Just STOP!

I know that my friends mean the best and want the best for me and probably don't realize this, but it is irritating, annoying, and downright mean and hurtful sometimes to constantly tell me that I was stupid for being with Rick, that I "got what I deserved" (meaning getting pregnant by him instead of leaving him), and that I should just give her up instead of have him in my life for the rest of mine. If I really wanted your opinions, I would ask you or talk to you about it. But...since I don't talk to you about him or any of the issues that I'm having/feelings I'm feeling, don't just think that you can blurt out your thoughts like I should just follow what you say and not think for myself. Yea, I realize that I could have been smarter and left him long ago, or not even started dating him. I realize that I should have left him alone when he went to jail in March. I would leave now if I didn't need the money to provide a place to sleep for my child when she arrives in less than 2 months, because I don't have any savings. Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda....hindsight is always 20/20, and believe me, there isn't anything you or anyone else can tell me that I probably haven't thought of or told myself already. So please....Unless I solicit your opinions, keep them to yourself. I am a strong person, and I will get through this. Now if you want to offer your help, that's fine. But really, I am 26, almost 27, and I don't need people telling me the obvious, or telling me what I should think, feel, do, or anything else. 

Sometimes, I just feel like walking into the lake and not allowing my head to come back above water. It's been so long since I actually thought that I was going to be fine and be able to provide for myself, that I wonder if that's even possible anymore. Maybe I am a failure, like my egg donor's parents said 16 years ago. I don't have anyone to talk to anymore about all of this, how I'm feeling, because my grandma, dad, and older brother (not that I really talked to my brother) are all in Florida, and my best friend has her family 2 hours away. Yea, I live with a friend and co-worker, but we aren't that close where I can tell him things that are bothering me, or issues that I'm having with trying to stay away from the guy that knocked me up then went to jail for domestic abuse, only to be sentenced to just disorderly conduct and receive 18 months probation. 


I can't do this on my own, but I know I'm going to have to learn quickly how to, because there is no one else I can count on but myself. (Although there are days (more often than not) when I really just want to climb into bed and have someone else make all the decisions for me.) 

So much has happened.......

It's been so long since I wrote anything and so much has happened. I'm happy to say that I'm about 12 weeks pregnant...BUT....the father isn't in the picture, because he is in jail for domestic abuse against me. He isn't actually charged with domestic; rather he's been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting an officer (cuz he ran when I called the cops on him), and intimating a victim (cuz he broke the mandatory 72 hour restraining order by calling me 84 times in less than 8 hours.) 

I hate feeling this alone, like I'm not worth anything or anyone. It's hard, because I have had problems all my life with feeling inadequate, feeling worthless, and feeling like I'm not worth it for anyone to date, marry, or spend their life with, like I'm only good as a sex partner. I hate feeling like that, but how can I change it? How can I change how I feel about myself, when I'm all alone? How do I love myself, when no one loves me? 

Anyway, I'm excited and nervous about the baby. I find out in a few months what I'm going to have, but I'm just hoping that the baby is healthy and nothing goes wrong. I wish with everything that I am that the baby is healthy. I can't imagine what it would do to me. I have wanted another child for so long, that if I were to lose this one, it would probably destroy me, regardless of how much it hurts to be away from him. 

God, it hurts so much.....more than when my daughter's father broke up with me, more than when my mother said she wished she never had me, more than when my grandfather died. I don't know why it hurts so bad, other than maybe it hurts so bad because I feel so alone? I don't even know. That makes it hard too, not knowing for sure which emotions are what, which ones come from which trigger. I wish I had the option to talk to someone that could help, but I don't have a therapist anymore, and all my friends that I would talk to are busy with their lives,. too busy to be bothered with my many problems. I don't blame them, it's all part of being an adult, having to take care of yourself and your own problems. Still, it would be nice to be able to talk to someone that didn't tell me that they have nothing to say. I don't want someone to tell me what to do or how to feel; just someone to listen and be sympathetic, let me cry on their shoulder and release all these pent-up emotions. But I can't do that. I've always been the strong one, the one to suffer silently. Like Bella Swan, as Rick said many times. I hide my feelings, because to show my feelings is to set myself up to get hurt. Well, whether I show my feelings or not, I still get hurt, so what's the point in hiding or showing off? 

The hardest part is, I still love him. I know I should get over him and move on, but it's so hard. I think his name or hear it, and my heart skips. I dream about raising our family together, getting married and buying a house. The problem is, my head knows that none of that will happen, but my heart thinks differently. It is damn near impossible for my head and my heart to find a common ground. It's an on-going battle, neither one willing to give an inch so that I can stop hurting. No matter what I try - staying up all night, not sleeping, to try to avoid dreaming of him; surrounding myself with books and movies and music, anything that will attempt to take my mind off him; drowning my sorrows in pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other bad food - Rick still manages to creep into my mind and ruin whatever meager solace I managed to find from the pain. 

And....while I realize that everything is so messed up (I'm living with Chris now, instead of having my own place at 26, and being in control of my life), I am optimistic that things will eventually change for the better. It can't get much worse than all of this, right? I sure hope not. I don't know how much more I can take of all of this.......

Hopeless Romantic...

I'll be the first to admit that I am a hopeless romantic. I watch 'chic flicks' and wonder why I can't find a guy like that, why my life doesn't turn out that way. Yes, I know that movies and books are not real, but it would be nice to know whether or not there is someone out there for me that really truly wants me for me, not because he likes the idea of me. I am intelligent, opinionated, dedicated, passionate, honest; I've been hurt so much in the past that I put up walls and no one sees these things, except for those close to me that have seen me through the worst and helped picked me up when I fall.

