Argh!
First of all, thanks to you all, for your kindness (sans shirring)...
I hate this. I worked from 7:00am till 8:00pm. No lunch (aside from eating for 10 min in a conference room). The good news? I get paid time and a half for everything past 8 hrs!
I miss my kids, I'm on the way to the lobby to mail postcards (daddy, if you read this shhhhh it's a surprise).
The work is hard, and our stuff doesn't work as designed.
Okay Chris, you DID strike a nerve!! Please, agree to disagree (as in, stop telling me that this is a good thing, it isn't!) I think you are an awesome guy, but I have to laugh. You think you can possibly access my situation. Call me in about 12 years, no, have your wife do it because only she will know the void, the fear, the unnatural anxiety brought on when you are 400 miles from your offspring. If you have researched attachment parenting, and I know you have, you'd sorta get what I am saying. By agreeing to disagree, I am begging you not to give me unwanted mothering advice. Okay? Please?
Thanks Novy and Mab, each of you has a uterus and therefore you speak coherently on the topic :-)
I'm sitting in a balcony area above the pool (which closes in 10 minutes and is currently occupied by some very loud women who, well, perhaps shouldn't be in swimsuits in a hotel pool which is overlooked by most of the rooms). It was easier than dealing with my shady internet connection in the room. Plus there is something less pervy and weird about sitting here in this lobby setting, than with the laptop on my bed (ew) like so many businessmen before me (yuck). Plus I feel like I am getting a tiny does of social interaction, cause I can overhear the pool ladies blabbing.
I had a tall draft beer with my dinner, maybe I'll sleep more than 1.5 hrs at a stretch tonight. That was my record last night (from 3:30 to 5:00 I did okay). My bed has a mean lean to it, I am going to try the other one tonight.
Oh ha ha, and I'm wearing steel toed shoes!! I am such a square peg at work. How did I end up here???? I'm going to the lobby now, to mail these things, get some change for vending and turn in compliments to the housekeeping staff. Then I'll take a shower and see if I might possibly can sleep....
posted by Pepsiqueen! @ 9:37 PM
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I've been away way longer than you guys. It sucks hard. Gotta pay the bills though. Traveling helps me do that. I'd rather not be out.
Sorry Mark, that comment was intended for shirring alone. A what? 23 year old boy, thinks he knows anything about this? It just makes me mad, and shirring doesn't understand my bitterness. sorry chris, but nobody at my work seems to get it, family first.
now will anyone back me up on being a great mom??
Nobody that matters understand your need to stay home anyway. I get it.
Anyone that sees you with your kids will know your are an awesome mom.
Shirring, Never...EVER get in the way of a woman and her parenting. Although you have to try when you are the childen's father trying parent also. You may think you know what's best for another woman's children, but I assure you, college kids and 3 and 5 year olds are quite different. And even if they are the same age, kids are very unique, and you can't conform them to only one way. I trust that if Mary sees that this isn't working for her kids, she'll modify her techniques. I believe her that it is best for her kids. For now I think everyone needs to go to their corners, breath, and count to 10.
Wow, this is getting heavy. I miss you M. Cowboy Bar here we come!
Gidee up?
Hello H, one and a half work days (two full days) and I'll be home. Been working thirteens, and only having time to eat and be in my room by about 10!
Thanks Luke, I don't think Shirring is trying to tell me how to be mom, maybe I'm just really oversensitive (it feels wrong and I do trust my animal instincts on this). It's fine if people don't agree, I just don't like being backed into a corner. I'm sure it is just that the written word sometimes comes off wrong. No harm, no foul, no need to go to the corner....
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