My rant is really a rather simplistic one for the week, but to me it is a biggie. Logan is small, he is also likely one of if not the youngerst in his class. He is intellectually, and socially ready for school, he was at 4 according to the doctors. With that being said,
in rural hell around here and alarmingly many other places people are waiting to have their kids (mostly boys) enter school till they are 6 years of age. I asked around it totally miffed me here were the answers I got going from bullshit to are you fecking kidding me, to the meat and cheese of it all:
1.The Bullshit- Boys are not "emotionally" mature enough at 5 to start school. <--umm are they ever mature enough, come on! Back when I started school, you were 5 your arse was in school, period.
2. Are you Fecking kidding me? "I can't part with my baby, I'm not ready!" <---WTF, are you not secure in the way you raised the kid to let him go to the next step in life? Cut the umbillical cord and stop smothering the poor kid you future mother-in-law from hell...
3. I want him big enough to play and be great at football. I want my kid to be bigger and beefier and break the compition. Get a scholarship to Nebraska, play ball there and get drafted to the NFL. He's our retirement plan. <--Yep I think that is the meat and cheese of it all, right there folks. I did all I could to not laugh straight in this womans face. That is not parenting, it's a pipe dream. A stupid scary one at that!
(Yes, I know wrong sport! Right message though!)
In closing, I know my son is small, I am not exactly leggy at 5'3", and Corey is 5'11", but our kid is smart, witty, and just all around cute and awesome! So don't be parent #3 and ask why I put my kid into school so young. He is an old souls and can out run your stupid big kid. I could care less if he plays football when he gets older, hell I would rather him not. Who knows, Logan could one day be your brutes lawyer trying to get him off on a misdemeanor battery charge. He wants to be an actor (oh God no, please!), a rock star (ehh, I think he figures he can take Dean's position when her retires someday. Dear son, they are not like The Wiggles and just replace main people when they leave...uh never mind, they do, you could have a shot someday!), an astronomer (can't tell he's MY kid can you), and elementary school principle (if so be a small conservative and rural school, or his already staunch political views, and kiddie crush on Palin will get him in TROUBLE!). All encompassing ideals for the future, not based on size of his body, but on size of his heart. Just in that unrealistic dream of a 5 year old boy, I know we did something right in raising him!
Moral of ramble, (other then shut the hell up about my kid that is) in the real world, we rely on brains, not always brawn to get by. So welcome to Earth, and I know the adjustment maybe rough for you and your big dreams of riding you kid into the ground raising the next up and coming football star, but leave my kid out of your insanity. Because other than size and a year (or two for the two 7 year old held back from last year in his class), your kid's got NOTHING on mine.
On to the Friend's Totally Tick Me Off Tuesday stuff!
AT&T you are becoming my gripe with Twitter to Marsha. (We don't have you out here, or I would likely dislike you too.) As many of my readers know now, Marsha, aka @
Marsha117 is one of my friends from Atlanta. We met through the band
Collective Soul twittering between all of us. That's what you get when a band actually communicates back and forth, they get even more loyalty from fans. Us fans forge friendships we otherwise wouldn't have likely made. Thanks again guys! I have offered her and any other friends some space on my blog to rant, and add to the fun of Tick Me Off Tuesday. So far she is the only brave soul to submit her gripes. So, there will always be room on here for her!
Any-who, unless you have been in the spin cycle too long many of you know the record rain fall the Atlanta area got about two weeks ago. It was so bad they are no longer in a drought, and Six Flags theme park was over 6 feet under water! Phone service and power was an issue as is when all disasters strike. But I really think AT&T has raised the bar recently in ineptitude. This is straight from one resident of Atlanta's mouth, or tweet:
My Ticks me off list is growing! AT&T for starters! Trying 2 tell me that being online will cause my phone 2 go 2 voice mail! WRONG! I have no land line now because of the rain-wonderful! could be worse, I do realize that.But AT&T just chaps my hide! So AT&T comes out on Friday to make sure that land line works and cuts the cable to the internet! How incompetent can they be? (REALLY you want ME to go there? Alright.)
Funny thing is -at the Ga Tech football game - we overhear people complaining how AT&T can't get their internet to work!
So here's my #2 TMOT for the MONTH! it'll take several tweets! So, remember how I said I won tix to the
@ThisisRobThomas concert? So, I called the radio station to find out how to pick up my tix for the
@ThisisRobThomas concert which is this Wed in ATL. The DJ who was working that Friday nite I supposedly won the tix to the
@ThisisRobThomas concert, wrote my name on the wrong list! So, long story short-this radio station wouldn't admit their error & had no more tix for
@ThisisRobThomas to give away. I'm more pissed that they wouldn't admit their error than the fact that I'm not going to the concert. It's the principle of it. so, that's my story.I'm disappointed that I won't get 2 see
@ThisisRobThomas because of station's error,but worse could happen.I had to tweet this story this a.m. because Rob Thomas actually tweeted me when I won the tix and said that he hoped I that I won the upgrade and that he "would see me there" So even though I'm really okay with not going, I'm hoping that he sees the tweets and maybe does something for me. Doubtful, but you never know. I might be pleasantly surprised!
***Addendum to post:**** Her hubby, "MrMarsha117" realized how distraught she was and bought her 5th row tickets. What a guy!
First of all I have a bit of experience with the goings on inside a radio station. So it was back in '97-98 but I am sure the nuts and bolts haven't changed too drastically. If you were an on-air winner, it should have been taped. Period. Likely could be found on said DJ's sound check, anytime their mic is hot(on), it should be recording for critiquing purposes. That being said you should be able to talk to the station manager about the "mix-up" and have a tape, reel, or digital copy of the win as evidence. I know it is not about the tickets, as much as the principle. And it is dead wrong. The DJ is a moron, and the fact they don't play Collective Soul makes me honestly dislike them even more. Why the hell were you listening to them??? Oh yea...never mind. Though I have seen hotter, and that is so all I am saying...
Third idiots who sit in parking lots w/car doors open blocking an open space. <--I consider the worst and there is a drug dealio going down, or they are stalking you, and about to kidnap you. Either way, they are likely packing heat, so use caution my dear!
A new edition to the fun this week is my pal over in Germany, Christina aka
christinah84!
What´s ticking me off right now are people who never call back even though you left a trillion messages.
See, girlie I would totally pick up your call. I think you rock!
I think personalized ringers are the best thing in the world. For instance, my mother's ring tone is the theme from the movie "Psycho," my MILs is theme from "Tales From the Crypt." I hear them, I let it go to voice mail most of the time to avoid the headaches. Moral is not that they are avoiding the call from you, but that you intimidate them. Hell I am still shocked the Kindle people even take my calls after the rows I have had with them. Can you see the fear in dudes eyes in the picture below. I didn't draw this at all drew this while you were calling just to ask a routine question. I would just go and give them a piece of mind in person, if not be totally mature, personalize ring tone the arse-hat that isn't returning your call. When they finally call back, don't pick it up!
I know it defeats the purpose, but here you are, the great dane, and here's the other dude.
Totally Tick Me Off Tuesday is the brain child of
Mommy from the Midwest. Check out her blog, and look for more people who participate in TTMOT! This is her "award" to those who Tick us off weekly. I postumusly award it this week to all of those who have ticked us off!