I want to travel the world, see Italy, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, and as many historical locations in the United States as I can fit into one lifetime. I want to have more kids, but only with someone that will appreciate children and love my daughter as his own. My daughter has a father; I'm not looking for a replacement. But I refuse to put my daughter to the wayside while I flit from guy to guy, trying to find one that truly wants to me with me in all my different attitudes, moods, whatever. I don't want to have to explain to anyone why I want to do laundry at a certain time, or go to the store, or whatever. I want to be able to hold a conversation with someone that doesn't revolve around household chores, work, or the problems we have with our family. I want to talk about books I've read, movies I've enjoyed, current affairs; I want to talk about all that and more, without someone saying "It doesn't directly affect me, so I don't care about it". I can't be with someone that buries their head in the sand and ignores the world.

I am not what most people would call a 'classy' woman. I don't like champagne, or wine, or expensive dinners. Well, an expensive dinner once in a while might be nice, granted only if the food is worth it. I wear jeans and a T-shirt most of the time, and tennis shoes unless I feel like dressing up a little bit. I hate wearing make-up most of the time, but I do like what make-up can do to bring out my eyes. I just hate the amount of time it takes to get it looking right. I wish I could wake up in the morning and have it already be done. I swear like a sailor, I don't care who I offend. I will be the first to admit that I am nowhere near politically correct. I drink beer and hard liquor. I don't like champagne. I don't like wine. I love country music, and other genres of music, depending on my mood.

My dad has always been there for me. He's my rock. We are two peas in a pod, more like best friends than father and daughter. Of course, most people think that is weird, strange, not right, whatever. But I don't really care. My dad is the only person I KNOW I can count on. There are a few others that I can sometimes count on, but they tend to move in and out of my life whenever it suits them. My sister is different. We are best friends, but talking to her is much different than talking to my dad.However, tthere isn't much that one knows that the other doesn't. I can tell my dad that I really like or really hate a guy. My sister will dissect the pros and cons of someone with me, while my dad just says that he wants me to be happy, and if they hurt me, he will hurt them. I think that's a dad thing. But they are there for me whatever happens. If I make a bad decision, or a string of them for that matter, they will always be there to help me up, brush me off, and tell me that they are glad that I finally came to my senses. They won't say 'I told you so' but I can tell that they think it. And I'm totally fine with that.

GRR!

I know I broke up with him almost a month ago, but I can't get over him. Oh, I still hate his family. His mother is the worst waste of space that I have ever seen. She was here last weekend, while my sister, her husband, and I went to Summerfest. The cops came to the back door, because the neighbor's dog got out and one of the neighbors has complained about his back door being wide open. Does she bother to call me, the person that lives here, to tell me that the cops had been here?? NOPE. She waits until 11:30 at night when I got home, to bombard me with the information as soon as I walked in the door. I flipped on her, of course, because she doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together to make a coherent thought. I told M that his mother is not allowed back into MY home when I am not going to be here. I can't trust her. I mean, I live here, so I need to know who comes to the door, what happens. And it wasn't just that one thing. I had told her many times NOT to leave water in my pots and pans, because it will ruin them. What did she do last weekend? She left water in a pan. I would have bitched at her for that, only she was gone and on her way home before I noticed the pan in the sink. The third thing that happened, that I bitched at her for when I got home that night, was her taking my dog outside on her leash. I have a run set up in the front yard for my dog, so you can just let her out and she only has about 20 feet or so. It keeps her on the front yard and far enough away from the sidewalk that no one can complain about her. Well, M's mom decided to take my dog outside on her leash every time she wanted to go out. His mom said that my dog went out about 3 times more than she normally does. That was because when you hook her up to her leash, she thinks she's going for a walk! I explained this to his mom many many times, and she still doesn't understand it.

The other person I hate from his family is his grandmother. She is an annoying, can't do anything for herself when I'm here, but can do it when I'm not around, repeat herself all the time, and can't figure out what the dog's name is, even though I've told her thousands of times, total pain in my ass. She seems to be intent on making my life miserable. I know that she is 86 years old, but she doesn't have Alzheimer's, she doesn't have any kind of disease or illness or anything that would prevent her from doing anything or remembering the damn dog's name. She wonders why the dog never listens to her. Well...that would be because she calls the dog Rocky, and the dog's name is ROXY. The dog knows her name, so it makes sense that the dog wouldn't listen when you call her the wrong name! But no, that old bag can't figure it out. And if the old rag's voice wasn't so annoying, I would just let Roxy do whatever she wants. But her voice is like nails on a chalkboard, so I yell Roxy's name and tell her to go lay down, just to get that damn woman to shut the hell up! I will be SOOO fucking happy when she finally kicks the damn bucket. Honestly, if I knew how to do it and get away with it, I would poison her and finally be rid of her. But I don't, so I can't.

M's 'father' (sperm donor is more like it) isn't much better than his mom and his grandmother. His father doesn't believe anything unless you prove it to him, and even then, he still stands there and says 'well that can't be right'. I just proved it to you, you moron! Of course it's right!

