day. 45-50 hours a week, roughly. Probably more. The average american worker gets paid time off and sick days.

Not me.

My sick days are like any other day. No concern, no sympathy, no time off.

Where the fuck is my HR rep. I have a serious bone to pick.

Stay at home mom is a shitty shitty job. Your projects are never completed and your task list is immense.

Yeah, sure, you’re molding the bright minds of our future, but at what cost? Mental and physical health that’s the cost. My fucking mental and physical health.

No time off though, never.

And here I am bitching. Two beautiful children, healthy, normal, smart and funny. Both in daycare two days a week. I should be cutting my right arm off in sacrifice I’m so lucky. If only I had a day off to do it.

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Kinda done

Post on June 22nd, 2009 by Jodie

For days I have been feeling guilty about not posting anything. I mean, for all the work it was getting this blahg back up, you’d think I’d be over the moon and I’m not. I’m sorry.

I would hate for this to turn into a “Mom” blahg. Not that I don’t like “Mom” blogs, it’s just that…that’s not what I want to do. And it’s got to be more than just the random daily bullshit right? I mean how many of those are out there? Who fucking cares?

I’m just kinda done with the whole computer thing. I think us humans are way too plugged in anyway. For example, right now I’m not the couch on my laptop and hubbin is in the office on the desktop. We aren’t interacting at all. We are home, the kids are asleep, it’s a lovely evening and we are staring at a computer screen. I spend part of the day online, just yaking it up with friends, but there are some people that I only talk to online. We don’t talk in person. That’s just pathetic.

I have tried very hard to stop watching movies at night. I should read more. I should walk the dog.

Twitter can suck it. I like the concept, but now it just makes me sick. Whose the funniest and most followed and who gives a shit. Although, I love that I’m following Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon! But that little mental menage isn’t enough. Conan has the right idea with snarkin’ up Twitter. It’s inane and dumb and like I said, who cares?! I get that Twitter is essential to the Iranian revolution, but to me personally, fuck it.

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The invisible energy vampire lurks near….

Post on June 13th, 2009 by Jodie

I forgot how much work the last week of school is. Boo is tired and cranky and having much too much fun to ever want to leave or sleep or even eat. We’re all overly tired. I feel like I have so much to do; take care of kids, clean - clean clean clean ALWAYS clean, get ready for the garage sale, sort and organize, blah blah blah. And I think that I have no energy to do these things, but somewhere I do. My lying down and staring didn’t go so well. I can’t turn off my brain. While I went to lay down to bed last night before 9PM I didn’t fall asleep until after 11. Seriously, I laid there in the dark with my eyes closed forcing thoughts from my brain and couldn’t relax. That’s bullshit.

In other news, the Alaskan Poet is leaving. Back to Alaska. I am incredibly saddened at this news. The Poet is the only friend that I talk to face to face. We try to get together once a week, or once every two weeks for breakfast. We go to the same place and know all the staff and I am going to miss that so much. Maybe we aren’t close friends, but we are good friends and I fear that I’ll fall deeper into reclusiveness without him. I just put my finger on what it is. He makes an effort. That’s rare in this world. He remembers things I told him a week or two ago and he asks me about it. He doesn’t shy away from the kids. I really appreciate that. But maybe I should be telling him all this, eh?

There is more going on too, but it’s private and I’m not going to talk about it here, yet, if ever.

It’s weird, when the site was down all I wanted to do was get it back up and now that it’s up I don’t really care. Blogging and twitter and Facebook, it doesn’t seem that important or meaningful. It’s not fulfilling, but what is? I mean, writing and reading and kids and volunteering, being a wife, being a mother, if all those things together are fulfilling, what possible chance do I have of surviving?

Where’s that depression quiz…?

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Felonious Funk II - The Gemini Nature

Post on June 1st, 2009 by Jodie

As a Gemini, I have two sides to me, always. This whole Felony business is now really starting to eat at my craw. Slootie gets sentenced this week. On Thursday, to be specific. On Thursday, 4 June….my birthday. Since it’s still not all out in the open yet, I feel that it’s not my place to talk about all of it here, yet. Let me just get a few things off my chest.

First off, Slootie deserves what she gets. I am not fiercely protecting the image of my dead brother here, so don’t get me wrong. But anyone who knowing breaks the law, and who knows better, should be punished. Do I want her to go to jail? Hell no. Of course not. Do I agree with the principal of her going to jail and serving punishment for a crime, absolutely. However, sending her to jail has a warped sense of justice about it. Sure, she’s being punished, but what of the two innocents she has to leave behind? KK and Bubba - my niece and nephew - have already had a shitty enough hand dealt to them in their short lives. And I don’t see how the system punishing her (even rightly so) does not in some way ultimately punish them. I have a huge problem with that.

I also have a huge problem knowing what I know about the case. I find her motivation abhorrent, even though it has been stated that she did what she did with the best of intentions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. No one signs another persons name over and over for the purpose of greed with good intentions. Fuck that! And the fact that she is still seeing this “good intention” after taking the fall for him, I find it very difficult to respect women who have no respect for themselves.

