Wanna just blow off steam? Post a general vent here.

[lessthangraceful]

This is the SECOND time in a year that I have found a job for you only to have you tell me that that kind of work is beneath you. And HOURS later you are begging for people to be "Godly" and help you out.

HELLO!!! He helps those that help themselves.

[dionada]

Regarding the recent rash of pregnancies among women I work with:

Please stop asking me when it's going to be "my turn". And please spare me the lecture about how someday I’ll want kids, when the situation is different or I've found the right man. I suppose the fact that you think I’m intelligent enough to wait until the time is right rather than ‘oops!’ my way into motherhood is somewhat flattering. That notwithstanding, I’m 28 years old. I have known I don’t want children for the majority of my life, including every single conscious moment of my reproductive existence. For you to assume that there’s some magical combination of circumstances that will unlock my uterus is sexist and presumptuous.

I don't want to deal with the misery and physical limitations, and excruciating culmination of pregnancy; I don’t want to see my genetics passed on; I don’t want to give up the ability to do what I want, when I want; I don’t want to have to allocate the resources to feed, clothe, and care for another human being; I don’t need the constant love, affirmation, and gratitude provided by a young child (or the opposite when they become a teenager); and I don’t want to constantly worry about what the world is coming to and the monetary and planetary debts we’ve saddled on future generations, all in the name of possibly having someone to care for me when I’m old. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad my mother had me (although it’s not like I would be aware of it otherwise), but I don’t see why I’m expected to show my appreciation by perpetuating the cycle, especially when there really are enough people on the planet as it is.

[XUfan]

To my co-worker who called my house at 6:30 am:

Your shift starts at 6:00 am. MY shift starts at 4:00 pm. Why are you calling me so early???????? Yes, I know you need money, but my hours were cut too! So why would I want to give up a shift so that you can have money to get your nails done, or go on vacation, or whatever you're doing this time with the extra shifts you're begging for!! You do this every couple of months, and inbetween time you call off at least once a week. Now, it's caught up to you again, and you need money, so you want to work.

Besides the fact that I need the money too...people don't like it when I give you my shifts! You're lazy and leave most of the work for other people. I won't do that to the other workers.

Oh...and while I'm at it...if you call me on someone else's cell phone (someone I've never heard of!!!), tell me who you are when I answer the phone!!!! I have no idea who Helen McSomething is...and had no idea who you were when you started talking!!! I only answered it so that the sound of the ringing phone at 6:30 am didn't wake everyone else in the house!!!!

[momof2inohio]

To my mother-in-law: We have always been so close so I am really upset about how rude you were to me the other day. I now wish I never even invited you to come over for dessert for mothers day. I told you that you were welcome to come since my mom is coming. No need for you to go on and on about how it was silly to have dessert in the middle of the day when we are going to dinner later. Well sorry but I have a busy day with my kids 2 lacrosse games and that was all I could fit in. You know I usually have brunch for you and my mom but there is no way I can make a homemade brunch scheduled around 2 lacrosse games!!! I was just trying to be nice. But you go ahead with your busy day and save room for your bought cookie cake you are bringing to the restaurant for dessert. My mom and I will be enjoying my homemade chocolate cream pie and mousse bars.

[sbp]

ugh rain!!! You've ruined our plans for the day!!! So now instead of a teeball game at 9 am for the little guy and a baseball game at 1 for the bigger little guy, I'm going to have a 5 year old and a 7 year old with their excessive energy bouncing around the house because it's pouring out. Please let me use their energy for good and help me with the housework instead of picking fights with each other all day long!!

[thorrocks1]

ugh rain!!! You've ruined our plans for the day!!! So now instead of a teeball game at 9 am for the little guy and a baseball game at 1 for the bigger little guy, I'm going to have a 5 year old and a 7 year old with their excessive energy bouncing around the house because it's pouring out. Please let me use their energy for good and help me with the housework instead of picking fights with each other all day long!!

I was just coming to post the same thing ..

Stupid Rain .. 3 soccer games today in the rain .. not what I was hoping for today .. Plus M&D were going to come up to watch the boys and to have lunch for Mother's Day and they won't be coming now .. stupid rain ..

and the weather looks crappy and rainy and chilly next week! I need SUMMER!!!

[kval07]

But you go ahead with your busy day and save room for your bought cookie cake you are bringing to the restaurant for dessert. My mom and I will be enjoying my homemade chocolate cream pie and mousse bars.

Where do you live? I'll come take MILs place.

[momof2inohio]

Where do you live? I'll come take MILs place.

Ohio. Sure, the more the merrier I need someone to help me drink the bottle of wine I bought since I thought MIL was coming. My mom doesn't drink wine

[Smee]

I feel ya, dionada. I've been married for over 20 years and while we fostered some kids, I never got knocked up. I've faced the same level of, "EVERYONE (translation: all women because no one ever says this to my husband) wants a baybay!" all these years. Even into my 40's, people still try to will me knocked up and continue to tell me how incomplete my life is for not passing another human out of my crotch. You'll probably be hearing that stuff for a long time. There are some people who still regularly tell me they pray for me to become pregnant. Why can't they pray for me to hit the lottery or at least find a $100 bill on a sidewalk or something I can use?

[queenofthehivemomof5]

I have enough kids to cover for you Smee and Dionda. I know I was born to be a mother, and thats just me. However I would never tell someone who does not wish to have children that she/he should. Because that is just a personal decision. In fact I wish more folks would not have them if they are not prepared for them and willing to love them like they should be loved. We may have less child abuse if that were the case.

My rant for the day....not a big one....but I hate housework....the kids are bouncing off the walls and hubby is grouchy and the 12 year old is being lazy so a happy mommy it does not make!