Honestly, I thought MY family was fucked up. No, M's family is a million times worse than my family. At least only one side of my family is fucked up (mom's). BOTH sides of his family are fucked up. His mother can't use her head for more than a hat rack; his sister is so fucked up and such a hypochondriac that I'm surprised she wakes up every day, instead of killing herself in her sleep with all the medications she insists she needs; his grandmother is content to do the same damn things every single day, yet complains to her daughter (M's mom) that she wants to get out of the house more. Well, stop walking with that damn walker and start using the cane you just HAD to have, and maybe you can get out more. Stop acting like an invalid, because you aren't one! His mother had one of M's friends build a wooden thing for the back step, so that grandmother can 'go down that step easier'. She did this while I was at Summerfest, so of course she didn't call me and ask me if I had the money to pay him for the wood, or pay for the stain and weather proofing that needs to be done, so the wood doesn't rot away in a year. No, she doesn't call me and ask me anything. She just decides that grandmother needs it - she never asked for it, his mom just decided that grandmother needed it, even though she never complained about it - and puts me up for more money, which I don't have. I swear, if it was legal to kill someone and I knew for a fact I would get away with it, I would wipe out his whole family. They have smoked themselves stupid, or were just born this dumb. I don't know for sure, but I am VERY surprised that they have each made it this far in life, being as stupid as they are. I'm surprised that they didn't fall down stairs while drunk, or played chicken with a train and end up as a 'these people did stupid shit and died' statistic. 

I have tried to talk to his mother about all of this, but it's like talking to a brick wall. No, a brick wall is smarter than her. I have talked and repeated myself until I was damn near blue in the face, and she never changes. I haven't told her yet that I don't want her here when I'm not here, but I'm thinking about calling her in the morning and bitching her out, again, and ending with me telling her I don't want her here ever again. I don't even trust her to be here when I'm actually here, much less when I'm not here. I'm surprised she hasn't killed her mother yet, as little regard she shows for MY house rules and MY home in general.

I have little patience for stupid people, and his family has cornered the market on stupid. There aren't enough words to describe just how stupid they are. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but I can only handle so much stupid, before I just want to haul off and smack the stupid out of someone. Of course, if I tried to do that with his family, I would beat them to death, because they are so stupid that no amount of beating will stop them.

Sure, I've done plenty of stupid things in my life; I don't pretend that I'm perfect. I'm far from it. But I limit my stupidity to only once or twice per day. They have maybe ONE half-assed smart move per day, all three of them combined, and that's on a perfect day! I doubt the three of them have more than 10 smart or half-smart thoughts, actions, etc. per year.

Those DAMNED illegals are EVERYWHERE!

This blog actually started as a comment on a yahoo.com article (link is here: http://tinyurl.com/62t88y8)
It just got so long that I couldn't fit it all in the comment section. But here it is, for anyone that wants to read my thoughts on the subject. 

The problem here is that the law is open to interpretation. That's how the laws are applied. Personally, I have no problem with the illegals being kicked out, not given a free education, etc. Just because you were born here, doesn't mean that you don't get kicked out with your illegal parents!! I am a 4th generation German-American. my great-grandparents came over here from Germany, with a sponsor, they learned English, learned American History (what history there was at the time), and they passed the test to become an American Citizen. I don't mind if people come here from other countries; the U.S. is the 'melting pot' of the world. What I have a problem with is these low-life illegals coming here, taking the money that I put into Social Security and other programs, while they decide that they are 'too good' to learn English and want everything else to be translated into Spanish for them. Have any of you been to the DMV lately? Or even to the grocery store, gas station, or called a Customer Service number? THIS IS AMERICA! WHERE THE HELL DOES IT SAY THAT I HAVE TO PRESS 'ONE' FOR ENGLISH?!

It's just like high school or college - If you don't belong in the class, you get kicked out, whether the reason be you failed a prerequisite class, you didn't pay, or you are just too stupid to follow the information. That applies to illegals too. I'm sick and tired of, every stinking time I turn on the news or the radio, there is yet ANOTHER report of some bastard illegal getting into a horrible car accident with no license and no insurance, or driving drunk and killing someone, or robbing a store/bank, and what happens? They go to trial, at taxpayers expense. They are held in jail, at taxpayers expense. They serve their time, at taxpayers expense. When their sentence is over, they are deported, at taxpayers expense. But what stops them from coming right back over the border illegally again? Oh yea, that's right. Not a Damn THING! They get a free ride in the U.S., get sent back to Mexico, and in a few weeks or months, they are right back here. If Americans weren't so "holier-than-thou" and would actually work the jobs that illegals do, we wouldn't have this problem. Of course, employers LOVE having illegals, because they don't have to pay payroll tax, they don't have to pay insurance, and if someone goofs off, they can fire that one and there are 2,000,000 waiting in line to take their place.

There was talk in my area that the illegals wanted the state to allow them to have driver's licenses, but because they couldn't provide a Social Security card and a U.S. birth certificate, they aren't able to get a license. Well, here's an idea to fix that - Set aside every Saturday for 6 months at the DMV where no one will be helped, except illegals that want to get a driver's license. When they go outside for the driver's test, have the U.S. Marshals and ICE waiting out back, with a bunch of semi trailers and truck drivers. Stuff the illegals into the back of the trucks (they should be used to it, that's how they arrived in the U.S. anyway) and ship their asses out to the Nevada Desert. Don't take them back to Mexico, or we will just have to round them up again. Take them to Nevada and have the military bases out there practice their target shooting. Hey, even once a month, have a gun club rent out the military firing range and let the gun club take care of the illegals! That's even better than having the military do it. The military has enough to do already; let someone else take care of it. Hell, gun clubs are used to hitting useless targets, so shooting the illegals won't take much work. Take it up a notch, and have the illegals try to escape from the firing squad. That would make it even MORE fun! This is America and, according to the rest of the world, we are a bunch of lazy, over-fed and under-worked, boring people. Well, we will cease to be those things if we have a little target practice with the illegals! You can even let the kids get in on it; just give them a paint-ball gun. The adults, or those with actual, legal guns and a license to carry, can take care of the paint-covered Spics after the kids get bored and leave to do something else. (And the kids will leave, they always do when something no longer holds their attention)