On the other hand, I feel the need to be there for her, to be there for the kids. She calls and I don’t hang up. She asked me to write a letter to the judge on her behalf and I did. It was a hard letter to write since I couldn’t in good faith actually plead for leniency. I only stated that my main concern was for the kids and that after seeing their father go through such a long and horrible illness, after losing him too soon, their Mother has been there to help them cope and they still need her. Which is true.

I am embarrassed as hell that my family has boiled down to this. But in a way it hasn’t. I have my own immediate family, and I think they are just swell. It’s this “family of origin” that I feel I’ll have to explain……she’s not a bad person, she’s just an incarcerated felon.

I am getting seasick from the fluctuation of feelings I have about all of this. How is justice served by putting her in jail and orphaning those kids? But how can I ever look her in the eye again if she gets off with a slap on the wrist?

I guess we’ll find out Thursday.

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high school all over again, but with lawyers

Post on December 8th, 2008 by Jodie

There has been so much drama at Boo’s school it’s not even funny. And I have to say that after being the subject or rather the recipient of much drama it fun to just sit back and watch. It’s not really a case of schadenfreude, since I’m not relishing in the discomfort of others. Let’s just say I’m glad it’s not me. Finally.

Something happens when you have kids, more than maternal instinct, I can’t explain. But there is something inside of me, that drives me to inspect and secure a healthy environment for my children. And while my daughter is away, most of the day, four days a week, at some other building, I want to know what goes on in the building, to a certain extent. At the beginning of the school year we were in awe of Boo’s environment at school. French Immersion, different nationalities, uniforms! It was all very exciting. But as things started to unfold it revealed a quagmire of administration faux pas.

Now, all of this is none of my business. And I’m trying to stay out of it. But because I mentioned that I work closely with a 501(c)(3) organization I’m now the “go to” girl. I don’t mind, I’ll help in any way that I can. But it’s gotten to a point where you just want to say, everyone stop what you are doing right now, put down the phone or your pen, blackberry, whatever, stop what you are doing and listen. This is not the way.

Of course I can’t say that. And now there is some static between and small group of parents and the school. And one of the parents, who took it upon themselves to start a supporting organization without any knowledge of how to do it, has to answer for some of their actions, and the actions of the school legally. It’s a nightmare.

I’m getting calls from the parent with the legal trouble and the head of the school. And the whole thing, the whole thing could be solved so easily if everyone just took a step back and said, you know what? this high school attitude is bullshit. We’re adults at an elementary school. ADULTS! Surely we can come to some agreement that helps us all.

Nope.

Cliques remain I’m sad to say. And when one girl makes it crystal clear that she doesn’t like another girl - christ the whole school knows about it. I can’t wait for Winter Break. Two weeks off of this is going to be divine!

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Asswipe Coleman

Post on November 13th, 2008 by Jodie

I haven’t really talked about this, because in my mind, it’s not over and why comment on something when the results aren’t even in? But Norm Colman can suck it.

If he truly represented the great state of Minnesota he would let the recount happen without comment or incident. Deep down in my heart I believe that Al Franken lost the election. But with a margin of victory less than one half of one percent state law mandates a recount. And I think my Senator should support that recount, even encourage it.

Minnesota has one of the highest voter turn out rates in the nation. The district I live in has an over 80% turn out rate. It’s something I take great pride in as a Minnesotan. If Norm Coleman knew what that meant, not just to me, but to the state as a whole he’d keep his big Boston Cream Pie hole shut!

Don’t trash the process! Don’t trash the Secretary of State! If Coleman was confident in his victory, he’d go about his business and say, call me when it’s done. But every vote counts! I’ll tell you something about Minnesota Norm, and I’m telling you this because you obviously didn’t grow up here. The taxpayers of this state will shell out money again and again to have their vote counted. And our elected officials should feel the exact same way. Coleman obviously doesn’t get it. Therefore, he can kiss my fat Irish ass!

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One to Watch

Post on October 27th, 2008 by Jodie

I hate even admitting that this is happening but it’s true. Slootie totally inspired me to join WW. she did it earlier in the year and has lost 50 lbs. She’s smokin’ hot too. So now I’m measuring food and counting points and it’s awesome in the way that little organizational tasks get me off, but SO SO SOOOO LAME. I’ve spent years making fun of women who pass by a Halloween Oreo and say, “No, it’s too many points and I can’t afford it.” Bah! Now I’m one of them.

I desperately need the help though. The personal training thing isn’t working out with the buns here all the time and constantly needing my attention. But I can commit to dumping the kids with hubbin and getting to a meeting once or twice a week - if one is on the weekend.

So my goal is to lose 10% and my darlings, there is no way in hell that I will admit to you what that number actually is, since it’s too painful for me. But in the spirit of accountability, let’s just say it’s over 20 lbs. I have my plan set out for today but need to hit the store for this week. Guh!

Wish me well.

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