Why So Lazy??

I have an Oral Communications class that is half fresh out of high school kids and although I don't consider myself old they are still kids to me. I am 25 and have a clear path of what I want to do and the grades I'd like to recieve. We have a group presentation to do and I have 8 people in my group and have recieved information from 1 of them. My grade is riding on them and they don't seem to care about theirs. No one has made an effort to get together and put our information together. We don't know what our presentation includes nor what order we will be speaking in. I have given my email address and let them know I will put the presentation together myself with their information. I understand we all have family to visit over the holidays but I have four other finals besides this one to study and prepare for. I think they are all lazy and inconsiderate. If it comes to me putting this thing together by myself I will. But If in doing so I hope thier grades suffer. I will never be so happy to be taking 200 and 300 level classes next semester to be rid of high school kids riding on their parents dime. I pay my way and work to pay the bills. I hope someday each one of them will realize life is never handed to you and that once thier college fun is over, life gets nothing but harder.

Communiction does't always work

We went to dinner with my grandma and my mom, my son Samsun and I. We had spent the day at home cleaning the house and getting general things done. My grandma had called and invited us to Barbosa's, which I love. I had a terrible headache that had stayed with me all day. I thought going out to dinner and taking my son to the arcade would be relaxing and calm my very fickle nerves, i was very wrong. We sat down and as soon as we did Sam started shifting around and dropping toys on the floor. At first it was just annoying but then it became nerve wracking. He didn't like anything that was put in front of him and snickered every time I got angry. His food came out and the menu had not explained everything that was in his dinner. He refused to eat it and even though he didn't touch it my waiter refused to change his order without charging us. I ended up flipping out on the waiter and my son. In Sams rage to get what he wanted he flipped fideo all over me. that was my final straw. I snatched him up in front of family and the rest of the restaurant. with a stained shirt and a high temper we finished our meal and excused ourselves. He played me like a fiddle for the last time, I was furious!!!!! It took every ounce of merth I had not to beat his but till it was blue. So for me sometimes communication doesn't always work. But I proved my point and he did not get what he wanted nor will I put up with that again.

When Communication is Key

I realize that each of these blogs should relate to communication somehow. Most of blogs relate to everyday things and this one isn't any different. I had a long time friend and a close cousin fly in for the holidays. My friend is from Ashville, NC and my cousin from New Jersey. Both wonderful people that haven't let moving away change who they really are. Especially my cousin that has been in NJ for four years. She has a good job and a boyfirend thats loaded and she is still the same old girl, thats refreshing to know. That regardless of the circumstances that we don't forget our roots and the place where we came from. We went out Friday night and went to a crappy little bar to catch up. She said that her favorite bar in NJ was a little Irish Tavern down the street from her house, and shes 30 min. from NYC! I loved to hear that. We talked about everything under the sun, love, life, change, plans later. It was awesome. And then I got the Friend from NC together with my cousin from NJ and we all had a ball together. We got to relate our lives together regardless of the places we lived. I honestly can say I am blessed to have such wonderful people in my life no matter where they live. We all promised to stay connected after all holidays were over and I hope we can each keep that promise. I was so sad to see them go but the night before each one of them boarded the plane I got to laugh and dance and talk and enjoy each of them, so at least they left with a little memory of home and probably a hangover!!

Body Language

I was talking to my son's preschool teacher and she seems to think that my five year old son is too imaginative. I am a student working towards a teaching degree, at his age he is supposed to be highly imaginative. I think that every five year old boy loves video games, t.v. and playing army with thier friends. What I can't understand is why she picked my son out of 10 other boys. She says he is very smart but she doesn't want him to blur reality and fantasy. Define normal and what a kid should be doing at his age. Her fake sneer of dissaproval is rude and offensive. I hope her high school education will take her far in knowing what a child should be doing. She smiles although I think she ultimatly just doesn't like me! So, I'm sure by the look I gave her, she now understands my body language! My child just thinks LEGO Batman is more interesting than what he had for dinner last night!!!! (I'm a little overprotective if you couldn't tell....)

Listening

The hard part of listening is when you must listen to something over and over. I have a five year old son that is freakishly smart and very busy, but the child talks SOOOO much. Iwould have to say that his gift of gab comes from me, but Mom one million times a day gets tiring. I listen as much as I can but he is also at the age that storytelling is a major contribution to his gabbing. I shrug off his nonsense and oh yeah and oh really has become a major contribution to my vocabulary, but remember to listen as much as you can because he is only going to be this age once.... right now I'm listening to moooooommy pleeeeease, I can't find my toy, help me find it over and over. So I will cut this off by saying love them for thier age, thier nonsense, their gab and their storytelling. I have a toy in a toymound to find!!!!!!

V.P. Debate

Governor Palin and Joe Biden met for the first time at this debate. She asked Biden if she could call him Joe from the beginning, which she used against him later in the debate. The first question you could hear Palin's voice shaking, while Biden took the first question like he had been asked it a million times. The first question regarded the bail out and neither one of them actually awnsered the question. Biden did outlay a few of Obama's views regarding who was or will be affected by the bail out and a few points on what the focus should be. Not Biden nor Palin awnsered quite a few questions that were asked, including what they would do or change as the Vice-President. They threw more punches at each others running mates than actually awnsering the issue put forth. They both pulled much out of the past to use against one another, then Palin actually stated how Joe was pointing fingers to the past. It seemed that was how they built there cases against one another, so unless you use past information you have no case! I'm not sure what Palin had lying on her podeum but it must have been informative because she stared at it alot. On the other foot though Biden smiled so much I was sure his face was going to stay like that. As Palin awnsered many questions Biden looked back and forth at the Gwenn, who was asking the questions, and smiled as though he just couldn't believe what he was hearing. A majority of put downs aimed at each others running mates came from how they voted on many issues, such as taxes, education, climate, and alternate energy sources. They fought over the war in Iraq and the wonderful plans thier running mates had to make it all better. Palin kept a nice clean smirk spread across her face most of the time, even as she stared at her podium. Biden had a smug arrogant, I'm more experienced, smile parading his face as she spoke. It seemed that Biden took more inisative to outline plans and procedures while Pain used the same words to express a variety of issues, like we have to "Tap Into" I wanted to do a little more than tapping by the time she was done parading herself. She looked as though she wanted to talk over him when he was saying something she didn't like. But Biden shook his head and smiled smugly as she ranted as well. I think their issues were awnsered for the most part, but just like when they were talking about climate change and were asked how it happened, Palin said she didn't want to talk about how it happened but how to change it, while Biden chimed in that you can't fix the problem if you don't know the cause. This was a sign of Biden's experience, and stupidity on Palin's. She did a good job regardless of what the press has put her through but Biden won for sure. They both seemed like puppets on strings to me.

Silent but Friendly

I just got my Alice in Wonderland tattoo colored in. The outline and shading I thought were the easy parts, two weeks past and I went back for the color, I don't know if I was expecting a cake walk but thats not what I got. It hurt most of the time, but I made the commitment to do it so you have no choice once he begins. He and I tried to talk my way through it but about two and a half hours in to it I couldn't speak. He would talk to me and my response would by yeah or I know. He was as gentle as he could be but after 37000 needle through my back I was speechless. I am 1000% thrilled with the outcome, it is absolutly gorgeous, but my normal chatty cathy self was proclaimed speechless for a couple hours.