Anyway, now that you have read my blog about illegals Spics (when I say Spics, I don't mean just Mexicans. I mean every single solitary waste of space that has entered the U.S. illegally), I guess it is time for you to find something else to do! I can't keep your attention here indefinitely! Nor do I want your attention here indefinitely. So read what you want, and move the hell on! (Oh, and I mean that in the best possible way) :-)

I have no idea how I'm going to get through the next 18 months. Just in the last two months, I've gotten so damn bored with everything. It's the same shit every day, all day. I absolutely HATE taking care of his grandmother, knowing that I have no where else to do, I can't force his mother to take his grandmother, because I know he would never forgive me if I did, even though he tries to tell me different. This was all dumped on my lap, his grandmother and everything else, and I don't like it. But I have no option, other than moving in with my sister in Janesville, and I really don't want to do that, simply because she is 2 weeks married and has 4 kids. Not a lot of room for me. I don't really feel like riding the couch and feeling like a live-in babysitter. I know my sister wouldn't treat me like that on purpose, but I know both she and her now-husband are busy and taking care of 4 kids is a hand full. I love my sister, but I honestly don't know how she does it. 


And I try to talk to people - my dad, my grandma, even my sister - about things, and all they tell me is "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (grandma), "You are doing a great thing, taking all of this on. You are a great girl with a level head on your shoulders. You can do this. Just depend on yourself and your strengths and you will be fine" (Dad), "Why don't you drop off grandma off at his mom's and move in with us>" (my sister). I guess what I'm looking for is a shoulder to cry on, so to speak, someone that will listen to me and not try to fix things or tell me what they would do in my position. I guess my only option is to swallow my complaints and go about my business. It's hard, because sometimes I feel like things are going to over-whelm me and I'll just crack and go crazy. Writing things down doesn't help, because I just get more upset, due to re-living the things that had upset me. 


I guess I just have to put on my big girl panties and deal with it. I didn't ask for this, but I have no other option. Sadly, I don't think I will be with him after he gets out. I just can't deal with it anymore. I had promised that I would stay until he gets out, to be able to take care of his grandma, but after he gets out, I doubt that I'll be around much longer. I just need to find a job and save money (hard thing to do when I'm trying to take care of everything else here that takes money) and find my own place. Hopefully, I'll be able to move back to Waukesha and be by my friends and familiar places and have my own place and have my daughter back. 


I haven't really felt love towards him in a long time. But I can't tell him that, not while he's in jail. I'm only here out of convenience, not love or lust or even friendship. 

So .... I found out over the weekend that my ex, my daughter's father, is expecting a baby with his girlfriend. She is due Sept. 27, THREE DAYS before my 26th birthday. A guy that can't pay proper attention to his 8 year old daughter when she is with him, can't get up in the morning to make sure she gets to school safely, and wants to prove to the courts that I am a bad mother, is going to have another baby. And it bugs the hell out of me.

It's not that I want to be with him, or have another child with him, or anything. I just hate how things seem to be going along just fine for everyone else, but not for me. He seems so happy and to be honest, I'm jealous as hell that they are having a baby. I want another baby, but the man I'm with has so many kids already, and has already said multiple times that he doesn't really want more kids, but will have more with me just because I want more. I don't want to force him to be a father again, when he has pretty clearly told me that he has enough kids already. But I can't ignore the fact that I want more kids. And I don't know if I can be with him. I have already decided that I will not marry him while his grandma is living with us, because it is just too much for me. I just can't imagine trying to plan a wedding while she's still alive. Call me self-centered, bitchy, mean, whatever ... I just will not marry him while she's alive. Unless she is NOT living with us anymore. 

I can't stand to have her here now, I can't imagine trying to live a married life and everything else that goes along with it while she is here. I know it's not much different in terms of living and taking care of things, but I just can't stand the idea of having her here while we are married. She is too important to him for me to play second fiddle to her for the next however-many years she'll still be alive. I don't even know if I can marry him. There are too many issues between us that haven't been resolved, and probably won't be resolved, because every time I try to talk to him about things, he gets defensive and tells me it is all my fault that we don't get along. It is honestly like I'm just supposed to do whatever he wants me to do, say whatever he wants me to say, and wear whatever he wants me to wear, just to make him happy, while I stay miserable and contemplate leaving him. Which I do on a daily basis, by the way. The only reason I haven't left yet is because I just don't have a job and the money to pay for my own place. My sister says I can move in with her and her fiancée and their 4 kids, but, as much as I love my sister and her family, I just can't imagine being myself and finding my way in life by living with them and riding the couch. 

I want to win the lottery and move out, get my own place and decorate it, do my own thing, and not have to worry about anything with him anymore. Maybe I can talk to my dad and convince him to let me take over his house when he moves, instead of leaving it to go into foreclosure. I need to get a job to be able to pay the cable, phone, internet, and other bills, but other than that, Dad would be sending me the payment for the mortgage. I think. I just want to get back to Waukesha and my friends. I feel like I'm suffocating here, because there are so many things that are unresolved. He's trying to change everything about me, and I just want someone that will accept me for me and not try to mold me into some kind of make-up every day, knee-high boots with pants tucked in, skin tight shirts with tits hanging out absurdly, looking like a whore that just walked out of the whore house, woman. It's like I can't be myself anymore. He wants me to be who he thinks I should be, but that's not me. I was raised to be myself and not worry about what others think about me, yet he wants me to start worrying about what he thinks 'because he has to be seen with me when we go somewhere'. Well, I don't really care. I can't dress up and look 'sexy' (as he calls it) when I feel like I'm just there to be his little sex slave, wearing whatever he wants me to wear, not being able to have an opinion, because if I voice my opinion or my thoughts, I get into trouble. 

