I finally graduated college and now hold a degree in Accounting. So as I begin my next quest of finding a career in Accounting. I will have time to write again, something that I miss very much. When you have so much on your plate you tend to get overwhelmed as humans whether we admit it or not. We may think we are superhuman and can do everything to please everyone but we can’t. Sometimes we need to stop and look at the horizon or smell a rose and think about what truly is important.
I have two chihuahua dogs named Dexter and Monty, I did not name them that the previous owners did. Dexter who is more of the Alpha dog is more of my shadow no matter what I do or go he is right there underneath my feet or on my lap. Today I went to the bathroom to fix my hair and he followed me in there just like any other day. However, today was a day he made me laugh at him. He was snapping at flies trying to catch them. Running around in circle trying to catch the flies that were obviously to fast for him. I asked him (of course not expecting my dog to do anything) “do you really think you can catch those flies?” He then jumps up to catch the fly that had landed on the bottom of my shirt. I then realized that he was keeping the flies from landing on me he was chasing them away from me. I then started laughing out loud. Everyone in the house asked me “What are you laughing?”
“I am laughing at this dog who is chasing the flies away from me.”
I went into the living room and sit down and the dog jumped up to my lap and laid there my fiance comes over to the stand to get something off of it and the dog starts growling at him in a low growl. He does not act like this with no one else but me and he is very friendly dog after he gets to know you he plays with the kids fine when he wants to play with them. Most of the time he is at least 3 ft or less from me.
He reminds me so much of my grandfather’s wiener dog as I call them. I hated that dog as a child because every time my grandfather was sitting down and that dog was near him that dog would growl at you. But he only did this when he got older my sister said that they dog use to be very playful when she went over there and there is ten years different between us. So my dog is my little guard dog he sleeps with me and my fiance. He bark and growl when every he hears a noise and wakes me. Most of the time it is a child getting up doing something to early or sleepwalking. He is a very good dog and I love him and I am glad that he is my shadow around the house sometimes and my guard dog.
When your child turns thirteen you hope that they at some point start acting somewhat more mature. Of course there are some adults who never grow up and act mature at any age. My son has been thirteen now for almost two month granted I know that it is to soon for him to all of a sudden be mature. But his eight year old sister sometimes acts way more mature than him most days. We were at the ballpark for one of the other children and he is sitting on the ground playing with sour patch kids candy. I am talking about giving them a voice and making them dance and stuff. Yes, he has a great sense of humor and usually always makes me laugh. But sometimes I would just like for him to think about what he is doing. I think he was given and extra dosage of humor than common sense sometimes. He is a bright intelligent young man if he would just apply himself in the right areas. He always wants to be treated like a typical teenager yet never acts that way. Than again he maybe his generation is totally different than mine. He wants me to give him the freedom I give my older son who is now eighteen, but that freedom he earned and got by being mature and acting respectful in public. Not begging me for more money for food or complaining he was hungry when he had just ate four hours ago, and had just had a bag of popcorn and nachos and cheese. How he can eat so much and still be hungry I will never know. I think kids now days are to much into technology that they don’t know how to entertain themselves to be able to mature to learn those lessons that some of us older generations had to learn before cellphones or the internet for that matter. I remember growing up and spending summers at my grandparents house and we didn’t have cellphones back than, you came home when the streets lights first start coming on or you got in big trouble. With my granddaddy it was either sitting on the davenport as he called it, watching baseball or westerns and you didn’t sleep either. I got to liking both and he had to find something new which end up being hard labor such as pulling weeds, mopping floors on your hands and knees anything to make you think about what you did wrong. I guess that is why my son is a little mad at me because I won’t buy him a phone or get him his own line mostly because I don’t believe he needs it. If he wants to go somewhere he goes there and no where else otherwise he comes and tells me different. He has an hour to go to friends to play as long as his chores are done and room is clean. Then he has to check in with me. I had the same rules when I was younger and they worked for me. He just wants to be like the rest of the crowd and all it is doing is teaching him to be more lazy. He has an Xbox 360, playstation 2 and a DSI and there isn’t one day that he isn’t on one of them. He can operate my iPhone better than I can and can do more on my windows 8 then I know how to, so it shows that kids are so into technology they know nothing else. I gave him a punishment to look up a word in the dictionary and toss one at him. His respond was “How do you use a dictionary?” I asked him, “Don’t you use them in school?”
“No, we either look them up online or the book gives us the definition.”
“Really,” as I showed him how to use it and started give him words everyday to look up every time he said a foul language word and we aren’t talking really bad words here. I am talking about words like jerk, prick, and anything in pig Latin. I hate pig Latin. It work really well I would say after two weeks he stop using any words that was on the “Mommy bad words List of words we don’t say” as my daughter calls it. Since I slip a lot and say a lot of cuss words myself mostly when I am angry and as they say my “sailor tongue” slips out. I tell them that using those words show that you have a short vocabulary and you don’t have anything intelligent to use. I also tell them that I shouldn’t use them when I am angry but we all make mistakes. I have only had to write two definitions to there two weeks. If anyone who has read this and is interested in knowing how this works comment and I will be glad to share. For now I am going to close this rambling rant of mine of Teenage unfairness and hopefully get some sleep.
Dear Hope,
Your are what gives me strength and light when times are chaos. When the day is heck you are there calming me down. When all things are going crazy and nothing seems to go right you are the one that is there showing me how to be sane when things are insane. Thank you Hope for being there for me without you life would be hard. I wouldn’t be able to deal with a lot of things.
Twenty minutes of free writing about anything sometimes can be refreshing and sometimes can be hard to do. I decided to just do this on the computer and not worry about grammar errors. Since I really hate them. I know I would get more words done on paper writing it out. Since that is the old fashion way and technology makes it different for us. I have changed words already and made corrections. But it saves me the time from having to write it on paper then typing it up. Now I am being distracted by some person on the video game my fiancé is playing who is complaining about people stealing his weapons. Some people are just like that they complain about stuff that are pointless. My kids do it all the time. My daughters complain about the boys and vice versa. Then they complain about chores not that they are hard I simple ask that the dishes be done after supper and the kitchen be cleaned up and that the chores be done before their free time. Yet I get why and I don’t wanna and I am tired. Do I have to. And yes now it sounds as though I am complaining of pointless stuff. It isn’t that it is pointless it is just that they need to learn to do the chores so that they know how to care for themselves and how to do stuff. I have realized that I am getting extremely tired and that tomorrow we have a big fishing trip planned for the kids to go fishing. I enjoy fishing, I don’t get to do much of it when I ended up taking the kids because they end up tangling up their lines and I spend more of my time untangling lines, baiting lines and unbaiting lines then fishing. However it is a truly relaxing time and I might just catch up on some blogging in between. I am about to go to bed soon after this post since I am felling very sleepy. I wonder if I find my son’s missing wallet that contents seventy dollars in it if I get the two dollar rewards. I am getting thirsty I wish my cola was closer to me so that I could get a drink of it. yeah only a minute more to go. My legs are starting to get cramp and my eyes are barely staying awake. I wonder if the kids put the food away?
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