Mean Girl Garage

The neighbors across the street told us that they were installing a fence to keep their dog (a small mixed breed) in their yard. The fence was given to them free. This is the fence (I apologize for the mesh wire…I took it from inside my house, as to not look as if I was taking a picture of their ghetto make up of a fence….):

Anyone see any problems with this structure? And yes, you are seeing it correctly. Unless the dog is as stupid as my neighbors….. um……. yeah.

But then again, this is the patio in my backyard right now:

Maybe I shouldn’t be throwing stones…….

Ryan from Pacing the Panic Room has been busy putting together a fantastic project. Today it is ready. Today is the official launch of Do Fun Stuff — A Kids Record For Parents!

If you haven’t been following Pacing the Panic Room, let me give you a brief update. Ryan and his beautiful wife, Cole, have two gorgeous children, LB and Tessa Tangerine (all photos taken from Pacing the Panic Room and taken by Ryan.)

Ryan

Cole

LB

Tessa Tangerine

LB has Smith Magenis Syndrome. It’s something that Ryan writes about and that Ryan and Cole live with daily. It affects the family’s life because any disruption in daily activity can be an issue for LB. You can read about Ryan and Cole’s experiences with SMS here.

But today, you need to go to iTunes and BUY the album. Because 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this album goes to a grant fund Ryan established with PRISMS. The money will be made available to grad students who wish to make SMS their field of choice, the benefit of this is more hard research being done, which leads to more case studies, which leads to more answers for parents and researchers.

And if you want to post this and send it on, go here: http://www.dofunstuff.net

This is a wonderful cause. Please contribute if you can!

P.S. If you tweet about this, use #dofunstuff as your hashtag

Thanks!

Follow these steps and you’ll be guaranteed a killer week:

1. Drive to work being thankful that you have a class that listens and is kind and doesn’t have the behavior issues from last year.
2. Come home to find a box from Babeland.
3. Fake shop on Etsy.
4. Have underwire in bra poke left boob all day at work.
5. Have Hubby open the Babeland box. Have Hubby say, “Oh. So you are trying to get rid of me,” and walk away. Go look at Babeland toys. Squeal with delight at what Babeland has sent.
6. Sleep uncomfortably all night due to pain in left boob. Begin to wonder if the pain wasn’t due to the underwire bra.
7. Realize that the special education teacher assigned to you this year is completely incompetent.
8. Feel left boob and *think* you feel a lump.
9. Ask Hubby to feel left boob to see if he feels the lump.
10. Spend 20 minutes trying to convince Hubby that this isn’t foreplay, you really need him to feel left boob and right boob to see if there is a difference in lumpiness.
11. Begin to feel tired to do not sleeping and tossing and turning.
12. Go to work and ask more mature teacher friends if they’ve ever had a painful lump in boob. They have. It was an infected lymph node. Feel at ease.
13. Call gyno for an appointment.
14. Call Mom.
15. Mom says the following things during the conversation: “Having kids isn’t worth the small decreased risk of breast cancer.” “I need to take off now. I have to take your dad a case of beer.” “Some of them are cold ones.” “I told him not to drink at work.”
16. Run 5 minutes late to 7:20 a.m. gyno appointment.
17. Have doctor (that you LOVE) tell you he doesn’t think it is an infection. And that he’d like you to have a mammogram and ultrasound as soon as possible. Then cock his head to the side. You look at him and say, “Do you mean today?” He says, “Today probably isn’t good for you is it?” So he gives you the number to call. But yes, he meant today.
18. Drive to work in a haze.
19. Get to work in the nick of time.
20. Tell Librarian it isn’t an infection then start crying.
21. Pull it together in 10 minutes before kids show up.
22. Have student (Twin #1) start crying and say he wants to throw up. Send him to the restroom. (You have a fear of vomit).
23. Go check on Twin #1.
24. Send Twin #1 to office.
25. Teach science.
26. Twin #1 comes to class.
27. Twin #1 comes up to you crying saying he thinks he’s going to vomit. Send Twin #1 to restroom.
28. Go check on Twin #1.
29. Go to office and talk to Principal about Twin #1.
30. Principal says Twin #1 and Twin #2 don’t want to be at our school (they are new.) And their mom is throwing a fit because she wants them at a different school in our district (not going to happen, the class sizes are too big.)
31. Go check on Twin #1.
32. Twin #1 says he just doesn’t want to be here.
33. Tell Twin #1 that’s understandable but you’re glad he’s here.
34. Line up for Art.
35. Start walking to Art.
36. See Mean Team member run out side door yelling Twin #2′s name.
37. Have a teacher’s aide walk past you and say, “Twin #2 ran out.” Think this means he ran out to throw up (he was saying the same things that morning as Twin #1.)
38. Get right outside Art door.
39. Hear “Lockdown,” over the intercom.
40. Try to walk into Art room. Art teacher shuts door.
41. Ask Music teacher if we can come in.
42. Sit in Music room with three classes.
43. After Lockdown, find out that Twin #2 tried to “run home.”
44. Police were called to find him.
45. Have police bring Twin #2 back to school.
46. Have Twins dad come to school.
47. Have Superintendent come to school.
48. Be in office when all of this occurs.
49. Twin #1 and Twin #2 get sent home for the day.
50. Go to Principal and tell her you won’t be in on Monday due to mammogram and ultrasound. Begin crying.
51. Feel like a jackass.
52. Discuss with Mean Team how that door has been there the entire time you’ve taught and you never realized you could run out of it.
53. Go to Teachers’ Contract Negotiations.
54. Be asked by Assistant Superintendent to stay after the meeting to go over the day’s events with the Twins.
55. Stay after the meeting and tell Assistant Superintendent, Superintendent, and other school’s Principal about the day’s events.
56. Set up meeting for next morning with Principal, Assistant Superintendent, Twin #2′s Teacher, School Counselor, and Twins’ Parents.
57. Get home from work at 7:00 p.m.
58. Have mental breakdown and cry uncontrollably.
59. Go to meeting.
60. Listen to parents rant about not going to school of their choice.
61. Stay in meeting over an hour while my students are without a teacher for 15 minutes.
62. Realize these Twins have issues due to Parental coddling.
63. Cancel craniosacral doctor. Too tired.
64. Get frustrated with school’s technology. Again.
65. Go home and collapse on couch.
66. Do nothing ALL weekend.