It is so frustrating, to have someone not listen to you, have someone talk over you whenever you try to tell them what you are thinking and feeling, have someone tell you things that you have no reason to feel that way, that they don't understand why you feel that way, because no one in the world would look at things the same way you do.

Do you believe in true love?

I don't believe in the 'pop culture' version of true love, where every girl wants the knight in shining armor, white horse, little house with a white picket fence. Those things would be nice to have, but in reality, it rarely happens that way. And if we all wait for that version of 'love', no one would be with anyone. 


I believe that true love is being comfortable enough with someone to let them know every little thing about you, knowing that they won't hold it against you or throw it in your face. True love is being able to show your weaknesses and not be laughed at; show your strong points and not be seen as too 'macho' (for guys), or too 'manly' (for women); and just be yourself, without someone constantly trying to change you.


Call me crazy, but society has become too decided on the gender roles that people should play, and when anyone tries to step outside those gender roles, they are seen as different, and that is not fair. 


Why can't we all just be who we are comfortable being, instead of what society says we should be? When did the societal norm for women become having to be a size 2, having perfect hair and perfect make-up from the time she wakes up until she lays down in bed, and having to cater to what her significant other wants? When did society make is to important for women to have someone in their life? A women who decides not to be with someone has to deal with the constant questions from friends, family, and co-workers about 'why aren't you dating anyone?' and 'oh, I know someone who would be perfect for you!' Why can't we just be ourselves without someone always having to put in their 2-cents about every little thing? 


I'm sorry, but the day that you can manage every little thing in your life and have nothing go wrong, no problems, THAT will be the day that you can tell me who I should meet, go out with, or spend time with. Until that day, keep my life out of your mind, and leave well enough alone. When I am willing to be in a relationship again, I will take it upon MYSELF to talk to people, to put myself out there to meet someone. I don't need someone always wanting to stick their nose in and try to 'help' me. If I needed help, I would see a therapist.


Call me cynical, bitchy, whatever, but I don't think a woman has to have a man in order to be happy. There are plenty of women out there who live their lives single and happy, doing whatever they want, whatever makes them happy and leaves them feeling fulfilled.  If people would spend more time on themselves, worried about themselves a little more than everyone around them, things would be a lot better. Stop worrying so much about everyone else's lives, when you can't even manage your own life. 

I just can't see it...

For some reason, I can no longer see myself marrying him, spending the rest of my life with him. Nothing big has changed, at least from what I can see, but I just can't see myself with him when I think about the future.

The biggest problem is that I don't know how to tell him that, because I fear that he will over-react and take things the wrong way, the way he always does when I try to tell him how I feel. I know we need to talk about things, but it's hard to do, because we are so busy with her, his different classes he has to take, and finding a job for him, plus all the things I have to do.

That sounds like excuses, but it's not. It is fact, that we no longer have time to spend with each other because of her. Everything revolves around getting her to doctor appointments, getting her up to the bathroom, getting her up to do her physical therapy, making meals that she can eat, which have to be different than what we eat, because she can't eat spices at all.

And for some reason, it seems like it doesn't bother him at all. He still finds time to be horny, and expects me to be the same. He expects  me to not be tired, not to be irritated because she feels the need to talk during shows, but is totally quiet during commercials. He expects me not to have a headache from yelling at her because she can't hear him, so I have to repeat everything he says.

I knew it was going to be a big transition, her coming to live with us, but I didn't think it was going to be this hard on me. I'm tired all the time, never feel like doing anything, haven't been sleeping right, and just in general, I feel like I'm going through each day not caring anymore. I don't care when or what I eat, what everyone else eats, what we watch on TV, when we go to bed, or when we wake up. It's like I've lost all capacity to care about anything here.

It's different when I go to see my daughter, because it's like all the feeling comes back. I care about what we do, where we go, what toys she plays with and wants me to play with her. But then I dread coming back home, because I know that all that feeling goes away as soon as I walk in that door. And I hate that feeling. I just don't know how to tell him that so much has changed, because he doesn't see it at all, and he won't understand. I just can't see myself being with him for too much longer, unless things change dramatically...

What is the point of anything anymore?

What is the point of trying to make things work anymore? Every time I try to make things work, try my hardest to make things right and keep everyone happy, including me, I get shit on. I can't make my fiancée happy. I can't make my girlfriend happy. Every time I open my heart to someone and let them in and give them everything I have...I get my heart stepped on, trampled, cut to pieces, totally ruined...and I don't know why. I don't know if it's me, the guys i'm attracted to, the situation surrounding the relationship, I really don't have any clue. I wish I did.

After all the times that he told me that he wished I would die, that he wishes I was dead, maybe that's something worth looking into. I mean, he doesn't care about me, I've lost touch with all of my friends, my ex is trying to take my daughter from me...what is there to live for? All I want in life is to be happy and loved and be around those that love me, and yet I can't seem to accomplish that, so what is the point of living? Why be alive and miserable? Why not put everyone out of their collective miseries of being in my life and just end it all? What is the point of living when each day is worse than the next?

Things Change

It's strange how much people can grow and mature in short periods of time. I talk to a few friends from high school, people who didn't want to grow up and be responsible back then, and now, they are responsible and are starting families. Then I talk to more people from high school, people I knew but never really hung out with, for various reasons. I talk to them and realize that we have nothing in common, if we ever did.

There are a few people I talk to that tried to be mature and responsible in high school, people I was very good friends with, and talking to them now, after being out of high school for about 6 years, and I realize that we have grown apart. We no longer have anything in common and even trying to talk about bland topics is a struggle to think of things to say. Maybe I am more mature than I was in high school, maybe they aren't as mature as I am or as I was in high school. But some thing has changed and it's strange. People I used to sit with for hours and talk to about anything, I can't think of anything to say now. It's almost as if life has changed both of us, not experiences so much as just maturity and life and our thought processes. It get depressing to think that the people I used to spend so much time with and we would finish each other's sentences, now we barely squeeze out a 5 minute conversation.

Life is strange sometimes, I guess.

Arizona

I'm proud of what Arizona is doing. The entire country and it's LEGAL citizens need to step up and tell all the illegals that our ancestors came here LEGALLY and if they want to be here so bad, then they can do it the way the rest of us did. There's nothing wrong with people learning the language and doing things legally. If we just deport all of the illegals here, they will just be running back across the border in a few days anyway. If we actually took PRIDE in our country and realized that while the Statue of Liberty does say "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free", it does not say "Hey, come here illegally, take our jobs and money, and in a few years run back to your original country and live high on the hog on OUR MONEY". It does not say that anywhere and REAL Americans will eventually pull their heads out of the sand and do what's is right for the country.

Immigration reform is sorely needed and soon. I'm so tired of walking into a store and not being able to talk to the store clerks because none of them speak English and the ones that do, know minimal English at best. So what the hell am I supposed to do? Put myself out for illegal immigrants and learn Spanish? Hell no. This is AMERICA and we speak ENGLISH here. Either learn it or move the hell out of the country. My ancestors moved here from Europe three generations ago and they had no problem learning English and still keeping their heritage intact. So speak spanish all you want at home, but learn English and USE IT.

You illegals came here because it's so much better than your original country, yet you want everyone here, who is a legal citizen, to cater to you and make everything easier for you. Well what about all the legal citizens that have to pay higher taxes now because you had to go to the emergency room and you didn't have insurance to pay for it? That expense goes on to the citizens that pay taxes and have insurance. We are the ones supporting you and your illegal status here in the Unites States of America. Sure, this is a free country and we have better rights for our citizens than your country, but then, that's all the more reason to come here LEGALLY. If America is the Land of the Free and you really want to be here that bad, do it the right way.

If I wanted to leave America to go to...Germany, let's say, and I did it illegally, they would either charge me and put me in jail, or ship me back to my country of origin and I would face charges and a trial there. Yet, in America, the government seems to turn a blind eye to the immigration problem that we have. Social Security will be completely gone by the time I retire (in about 40 years if I'm lucky), and it's because over the years the government has taken money time and again from Social Security to pay for other things and has never paid it back. And will all the illegals living in the United States, there are more and more costs that need to be covered and the government sees Social Security as an easy way to pay for it. Well it's not as easy as it looks.

Arizona should be applauded for what they are doing. They are doing that most Americans think the government should do, but the government is afraid to do it. They think that mexico will boycott America and we will stop receiving whatever it is we receive in trade agreements from mexico. Well, I don't really care what we get from mexico. If they cannot stop their residents from leaving and coming here illegally, then we need to do something. Building a wall along the border will not do anything, because the mexicans will just dig underneath it. Hell, they run, jump, and swim across now as it is, what's to stop them from adding a new sport to their border-crossing olympics?

Illegal immigrants are like those annoying little gnats that fly around the food at a family picnic, they won't go away with a swap of a hand but you don't really want to spray bug killer around the food, so you just kind of put up with them until it's time to leave. Well, that's the government. They try to ignore the illegal immigration problem because they 'have better things to do' with the 100 days that the Senate and House of Representative are actually working each year, and they are too afraid to spray the bug killer that is needed.

It's irritating that more people are not speaking out about this. I am a fourth-generation German American, and I do not see on ANY forms that I have EVER filled out anywhere that says German-American where spics have their mexican American. Even the census that came out recently made sure that the wet-backs had their own race, but the people that came here legally got nothing but white and black. There are German Americans, Polish Americans, Norwegian Americans, French Americans, Canadian Americans, and many others, and yet none of us got our own section. How is that fair? This is supposed to be a fair country, is it not?

I'm at a loss....

I'm at a total lost as to what to do. I can't seem to win with him. No matter what, I'm wrong. I don't know what the hell is going on. I'm so lost and just wanting things to be done. But I have nowhere to go, so even if things were over, I'm still stuck here with him.

I want things to be better between us, but he never seems to want to listen. All he does is tell me that I'm wrong, that I need to change, that I don't see anything that I do. I'm at my wits end here. He told me tonight, while arguing, that he would only be happy when I was "six feet under", that he wishes I was dead so he could be rid of me. Do you have any idea how that makes me feel? I have enough problems with my self-esteem, stemming from living with my mother, but to hear someone who supposedly loves you tell you that they wish you were dead? That's the worst. I can feel myself sinking into a bad depression again. The last time I was in a depression like this, I was a freshman in high school and called a friend because I wanted to take an entire bottle of Excedrin Migraine and end it right there. Yet he doesn't seem to care at all.........why?