I did a Guest Post. And you can find it at Blogger Body Calendar.

*Sigh* I’ll learn someday.

Raise your hand if your know that Sarah Palin is my arch nemesis.

Ok, so I haven’t kept that fact hidden, right?

AND I haven’t kept the fact hidden that I think Bristol is naive and kind of stupid, right?

So why were people upset when I posted this on my FB page:

She HAS A FREAKING BABY! How can she preach abstinence? I don’t have a baby…… I can

From Perez Hilton:

Wait till you hear this! This is ridiculous!

Bristol Palin, teenage mother and hypocrite advocate for abstinence, will be speaking at a benefit in Louisville, Kentucky to raise money for a shelter home for single mothers in September.

Good cause right? You would think for such an important cause, she would do this for free, right? Right?

WRONG!

Sexy Sarah’s hussy daughter is getting paid $14,000 to speak! $14K! So not worth it!

Who is she to get so much money?! Sure, she’s a single, teenage mother who got knocked up to the human equivalent of a sloth. But she is privileged beyond belief. She’s had no struggle she didn’t purposefully bring onto herself. She’s never had to stay in a shelter or worry where her kid’s next meal was coming from! What words of encouragement or wisdom could possibly escape her mouth that aren’t going to sound trite and exceedingly preachy?!

Unbelievable! Save the money and use it towards something useful – like the effing shelter!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: bristol palin, hypocrite, money matters, teenage mothers

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Now, you may or may not agree with me. But here’s the dealio from my perspective. A well to do girl who doesn’t have to struggle to make ends meet doesn’t know shit about what the “real world” is like. And hearing her preach “abstinence” when she HAS A BABY is kind of like hearing your older brother who went to parties and drank during high school tell you not to do the same. It’s bullshit. And if she was some regular teenage girl who had a baby but didn’t have a famous mom who runs all over the country spewing hateful words amongst people, then she’d have to struggle and wouldn’t be paid $14 GRAND to tell people this speech.

And yes, I see teenage girls having babies. I see grown women having multiple babies and not taking care of them too. And I see “normal parents” having babies and doing a shitty job at parenting. And how do we even KNOW what kind of mom she is? Sarah OBVIOUSLY isn’t that great of a mom. I mean, really? She never discussed birth control with her daughter? And even though they can afford to hire a full time nanny for Sarah’s kids, Bristol dropped out of college and went behind her parents’ backs to get engaged and hoped *fingers crossed* for a reality tv show? Is that the best she can hope for in life? My parents wanted more for me and they weren’t remotely rich. And my mom discussed birth control with me.  (Thank you, Mom for being Fantastic!)

And not that Bristol can’t be a good mom or isn’t a good mom but why are we assuming that she IS a good mom just because she and her mom say she is? I’ve been a teacher FAR too long to fall for that. In fact, I’ve had families in my class that are looked upon as “upstanding” in the community but I know that the father is abusive or the father is an alcoholic and the mother is an enabler. Or that the father was indicted on “negligence” that ended in a death. Or that the mother is a pill popper. Just because the family “says” they are doing well and they “act” ok and the kids “look” fine doesn’t make the family a great family.

I’m not saying that Bristol doesn’t “deserve” a second chance (I’m not sure what that even means….) Or I hate her for being a teenage mom, which seems to be how some people took it. I’m just saying that if we’re going to pay someone $14 grand to speak about abstinence, couldn’t we find someone that’s a better role model? To me, Bristol being paid to talk about abstinence is like having Tiger Woods get paid to talk about monogamy. Really? Who is going to listen?

I just think there are better role models to preach abstinence and get paid $14 grand than Bristol Palin. Especially if the money is supposed to go to a charity. But, I guess that part runs in the family.