What to do, What to do......

I have no idea what to do. He's got more, and worse, PMS than I do, yet he doesn't want to see it. He tells me that he wants my help with certain things, yet when I try to help him, he just says I'm "making him feel stupid" or acting like I don't love him. Well, when he acts like this all the time, it's hard as hell to love him. He's acting like my mother and I don't deal well with that. When I try to tell him that I can't deal with him when he acts like it, he just tells me that I don't love him or that I want him to change yet I won't see what I'm doing that needs to change.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I can't leave, because I have no where to go. I know that when most people say that, they actually do have somewhere to go, but I truly have no where to go. My dad's moving to Florida, my mom hates me, my brothers can't stand me, and my so-called friends, the ones that bitched me out for being with him, can't seem to get off their high horses and see that something's wrong, that I need their help. But whatever.

I'm just going to go away for a while and the people I want to talk to, I'll let them know when I'm back. Later!

Being a Mom

MOTHERS

Real Mothers don't eat quiche;
They don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils
Are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors,
Filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried 'play dough'
Doesn't come out of carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know 'what'
The vacuum just sucked up...

Real Mothers sometimes ask 'Why me?'
And get their answer when a little
Voice says, 'Because I love you best.'

Real Mothers know that a child's growth
Is not measured by height or years or grade...
It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother.....
The Images of Mother

4 YEARS OF AGE - "My Mommy can do anything"!

8 YEARS OF AGE - "My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot"!

12 YEARS OF AGE - "My Mother doesn’t know everything"!

14 YEARS OF AGE - "My Mother? She wouldn’t have a clue".
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16 YEARS OF AGE - "Mother? She's so~ five minutes ago".

18 YEARS OF AGE - "That old woman? She's way out of date"!

25 YEARS OF AGE - "Well, she might know a little bit about it"!

35 YEARS OF AGE - "Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion".

45 YEARS OF AGE - "Wonder what Mom would have thought about it"?

65 YEARS OF AGE - "Wish I could talk it over with Mom".

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart,
The place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her 'soul'.
It is the 'caring' that she lovingly gives, the passion that she
Shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!

I cant keep on pretending....I dont love you anymore

I just realized something tonight. It came upon me like a Mack truck. I just don't love you anymore. 

There's nowhere for me to run, nowhere to hide. I just don't love you anymore. I don't know what made me fall out of love with you, or if I even loved you in the first place. I really don't know. All I know is that, if I ever did love you, I don't anymore. 

I feel like you treat me like a roommate instead of a girlfriend or fiancee, which is what we were supposed to be, engaged to be married. I don't understand why you treat me this way but, like so many people have told me, I can do so much better. I have learned from past relationships that when everyone around you, outside the relationship, tells you that you shouldn't be treated this way and that you can do so much better, they are right and it is time to end the relationship. 

I never wanted to do this to you, because I know that you feel like you need me, but I just can't do this anymore. I can't be beaten down and treated like shit by someone that is supposed to be my significant other. I went through that with Jake and I can't do that again. I've done it too long already. I need to get out on my own and be my own woman and learn that I can be successful without being attached to someone. I don't have to have a man to be attractive or to be fun or to be who I want to be. In fact, the only way I can be who I am is to be single and not attached to anyone. 

Every time I have been in a relationship, he has tried to change me in some way. Change the way I look, the way I act, the people I talk to, the activities I like, the sports I like to watch, any number of other things. I want to be myself and not have to answer to someone about where I am going when I just want to take a walk to get out of the house for a while. I don't want to feel like I have a babysitter at 24 years old. And that's how he has made me feel, since we met. I didn't realize it then, but I realize it now. I can't be with someone that wants to change everything about me, or that isn't happy with me. 


Maybe that means that I am destined to be alone but I think I'd be fine with that. If I could only get a sure sign of what is supposed to happen. Then I would know for sure what I'm supposed to do, whether there is someone out there for me. Maybe I'm expecting too much from men. Maybe my standards are too high. Maybe I just haven't met "the one", if he even exists. I have heard that changing for the right reason, the right PERSONAL reason, is the only way to change  and stay changed, but I haven't found the right reason to change, personal or otherwise. I don't get the feeling that there is anyone for me, other than random relationships throughout my life. I don't feel as if I'll ever truly find someone to be with, other than a relationship with no clear future. 

Isn't there supposed to be one person for everyone? Or have I lost my chance at true happiness?

There comes a time when.......

There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
"This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you"

Sometimes, we all get fed up with everyone else trying to tell us how we should be. TV, models, actresses and actors...they all set an example of 'how people should act, look like, speak, and associate themselves with'. There are too many people out there that base their lives around how celebrities look like, act, speak, drink, and associated themselves with. What ever happened to people being happy with who they are, happy with how they dress, how they speak, how and what they eat, and who they choose to associate themselves with??

Is society really that stupid that we all have to strive to be like everyone else??! Why can't we all be happy being who we are? 

For example, I am a 24 year old single mother, unemployed but going to college to further my education so I can give my daughter what my parents were unable (or unwilling) to give me. I am funny, sarcastic, down-right mean if I don't like you or if you offend me or someone I'm with. I drink, I smoke cigarettes, I enjoy meeting new people, although I have high standards for the people I decide to hang out with. I don't deal well with drama, lying, cheating, people who put on an act to make other like them, or people that criticize me because they have different ideals of what I should be or how I should act. Yes, everyone is entitled to his/her own opinions, but don't try to force your religion on me just because I'm Pagan and you don't understand it. 

So I guess what I'm saying is, if you don't like me - how I act, how I dress, how I speak, my way of thinking, my opinions, my friends, the way I live my life or choose to raise my daughter - then it's your loss. I don't associate myself with people who can't love me for me (and I mean everything about  me, not picking and choosing what to like and what to change). This goes for friends, acquaintances, and family.

A Prayer for Good Luck

If you think you can't,

You really must

In God and our soldiers,

Please keep the trust.

To keep us safe,

Day and night,

To stand in front

And faithfully fight.

In the name of freedon

And even love,

I pray for Grace

From the stars above.

That soon one day,

We can live in peace,

When fears subside,

World wards will cease.

With hope shining

From my eyes,

I ask for gifts

With the bright sunrise.

May luck and joy be

With all who know

That what you reap,

Is what you sow.

Written by a loyal supporter of American's Disabled Veterans.

Thoughts in my head on New Year's Eve

It's hard to believe that the year is almost over...Hell, that the DECADE is almost over. So much has happened over this past year that it almost seems surreal that it is almost over. We made history in electing a black President. We lost an important icon in the music industry. 


Personally, I have recently lost someone who, while he wasn't really a close friend, more of an acquaintance, was still someone who touched my life. And I would never wish for anyone, even for my worst enemy, to go through losing a child for any reason. 

There is so much violence and pain in the world and yet so many of us take so many things for granted and treat others like crap, unless it benefits ourselves. There are commercials at all hours of the day and night that beseech us to send money to children in Africa and other Third World countries to feed them, clothe them, give them a place to sleep, yet you never once see commercials about all the children that need help here in the United States. The U.S. is supposed to be the best country to live in. For hundreds of years, people have left their home countries and traveled the dangerous waters of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans just to come to the U.S. and say, "I'm here in the greatest country in the world, known for it's freedoms, it's acceptance of people who are different" and these people are happy to be here, even if the residents of the U.S. can do nothing more than shoot each other, sell harmful, illegal drugs to each other, say and do harmful things to each other, and treat immigrants, regardless of the person's country of origin, like that person is less than human, like that person doesn't belong here. 


I know most of you have probably heard the expression "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". Well, that's not true at all. Words are just one of the most harmful things that humans can do to each other, that is not able to be erased. Once the words are spoken, written, or even thought, the words cannot be taken back. And yet, people still seem to go out of their way to speak words to others, whether out of anger, pain, or spite, that can cause more damage than anyone could ever know. 


I'm not sure why I am thinking all of these things on New Year's Eve, but these things have filled my head all day and there are some very valid points involved. Why is it ok to treat someone from a foreign country like he/she is less than human, yet people are so willing to have the U.S. government pull all of our troops out of Iraq and allow a new, possibly worse than before government take over? People in the U.S. are fine with wanting the President to pull troops out of Iraq and the Middle East, yet do they not understand that this course of action was put into play in Desert Storm and look where we ended up 10 years after the fact...right back where we were, because we didn't stay to finish the job. Because the 'bleeding hearts' of America somehow convinced the government to pull our troops from the area. This allowed the Al-Queda to take power and in 10 years, we were right back where we started, fighting the same war that, contrary to U.S. citizen belief, has never ended. 


Sitting here writing this, I begin to think of all the people that I've lost, whether to death or just that person simply walking out of my life as easily as he/she walked in. I have no regrets in life, but there are things that I think about from time to time that make me wonder what the hell is wrong with the world? In 2008, Canada had 11 crimes, during the entire year, that involved guns or violent weapons. In that same year in the United States, there were 11,000. The count in the U.S. does not include domestic violence, school shootings, or anything of that sort, as these crimes are tracked alone. The U.S. newspapers and internet sites and television shows broadcast reports of the violent crimes involving firearms. Canada does not. There is not even a small blurb about a gun crime buried in the middle of the newspaper or internet site. Yet the American public continues to wonder what the country is coming to, what the government is going to do about all the gun crimes, what other countries may think of us. Yet no one, not one of us, has ever stood up and said, 'I'm not going to stand for this. I'm going to find a way to do something about this. I don't want to live in a country where the government, which has enough worries of its own, has to take care of something that the citizens can fix, if only everyone would work together.' 


We want our government to step in and take over the schools that educate our children because we do not feel that the people in charge of educating our children are doing the proper job. Yet not one of us ever steps up and says 'Here's an idea on how to make this better.' We just want the government to come and step in and magickilly take care of every little thing that we don't like. When our children act out in school, we want our government to provide a program to 'fix' our children. What ever happened to parents being held responsible for his/her child's actions? If a child brings a gun to school that belongs to his/her parents, arrest the parents for having the gun within reach of the child. If a child is arrested for being part of a gang that committed a crime, arrest the parents of that child that did not pay enough attention to the child to make sure the child was going to school, was not getting into trouble. When we learn that our child has a learning disability, don't expect the school to provide a special classroom for the child to learn in. Work with the child at home instead of plopping the child in front of the television for hours on end, from the time school lets out until the child goes to bed. Whatever happened to parents wanting to be a part of their child's life, to make sure that the child does the best that he/she can do, learns what is taught in school and taught at home? 


I know it probably sounds like I'm repeating myself, but I just don't understand people. They complain that the government hasn't done this or that, yet they don't try to find a way to try to change it themselves. If you don't like the government, move out of the country. Move to Afghanistan and see how you like it there. Move to Cuba and see how you like it there. Because if you aren't going to do something to help yourself, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.